Where does Hamilton currently stand in the NESCAC integration process?
It’s a pretty long process because of scheduling. People are editing the schedules with a two year commitment: one year you come to our school, one year we come to your’s. So at the time we’re trying to transition to a different league, you have to have some leeway to get out of the schedules you’re already in. The decision was approved last year that we would go fully into the NESCAC, but then we needed the two academic years, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011, to transition our schedules. When we go into the fall 2011, the seven Liberty League teams (soccer, lacrosse, basketball, field hockey) will go fully into NESCAC. What was the initial reason to go into NESCAC? It was a lot of different reasons. One of them is aligning ourselves with the institutions we’re already playing against in 21 of 28 sports. We were a charter member of the NESCAC, a lot longer than a charter member of the Liberty League. Along the same lines, we wanted to align ourselves with our peer institutions as it became pro
