NCAA Tournament Expansion

[Greg Berge]

> it's still a far cry from the 3:1 or 4:1 Greg was claiming.

Actually, I was just trash-talking -- I had and have absolutely no idea what the payrolls are, though I know the Hair Guy has been getting on the Rangers' case for loading up on salary and then screwing the pooch.

What makes this even funnier is that I don't particularly dislike the Rangers.  During the period when the Isles were (and apparently now are) good, the Rangers have been irrelevant, and vice-versa.  Better the Rangers than the Flyers any day.

[jy3]

so to give part in the trash talking:
the playoffs start wednesday without the rangers. ok we all knew that, but boy do i love to say it ;-)
it is nice to have the isles in the playoffs and i hope for an isles-devils series down the line.
go devils!  ::nut::

[jy3]

ps
the 50 something figure for the rangers was for the start of the season. saw it on espnews last night. that does not include Bure and company

[Al DeFlorio]

Article in today's Cape Cod Times--the newspaper of record-- uses $70m.

[Jim Hyla]

I think this just shows how good the Yankee management is. Everyone says it's just their bucks, but at least two other NY teams have proven that bucks alone are not enough. You have to have some smarts behind those bucks, and unfortunately some teams don't have it.

[DeltaOne81]

Oh, it's not purely the money. The Yankees have some real talent both on the field and behind the benches. That said, they're still the spawn of Satan  ::yark::

[Greg Berge]

I'd say it took some smarts for that other New York team to get a future Hall of famer in his peak years in exchange for a WSo'S.

[Adam \'04]

don't forget about the Redskins.

[RichS]

yeah, we noticed!  :-D

but what good would a tie have been?

[kingpin248]

It's official: 16 teams are in next year in both men's hockey and lacrosse.

The release is at http://www.ncaa.org/releases/makepage.cgi/divi/2002042501d1.htm

[zg88]

YES!!!  B-]

[Josh '99]

Word on the USCHO is that they're planning on going to four four-team regionals, and that therefore two of next year's regionals will be up for bid this summer.  Any chance that if a lot of people write to them and suggest it, Athletics will bid to host one, maybe at the OnCenter?

[jtwcornell91]

Josh Herman '99 wrote:

Any chance that if a lot of people write to them and suggest it, Athletics will bid to host one, maybe at the OnCenter?

Well, it would mean we'd know where we were playing if we made the NC$$s, but taking the four teams out and shooting three of them at random might be preferable making them play in the War Memorial.  (Sorry Jim.)

[Al DeFlorio]

Well, we could tell the world the games are starting at 6pm and then play them at 1.

[Greg Berge]

Where is the one set east regional -- Worcester?  Albany?  Providence?

I don't think it would be too much of a stretch for Cornell to host a regional at the Knick.  Too bad Lake Placid is too samll a facility to be considered.