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Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

5mn_Major said:
Does anyone understand what goldy's trying to say?
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I believe he was saying the B1G is only interested in schools with excellent academic credentials to play in a Big Ten conference sport. All of the current teams inluding John Hopkins in LAX are members of the Association of American Universities an elite group of the top research universities in the US and Canada. Had a Ferris State had the same LAX record as John Hopkins they would not have been allowed to join...while a fine university, it's not an elite research university. Academics always comes first with Big Ten memberhip.
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

Actually I believe Goldy was correcting Five Hole's spelling of eluded (which is why he spoke of academics)

My take anyway.
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

Along these lines... some AAU schools, picking either those with hockey or geographically close to the B1G (not counting current conference members):

Boston University
Brown
Cornell
Harvard
Iowa State
Princeton
Kansas
Missouri
Pittsburgh
Toronto
full list: http://www.aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5476

The east coast schools aren't going to leave, I would think. Iowa State obviously doesn't have hockey - and doesn't add a big tv market for football and hoops, so not attractive to the conference as a whole. The Missouri and Kansas ships have sailed and have shown no indication of adding hockey.

Maybe on to something with Toronto?
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

Driftryder said:
Actually I believe Goldy was correcting Five Hole's spelling of eluded (which is why he spoke of academics)

My take anyway.
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It was spelled correctly, it was the wrong word. Alluded means something completely different than eluded. I alluded to academics and the whole point eluded 5mn_Major. :p
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

goldy_331 said:
It was spelled correctly, it was the wrong word. Alluded means something completely different than eluded. I alluded to academics and the whole point eluded 5mn_Major. :p
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I live for this, thanks Goldy.:D
 
Re: Who will be the 7th member of the Big Ten Hockey Conference?

GB Puck Fan said:
Along these lines... some AAU schools, picking either those with hockey or geographically close to the B1G (not counting current conference members):

Boston University
Brown
Cornell
Harvard
Iowa State
Princeton
Kansas
Missouri
Pittsburgh
Toronto
full list: http://www.aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5476

The east coast schools aren't going to leave, I would think. Iowa State obviously doesn't have hockey - and doesn't add a big tv market for football and hoops, so not attractive to the conference as a whole. The Missouri and Kansas ships have sailed and have shown no indication of adding hockey.

Maybe on to something with Toronto?
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Seeing Cornell on that list makes me think of Isaac Kramnick saying that Cornell's an Ivy League school with a Big Ten soul. Might be some truth to that, if you ignore the whole football and basketball thing.

If the B1G had invited Syracuse I think the Orange would have transitioned its club team to D1. Now it looks like baseball will be added for the ACCers.

Maybe Rutgers will give it a look?
 
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