Clay Satow wrote:

>Ed Moller wrote:
><To take it several steps further, do you think Colorado College is not a good fit or the WCHA, based on the "type of school" it is?>
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>They’re a prisoner of geography.  If there were an “ECAC West” (I know, an oxymoron) CC and DU would be prime candidates.
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> Of course who said logic need apply?
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Clay and Ed,

Squarely in the "who said logic need apply" category, I just want to
comment on my inability to visualize a WCHA without CC or Denver. If
ever such a conference materializes, they should call it something else.

I loved the old days when my Michigan was in the WCHA. Colorado College,
Denver, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan Tech, Michigan State, Michigan
and newbie Minnesota-Duluth. Reconstituting that conference today in my
fantasies, it would of course include Wisconsin. So, for an eight-team
conference, I'd have to boot Minnestota-Duluth (sorry Bulldogs, nothing
personal, just no emotional attachment) but the better choice would be
to grow it to an even number, ten or twelve, by adding newbies with
Duluth who would make it interesting. My choices, in order, would be
UNO, St. Cloud, and Northern Michigan. Now, those eight, ten or twelve
would be a conference to enjoy!

But aside from fantasy considerations, it's as much virtual blasphemy to
speak of a WCHA without CC and Denver as it would be to exclude North
Dakota or Minnesota or Michigan Tech. They "are" the WCHA. Wisconsin
"is" now the WCHA. Everyone else is transitory.

Bob Griebel