the relevance of this to college hockey is that Denver University is a member of the conference, and DU athletic director Jack McDonald was at the meeting. The press release on the new DU ice hockey coach will be out to the media tomorrow, but Jack plans to air it on hockey-l tonight. I picked up several tidbits, and hope i'm not letting any cats out of the bag here, but.... Jack wants very much to see the WCHA get stats on line via a wcha equivalent of hockey-l. He really has the vision that e-mail and internet file transfer will be more efficient than faxing and retyping stats around the country. It really only takes one appropriately placed person at each school to make that work. With the regulars on this list from most of the wcha schools, that should be fairly easy to accomplish. Since we don't have a listserv here, I didn't volunteer. The nc$$ may be moving towards on line access to compliance rulings and sports statistics. They really need a telecomunications technology group to address some of those issues. look for some cooperative scheduling between CCHA and WCHA as conferences down the line. This may have some implications for the two alaska schools and may make travel issues less onerous. there may be a movement to assure that both the conference regular season champ and conference tournament champ are guaranteed slots in the championship tournament, with the remaining 4 to 8 slots filled with "at large" selections. Had that been the case this past year, CC fans would have been happier, but the reverse would hold true for one of the schools that made it. (this week's poll involves speculating on who would have been out in the cold had the proposed scheme been in place. Winners receive the usual ceramics (-: ) look for the Denver cup to be played at big mac (oh, you aren't from Colorado... well, that's mcnichols arena. big mac is in the same complex as mile high stadium, home of the denver donkeys, and is normally the home venue of the denver nuggets, a pituitary ball team that has somehow managed to retain life for a while longer, and is the proposed home of the new IHL hockey team) look for the Denver cup to regularly include CC, DU, USAFA, and a designated punching bag. My personal take on this (no offense jack) is that it isn't a good idea to have 3 teams always in the same 4 team tournament, especially when two are in the same league. The big draw would presumably be a DU-CC final, possibly involving the gold pan trophy, but that can't be guaranteed, and it doesn't make sense to have DU play CC in the first round as it guarantees one of the two local teams won't be in the championship game. charlie shub [log in to unmask] -or- cdash@colospgs (BITNET) (719) 593 3492 (fax) 593-3369