No more "Bonus" points

[Rita]

The men's ice hockey committee has voted to do away with the "bonus points" awarded for road wins.

http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2007/07/12_bonusscrapped.php

[Trotsky]

Nice to see them giving the Olympic sheets the finger.

If they really wanted to encourage the big programs to go on the road, they would:

(1) factor a weight for venue directly into strength of schedule for ALL games -- say, 1.1x for a road win (or home loss) and .9x (or whatever the reciprocal is -- .8x?) for a road loss (or home win)

(2) impose a simple rule for "neutral site" NC games.  E.g., if one school is within 100 miles of the site and the other is not, then it's a home game; if neither or both are, then it's a neutral site game.  I dunno what this would do to the GLI, but it would work for Estero and the Beanpot.  For teams that want to move a home game to a nearby NHL rink to collect the gate, I'm not sympathetic, it's still a home game unless they're playing a local opponent.

[Jim Hyla]

Now if they would only ditch Olympic ice for all NCAA tourney games we could really make Minn mad.:-D