Re: Ezac!!!!!!
But you say that like every team in the league can get that type of schedule, with the home games they need to make the program financially viable. I know at Cornell we refuse to play at any school unless they guarantee us games at Lynah, otherwise we'll only play a neutral site where we can get part of the gate. Now a program like Cornell can do that (next years OOC is looking like its CC opening weekend at Lynah, @ DU sometime during the season, Michigan at MSG over Thanksgiving, and whatever 2 of UMD, Ferris State, or Maine we get to play in Estero), and Yale now seems to be able to do that, but how does Clarkson get a CC or a DU to come to its building? And for schools that won't come to its building like Michigan, Clarkson and Colgate really wouldn't create big enough draws to play at place like MSG because Cornell is basically the only school in the league that can pull something like that off, and even then they need a huge opponent like BU to sell seats as well (see Cornell-Colgate attendance at the Pru). So unless you want Tech, SLU, Colgate, and company to play on the road for the minimal guarantees schools like Minny are giving them, because while Minny might come to Lynah, they're not going to Cheel, Appleton, or Starr anytime soon, they effectively need to have some of those games against AHA squads where they can essentially do the same thing in order for their programs to not just be a total drain on athletics funding. So its tougher than you think.
Originally posted by MinnesotaNorthStar
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