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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 1432789, member: 636"]
You and others may be right.  But I think you may be shortsighted here.  How will COA affect the decisions made by these recruits?  How will newer shinier facilities affect those decisions?  How will major coaches leaving HE programs to go to the B1G impact recruiting?

Now, let's say the B1G demonstrates that hockey can be a $$$-maker all on it's own.  What's to prevent them from attempting to lure BC and BU as federated hockey members enticing them with big $$$?  Those two institutions by themselves account for about 50% of the HE Frozen Four appearances in this century and 5 of the 6 HE NCs.  Or what's to prevent the ACC from starting a conference hockey league which will force BC and ND into it, probably require SU and Pitt to sponsor it, and then invite a couple of other northeastern hockey teams BU and perhaps UConn as federated members?

However, I will concede that if hockey skates along as it currently is, then HE has nothing to worry about.  But then how much of the college athletics landscape today is simply business as usual from where it was in the last century, even the early part of the last decade?

Cheers,
Neil
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