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Mercyhurst Announces Academic Adjustments and Discontinuation of its Division I Mens Ice Hockey Program

Will Rick Gotkin, 27 years head coach at Mercyhurst, need to step down from the six-member NCAA Div 1 Men’s Ice Hockey Oversight Championship Committee?
 
It's too bad that people could not see what would have been an obvious realignment for travel purposes that would have benefited many schools especially Mercyhurst. Atlantic Hockey could have split in two with the east adding LIU and Stonehill. If Air Force still wanted to pair with Army that would make 7 and Air Force always can use the flights as training anyway. The other 5 western schools could have invited Bowling Green an outlier of the CCHA, a league that has expanded westward and may do so again with the St. Louis schools coming to D1. BGSU itself has huge travel demands that would have been alleviated pairing with only those 5. The trip to the furthest point in Rochester is closer than the second closest in the CCHA making it a bus league.
 
BC/HE said:
It's too bad that people could not see what would have been an obvious realignment for travel purposes that would have benefited many schools especially Mercyhurst. Atlantic Hockey could have split in two with the east adding LIU and Stonehill. If Air Force still wanted to pair with Army that would make 7 and Air Force always can use the flights as training anyway. The other 5 western schools could have invited Bowling Green an outlier of the CCHA, a league that has expanded westward and may do so again with the St. Louis schools coming to D1. BGSU itself has huge travel demands that would have been alleviated pairing with only those 5. The trip to the furthest point in Rochester is closer than the second closest in the CCHA making it a bus league.
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Non merci. We’re fine where we are. Our travel budget allows us to fly to all away games except for the obvious bus trips to Ferris and Lake State. And in an odd quirk of geography, BG is actually the closest CCHA school to Lindenwood/Maryville, a 7 hr bus ride or easy flight, so that wouldn’t be a show stopper for us. It’s the UP schools and Bemidji who take the big travel hit here. Our location affords us a really nice OOC schedule with a mix of local teams from AHA, Nacho, and B1G.

We aren’t the poor, decrepit program we were 20 years ago but we can’t seem to shake that stigma.
 
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Including 50% of merging institutions, roughly 70 not for profit schools have closed in the last 5 years. And there is a growing list of schools teetering on financial life support.

A much larger number of schools have reduced majors, cut degree programs etc….they simply haven’t closed just yet. Schools that out-ran administrative bloat and inefficiency by raising cost of attendance by 1200% over the last 40 years have reached the end of that rope and its wrapped around them.

with some schools being able to subsidize via big time football and basketball money it won’t surprise me to see 5-10 programs close in the next 10 years
 
on the players front- first 3 Mercyhurst guys have found a new home out of the portal. Will Schumacher and the Leblanc twins to Lindenwood, 3 of their best freshmen not named Charles-Edward Gravel

Schumacher tied for the lead in scoring despite only playing in 20 games, F Andrew Leblanc missed 11 games with injury but produced when he was in the lineup, D Jacob Leblanc was their second leading scorer. finally got his first goal in the playoffs but had 15 assists before then. solid pickups for Keith Fisher
 
BUalum said:
Including 50% of merging institutions, roughly 70 not for profit schools have closed in the last 5 years. And there is a growing list of schools teetering on financial life support.

A much larger number of schools have reduced majors, cut degree programs etc….they simply haven’t closed just yet. Schools that out-ran administrative bloat and inefficiency by raising cost of attendance by 1200% over the last 40 years have reached the end of that rope and its wrapped around them.

with some schools being able to subsidize via big time football and basketball money it won’t surprise me to see 5-10 programs close in the next 10 years
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And for the longest time, everyone knew enrollment was going to drop significantly, simply because the college age population was going to drop significantly. Yet, very few higher education institutions put any plans in place to cope with it.

And that doesn't consider two other factors which entered the game late -- 1) tuition getting so high, a percentage of people decided it wasn't worth creating that kind of debt and 2) the anti-education/science mantra being spewed by the current administration.
 
BUalum said:
...A much larger number of schools have reduced majors, cut degree programs etc….they simply haven’t closed just yet. Schools that out-ran administrative bloat and inefficiency by raising cost of attendance by 1200% over the last 40 years have reached the end of that rope and its wrapped around them...it won’t surprise me to see 5-10 programs close in the next 10 years
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I'll go a giant step further and opine that a few schools with legitimate academic chops might opt to go the UofChicago/NYU route and do away with intercollegiate sports entirely.
 
Split-N said:
I'll go a giant step further and opine that a few schools with legitimate academic chops might opt to go the UofChicago/NYU route and do away with intercollegiate sports entirely.
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Umm, NYU still has sports. Their women's basketball team just had a 91-game winning streak snapped in the Final Four.

And the UofChicago most definitely still has sports.
 
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