>         Hey look everyone--I'm generating discussion of Around the
> Rinks on HOCKEY-L.  On this week's episode, after Adam Wodon, in
> discussion with Keith Instone, lays out the process by which the NCAA
> seeded the teams, step by step, he mentions that had BU lost to New
> Hampshire, they would have fallen so low in the PWR as to be shipped
> out West.  Wasn't BU, as host of the East Regional, guaranteed an
> eastern berth as in years past?
 
Leave it to John to get that one. :-) -- He is of course right. We stand
corrected. It was an interesting thought.
 
>         Does anyone else get the impression that Joe Marsh is doing a
> better job as head of the selection committee than Comley did?  None
> of this business of issuing and then retracting guidelines (the
> Clarkson rule) or waffling over the reasons a team was sent somewhere
> (Lowell).  There were rules and the committee followed them.  Now I
> would have preferred the general public *know* the rules ahead of
> time.  Maybe that'll be the next step.
 
Even those "in the know" had some misimpressions of the process. After a
one-hour interview with Marsh on Tuesday, a story will be forthcoming on USCHO.
Stay tuned.
 
Marsh's best line ... "I'm pretty sure I won't be running for governor of
Minnesota."
 
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