J. Michael Neal writes: >everyone else seemed to react as if it is the duty of the Big 10 >schools to use their non-conference games to play other teams. I >believe that the call came from out east that the point of >non-conference games was to play inter-regional match-ups. Ah, so we've come full circle and I can complain about the obsession with determining national champions in college sports. I for one wish Cornell were still using its non-conference games to play rivals like Army and BU that are no longer in the ECAC. (I know, it takes two to tango.) John Whelan, Cornell '91 <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jtw16960/joe.html> Attention ECAC: Eight is Enough--Flush the Final Five! HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.