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Using the Internet Archive (aka the Wayback Machine), I was able to copy the comments from page 1 though page 15, and pages 17 and 18 from the 26 pages of the now fully deleted "BC Women's Hockey 2023" comment thread.
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03-04-2023, 08:36 PM
Anyone else hearing that both Hannah Bilka and Kayla Barnes are not returning to BC next season? Both of those players are 2 of the best players in the country. Why have so many talented players left BC over the last few years ?
03-11-2023, 08:45 AM
Ok so its pretty well known now that both Hannah Bilka and Kayla Barnes are now in the transfer portal. Can tonythetiger20 or someone else please try to explain to me what has happened to BC hockey over the last 4-5 years ? By my count they have had 7 very good players leave the program and nobody wants to talk about it. And please don't try to tell me that this is very common. Its not. There is obviously a lot going on at BC behind the scenes. In my opinion its going to take BC a long time to recover from this.
Daryl Watts. Wisconsin. Won the Kaz
Katelyn Lonergan. Clarkson. Kaz finalist
Savannah Norcross. Minnesota.
Hadley Hartmetz. Won NCAA at OSU
Kayla Barnes. 2 time Olympian.
Hannah Bilka. Team USA
Alexi Guay. Team Canada
03-11-2023, 01:30 PM
Yes, Barnes is in the portal. I am actually still pretty upset about this. There is no reason for all of these great players to leave BC unless they are really unhappy with Crowley and the state of the program. I had heard rumors of Watts and Lonergan being really unhappy with Crowley a few years ago but didn't really pay much attention to it. Crowley seems to get quite a bit of support on this message board. After these recent departures, I think its pretty obvious that it might be time for a new coach at BC. This is going to take a while to fix. Just a terrible situation
03-12-2023, 09:21 AM
As a BCWIH fan I've been listening for years about all these really great reasons why all these great players are leaving BC. Sorry, TTT but I'm not buying it anymore. This is all on Coach Crowley. Enough is enough. It is time for a coaching change at BC. I really don't care about how many gold medals she won 25 years ago. The program is in big trouble and is clearly headed in the wrong direction. I have been watching this thing head in the wrong direction since that incredible almost undefeated season in 2015-2016. With no Barnes, Bilka, Guay, Brown and Levy next year I cant see them being anywhere else but a middle of the pack Hockey East team again next year. And BTW Hockey East is about as weak of a conference as its been in years ! Northeastern loses 2 games all year and is a 5 seed in the NCAA tournament. I just don't believe that BCWIH should ever be a 5th place team in Hockey East. It is just unacceptable and its been happening too much over the last 7 years and I am sick and tired of it. If this was the Football team they would have made a coaching change years ago. Time for a complete overhaul of BCWIH.
03-12-2023, 05:20 PM
Ok so these are "bull**** opinions" Have you been living in a cave for the last 5 seasons ? Are you satisfied with another 5th place finish in Hockey East ? The total collapse of BC womens hockey program has become the talk of college hockey. Sorry but you seem to think its normal to have all of these players leave BC to pursue a National Championship. I do not. I am sick and tired of all of these players leaving BC to go elsewhere. It should not happen like this. We need to find out why these players all want to leave BC. The recruiting has been a huge issue for the last 5 years and it has really caught up to them. It is going to take some serious time and effort to fix this mess. It is time to make some changes and I'm sorry but it starts with the coach. BC is one of the top jobs in the country. Lets go get the best person available.
03-13-2023, 08:41 PM
Look this is just a terrible situation right now at BCWIH. I can't imagine the BC athletic director is sitting there watching 2 of of the best players in the country leave Boston College because they want to try and win a national championship somewhere else. As I said in a previous post there has to be more to the story when 7 very talented players all want to leave BC within 5 years. It is totally embarrassing and I believe it is unacceptable. We arent talking about playing up in Orono Maine, we are talking about playing for Boston College!
Look I don't know anything about Coach Crowley. I'm sure she is a really nice person. All I can tell you Is that It is very obvious that significant changes have to be made. This has been going on for way too long and the results speak for themselves.
03-19-2023, 12:40 PM
Did anyone else watch Ohio State just absolutely destroy Northeastern in the NCAA Semi final game ? I believe OSU outshot NU 53-15. I also believe that I read that OSU took a total of 83 shots which is just an unbelievable number of shots. This is the same NU team that beat/dominated BC this year 5 times this year. OK so TTT can accuse me of piling on here and telling us that hes the only one that gives a crap but I really don't care. BC would lose to OSU by 10 goals. It wouldn't be a fair game. This is a great reason what I am so frustrated with Crowley and the state of the BC program. How could we fall so far and so fast ? From what I can tell we are best case 4-5 years away from competing again for an NCAA championship and that assumes the rebuild starts now and they actually do it right with a coach that knows what they are doing and more importantly keeps these kids from LEAVING BOSTON COLLEGE
03-19-2023, 02:55 PM
That is a jaw dropping statistic. Northeastern has pretty much dominated everyone they played this year. You will be very happy if Muzzy gets Bilka or Barnes or both. They are both really good. Still makes my blood boil that Crowley has lost all these great players !
