in reply to Mike's question about why teams jumped from the WCHA to the CCHA:
 
I only remember bits and pieces, I know the offical line was to reduce
travel costs - but I remember a stir caused by an off-the-cuff comment
from (as I remember it) a coach of AD from Mich. to the effect that
they would have a better chance of getting an automatic bid in the CCHA
then they stood if they stayed in the WCHA.  Does anybody have verification
on that?  I could be wrong, or it could have been his idea of a joke, or
it could have be Scud Hartman made the whole thing up - at the time I
only had access to WCHA town papers.
 
More interesting, to me, is the fact that they claimed to be starting
a league that was "less powerful" then what was then the big 2.  I
don't recall a coach ever admitting something like that.  It also seems
they have done a fairly decent job of "moving up" 8-{>
 
meg
 
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