1)  Any word on the new D1 conference?  SOMETHING
should have been decided by now.
 
2)  The more I think about the Empire Athletic Conference,
the more I like it.  If the EAC happens, does the ECAC reform
with the remnants of the Ivy League (ok, Cornell joins the
EAC) plus the small NE D1 schools??
 
2a)  If Cornell joins the EAC, some accomodation must be
made for them to continue in the Ivy League.  Assuming a 10
game Ivy schedule, that leaves not a heck of a lot of room for
the Big Red to operate in.  I was leaning to an CCHA - WCHA
type schedule with more than 2 games against the rest of the
league, but it won't work.
 
2b)  If EVERYBODY joins, this is how the league would look
(weekend pairs on the same line)
RPI and Vermont
Union and Colgate
Clarkson and St. Lawrence
Cornell and Elmira
Iona and Army
Niagara and Canisus.
 
2c)  Playoffs would be the same as the ECAC, 7-10 in a
playdown.  Choice of final sites - Pepsi in Albany, Marine
Midland in Buffalo, the War Memorial in Syracuse or
Rochester.
 
2d)  If you wanted, you could split the EAC into North and
South with the first 6 schools in the North and the remainder
in the South
 
3)  The ECAC
Dartmouth and Harvard
UConn and Yale
Brown and Holy Cross
Princeton and ?????????
 
Enough for now.
 
May the 4th be with you.
 
Joe
 
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