Leadership Council forms membership recommendations
Simply put, a school would now really have to have all of its affairs in order to be able to make a whole sale move up to D1 athletics for all of its athletic department. Good thing too in my opinion as there's way too many rinky dink schools out there that are just D1 in name only, just so that they can have their names on the ESPN ticker to show everybody how badly some other school thumped them again. NJIT anybody??
Thankfully, Men's D1 hockey shouldn't have that much of a problem with this as that there's no longer any D2 Hockey being played anymore. Only problem I would really see here would be for any new D3 schools that would want to play up in D1 for hockey. They would now be forced to move the rest of their athletic department up to D2 status, and then they would be able to go D1 for hockey I believe. Any future Canadian Schools would just have to go D2 anyways for the rest of their sports anyways.
Simply put, a school would now really have to have all of its affairs in order to be able to make a whole sale move up to D1 athletics for all of its athletic department. Good thing too in my opinion as there's way too many rinky dink schools out there that are just D1 in name only, just so that they can have their names on the ESPN ticker to show everybody how badly some other school thumped them again. NJIT anybody??
Thankfully, Men's D1 hockey shouldn't have that much of a problem with this as that there's no longer any D2 Hockey being played anymore. Only problem I would really see here would be for any new D3 schools that would want to play up in D1 for hockey. They would now be forced to move the rest of their athletic department up to D2 status, and then they would be able to go D1 for hockey I believe. Any future Canadian Schools would just have to go D2 anyways for the rest of their sports anyways.
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