The article: https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/bgsu/2019/06/28/bgsu-hockey-wcha-bowling-green-state-leaving-conference-new-league/stories/20190628183
On the very day the governor of Alaska announced he was using a line-item veto to remove 41% of legislature-approved college funding for the entire state system, their buddies in the WCHA (hockey being the big sport in Anchorage and Fairbanks) throw in the sucker punch.
There's a very different thread here that ended up (with way too much of my help) drifting to realignment of hockey conferences several years ago. They used to be more geographically aligned. What ended up happening- as bigger schools got in bed with each other- is that the WCHA continued to exist, but got left with primarily Division 2 schools (there's not enough schools for D-II hockey, so those schools that have it play up in D-1). Smaller barns, more travel, and really, this was probably inevitable.
Mind you, Alaska has bigger fish to fry right now. Perhaps Alan knows something about how scheduling might be affected in the GNAC with this hanging over the heads of the Alaska schools.
On the very day the governor of Alaska announced he was using a line-item veto to remove 41% of legislature-approved college funding for the entire state system, their buddies in the WCHA (hockey being the big sport in Anchorage and Fairbanks) throw in the sucker punch.
There's a very different thread here that ended up (with way too much of my help) drifting to realignment of hockey conferences several years ago. They used to be more geographically aligned. What ended up happening- as bigger schools got in bed with each other- is that the WCHA continued to exist, but got left with primarily Division 2 schools (there's not enough schools for D-II hockey, so those schools that have it play up in D-1). Smaller barns, more travel, and really, this was probably inevitable.
Mind you, Alaska has bigger fish to fry right now. Perhaps Alan knows something about how scheduling might be affected in the GNAC with this hanging over the heads of the Alaska schools.
