#MACtion

Thanks. We'll see. The NCHC is a meat grinder.

And there are always rumors of Buffalo joining hockey. So a MAC hockey league in that scenario doesn't sound too bad: UMASS, NODAK, Miami, WMU, BGSU, Buffalo, Arizona St., Denver, CC, Omaha, St. Cloud, Minny-D, etc sounds OK to me.

I know y'all would probably first prefer The Summit League and Fenton (A Miami guy) would be great, but the MAC as an FBS league with ESPN might work better.

College sports are changing. NIT just announced that the D1 Conference winners no longer get an auto-bid and the Top2 P6 winners get auto-bids and host. There is some separation coming and new stuff about to happen. Our AD thinks that there will be no longer any 1-sport conferences and if that happens in the future then NCHC will have to fold into the Summit League or the MAC. If it fold into the MAC then at least BGSU will have to join and we will all be under the new ESPN contract we are negotiating which may include UMASS and U of Delaware. Who knows? Hockey East will fold into ECAC.

Miami ties in OT new NCHC member Arizona State and goes 1-0-1 on the weekend. We are now 4-1-1. Not the best start, but hoping for a decent season. And BTW, Congrats on your football win vs NDSU! Love it.

Adding Bowling Green wouldn't be bad at all. They take their hockey serious. The MAC hockey is kinda of a strange crew to y'all I suppose, because we still like our #MACtion football and spend more money and focus their first. Hockey and Basketball are pretty much tied.... I just know BG fans are super pissed that Western and Miami are not in the same conference as them and I don't care one bit. Just giving y'all some background and context. We all go through cycles and I think Miami will be stronger soon with Berg... We were always a bit better than Western in the CCHA, so if Western can stay strong in the NCHC, then there is no reason Miami won't be back... at least Miami won an NCHC Tourney Championship that WMU has never done.

LOL, OK, I'll look to redirect my efforts of stirring the pot over there...

What gets y'all fired up? Snow? Mascot changes? Making fun of South Dakotans? North Dakota Football?

Man, this board is slow.... expected more from the NoDak crowd....

BG might be the olive branch for bringing in Arizona State.

No, not leaving the MAC ever for the Summit League. He meant if the one-sport conferences need more representation from an all-sports conference (like the recruiting rule deal the B10 tried to pull) and the Summit League sponsors hockey, Miami could join as a hockey affiliate member only. Plan B would be MAC sponsored hockey and some kind of combination of Miami, WMU, BG, Ferris State, U of Alabama-Huntsville (who says they have the money to restart, just need a conference and is actually a closer bus ride from Miami and BG then any UPer Peninsula Michigan Teams. Basically in Plan B or C, The Summit (NCHC) and MAC would divide up the CCHA and there would be Summit League, MAC, and Big Ten hockey and whatever Hockey East would end up doing (Big East?) But more likely, Miami and WMU stays in the NCHC and the current commish becomes the "Associate Summit League Commish" and NCHC just gets a Summit League sticker slapped on rebranded as such.

I have no idea how we lost that game. We completely blew it at the end.

Miami vs Western Michigan: Miami 16 MAC football championships vs WMU 4 Miami 17 NCAA basketball tourney appearances vs WMU 4 Both schools founded the #MACtion in 1947 USNews has Miami (always) rated so much higher than WMU Miami has a more storied Hockey resume as well. No reason to worry this recent Miami Hockey period is nothing more than a slump that isn't usual. Remember the "Why Western?" slogan? They knew they were the odd-man out.

SiouxSports just gave me my "collaborators badge"... kinda feeling special around this board now!

At somepoint, Coach B gets Miami Hockey back in the mix. We know Western Michigan well and no reason we should not be equivalent or better. We share the same region, recruit the same area, and quite frankly have the better school and facilities. We were better in the CCHA, and we are similar or better in the #MACtion. Trends eventually regress to their means.