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LEC (Little East Conference) - Keene State - Conference Realignment 2025-26

Lord_Zubin said:
By my count theres 5 Wisconsin schools in the NCHA I can imagine at least one of them would want to switch to an easier conference and get rid of road trips to Michigan and Indiana. Plus u go from 18 conference games to 15 which gives you more room for some west teams or heck even a tournament out east
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Right but the furthest distance between any 2 of those 5 is about 100 miles. They are tightly bunched between Milwaukee and Green Bay. Other than Stevens Point in the middle of the state, the WIAC schools are all 3-5 hours away from the NCHA schools. They'd be trading a 6 hour drive to Adrian once every other year for a 5 hour drive to Superior at least once a year.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
But don't ever expect this. The members like the idea that they can "steal" a spot in the tournament. Voting against this favors very few schools. So, no incentive in a democratic vote to go against it. Heck, conferences don't even choose their regular season champion as the AQ (which they are allowed to do), so that should tell you everything you need to know about the chances of this changing.
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Well, yeah. We've seen the cynicism involved in that regard for many years.

Still, it's somewhat amazing that a huge money sport like college football gets the field selected pretty accurately most years -without a single AQ- and a penny-ante endeavor such as D-3 hockey clings to the Stone Age.
 
Fishman'81 said:
Well, yeah. We've seen the cynicism involved in that regard for many years.

Still, it's somewhat amazing that a huge money sport like college football gets the field selected pretty accurately most years -without a single AQ- and a penny-ante endeavor such as D-3 hockey clings to the Stone Age.
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Well next year, D1 football is getting AQs, thanks to the expanded playoffs.
 
Tom Coughlin said:
I wonder if any of the other UW schools would consider starting a hockey program. There really aren't any great geographic fits given the relatively small footprint of the current WIAC, but I could see an Oshkosh or Whitewater starting a program.

As far as existing programs, Scholastica would make a good fit with its proximity to Superior. Plus they don't have a long term link to the MIAC.

As much as I miss playing the UW schools, I would hate to see SNC make the jump.
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St. Scholastica is in the MIAC for everything now. They aren't jumping. St. Norbert isn't jumping either. Nobody in the WIAC is adding it, at least if you can follow what is going on with budgets in the UW System.
 
Sir Nubs said:
St. Scholastica is in the MIAC for everything now. They aren't jumping. St. Norbert isn't jumping either. Nobody in the WIAC is adding it, at least if you can follow what is going on with budgets in the UW System.
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They'll have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and earn an at large bid then. Might just be Fish's new favorite conference.
 
Fishman'81 said:
Really?

Just throwing stupid after stupid, if that's the case.

Good God. Why is there a RS, again?
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This time I 1,000% agree with you. And when they go to 16 teams (inevitable), the RS will become totally meaningless.

The one wonderful thing about D1 football, even when the playoff system started, was the RS was still ultra important, and thus every game was exciting and usually lived up to the hype. Now, outside of maybe the rivalry games, the RS games are essentially meaningless for the top teams who are always going to win enough to not worry about any key RS matchup.

And what I'm saying is nothing new. Football commentators way smarter than me have written the same thing.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
This time I 1,000% agree with you. And when they go to 16 teams (inevitable), the RS will become totally meaningless.

The one wonderful thing about D1 football, even when the playoff system started, was the RS was still ultra important, and thus every game was exciting and usually lived up to the hype. Now, outside of maybe the rivalry games, the RS games are essentially meaningless for the top teams who are always going to win enough to not worry about any key RS matchup.

And what I'm saying is nothing new. Football commentators way smarter than me have written the same thing.
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Tell Florida State fans the RS matters and they will either laugh in your face or beak down crying, possibly even the ugly combination of both…
 
CARDS_rule_the_Burgh said:
Tell Florida State fans the RS matters and they will either laugh in your face or beak down crying, possibly even the ugly combination of both…
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It's Florida. F--- 'em. :-)

For the record, I'm fine with an eight team D1 football playoff. Perfect compromise between making the RS extremely important even if there are some exceptions, and getting all the worthwhile teams in if one or two slip up during the RS.

What they are doing and proposing is just a cash grab and dilutes the whole thing.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
It's Florida. F--- 'em. :-)

For the record, I'm fine with an eight team D1 football playoff. Perfect compromise between making the RS extremely important even if there are some exceptions, and getting all the worthwhile teams in if one or two slip up during the RS.

What they are doing and proposing is just a cash grab and dilutes the whole thing.
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Yes, but the argument here is that Florida State didn't slip up in the regular season and were still excluded. (That said - I agree that it's Florida State and I haven't lost any sleep over not seeing them. I was just bored with seeing Alabama again...)
 
spwood said:
Yes, but the argument here is that Florida State didn't slip up in the regular season and were still excluded. (That said - I agree that it's Florida State and I haven't lost any sleep over not seeing them. I was just bored with seeing Alabama again...)
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Agreed. The NCAA panders to the LCD. (As in, people who have no grasp of how even the most simple statistics are calculated.)

A few years back, for example, TCU football was #4 in the BCS calculus. They won their last game, but were leap-frogged by the #5 team, who had a better win on the same day.

You would've thought that it was the most egregious miscarriage of justice in the history of Mankind, judging from the media/popular response, but it wasn't.

The sad but unavoidable fact remains: we Americans are a bunch of dumb-asses, in the net.
 
Do what if only AQs made the NCAAs? It would add some spice to the conference tournaments.

The downside is we'd see more 6 team conferences.

Edit: Happy National Pretzel Day, Russell!!
 
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