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Bitch About the Bracket Here

The math wouldn't be perfect, but attendance would stand a better chance if you put Providence/Quinnipiac in Albany and Duluth/Penn State in South Dakota. Although, I don't know how well the Penn State fans will travel to Albany....they might.

For me, especially with the off day, I don't travel to regionals unless it's within a 4 hour drive. Back in my younger days I shared a 15 hour drive to a regional with friends. I want more regionals in the Great Lakes region, even if it means I have to travel to Ohio
 
Tell me about it. Last year I spent four nights in God-awful Manchester, NH. Had to stay an extra night because 800-pound Gorilla ESPN made BC-Denver a late game. Further, ESPN released the second-round start times on a need-to-know basis, adding a layer of complexity to my travel plans. My hotel room, by the way, had a panoramic view of an electrical substation.
 
wolverineTrumpet said:
The math wouldn't be perfect, but attendance would stand a better chance if you put Providence/Quinnipiac in Albany and Duluth/Penn State in South Dakota. Although, I don't know how well the Penn State fans will travel to Albany....they might.

For me, especially with the off day, I don't travel to regionals unless it's within a 4 hour drive. Back in my younger days I shared a 15 hour drive to a regional with friends. I want more regionals in the Great Lakes region, even if it means I have to travel to Ohio
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Penn State's so-called fans are beer-swilling football types just now jumping on the hockey bandwagon.
 
wolverineTrumpet said:
The math wouldn't be perfect, but attendance would stand a better chance if you put Providence/Quinnipiac in Albany and Duluth/Penn State in South Dakota. Although, I don't know how well the Penn State fans will travel to Albany....they might.

For me, especially with the off day, I don't travel to regionals unless it's within a 4 hour drive. Back in my younger days I shared a 15 hour drive to a regional with friends. I want more regionals in the Great Lakes region, even if it means I have to travel to Ohio
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I'm with you on that 4 hour drive to the regionals. That gets me to Puerto Penasco, Gallup, Mexicali, Page & Las Vegas, bring 'em on!
 
SJHovey said:
The correct way for the NCAA hockey playoffs to run is this:

16 teams
Serpentine seeding
First week's games at home of higher seed (if you want to make it a best of three, or two games, total goals the way it used to be, fine by me)
Second week's games (currently the off week for the Final Four), at home of higher seed
Frozen Four
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Sounds interesting, but I see a flaw
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I'd be interested in seeing the math on it.

For instance, the NCHC takes the gate revenue from the NCHC playoff games held on campus sites. In fact, it's the NCHC's primary source of revenue. There is no reason the NCAA couldn't do the same thing.

My recollection is that the NCAA has to be guaranteed $150,000 from each regional host. After that, if the revenue exceeds all of the costs the host gets to deduct (like the cost of a bunch of hotel rooms, etc...) there is some sort of split of the "extra," although I seem to recall reading stories that there is rarely any extra to split up.

I see no reason why we wouldn't play best of three in the first round, and even quarterfinals, at host cities. But even if you only had single games, there would be at least 12 games to get down to the Frozen Four. I have to believe we could generate at least $600,000 in gate revenue from those 12 games, unless we ended up with a weird year where every host school had a rink with only 500 seats.
 
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