Big Ten Hockey Conference

[Jim Hyla]

On another note, this doesn't need a separate thread; can anyone tell me if all NJ toll roads take the NY EZ Pass?

[RichH]

On another note, this doesn't need a separate thread; can anyone tell me if all NJ toll roads take the NY EZ Pass?

Yes. The NJ Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, and Atlantic City Expressway all take EZ-Pass (and Mass. FastLane...freakin provincial contrarians) regardless of the state/agency of issue.

http://www.ezpassnj.com/static/info/facilities.shtml

[Ronald '09]

On another note, this doesn't need a separate thread; can anyone tell me if all NJ toll roads take the NY EZ Pass?

Yes. The NJ Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, and Atlantic City Expressway all take EZ-Pass (and Mass. FastLane...freakin provincial contrarians) regardless of the state/agency of issue.

http://www.ezpassnj.com/static/info/facilities.shtml

For those of you not familiar with driving in NJ, unlike most other places, EZ-Pass is not accepted in all lanes and is accepted only in designated lanes.  These lanes are also scattered seemingly randomly at most toll plazas.  And high speed EZ-Pass lanes are few and far between.

[jkahn]

On another note, this doesn't need a separate thread; can anyone tell me if all NJ toll roads take the NY EZ Pass?

Illinois toll roads, which take I-Pass, will also accept EZ-Pass.  Hopefully, you'll be able to use it heading to Green Bay next weekend.

[Cactus12]

Agreed... in the end I think that Cornell is not particularly effected because we have a different recruitment strategy.

[Josh '99]

On another note, this doesn't need a separate thread; can anyone tell me if all NJ toll roads take the NY EZ Pass?

Yes. The NJ Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, and Atlantic City Expressway all take EZ-Pass (and Mass. FastLane...freakin provincial contrarians) regardless of the state/agency of issue.

http://www.ezpassnj.com/static/info/facilities.shtml

For those of you not familiar with driving in NJ, unlike most other places, EZ-Pass is not accepted in all lanes and is accepted only in designated lanes.  These lanes are also scattered seemingly randomly at most toll plazas.  And high speed EZ-Pass lanes are few and far between.

Huh, I thought they had those at most toll plazas on the Turnpike at this point (though if you're going to AC you probably wouldn't be taking the turnpike).

[css228]

You mean in Ontario, Saskatoon, British Columbia, Massachusetts, etc.?  :-D

@Josh - I take your point, a strong Penn State team is nice to have, but what if we've permanently weakened Miami, Western Michigan, BGSU (struggling mightily already), Ferris State, Lake Superior?  My gut tells me that the remaining MN, ND and CO teams in the WCHA will fair better but losing the U of Minnesota and Wisconsin will weaken their conference as well.  In the end, I fear that the college hockey pool may become more concentrated - why would any premier talent want to play in the remaining CCHA?

PSU is a lot closer to Ontario than BC.Do you think they're just going to be recruiting only PA players?

[Trotsky]

(Or did you mean "Michigan-centric" to be used in a balance of power sense?)

Yes, I meant it in the "holy shit, we better do something to infiltrate other markets before we're back to the St. Louis Billikens" sense.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

And to add to the list, the PA Turnpike and all the Delaware river bridges also take EZ Pass.  Remember, you have to pay to get out of New Jersey.

And for you visitors who might be transiting Philly, KYW (1060 AM) has traffic reports every 10 minutes.  For the most part they don't use the route numbers.  I-476 south of the East-West PA Turnpike is "The Blue Route", I-76 is the "Schuylkill Expressway", I-676 is "The Vine Expressway", and the road leading from the Jersey side of the Ben Franklin Bridge to the AC Expressway is "The 42 Freeway"

[Jim Hyla]

Thanks to all for your help.:-)

[ithacat]

The WCHA may take a run at Air Force, though.  They're right down the street from CC and they seem at least competent.

I wonder if Niagara and RIT might be attractive to the now-far-less-Michigan-centric CCHA?

USAFA and Alaska make the most sense for the WCHA, especially Air Force.

RIT would seem a good choice for the CCHA. It's hard not to be impressed with what they've done with their hockey program.

I wonder if Colgate, Clarkson or RPI might be interested in joining the CCHA.

[Chris '03]

And for you visitors who might be transiting Philly, KYW (1060 AM) has traffic reports every 10 minutes.  "

Just don't be alarmed every ten minutes when the traffic is introduced by the sound of car horns honking...

[RatushnyFan]

You mean in Ontario, Saskatoon, British Columbia, Massachusetts, etc.?  :-D

@Josh - I take your point, a strong Penn State team is nice to have, but what if we've permanently weakened Miami, Western Michigan, BGSU (struggling mightily already), Ferris State, Lake Superior?  My gut tells me that the remaining MN, ND and CO teams in the WCHA will fair better but losing the U of Minnesota and Wisconsin will weaken their conference as well.  In the end, I fear that the college hockey pool may become more concentrated - why would any premier talent want to play in the remaining CCHA?

By that logic, why would any "premier talent", whatever that is, want to play anywhere other than Michigan in the current CCHA? Or putting it closer to home, how the h$ll did Union get all those players to want to play at Union? Small schools compete because they are small, and some kids like small, and because they have a coach that can convince them it's the right place for them. They get kids who want an education and not necessarily want to hop to the pros after 1-2 years (Sound familiar?). If you can't recruit them, it doesn't matter what league you're in.

I'm not a Michigan homer, there's a lot of great places to play.  If one of my kids has hockey offers from Michigan and Yale (Cornell would be a no brainer) I'll let him make the right decision for himself factoring in all considerations.  But taking Michigan and Michigan State out of the CCHA reduces the attractiveness of going to Miami in my view (from a hockey perspective only).  If we can't agree on that then we're probably not going to agree on much!!  Agree that it's a thrill to play D1 college hockey anywhere, but I think that this could lead to some negative talent concentration issues.  We'll see how this plays out.

[Swampy]

Be careful what you wish for. Exactly what do we mean when we say something is "good" for college hockey?

While I'd love to see at least some non-NCAA Finals coverage of college hockey on ESPN, I don't think I'd like college hockey to look like college football or basketball. College hockey is still the kind of sport in which "mid-major" is meaningless. I don't like what the big bucks do to the professional sports we call "college" basketball and football in terms of the "students," nor do I like the idea of needing a 20,000 seat arena to have the revenue needed to be competitive.

Scersk's idea would be great for competition, but will never fly if for no other reason than it's too professional (and too European). On the other hand, an annual crossover series between ECAC and HE, similar to the Big East/ACC in basketball, is a no-brainer. ::crazy::

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

And for you visitors who might be transiting Philly, KYW (1060 AM) has traffic reports every 10 minutes.  "

Just don't be alarmed every ten minutes when the traffic is introduced by the sound of car horns honking...

But it's musical car horns (they play the station's jingle).