Some of our Ivy League friends may correct me, but I don't believe a college
or university can simply "go Ivy."  If I understand my history correctly,
the Ivy League was established early in the 20th century as an arrangement
for several northeastern colleges to play football.  I don't know if
academic standards were part of the equation but I suspect they were.
Interestingly, Army (USMA) was originally part of the old football league,
and Boston College would have been if they had played football back then.

In my last note, I meant an outright split of the ECAC into two conferences,
not divisions.

-Todd
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Makowiec" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: Geography


> At 4-1-2009 01:49 PM, Todd Nielson wrote:
> >Why not simply split the ECAC along Ivy/non-Ivy lines? That would
> >open up all kinds of realignment possibilites in this pie-in-the-sky
scenario.
>
> That's easy now, with 6 Ivies in a 12-team league.  However, unless
> one of the missing Ivies (Columbia, Penn) can be convinced to take up
> hockey, or somebody else can be convinced to go Ivy
> (Colgate?  Qpac?), the number of Ivies is fixed.
>
> Joe
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