Last Tuesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett presented his proposed 2011-12 state budget, which seeks a 52.4 percent reduction in Penn States state appropriation. As the state legislature begins to review the governors proposal and as the university begins to consider the ramifications of this spending plan or whatever resolution is reached by the legislature, it is important that you be informed by facts, not rumors or conjecture.
I would encourage you to follow closely updates posted by Penn State, which can be found at live.psu.edu. The universitys Board of Trustees meets this week, and you can expect a number of stories related to this development to come out of that meeting. Again, those stories will be released at live.psu.edu.
You can also view President Spaniers press conference, which was held Wednesday, March 9, during which time he shares the universitys initial response to the Governor’s proposal at:Â
At this time, no decisions have been made in terms of what actions the university may be forced to pursue should this reduction be approved. As you may know, the governor’s proposal is just the first step in the state budget process. Be assured that there has been much contact with legislators as we work to impress upon them the many impacts of the governor’s proposal. President Spanier will par
Last Tuesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett presented his proposed 2011-12 state budget, which seeks a 52.4 percent reduction in Penn State’s state appropriation. As the state legislature begins to review the governor’s proposal and as the university begins to consider the ramifications of this spending plan or whatever resolution is reached by the legislature, it is important that you be informed by facts, not rumors or conjecture.
I would encourage you to follow closely updates posted by Penn State, which can be found at live.psu.edu. The university’s Board of Trustees meets this week, and you can expect a number of stories related to this development to come out of that meeting. Again, those stories will be released at live.psu.edu.
You can also view President Spanier’s press conference, which was held Wednesday, March 9, during which time he shares the university’s initial response to the Governor’s proposal at: http://www.youtube.com/user/wpsu#p/a/u/0/P3zf2b8tTXE
At this time, no decisions have been made in terms of what actions the university may be forced to pursue should this reduction be approved. As you may know, the governor’s proposal is just the first step in the state budget process. Be assured that there has been much contact with legislators as we work to impress upon them the many impacts of the governor’s proposal. President Spanier wil
Inside College Hockey was the first to report yesterday that Penn State will formally announce their intention to start a hockey program, possibly as early as this Friday.
I already covered this issue over the summer, so it’s probably not worth rehashing until we get some new information of what the future holds.
Other people are writing about it though. USCHO columnist Dave Starman thinks Penn State would be good, if they wanted to join the CCHA, but bad if it meant the creation of a Big Ten conference. Also, his proposed WCHA-CCHA alliance seems pretty wacky. The solution to whatever financial troubles those smaller schools will face won’t be solved by increasing travel expenses exponentially. College Hockey News thinks a Big Ten Conference is inevitable, though not necessarily a disaster.
The reaction from the Penn State side of things has been general excitement, and why wouldn’t it be? Before even being announced, their hockey program has already succeeded where their treasured football program has failed in defeating a school from Alabama.
In the wake of the news that Penn State was considering a move to Division I hockey, a few bits of information have come out in response to it.
The first is a quote from CCHA commish Tom Anastos saying the CCHA is interested:
“They are a very attractive choice — very attractive,” CCHA commissioner Tom Anastos told The Detroit News on Tuesday. “They’re in a different market than we’re in, more and more U.S. players are on college rosters, and there’s tremendous growth of the sport in Pennsylvania.”
Again, Huntsville meets all those criteria as well. Pretty much all of the growth of the sport in Pennsylvania is centered in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, both about a solid 3-hour trek to the wilderness of State College, PA. That same radius put around Huntsville gets you the growing hockey markets of Nashville and Atlanta. Of course there are other huge advantages Penn State has, likely biggest among them is a huge alumni network of potential fans. You could probably draw more interest for PSU hockey in Atlanta than you could for UAH hockey.