I agree wholeheartedly.  As someother people have mentioned, it's probably
more of an excuse to save money.  Hopefully this is the last of it

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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Anthony J. Buffa wrote:

> 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
>