February 23, 2009
10 Reasons Why the CCHA Should Consider Adding Alabama-Huntsville

• Sure, it's not the University of Alabama, but no worries ... the folks in Fairbanks have an idea to run by you.

• The Chargers don't refer to you as conference opponents, they refer to you as conference kin.

• Teams destined to have a short playoff run could get a jump start on golf game at the city's Robert Trent Jones-designed course.

• It's an unfair fight when comparing the "scenery" at Miami to those of modest-sized cities in the midwest. We figure some Southern Belles level the playing field a little bit.

• The Mason Cup ought to pay a visit below the Mason-Dixon Line.

• Who wouldn't want to visit Huntsville, so named for its many free-flowing reservoirs of Hunt's Manwich?

• Red Berenson itching to break out one of his many Lynyrd Skynyrd t-shirts

• You don't think football-mad Alabamians won't pack the Von Braun Center when Michigan, Notre Dame, or Ohio State come to town?

• Road trips to UAH would give the opportunity for your next great recruits from Chattanooga and Nashville to play in front of family and friends.

• Numerous NASA rocket scientists in Huntsville, which could be useful for future airstrike against WCHA.