Bison_Kent Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Since the Sioux season is over, I thought I would bring up a new topic in the hockey world. In searching through the Big Sky schools, I found that Weber State, along with Colorado State, BYU, Utah, Arizona, and Arizona State are starting a new western hockey league next year. Here is a link to the Weber State site stating this. http://bigskyconference.community.everyone.net and go to Weber State and then Weber Hockey Moving Up. Any one else heard of this happening and what the waiting period for an automatic bid is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatspin7 Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Sounds interesting... I should be a few years before they have any auto-bids, but it will be a while before they could get the calibre up to a point where they can compete with even the likes of CHA teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MavsFan Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Representatives from Arizona State, BYU, the University of Utah and Weber State met in Salt Lake City to form Hockey West, a Division I league of the American Collegiate Hockey Association. The American Collegiate Hockey Association is a club hockey league. Mankato has an ACHA team as well as the NCAA D-I club. Believe me, there is no comparison. There are some schools that do pretty well playing ACHA hockey (Penn State and Iowa State come to mind) but it is still a huge step up to NCAA hockey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatspin7 Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Oh.. I thought they were going to start a new NCAA conference. Over time most those schools may be able to mount a decent program. The Arizona schools might have issues due to the lack of local talent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fighting Sioux Fan Posted March 31, 2003 Share Posted March 31, 2003 Too bad it is a club conference. It would be nice to see more D1 NCAA teams, but these are club teams. They wouldn't stand a chance against an NCAA D1 team... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sicatoka Posted March 31, 2003 Share Posted March 31, 2003 As has been stated many times already, that is a new DI ACHA league, not NCAA. NDSU played in the ACHA before they dropped club hockey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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