NCAA Hockey Expansion Thread

[JMCx4]

... How's Lindenwood doing in Division I?

Well, this season they've beaten Wisconsin & Miami-Ohio & UNO. No blowout losses. So I'd say: They're making progress in Season #2.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

You going to get the “wave” going at games?

 

[Nodak651]

SO following my comment that Simon Fraser's athletic focus has long been on its football program, and that there will be an impetus to restore that program before trying to get a high level hockey team off the ground, you pointed out that their athletic department is a mess (weird, I know, because as I said earlier, they have no AD).

Simon Fraser's football team was more than just a DII team. Around students and alumni, it was an institution. Prominent business types in the lower mainland have made an issue of it. It was a topic of discussion among BC legislators and was on the 6 o'clock news for days. If the school launched an initiative to start an NCAA hockey program after having killed its football program, it would be an enormous problem.

And...... Football at SFU is officially dead. Based on the new Athletics and Recreation Strategy, the door for hockey appears to remain open, imo.

"Highlights of the new strategy include a stronger commitment to recreation programs to benefit all SFU students and efforts to encourage the SFU community to experience varsity games as part of university life.

The plan is publicly accessible and can be downloaded as a PDF file, here.

As part of the strategy review, the university confirmed that the football program will not be returning. It was announced in 2023 that the program was ending, that decision has now been made final."

 

[S E P H]

I read out there that the University of Iowa is cutting a lot of athletic funding, so don't expect a hockey team any time soon even if they have a great arena to play in.