Generic Off Season Thread

[Trotsky]

Because I'm sick of seeing that score whenever anybody does a Reply.

[marty]

I demand the name brand product. Dispense as written.

[Jim Hyla]

Grosenick returning to Union for junior season.

[marty]

Grosenick returning to Union for junior season.

That's not the name I was looking for. But good for him.

[KeithK]

Hey, no fair!  How can I take a generic thread off topic?

[jtn27]

Hey, no fair!  How can I take a generic thread off topic?

The opposite of a generic offseason thread would be a specific season thread. I'm not exactly sure what that would be, but good luck.

[KeithK]

Hey, no fair!  How can I take a generic thread off topic?

The opposite of a generic offseason thread would be a specific season thread. I'm not exactly sure what that would be, but good luck.

Maybe I'll have to post some relevant information about next season here come November.

[ugarte]

I demand the name brand product. Dispense as written.

Here you go.

[jtn27]

Hey, no fair!  How can I take a generic thread off topic?

The opposite of a generic offseason thread would be a specific season thread. I'm not exactly sure what that would be, but good luck.

Maybe I'll have to post some relevant information about next season here come November.

I was thinking more along the lines of talking about a specific game from this past season, but I guess that works too.

[Aaron M. Griffin]

I was curious about the reasoning behind a comment made in a recent USCHO article about Penn State's transition to NCAA Division I.

Penn State will play a season as an independent and will not be eligible for NCAA tournament play, but Guy Gadowsky's team will be playing against the big boys for the first time in the school's history.

Why will Penn State be ineligible next year? I doubt many think that they could actually achieve an at-large bid, but I was wondering which rule precludes even the opportunity.

[RichH]

I was curious about the reasoning behind a comment made in a recent USCHO article about Penn State's transition to NCAA Division I.

Penn State will play a season as an independent and will not be eligible for NCAA tournament play, but Guy Gadowsky's team will be playing against the big boys for the first time in the school's history.

Why will Penn State be ineligible next year? I doubt many think that they could actually achieve an at-large bid, but I was wondering which rule precludes even the opportunity.

The NCAA requires teams moving to Division I to undergo a 2-year "transition" period where they are ineligible for NCAA post-season play.  It happened when RIT moved to D1 (and the same is happening with RIT's women's team beginning this season).

RIT plans to play a Division I schedule beginning in the 2012–2013 season but will not play a full-league schedule. In 2013–2014, the Tigers would play a College Hockey America schedule, and in 2014–2015, RIT would be eligible for NCAA post-season play.

From the same article, it seems the CHA women's league is adding RIT, Penn State, and Lindenwood to the current membership of Syracuse, Niagara, Mercyhurst, and RMU.  No BTHC in Women's Hockey, thanks to the lack of UM & MSU teams.  Lindenwood is in St. Charles, Missouri, in case you were wondering as much as I was.  They played their first D-1 schedule this past season.

(edit: Niagara announced this spring they are discontinuing their women's program.)

[Trotsky]

It's not often around here that somebody provides a straight answer to a direct question.  That was kind of unsettling.

[RichH]

It's not often around here that somebody provides a straight answer to a direct question.  That was kind of unsettling.

Sorry, I forgot to be in off-season mode. Here:

They should make a movie about the Burr-Hamilton duel.  It should be titled anything but "The Duel."

[nyc94]

I was curious about the reasoning behind a comment made in a recent USCHO article about Penn State's transition to NCAA Division I.

Penn State will play a season as an independent and will not be eligible for NCAA tournament play, but Guy Gadowsky's team will be playing against the big boys for the first time in the school's history.

Why will Penn State be ineligible next year? I doubt many think that they could actually achieve an at-large bid, but I was wondering which rule precludes even the opportunity.

The NCAA requires teams moving to Division I to undergo a 2-year "transition" period where they are ineligible for NCAA post-season play.  It happened when RIT moved to D1 (and the same is happening with RIT's women's team beginning this season).

RIT plans to play a Division I schedule beginning in the 2012–2013 season but will not play a full-league schedule. In 2013–2014, the Tigers would play a College Hockey America schedule, and in 2014–2015, RIT would be eligible for NCAA post-season play.

From the same article, it seems the CHA women's league is adding RIT, Penn State, and Lindenwood to the current membership of Syracuse, Niagara, Mercyhurst, and RMU.  No BTHC in Women's Hockey, thanks to the lack of UM & MSU teams.  Lindenwood is in St. Charles, Missouri, in case you were wondering as much as I was.  They played their first D-1 schedule this past season.

(edit: Niagara announced this spring they are discontinuing their women's program.)

I recall RIT was also not eligible for Atlantic Hockey's conference tournament in their first season as a full member (second year in Div. 1).  Was that a league rule?

Another question, does the Big Ten get an autobid in their first year?

[RichH]

Another question, does the Big Ten get an autobid in their first year?

This page: http://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=pwcrpi

The NCAA mandates that a conference receives an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament if it exists for at least two years and has at least six teams.

And this one: http://www.ncaa.com/news/icehockey-men/2011-03-21/big-ten-add-mens-hockey-2013

The recommendation includes both the establishment of the inaugural Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament in March of 2014, with the winner earning the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship

are both non-definitive enough to not exactly answer the question.  I can't remember what happened with the inception of MAAC/AHA and CHA, and am done researching for now, because of a silly thing like work.