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B1G hockey has only 6 teams
3 were in 1 conference
2 were in another conference
1 was a D III level team until last year

These are the facts!

Which is what I said, all the teams in new BIG have had D1 for decades, and most of them played in the same league.

And Penn St was a club team, not a DIII team.

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6 does not equal 14 as your infer!

What the hell are you talking about? What have I ever said about 14 teams, you frickin' weirdo.

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Incorrect, 4 is all you need by ACC bylaw, and the B1G only has 6! Right now they have 4 and can double that with existing club teams.

Syracuse = NY (a hockey state)
Pittsburgh = PA (a hockey state)
Notre Dame = IN, IL, and NY (hockey states)
Boston College = MA (hockey state)

Again, what the hell are you talking about.

Syracuse and Pitt don't have programs, it would require starting new programs.

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Posted by Cheese Grits

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Posted on 4/2/14 at 9:08 pm to Sleeping Tiger

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Syracuse LINK and Pitt LINK don't have programs

Looks like they do to me

As for attendance :

1 B1G Minnesota 11,553
2 North Dakota 11,338
3 B1G Wisconsin 10,478
4 Colorado College 6,420
5 Nebraska-Omaha 6,331
6 Minnesota-Duluth 6,183
7 ACC Boston College 6,116
8 B1G Penn State 6,011
9 B1G Michigan 5,582
10 Michigan State 5,392
11 Denver 5,137
12 Massachusetts-Lowell 5,047
13 New Hampshire 4,992
14 ACC Notre Dame 4,816
15 B1G Ohio State 4,576
16 St. Cloud State 4,501
17 Boston University 4,112
18 Maine 4,092
19 Cornell 4,088
20 Massachusetts 3,891

Looking at attendance baseball and women's basketball draw better crowds. The issue is cost of production vs TV fill time in the time between football seasons. If the BTN is showing 6 hockey teams they are betting they will make more than it costs to produce, hence they make money. If the BTN uses the B1G then sooner or later ESPN will use the ACC to match product air time. BTN hockey = Coke, so ACC hockey = Pepsi. Coke has Dasani and Pepsi has Aquafina. As 1 develops a product line, so does the other to not lose shelf space.

You may know the game, but you don't know jack sh*t about markets and marketing.

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