Duane Keahl wrote: ---------------- "The schedules of the CCHA and WCHA make absolutely no sense to me - why play 95% of your total schedule against league opponents. Worse than that, many league teams may face each other in holiday tournament play (witness next year's GLI with MSU, UM, LSSU and Michigan Tech). If conferences were to relax the number of league games played (such as John Haeussler's proposal of 26 or 27 game schedules), this would allow more opportunity for intra league matchups. These intra league matchups could be just the drawing card that college hockey needs to attract a broader audience - a matchup amongst Minnesota, Wisconsin, Boston U, Maine, Michigan, MSU etc. " ---------------- I think virtually everyone would like to see more interleague play. However, you have to bear in mind there is a signficant fact of life difference between the East and the West - travel distances. The longer you travel, the more difficult it is and the more costly. The WCHA has adopted a basic double home and home format. You travel there for 2 games and they travel to you for 2 games (most of the time). Cuts down on travel time, and it would prove difficult in the West, in most cases, to go to one location for Friday and another for Saturday. Its not just a bus ride down the road, folks. Logistically, it makes sense. However, it makes the conference "parochial". Who knew, e.g., that Vermont was *really* that good until they got to the tournament? I seem to recall a lot of people picking them for an early exit. Bottom line: I would love to see games played all over the country between the leagues, but its just not going to happen because of a combination of money and logistics. OTOH, if you limited league games in all leagues to, say, 24 games, arranged any way the league wants it, then you would free up some games for, lets say, WCHA/CCHA and ECAC/HE interleague playing that wouldn't significantly change the logistics of things. Just a thought. Tom Rowe Internet: [log in to unmask] Department of Psychology *********************************** U. of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Home of Division III National Go Point! Champions '89, '90, '91, & '93 HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.