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    Well its finally happened. Penn State is set to announce the formation of a varsity hockey team. That will make six Big Ten schools that offer hockey. The only question is what Notre Dame does in everything other than football, a move out of the Big East would help most of their other sports, and is a natural choice in hockey...

    Its the end of the world as we know it

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    Originally posted by UNH09 View Post
    Well its finally happened. Penn State is set to announce the formation of a varsity hockey team. That will make six Big Ten schools that offer hockey. The only question is what Notre Dame does in everything other than football, a move out of the Big East would help most of their other sports, and is a natural choice in hockey...

    Its the end of the world as we know it

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    The Big Ten just went to 12 teams they are not going to add a 13th team in any sport. Even if ND could opt out of playing Big 10 football and remain independent the rest of the Big Ten schools would not alow them to join without bringing the football money. ND had their chance.
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      Originally posted by GopherBigGuy911 View Post
      The Big Ten just went to 12 teams they are not going to add a 13th team in any sport. Even if ND could opt out of playing Big 10 football and remain independent the rest of the Big Ten schools would not alow them to join without bringing the football money. ND had their chance.
      I think with the football option on the table the door is always open for Notre Dame...
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        Originally posted by UNH09 View Post
        I think with the football option on the table the door is always open for Notre Dame...
        I put the chances of ND joining the Big Ten somewhere in the realm of Barak winning a second term and me dying, going to heaven, and finding Hitler in heaven. In other words it will never happen.
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          I was going to say the gophers making the NCAAs but what you said works too....

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            Originally posted by UNH09 View Post
            Well its finally happened. Penn State is set to announce the formation of a varsity hockey team. That will make six Big Ten schools that offer hockey. The only question is what Notre Dame does in everything other than football, a move out of the Big East would help most of their other sports, and is a natural choice in hockey...

            Its the end of the world as we know it

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            Notre Dame likes playing Catholic schools. It likes having its own rivalries in football that only an independent could manage like being able to play BC, USC, and a couple of the service academies every year. The only thing that could effect that is the future of the BE which will have its future decided at some point in next 12 months. Villanova might jump up to FBS football which might save the conference from splitting but we shall see. What will really decide the BEs future is if they are able to get at least one more school up to FBS level, get a better TV contract, and hope that the B10 or ACC does not do another raid on them.

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              Originally posted by willythekid View Post
              I was going to say the gophers making the NCAAs but what you said works too....
              Mmmmmmm are we talking this year? or ever again ;-) I'd say would be right as long a Don is on the bench.....
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                Originally posted by CHFAN222 View Post
                Notre Dame likes playing Catholic schools. It likes having its own rivalries in football that only an independent could manage like being able to play BC, USC, and a couple of the service academies every year. The only thing that could effect that is the future of the BE which will have its future decided at some point in next 12 months. Villanova might jump up to FBS football which might save the conference from splitting but we shall see. What will really decide the BEs future is if they are able to get at least one more school up to FBS level, get a better TV contract, and hope that the B10 or ACC does not do another raid on them.
                If Villanova makes the jump expect UMass to do the same...
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                  Originally posted by UNH09 View Post
                  Its the end of the world as we know it
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                    Originally posted by UNH09 View Post
                    If Villanova makes the jump expect UMass to do the same...
                    With what money? They have a pretty small endowment. Do they have any rich alumni that would be willing to finance it? Also they might receive some heat since I'm sure BC would try hard to block any attempt for them to get state financing since they would not want to compete for recruits with them. Most importantly it would not be a guarantee that the BE would even have them.

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                      Ok, so does this open the flood gates for everyother wannabe hockey school to also join now? How about other Big Ten schools such as Illinois who might be more apt to starting a team with the recent success of the Blackhawks?
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                        Originally posted by GopherBigGuy911 View Post
                        Ok, so does this open the flood gates for everyother wannabe hockey school to also join now? How about other Big Ten schools such as Illinois who might be more apt to starting a team with the recent success of the Blackhawks?
                        Not that one has anything to do with the other, but I'm wondering if Penn adds a varsity team now. They have an on campus rink and being an Ivy there's an obvious desire to have them. Plus Pennsylvania, specifically Philadelphia is becoming a real hot bed for minor hockey.
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                          Originally posted by GopherBigGuy911 View Post
                          Ok, so does this open the flood gates for everyother wannabe hockey school to also join now? How about other Big Ten schools such as Illinois who might be more apt to starting a team with the recent success of the Blackhawks?
                          As much as we'd all like to pretend that NHL success (or even a renewed interest among the local bandwagon fanbase) would have ANYTHING to do with the possibility of college hockey around Chicago (or Champaign, in the case of Illinois)... that's just not the case. Pretty much all of the major players in Illinois (Illinois, NIU, Northwestern, DePaul, etc.) have the same problem that Penn State had until recently: lack of a suitable on-campus rink.

                          Penn is an interesting case, since they already have the rink (which wouldn't be the smallest in the Ivy League, mind you), yet hasn't really shown any signs of looking back after dismantling their program.
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                            So did the WCHA know in advance that this would happen and thus took 2 teams to help ease some of the pain of losing teams to the BTHC?
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                              Originally posted by JF_Gophers View Post
                              So did the WCHA know in advance that this would happen and thus took 2 teams to help ease some of the pain of losing teams to the BTHC?
                              Good point, it wouldn't suprise me if they did. Now when and if Minnesota and Wisconsin leave the WCHA do they get replaced by potential up start programs such as MSU-Moorhead or possibly U-W Superior?
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