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So, Amando Rampado, who was inexplicably left off the watch list for goaltender of the year, has now given up only 9 goals in her last 7 games, while playing in front of a ninth place team. Meanwhile, the 2 goalies for second place Quinnipiac (who were BOTH placed on the watch list of 27), gave up 11 goals this afternoon while stopping 23.
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Originally posted by hab View PostSo, Amando Rampado, who was inexplicably left off the watch list for goaltender of the year, has now given up only 9 goals in her last 7 games, while playing in front of a ninth place team. Meanwhile, the 2 goalies for second place Quinnipiac (who were BOTH placed on the watch list of 27), gave up 11 goals this afternoon while stopping 23.
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Rampado like Lovisa of the past...she has been the difference maker here...tough to watch good goaltenders have to play behind these teams...how is it that they've had top end goalies and struggle to make the playoffs every year...Burke era was the same as this one except Burke was in playoffs...Should they look to go after a coach that can get them to turn the corner? Would they ever throw a flyer at proven assistants...there are some good ones within ECAC already...or are they going to keep things status quo?
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It has been discussed before on how hard it is to recruit at RPI, especially for the women. Look at the majors of most of the players. They are nearly all engineering or other STEM. If you are not a nerd RPI is a hard school to be at. Not too many majors outside engineering other than the business school, and the business school is still very math/STEM-like unlike other programs. It is a great school to get a degree from if you like math and science. How many elite women hockey players are also nerds?
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Originally posted by Cornholio View PostIt has been discussed before on how hard it is to recruit at RPI, especially for the women. Look at the majors of most of the players. They are nearly all engineering or other STEM. If you are not a nerd RPI is a hard school to be at. Not too many majors outside engineering other than the business school, and the business school is still very math/STEM-like unlike other programs. It is a great school to get a degree from if you like math and science. How many elite women hockey players are also nerds?
Every time that we see a top player go in to an Engineering or Math/Science program other than RPI we need to ask why. How did we fail to convince this young woman that RPI was the right place?Last edited by hab; 01-31-2023, 01:15 PM.
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I don't know of any studies just a quick look at other rosters show very few STEM/engineering majors at other programs. Back when I was at school nearly all the athletes were in non-STEM. Also culture at school. You have to be a nerd to like it there, and not in an ivy-league snooty kind of way but in a Futurama kind of way. Also if the player is interested in STEM it is not like most other schools don't have that either. So RPI has to compete with nearly everyone for the nerdy elite hockey player but for non-nerds RPI is I'd think an instant 'no way'.
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Originally posted by Cornholio View PostI don't know of any studies just a quick look at other rosters show very few STEM/engineering majors at other programs. Back when I was at school nearly all the athletes were in non-STEM. Also culture at school. You have to be a nerd to like it there, and not in an ivy-league snooty kind of way but in a Futurama kind of way. Also if the player is interested in STEM it is not like most other schools don't have that either. So RPI has to compete with nearly everyone for the nerdy elite hockey player but for non-nerds RPI is I'd think an instant 'no way'.
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Originally posted by Cornholio View PostI don't know of any studies just a quick look at other rosters show very few STEM/engineering majors at other programs. Back when I was at school nearly all the athletes were in non-STEM. Also culture at school. You have to be a nerd to like it there, and not in an ivy-league snooty kind of way but in a Futurama kind of way. Also if the player is interested in STEM it is not like most other schools don't have that either. So RPI has to compete with nearly everyone for the nerdy elite hockey player but for non-nerds RPI is I'd think an instant 'no way'.Take the shortest distance to the puck and arrive in ill humor
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I truly respect an organization that can recognize when they have made a horrible error and correct it. The Women's Hockey Commissioners Association, after inexplicably leaving Amanda Rampado off of a watch list of 27 goalies for Goalie of the Year, expanded the list to 28 to include her, and then went on to include her in the final eleven: https://rpiathletics.com/news/2023/2...hca-award.aspx.
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I dont give up on a team until it appears that the players have given up on themselves, and there still seems to be some considerable fight in the Engineers, based on the Yale game. So....time to look at the daunting task of making the playoffs with only 2 weekends left. The basic math: with 4 games left RPI has 12 potential points and currently sits 7 points back of Harvard, 9.5 back of Princeton, and 10 back of SLU. Harvard only has 3 games left and is a team in disarray, to say the least, so quite likely they will get 0-3 points, which means that RPI will need 8-11 points to move ahead of them. Tough. But now the really tough part....our remaining games are QU, PU, Cornell and Colgate. "When the going gets tough....." etc
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