WCHA Season Thread 2017-18: In Which We Try For Two Bids

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Things are not looking good for UAA. If their first 2 choices for coach turn them down after getting offered, then I have to believe that the institutional support that those guys think they need to succeed is still not going to be there. If they thought they'd be supported properly they would have taken the job. It sucks, because it would be nice for the whole conference to not have the worst god**** team in the country to kill PWR.

[Deman]

Re: WCHA Season Thread 2017-18: In Which We Try For Two Bids

Things are not looking good for UAA. If their first 2 choices for coach turn them down after getting offered, then I have to believe that the institutional support that those guys think they need to succeed is still not going to be there. If they thought they'd be supported properly they would have taken the job. It sucks, because it would be nice for the whole conference to not have the worst god**** team in the country to kill PWR.

So, a question for long-time fans, as I only started following hockey in 2011-2012 season:

Has there ever been a precedent where a team did not have a head coach going into a season, and just an interm assistant coach doing the job? I know the season's a long ways away, but have 2/3 of your candidates reject your offer, I've got to imagine the third could very well shoot it down too. Then what? Hope you find some other candidates?

Or could this really be the beginning of the end for UAA? I think I remember reading something last offseason about either the Board of Governers or something from the school proper that they 100% support hockey in Anchorage, but I'm not even a UAA fan and I'm clenching.

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So, a question for long-time fans, as I only started following hockey in 2011-2012 season:

Has there ever been a precedent where a team did not have a head coach going into a season, and just an interm assistant coach doing the job? I know the season's a long ways away, but have 2/3 of your candidates reject your offer, I've got to imagine the third could very well shoot it down too. Then what? Hope you find some other candidates?

Or could this really be the beginning of the end for UAA? I think I remember reading something last offseason about either the Board of Governers or something from the school proper that they 100% support hockey in Anchorage, but I'm not even a UAA fan and I'm clenching.

They'll find a coach, it is just looking like it won't be one of the guys they preferred. There is no way they go into next season without a coach, and at this point there doesn't seem to be any indication that they'll fold.

[Squarebanks]

They'll find a coach, it is just looking like it won't be one of the guys they preferred. There is no way they go into next season without a coach, and at this point there doesn't seem to be any indication that they'll fold.

At worst they’ll call off the search and appoint an interim.

But yeah, they’ll find someone. It just won’t be someone they wanted originally.

[MaizeRage]

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So, a question for long-time fans, as I only started following hockey in 2011-2012 season:

Has there ever been a precedent where a team did not have a head coach going into a season, and just an interm assistant coach doing the job? I know the season's a long ways away, but have 2/3 of your candidates reject your offer, I've got to imagine the third could very well shoot it down too. Then what? Hope you find some other candidates?

Or could this really be the beginning of the end for UAA? I think I remember reading something last offseason about either the Board of Governers or something from the school proper that they 100% support hockey in Anchorage, but I'm not even a UAA fan and I'm clenching.

They had to re-open their coaching search last time the job was open and come up with six new candidates after people in Anchorage didn't like any of the four finalists. I could see them re-opening the position again.

I wouldn't call this the beginning of the end. We're at least at the midway point.

[JohnsonsJerseys]

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Things are not looking good for UAA. If their first 2 choices for coach turn them down after getting offered...

Miami fires all their assistants: https://www.collegehockeynews.com/ne...nt-Coaches.php

UAA has a job that needs a coach. Miami has a bunch of coaches that need jobs. Someone should put all these folks in a room and just get this deal done. UAA can sign co-head coaches and split the salary 50/50. When you're in UAA's position, you need to think creatively. Employing both as the head coach will also help drive down unemployment.
Ryan

[davyd83]

UAA has a job that needs a coach. Miami has a bunch of coaches that need jobs. Someone should put all these folks in a room and just get this deal done. UAA can sign co-head coaches and split the salary 50/50. When you're in UAA's position, you need to think creatively. Employing both as the head coach will also help drive down unemployment.
Ryan

Former Miami assistant Brent Brekke is a finalist for the Fairbanks job.

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They had to re-open their coaching search last time the job was open and come up with six new candidates after people in Anchorage didn't like any of the four finalists. I could see them re-opening the position again.

I wouldn't call this the beginning of the end. We're at least at the midway point.

I actually forgot about this.

[davyd83]

I actually forgot about this.

In the years since the fans & alumni rejected them, Gary Heenan & Chris Brown have a grand total of only one losing season between them. Mike Corbett has slowly and steadily built Alabama-Huntsville into a very competitive program after starting at ground zero.

[AKSWF]

In the years since the fans & alumni rejected them, Gary Heenan & Chris Brown have a grand total of only one losing season between them. Mike Corbett has slowly and steadily built Alabama-Huntsville into a very competitive program after starting at ground zero.

At the time I though UAA made the right choice, thinking outside the box. Could Corbett or anybody have gotten thru our struggles better? That's worth a pitcher or two.

Two canidates said no, seemingly due to lack of support and or $$$. What exactly is going to change?