Brian writes:
>Greg writes
>>This topic [separation] reminds me of the referenda to secede from the
>>United States occassionally considered in Vermont town meetings:
>>an excellent opportunity to indulge in rhetoric but completely
>>meaningless by political reality.
>
>Maybe at this point but there is precedence. The Big Ten, PAC 10 and
>other football schools who were fed up with the NC**'s processes
>decided to form its own organization and the College Football
>Association (CFA) was born.
 
When I read Greg's comments, which are true to an extent, I thought of the
separation of the five schools from the ECAC in 1983 to form Hockey East.
There is an example of precedence that directly relates to hockey, although
it does not involve the NC**.
 
However, the man without whom Hockey East would not exist, former Providence
AD Lou Lamoriello, really has no equal in the college hockey world today -
someone who can bring together a group of schools who feel the same on this
subject.  At least, if there is an equal, I don't know who it is.  Whatever
you think of Lamoriello from his work with the Devils, he was almost single-
handedly responsible for the elevation of Providence into a national power
in both hockey and basketball, and a number of schools have tried to emulate
his methods for doing things right.  Those methods survive today at PC, and
all it takes is a visit to Schneider Arena for a game to see that this is true.
 
 
- mike