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New WCHA is dead

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Bringing back the CCHA...now just bring back St. Louis University (one of the original schools) so I can catch NMU at least once a year by just crossing the street after work.
 
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ChickenChit Hockey Association

LSSU and FSU probably shouldn't rush to re-brand everything just yet.
 
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tmoney@nmu said:
Bringing back the CCHA...now just bring back St. Louis University (one of the original schools) so I can catch NMU at least once a year by just crossing the street after work.
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I greatly enjoyed those Bowling Green St. Louis battles in the late 1970's. Fantastic memories!
 
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So, just because I don't always pay attention on the D1 side … this leaves Alaska-Anchorage, Alaska-Fairbanks and Alabama-Huntsville without a conference, along with Arizona State (who didn't have one)

Correct?
 
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GB Puck Fan said:
So, just because I don't always pay attention on the D1 side … this leaves Alaska-Juneau, Alaska-Fairbanks and Alabama-Huntsville without a conference, along with Arizona State (who didn't have one)

Correct?
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Ya, and one of these things is not like the other.
 
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GB Puck Fan said:
So, just because I don't always pay attention on the D1 side … this leaves Alaska-Juneau, Alaska-Fairbanks and Alabama-Huntsville without a conference, along with Arizona State (who didn't have one)

Correct?
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Anchorage, not Juneau.
 
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I believe UAA and UAF have not filed paperwork with the league to leave, but UAH has.

So that leaves us with
WCHA: UAA, UA_
Announced intentions in leaving: UAH
Homeless: ASU

*Edit* I assume UAH could have the league tear up their paperwork and remain IF something comes about.
UAA, UA_, UAH, and ASU is a tough sell for other teams wanting in. And I believe the NCAA has a rule about conferences with less than six members.
 
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Hockey John said:
I greatly enjoyed those Bowling Green St. Louis battles in the late 1970's. Fantastic memories!
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St Louis had some very good teams. Too bad they didn't have their own arena and that probably led to their demise. They had to play in the old St Louis Blues arena, the Checkerdome I think it was, and that proved to be too expensive for them.
 
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aparch said:
UAA, UA_, UAH, and ASU is a tough sell for other teams wanting in. And I believe the NCAA has a rule about conferences with less than six members.
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College Hockey America operated with four teams there at the end (2008-09, 2009-10). They kept getting waivers once they went below six teams. I don't know if the hope was that more teams would join up or whether it was to give them time to find a place to land.

I do not consider a four-team conference, even if it was BC-BU-Harvard-Northeastern, to be viable. If you want to keep the number of games equitable, you're probably playing eight (8) games against each team, which is two trips to each school a year, and even then you're still looking to fill ten (10) non-conference games. UAH played 28 regular season games in 2007-08 and 2000-10 and just 28 in 2008-09.

GFM
 
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lakersparty said:
How dare schools don't want to travel 3,500+ miles one way to play conference games!?
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Actually, the moniker is more about the way it was handled then the end result.

But to be clear, you’d be against the CCHA adding any new team that required a flight?
 
aparch said:
I believe UAA and UAF have not filed paperwork with the league to leave, but UAH has.

So that leaves us with
WCHA: UAA, UA_
Announced intentions in leaving: UAH
Homeless: ASU

*Edit* I assume UAH could have the league tear up their paperwork and remain IF something comes about.
UAA, UA_, UAH, and ASU is a tough sell for other teams wanting in. And I believe the NCAA has a rule about conferences with less than six members.
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UAH isn’t leaving unless something happens to the Alaska schools.
 
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Does the NCHC pass the "no good dirty money-grubbing ruining college hockey jerks" baton to the CCHA now or in the fall?
 
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