J. Michael Neal writes:
 
>everyone else seemed to react as if it is the duty of the Big 10
>schools to use their non-conference games to play other teams.  I
>believe that the call came from out east that the point of
>non-conference games was to play inter-regional match-ups.
 
        Ah, so we've come full circle and I can complain about the
obsession with determining national champions in college sports.  I
for one wish Cornell were still using its non-conference games to play
rivals like Army and BU that are no longer in the ECAC.  (I know, it
takes two to tango.)
                                         John Whelan, Cornell '91
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