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Alabama Huntsville dropping men’s ice hockey effective immediately

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Bowling Green, Ohio is 564 miles from Huntsville, Al....about 60 miles farther away than New York from Raleigh.
 
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Sad to see but this was always a tough fit I think. You could almost see it working in Charlotte or Atlanta or someplace. It would still be a stretch but with better access and a bigger base. But Huntsville Alabama is a tough sell. I was told they started the program when a bunch of northerners came there to work for NASA but in recent years it has struggled
 

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The idea behind the program was why have the state's 400th football team when you can have THE hockey team. It made sense. But the landscape changed under them.
 
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They have been around for a while I know at the D2 level where they were actually pretty successful and then in the former CHA with Niagara, Bimidji Air Force among others. They made 2 NCAA appearances in the early 2000s I think before that league broke up. But they absolutely struggled in recent years. Really difficult to assemble a reasonable schedule when nobody is nearby. ASU can pull it off because it’s ASU, at least for a while. Huntsville isn’t a major public university that has a national profile in athletics.
 
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Bowling Green, Ohio is 564 miles from Huntsville, Al....about 60 miles farther away than New York from Raleigh.
Yeah, and Huntsville's anywhere from 650 to 1,000 miles away from most of the conference. Somehow, UConn has some insights on somewgat related distant AAC travel and financial obstacles.
 

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