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Utica to the SUNYAC? - Biggar's Column

admiral0417 said:
He didn't know Mr. Jaslow. He really didn't. I could tell by the surprised look on his face. It was about an hour after they were released. Could be because he knows there's only one trail in to the NCAA's.
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Bob is lucky to have you as his confidant.
 
Re: Utica to the SUNYAC? - Biggar's Column

spwood said:
When did it become SUNY's job to help teh ECAC West get an auto bid? Besides, the SUNYAC is best served if the ECAC West doesn't have an auto-bid. It leaves 3 Pool C bids for SUNY teams to compete for. Granted, I can't see a scenario where an ECAC West team doesn't get one, but if they have an autobid, that's one less Pool C bid for SUNY to compete for....
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My point about the SUNYAC being helped by having 8 teams is that they then have a 14 game league schedule instead of 18, and more opportunities for non-conference play. Following a team that lives in a 10 teams league, with the requisite 18 game schedule means that there is little opportunity to schedule non-league games.

Plattsburgh will be in exactly the same position that Norwich is for NC games once this comes to fruition.

Platty will have 18 league games, 2 prime link games, and 2 games for their tournament. That would leave them with 3 games to schedule for NC games.
 
Re: Utica to the SUNYAC? - Biggar's Column

Russell Jaslow said:
Not me. "He" was used in the generic term, like Mankind.

Now, get your women's lib *ss back to Massena. :-)
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Wow Russell, your panties are in a bunch lately. ;)

Call me anything you want but late for dinner and a liberal are not good choices.
 
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Pioneers#1 said:
It's bad enough that one of the EcacWest members is all the way down in Aston, Pennsylvania...But Stevenson University? They're in Reistertown, Maryland. That's roughly 100 miles south of Aston where Neumann is... I'm not an expert here, but that doesn't seem like prime real estate for an EcacWest team. I mean travel wise, it's a lot on a team and expenses to go down there or viceversa...for a team such as Stevenson to come all the way north to play a Utica, Hobart, Nazareth etc.. :o
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Haven't heard anything about that one, but the ECAC-West wants to "legitimize" itself, in terms of number of teams, just to garner that coveted AQ... (Never mind that it's been the best conference in D-3 for a while now.)
 
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The distance from Platty to Fredonia is approx 400 miles and to Buffalo is not much less. Rochester (Naz) to Reistertown 335 miles and just over 336 for Manhattanville to Rochester. If Stevenson can field a quality program where is the harm?
 
Saints17 said:
Wow Russell, your panties are in a bunch lately. ;)

Call me anything you want but late for dinner and a liberal are not good choices.
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You're a Union (and I'm not talking about the school) sympathizer. How can you not be a liberal? Or at least a Democrat...
 
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Domesfan said:
The distance from Platty to Fredonia is approx 400 miles and to Buffalo is not much less.
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Which is why the addition of centrally located Utica was a no-brainer, travel wise. :D

I thought I went to the funeral of this thread last spring. :confused:
 
Re: Utica to the SUNYAC? - Biggar's Column

Okay, I finally decided to check my sources.

Canton has not even applied to the SUNYAC in any capacity. So, at the earliest, they could join in 2016.

There was a movement to have every SUNYAC hockey team schedule Canton at least once starting next year. However, when some coaches got wind of the fact that Canton is years away from joining, they have "dropped" Canton from their schedule.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
Okay, I finally decided to check my sources.

Canton has not even applied to the SUNYAC in any capacity. So, at the earliest, they could join in 2016.

There was a movement to have every SUNYAC hockey team schedule Canton at least once starting next year. However, when some coaches got wind of the fact that Canton is years away from joining, they have "dropped" Canton from their schedule.
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You expect us to believe a confederate sympathizer. :p
 
Russell Jaslow said:
Okay, I finally decided to check my sources.

Canton has not even applied to the SUNYAC in any capacity. So, at the earliest, they could join in 2016.

There was a movement to have every SUNYAC hockey team schedule Canton at least once starting next year. However, when some coaches got wind of the fact that Canton is years away from joining, they have "dropped" Canton from their schedule.
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Aligns with exactly what I heard.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
There was a movement to have every SUNYAC hockey team schedule Canton at least once starting next year. However, when some coaches got wind of the fact that Canton is years away from joining, they have "dropped" Canton from their schedule.
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This movement could have originated in the SUNY administration - whatever they call the governing board of the whole system could have attempted to produce a mandate that said that in order to ... every SUNY school which participates in men's ice hockey should schedule one (or two) games per year with Canton. Since the upperlings are in charge here, such a mandate could bring pressure on the athletic departments at the various branch campi (plural of campus?) to make it happen. I know nothing about SUNY governance, but I've seen trustees, governors, regents, whatevers of state systems get involved in all kinds of day-to-day nonsense that is not their call in any number of state University systems with multiple campi.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
You're a Union (and I'm not talking about the school) sympathizer. How can you not be a liberal? Or at least a Democrat...
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Boy, Russell you certainly don't keep up with the times do you? I am not longer union, and futhermore I would have never considered myself a liberal to begin with. I am a registered Republican if you must know sir. :D
 
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Saints17 said:
Boy, Russell you certainly don't keep up with the times do you? I am not longer union, and futhermore I would have never considered myself a liberal to begin with. I am a registered Republican if you must know sir. :D
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Luke 23:34
 
Saints17 said:
Boy, Russell you certainly don't keep up with the times do you? I am not longer union, and futhermore I would have never considered myself a liberal to begin with. I am a registered Republican if you must know sir. :D
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I know exactly what your personal situation is. And you told me, despite that, you still believe in labor unions.
 
NUProf said:
This movement could have originated in the SUNY administration - whatever they call the governing board of the whole system could have attempted to produce a mandate that said that in order to ... every SUNY school which participates in men's ice hockey should schedule one (or two) games per year with Canton. Since the upperlings are in charge here, such a mandate could bring pressure on the athletic departments at the various branch campi (plural of campus?) to make it happen. I know nothing about SUNY governance, but I've seen trustees, governors, regents, whatevers of state systems get involved in all kinds of day-to-day nonsense that is not their call in any number of state University systems with multiple campi.
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I can assure you the scheduling mandate most definitely did not originate with any administration. It was the coaches, led by one very prominent coach, who pushed to schedule Canton.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
I can assure you the scheduling mandate most definitely did not originate with any administration. It was the coaches, led by one very prominent coach, who pushed to schedule Canton.
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I would love to know what's going on here then. I would be shocked if Bob Emery were pushing this (although I'm not saying it isn't him) and weakening Plattsbugh's schedule. As I've stated before, Plattsburgh in the recent past snagged a Pool C bid solely based on their non-conference schedule, which was brutal, but Plattsburgh went through unbeaten. I can't see him giving up a quality non-conference opponent for this...unless there is a connection with the coach???
 
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