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                                        Date:     18-Jan-1991 13:48 CDT
                                        From:     1LT RICO E. VITALE
                                                  VITALE
                                        Dept:     ASD/WL/MNAA
                                        Tel No:   904 882 4085
 
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Subject: Playoff Questions
 
A couple of questions regarding the play-off systems employed by
conferences and NCAA:
 
1.  Who came up with the two game, total goals concept for a play-off
series?  This has always struck me as possibly the most poorly devised of
all the alternatives.  Either make it a best of three or a single game.
The ECAC play-off system (two games with a ten-minute mini-game if it's a
split) seems a somewhat happy compromise.
 
2.  I can understand how each conference could have different systems,
coming to different solutions to the same problem, but why, once the NCAA
tournament has begun, do they change the format?
 
Thanks in advance for your responses.
 
Lt Rico Vitale
Clarkson '88
Let's Go TECH!
 
PS I agree with the Red Barber comments.