A couple of factual corrections to Dan Doucette's post:
 
> In football, the proliferation of bowls almost guarantees a trip to the
> postseason for any team with 8 victories in 1-AA.
 
You mean I-A (the big time) I-AA (Patriot League, Yankee Conference et
al) has a playoff system.
 
> Hockey's conference championships are really like more games in the season,
> as teams know they will play those games, and have to factor them into
> their annual game limits.
 
Conference playoffs do not count towards NCAA (or ECAC, or Ivy) game
limits.  They do, however, count the same as any other games for NCAA
tournament selection.
 
And one opinion:
 
> I only wish there were somebody with the deep pockets to make a "hockey
> NIT" feasible, but I think not.  If so, this annual thread would, I
> believe, nearly go away.
 
Gee, then we could also have people saying "I hope my team doesn't
make the NCAAs"?  No thanks.
 
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