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Re: Save Uah Hockey!
Well, but for the fact that I never thought ripping the CCHA for their decision made any sense. We still want a conference, and the CCHA makes the most sense for us.
Your argument would hold water if Western, Northern, and Ferris didn't come down here to play us---and I'm not talking in the Save UAH Hockey sense, but in the fact that WMU and NMU have been here before, and the FSU series was lined up last season before UNO left for the WCHA. If playing in Huntsville was such a burden, those schools wouldn't be doing it.
Oh, and BG wouldn't be coming here next year, either.
GFM <-- doesn't think the BG series was on the sched until after the tectonic shift, though.
Originally posted by aparch
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15k > 10k 
And that's just me more being an a** and trying to have some balance to all the anti-CCHA rhetoric that was circling.
I do see how it's easy to plug in UAH instead of UNO and there be virtually zero differences; but with all the smaller schools struggling in recruiting, a trip to UAH is still a burden. The Ferris States, Lake States, and possibly even Western Michigan's cannot survive by bleeding money on road trips and having perennial losing teams. That money could be better used to improve the infrastructure and recruiting and compete against the Michigan/Michigan State/Notre Dames of the CCHA. If UAH is accepted to the CCHA, I would bet you could kiss BGSU and Ferris State goodbye.
And that's just me more being an a** and trying to have some balance to all the anti-CCHA rhetoric that was circling.
I do see how it's easy to plug in UAH instead of UNO and there be virtually zero differences; but with all the smaller schools struggling in recruiting, a trip to UAH is still a burden. The Ferris States, Lake States, and possibly even Western Michigan's cannot survive by bleeding money on road trips and having perennial losing teams. That money could be better used to improve the infrastructure and recruiting and compete against the Michigan/Michigan State/Notre Dames of the CCHA. If UAH is accepted to the CCHA, I would bet you could kiss BGSU and Ferris State goodbye.
Your argument would hold water if Western, Northern, and Ferris didn't come down here to play us---and I'm not talking in the Save UAH Hockey sense, but in the fact that WMU and NMU have been here before, and the FSU series was lined up last season before UNO left for the WCHA. If playing in Huntsville was such a burden, those schools wouldn't be doing it.
Oh, and BG wouldn't be coming here next year, either.
GFM <-- doesn't think the BG series was on the sched until after the tectonic shift, though.
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