MACHNIK WROTE: >for proof that you do not need to be in the ECAC to have a commitment >to academics. >--- --- HERE WE GO....... the post has nothing to do with "other" schools not having academic excellence.......don't start with that...especially now going into the playoff scene. All that I was trying to expound, was why the Ivy schools play a relatively smaller schedule, and why other schools in the ECAC stay there...or at least that's what I tried to say. HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.