The new Super League is going down the tubes.

[MavHockey14]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

I'd be surprised if it's only one or two.

I agree, it's going to be more like 3 or 4.

 

[MavHockey14]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

I just want to cry.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

Thank you, Penn State and Barry Alvarez. May you both get what you deserve.

If Barry Alvarez got hit by a bus tonight. I'd buy everyone I know a shot. I hope he dies a slow, painful death and his fat *** rots in hell.

 

[Gurtholfin]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

If Barry Alvarez got hit by a bus tonight. I'd buy everyone I know a shot. I hope he dies a slow, painful death and his fat *** rots in hell.

What does Alvarez have to do with UND and Denver destroying college hockey?

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

What does Alvarez have to do with UND and Denver destroying college hockey?

The catalyst for the whole **** thing was the B1G Mistake, or, in other words Barry Alvarez's wet dream.

 

[MavsFan]

I just want to cry.

Yeah, we'll be one of the first to disappear. On the bright side, that's probably the only way we'll get rid of Jutting.

 

[The Sicatoka]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

I'd rather attend a Timberwolves game against Cleveland. In Cleveland.

I don't have my copy of Dante handy; is that the fifth or sixth ring of Hell?

 

[The Sicatoka]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

You're blaming Barry Alvarez. He was just first to say it to media.

Blame Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and his "Big Ten Network" and their need for filler between re-re-re-runs of basketball and football press conferences.

 

[NMU8405]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

RIP NMU Hockey

 

[First Time Long Time]

You're blaming Barry Alvarez. He was just first to say it to media.

Blame Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and his "Big Ten Network" and their need for filler between re-re-re-runs of basketball and football press conferences.

Sorry, IMO, programs could survive if the WCHA survived, it's the butt hurt response by this new league that will kill teams.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

RIP NMU Hockey

I'm with you there. NMU and about 9 other teams = RIP

 

[The Sicatoka]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

In the previous (WCHA, CCHA) form, was there room for more college hockey teams? No.

This new alignment will allow for:

- a start-up level conference
- an "aspire to" conference, and
- a punching bag conference headed by Jim Delaney.

 

[SCSU Euro]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

Know the sickest part? If some of these smaller schools start to fold, I won't be heartbroken, because I think the best chance SCSU has of making it long term is waiting for others to drop, hold out the longest, and see if these ***-clowns eventually throw us a pity invite. That's pretty messed up.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

Know the sickest part? If some of these smaller schools start to fold, I won't be heartbroken, because I think the best chance SCSU has of making it long term is waiting for others to drop, hold out the longest, and see if these ***-clowns eventually throw us a pity invite. That's pretty messed up.

True. Whoever the last 2 standing are may get to be the teams to round out the conference to 10 members. My guess on the strongest situated are, in order: SCSU, UAA, MTU, NMU, BSU, BGSU, UA, MSU-M, LSSU, UAH

edit: the other sad thing is SCSU, BSU, MSU-M, MTU and UAA may have to make the decision to bring NMU, UA and LSSU into the fold, to round out a conference and limit travel costs (as much as is possible with 2 trips to Alaska), which is a definite death penalty for BGSU, UAH and FSU.

 

[joecct]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

The new Super League is sure going to screw the "have-nots". My school doesn't care, because we are arrogant, but it looks like lots of fans and their small schools are doomed.

What Division I sport does not screw the "have-nots"? The money stream for the power conference is getting larger and larger, while the smaller schools are stuck getting the hand outs from E$PN (3 and U networks) and their regional sports networks.

D-I college hockey is getting on the same bandwagon and it has (at least I'm pretty sure), the largest number of non Division I members. Do the big boys want to share the wealth with their distant cousins, or do they want to keep the $$ in the immediate family?

Here are the D-I's playing D-I hockey:
BCS (9): ND, BC, UConn, UMAA, UMTC, MSU, UW, tOSU, PSU
FBS (6): Miami, BGSU, USAFA, USMA, UMass*, WMU
FCS (13): UNH, Maine, UND, Colgate, Holy Cross, Sacred Heart, RMU, Ivy Group (6)
Don't play Football (9): PC, BU, UVM, Quinnipiac, DU, Niagara, Canisius, UNO*, NE

* = transitioning to that bracket
38 teams.

The D-II's (16) + 6 more playing in the NE-10 (D-III schedule)
UML, Merrimack, Bentley, AIC, Ferris, UAF, UAA, UMD, MTU, NMU, LSSU, SCSU, MSU-M, BSU, UAH, Mercyhurst

And the D-III's (6)
CCT, SLU, RPI, UC, CC, RIT

Mix and serve according to any criteria you want, be it money, geographic proximity, academics, rink size, whatever.

 

[Beer Pong Horn]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

Fixed your post:

In the proposed (BHHC, LeftoverCHA) form, was there room for more college hockey teams? No.

This old alignment will allow for:

- a start-up level conference

the CCHA

- an "aspire to" conference,

the WCHA

and
- a punching bag conference headed by Jim Delaney.

the B16 mistake.

 

[MavsFan]

In the previous (WCHA, CCHA) form, was there room for more college hockey teams? No.

This new alignment will allow for:

- a start-up level conference
- an "aspire to" conference, and
- a punching bag conference headed by Jim Delaney.

College hockey already had a "start-up conference" CHA. How did that work out? Nobody cared. Mankato's program is a dead man walking. I won't presume to speculate about any other program.

 

[bigblue_dl]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

College hockey already had a "start-up conference" CHA. How did that work out? Nobody cared. Mankato's program is a dead man walking. I won't presume to speculate about any other program.

Well, I'll give you this to chew on. Tech just made Mel Pearson the highest paid coach in the WCHA, and now they're taking the Final 5, 6-digit, check away.

 

[The Sicatoka]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

College hockey already had a "start-up conference" CHA. How did that work out?

There was no room for movement when it was an 11 team and a 12 team conference in the west plus the CHA. You need spaces and places for teams to start and then try to "move up". That didn't exist. Now it just might.

 

[4four4]

Re: The new Super League is going down the tubes.

Well, I'll give you this to chew on. Tech just made Mel Pearson the highest paid coach in the WCHA, and now they're taking the Final 5, 6-digit, check away.

Sadly, Don Lucia is the highest paid in all the land.