Bob Hall writes:
>1) Kent State hockey is in an unusual position as per Ferris and some other
>schools where the hockey team is the only Div. 1 program (a la Lake Superior,
>North Dakota, etc).
 
Believe it or not, this is not unusual.  Out of the 45 schools that have
DivI hockey on a full-time basis (I have counted the militaries as Major
Independents, UAF with the CCHA, & Mass Amherst with HE), approximately
17 are technically DivII or DivIII schools by NC$$ standards.  At almost
all of these, hockey is the only DivI program.  And Kent and the other
MAC members don't even count because they are technically DivI schools.
 
By conference, the DivII-III schools playing DivI hockey are:
 
CCHA (3 of 12): Alaska-Fairbanks, Ferris State, Lake Superior.
ECAC (4 of 12): Clarkson, RPI, St Lawrence, Union.
Hockey East (2 of 9): Mass Lowell, Merrimack.
WCHA (8 of 10): Alaska-Anchorage, Colorado College, Denver, Michigan Tech,
 Minnesota-Duluth, North Dakota, Northern Michigan, St Cloud.
Major Independents (0 of 2): none.
 
I think a year or so ago we went over this and determined exactly how
many there were, and this is what I remembered.  Please correct me if
I am wrong on any of these.
 
Something I have been thinking about lately is how the NC$$ looks upon
these schools.  Hockey has been getting a higher visibility within the
NC$$ and generating more revenue.  Some of the NC$$ legislation
enacted in recent years has been designed to prevent schools in lower
divisions from moving only their basketball and/or football programs up
to DivI to get a slice of the big bucks.  Will the same happen with
hockey, and will it hinder any attempts to help the sport grow by
having teams move their hockey programs up?
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