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A DIII no longer can provide scholarships for any sport unless they are grandfathered under NCAA rules and they also can’t have DII’s or DIII’s in their conference, just like the Pioneer League teams, which were kicked out of the DIII championship. The old Midwest hockey league was mostly DIII’s in Wisconsin. Union and RIT can play DI hockey because they don’t offer scholarships, just financial aid.

UMC moved up to DII in 1999-2000 from NAIA, so they were a DII team before hockey was dropped. https://www.crk.umn.edu/news/university-minnesota-crookston-discontinue-hockey-program But rules changes made it DII impossible in the Midwest DIII league couldn’t take a DII member anymore. If St Thomas, Bemidji St, Mankato and even MInot St and Mary were added, the finances become much cheaper. It was impressive that Crookston could even afford hockey in DII with most of the teams in Wisconsin and further east, but the state of Minnesota will require WIH

Hockey East schools broke off from the ECAC as they didn’t want to be limited by rules perpetrated by the Ivy’s, like starting later and limited emphasis. Hockey East schools wanted more emphasis on hockey like the then WCHA, so they even made an interlocking schedule with the WCHA for a few years. Hockey East was not nearly as big then.

A Jamestown Sun write up on Bo Belquist. https://www.jamestownsun.com/sports/football/3904853-New-Rockford-Sheyenne-receiver-Bo-Belquist-picks-UND

Northern Plains RR, which took over an East-west Soo Line and abandoned BNSF lines, seems to be doing quite well. Think Canadian Pacific actually owns a lot of it. It is headquartered in Fordville. https://www.nprail.com/northern-plains-railroad/

The ECAC would have to go to 14 or 16, which is just too large for one autobid and unwieldy for scheduling. Divide it in two for two autobids. The Ivy League has said it would never do that much like the Big Ten. As if they are to be believed?

Article on Zach Horstman’s new UND job: https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/sports/basketball/3127740-Climbing-up-the-coaching-ranks-Horstman-‘grateful’-for-UND-opportunity

Penn adding hockey could start an Ivy hockey league with seven members. The rest of the ECAC would have to grab some upstate NY Atlantic Hockey members, like Niagara and Canisius. The AHA could get back to 12 with Navy, Liberty and UAH.

Toledo seems like the perfect MAC school to have DI hockey. It has a downtown >7000 seat arena for its minor league team which is almost drawing capacity crowds. Bowling Green is about 30 minutes south. Their area youth and HS hockey is popular. https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/walleye/2019/07/10/state-of-the-sport-toledo-area-continues-to-embrace-hockey/stories/20190704011

Interesting to see how a smaller private university, High Point, is now embarking on $200 million in building projects, including a new basketball arena. High Point U moved up to DI in 1999, doesn’t have much endowment and has borrowed a lot, and they have more than tripled their enrollment to now over 5000 with students mostly coming from the northeast. The town of High Point is one of the three cities of the Piedmont triad of Winston-Salem -Greensboro - High Point. High Point U seeks to be a high end residence for wealthier students. https://groundbreakcarolinas.com/high-point-university-growth-continues-with-200-million-in-construction-projects/ Elon is comparable and 20 minutes away also recruits the northeast and Campbell U, a Baptist University, only with more growth outside Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill.

EMinot State is officially adding their women’s club hockey team to its athletics department. https://www.minotdailynews.com/sports/local-sports/2019/07/msu-womens-hockey-joins-athletic-department/ Seems the first step is giving both men’s and women’s hockey varsity status. Edit: The women’s club team loses much more money than the men’s club, and the administration probably wants to keep it around for TIX balance eventually.

There are now rumors that Wichita State will restart football. https://csnbbs.com/thread-878731-page-4.html With UConn leaving, the AAC becomes even more western, with the Shocker’s long time rival Tulsa, as well as SMU, Houston, Tulane, and Memphis. WSU needs to have the same sports alignment for revenue as the other AAC schools. It wouldn’t be an AAC football affiliate for a number of years, but it would behoove the Shocker’s to move in that direction as WSU increasingly recruits student from Texas.

