RPI 2023 Off-season: We March Fourth Into the Off-season

[Ralph Baer]

Today is 29 March 2023. There are 192 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.

[Ralph Baer]

Makes me feel old when I realize that videos about the Freakout, mascots, and hockey line, none of which existed when I was a student, are now being presented as long-ago history.

At least I was around when Garry Kearns was the coach and Rich Scammell was a player.

I listened to this again. Kearns states that he recruited Watson and Scammell after the 2-20 (actually 3-19) season. He recruited them BEFORE that season as they were on the freshman team in 65-66.

[DrDemento]

I listened to this again. Kearns states that he recruited Watson and Scammell after the 2-20 (actually 3-19) season. He recruited them BEFORE that season as they were on the freshman team in 65-66.

Absolutely correct! We were 3-19 that year and probably should not have even had that good a record! The scores that year often looked like football totals against us.

[RPI67]

I listened to this again. Kearns states that he recruited Watson and Scammell after the 2-20 (actually 3-19) season. He recruited them BEFORE that season as they were on the freshman team in 65-66.

Yes. We would go watch the freshman team play. The freshman team had at least 15 freshman players many didn't stay after the 1st year. Mitchell and Ingrham on defense.

[DrDemento]

Yes. We would go watch the freshman team play. The freshman team had at least 15 freshman players many didn't stay after the 1st year. Mitchell and Ingrham on defense.

Were you able to see the scrimmage that was held between the varsity and the freshman team in the pre season?

[DavidNardolillo]

another one about the 1985 championship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH0peQorIdI

The YouTube account has two more videos today. A 22-23 season recap and a video about the '95 team. They haven't fixed the sound issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynN9QMH7t74

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOTbM3Huh9s

[giwan]

another one about the 1985 championship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH0peQorIdI

Providence in the old Cooperalls. Classic

[RPI67]

Were you able to see the scrimmage that was held between the varsity and the freshman team in the pre season?

Yes. Very encouraging during a difficult season. I remember the freshman tied BU freshman 4-4 and the BU coach asked where did Watson come from. I don't think the varsity would scrimmage the freshman again.

[Ralph Baer]

Today is 30 March 2023. There are 191 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.

[Ralph Baer]

Today is 31 March 2023. There are 190 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 7 October 2023 for the start of next season.

[Ralph Baer]

From iowabasedtraveler on the the Colgate thread. Surprising to me that we are #3 in the ECAC.

From the 'More Questions than it Answers' Department...

Josh Hewitt on the Big Ten Hockey Facebook page posted a graphic of expenditures of NCAA D-1 MIH programs.

Here are a couple...

1., North Dakota, $5,453,864,
2., Minnesota, $5,269,203,
3., Notre Dame, $5,198,263
4., Michigan, $4,464,256,
5., Boston College, $4,360,627,

21., Quinnipiac, $3,029,101,
23., Clarkson, $2,630,662,
25., RPI, $2,563,477,
27., Saint Lawrence, $2,547,264,
31., Colgate, $2,423,063,
38., Yale, $2,073,478,
41., Cornell, $1,990,819,
51., Harvard, $1,374,610,
52., Brown, $1,363,881,
53., Dartmouth, $1,353,890,
56., Princeton, $1,133,425,
57., Union, $1,049,322.

From me, "I see 57 programs listed. What was the last year that NCAA had 57 men's D-1 ice hockey programs? If it is more current than that, what programs are not included (and why)? More specifically, what year does it supposedly represent? And what exactly goes into those numbers? Thanks."

From Josh, "It’s all the schools that have the records for expenses for the Men’s hockey program available and includes all expenditures for the program. Salaries, rink maintenance, travel, etc….
GopherPuckLive periodically puts together an article to compare where Minnesota is compared to the rest of college hockey. Here is an article from 2018 as an example with additional info."

"https://gopherpucklive.com/minnesota-ranks-second-for.../

"The data I posted above is for this season. I don’t know if he is going to put together an article with further breakdown or not, but you should probably be able to find the data for your program in public records."

While I still question a lot about the specifics of this ranking, it probably does fairly accurately show the basic differences between the expenditures of the Big Ten (and other) conference programs and those of the ECAC Hockey conference.

[Engineers]

From iowabasedtraveler on the the Colgate thread. Surprising to me that we are #3 in the ECAC.

Money well spent Ralph. Let’s keep banging out 20+ loss seasons year after year. And blame it on covid and the portal. Don’t believe me ask Jake Johnson’s dad lol

[sezenack]

This is based on a twitter thread that you can take with a grain of salt. This tweet does a good job explaining why https://twitter.com/spomer_hky/statu...02431720235008
Reporting processes vary so much from school to school that you cannot compare these apples to apples.
For example, the Ivies don't have athletic scholarships, which is why they are all so low. But they all give massive amounts of aid (more than 18 scholarships worth). If you factored those in, they would all easily be above RPI. That's just one example.

[sezenack]

RPI picked up a portal commitment https://twitter.com/MikeMcMahonCHN/s...160923648?s=20
Good pickup. Top 6 forward

[Ralph Baer]

RPI picked up a portal commitment https://twitter.com/MikeMcMahonCHN/s...160923648?s=20
Good pickup. Top 6 forward

His UML page https://goriverhawks.com/sports/mens...-brushett/6905. He played at UNO before UML.

NZ gave him 4.25 *'s four years ago.