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I'm so glad the ADs are handling these discussions, and not some of the posters here.
And if you've been reading the thread you'll note that when cost of travel was moaned about we pointed out that UAA and UAF would be subsidizing a big portion of the travel. Then it became we have to go twice? A number of workable alternatives were pointed out that made that moaning moot. Then the big obstacle was missing classes until we all remembered the internet and the technology that moots that whine.
You haven't mooted anything, except in your own mind. Not many regular university classes can suddenly be conducted via the internet for ten days or so. Classes are either set up for online delivery or they're not.
Actually any University worth the money you pay it can have it's classes conducted online for the most part, especially State universities where connections are subsidized. You want it in a simple way, it's called Blackboard, a textbook, and a coaching who makes sure their players are attending class even when on the road. UAA and UAF have been doing this for almost 15 years with few problems. If professors aren't willing to work with the athletic department on things like this then you have bigger problems.
Actually if spelled it correctly it looks, well like what you typed there. So in an effort to make sure nobody misses what is being said, slight alterations are used.
Proofreading and knowing how the internet works are both days you missed in 9th grade, huh?
Okay; on other boards, evading the language filters like that brings out the ban hammer. What's the point of language filters if you're allowed "clever" misspellings to get around them?
Because some of the filtered words are silly to be filtered (the WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot being the prime example, some because the words used to replace have zero meaning to those who don't know (frak), and some because we can (deucebag).
I think, for the most part, we understand the Alaska schools will have to pay for teams to travel up here and we're ok with that, it's part of wanting to play. What we don't like is the idea of being in seperate conferences again, having to waste our few non-conference games on a rivalry series. In the past it was something that was done because the powers that be didn't like that idea and got their way, well now that the powers that be are gone we'd like to correct this.Hooray spelling lessons.
Unless tectonic shift puts the Alaska schools in Iowa, we're going to have problems with travel. If the Alaska schools want a home in a D-1 league after this explosion, they'll have to keep offering to partially defray costs. And, if the WCHA and CCHA schools want to remain viable, they need the extra two schools to help make leagues.
Everyone can deal with it. Or more to the point as F2B&G pointed out, the ADs can deal with it.
