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A new CCHA:
A couple of the conferences may be forced by the NCAA to take one of them. I can't see both schools being in the same conference because of the cost of travel.
Your offer was what I was thinking. Which is essentially not an offer, it is just letting Miami go back to the CCHA if they choose. And if they wanted to do that, why would they have left in the first place?
the bus normally runs about 3 dollars per mile. You can do the airplane for 6, if you contract for all the flying that airplane and crew can do. Any less than that and you pay up big time. Most likely about $12- 15, per air nautical mile.You can take off the 6 the savings from hotels and meals that you'd buy for the extra day you are on the road. But as I say the key is to use up all the flying, so it has to be a league wide thing in order to do that because that airplane needs to be in use and not sitting around.
Bleeding attendance? It is down like 17%, and the team hasn't been as consistently good as they were in the CCHA. The first year you cited was a year they won the CCHA. They then finished in last in the NCHC. Then 2nd, then 5th. So you aren't exactly comparing apples to apples when you look at the attendance of a team that made the NCAA tourney 8 straight years with 3 conference titles and 2 Frozen Fours sprinkled in, to a team that finished in last place in their first year in the NCHC.panic? hubris? poor financial management? we'll never know, but screw-ups do happen.
reduced travel costs with a chance to stanch their bleeding attendance in the nacho sounds like the basis of a reasonable offer to me.
and the WCHA could trot out the old nacho talking point about improving their chances of making the tournament again...blah blah.
