mnpuckmaster wrote:Cabela10 wrote:Smart guy, it shouldn't be this way. Hastings use to play in a conference with the east dakota teams, ssp, simley, sibley, st. thomas and washington teams, woodbury, cottage grove. Why should they have to drive so far to play there games now? Why should anybody? Section play, sure, but not conference play, Why do you think the Big Ten is all in one region of the country, same with all other conferences. Keep it local.[/quote]SEMinnHockeyNut wrote:do you realize how far of a drive that is? About an 45 minutes to an hour with traffic.
OH NO! Not an hour drive! What will they do?
Obviously this guy has no idea how far other teams currently travel for conference games.
Right, just like Minnesota and Penn State...
Conference changes????
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WAC: Boise State - Louisiana TechCabela10 wrote:Wow, good job. You found one team out of about 12 that is far from all other big ten schools. But atleast the NCAA keeps conferences local for the most part, to each region of the country. It's easier to keep conference teams close in a metro area and it saves the school overall money on bus trips.
Big East: University of S. Florida - St. John's (NY) - Marquette (Wisc.)
Sorry, there's a web site with maps ...
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thestickler07
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Ya its East Ridge, splitting its students from Park and Woodbury equally supposedly. I'm not sure if they drew up any in district transfer rules though, but I would guess students will have to go where they are assigned for probably a decade or so for things to get relatively stable population wise.
Travel isn't an issue when you have a multimillion dollar athletics budget and are a NCAA DI school. High schools have smaller transportation budgets, period, and we should make reasonable accommodations to make them as manageable as possible. Personally, if I were Hastings, I wouldn't be complaining about a 30-45 minute ride to most of your conference opponents. Try going up north, Warroad to TRF? Snuggle in for the 2+ hour bus ride. Oh, and you better believe its gonna be bittersweet for Buffalo if they beat tech in the first round, 5 hours and 20 minutes up to the little ralph to get wiped by roseau and then another 288 miles back.
moral of the story, someone always has it worse, usually its the north. metro fans should be counting our blessings that we dont have to travel over really more than a hour for virtually any conference/section game that could happen. don't like like something, complain to the mshsl, they might get around to "fixing" it... (probably not though)
Travel isn't an issue when you have a multimillion dollar athletics budget and are a NCAA DI school. High schools have smaller transportation budgets, period, and we should make reasonable accommodations to make them as manageable as possible. Personally, if I were Hastings, I wouldn't be complaining about a 30-45 minute ride to most of your conference opponents. Try going up north, Warroad to TRF? Snuggle in for the 2+ hour bus ride. Oh, and you better believe its gonna be bittersweet for Buffalo if they beat tech in the first round, 5 hours and 20 minutes up to the little ralph to get wiped by roseau and then another 288 miles back.
moral of the story, someone always has it worse, usually its the north. metro fans should be counting our blessings that we dont have to travel over really more than a hour for virtually any conference/section game that could happen. don't like like something, complain to the mshsl, they might get around to "fixing" it... (probably not though)
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mnhockey30
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mnhockey30 wrote:Is it just me or would that catholic conference be insane for hockey or is that just me
I'd love to see it. They could put DeLaSalle in it for other sports as well, and for good measure, let Lourdes and/or Cathedral play in hockey only.
and if the school continues to grow, five or six years down the road, Holy Family Catholic as well.
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hockeydad wrote:mnhockey30 wrote:Is it just me or would that catholic conference be insane for hockey or is that just me
I'd love to see it. They could put DeLaSalle in it for other sports as well, and for good measure, let Lourdes and/or Cathedral play in hockey only.
and if the school continues to grow, five or six years down the road, Holy Family Catholic as well.
Totino
AHA
BSM
CDH
STA/Vis
HM
Add St. Agnes, Providence Academy, Holy Family, and Minnehaha (not sure if they're catholic?).
Cretin vs. St. Agnes under the Friday Night Lights?
