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The new Super League is going down the tubes.

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Almington said:
By sitting on their hands while other teams acted, ND was left with a set of relatively unattractive options, of which joining Hockey East was the LEAST unattractive.
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I'm not sure what they could have done to forestall this?

The only other "option" they could have had would have been to join the Big Ten in all sports, which they aren't going to do to keep with teams of "like interests" in a minor sport. Their alumni would probably rather burn the hockey program down if it kept their football team out of the Big Ten. ND was probably among the schools that "lost" the most from Big Ten hockey. 3 BT schools, 3 other D1 (MAC) schools and a few DII schools in a bus league to having all flights.
 
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Priceless said:
Hockey East
Boston College - Division I (ACC)
Boston University - Division I (America East)
Maine - Division I (America East)
Massachusetts - Division I (Atlantic 10, moving to MAC for football in 2012)
New Hampshire - Division I (America East)
Northeastern - Division I (America East)
Vermont - Division I (America East)
Providence - Division I (Big East - with Notre Dame)
Mass-Lowell - Division II
Merrimack - Division II
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In the interest of accuracy, Northeastern's all-sports conference is the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). It left America East approx six years ago.
 
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Notre Dame coach Jeff Jackson says playing in a league with other D-I schools was important.......
 
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Biddco said:
Like BC and....?
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Hockey East
Boston College - Division I (ACC)
Boston University - Division I (America East)
Maine - Division I (America East)
Massachusetts - Division I (Atlantic 10, moving to MAC for football in 2012)
New Hampshire - Division I (America East)
Northeastern - Division I (Colonial)
Vermont - Division I (America East)
Providence - Division I (Big East - with Notre Dame)
Mass-Lowell - Division II
Merrimack - Division II
 
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Priceless said:
Hockey East
Boston College - Division I (ACC)
Boston University - Division I (America East)
Maine - Division I (America East)
Massachusetts - Division I (Atlantic 10, moving to MAC for football in 2012)
New Hampshire - Division I (America East)
Northeastern - Division I (Colonial)
Vermont - Division I (America East)
Providence - Division I (Big East - with Notre Dame)
Mass-Lowell - Division II
Merrimack - Division II
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I knew there was way more. Don't know my New England collegiate teams as well as others.
 
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Who wants to make some bets with me?


Over/Under:

Number of censored words in bigblue_dl's ND to HE reaction post: 3

Number of posters saying I told you so: 5

Odds:

DG becomes commissioner of the NCHC: 4 to 1

I become the commissioner of the NCHC 25 to 1

That this issue is a dead horse that has rotted and been beaten again: 1 to 1
 
Split-N said:
Ummm....."Boston" is a city. If you were referring to one of the HEA member institutions, were you referring to Boston University or Boston College? (UMass-Boston doesn't count.) You can't pretend to be hockey-savvy and just say "Boston."
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Thanks for the semantics lesson, asshat. I was referring to the school that isn't commonly called BC. I was referring to the school whose basketball and football teams are irrelevant. I was referring to the team that is called the BOSTON Terriers, not the BOSTON COLLEGE Eagles. That was quite a pathetic attempt at discrediting my argument. Go back to school.
 
Priceless said:
Hockey East
Boston College - Division I (ACC)
Boston University - Division I (America East)
Maine - Division I (America East)
Massachusetts - Division I (Atlantic 10, moving to MAC for football in 2012)
New Hampshire - Division I (America East)
Northeastern - Division I (Colonial)
Vermont - Division I (America East)
Providence - Division I (Big East - with Notre Dame)
Mass-Lowell - Division II
Merrimack - Division II
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Yup. Playing those schools will put Notre Dame on the map.
 
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Tipsy McStagger said:
Yup. Playing those schools will put Notre Dame on the map.
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Not what I said, but thanks for playing.

Love watching fans of the LTHC here and on Twitter try to act like they're fine with what has happened. But as one fan of a HUG8 Mistake school said:
Let's all jump in our time machine and not form the NCHC. 88 MPH!
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Unfortunately, you can't go back. The LTHC is, in the words of a Wisconsin fan:
Notre Dame officially moves to Hockey East. NCHC officially a dumb idea.
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and another fan of the HUG8 Mistake:
Without a TV deal, the NCHC is nothing but a higher-rent WCHA where teams have to fly for all their conference games.
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Notre Dame comes with baggage. How long before they decide that they like being in Hockey East but don't want visits from Lowell, UMass, Merryhack, Vermont & Northeastern?

Or another funny scenario. HE brings in a 12th team and then Notre Dame joins B1G

Or even this, Ohio State decides to cut its biggest money losing sport and the BiG hockey conference only has five members.

The NCHC is going to be fine. Great coaches, great recruiting and and great arenas (assuming Kalamazoo builds something for WMU).
 
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dggoddard said:
Notre Dame comes with baggage. How long before they decide that they like being in Hockey East but don't want visits from Lowell, UMass, Merryhack, Vermont & Northeastern?

Or another funny scenario. HE brings in a 12th team and then Notre Dame joins B1G

Or even this, Ohio State decides to cut its biggest money losing sport and the BiG hockey conference only has five members.

The NCHC is going to be fine. Great coaches, great recruiting and and great arenas (assuming Kalamazoo builds something for WMU).
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Yeah, that's some high quality straw grasping there, dg.

Notre Dame isn't that much of a prima donna in hockey. They put up with trips to and from Fairbanks, Marquette, the Soo and Big Rapids as long as they had some other D1 schools to hang out with at the conference dances. They'll do the same in HE with UML, NU, Merrimack for BC, Providence and company.

And OSU prides itself on being one of those schools that has every possible sport on the planet. They'd sponsor varsity Quidditch if it was NCAA sanctioned. The other schools like that are probably Texas and Florida.
 
Priceless said:
Not what I said, but thanks for playing.

Love watching fans of the LTHC here and on Twitter try to act like they're fine with what has happened. But as one fan of a HUG8 Mistake school said:


Unfortunately, you can't go back. The LTHC is, in the words of a Wisconsin fan:

and another fan of the HUG8 Mistake:
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I am a SCSU fan, and I am not a fan of the LTHC. I think it was a bad idea. But the reasons that people were giving for the teams leaving the WCHA for the most part were BS and people were grasping at straws. That is what I think Jeff Jackson is doing here. He can't say he was going to go to whatever conference gave his school the best deal, but that's what he did. The NCHC wasn't willing to make the concessions to Notre Dame that Hockey East was. The Division I crap had nothing to do with it.
 
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Tipsy McStagger said:
Thanks for the semantics lesson, asshat. I was referring to the school that isn't commonly called BC. I was referring to the school whose basketball and football teams are irrelevant. I was referring to the team that is called the BOSTON Terriers, not the BOSTON COLLEGE Eagles. That was quite a pathetic attempt at discrediting my argument. Go back to school.
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OK, all of you BU players/students/coaches/administrators/alums/fans who have ever called yourselves "Boston Terriers," please raise your hands.
 
Split-N said:
OK, all of you BU players/students/coaches/administrators/alums/fans who have ever called yourselves "Boston Terriers," please raise your hands.
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Who cares? Seriously. That has nothing to do with what I said. I don't give two tugs of a dead dogs dick what you or anybody else refers to the Boston University hockey team as.
 
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