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Does anyone miss CCHA?

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davyd83 said:
Generally speaking, Tech fans are a pretty classy bunch. Even if you’re on the other side. Cheer, scream, yell and root against you during the game, then drink with you after!
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My father-in-law is a Tech grad. Classy doesn't come to mind. We do drink together, though.
 
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LSSULaker889294 said:
Wasn't the Big 10 Hockey conference supposed to really grow college hockey? Only Arizona State has joined and they aren't even in a conference at the moment.
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That was never the intention. The intention was ALWAYS to make a ton of money and keep that money in the conference.
 
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The CCHA was a great league and had really short travel distance for so many of the games .
 
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Go___Tech_Gold said:
MTU is better off in the nWCHA than the old WCHA. Not being in the same conference as the other UP schools was a joke. Good riddance to the Colorado schools and North Dakota. MTU now plays comparatively sized, closer schools and has a regular, yearly plus .500 record. They got crushed by far away schools in the old days.

MTU should have stayed in the CCHA. Moot point now, thank God.
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No doubt the schools to have benefited from the new WCHA are Mankato, Tech, Bemidji and BG. Everyone else is a wash at this point or is worse off from realignment.
 
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Yes. "The old ways are the best ways."

But I miss the 17-team, 3 division ECAC, so what do I know?
 
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Absolutely! I've yet to hear one valid argument making the case on how the re-alignment benefited college hockey in any way shape or form.
 
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icehawk said:
I miss the WCHA. Especially the always good time the Final Five.
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I miss some of the teams from the old WCHA but I prefer the current tournament over the Final Five. I was at both on-campus championship games and you'll never match the atmosphere at an oversized neutral site venue.

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jnacc said:
Absolutely! I've yet to hear one valid argument making the case on how the re-alignment benefited college hockey in any way shape or form.
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I think there was at least one benefit. I believe conferences were getting too big. The WCHA, for instance, in recent years had expanded to 12 teams, and that's just too many imho. I would really like to see hockey conferences no greater than maybe 8 teams in size. You can still play plenty of conference games but leave yourself with a relevant number of out of conference games.

We went from five automatic qualifiers to six with re-alignment, and I think that was a good thing. I think we could use even a bit more of it, maybe forming another eastern conference out of some of the teams from HEA, the ECAC and Atlantic hockey.
 
MTUHuskies said:
I miss some of the teams from the old WCHA but I prefer the current tournament over the Final Five. I was at both on-campus championship games and you'll never match the atmosphere at an oversized neutral site venue.

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We shall agree to disagree. The Final Five to me was right behind the Frozen Four for entertainment on and off the ice.
 
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SJHovey said:
I think there was at least one benefit. I believe conferences were getting too big. The WCHA, for instance, in recent years had expanded to 12 teams, and that's just too many imho. I would really like to see hockey conferences no greater than maybe 8 teams in size. You can still play plenty of conference games but leave yourself with a relevant number of out of conference games.
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I love 12. If the Ivies would move to 10 NC I'd be content for life. In my opinion that is the optimal schedule.
 
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