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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5330473, member: 1969"] It won't hurt the NCAA at all -- it will only strengthen the level of players, and perhaps make some lower caliber teams better. Only thing that could be a negative, and I totally understand the US perspective that its better to have more spots for American players. I found a useful link, that has all the recent commitments by date. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.collegecommitments.com/[/URL] [B]By my count (could be off a few either way) there have been 68 players from the CHL that have committed to the NCAA since it became allowed on November 7th, and I am sure there will be more. [/B] (That's over 1 per team, based on my reading that there are 60 D1 teams in the NCAA) That seems pretty significant to me. Its certainly not a CHL takeover, but its enough. I think the biggest hit comes this year because you could have 18, 19 or 20 year olds making the jumo. I created a list of the players on each team. There were a few teams that seemed to have been more active in this regard -- Bowling Green 7, Clarkson 5, Nebraska Omaha 4, Quinnipiac 4, (Vermont, Penn St, Mich Tech, Bemjidi, Alaska Fairbanks all with 3). Doesn't seem to be the academic powers, but programs looking to change their fortunes around with 20 and 21 year old freshman next year. (Or 23 and 24 year old seniors in a few years ) Bowling Green was the one that seemed to jump on very early over the opportunity. They signed 6 guys between November 14th and December 2... they were getting about a 1/3 of the signees from the CHL early on. Here is the list of the schools that signed players... not the academic powerhouses or Boston powers, but I think some schools looking to change fortunes around with 20 and 21 year old freshman. Robert Morris Vermont 3 UMass Lowell 2 Penn St 3 RPI Denver Niagara 2 Nebraska-Omaha 4 Michigan Tech 3 Sacred Heart 2 Clarkson 5 Quinnipiac 4 Colorado College Northern Michigan 2 Bemjidi St 3 Ohio St Miami Maine Michigan St RIT 2 Minnesota Duluth Notre Dame 2 Providence Wisconsin 2 Alaska Fairbanks 3 Colgate Princeton 2 Bowling Green 7 New Hampshire 2 Minnesota St 2 UConn Lake Superior St [/QUOTE]

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