MSUM may never have a chance like this again.
The 2013-14 school year looks to be the time when the music stops on this conference musical chairs.
That’s the year when the University of North Dakota, Colorado College, Denver, Minnesota-Duluth and Nebraska-Omaha leave the Western Collegiate Hockey Association for a newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference. That same year, Minnesota and Wisconsin are also leaving the WCHA for a newly formed Big Ten hockey conference.
That means the WCHA and the Central Collegiate Hockey Association will both be looking to fortify their leagues with teams, maybe even start-up teams, if both conferences survive the shakeup.
MSUM already has some solid ties with WCHA schools like St. Cloud State, Minnesota State Mankato and Bemidji State, because those three schools are affiliated with the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (like MSUM) in their sports other than hockey.
The real million dollar question for the Dragons is do they have the millions (educated guess: $30-40 million) to launch a self-sufficient hockey program.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
The time for MSUM to move on hockey is now?
Image via WikipediaEric Peterson from the Fargo Forum has this article on his blog Peterson's Perceptions today. I honestly don't see MSU Moorhead having a suscessful Division I hockey program, this is a schools that can't even field a successful football program in the NSIC. I would be very surprised if this happened.