New Regionals in 2008

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

A lot of Minnesota teams went to the Wisconsin Regional this year, only adding to the greatness of the regional. However, I think with a new regional starting in Minnesota, teams will be split between Minnesota and Wisconsin and will have to make a choice. I'm very excited to see even more teams spring up next year, hopefully as a result of Boston Scientific and Medtronic sponsoring even more teams. They did a great job this year.

Same thing happened to the Midwest Regional with the inception of the Boilermaker Regional. Nearly all of the "powerhouse" teams decided to go to Boilermaker instead of Chicago, dropping the strength and reputation of the Midwest Regional, IMHO.

I see sort of the same thing happening to either the Wisconsin Regional or the Minnesota Regional... could also adversely affect the Midwest Regional, again lowering the number of attending teams.

Some members of 648, not me, want to go to Minnesota. I'm not in favor of it ... I want to get away from the Midwest for once, but not the Midwest Regional. I wish we could be like 25, 234, 233, etc. and travel to some exotic regional every year.