(05-06-2021 12:17 PM)e-parade Wrote: (05-06-2021 11:37 AM)DavidSt Wrote: The are schools out west that sponsors club hockey which they could pull the trigger to start a program.
Club Hockey By State:
Arizona:
Arizona
Grand Canyon
Northern Arizona
California:
CSU-Bakersfield
Fullerton State
Long Beach State
Northridge State
Loyola Marymount
San Diego State
San Jose State
Santa Clara
Stanford
California
UC-Irvine
UCLA
UC-San Diego
UC-Santa Barbara
San Diego
USC
Colorado:
Colorado State
Colorado
Metro State
Denver
Northern Colorado
Colorado Mesa
Colorado Mines
Fort Lewis
Air Force
Colo.-Colorado Springs
Western Colorado
Idaho:
Boise State
Montana:
Montana State
New Mexico:
New Mexico
Oregon:
Oregon
Utah:
Utah
Utah State
Utah Valley
BYU
Washington:
Eastern Washington
Gonzaga
Washington
Washington State
Western Washington
Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, SMU, Texas Tech, UTEP, TCU, Texas A&M, Texas State,Crieghton,Dallas Baptist, Arkansas, Nebraska and North Texas also have club teams.
There are plenty of schools out west could pull the trigger to turn their club team to varsity.
Didn't read too many of them on this list...but Denver has been sponsoring Division I hockey since the 40s and has 8 national championships (most recently 2017).
Would be nice for the other Colorado schools to get in there though and give them some local competition. Though they are already a member of one of the top 2 conferences in college hockey and get plenty of competition from there.
I don't read "DavidSt." but I had to actually gag on this one.
I am a Metro State-Denver alum (Class of '94). It is literally inconceivable that Metro would EVER offer D1 Hockey.
Let me count the problems:
1) In the late '80's and '90's, Metro looked at going D1 so they could field a D1 Basketball team. The President of the (then) college was serious about it...until the BoT came down on him. Metro State was founded as an affordable, commuter, school that could service "non-traditional" and "under-served" populations in Colorado...adults, second-career students, etc. Actually they share a campus with UC-Denver and the Community College of Denver, which was meant to provide a "seamless" road for non-traditional students to get their Associate's (at CCD), Bachelor's (at MSCD/MSUD) and Post-Graduate degrees (as UC-D) in one campus experience, studying part-time, evenings, etc... Now the College has grown--it's a University now--but I have real trouble seeing them signing onto a massive capital expense that runs counter to their mission.
2) DU (University of Denver) and the Avalanche (NHL) have the market covered. In particular, the Av's play less than a mile off the Auraria Campus.
3) There are no facilities, and the Auraria Higher Education Campus (AHEC) isn't going to let MSUD have the space for a rink. Especially given that the University of Colorado Board of Regents has a say in the matter via UC-D.
4) Before you say, "Well, they can use the Pepsi Center..." Uh, that would be really expensive and working around between the Av's and the Nuggets would be extremely difficult. And the current MSUD gym is NOT suitable/capable of holding a rink.
I love Metro State. I often use #proudtobearoadunner as my tag. But no way in hell Metro will sponsor hockey.