I appreciate your comments; you probably know more about the Byzantine logic of D-3 than anyone else on this entire board, and your input is invaluable in trying to figure out the mess that is D-3 hockey.
Having said that with all sincerity, I'm sure that things can be changed to make a little more sense, and rather easily.
I can't imagine a lawsuit being filed as result of a more equitable system being installed via, say, a 2-hour teleconference, for instance... Non-hockey schools need not weigh-in, and I'm pretty sure that no one outside of our tiny fan-base would care at all about the proceedings. My guess is that there is no money to be made at any level of any D-3 sport, and ergo, The Sacred Charter, should it be invoked, would likely be found to be less than binding in any legal sense.
As an aside, my cousin is tenured at an over-priced private college in Vermont. He is absolutely as verbose as any of the worst of his ilk, but he once made a knowing statement to me: "Never underestimate the professorial ego."
The way D-3 plays with hockey looks to me like a trickle-up example of that same sort of thing. One would think that every effort would be put forth by these 'right-thinking' institutions to create a fair system, yet they hide behind expediency/lousy traditions, and God-knows-what-else instead, for whatever obscure reasons they have.
The situation is ironic, but devoid of humor. D-3 would be forced by public opinion to get it more nearly right, if hockey was anything more than their secret little plaything.
