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With the former club goalie starting against LSSU.At that point they will be a varsity team, no longer a club team.
With the former club goalie starting against LSSU.At that point they will be a varsity team, no longer a club team.
So if I enroll at Pink Pony State College, can I play four years of intramural a, change my major three time and still be eligible to play four years on the varsity?
With the former club goalie starting against LSSU.
No. As stated previously in this thread, once you enroll in college you have 5 years to use (or lose) your 4 years of NCAA eligibility. Whether you play club sports, IM sports, broomball, beer-pong, or nothing whatsoever doesn't matter.
I believe this is only true is that college has a varsity sport you wish to play in. e.g. USC does not have a varsity hockey team, so you can enroll there for some classes, later transfer to a college that has a varsity hockey team and still have all your eligibility.
Not exactly true. The clock on '5 years to play 4' still starts once you enroll and take a certain number of credits, but you can transfer without penalty. Players that turn 20 during their final season of junior hockey have to enroll in college to maintain their eligibility, and then can transfer to a D-1 school without sitting out a year. The only difference is that they only have four years to play four seasons at their school, unless they have an injury and get a medical hardship waiver.
Yes, if you turn 21 during your final season of Junior play, you have to be enrolled full time in classes or you will lose a year of eligibility.Isn't that "turn 21 during their final season"?
With a 2-1 loss to Stony Brook in the semi-finals last night. ASU's time in the ACHA is officially over.
Which means, get ready for some lean times, because they are a comein'.
If ASU plays a hybrid schedule next year, like PSU did their first season, as they have said that they are going to do, where PSU went 13-14-0, they may be capable of posting a record that looks somewhat like that one. If they play a schedule that looks more like what UNO played in their first season of existence, where they fielded a team with players that had never played together, as they were not a club team moving up, and where they played an fairly brutal schedule:
http://www.omavs.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPSID=795015&SPID=135111&Q_SEASON=1997
............they are going to get pounded on a regular basis. This UNO inaugural season schedule included 9 games against teams ranked in the USCHO poll at the time.
But, this led up to UNO playing in the CCHA tourney title game, their first season in any conference, in just their 3rd season of existence, pounding Michigan, 7-4, in the tourney semi-final, on national television, in Detroit, on St. Patrick's Day, in 1998.
I firmly believe that playing a pussified hybrid schedule is not in your best interest next season. I have wondered if Penn State would have been better off this season, a down year in the Big 10, had they not done this in '12-'13. They followed that season up with an 8-26-2 record last season, the first season they played a "real" schedule.
If they had thrown themselves to the dogs that first season, would they be better off this season? I say yes.
I firmly believe that ASU will be better off if they schedule "up" and not "down", in the long run.
It's hard to soar like eagles when you are flying with a flock of turkeys.
Just my historical perspective on the topic.
RIT played a hybrid schedule in 2005-06, then won the AHA regular season championship in 06-07. It's really not as bad as you think.
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Aside from the US Under 18 team games, they played some DIII schools, but it was still mostly a DI schedule. Not to mention the AHA was not much better than a DIII conference. While some fans of bigger schools may disagree, the talent that is at the AHA is much better than it was when RIT joined.
On Oct. 17, UConn will play Arizona State, a championship club program turned fledgling Division I program, at the XL Center.
Update:
First scheduled D1 Home games all but final to be vs Yale on Jan 8-9. To be seen if it will be out in Glendale at Gila River or at Oceanside. St. Cloud State has also been leaked to be on the schedule as an away game.
Another Commitment for next years team from Defenseman Nick Gushue of the BCHL Nanaimo Clippers. Bringing the total to 9 forwards, 4 defense, and 1 goalie recruited for next year.
Some more rumblings from the Big10 in terms of ASU joining as an associate member, possibly with Nebraska-Lincoln doing D1 for balance.