 Welcome back Lakeland sports and a chance to visit with head coach Tom Saraturi and first of all congratulations on winning this beautiful cup Tom fantastic season. Thanks Scotty really appreciate it. You have this has been on display in the Benji now for a couple weeks since you brought it back from Alabama Huntsville. Tell us a little bit about the history of the cup. Well it's a hundred hundred and four years old it was in 1913 James McNaughton he was a superintendent of you know one of the mining companies you know in the upper peninsula I think it was in Calumet, Michigan and it was they had a semi-pro league up in the upper peninsula and so it was a championship trophy for that for that league and you know that league had obviously a variety of different teams throughout the years and I think what happened Scotty I think in 1950 I think the league disbanded and you know there was a team from St. Paul a team from Evald won that also you know in those years between 1913 and 1950 so the cup became Michigan Techs and when the cup became Michigan Techs Tech was in the WCHA and it wasn't the WCHA in the infancy stages of the early 50s there's a couple different names I think one was the Western Intercollegiate Hockey League there was like the Midwest Hockey League I might have it wrong a little bit Scotty but anyway there was a couple different there was a couple different leagues league names and of course the WCHA in the late 50s and the McNaughton Cup became synonymous with the regular season champion of the WCHA and when Tech left the WCHA from 81 to 84 the three-year span they went to the CCHA they brought the McNaughton Cup with them so this is not the WCHA's trophy it's actually Michigan Techs so they brought the trophy with them and that was for three years bowling green won that trophy three straight years in the early 80s and then when Tech came back to the WCHA I think it was an 84 and they brought the cup with them so that's kind of a roundabout history of the McNaughton Cup but it's a special it's a special trophy Scotty it's right up there with you know the Stanley Cup it's just 40 pounds of silver it cost $2,000 in 1913 so you know the Stanley Cup is 34 pounds this is 40 pounds and you know you when you think of you know what trophies in hockey you think of the Stanley Cup and you know we think of the McNaughton Cup you get the Turner Cup the Calder Cup but there's a lot of you know there's a lot of trophies that have a lot of significance and this is one of them now so that they take bands off of this as well like they do the the Stanley Cup type of thing is there enough room I don't know Scotty we're you know that they were adding to it right down here in this lower rung so I don't really know what's going to happen down the road when it's all full do you take the top band off or do you add I don't know but this is a this is laminated walnut right here too so I mean this is a pretty you know this trophy is pretty solid so I know I lifted it over here and I asked you if I was going to work once come and cover me if I got it and I saw bloomers kid was on the front page inside the comfort beaver alum that's all good well what it what it takes to to win this cup and the reward of having this on campus I imagine you get this all year that type of thing ours till next year and whoever wins the WCA next year gets it so it's ours for sure for a year and we're we're proud to we're proud to be the recipient of the 2016-2017 season and I'm really proud of the guys and happy for them and they're gonna get a banner hanging in the rafters and you know a picture in the hallway and you know this is our first this is our first regular season championship in the WCA so a lot of work goes into winning it's hard to win Scotty so a lot of work goes into it and you know it's an 18 week season it's a marathon and the toughest thing to do is win a regular season title and you know you need so many things to go to go right you know you have to have a good team you have to be lucky you have to be healthy you know just a lot of things have to go your way and you know a lot of things went our way this year and again that's a testament to those guys in that locker congrats Tom thanks Scotty