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An alternate view: UConn to B1G 2016 via hockey affiliation

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B1GOSU said:
The same wave of realignment we saw in hockey with the B1G happened in men's and women's lacrosse when the B1G added those sports.


B1G Men's Ice Hockey:
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Notre Dame (joins July 1, 2017)
Ohio State
Penn State
Wisconsin

B1G Men's Lacrosse:
Johns Hopkins
Maryland
Michigan
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers

B1G Women's Lacrosse:
Johns Hopkins (joins July 1, 2016)
Maryland
Michigan
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers
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What happens to schools like JHU and UND if the B1G ever expanded with a school that have those 3 sports...or had a member school(s) add those 3 sports?
 
B1GOSU said:
The same wave of realignment we saw in hockey with the B1G happened in men's and women's lacrosse when the B1G added those sports.


B1G Men's Ice Hockey:
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Notre Dame (joins July 1, 2017)
Ohio State
Penn State
Wisconsin

B1G Men's Lacrosse:
Johns Hopkins
Maryland
Michigan
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers

B1G Women's Lacrosse:
Johns Hopkins (joins July 1, 2016)
Maryland
Michigan
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers
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UConn has a women's lax team that is an affiliate member of a different lax conference because the AAC doesn't sponsor lax. Just sayin'...
 
FDNY99 said:
What happens to schools like JHU and UND if the B1G ever expanded with a school that have those 3 sports...or had a member school(s) add those 3 sports?
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If the schools are good and making the conference money, they stay.

If they are bad then they get the boot. See Temple/Big East Football circa 2004 and UMass/MAC Football 2013.
 
FDNY99 said:
What happens to schools like JHU and UND if the B1G ever expanded with a school that have those 3 sports...or had a member school(s) add those 3 sports?
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The B1G has never asked a university to withdraw from the conference, and I highly doubt that they would do so in the future. Besides, the more the merrier.
 
FDNY99 said:
What happens to schools like JHU and UND if the B1G ever expanded with a school that have those 3 sports...or had a member school(s) add those 3 sports?
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I don't think future expansion will have any harm on affiliate memberships for JHU and UND. First, hockey and lacrosse are niche sports. If you look at all the schools the B1G could possibly add, very few offer either sport and even fewer offer both. Second, lacrosse and hockey have the fewest number of participating schools in the B1G. Let's say a current B1G school adds hockey or lacrosse in the coming decade. Well, hockey only has 7 (with Notre Dame) and lacrosse only has 6 (7 for women with the JHU addition). Those are still fairly small numbers. It would be easy to expand and still play a round robin schedule. And if the sports ever grew so much in the conference that it would be impossible to play a round robin schedule, the B1G already has some Olympic sports where teams go a full season without playing each other (ex. baseball, softball, women's soccer). Maybe you just get to the point where you don't play a full round robin schedule in lacrosse or instead of a home series and an away series in hockey, you only play a team home OR away. I don't think those sports will ever grow to that point, but that is the easy solution if they do. I honestly don't see any B1G schools adding lacrosse or hockey anytime in the foreseeable future. And most of the realistic expansion targets for the B1G outside of Notre Dame or UConn would all be schools in a region where hockey isn't played and outside of the 4 ACC schools, a region where lacrosse isn't played. I don't see Kansas, Oklahoma or Texas playing hockey or lacrosse anytime soon. Same goes for Georgia Tech or any southern school outside of Virginia or North Carolina.

Finally, its important to realize that no one has ever left the B1G once a member of the conference except for Chicago who left D1 sports all together. Once you are in, you are in.
 
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B1GOSU said:
I don't think future expansion will have any harm on affiliate memberships for JHU and UND. First, hockey and lacrosse are niche sports. If you look at all the schools the B1G could possibly add, very few offer either sport and even fewer offer both. Second, lacrosse and hockey have the fewest number of participating schools in the B1G. Let's say a current B1G school adds hockey or lacrosse in the coming decade. Well, hockey only has 7 (with Notre Dame) and lacrosse only has 6 (7 for women with the JHU addition). Those are still fairly small numbers. It would be easy to expand and still play a round robin schedule. And if the sports ever grew so much in the conference that it would be impossible to play a round robin schedule, the B1G already has some Olympic sports where teams go a full season without playing each other (ex. baseball, softball, women's soccer). Maybe you just get to the point where you don't play a full round robin schedule in lacrosse or instead of a home series and an away series in hockey, you only play a team home OR away. I don't think those sports will ever grow to that point, but that is the easy solution if they do. I honestly don't see any B1G schools adding lacrosse or hockey anytime in the foreseeable future. And most of the realistic expansion targets for the B1G outside of Notre Dame or UConn would all be schools in a region where hockey isn't played and outside of the 4 ACC schools, a region where lacrosse isn't played. I don't see Kansas, Oklahoma or Texas playing hockey or lacrosse anytime soon. Same goes for Georgia Tech or any southern school outside of Virginia or North Carolina.

Finally, its important to realize that no one has ever left the B1G once a member of the conference except for Chicago who left D1 sports all together. Once you are in, you are in.
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Thanks...
 
Rappin'Rodney said:
The B1G has never asked a university to withdraw from the conference, and I highly doubt that they would do so in the future. Besides, the more the merrier.
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The B1G has also only lost one member ever and that was in 1946.
 
NYUConn said:
The B1G has also only lost one member ever and that was in 1946.
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Technically, that's not correct. Michigan was voted out in 1908. Apparently they wouldn't "adhere to the conferences rules." They were brought back in 1917. Since then, the only member that has left was the University of Chicago in 1946. They are still associated with the Big10 as a member of the CiC.
 
Waquoit said:
What does moving hockey to the B1G do for UConn, besides nothing?
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If B1G wanted just a hockey program , they would invite Quinnipiac . Bobcats ranked #1 in country. First rate facility to boot.
 
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