Big Ten Looking at Notre Dame?
by WCHBlog on Nov 24, 2010 12:58 PM PST
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The St. Paul Pioneer Press put out an article today that quoted College Hockey Inc's Paul Kelly as saying the Big Ten has extended an invitation to Notre Dame to join a potential Big Ten Hockey Conference. Interesting. I'm listening...
But Kelly also says the Big Ten likely has no interest in adding satellite members for sports, meaning Notre Dame would have to join the Big Ten for all sports; something they have no interest in doing because they no longer field a football team. At least I think I'm remembering that correctly. Perhaps they should discuss loopholes with Minnesota. In any case, as interesting as the headline looked, it appears all the obstacles in place to keep Notre Dame out of the BTHC are still there.
But in related news, the Big Ten Hockey Conference has expressed interest in acquiring the Hope Diamond, provided, of course, that they don't have the pay the $2 billion to get it.
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Barry Alvarez
Did anyone catch Barry during first intermission of UW v UND game a couple weeks ago on FSN talking about Big Ten Hockey? He stated in the nterview he had invited the Big Ten commish to come and watch the UND series to see what it is all about, the excitement the crowd etc….
Really?? Invite the BT Commish to come see what will never happen again should you go off and create the BTHL! It just goes to show that Alvarez is, and always will be, just a jarhead football coach, not someone who should be involved in decisions that will fundamentally alter the college hockey landscape.
Big Ten
agree on Alvarez comment, but he’s a football guy, so u have to forgive his ignorance (too many concussions); irish coach has best idea on conf re-alignment; he suggested combining wcha & ccha; then splitting them up into 4 divisions of 6 each; where one could be big ten, and so on … would hurt some existing rivalries, but probably help smaller market schools financially; it would be hard to play every team twice, but if they did more showcase weekend game concepts, they’d draw more fans and allow each team two games per weekend, even if not against same opponent.
