Robert Morris Joins CHA

Well, it's official:

[uscollegehockey.com]

Hopefully, they'll last longer than the Pens

JH

So I guess this means we probably won't see a massive reshuffling of the conferences with the CHA and the AHA getting absorbed into other conferences. This probably increases the chance that the ECAC will play an unbalanced schedule for some time. Wonder what that'll be like. I suppose it might mean some Tuesday night games for a bit.

Chris '02 wrote:

So I guess this means we probably won't see a massive reshuffling of the conferences with the CHA and the AHA getting absorbed into other conferences. This probably increases the chance that the ECAC will play an unbalanced schedule for some time. Wonder what that'll be like. I suppose it might mean some Tuesday night games for a bit.

The CHA is safe, for now at least. The AHA, on the other hand...I dunno, I'm still convinced that eventually, this conference is going to get picked apart by the ECAC and Hockey East, and even the CHA.

Yeah, I don't think this substantially affects the chances of Holy Cross or Quinnipiac bolting to the ECAC. It just means that the CHA won't have to fold.

Actually given their proximity, to me it makes Mercyhurst even more likely to jump to CHA.

JH

There is some interesting speculation on the ECAC in the USCHO AH column, of all places: [www.uscho.com] . Comments include that there are ECAC schools that wouldn't be happy with Holy Cross joining the ECAC (I wonder who), and that there are ECAC schools that would like to kick out Union due to its stance on Prop 65 (I can guess who on this one ).



Post Edited (01-30-04 08:25)

Where would Union go?

dss28 wrote:
Where would Union go?

I think a lot of people have suggestions about where Union can go.

I still think 12 teams is preferable to 10, since you can have the mad rush to the finish with full weekend schedules and not need to schedule a travel partner home-and-home every week to pull it off.

If you have an 11 team league and you want to have a second round of 8, then I guess the top 5 get byes and then 6/11, 7/10, 8/9 for the last 3 spots?

That leads to a really weird result -- 5 and 4 know they will play each other but get a week off. Weirder -- 5 gets a bye but not a home game.

Problem with an 11 team league is that the schedule becomes a pain in the ass. You have off-weeks throughout the season, or else some teams playing one game and others playing 2 in the same weekend - which is not a good option as evidenced by the Dartmouth siutation after UVM's hazing scandel.

I see em going back to 12 if they can agree on which team to pursue (Holy Cross or Quinnipiac), any more than that would be absurd.

Just for the sake of travel partners, Holy Cross would be preferable. If it's Quinnipiac, you'd almost have to pair them with Yale, but then who do you pair Princeton with? HC or Harvard could easily be paired with Dartmouth and the other with Brown to keep it simple. Quinnipiac would be messy.

here's another option ... [elf.elynah.com]

just a thought

Were QU to join, I'd see travel partners like this
Dartmouth with Harvard
Brown with Yale/QU
Princeton with other Yale/QU

Or you could do Brown/Princeton, but that'd add some extra time to that trip.

The head coach at Rober Morris is Derek Schooley who was a volunteer assistant at Cornell in 1999.

Ben Flickinger wrote:
Or you could do Brown/Princeton, but that'd add some extra time to that trip.

Well, at that point you might as well pair Princeton with Dartmouth and keep the Hahvahd-Brown and Yale-Quinnipiac pairings intact.

Except Dartmouth-Hahvahd is the travel partner for other Ivy Sport(s) (namely basketball, both men and women), so there is precedent for that one.