If "Ray" is Ray Lapinski, the man knows what he is talking about...
I'm an alumnus and I'll tell you the truth. This is a sad day. The school was in 1978 a baseball/basketball tiny D-II school. Well they can't compete in that niche today at the D-1 level.
Current President John Lahey has moved the school forward leaps and bounds. It is a reputable academic institution. The last decade and a half has seen the population more than double and its programs flourish and expand. Law school, Grad Science, and other Professional programs.
The reason for Hockey... Because its a smaller niche. There's no way they can get into the market on the basketball/football/baseball level. There hope has been to try to elevate the status of the school academically and mainstream. i.e. - your Quinnipiac TV Polls, Law/Media, and D-1 sports... Hockey - they created there own conference when the school went D-1. Eventually, they figured if they could win a conference Tourney they could get in the big dance.
Jack McDonald is a self-serving hippocrite. His son graduates this year and runs track. Track will be dissolved next year. Why outdoor rather than indoor. Simple, Jack is from Boston - indoor is big in boston. Real track is outdoor though, not indoor. So, recruiting will most certainly take a hit. It's about appearance, all about apppearance.
True, they aren't providence, villanova, or iona - but now they will be doomed. The fact that Jack was coach at BC or ran a 4min mile or knew Bill Rodgers doesn't matter. He's an Athletic Director and it's a business.
However, I digress. What a sad state of affairs... You're telling me it costs to much for the XC guys to run 7 meets in the spring (mostly locally) for a Pricey Private University. They aren't giving out full rides over there. So, the budget isn't that big. Perhaps, if they didn't spend a fortune on a TD Bank center that they must fill by giving away free tickets to local elementary students, they'd have the money to fund 7 meets. And there are no pole vaults, or jump pits in hamden, ct. They don't even have their own track.
The administration should be ashamed.