NoDak
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RE: Finances of going D1 in hockey?
(07-24-2013 11:47 AM)BruceMcF Wrote: (07-24-2013 01:19 AM)NoDak Wrote: With a decent community arena and a decent fan base for ticket sales, starting a program at a northern urban should really be only a $3 or $4 million initial proposition. Title IX is often the killer, as women's hockey rarely brings in sponsorship or ticket sales.
That suggests it may be a lower lower hurdle for a Div2 or a non-FB subdivision Div1 school (either of which can compete in Div1 ice hockey, which is reality a joint Div1/Div2 affair), as they are more likely to have female sports that they can start up that are cheaper in training and travel costs than ice hockey.
Agree with that for the most part. An FBS school starting hockey doesn't really want to hang with DII schools, so conference opportunities (and higher travel costs and coaching costs) are more problematic. Women's lacrosse is a cheaper but more viable Title IX option. Syracuse and Lindenwood are the only schools that have gone DI with women's hockey, but not men's hockey.
In the west and midwest, travel is an issue for any new team, as the opportunities are either in the NCHC (Colo-ND-Mn-Ne-Oh-Mi) or WCHA (Alaska-Minn-Upper Mich-Lower Mich-Ohio-Alabama). Moorhead would have been a WCHA team. If a new Lake Erie-based league formed from certain WCHA and Atlantic Hockey teams, that would really cut costs for potential new teams in that region.
(This post was last modified: 07-24-2013 02:19 PM by NoDak.)
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Finances of going D1 in hockey?
I've never heard any rumblings from Kentucky or Louisville (actually been to some of the club team's games in Lexington), but both have access to arenas that need dates.
Title IX would require both men's and women's teams at both schools, especially since Louisville is also pretty deep into the NCAA catalog. The women would play in College Hockey America or the WCHA. The men would be in the WCHA or NCHC.
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