NCAA Convention doins

[Russell Jaslow]

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To add a little fun to the mix, how about a SUNYAC Showcase at the beginning of each year where all 10 teams gather at one location (could rotate each campus each year) for one weekend and play two non-conference games against two opponents from the 'other' division. Five games on Saturday and five games on Sunday. How exciting would that be for a fan to be able to watch the entire conference play in one day!?!?

Obviously just a pipe dream, but fun to think about![/I]

Commenting on this point, remember they did have something like this with four teams (usually Fredonia, Buffalo State, Cortland, and Potsdam with each school getting to host in a four-year rotation) at the beginning of the season. It was done out of necessity because schools were having trouble scheduling non-conference games. But, I can assure you, the coaches hated it.

Of course, they were already playing everybody twice. Your idea would increase the number of times teams play each other when those match ups you are proposing would only occur once each year.

[joecct]

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That was something that was discussed but it will not be voted on at this Convention which would make it at least until 2017 until we would have to worry about it.

I think that is one of the more drastic measures that is being discussed and hopefully, for hockey's sake, it gets shot down.

Just get rid of Pool C for all the tournaments. Then the conference tournaments get REAL interesting (wish they'd do this for D-I, too).

[PrezdeJohnson09]

Just get rid of Pool C for all the tournaments. Then the conference tournaments get REAL interesting (wish they'd do this for D-I, too).

If they got rid of Pool C Id like to see the two-game series with the minigame comeback to decide conference playoffs.

[Ozz]

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If they got rid of Pool C Id like to see the two-game series with the minigame comeback to decide conference playoffs.

+1

[Ozz]

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Commenting on this point, remember they did have something like this with four teams (usually Fredonia, Buffalo State, Cortland, and Potsdam with each school getting to host in a four-year rotation) at the beginning of the season. It was done out of necessity because schools were having trouble scheduling non-conference games. But, I can assure you, the coaches hated it.

Of course, they were already playing everybody twice. Your idea would increase the number of times teams play each other when those match ups you are proposing would only occur once each year.

Do you know the reasoning for hating it?

[joecct]

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If they got rid of Pool C Id like to see the two-game series with the minigame comeback to decide conference playoffs.

+2

[Russell Jaslow]

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Do you know the reasoning for hating it?

They didn't like playing each other when they already play the same teams twice in the year. They felt they got nothing out of it.

[Russell Jaslow]

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If they got rid of Pool C Id like to see the two-game series with the minigame comeback to decide conference playoffs.

Why stop there? Do it the way the SUNYAC did -- a full fledged three-game series.

[joecct]

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Travel to Ridder just got interesting
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/...arter-industry

[PrezdeJohnson09]

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Why stop there? Do it the way the SUNYAC did -- a full fledged three-game series.

I didn't want to get too greedy!

[haulin oats]

Travel to Ridder just got interesting
http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/...arter-industry

There was no mention of D3, so there is nothing to worry about.

[joecct]

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There was no mention of D3, so there is nothing to worry about.

For most of the NCAA, D-III is an imaginary number. But, in reality, D-III also flies charters to the National Championship sites. Otherwise, Eau Claire and St. Norbert would have had to fly to Albany when they played in Lake Placid instead of Saranac Lake.

[Russell Jaslow]

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For most of the NCAA, D-III is an imaginary number. But, in reality, D-III also flies charters to the National Championship sites. Otherwise, Eau Claire and St. Norbert would have had to fly to Albany when they played in Lake Placid instead of Saranac Lake.

I remember when I was at Potsdam and traveling with the basketball team to the Final Four, we had to take a bus to Syracuse to catch a flight out of there to Chicago, and then get bussed to the other side of the state to Rock Island. Ditto in reverse.

Even though there were viable much closer airports in Massena and somewhere in the Quad City area, respectively.

[SNC SID]

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For most of the NCAA, D-III is an imaginary number. But, in reality, D-III also flies charters to the National Championship sites. Otherwise, Eau Claire and St. Norbert would have had to fly to Albany when they played in Lake Placid instead of Saranac Lake.

Eau Claire did fly into Albany in 2013.

[joecct]

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Eau Claire did fly into Albany in 2013.

Really? I thought they shared the flight with you guys.