Imagine for a moment a tense, late-season CCHA game between Toledo and Bowling Green at the Huntington Center.
Pipe dream? Maybe.
But as hockey, already immensely popular in Toledo with nightly sellouts for the Walleye, continues on an upward trajectory, it’s fair to wonder if the University of Toledo should make it the school’s 17th varsity sport.
“The topic has been brought up, of course,” said UT deputy athletic director Dave Nottke. “But we’ve never got to the point where it was serious. The feasibility wasn’t something we were going to consider at the time.”
What many people might not realize is that the Rockets already have a club team that dates to 1964.