one more offering on the move to HE from Julie Robyenhymer.... Finally, in some college hockey related news, it looks like Notre Dame will announce on Wednesday that they will join Hockey East and presumably bring RPI as a 12th team with them (RIT would fill the subsequent void in the ECAC). Yesterday, the National Collegiate Hockey Conference announced that they would start their inaugural season in 2013-14 with eight members - North Dakota, Denver, Minnesota-Duluth, St Cloud, Colorado College, Nebraska-Omaha, Miami and Western Michigan. The Irish have spent the summer debating on whether to join the NCHC, Hockey East or go as an independent. Of course they could always join the Big Ten, but that means all of their other sports would have to do the same and as you probably know, the Notre Dame football team, which is independent, has their own, very lucrative, TV contract with NBC that they would have to forfeit (or at the very least share) should they join a conference and if you join the Big Ten it's all sports or nothing. Weighing heavy on Notre Dame's decision was a TV schedule and interestingly enough in a press release from last week about their games that would be televised this year, they noted that Versus, a member of the NBC Sports network, had yet to announce their college hockey schedule for this season. The plot thickens.....