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  1. elbojpb

    D3 schools CHL rule change

    I'm not sure about the USHL & CHL, but the number of NAHL kids is likely to surge in D3. Is anyone familiar enough with the USPORTS schools, and how they compare academically to D3 schools?? I imagine that the quality of education and the proverbial weight of the degree will now become more...
  2. elbojpb

    Elmira College

    The four pods in the corners of the rink contained some serious lighting which was directed up at the ceiling, and the whole rink was brilliantly indirectly lighted without seeing a lighting fixture. Quite a contrast with today.
  3. elbojpb

    Elmira College

    Elmira had never won fewer than 8 games in a season, until this. (And I was witness to their very first game ever when the ceiling of the MAC was pristine white) Guess there's only one way to go.
  4. elbojpb

    SUNYAC 25-26 The start of a new era

    GBS -- "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." (With all due deference to those Public School teachers out there)
  5. elbojpb

    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    Huston's take on the exact same issue ... probably skewed by the fact that only one NCHA team reaches the tourney in this week's bracketology edition.
  6. elbojpb

    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    My assumption was that the weighting percentages would be "tweaked" each year, but according to the NCAA Q&A document, the % could be tweaked after this (the initial) season, but then only after every 3rd season!?
  7. elbojpb

    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    I don't believe we will ever see a "fair" or "objective" system for choosing the NCAA participants (cf. the CFP fiasco), but it gives us something to discuss on a dreary February day. An excerpt from Scott Huston's article on the NPI ranking system from the D3 Hockey News Site (emphasis mine)...
  8. elbojpb

    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    In a 14 team tourney, I find it incomprehensible that the #10 team in the nation, and likely a 20 win team will be excluded from the tourney. Anyone with a memory better than mine recall a scenario in which a 20 win team didn't make the tourney??
  9. elbojpb

    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    Forgetting something here?? :)
  10. elbojpb

    2026 Bracketology: The Road to the Aud

    In a scenario of Hobart v. The Field of the Other 13 .... is anyone taking The Field? and if so, why?
  11. elbojpb

    SUNYAC 25-26 The start of a new era

    If some deep-pocketed alumnus/a wants to drop a few million at a D3 school to abet that institution's athletic prowess, they're more likely to do what Kim Pegula did at Houghton, build an athletic complex which bears their name in perpetuity. When the political pendulum swings back and the...
  12. elbojpb

    SUNYAC 25-26 The start of a new era

    Considering how easy this would conceivably be in D3, (since nearly all players get $0 in theory) -- my opinion is that the optics for a wealthy donor would undoubtedly be overwhelmingly negative from anyone outside that school's orbit. (Recall the outrage from all of D3 hockey over Neumann's...
  13. elbojpb

    Utica University 2025-26 - The Road (back) To Utica

    According to TJHN, D3 schools can begin admitting former CHL players next season!? If D3 struggles to get NAHL kids, and the CHL is on par with the USHL, why would a player good enough to play in the CHL ever consider playing D3? Excerpt from the article: I've been around long enough to...
  14. elbojpb

    RPI Recruit Thread 2025-2026

    Pardon the intrusion ... but do the House settlement and NIL regulations differ for a D3 school playing up vs. a full-fledged D1 school?
  15. elbojpb

    College Football 2025

    If the bids go only to the 12 best teams in the nation, then the ~50% of D1 schools that don't play in the Big 4 conferences would file an anti-trust suit before the reveal show was off the air, and we all know how well the NCAA does against law suits. Pardon the inference, but this is simply...
  16. elbojpb

    SUNYAC 25-26 The start of a new era

    What happened to the initiative to give all NY residents free tuition at SUNY schools??
  17. elbojpb

    Oswego State Lakers 2025-26...Let's Take it up a notch.....

    With this new landscape in D1 (Univ of Maine has 24 new recruits scheduled to come in for '26-'27, and decreasing roster spots) I can see some healthy scratch or C/D line D1 kids making the move to D3 during the break, and not waiting to get shown the door next season.
  18. elbojpb

    Future D3 (and D2) hockey programs

    For those of you who keep an eye on the former ECAC-West teams that have moved onward and upward ... Lerch has an interesting article on the 4 AHA teams that have opted into the House Settlement; meaning they have to pare their rosters to 26 within 4 years, and can dole out $$$ to athletes...
  19. elbojpb

    NCAA Reform Needed

    The D3 NPI has now been published HERE. Needs a few more weeks' worth of results before it becomes meaningful. Will be interesting to see how the dominant teams from the NCHA (3 of the top 4 in the polls) fare with so little cross-region pairings.
  20. elbojpb

    Future D3 (and D2) hockey programs

    I am surmising that prolonged periods of very sub-par performance will affect that "alumni support".
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