Hey, this isn't to be nasty or anything, but lets give it up on the
gripes about BG not getting in, Wisconsin not getting a better seed than
Minnesota, and on and on and on.....
 
        The coaches created the RPI ratings system, the process and
criteria for seeding the teams, and took out any subjectivity from the
selection process. This my friends IS what the COACHES want and over the
coarse of the past five years have fine tuned to get. Simply put the top
12 ranked RPI teams will get in no matter what there finish unless they
win the RS or PS tourney.
 
        Case in point, RPI getting in and thus eliminating BG, and UNH
getting bumped out earlier in their tourney but still getting a bid.
 
        May not seem right, but its what the coaches wanted and its what
we all as fans get. So lets have no more complaints about who got screwed
this year, last year, etc.  and focus on the 12 great teams we have in
the 1995 tourney.
 
Ryan Peterson
Gopher Hockey