NCAA Off Week Edition with Jim Williams

Puck University

Apparently this weekend is all booked up in college sports, so we have to wait another week for the Frozen Four. In the meanwhile, Puck University remains in session as I sit down with Jim Williams to discuss a topic I've always felt strongly about: Hockey's superior draft. As an expert on other college sports, Jim helps try and bring my crazy theory that every sport should have a draft like hockey's back to Earth. First, we briefly discuss the Hobey Hat Trick, and why my vote would go to Zach Aston-Reese. Then, after I bring out my crazy theory, we start to break down what other sports might look like with hockey's draft. Okay, fine, we go a bit crazy imagining fixes to problems that other sports don't actually have, such as the chaos that would erupt if football were to have a hockey-style draft, or how John Calipari might use such a draft to continue to out-recruit his basketball competition. Eventually, after I go off on a tangent or two, we arrive back at hockey and the many things that make the college hockey landscape unique across the NCAA. To wrap up, Jim and I discuss the news that North Dakota is cutting their women's hockey program. I quote an article from the Grand Forks Herald in my take on the matter, you can find Brad Elliott Schlossman's article here. Next week's episode will be up a day early. Since the Frozen Four is on Thursday, we'll be up Thursday morning with a Frozen Four preview.