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Future of the ccha????

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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
So much **** has happened in the last few months, that you can't really blame people for losing their mind trying to keep up.

Yes, there are plenty of great schools in the MAC that would be great fits in the college hockey landscape. The rest of the directional Michigan schools. NIU. Buffalo. The long lost and lamented Ohio and Kent State. All of whom would be wonderful additions to the world of NCAA hockey... except for the part where you'd have to fund it with drug money if you wanted it to happen in this economy. (Especially with the MAC's strongest hockey program scampering off to greener pastures)
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But imagine the lulz if 3 new MAC teams show up after Notre Dame joins Hockey East and they decide to drag Miami back kicking and screaming.

Don't mind me. I'm too busy watching my program become Houston football in the late 1980's.
 
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darker98 said:
dg spending his lottery winnings will happen before this scenario.
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True. We'll funnel his lottery winnings through a series of shell corporations to those MAC schools to build hockey programs. He will be the instrument of his own demise!
 
bronconick said:
But imagine the lulz if 3 new MAC teams show up after Notre Dame joins Hockey East and they decide to drag Miami back kicking and screaming.

Don't mind me. I'm too busy watching my program become Houston football in the late 1980's.
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Almost warms the cockles of my heart. Hell, a lot of the blame for the Super League can be placed at Miami's feet as well. They're the ones jumping ship with teams in another conference to form a whole new one. If they don't jump, is there really any reason for DU and UND to want to lead a breakaway conference?
 
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bronconick said:
Everyone else should split up into 4 conferences of 6 and 5 of 7 teams, then watch the "elite conferences" howl about there only being 7 at-large bids to fight over.
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Wouldn't that be a kicker?

Shirtless Guy said:
I hate what the B1G TEN did but I can't fault them because they as a conference have 100 years of history vs the WCHA being around 60+ years...
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I have come to this conclusion.
 
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Pletsch just strikes me as the guy who has no idea how to even go about handling this. It's like he took the job thinking it would be fun and harmless...he gets to do the FSN broadcasts...holds a couple pressers every year, and is just kind of "there." Now, I can just picture him sitting in his office, under his desk, in the fetal position, rocking back and forth.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Yes. To avoid having to share with MTU, MSU-M, SCSU, UAA and BSU. Same reason they're doing it now.
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Yeah, but without Miami, they gotta have another team around to fill things out to being a six team league. Is there really another school there that would give them the same potental value for the supposed TV contract that the Super League wants that Miami brings short of the Golden Domers and Big Ten Schools??
 
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nbetweennownthen said:
Pletsch just strikes me as the guy who has no idea how to even go about handling this. It's like he took the job thinking it would be fun and harmless...he gets to do the FSN broadcasts...holds a couple pressers every year, and is just kind of "there." Now, I can just picture him sitting in his office, under his desk, in the fetal position, rocking back and forth.
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Obviously you don't know the man, nor do you have any idea about what he has done in his time in the CCHA office. It's far more than "FSN broadcasts and holding a couple pressers." So Mr. NBetween, how would you have prevented the Big 10 from forming and Miami and Notre Dame from exercising their option to leave the league and get in with schools that are more like them than Ferris and Lake Superior. What would have been your strategy?
 
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NMU8405 said:
This guy from BGSU totally feels like the needy girl type, the one that texts you and if you dont respond within 5 minutes, freaks out.
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True, and they don't mention at all anything about them calling WMU and Miami about what they're doing as well.
 
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I just figured it's because John Kyle was tying up the phone lines prank calling Ferris State's AD:

"Hi, I'm calling from the new Super Conference... *crumples up paper near the phone* Sorry... we must have a bad connection. Was wondering if you would be interested..." *crumples more paper* *hangs up quickly* :D
 
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bronconick said:
But imagine the lulz if 3 new MAC teams show up after Notre Dame joins Hockey East and they decide to drag Miami back kicking and screaming.

Don't mind me. I'm too busy watching my program become Houston football in the late 1980's.
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Can Eastern Michigan use Yost for a few seasons? Give them some fake ambiance on the off weekends for UM.

(although a friend of mine went to Eastern to play for their club team.... odd)
 
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davyd83 said:
Obviously you don't know the man, nor do you have any idea about what he has done in his time in the CCHA office. It's far more than "FSN broadcasts and holding a couple pressers." So Mr. NBetween, how would you have prevented the Big 10 from forming and Miami and Notre Dame from exercising their option to leave the league and get in with schools that are more like them than Ferris and Lake Superior. What would have been your strategy?
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Actually, I've met him numerous times, interviewed him more than a handful of times, and genuinely like the guy. From my experience with him, anytime there's a hard topic to discuss, he has little to say and always (a) defers to other people or (b) pulls the "we have to look into it" card. There's nothing anyone (not named Jim Delany) could have done to prevent the BTHC. Not Pletsch or anyone else.

I never said I blame Fred for the CCHA's situation, and I never said it's his fault that Miami, ND, NMU (and potentially Western) left the conference. I also never said I had a strategy.

My comment was simply on how Pletsch is seemingly HANDLING the situation. If you read what others have said and wrote (both posters and sportswriters), he comes off as someone who was blindsided by this. How that is possible, I have no idea. If you believe, as people have written, that he's not fielding phone calls from member institutions...that is a rather poor way to conduct yourself when those programs could very well be struggling for survival in 2-4 years.
 
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alfablue said:
Can Eastern Michigan use Yost for a few seasons? Give them some fake ambiance on the off weekends for UM.

(although a friend of mine went to Eastern to play for their club team.... odd)
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Most of their students are already used to going to football games at Michigan anyways.... ;)
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
So much **** has happened in the last few months, that you can't really blame people for losing their mind trying to keep up.

Yes, there are plenty of great schools in the MAC that would be great fits in the college hockey landscape. The rest of the directional Michigan schools. NIU. Buffalo. The long lost and lamented Ohio and Kent State. All of whom would be wonderful additions to the world of NCAA hockey... except for the part where you'd have to fund it with drug money if you wanted it to happen in this economy. (Especially with the MAC's strongest hockey program scampering off to greener pastures)
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Kent State and Ohio both have varsity-club ACHA DI teams. One of Ohio's biggest rivals in the ACHA is Penn State so their ticket revenue will drop at the club level after usually selling out against the Icers. And both still have on-campus ice arenas. Kent State's was actually renovated, I'm thinking about 10 yrs ago, well after they left NCAA hockey. Facilities are some of the biggest hurdles of new programs, ice arenas are expensive to build but also maintain compared to a football or soccer pitch that can be used for tons of sports. With Kent State and Ohio both having facilities all they'd need is to clear Title IX issues and also gain money for scholarships.
 
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