03-25-2023, 08:30 AM
The word out of Columbus this week is that the Muzzinator has landed both Barnes and Bilka from BC. Both players are tremendous and will make a huge impact. The only good news for us BCWIH fans next year when we once again don't make the tournament is that we will have a team to root for. Go OSU Buckeyes
03-25-2023, 02:33 PM
Rebuild ? Come on guy ! Its a rebuild because all of BCs best players decided to leave school and play elsewhere. This needs to stop and it needs to stop now.
It shouldn't be a rebuild but I guess that what happens when all of your best players decide to leave. I have followed Grant for years on the BC Interruption but unfortunately he has been drinking the BC Kool aid for way too long and refuses to ever come out and write anything negative about the BC coach or anything else about all of the issues that they have been having for years. I have listed, in previous posts the players that have left BC over the last 4-6 years. It is simply unacceptable and the people at BC need to take a hard look at this and find out why this continues to happen.
As far as the hockey is concerned tedlasso askes some very good questions. This is all 100% on Crowley. Besides having arguably the best goalie (Levy) Defenseman (Barnes) and winger (Bilka) in the country BC stunk last season. They lost to Maine and UNH when it really mattered late in the season. I have watched very good players come in a freshman and by the time they graduate they are average at best. It has been going on for years. Everyone knows BC hardly recruits. They have been lazy recruiters for 10 years and it has finally caught up to them. They have players on their roster that would struggle at the D3 level. My prediction for next year is that both Bilka and Barnes will be All American candidates at OSU. Possible Kazmaier finalists. They are both that good.
Is USA hockey more important to the BC players ? Probably, which is so sad. All I ever see on BC social media is Alex Carpenter this and Meg Keller that ! Forget about your Olympians who graduated 10 years ago and FIX THE PROGRAM. Remember the story about Bill Belichick when the Patriots had a bad season and he ordered all the pictures from previous Super Bowl winning teams removed from the facility ? Well that's what BC needs to do. No ones gives a hoot about what BC did 10 years ago ! I am tired of watching BC being an average team in an absolutely terrible Hockey East Conference.
I have posted this before and I will post it again. BCWIH needs a new head coach. This ship has been sinking for too long.
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03-04-2023, 08:36 PM
Anyone else hearing that both Hannah Bilka and Kayla Barnes are not returning to BC next season? Both of those players are 2 of the best players in the country. Why have so many talented players left BC over the last few years ?
03-11-2023, 08:45 AM
Ok so its pretty well known now that both Hannah Bilka and Kayla Barnes are now in the transfer portal. Can tonythetiger20 or someone else please try to explain to me what has happened to BC hockey over the last 4-5 years ? By my count they have had 7 very good players leave the program and nobody wants to talk about it. And please don't try to tell me that this is very common. Its not. There is obviously a lot going on at BC behind the scenes. In my opinion its going to take BC a long time to recover from this.
Daryl Watts. Wisconsin. Won the Kaz
Katelyn Lonergan. Clarkson. Kaz finalist
Savannah Norcross. Minnesota.
Hadley Hartmetz. Won NCAA at OSU
Kayla Barnes. 2 time Olympian.
Hannah Bilka. Team USA
Alexi Guay. Team Canada
03-11-2023, 01:30 PM
Yes, Barnes is in the portal. I am actually still pretty upset about this. There is no reason for all of these great players to leave BC unless they are really unhappy with Crowley and the state of the program. I had heard rumors of Watts and Lonergan being really unhappy with Crowley a few years ago but didn't really pay much attention to it. Crowley seems to get quite a bit of support on this message board. After these recent departures, I think its pretty obvious that it might be time for a new coach at BC. This is going to take a while to fix. Just a terrible situation
03-12-2023, 09:21 AM
As a BCWIH fan I've been listening for years about all these really great reasons why all these great players are leaving BC. Sorry, TTT but I'm not buying it anymore. This is all on Coach Crowley. Enough is enough. It is time for a coaching change at BC. I really don't care about how many gold medals she won 25 years ago. The program is in big trouble and is clearly headed in the wrong direction. I have been watching this thing head in the wrong direction since that incredible almost undefeated season in 2015-2016. With no Barnes, Bilka, Guay, Brown and Levy next year I cant see them being anywhere else but a middle of the pack Hockey East team again next year. And BTW Hockey East is about as weak of a conference as its been in years ! Northeastern loses 2 games all year and is a 5 seed in the NCAA tournament. I just don't believe that BCWIH should ever be a 5th place team in Hockey East. It is just unacceptable and its been happening too much over the last 7 years and I am sick and tired of it. If this was the Football team they would have made a coaching change years ago. Time for a complete overhaul of BCWIH.
