Interesting news from the Twin Cities today- looks like Penn State has decided to add varsity hockey to their roster of sports and as a result, Minnesota is bolting the WCHA (which it helped to found in 1952) to help form Big 10 Hockey.
Big 10 rules require at least 6 schools have the sport before it can be eligible for a conference tournament, so we should have one up and running by 2014 it looks like. But it begs a question: will more Big 10 schools follow?
I think it'd be interesting. I'd certainly be a fan if Iowa had a hockey team. I've been to one hockey game thus far in my life and enjoyed it immensely. We've got some local presence for the sport with the Rough Riders up in Cedar Rapids but I'm just not sure how big hockey could be at Iowa.
(Oh and the naysayers are entirely correct: this is all about the Benjamins. If you have a television network for your conference, you've got to feed the beast somehow. So why not a hockey tournament?)
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