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Don't think so. The trip to Alaska gives a team 2 more games that they can
schedule. For a team like Michigan, it means two more home (revenue) games.
So I doubt that State of Alaska will go to one league.
Joe
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From: "Bob Griebel" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Bemidji State gets good news from WCHA
> Under the topic of scenarios that deserve serious consideration, does it
> make sense for the WCHA to take Alaska Fairbanks as a way to make
> conference travel more manageable for both the WCHA and CCHA, leaving the
> CCHA to replace Fairbanks with one of the more easterly Midwest teams
> needing a conference, perhaps Huntsville? It seems we've moved beyond the
> considerations that initially put one Alaska school in each conference.
> Might it be time to realign what have become established programs using
> practical geographic considerations?
>
> Bob Griebel
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> Hampton, Nathan E. wrote:
>> We should have a poll of some kind to guess the 12th team (which reminds
>> me of my favorite Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt movie, Twelve Monkeys). We
>> have a few candidates already mentioned - Nebraska-Omaha and Northern
>> Michigan. Plus at least one upstart in Moorhead State. Was it last year
>> by popular vote that North Dakota State was going to move all sports to
>> Division 1 and then didn't get the money? They could jump into the mix,
>> possibly. I still like Air Force coming in.
>>
>> I wonder if anybody out there wants to take a poll of who people think is
>> most likely and then we can somehow declare a winner?
>>
>> Nathan
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