Maybe they could play Makato, and we can arrange for a few more western
Div. 1 teams to join the ECAC and Hockey east, that way they can all know
the love and joy of the WCHA and CCHA going to Alaska every other year!
(is a joke, is only kiding)
 
People poked fun at the CCHA for awhile as I understand it.  And really it
is great they are doing it.  How many more teams like these are around, or
might seek to make the jump elsewhere?
 
NWLB
 
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Billy Lustgarten wrote:
 
> I would assume geography has alot to do with it.  The new DI conference
> has mostly Eastern teams as far as I know.  The closest to Mankato, if
> I'm not mistaken, would be Canisius (in western NY) which is a LONG way
> away.  It would be like Minnesota playing in the ECAC.  Simply not very
> feasible.
>
>         Conference USA in DI basketball is not exactly a weak conference
> with basketball powers like Cincinnati, Marquette, and several others.
> It's not like a bunch of schools just joining competitive DI (like say
> Wofford).  This is not similar to the situation here.
>
>                                                 Billy Lustgarten
>                                                 Cornell '98
> On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Timothy Somers wrote:
>
> > And this just may be my ignorance showing, but why couldn't Makato join
> > such a conference..?????  Especially since teams like Anchorage and
> > Fairbanks have joined midewestern conferences.....Granted, they are the
> > EXTREME, but I don't know....Why put a team like Makato into a
> > conference with the national champion and other like them, when they
> > could join one that is like Conference USA in D. I Basketball..???
> >
> > I don't know...:)
> >
> >
> > Tim Somers
> > "Voice of the Pointers"
> >
> >
> > Adam Wodon-Around the Rinks wrote:
> > >
> > > > How about a team like Mankato as a team for the new conference?
> > > >
> > > > any thoughts?
> > >
> > > It's too far West.  These teams will be teams from southern New England and New
> > > York -- and perhaps some from Pennsylvania.
> > >
> > > Mankato is going to apply to join the WCHA, and I don't see why they wouldn't
> > > get in within a couple years.
> >
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