Here a Duluth article where a former WCHA coach proposed the breakup three years ago. Was surprised that it took so long. https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/2735971-Matt-Wellens-column-WCHA’s-Runaway-Seven-just-as-‘like-minded’-as-NCHC’s-Original-Six The equipment manager at Bowling Green describes the process of getting the equipment to Alaska. BGSU spends over 30 hours traveling each trip to Alaska, so its wearing on the entire team. https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/bgsu/2019/01/16/bowling-green-falcons-hockey-travel-Alaska-wcha-bgsu/stories/20190116121

The rumor that U Mary, Minot St, UM Crookston and St Thomas just a week ago would go DI seems even more interesting at this point. A Northern Sun Hockey League: Minnesota State-Mankato Bemidji St UM-Crookston Mary Minot St St Thomas St Cloud St and UMD would obviously be excluded. The Minnesota State system put up big obstacles when Moorhead tried to add hockey. The U Minn system would be much more supportive of UMC, which is struggling with numbers. Minot St, Mary, and UMC all perform poorly at DII, so they must have a strategic reason for staying DII. A: The ability to play hockey DI. The other five reform the CCHA with Oakland U. The autobid situation just needs two years for it to solidify. So the seven teams get one right away and when the eastern or western six have been together for two years, they split off and get an autobid too.

Just for our resident doctor, here is another study that says side effects of pharmaceuticals result in million of ER visits every year. https://www.premierphysiciannet.com/About-Us/News-Center/Press-Releases/Millions-of-Americans-Experience-Side-Effects-from-Medication/

The study referenced 60% of older citizens that go the the emergency room go because of pharmaceuticals. The % you used is just the % of the general population regardless if they go the the ER, as manipulated by the AMA. Genetic medicines is what is was I referring too, as there has been a huge increase in biotech knowledge and manufacturing ability. MDs are not healing gods, much as you disagree. Most MDs just want a “stable” patient, not a healed one. Muscle response testing is what I use, which uses the bodies own nervous systems, and that can tell if a pharmaceutical or even artificial food has a dangerous effect or an herb or other foods having a beneficial one. But I wouldn’t bet on you actually investigating it because chiropractors are so beneath your dignity.

https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/11/22/side-effects-emergency-room/ Pharmaceutical side effects are getting to be almost a majority of ER visits now. In favor of genetic medicines to correct those issues, but diabetes, cardio, kidney, and hypertension can have natural based curses that most MDs reject because they don’t want to be sued because the patient won’t follow a strict routine. My evidence is life experience. Many doctors reject Jesus too because there isn’t enough evidence.

The B1G could be at 10 in a several years. https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/hockey/2732170-A-look-at-Big-Ten-Hockey-Part-3-Which-school-is-next-to-join

So the huge fraction of emergency room visits due to pharmaceutical side effects is perfectly ok by you? The AMA is so beholden and bought by the pharmaceutical industry and the main food processors to make Americans take artificial stuff that makes them deathly ill. That’s the reason the places like Whole Foods and other natural groceries are seeing such growth. Hippocrates said “Let thy food be you medicine and medicine be your food”. You must disagree totally on that. Old time MDs used to have a bag with herbs and other stuff on their house visits. Guess they were just quacks. Just in a grocery store and the soft drinks and other junk food were loaded up on customer carts would make anyone sick or hyperactive. Most of what you have with written is hogwash but protects corporate interests and the medical profession.

UAF released a statement that there may be more DI teams out west in the near future. Maybe the WCHA will become truly Western. https://alaskananooks.com/news/2019/6/28/mens-ice-hockey-statement-from-uaf-chancellor-dan-white-regarding-potential-member-withdrawls-from-wcha.aspx

Apparently, none of the Alaska schools or UAH were informed of this announcement before it happened. The timing of it just before the 4th of July week minimizes awareness among the public. UAA announced more recruits yesterday.

Sanford Health is merging with a slightly smaller Iowa based healthcare company: UnityPoint Health. https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2019/06/28/sanford-health-announces-massive-merger-plan-unitypoint-health-iowa-south-dakota/1588506001/ Sanford had a goal to buy Twin Cities hospitals, but that apparently feel through.

For the sake of Alaskan college hockey, could the NCHC take in one, and the other new league take the other. Don’t think this will happen, but the WCHA and CCHA divided them up to save them when those leagues were more flush. Arizona St would be the 10th NCHC school.

The seven schools that will leave the WCHA will get a new autobid, because they have enough continuity to qualify for it. But the old WCHA can maintain its autobid for two years if Arizona St joins. Dropping below four teams would extinguish it but getting at least six teams by 2023 would keep it alive.

UAA announced last month a move from the off campus arena of 6000 to an on campus arena of 800. That does not portend a healthy situation in a state that’s been cutting for more than a decade. https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2019/05/29_Anchorage-Moving-Home-Games.php