Karen/Greg Ambrose wrote:
 
> What this really shows is the lack of foresight by the powers that be, most
> notably HE Commish Joe Bertagna.  Without a doubt it was he more than
> anyone who pushed this idea on the schools.  You know, "back to the Big
> Apple", "spend the holiday week in New York", etc.  Lost in all this
> pie-in-the-sky dreamworld stuff is the fact that no one in NYC gives a damn
> about college hockey.  If the sport couldn't make any impression 25 years
> ago, what made people think that it would now when the NYC metro area is
> consumed totally with pro sports.  College football can't make it there . .
> . and college hockey can?
 
The original thought is still a possibility.  I passed this message along to a
couple of people I've gotten to know in NYC who are into college hockey and are
going to follow MAAC teams.  Both of them wrote back saying, "Huh?  I didn't
even know they were going to have hockey at MSG.  I'd have gone!"  Apparently,
this incident is in no way, shape or form a test of whether New Yorkers will
show up for college hockey.
 
J. Michael Neal
 
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