UAH and CCHA - opinion

[profudge]

See opinion article:  August 14th, 2010
I did smell B.S. – UAH stiffed by CCHA...

[ithacat]

Here's an article about Penn State nearing the launch date:

http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/541062/Penn-State--close--to-adding-arena--Division-I-hockey.html?nav=746

[Jim Hyla]

Here's an article about Penn State nearing the launch date:

http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/541062/Penn-State--close--to-adding-arena--Division-I-hockey.html?nav=746

And more from INCH, CHN, and two from USCHO. Personally I hope they come and join CCHA. Is that why the CCHA refused UAH?

[ithacat]

Here's an article about Penn State nearing the launch date:

http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/541062/Penn-State--close--to-adding-arena--Division-I-hockey.html?nav=746

And more from INCH, CHN, and two from USCHO. Personally I hope they come and join CCHA. Is that why the CCHA refused UAH?

How quickly can a BTHC be put together?

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Here's an article about Penn State nearing the launch date:

http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/541062/Penn-State--close--to-adding-arena--Division-I-hockey.html?nav=746

And more from INCH, CHN, and two from USCHO. Personally I hope they come and join CCHA. Is that why the CCHA refused UAH?

How quickly can a BTHC be put together?

More importantly, how quickly can Schafer set up a home and home series?

[underskill]

Hope PSU isn't planning to steal another Cornell coach for its hockey program.

[scoop85]

Hope PSU isn't planning to steal another Cornell coach for its hockey program.

just what I was thinking ...

[Trotsky]

Here's an article about Penn State nearing the launch date:

http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/541062/Penn-State--close--to-adding-arena--Division-I-hockey.html?nav=746

And more from INCH, CHN, and two from USCHO. Personally I hope they come and join CCHA. Is that why the CCHA refused UAH?

How quickly can a BTHC be put together?

Hopefully soon enough to make next year's EA Sports college hockey game.

[jtwcornell91]

Here's an article about Penn State nearing the launch date:

http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/541062/Penn-State--close--to-adding-arena--Division-I-hockey.html?nav=746

And more from INCH, CHN, and two from USCHO. Personally I hope they come and join CCHA. Is that why the CCHA refused UAH?

How quickly can a BTHC be put together?

Hopefully soon enough to make next year's EA Sports college hockey game.

The sad thing is that people on the USCHO board no longer get the joke.  Can Harvard's move to Hockey East be far behind?

[Ronald '09]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5580469

EJ Hradek from ESPN picked up the Penn State story.

[French Rage]

Here's an article about Penn State nearing the launch date:

http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/541062/Penn-State--close--to-adding-arena--Division-I-hockey.html?nav=746

And more from INCH, CHN, and two from USCHO. Personally I hope they come and join CCHA. Is that why the CCHA refused UAH?

How quickly can a BTHC be put together?

Hopefully soon enough to make next year's EA Sports college hockey game.

The sad thing is that people on the USCHO board no longer get the joke.  Can Harvard's move to Hockey Rast be far behind?

FYP.

[RatushnyFan]

{Sigh}

[Rita]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5580469

EJ Hradek from ESPN picked up the Penn State story.

There also has been some speculation other Big Ten schools might decide to take their hockey programs to the highest level sometime in the near future.

Other Big 10 schools:
Purdue (club,nearest ice rinks in Indy and somewhere in IL, maybe Champaing-Urbana)
IU I *think* Bloomington has a town rink, and I'm not sure if a club hockey team exists
IL-Champaign-Urbana  
Northwestern
Iowa

Not sure what the person who said that was smoking at the time they were speculating about other Big 10 schools going D1 in hockey. There are only a handful (handful - 1 now **]) of people in IN* who know what a hockey puck is and know anything about the game. So I think you can cross off Purdue and IU from that list.

I think it sucks that the CCHA didn't take in Alabama-Huntsville but will take Penn State if they go D1. I know, it is all about the $$$$. I, for one, am not excited at all about Penn State D1 hockey or a Big10 hockey conference.

* I think South Bend is considered part of Michigan. That region is called "Michiana"::wtf::.

[RichH]

Hope PSU isn't planning to steal another Cornell coach for its hockey program.

just what I was thinking ...

I'm more concerned about the giant Jock Factory athletic dept's of the huge state schools edging the hockey world closer towards the state of football & basketball...and leaving non-scholarship & small schools unable to compete.

[Robb]

Hope PSU isn't planning to steal another Cornell coach for its hockey program.

just what I was thinking ...

I'm more concerned about the giant Jock Factory athletic dept's of the huge state schools edging the hockey world closer towards the state of football & basketball...and leaving non-scholarship & small schools unable to compete.

Agree - and an upstart Jock Factory like PSU hiring a coach away from a school like Cornell would be a definitive symptom of that disease.  All it takes is money.  They have it, and we don't.