It's Realignment time, it's realignment time! Make it work

[AFHockeyFan]

Re: It's Realignment time, it's realignment time! Make it work

I may have missed it, but where is Air Force? I know that Air Force and Army will stay in the same conference, and when Navy fires up they will play in the same conference. Also, we need to put UAH into a conference, where do they fit best? CCHA? I'm not sure.

I think "UFA" is (somehow) Air Force.
My take:
WCHA: Same minus MN and WI. (10 teams)
CCHA: Same minus MI, MSU, OSU and ND (8 teams)
EZAC: Same (12 teams)
HE: Same (10 teams)
AHA: Same minus UConn plus UAH (12 teams), eventually splitting into a full/18 scholarship league (UAH, AFA, MH, RMU, RIT, Niagara) and a cost-containment league (Canisius, Army, SH, AIC, Bentley, Holy Cross). The full/18 scholarship league may eventually wind up merging with what's left of the CCHA is some of those schools fold.
This, plus the BTHC (8 teams) would make seven leagues, possibly necessitating a "play-in game" between the CCHA, EZAC and the two AHA leagues for the tournament.

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: It's Realignment time, it's realignment time! Make it work

The only way we see something weird happen in the east is if the Ivies split, but unless the ECAC non-ivies start getting hot (the future looks good for RPI and Union, though I'm not so sure about the other four), they aren't going to be breaking off anytime soon. I'd like it because of the whole schedule mismatch (34 games vs. 29), but it probably won't happen.

One thought from one of my friends was to bring in a couple of the smaller CCHA teams like Bowling Green or Ferris, but it would seem to me like that would create a bigger hassle in travel.

I like the idea of an Empire league created from the non-ivies, maybe also include Q-Pac and Army (if they were willing).

[Nevergoodenough]

Re: It's Realignment time, it's realignment time! Make it work

Cut #1
Bold = BCS school

BTHC     WCHA    CCHA    HEA      AHA     Empire  Ivy        Unassigned

UMn      UND     FSU     BC       SHU     CCT     Harvard    UAH
UW       SCSU    WMU     BU       BNT     SLU     Dartmouth
UMi      MTU     LSSU    NE       HC      UC      Yale
MSU      tUMD    NMU     Prov     AIC     RPI     Princeton
tOSU     DU      MIA     UML      Army    CLG     Cornell
PSU      CC      BGSU    MMK      UFA     RIT     Brown
         UAA     UAF     UNH      UConn   CAN
         UM-Man  NDU     Mass     QPAC    NIA
         UNO     RMU     UVM
         BSU     Mercy   Maine

Untouched conferences: WCHA, HEA, Ivy
Added to conferences: CCHA
Changed: AHA
New: Empire

Rip it apart, but have something constructive to argue with. Don't say "It will never happen", because the status quo won't stand once the BTHC hits the ice running. Come up with something...

I may have missed it, but where is Air Force? I know that Air Force and Army will stay in the same conference, and when Navy fires up they will play in the same conference. Also, we need to put UAH into a conference, where do they fit best? CCHA? I'm not sure.

[NMU8405]

Re: It's Realignment time, it's realignment time! Make it work

In the west, maybe. There's no over-riding reason for the Ivies to suddenly split off from the rest of the ECAC just because there's a Big 10 conference forming. Not sure why Quinnipiac would go back to Atlantic Hockey either.

It will never happen.

Give UConn to Hockey East so they have every state school with Hockey (the lone without is Rhode Island). Give Northeastern to Atlantic Hockey (on the condition that Atlantic Hockey get rid of their dumb scholarship rule). NU can still play in the Beanpot. Dont worry about it.

The Ivy league would be horrendous. I wouldnt even give an auto bid to that conference. Also, that would leave you with 9 autobids and would lead to more dumb threads that would come up every year about how your team got screwed.

Not going to happen.

[joecct]

Re: It's Realignment time, it's realignment time! Make it work

In the west, maybe. There's no over-riding reason for the Ivies to suddenly split off from the rest of the ECAC just because there's a Big 10 conference forming. Not sure why Quinnipiac would go back to Atlantic Hockey either.

It will never happen.

12 team conferences leave no room for expansion. My plan leaves room for URI, Navy, and other BCS schools to join a conference. And, if it pains everyone so much, remember the WCHA - HEA interlock?? It could apply to the Ivy - Empire - AHA mix, if the conferences don't want to play 4x against each other.

[realet]

Re: It's Realignment time, it's realignment time! Make it work

Don't say "It will never happen", because the status quo won't stand once the BTHC hits the ice running. Come up with something...

In the west, maybe. There's no over-riding reason for the Ivies to suddenly split off from the rest of the ECAC just because there's a Big 10 conference forming. Not sure why Quinnipiac would go back to Atlantic Hockey either.

It will never happen.

[joecct]

Cut #1
Bold = BCS school

BTHC     WCHA    CCHA    HEA      AHA     Empire  Ivy        Unassigned

UMn      UND     FSU     BC       SHU     CCT     Harvard    UAH
UW       SCSU    WMU     BU       BNT     SLU     Dartmouth
UMi      MTU     LSSU    NE       HC      UC      Yale
MSU      tUMD    NMU     Prov     AIC     RPI     Princeton
tOSU     DU      MIA     UML      Army    CLG     Cornell
PSU      CC      BGSU    MMK      UFA     RIT     Brown
         UAA     UAF     UNH      UConn   CAN
         UM-Man  NDU     Mass     QPAC    NIA
         UNO     RMU     UVM
         BSU     Mercy   Maine

Untouched conferences: WCHA, HEA, Ivy
Added to conferences: CCHA
Changed: AHA
New: Empire

Rip it apart, but have something constructive to argue with. Don't say "It will never happen", because the status quo won't stand once the BTHC hits the ice running. Come up with something...