> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mike Patten wrote: >> How about getting rid of the regionals altogether. >> Lets go round 1 - 8 on campus best 2 of 3 . >> round 2 - super regional idea. All 8 go to one site. 2 games each day. >> finals - just like it is now... and Brian Morris replied: > Best 2 of three on campus sites? Why bother. The home team will win > probably 80% of the time. That may underestimate the home advantage. > And let's see. Four games in four days? Who would pay to see four > consecutive days of hockey. Who could attend them? And what about that > little thing called classes. As Jason pointed out, the "super-regionals" would be four games in two days, but I still think the attendance would be low, since each team would only play once. I know fans of bye teams currently attend four-game regionals in which their team only plays once, but a lot of them only show up for the second day. Personally, I think the four regionals idea is the way to go (I'd love to see Lake Placid bid for one of them!), but it's too bad they won't introduce a "regional consolation game" (given that the national third-place game got scrapped some time ago) so that fans of all four teams could see their favorites play twice. John Whelan, Cornell '91 [log in to unmask] http://www.amurgsval.org/joe/ HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.