Mark Hill writes: >At Ferris two years ago the community and Ferris showed up at the >Board of control meeting that was to decide the demise of the hockey >program.... I remember hearing about this. To draw a comparison, what kind of community/booster support exists for the Kent program? Enough to save it like the Ferris community did? What really amazes me about this whole thing is that just a year and a half ago, Kent paid $100,000 to the CCHA as an expansion fee so its hockey team could join - and now they want to drop the sport. Heck of a long range planning job by the folks in charge at KSU. Or, maybe this is what is known as cutting your losses. I believe that as usually happens when a school drops a sport, those athletes would be free to jump to another school and play right away without sitting out a year. I wonder if the vultures have begun circling yet. In overall scoring, junior Claude Morin was 8th in the CCHA with 17-39--56 in 39 games. Fellow JR Dean Sylvester had 22-24--46 in 39 GP. I wish the best to the people at Kent and their fans in trying to keep the program alive. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93