At 12:31 PM 3/2/99 -0600, Nathan Eric Hampton wrote:
>Chris Lerch sent this list of ACHA tournament teams:
>1. Iowa State
>2. Penn State
>3. Michigan-Dearborn
>4. Ohio University
>5. Delaware
>6. Arizona
>7. Towson University
>8. Illinois
>9. Eastern Michigan
>10. Western Michigan
>
>I wonder which of these could be pursuaded/pushed/bribed into going DI so that
>the NCAA does not question the sport's growth next time it considers a 16-team
>tournament. In the 80's Michigan-Dearborn had an intercollegiate team (D1?).
>Iowa State, Penn State, and Illinois might go if this stupid-assed idea of a
>Big 10 hockey conference gets going (did you hear the joke that the President
>hired an economist from one of the Big 10 schools to balance the budget).
 
I would guess the Big Ten economist would at least know that Iowa State
isn't in the Big Ten.   :-)  It might be good idea if the President would
hire a Big Ten AD to balance the budget because most of the Big Ten athletic
budgets are in the black.  By the way, maybe it is because an eastern
economist was replaced by a Big Ten economist that the federal budget is
currently running a surplus.
 
I know its been discussed several times but if Illinois and Penn State go
Division I in hockey, I would being willing to bet a Big Ten Hockey
Conference would eventually follow.
 
Can
>you imagine the head gear if Michigan played Deleware?
 
They could play the for the "championship of ugly helmets".
 
And I wonder if Towson
>(State) University could be the first school to win Lacrosse and Hockey titles
>in the same year.
 
Probably but LAX is a growing sport in the Midwest.  Ohio State will be
giving its first lacrosse scholarship this year and plan on upgrading the
sport.
 
If I was a betting man, I would bet Western Michigan would
>be the most likely to go D1. They'd be called the Broncos.
 
Bob Svec
 
GO BLACK BEARS!!!!
 
GO BUCKS!!!!
 
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