I am 90% sure this will not be called the ECAC West next season.
Do you think yesterday's announcement that Plattsburgh will be adding women's LAX (making all 10 SUNYAC members particpants) could be part of a larger negotiation where the women's hockey schools add a sport they're missing and some combo of Genny, Freddy and Brockport add Women's Ice Hockey? It was a thought that occurred to me when I saw the news but I could be reading too much into it.
Do you think yesterday's announcement that Plattsburgh will be adding women's LAX (making all 10 SUNYAC members particpants) could be part of a larger negotiation where the women's hockey schools add a sport they're missing and some combo of Genny, Freddy and Brockport add Women's Ice Hockey? It was a thought that occurred to me when I saw the news but I could be reading too much into it.
You're reading way too much into it.
Besides, why would Genny, Freddy, or Brockport give a hoot that Plattsburgh is adding women's lax? Each school has their own budget to worry about. They don't care what other schools do.
Russell Jaslow
[Former] SUNYAC Correspondent
U.S. College Hockey Online
Besides, why would Genny, Freddy, or Brockport give a hoot that Plattsburgh is adding women's lax? Each school has their own budget to worry about. They don't care what other schools do.
My thinking was they were coordinating adding programs to various sports within the SUNYAC to strengthen the SUNYAC as a whole...of course the first and immediate flaw in that thought process is how does adding 1 program to a 9 conference sport "strengthen" it other than even scheduling? Just me getting my hopes up for a a seven team SUNYAC WIH conference...
My thinking was they were coordinating adding programs to various sports within the SUNYAC to strengthen the SUNYAC as a whole...of course the first and immediate flaw in that thought process is how does adding 1 program to a 9 conference sport "strengthen" it other than even scheduling? Just me getting my hopes up for a a seven team SUNYAC WIH conference...
Not really that far fetched to me. Maybe 'coordinating' is too strong but given the group's common interests I'm sure they share ideas and over time this would tend to occur naturally
Re: D3 2017 Offseason Thread: Coaching, Conferences, Etc.
From the linked article;
"Upon its launch next season, the league will feature ten full members for men, and nine for women. Elmira, Utica, Hobart and William Smith, King's, Lebanon Valley, Manhattanville, Chatham, Neumann, and Stevenson will place both men's and women's entries into the league's inaugural season, while Nazareth will field a men's team exclusively.
Each league will gain an additional full member in year two when the newly created men's and women's programs at Wilkes University will play an abbreviated UCHC schedule in their inaugural 2017-18 season before assuming full-fledged conference membership with a complete league schedule in 2018-19."
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