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The end of leagues as we know?

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Apparently you did since you felt the need to comment.

And by everyone else did you mean the voices in your head or the 12 people in the meth lab in your basement? :D

The voices are credible sources of information and if my meth lab closes your kids are out of a job.
 
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I understand the dislike flowing around, but let's not sink to cheering players getting hurt.

Screw that. They kill off my team I sure as hell can cheer for their players to get hurt. It is too bad that aaron marvin was a senior so he can't go after the rest of the sioux.
 
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You're probably right that at least one of the current leagues will continue to exist (like ECAC out east), and you're probably more right than I'd like for the leagues. But... ouch. SCSU and UAF being the headliners of the WCHA, with NMU and MTU as the also-rans, BSU and MSU in off-years, and UAA and LSSU along for the ride? You're still working with the two Alaskas in the same league too, and something tells me that one or the other will skip to the BHHC in a few years. LSSU isn't staying for long either :(

Your CCHA just hurts, though it's probably pretty accurate too. Regarding RIT, toss them in favor of Canisius and Mercyhurst, since RIT is scholarship-limited as D-3 while the other two wanted full-scholly leagues. I think the only way the CCHA will survive the next decade is by being the new CHA, but it hurts to see.

Meanwhile, the BHHC won't do as well as it hopes - Denver, NoDak, Notre Dame, Duluth and Miami will get tired of beating each other up for NCAA berths, and no one will draw as well as they used to. Fast forward five years and the western BH schools split back to a relatively healthy WCHA, the eastern ones pick up the CCHAers, and with a few slight alterations and at least three teams missing, we're back to the post-Big Twenve hockey landscape. May as well save the trouble and skip redrawing the leagues now.
UAA along for the ride? Any conference involving these leftover teams will be wide open. All these teams will be on the same level recruiting and funding wise.
 
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What's to keep BSU and UND from playing a non-conference game at a neutral site midway between the schools, someplace like Erskine or Maple Lake?

Oh, I don't know, maybe the lack of a 5-10,000 seat arena?

This is what happens when people get "smarter" by looking at a map on the interwebs. Not only lack of a 5-10,000 seat arena, how about lack of ANY KIND OF HOCKEY RINK (besides maybe an outdoor) in either town? If Osorojo wanted to make any kind of educated comment on this topic, maybe suggesting the teams play in Thief River Falls or Crookston (not to mention Warroad or Roseau) would be a better idea...
 
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UAA along for the ride? Any conference involving these leftover teams will be wide open. All these teams will be on the same level recruiting and funding wise.

UAF and UAA would be just fine in this supposed new conference. Hockey means enough to both schools that they aren't going to just idly stand by. Shoot, after all this dust settles it'll be nice to finally have the GC matter for something besides bragging.
 
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Yep, it is obviously a sin for a tech fan to wear a sioux jersey DURING A MICHIGAN-RPI GAME! :rolleyes:
 
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They haven't given us a dime. The Mankato Civic Center was built with local funding, and is still being supported by a local-option sales tax.

In reality you had the newest arena and in many peoples opinion didn't need state money. On the other hand, UMD and SCSU were old and needed it.
 
In reality you had the newest arena and in many peoples opinion didn't need state money. On the other hand, UMD and SCSU were old and needed it.
Fine, but we didn't get any state money when we built it, either. I was only addressing the idea that the Minnesota legislature built arenas all over the state.
 
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