This is very similar to the ACC/Big 10 Challenge in basketball, and I think it's a great idea.
You get a top to bottom comparison, it's only one game for each team, and conferences get
"bragging rights" for a year, and in establishing those bragging rights, a game between, say,
Merrimack and Michigan Tech would mean as much as the game between BC and CC/DU.


--- Rita-Ann Monde <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> given that the ivies, wcha and now hockey east only have ~ 7 nc games,
> maybe the commissioners can get together to faciliate some interleague
> match-ups. maybe on a rotating basis have a wcha-ecac and hea-ccha
> challenge one year, and then the next be ccha-ecac, hea-wcha and rotate
> it through. Match-ups and who travels could be done by drawing out of a
> hat or based on end of the season records (thus match-ups wouldn't be
> announce to until the preceding spring enabling the presumed top teams
> in each league to play vs each other).  i realize that comparisons at
> the end of the season would be a bit skewed in that the majority of
> your nonconference comparisons would be to one league. Also the number
> of teams in each league isn't the same, but maybe some of the better
> aha/cha teams could be invited to round out the numbers. Because of the
> logistics involved, the conference commissioners  need to decide if a
> more interconference match-ups are needed and/or desired, and if so,
> set aside a dedicated weekend for two such "challenge games" to be
> scheduled and played.
>
> I just think that with the limited number of NC games, each team has
> its favorite "NC-opponents" that they like to schedule for various
> reasons and many teams have tournament commitments that take up 2
> games. thus to attempt to give everyone a chance to have a good NC
> schedule and to "play somebody", it needs to be a joint effort by all
> the conferences.
>
> just a thought ....
> Rita
>
> Let's Go Red
>
> Rita-Ann Monde
>
> Trinity College 1991
> Cornell University 2000
>
>
>
> On Mar 30, 2005, at 10:01 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > Missed a series Cornell at DU in 1986 NCAA, which was split one game
> > each
> > (those awful total goals things).  That makes Cornell 3-7 on the road,
> > 2-0 at
> > Lynah since 1980 vs. WCHA.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > William Sangrey
> > Cornell '87&'94
> > Let's Go RED!!!
> >
>



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