On Fri, 18 Nov 1994, Comstrike wrote: > >From what I read BGSU's sister school Kent State pulled out of the CCHA > and eliminated the Hockey team because of Title 9. The president of Kent > picked two sports to drop in order to bring the men's and women's > programs up to par with each other. One of the sports she choose the > emerging hockey program. Which is to bad because BGSU and Kent would > have become intense rivals had the series continued. I was just getting > to enjoy chanting "Kent read, Kent write, Kent State." Unlike OSU or ND I think > they could have become a > good solid team if they had been given the time to develop. > > Tis a pity, such a great pity. > Nathan W.L. Boyle > The ultimate fan of BGSU. > "There can be only one." Having lived in Kent's back yard since the mid 70's and spending four years at Miami-OH, I too was sad to see KSU hockey go by the wayside. And although I know all of this was said last spring when the announcement was made, I thought it might need saying again. KSU did have a promising team, and one that was already well on it's way to consistence first-division (to turn a phrase) finishes in the CCHA when an unfortunate hazing incident caused the team to be suspended from any play for a year...1989-90 I think. (someone check me on this). Anyway, the team suffered tremendously because of it, though not nearly as bad as when the same thing happened to SMU's football program a couple of years previous. So I guess I wasn't terribly surprised when the plug was pulled on the whole program; just in the manner they did it. Besides, the old arena was in bad shape, and the attendance wasn't there...In a nutshell, there were many reasons why, but I think the catalyst was the hazing incident, which really undermined any positive momentum they had going. My 0.03 (prime rate's going up...) John Davenport Miami U. '94 U of Michigan 'xx "Go refs!"