Taking a cue from Brian Morris' post, I was wondering whether most
non-conf games are set well ahead of time (like years?).  I know in
bigtime football and basketball, non-conf foes are setup a long ways in
advance, sometimes making for huge mismatches at the time of play when it
looked like an even game when the schedules were made.... one of course,
cannot predict how recruiting, academic losses, early pro moves, etc, will
go.  Is this not the case in DI hockey?  Or is it just RPI that seems to
be scheduling non-conf from one year to the next? It seems to me that with
only HE and ECAC doing much non-conf play at all that there is a small
pool and one must expect fluctuations both ways over time.
 
Tony Buffa
RPI '64
 
Happy to still say:  Go Engineers!