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From: newman@bgsuvax.UUCP (Tim Newman)
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Subject: Re: NCAA hockey champs, predictions
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Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 13:30:49 EST
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>>Michigan has won more national championships than any other school

Sure, Michigan won those titles while they played first in the WIHA and then
in the WCHA.  But the fact remains that they DID win them.
This just goes to show that my thesis of the conference being the
conference of champions is indeed correct.  A conference is only the
the sum of its schools, and I really am flabbergasted that someone
could run down an entire conference when the schools DO have
a great tradition of excellence.  Why you attack my example of Michigan is
beyond me because it seems that the addition of a school with a great hockey
tradition would strengthen a conference and definitely make it a bona fide
conference.  

	Instead of running down the CCHA, why not run down the Eastern teams?
Last year they sent no teams to the Final Four, and the CCHA has won more
titles in the last five years than have the Eastern teams.  Yet I will not
run down those leagues, because they ARE decent conferences.

	The remaining people out there in netland should not be fooled by
those who would downgrade the CCHA.  The conference is a good field of teams
with as much tradition, fan support, and general excellence as any other
group of teams in the country.

					Of course,
					Tim Newman