If this was done in response to perceived travel peril from terrorists,
then the terrorists have won. This should never have been implemented.

I see no reason to keep this policy. I hope this is a one year deal that
gets ditched next year when (if) we expand to 16.

Just my 0.02 Euros.

Tony Buffa RPI '64 (who is fearlessly flying on March 25th)

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"Joshua D. Gibney" wrote:
>
> I believe that the committee was quite clear that they were going to limit
> travel.  Only the bye teams would be sent to another region regardless of
> proximity to the regionals (400 miles)...
> Had MSU won, a western team would have been sent out East, and one of the
> bottom two teams, I presume (?) would have been shipped west.  I don't
> agree with how it was done this year, and think it's an EXTREMELY
> unballanced set of regionals.. I'd love to see better games (The western
> regionals are going to be sweet) than Cornell/QU and Maine/Harvard (no
> offense to those teams) on the first day of the regionals...
> BUT it was made clear the way it would be done, after 9/11.. I don't thik
> people actually believed it until they saw it drawn out.. last night