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Iowa State pursuing D1 Hockey
- Thread starter mnstate0fhockey
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Shirtless Guy
Old Dirty Basterd
Re: Iowa State pursuing D1 Hockey
Iowa State is barely a D1 school, and only a bcs school because the big 12 needed schools.
aparch
Well-known member
So it's similar to Bowling Green and the MAC? (minus the hockey history)
Re: Iowa State pursuing D1 Hockey
Kind of like: Michigan Tech is barely a DII school and only because the GLIAC accepts charity cases that can't afford football.
Kind of like: Michigan Tech is barely a DII school and only because the GLIAC accepts charity cases that can't afford football.
FadeToBlack&Gold
8647
Re: Iowa State pursuing D1 Hockey
We heard you the first time.
Wrong
We heard you the first time.
Kind of like: Michigan Tech is barely a DII school and only because the GLIAC accepts charity cases that can't afford football.
Wrong
JDUBBS1280
MN Hockey Enthusiast
To each his own but LPH has been around FAR longer than USCHO or CHN, and I trust what they have to say about hockey FAR more than ESPN (especially amateur hockey).
Re: Iowa State pursuing D1 Hockey
Stupid Android. It would never happen on a PC.
Spartanforlife4
Generic Catchy Message
Re: Iowa State pursuing D1 Hockey
Maybe Iowa State can join Syracuse, Navy, Kennesaw, and MN-Moorhead in the Rumored Collegiate Hockey League. The schools don't actually play, rather they compete by seeing how much buzz they can create without officially forming a team. Moorhead won this years RCHL title by planning out a team but then announcing it just wouldn't work funding wise. Kennesaw won the title in 2005 and Navy has always been consistent. Penn State, a perennial power, was voted out of the league before the start of the season for actually creating an NCAA team.
Maybe Iowa State can join Syracuse, Navy, Kennesaw, and MN-Moorhead in the Rumored Collegiate Hockey League. The schools don't actually play, rather they compete by seeing how much buzz they can create without officially forming a team. Moorhead won this years RCHL title by planning out a team but then announcing it just wouldn't work funding wise. Kennesaw won the title in 2005 and Navy has always been consistent. Penn State, a perennial power, was voted out of the league before the start of the season for actually creating an NCAA team.
mnstate0fhockey
New member
Re: Iowa State pursuing D1 Hockey
[Whispering]...."If you build it,....he will come." Sorry, wrong sport. (Right state, though.)
[Whispering]...."If you build it,....he will come." Sorry, wrong sport. (Right state, though.)
Kind of like: Michigan Tech is barely a DII school and only because the GLIAC accepts charity cases that can't afford football.
Not true at all. The GLIAC hasn't let Eastern Michigan in.
Re: Iowa State pursuing D1 Hockey
Sounds like a rumor to me. "We would start one if we had the money," applies to pretty much every NCAA school that doesn't currently have hockey, explicitly stated or not.
JDUBBS1280
MN Hockey Enthusiast
Wow, someone clearly doesn't understand what "rumor" means.
Moorhead wasn't rumored to be trying to start a D1 program, they were publicly fundraising for one. They just couldn't raise enough money. There is a very significant difference.
dggoddard
New member
Re: Iowa State pursuing D1 Hockey
Its no secret that the mid-tier BCS schools in the major conferences are under tremendous financial strain due to the escalating arms race in college football. Its possible that they are reviewing their mix of sports to find revenue streams that will enable them to break even or make a modest profit as opposed to ****ing money away on the non-revenue sports.
The thing that separates the Big 12 from the Big 10, Pac 12 & SEC is that the schools don't share the TV revenue equally. Oklahoma & Texas get a lions share of the revenue.
The NCHC would appear to have two slots open to get to 10 teams and that might be driving some of the interest as well.
Either way the Iowa State rumor certainly makes the other school considering hockey make more sense.
Its no secret that the mid-tier BCS schools in the major conferences are under tremendous financial strain due to the escalating arms race in college football. Its possible that they are reviewing their mix of sports to find revenue streams that will enable them to break even or make a modest profit as opposed to ****ing money away on the non-revenue sports.
The thing that separates the Big 12 from the Big 10, Pac 12 & SEC is that the schools don't share the TV revenue equally. Oklahoma & Texas get a lions share of the revenue.
The NCHC would appear to have two slots open to get to 10 teams and that might be driving some of the interest as well.
Either way the Iowa State rumor certainly makes the other school considering hockey make more sense.
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ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
I still haven't heard the other one. My guesses will be Texas Tech and Ok State.
Maybe TCU.
giwan
Really??!!
Re: Iowa State pursuing D1 Hockey
On good authority ISU is not going Div I hockey. It's a constant rumor and nothing more.
On good authority ISU is not going Div I hockey. It's a constant rumor and nothing more.