BU vs. UNH

[ZooeyDog]

Yes, I understand they were *trying* to do us a favor. Think it worked?

And you're right, of course, sending Maine west didn't hurt us...I mixed my metaphors. My larger point was the number of overall mistakes the committee made, in which we shared Whipping Boy status with the Bears. We all know there were *far* fairer brackets out there, waiting to be had, if the committee hadn't exhibited slavish devotion to the segments of their selection rules that are most likely to skew equity (e.g., Thou Shalt Not Schedule First Round Intraconference Matchups, Thou Shalt Not Allow "Host" Schools To Leave Their Own Arenas, Thou Shalt Not Corrupt The Holiest Of Holy "Seeding Bands" Which Are Based, Incidentally, On A Fundamentally Flawed RPI System).

As for whether the NC$$ is criticizable for not re-seeding teams at the Frozen Four: Is the criteria for allowable criticism the question of whether "It's Always Been Done That Way?" If so, why don't we go back to 12 teams in the NC$$ tournament (it's always been done that way), why don't we go back to helmetless players (it had always been done that way), and why don't we bring Army back into the ECAC (...)? Sorry to be snarky, but my ignorance of NC$$ Frozen Four policy (which, granted, is prodigious) doesn't change the fact that it's stupid and unfair not to re-seed.

"It's evolution, baby!"


ZD