03-12-2023, 05:20 PM
Ok so these are "bull**** opinions" Have you been living in a cave for the last 5 seasons ? Are you satisfied with another 5th place finish in Hockey East ? The total collapse of BC womens hockey program has become the talk of college hockey. Sorry but you seem to think its normal to have all of these players leave BC to pursue a National Championship. I do not. I am sick and tired of all of these players leaving BC to go elsewhere. It should not happen like this. We need to find out why these players all want to leave BC. The recruiting has been a huge issue for the last 5 years and it has really caught up to them. It is going to take some serious time and effort to fix this mess. It is time to make some changes and I'm sorry but it starts with the coach. BC is one of the top jobs in the country. Lets go get the best person available.
03-13-2023, 08:41 PM
Look this is just a terrible situation right now at BCWIH. I can't imagine the BC athletic director is sitting there watching 2 of of the best players in the country leave Boston College because they want to try and win a national championship somewhere else. As I said in a previous post there has to be more to the story when 7 very talented players all want to leave BC within 5 years. It is totally embarrassing and I believe it is unacceptable. We arent talking about playing up in Orono Maine, we are talking about playing for Boston College!
Look I don't know anything about Coach Crowley. I'm sure she is a really nice person. All I can tell you Is that It is very obvious that significant changes have to be made. This has been going on for way too long and the results speak for themselves.
03-19-2023, 12:40 PM
Did anyone else watch Ohio State just absolutely destroy Northeastern in the NCAA Semi final game ? I believe OSU outshot NU 53-15. I also believe that I read that OSU took a total of 83 shots which is just an unbelievable number of shots. This is the same NU team that beat/dominated BC this year 5 times this year. OK so TTT can accuse me of piling on here and telling us that hes the only one that gives a crap but I really don't care. BC would lose to OSU by 10 goals. It wouldn't be a fair game. This is a great reason what I am so frustrated with Crowley and the state of the BC program. How could we fall so far and so fast ? From what I can tell we are best case 4-5 years away from competing again for an NCAA championship and that assumes the rebuild starts now and they actually do it right with a coach that knows what they are doing and more importantly keeps these kids from LEAVING BOSTON COLLEGE
03-19-2023, 02:55 PM
That is a jaw dropping statistic. Northeastern has pretty much dominated everyone they played this year. You will be very happy if Muzzy gets Bilka or Barnes or both. They are both really good. Still makes my blood boil that Crowley has lost all these great players !
03-25-2023, 08:30 AM
The word out of Columbus this week is that the Muzzinator has landed both Barnes and Bilka from BC. Both players are tremendous and will make a huge impact. The only good news for us BCWIH fans next year when we once again don't make the tournament is that we will have a team to root for. Go OSU Buckeyes
03-25-2023, 02:33 PM
Rebuild ? Come on guy ! Its a rebuild because all of BCs best players decided to leave school and play elsewhere. This needs to stop and it needs to stop now.
It shouldn't be a rebuild but I guess that what happens when all of your best players decide to leave. I have followed Grant for years on the BC Interruption but unfortunately he has been drinking the BC Kool aid for way too long and refuses to ever come out and write anything negative about the BC coach or anything else about all of the issues that they have been having for years. I have listed, in previous posts the players that have left BC over the last 4-6 years. It is simply unacceptable and the people at BC need to take a hard look at this and find out why this continues to happen.
As far as the hockey is concerned tedlasso askes some very good questions. This is all 100% on Crowley. Besides having arguably the best goalie (Levy) Defenseman (Barnes) and winger (Bilka) in the country BC stunk last season. They lost to Maine and UNH when it really mattered late in the season. I have watched very good players come in a freshman and by the time they graduate they are average at best. It has been going on for years. Everyone knows BC hardly recruits. They have been lazy recruiters for 10 years and it has finally caught up to them. They have players on their roster that would struggle at the D3 level. My prediction for next year is that both Bilka and Barnes will be All American candidates at OSU. Possible Kazmaier finalists. They are both that good.
Is USA hockey more important to the BC players ? Probably, which is so sad. All I ever see on BC social media is Alex Carpenter this and Meg Keller that ! Forget about your Olympians who graduated 10 years ago and FIX THE PROGRAM. Remember the story about Bill Belichick when the Patriots had a bad season and he ordered all the pictures from previous Super Bowl winning teams removed from the facility ? Well that's what BC needs to do. No ones gives a hoot about what BC did 10 years ago ! I am tired of watching BC being an average team in an absolutely terrible Hockey East Conference.
I have posted this before and I will post it again. BCWIH needs a new head coach. This ship has been sinking for too long.
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