Brad Cuyler writes...
>For the first time people are going to witness 3 conferences within a
>NCAA Division I hockey league the WCHA. The good fans of the WCHA are
>going to be so happy to have a WCHA team outside its conference travel
>to your arena for just one game then clean and shower and jump in a bus
>or plane or perhaps a dogsled in Alaska. Then another team will fly or
>travel to your arena for the next game. This format is so ridiculous is
>like a big nightmare.
 
Jeez, this is how the other three conferences do it.  Scary, huh?  It's a
wonder that we can sleep at night. :-)
 
>The league standings will also represent records mostly made up of
>the successes of one teams conference, unlike today where everybody
>plays everyone 4 times for true standings.
 
Name one Div I conference where everyone plays everyone else four times.
 
Jeffrey Billman writes...
>>The good fans of the WCHA are
>>going to be so happy to have a WCHA team outside its conference travel
>>to your arena for just one game then clean and shower and jump in a bus
>>or plane or perhaps a dogsled in Alaska. Then another team will fly or
>>travel to your arena for the next game. This format is so ridiculous is
>>like a big nightmare.
>
>I agree.  If logistics are not handled carefully, a team like Denver will
>wind up flying out to Boston on Friday, play a game, then fly to Alaska on
>Saturday on something like 2 hours' sleep, if they're lucky.  Just imagine
>how ready they'll be to play then!:-)
 
Aren't we overdramatizing a bit?  Nobody plays in Boston and Alaska on the
same weekend, not even Santa Claus.
 
Schedule makers are not rocket scientists, but I give them enough credit to
"handle the logistics carefully."
 
 
  John H
  U Mich
  Accommodate UAF and USAFA.