Ken wrote:
Of course there are several good NHL cities that do not support a
competative DI hockey program. New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh come
to mind. And there's at least one good D1 hockey city that can't support
the NHL :-).
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And two of these cities, New York (Columbia) and Philly (Penn) have
obvious choices. Which brings up what is likely a conincidence:
why is it that the two Ivy League schools without D1 hockey are
also the two in the largest cities?
And by quite a bit. Off the top of my head, I would rank
the Ivy cities by population (by SMSA, or just the metro area) like so:
Huge, dangerous, hideous places I'd rather vote for Pat Buchanan (or even
Pat Robertson) than live in:
1. Columbia, New York
2. Penn, Philadelphia
Middle-sized, dying, dirty, depressing Greyhound hubs:
3. Yale, New Haven
4. Brown, Providence
Small Birkenstock outlet stores:
5. That place, Cambridge
6. Princeton, Palo Alto East
Is that a town, or a ketchup stain on the map?
7. The 1995-96 Ivy League Champion, Ithaca
8. Dartmouth, Hangover
Maybe there is something to the argument that where there are other cultural
options hockey just does not do very well. I mean, I love Ithaca and all,
but it would take an awful lot of persuading to get me to actually
buy a house there*.
Greg Berge
Let's Go Red!
* This is all just a shameless ploy to convince their law school to give me
a scholarship, so let's hope there's nothing to the Reverse Woofing
Theory... :-)
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