Is there a bigger moron that Bruce McLeod?

In this weeks verison of Goon's bash the WCHA braintrust; I saw this story on Western College Hockey, Sixty Minutes. No Alibis. No Regrets and Todd D. Milewski's blog the WCHA with their great forethought and wisdom has decided that Wisconsin and Minnesota will not have a conference game at Camp Randall because the league doesn't want control of one of its games transferred to an outside entity, which would have taken place with the proposed Bob Johnson-Herb Brooks Hockey Classic. Yeah not that the WCHA has ever lost control of a game, I can think of a couple of instances where they totally screwed up. By the way league fans are still waiting an announcement by the league office on Randy Schmidt's status for next season.

I think the league office which already is suffering from a credibility issues needs to re-think it's latest decision. Also, if McLeod thinks the WCHA leadership got beat up unfairly last season they are not starting off on the right foot this season.

This latest silly move by the league office has led me to ask the question; what is wrong with these people? My next question is; how do the league member school go about getting rid of league commissioner Bruce M. McLeod and the rest of the WCHA leadership? It is my conclusion that the WCHA leadership is directly responsible for the mess that WCHA is currently in and it is time for these clowns to go. Enough is enough. It is time for a regime change because Bruce Mcleod and Greg Sheppard are holding the league back.

If Camp Randall Stadium hosts a college hockey game as one group has proposed, it won't be a conference game and it won't be in the coming season.

Representatives from the Herb Brooks Foundation approached the University of Wisconsin and University of Minnesota about producing an outdoor game on Jan. 24, 2009, at the 80,321-seat football stadium in Madison, but those talks have stalled after the Western Collegiate Hockey Association balked at the proposal.

Commissioner Bruce McLeod sent a letter to both schools indicating that the league doesn't want control of one of its games transferred to an outside entity, which would have taken place with the proposed Bob Johnson-Herb Brooks Hockey Classic.

That ruling all but eliminated the possibility of the teams playing the outdoor game in the 2008-09 season because both teams' schedules are at capacity under NCAA rules. There are exemptions to the number of games a team can play, but those are already used for the coming season.

The Herb Brooks Foundation is putting together an effort to attain an exemption for its game through the NCAA in time for the 2009-10 season, but executive director Skip Peltier admits that will be tough because the NCAA is trying to reduce exemptions. The foundation also is looking into the possibility of partnering with the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, which has an exempt game every season.

If the group can gain an exemption, it's believed that Madison would be the first location for the group's outdoor game, with a return contest at Minnesota's under-construction TCF Bank Stadium the following season.

McLeod said the league is reluctant to let a WCHA game get into somebody else's hands.

"If they want to take an exempted game or something like that, we'll cooperate and do what we can," he said. "But with a regular-season game and somebody else running it, and you know how those points go -- especially Wisconsin the last few years -- that can be critical. So we're quite concerned about the circumstances under which these games are played."

The Badgers were one point out of a home-ice playoff spot last season and two points out in the 2006-07 season.