The more I think of this, the more this argument has big holes in it.
The personally, the age thing is a bad argument also because junior
hockey allows people to play hockey after H.S. with out losing any of
their four of college. Not everyone is going to be a doctor or a lawyer,
so why make everyone suffer because of that. There should be a decision
in an indiviuals life were they decide that they are there to play sports
or get an education.
        Actually it would appear that the at least 3 or 4 of the top six teams are
probably pretty high on the act list and have great national acedemic
Standards. I.E. Yale, Michigan, MSU, BU. Also, realistically state
schools like UNH or UND have to have certain standards to stay open or
they will lose their accredidation so that argument has holes in it too.
so if you go to college you are going to have to attain certain standards
in college or you are history.
 
> These results include games through Sunday, Feb. 22.
> Rk Team                GP  W- L- T  Win%  Rk     RPI  Rk  PWR
>  1 North Dakota        30 25- 4- 1 0.8500  1 | 0.6273  1 | 23
>  2 Michigan State      32 24- 4- 4 0.8125  2 | 0.6165  3 | 22
>  3 Boston University   29 22- 5- 2 0.7931  4 | 0.6215  2 | 21
>  4 New Hampshire       28 21- 6- 1 0.7679  5 | 0.5963  4 | 20
>  5 Yale                25 20- 5- 0 0.8000  3 | 0.5755  6 | 19
>  6 Michigan            32 23- 8- 1 0.7344  6 | 0.5954  5 | 18
 
 
 
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