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Re: UConn's Marshall Resigns
Yeah, Pecknold taking an offer from UConn would be, in essence, taking a step down in the hopes that the step somehow lands itself in a rocket ship. He's sitting on a top ten team right now, and one that's become very competitive in its own league in a pretty short period of time, at a school that has made hockey its #1 sport. UConn, right now, is precisely zero of those things, and the third of those things is probably something that will *never* happen at UConn, upgrade or no.
Toot Cahoon I could see as a possibility, but I don't know if *he's* apt to get back in the coach's seat so soon, for a program that has exactly the same sport priorities as UMass-Amherst (if not further back in the pack because of the otherwise generally unheard of influence that women's hoop has in Storrs), when his major complaint with Amherst was that hockey wasn't a priority there.
Tim Whitehead would be a popular move for eleven out of twelve Hockey East fan bases on USCHO. I'm certain that UConn wouldn't be one of them.
I think Berard will be on any eventual short list that does arise, but the fact he's going to close out the season as the interim coach (and that UConn won't start the search until after the season) means I think he's basically getting a three month tryout as the heir apparent, and how UConn performs for the remainder of this season will be a key factor in whether he's retained. If they poop the bed down the stretch, yeah, I'd ice him (or hope to keep him on as an assistant at most). Otherwise, I think they give him a look, given that next year he'll have six more schollys and his first recruiting class.
Yeah, Pecknold taking an offer from UConn would be, in essence, taking a step down in the hopes that the step somehow lands itself in a rocket ship. He's sitting on a top ten team right now, and one that's become very competitive in its own league in a pretty short period of time, at a school that has made hockey its #1 sport. UConn, right now, is precisely zero of those things, and the third of those things is probably something that will *never* happen at UConn, upgrade or no.
Toot Cahoon I could see as a possibility, but I don't know if *he's* apt to get back in the coach's seat so soon, for a program that has exactly the same sport priorities as UMass-Amherst (if not further back in the pack because of the otherwise generally unheard of influence that women's hoop has in Storrs), when his major complaint with Amherst was that hockey wasn't a priority there.
Tim Whitehead would be a popular move for eleven out of twelve Hockey East fan bases on USCHO. I'm certain that UConn wouldn't be one of them.
I think Berard will be on any eventual short list that does arise, but the fact he's going to close out the season as the interim coach (and that UConn won't start the search until after the season) means I think he's basically getting a three month tryout as the heir apparent, and how UConn performs for the remainder of this season will be a key factor in whether he's retained. If they poop the bed down the stretch, yeah, I'd ice him (or hope to keep him on as an assistant at most). Otherwise, I think they give him a look, given that next year he'll have six more schollys and his first recruiting class.
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