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Subject: Re: 4-0 on European Trip...

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CHC8485

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Date Posted: 12:48:18 07/12/05 Tue
In reply to: Go Bison! 's message, "4-0 on European Trip..." on 01:11:30 06/03/05 Fri

Dan - Yes, the PL does insane things, sometimes more often than not.
Welcome to the pain & frustration HC fans have experienced for the last 5 years.

KenZ - I know you to be a reliable, well informed poster and I hope you're right, but the only way it happens is if more than BU is involved from the PL. The only glimmer of hope I see is that in the PL announcement of the new league schedule there is a reference that the schedule changes

"... would also provide the League with greater flexibility to accommodate television opportunities, and other needs that may arise."

Also, keep in mind, that there is a potential impact to the women's schedule too, albeit slight, in that you will lose one of the weekend doubleheaders that was supposed to be one of the benefits the revised schedule.

Finally, see below a couple of items from Andy Katz on ESPN.com posted in mid May of this year regarding the Bracket Buster for 2006. Note that the PL is not one of the 13 conferences involved in the discussions he references.

May 17
� ESPN and 13 conference commissioners will meet Tuesday at Chicago's O'Hare Airport to discuss the future of the Bracket Buster event. Equity issues with the event (who should be home and away) will be broached. The commissioners expected to attend are from the WAC, MAC, Horizon, Missouri Valley, OVC, MAAC, Southern, CAA, Sun Belt, Big West, Big Sky, America East and Mid-Continent.

May 23
� "Commissioners from 13 mostly low- and mid-major conferences met in Chicago last week about the future of the Bracket Buster Event on ESPN's family of networks. No final decisions were made except that the field will include more teams from each conference. The goal is still to put the best 20 teams (in 10 games) on ESPN's networks, with each matching two mid-level bubble teams in late February. The non-TV games are scheduled between the other conferences. Conferences want more of their membership in the event, to ease conference scheduling. This allows everyone to have an open weekend date for the Bracket Buster.

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KenZ
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Date Posted: 15:15:43 07/12/05 Tue

i think both HC and Lehigh are worthy of bracketbuster invites as well, but suspect that at best BU and HC will be invited this year. i appreciate the info you posted as i had not seen it previously. the logical inferences reading these items would not bode well for Bucknell. however, since these were dated earlier than the info indicating that it is still possible, i will continue to hang on to a glimmer of hope and concoct my own theory that the 13 conferences were those with broader invites and a one-off team here or there might still get an invite.

on a brighter note, i am confident in the PLs continued ascent in the conference rankings, and will hope that this will translate to the PL being on the auto invite list within a few years.