On Tue, 2 Apr 91 18:29:21 EST Bill Fenwick said:
>> The first round game of the RPI Tournament will be counted as a league game.
>>The second round games will be non-league.
>
>Aack!  Bleah!  Phooey!  *retch*  So RPI and Union will meet in the first
>round of the RPI Invitational (as usual) and it will count as an ECAC
>game?!?  I see a couple of problems with this setup:
>
Whatever your personal opinion may be of this situation, Bill, it's
been an allowable option in the ECAC for years. I don't have the
exact wording of the ruling that allows teams to schedule first-round
tournament games as league games, and I'm not going to go back and
research ECAC schedules for the past few years trying to find other
games that have been scheduled like this, but I do know that it's
perfectly legal and has been for years. I don't know how they handle
the overtime discrepancy, however.
 
>2.   Since one of its normally non-league tournament games is now counting
>     as an ECAC game, RPI can schedule what amounts to an extra game, and no
>     other ECAC team can do so.
 
So can Union. If I had a 25-game limit and a chance to do this, I would
too.
 
>     Colgate, like RPI, hosts a tournament (the Syracuse Invitational),
 
Technically, Colgate does not host the Syracuse Invitational. The
tournament is put on by a committee headed by Patrick Smith, and
is completely independent of the ECAC and its teams. Colgate is
invited every year, for obvious reasons, but they don't "host a
tournament." If they did, it would be run a lot better than the
current tournament is!
 
>                                              Now we're waiting to see what
>Kent Manderville and Ryan Hughes are going to do.
 
Hughes assured me after the ECAC tournament that he would be back at
Cornell next year, no matter what kind of offer he might receive.