Re: CCHA teams will join WCHA
Too bad Michigan and Michigan State won't be making the same commitment to NMU, Ferris, Lake Superior and Western. I have a feeling that when after next season that you'll never see UM or MSU in Marquette, the Soo or Big Rapids.
Its funny -- and sad -- to see Big Ten teams, and their supporters, actually have the audacity to pretend to be magnanimus. What a sordid collection of hypocritical two-faced back-stabbing money-grabbing jackholes, who actually have the nerve to say they care about some random hockey program, while it was they who ripped up the traditional landscape of College Hockey for the thrill of playing Penn State and some random Big (6) Ten pennant. You really have to be deeply medicated to have say with a straight face, "Oh, we really support the ________ hockey program and we will schedule you . . ."
The Big (6) Ten needs to pad out their NC schedule. I guess I would prefer to see all the WCHA schools tell all the Big Ten schools to go pound sand -- schedule a home and home with Robert Morris. The sad suckers in all this are the schools who are willing to crawl on their belly just a chance to play a Big Ten school. I seriously think all the non-Big Ten schools in the West should just refuse to schedule them for a few years. They wanted to leave? They wanted their own little conference with their own little TV network and their own little trophy? Great. Enjoy. But don't come simpering around the supposed "lesser" schools to help you pad your schedule.
I mean, really, at least have the common decency to admit that your program (whateve Big (6) Ten program you follow) made the move for money. Nobody buys the "tradition" argument, and it only makes you look like a sucker.
And lets be honest, UM under Berenson have played almost no NC road games. This library-wetting coach griped yearly about the trip to the UP and Alaska. MSU has been willing to hit the road under Comley -- but only to money spots.
The good of college hockey? Ha! Thats a laugh. If there was any thought about the good of college hockey, we'd see Michigan doing a real home and home contract with Colgate (for instance), or scheduling a road trip to UAH. Minnesota cares about other Minnesota schools. HAHAHAHAHHAHA -- you people not only said it, you seem (amazingly) to believe it! Its about cheap, easy NC games, and nothing more. And they lock in a schedule with these schools? Seriously? And these schools fall for this rot? If they wanted to schedule these schools, and support these schools, then why not just stay in the WCHA? Instead, Minnesota -- in its pius wisdom -- has decreed that it may, in the name of good sportsmanship and love, agree to play lowly, simple, poor and hungry SCSU on a yearly basis? Full of yourself much?
Nope, I don't buy it. I am perfectly happy with a UP-centered league without the Walmart Big Ten fans mucking about.
Of course, this is all just my opinion. But I am happy that the other schools have decided to stand together. If we can take the next step and tell the Big (6) Ten to take a hike on scheduling, and assert some level of pride, I would be pleased.
(and now, my children, we wait. Not long -- no not long at all. I expect the standard hyper-knee-jerk-defensive reaction from the Minnesota mafia which feels a deep compulsion to shout down any possible thought which might, in any way, at any time, cast any shadow of any disrepute upon Minnesota as a school, state, or state of mind. I expect the first knee-jerk to pop about ten minutes after I post. Lets all sit back and watch the little buggers go about their well rehearsed, neatly choreographed responsive mouth-foaming . . . ).
. But still, that only means one home game per season against a team like UM for SUCS and 'Kato with a home series every other year for Bemidji. This may come off as tArrogance, but one or two games each season against a team like the Gophers won't solve the possible problems I doubt. Maybe I am wrong.