Cady: Too early to tell how PSU program might affect CCHA

Here is an interesting idea thrown out there by Miami University senior associate athletics director Steve Cady. I kind of like this idea myself, It would be a scheduling nightmare, but it would be doable.

Daytondailynews.com -- Which begs the obvious question: After that, which conference will Penn State join?

“It’s certainly going to create speculation,” Cady said. “The good thing is that there is going to be three years to figure it out.”

He doesn’t like to speculate, even a little bit, but when asked about the possibility of Penn State joining fellow Big Ten Conference teams Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association — the Big Ten doesn’t have a hockey conference, yet — he was only a little hopeful.

“Yes, it would be tremendous for the CCHA,” Cady said of the conference in which Miami competes. “I don’t know if that’s going to happen.

“If you look at the history of the Big Ten once they get six teams (in any NCAA sport), they try to bring those six teams under their Big Ten umbrella,” he explained.

There are a couple other possibilities.

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association, another major hockey conference which has two Big Ten schools, Minnesota and Wisconsin, could merge with the CCHA into a mega-conference and bring all the Big Ten schools together.

One thing that I have seen mentioned on the internet is that you could combine the teams into a "SUPER" conference and then you could have four six team divisions.