Forget the transfer portal or NIL, Nanooks need a conference

Forget the transfer portal or NIL, Nanooks need a conference

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A lot has changed not just in college hockey, but in college athletics since Erik Largen took over as head coach of the University of Alaska Fairbanks men’s hockey program in 2018. Name, Image and Likeness (NIL), the rise of the transfer portal, the House Settlement and the lifting of the major junior ban top the list of changes for many schools, but not Alaska. The biggest shift of the landscape to shake the Nanooks in the l…