Harvard-Dartmouth is a no-brainer, IMHO. That trip is 125 miles, which
is not a whole lot longer than Dartmouth-Vermont is now.  That leaves
the four southern teams (Yale, Quinnipiac, Brown, Princeton). I think
the better way  would be to go Q-Yale, Princeton-Brown.

Right now, the distances between travel partners is:
10 miles (Clarkson-SLU)
17 miles (RPI-Union)
45 miles (Harvard-Brown)
65 miles (Colgate-Cornell)
135 miles (Yale-Princeton)

If you pair Q and Yale together, you end up with this:
10 miles (Clarkson-SLU)
11 miles (Yale-Quinnipiac)
17 miles (RPI-Union)
65 miles (Colgate-Cornell)
125 miles (Harvard-Dartmouth)
230 miles (Brown-Princeton)

The tradeoff is that in exchange for a longer between-games road trip
on one weekend (Brown-Princeton) you get another weekend with no
between-game travel. Personally, I would put up with another hour added
to one Friday night bus trip in order to get another Friday where I
didn't have to go anywhere.

John

On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, at 01:24  PM, Geoffrey Gardner wrote:
> So will the shift in travel partners be
>
> Q - Brown
> Harvard - Dartmouth?
>
> I don't see how you could pair Q with Yale without leaving Princton or
> Dartmouth hanging.
>
> -g
>
>> Today's Schenectady Gazette (I'd give the online reference, but it's
>> subscription only) had a story announcing that Quinnipiac is joining
>> the
>> ECAC, both men's and women's hockey, starting with the 2005-2006
>> season.
>>
>> Q's website has this press release, dated yesterday:
>>
>> http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x13015.xml
>>
>> And from the ECAC:
>>
>> http://hockey.ecac.org/Page_for_Men/releases/
>> ECAC_Hockey_League_Extends_Membership_to_Quinnipiac
>>
>> Joe
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