Dick writes: >Apparently Brian Cavanaugh's >contention that NESCAC is about to pull out of the ECAC >East is very real.I have it from a very reliable source in Storrs that >there will be a meeting of the Division I no-scholarship schools and the >Division II schools in mid November to discuss what to do if >that happens. A new league is very possible. What happens to New >England College and North Adams, etc., under that scenario >is a real problem. None of the former schools wants >to leave anyone out in the cold. Perhaps the remaining D-III non-NESCAC schools could combine with the ECAC West to form a true D-III ECAC conference. After the SUNYs pulled out of ECAC West, Hamilton went ECAC East and St. Bonas went club, the West has only 6 teams left. Things could look like this: NESCAC (all former ECAC East unless specified): Amherst Bowdoin Colby Conn. College Hamilton Middlebury Trinity Tufts (Central) Wesleyan (South) Williams ECAC "A" (Upper-tier D-I/II) AIC (East) Canisius (West) Holy Cross (East) Mercyhurst (West) St. Anselm (East) UConn (East) ECAC "B" (Upper-tier D-III) Babson (East) Elmira (West) Hobart (West) New England(East) North Adams (East) Norwich (East) RIT (West) Salem State (East) Scranton (West) UMass-Boston (East) ECAC "C" (lower-tier D-I/II) Assumption (Central) Bentley (Central) Fairfield (South) New Hampshire College (Central) Quinnipiac (South) St. Michael's (Central) Stonehill (Central) Villanova (South) ECAC "D" (lower-tier D-III) Curry (North) Fitchburg (North) Framingham State (North) Iona (South) Nichols (North) Plymouth State (North) Roger Williams (North) Southern Maine (North) UMass-Dartmouth (South) Skidmore (South) Suffolk (Central) Wentworth (South) Western New England College (North) Worcester State (North) SUNYAC: Brockport State Buffalo State Cortland State Fredonia State Geneseo State Oswego State Plattsburgh State Potsdam State This would be better than the current structure, but travel could be a problem. Note that I broke the non-NESCAC, non-SUNYAC teams into 2 tiers to reflect the fairly large talent gap that exists between the ECAC East/West and the ECAC North/Central/South. Anyway, a nice lunchtime diversion.... Chris Lerch Xerox RIt '84 & '91 55 hours till face off....