Save Uah Hockey!

[drshoen]

Re: Save Uah Hockey!

Here's a Clarkson alum hoping that your program is saved. I know UAH is visiting us in January 2010; I've asked Clarkson's coach is a return visit is planned. I would like to think so, as a visit from established schools would be helpful long-term.

[Ralph Baer]

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Thinking about return visits, does anyone know if RPI is going to UAH in 10-11? I had heard that the 'Tute was going there this year in payback for UAH's recent participation in our tourney, but that didn't happen.

[RSTuthill]

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Haven't read the long chain of posts here, so I do not know if this has been suggested already.

But one solution would be for UConn to get off the schneid and start offering scholarships. It's about damm time for them to do that. Then they could slide immediately to HE (which has been saving a place for them for more than a decade) and UAH could take their spot in AH.

Of course, that would make too much sense.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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Haven't read the long chain of posts here, so I do not know if this has been suggested already.

But one solution would be for UConn to get off the schneid and start offering scholarships. It's about damm time for them to do that. Then they could slide immediately to HE (which has been saving a place for them for more than a decade) and UAH could take their spot in AH.

Of course, that would make too much sense.

Hockey East is saving a spot for Harvard, not UConn...

[4four4]

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Hockey East is saving a spot for Harvard, not UConn...

Syracuse...

[BoomGoestheDynamite]

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Syracuse...

Not if Rhode Island gets there first

[MikeAnderson]

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Silly nutters.

It's obviously for USC.

[The Rube]

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Silly nutters.

It's obviously for USC.

I don't think the Gameccks have hockey, do they?

[MikeAnderson]

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I don't think the Gameccks have hockey, do they?

Auburn is the only SEC school without an ice hockey program of some sort.

[The Rube]

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Auburn is the only SEC school without an ice hockey program of some sort.

Whoosh.

[BoomGoestheDynamite]

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Silly nutters.

It's obviously for USC.

Southern Cal or South Carolina? Or Both ?

[state of hockey]

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All sorts of whooshes.

[MikeAnderson]

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Southern Cal or South Carolina? Or Both ?

Take your pick. The obvious choice is the former, obviously.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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Take your pick. The obvious choice is the former, obviously.

Well, yeah...they're not that far out of HE's geographic footprint...

[alslammerz]

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Hockey East is saving a spot for Harvard, not UConn...

watch that...

(besides then the Beanpot would be an all Hockey East affair, which would be no fun for anyone- if anyone is moving over from the ECAC to Hockey East, it would be Cornell to rekindle their BU rivalry more than a game at MSG every year )

And yes, I know (and hope) that you are joking.

Anyway, so is this the point in the conversation where we add that the Ivy League could separate from the ECAC and
1) add Army and Air Force or
2) pressure Penn and Columbia to restarting teams (and Penn has an on campus rink)
because I have seen that suggestion before. Just add to it "then UAH can join the ECAC or Atlantic Hockey" to keep it relevant. (And I do think that a year ago when I saw this same sentiment on USCHO, it was a save CHA teams posting).

Because the Ivy League Conference has about as much of a shot as the Big Ten Conference in the happening ever department- 0.001%. So I figured I'd burst that bubble before people brought it up again.

Like I and someone else said earlier, even if aliens and space bats (and alternate history term for things that have no natural way of occurring) made all of these suggestions possible, they aren't happening in time to save UAH. A scheduling agreement followed by UAH's admission to the CCHA will, and that's about it.