"Proposed" future ECAC

[adamw]

RIT makes the most sense if there is ever a hole that needs to be filled. RIT and Union are on the precipice of being able to give scholarships.

[upprdeck]

it is interesting they allow clarkson/rpi to give them but dont allow a school to offer them like RIT when they jump to D1 when the goal is really to create more  D1 hockey.

[marty]

it is interesting they allow clarkson/rpi to give them but dont allow a school to offer them like RIT when they jump to D1 when the goal is really to create more  D1 hockey.

I find it less interesting and more of a convoluted punishing monopolistic head scratcher that makes me thankful I'm not ever going to be involved in making such "decisions".

On the other hand I'm all for screwing Union. French Canadian linguist majors or whatever they're called are a source of glee.

[ursusminor]

it is interesting they allow clarkson/rpi to give them but dont allow a school to offer them like RIT when they jump to D1 when the goal is really to create more  D1 hockey.

Over a decade ago, NCAA D-III wanted to stop allowing schools which played up to award scholarships in the sport in which they played up. The largest group which were affected played up in hockey, but there were others, e.g., Johns Hopkins in lacrosse. There were 5 schools playing up in hockey -- RPI, Clarkson, SLU, Union, and Colorado College. Union had chosen not to award scholarships and voted not to allow the others to either. ::rolleyes:: The result was that schools which were awarding scholarships were allowed to continue to award them, but no new ones could do so. That is what affected RIT when it became D-I. The RPI women were not yet D-I, but were allowed to award them when they became D-I soon thereafter. Title IX had something to do with that. Some schools that were grandfathered have left D-I in their sport since then.

Anyway, D-III's goal isn't to create more D-I hockey.