On Thu, 10 Mar 1994, Keith Instone wrote: > My point was, that most of the Hockey East teams are near a major airport. > Some of the CCHA teams are not. Flying to Fairbanks from Chicago doesn't > sound too bad, but FSU and LSSU are pretty isolated. So, if I were to > split the 12 CCHA teams up, I would base it on their airport status: > > Frequent Flyers division: UAF, UIC, OSU, Kent, Michigan, BG. > Bus division: FSU, LSSU, WMU, MSU, Miami, UND. I am really sure that Miami and LSSU would love busing back and forth an additional time. > UIC has O'Hare, OSU has Columbus, Kent isn't too far away from > Cleveland's airport, Michigan is on the right side of Detroit to get to > DTW. BG is not too close to any airport, but it is equally close to > Detroit, Cleveland and Columbus, so teams flying into/out of BG can > have a choice to get the best fares . BG is only 30 minutes away from the Toledo airport, so that is not very far. > This solution only says that a team would have to play their two home games against an interdivision opponent on the same weekend. I personally would not like that. > > Keith I don't think that this is the solution, I hope there is one though. Josh PS I would like to get a UAF hat that says Nanooks on it. I would appriciate any help on this.