You mean other than Minn and Mich?
>I've been enjoying this argument, but am sorry to see it descend into
>name-calling.  It seems unnecessary.  Can you supply us with a list of western
>teams that have refused an opportunity to play Cornell at Lynah?
>
>Also, would Cornell want to exchange visits from the less prominent WCHA
>teams,
>or just the big names?
>
>Here's something I'd like to see.  I'm not a big fan of holiday tournaments.
>Minnesota's tournament, the Dodge Holiday Classic (formerly Mariucci Classic)
>usually features one team from each of four conferences, in standard
>elimination format.  I'd like to see it become more like the College Hockey
>Showcase:  two WCHA teams and two teams from one other conference, with a
>different conference visiting every year.  Rather than have the first game
>winners and losers play each other, have all four games be inter-conference
>matchups.  No champion is produced, but so what?
>
>-- Erik
>
>Arik writes:
>
>>Cornell does not play Western teams too often because they refuse to play
>>anyone who won't go home and home with them.  We want the home gate and the
>>home-ice advantage too.  The big teams out west with the big  rinks do have
>>a fiscal responsibility, but they are also chicken-shits, not unlike Duke,
>>Syracuse and others in D1 hoop that schedule lots of home games against
>>sub-100 RPI ranked teams.  Why take the risk of losing?
>>
>>You argue that it doesn't make fiscal sense to go to play a home and home
>>against a team that has a small building.  That is illogical.  Regardless of
>>the opponent in a home and home series, you get your revenue for your two
>>home games and you have your travel costs to the two road games.  Your
>>travel costs don't vary AT ALL by the size of the competitors rink.  This
>>isn't the NHL where there is revenue sharing!  The only way it makes fiscal
>>sense is to never travel and to pay a partial guarantee for someone
>>desperate enough to come to your sainted buildings.
>>
>>As long as there are teams wanting to say "oh look where we played at" or
>>"oh we needed the money" we'll still have this problem.  Much as I love Red
>>at Michigan, he's very arrogant about not needing to go anywhere.  It may be
>>true, but arrogant it is.
>>
>>So stay behind your financial arguments.  I think your teams are just
>>chicken-shit.  Ask Jack Parker after his last home and home with Cornell.
>>He got blasted 4-1 and 5-1 in Lynah in 02-03 and said he didn't anticipate
>>the storied rivalry being resumed any time soon.  Think it had anything to
>>do with getting wiped out two in the row on the road? (That BU team was good
>>too, lost to UNH in HE tourney final and to UNH in NCAA round of 8)
>>
>>I think every college hockey player should have the chance to play in the
>>"Mecca's" of the college hockey world during their career, be that Mariucci,
>>Lynah, Yost, Whittemore, and whatever else you've got out west that's truly
>>worth it.
>>
>>Enough for now,
>>
>>Arik Marks