Fightin' Indigenous Person

Within 3 years the PAC12 will have hockey.

I can see the signs now: Go F'hawk Yourselves!

BC is an elite school, a step behind the Ivy's. It's plenty demanding, even the general classes, especially with the demands of a D1 hockey player.

This door was slammed shut months ago but, to my surprise, it appears to have re-opened. https://twitter.com/andystrickland/status/619294889021440000

Neither one of those things is even close to likely, or even possible. Imagine Texas going to the Fargodome every other year for a football game, or Michigan to the Alerus. . . . The mind boggles.

He won't commit to any school until the very end, and then only if he isn't projected as a 1st round draft pick.

There is no chance on Lodnia for UND or any other school.

On the BU roster, it has players from Alberta, British Columbia, California, Minnesota & Texas. UND's failures are not related to lack of talent in the West, or from lack of coaching. I believe that it is more about recruiting. Hockey East is more open to smaller, faster, more creative players and it recruits across North America to get them. Those kinds of players don't seem to get a chance out West.

Beserkers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker

All of the top end talent have "advisors", who are really NHL agents. I believe that Jones' advisor is Crosby's agent. Those persons advise the top end players on the different opportunities before them. Jones is probably the 1st or 2nd pick in the next draft. He is on a different level. Those type of kids are steered, without exception, to Major Junior, and while there is some financial incentive to playing Major Junior, implying that money was exchanged under the table is in poor taste.

More likely: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Northwestern, Purdue. All Big 10 schools with money who will now have a conference home and will want to share in Big 10 tv money for hockey broadcasts. Other schools with tiny athletic budgets will have a hard time trying to afford D1 hockey. It's a lot of scholarships, a lot of travel, and ice is expensive.

Over time, the Benjamins disappear with a Big 10 Hockey conference. Places like Bemidji State, Northern Michigan, Lake Superior, UNO, etc. all dry up if they don't get regular season games versus the big name teams. Once those big name teams form their own conference, the little guys wither away and die, and with them goes college hockey. I've heard that Michigan knows this and has no interest in Big 10 hockey.

Why do you think you can stop someone from saying something you don't agree with? Accept it and move on.

Call me clueless and ignore reality. You're charming. . . .

You are technically precise, just not accurate. That is how the NCAA classifies its divisions. Let's talk about classification reality for football: DI FBS/BCS - 6 conferences play for national championships DI FBS/non-BCS - many conferences play for the opportunity to play in a low-level bowl game that no one cares about but alumni DI FCS w/scholarships - plays in a tournament for a national championship DI FCS w/o scholarships - will never play in a tournament for a national championship DII - plays in a tournament that will be won by Grand Valley State DIII - plays in a tournament w/players that don't get scholarships.

Don't count on UND intramural beating USC. The ice hockey in CA is played at a very high level. There are far more kids from CA playing D-I college hockey than there are from ND. Playing an exhibition game against USC - even in in CA - would be tremendous for recruiting. Don't forget that the best 15 year old in the country, and possible the world, (McColgan) plays for the Jr. Kings.