October 8, 2024
Ready Or Not, Like It Or Not
by Adam Wodon/Managing Editor (@CHN_AdamWodon)
It would be shocking at this point if the NCAA did anything other than eliminate restrictions on Major Junior players joining NCAA teams.
The NCAA’s Division I Management Council is holding its regularly-scheduled meetings today and Wednesday. It comes on the heels of a meeting with college hockey’s conference commissioners, where it recommended to the Council that the restrictions be lifted.
The working theory is that this puts hockey in line with all other NCAA sports.
But it’s been out of line for decades.
What’s different now is the stark anti-NCAA atmosphere in the courts, and pending litigation.
Last April, when the hockey coaches chose to form a committee to study the issue, rather than come…
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