Scheduling:
 
A reduction in conference scheduling does not necessarily mean you
will get more games against non-conference opponents.  Conference
membership does, after all, imply some degree of proximity, shared
history, etc.  So if a school were to drop 10 slots from its conference
schedule, it might well wind up playing many of those games against
the same conference opponents.  Indeed, it might even lead to a
situation in which pairs of teams would meet an unusually high number
of times.  Anybody up for home-and-home three game series between great
rivals like Minnesota/Wisconsin, Clarkson/SLU, or BU/BC?
 
And such:
 
Cornell has an incoming prospect from the idyllic spot of Stoughton, MA.
I live in Stoughton, and would be willing to bet that more Stoughtonians can
name the opening act at Alex's Adult Entertainment Emporium (just down
Main St. next to the Baptist Church) than can name any Ivy League school
other than Harvard (which, while known, is unanimously reviled).
 
Something very weird is going on when not one but TWO New England
prepsters make the long trek to Ithaca.  Maybe Mike Barnicle* should
investigate this alarming trend.
 
 
Greg Berge
Cornell BA 86, JD 99.
Yep, it's official.
 
1996 Ivy League and ECAC Champions
Let's Go Red!
 
 
* Non-New Englander note:  Mike Barnicle is sort of like Jimmy Breslin**
with a Black Irish accent.  He's a classic populist caveman boob, but he's
also funnier than anybody other than maybe P. J. O'Rourke on a good day.
 
** Non-New Yorker note:  Jimmy Breslin is the guy who got all the column
inches for the David Berkowitz killing spree about 15 years ago.  He acts
(and writes) just like somebody in a Mickey Spillane*** novel.
 
*** Non-mystery reader note:  Mickey Spillane...
 
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