In a million years, when hockey has of course taken over all other
sports and is the only one played on Earth, there will still be people
wondering when the Big Ten/11 will for its own hockey conference.
 
Of course to paraphrase something I read in a football pre-season guide a
few years back:  "All the division one teams, except Notre Dame, will
merge into a single conference and call it the Big Ten."  Of course by
then all TV channels will have the prefix ESPN, so we can then also stop
being concerned about getting college hockey on TV.  A clone of Ron Mason
(gray hair included) will still be coaching at MSU, which will be at its
1,003,345,231th sell out.  The guy with the green horn hat will be stuffed
after death and sat perminetly in a seat at the Munn.  Refs will be banned
by international convention, and instead a gang of guys in striped shirts
will rush the ice to break up fights.  The only officating will be by a
man in Ann Arbor who will script out the first ten penalties-which some
may say is already the case-and have them called randomly over the game.
 
Of course maybe that won't be whats its like a million years from now.
Who knows....
 
 
Nathan
 
On Wed,
25 Mar 1998, John Edwards wrote:
 
> On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Eeyore wrote:
>
> > Eric J. Burton wrote:
> > > bar room talk. I would say that the WCHA will probably let in one or two
> > > more teams but I doubt there will be any more than that.
> > Then we're going to have to find somewhere else to put teams.  It seems to me
> > that Div II hockey is in the process of folding up its tent, particularly out
> > here in the west.
>
> D-II is basically dead in the west anyways. Bemidji and Findlay are the
> only western D-II teams, and Bemidji is seriously (as you alluded to)
> considering the move up. If their new arena is approved, I think it's a
> certainty.
>
> That said, something is going to have to give eventually. We're at a
> point where all the leagues are basically at what they can handle. I
> think leagues are going to be very reticent to expand beyond 12 teams.
> This is, I think, why Niagara is having trouble finding a home, and why
> UNO is considering the CCHA.
>
> My prediction? For starters, Big 10 Hockey by 2003. I'm not sure I
> particularly like the idea, but I have sense its inevitability. Anything
> else would depend on what other teams are thinking of starting programs
> or moving programs up.
>
> See you later,
> John
>
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