mike writes:
    Remember that calling the ECAC "the academic league" and HE "the athletic
    one" is an insult to the eight excellent schools that make up Hockey East.
    All are very respected in New England.  Not every school can be a Harvard
    or Cornell, but that doesn't mean other schools should be slighted.  As
    much as some ECAC fans would like to believe it, the fact that the ECAC
    implements the academic index does not make it "better" than any of the
    other conferences.
 
And I would simply like to thank him.  As a graduate of Maine and now a
grad student at MIT (an "academic" school, I suppose, since the football
team can't beat high schoolers...) I find such stereotypes rather pointless.
 
-Doug