>Terry Kasdan writes:
 
>Furthermore, the ACHA requires its teams to comply with NCAA
>eligibility rules.  If you can document a case in which this did not
>occur, perhaps you should report it to the ACHA!
 
 
Well.....sort of.  There certainly are some NCAA eligibility rules that
ACHA uses.  An example is the Canadian Major A rule.  Were the ACHA
parts company is in financial matters.  Specifically, scholarships and
recruiting.  Remember that the ACHA was formed, in part, as a reaction
to the overwhelming complexity of NCAA rules.  Therefore, the ACHA does
not want to go down the NCAA road of legislating every possible issue,
to the point that a 500+ page manual is required!  The 94-95 version of
the ACHA policies manual was less than 25 pages.
 
I should also note that there is really no defined enforcement procedure to
implement ACHA rules.  I'm not sure who someone would report eligibility
infractions to at the ACHA -- perhaps Leo Golembiewski, president of the
ACHA?
 
As to the level of play issue....I stand mute.
 
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