(07-06-2020 09:30 PM)NoDak Wrote: (07-06-2020 07:31 PM)ccd494 Wrote: (07-05-2020 04:23 PM)NoDak Wrote: BC, BU, Providence, UConn and maybe others consider UMLowell, Vt, UNH, Merrimack, Maine, and others too small and want their own league. A split was talked when the new commish was hired. Maybe they want Syracuse.
A lukewarm rock has more brain function than you do. None of what you just discussed is in the vicinity of factual.
So guess BC wants UML, Maine, and Merrimack in the ACC then.
I don't understand what you are saying, is your thesis that BC will be in some sort of ACC Hockey league? And, this ACC Hockey league will consist of schools already in the ACC? In which case, Hockey East would continue as is, without BC, and add like Holy Cross.
Or is the ACC going to sponsor hockey with two all sports members (BC, Notre Dame) and a bunch of affiliates, but that the bar for affiliates is going to be placed somewhere below BU, PC, and UConn but above UML, UVM, UNH, Maine, and Merrimack? So, essentially Big East schools (and the Patriot League apparently) are worthy, but the America East and NEC schools aren't? Is Holy Cross going with their conference mate BU to ACC Hockey? What about Army and Colgate?
Or is your thesis that BC is going to use some sort of leverage over the ACC to get its preferred hockey schools admitted to the ACC in all sports? Setting aside that if BC threatened to leave if they didn't get their demands, the ACC would happily pay for their moving costs, BC wants to add three New England teams to the ACC? Two of whom don't play football? One of whom can't average more than 500 fans per basketball game? I'm sure Clemson, UNC, and Duke are really excited about visiting Boston University for conference basketball games.
Here is the problem with your theories that all-sport conferences are going to start taking over college hockey: The conferences that would want to do this lack the clout to do so; their members that play hockey are happier where they are than in a hockey league sponsored by their basketball conferences and would be willing to leave their all sport conferences in order to stay. The conferences that have the clout to force a move on their members don't give a crap about hockey (or would really rather not have the headache).
The Big Ten was the lone conference that had both the clout and the care. They could strong arm the teams in the league that were reluctant by saying it was a condition of Big Ten all sport membership to move your hockey program, and those schools would move hockey to preserve their Big Ten membership. The Big Ten also had 6 schools that gave a crap about hockey, and a need to fill air time on the BTN. So, they cared that this happened.
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UND and UMD to the Big Ten in Hockey?
