Perhaps it would be easier to balance the leagues alphabetically:

AHA:
Air Force
Alabama Huntsville
Alaska-Anchorage
Alaska-Fairbanks
American International
Army
- Luckily, they could also give Assumption a natural home if they
decide to move up.

CCHA
Canisius
Clarkson
Colgate
Colorado College
Connecticut
Cornell

ECAC: (Warning: contains no actual "e"s)
Bemidji State
Bentley
Boston College
Boston University
Bowling Green
Brown
Dartmouth
Denver
Ferris State
Harvard
Holy Cross
Lake Superior State

Hockey M:
Maine
Mass-Amherst
Mass-Lowell
Mercyhurst
Merrimack
Miami
Michigan
Michigan State
Michigan Tech
Minnesota State, Mankato
Minnesota Duluth
Minnesota, Twin Cities

(N)CHA
Northeastern
Northern Michigan
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Princeton
Providence
Quinnipiac
RPI
Robert Morris
RIT

(S-)WCHA:
Sacred Heart
St. Cloud State
St. Lawrence
Union
Vermont
Western Michigan
Wisconsin
Yale

Ta da!

John

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Eric Burton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Now that is funny.
> --
> Check out Goon's World: http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Erik Biever <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Seems like you could also balance the leagues numerically this way:
>>
>> BSU to WCHA
>>
>> UAH to Hockey East
>> UAA to Hockey East
>>
>> -- Erik
>>
>> Mark Lewin wrote:
>>>
>>> My whole point was that it was best for college hockey as a whole for the
>>> WCHA to absorb these two teams (in order to balance out the leagues
>>> numerically) but I continued on that the decision was being made by
>>> people
>>> who had higher priorities than the well being of college hockey as a
>>> whole.
>>> Wasn't a value judgment, just an observation.
>>>
>>> As to your Q/A, I have no argument there. If I was paying someone as
>>> athletic director, he/she better damn well put my school's interest first
>>>
>>>> It's easy to label something as the best choice when it doesn't affect
>>>> the
>>>> league one's own team is in.
>>>>
>>>> Q:  What do you call an athletic director who puts what's best for
>>>> college
>>>> hockey ahead of what's best for his/her school?
>>>>
>>>> A: Fired.
>>>>
>>>> -- Erik
>



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