2010-11 Divisional Changes?

[NUHockey72]

Looks this year's divisional application was intended to place teams in the appropriate divisions based on Section IV. B. ii/b of the League Operations Manual, due to the plethora of teams in Division II last year. Does anyone knows if there's been any responses or rejections to anyone's application yet?

I can't see many people being pleased with the league if we see West Chester Univ., Neumann Univ., SUNY Brockport, Missouri St., Grand Valley St. , UCSD and U of Tampa all return save for financial trouble. what teams "promotions" to DI would it take for you to believe that the enforcement of the LOM worked? Or what non-promotions would convince you it hasn't?

[GoRangrHky]

http://ecrha.net/standings.php?seaso..._division_id=1

You tell me...

[NUHockey72]

I would say so. No Brockport or Temple in either division though?

[hockey1]

I would say so. No Brockport or Temple in either division though?

Temple will be playing D1.

[GoRangrHky]

Good for them. Every game they lost last year (save one against BU) was against one of the supposed "elite" 4 of the ECRHA. And they beat Neumann during the season. Here's to them being competitive next year and proving that middle of the pack teams can make the move.

[NUHockey72]

I think this might actually make for one of the most exciting seasons in the ECRHA in a long time, and quite possibly the entire nation if the rest of the NCRHA restructures their divisions along the same lines. To be honest regionals this year will most likely be a toss up since just about any of these teams in DII or DI can compete with each other.

[TUcoach]

I got word last night that Brockport will also be in DI this season.

[FWKRTJ]

Purdue, Grand Valley St. and Cincinnati all moved up to D1 in the MCRHL.

DePaul (moved up from D3), Schoolcraft (moved up from D3), Western Michigan (dropped from D1) and Wayne State (Expansion) all joined D2 for the MCRHL.

[catch]

From my perspective (Missouri State) I am not personally shocked nor opposed to moving up. However, we appealed the move to Division I for various reasons. If the placement in various divisions I am seeing on each leagues website is reflective of moving up or down, then we were moved up within days of our appeal, but never notified. That would be akin to finding out you were being found guilty before your trial, but you get the trial and the right to pay your lawyer anyway. I would hope this is not the case, if an appeal is this futile then just eliminate the process, "enforce" the rule and call yourselves a club sport dictatorship.

[FudgeMan]

Tell me how Tampa stayed down. They have matching equipment already. They have traveled to St. Louis the past two years before nationals. There is no excuse for this. If you force other teams to move to division 1 that requested division 2, then the standard should be nation wide. The league needs to set standards for each division and stick with them. The competition of all leagues will struggle because of these poor decisions. Also, don't go pinning down a team for these post. I am alumni now and what you did last year when I posted a comment about the scheduling was uncalled for.

[MBurke]

Tell me how Tampa stayed down. They have matching equipment already. They have traveled to St. Louis the past two years before nationals. There is no excuse for this. If you force other teams to move to division 1 that requested division 2, then the standard should be nation wide. The league needs to set standards for each division and stick with them. The competition of all leagues will struggle because of these poor decisions. Also, don't go pinning down a team for these post. I am alumni now and what you did last year when I posted a comment about the scheduling was uncalled for.

Not all of the regions have updated the divisions of their teams yet based on applications and appeals. Don't take what's on the website as final.

[hockeykid12]

so tampa will be moving up then?

[catch]

There is now a caveat on the Sotheastern league website which may imply appeals are pending. However, at least with respect to our team, we appear to be moved with no reply to our appeal, whereas the teams in the West appear to have remained in Division II. This is really a poor process, particularly to have votes cast as to where you play from people from other regions. People from different regions have no idea how their actions/votes are going to impact programs short or long term, they only envision what they think works best for nationals. Hockey can survive without nationals, it cannot survive without regions. Perhaps there should simply be separate regions and if people want to play a nationals at the end of the year a tournament can be put together. i don't see that the national conference has effectuated anything to improve our league or program

[hockeykid12]

tampa is a team that like others particularly in the east, should have their bid to remain in D2 be automatically denied which the east has basically done and said team a,b,c are going to D1 even with an appeal

[Chapwi]

There is no way tampa should stay down with the rest of the competitive D2 teams making the jump. And if the do try, they should be denied.