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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4525755, member: 1023"] Nope. You dont decide mid season that team x counts and team y doesnt count. Why not just decide Michigan doesn’t count now, you know, just because. As to scheduling LIU, it is part of growing the game. Over our early years, i remember games against Maine, UNH, Michigan where we looked like it was a hockey team vs 6 orange cones. I remember QU having similar challenges. Those games counted. And I dare say both programs are legit now. You can’t not schedule new teams. And don’t get me started on PWR. I hate giving bids based on a computer program. I’d go with a variation on the “old” pre expansion system. Give each league 3 bids and let them decide how to deal them out over pseudo-science. Make any leftovers at-large. I don’t know where they are right now but Norte Dame was the poster child for the silliness of this system. Had a losing record and were like 12 in PWR. Because they played a really difficult schedule. Win some friggin’ hockey games. People love sos as a factor but it is only meaningful on the margin. And for the most part it is totally uncontrollable. It is one of those things that sounds good but is really pretty meaningless. And is completely out of your control. You are in a league, you must play x league games. Nothing UConn can do to make Maine good or bad. [/QUOTE]