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RPI 2025 Off-Season: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jericho said:
I believe grad transfers, teams that drop, and teams that undergo a coaching change can have players enter early. I do agree with you, that it might be a good sign that they haven’t entered yet.

Of course, I’m no expert on the inner workings that other people think they are.
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I think that's right. The transfer portal in hockey is going to be interesting this year with the players from the remaining Canadian junior leagues now eligible to play in college. There's a little more risk for players: only 64 Division I teams out there, and once you hit the portal, you forfeit your scholarship (if you have one). Which may mean that guys in there now have a good idea about where they are going...
 
DavidNardolillo said:
I think that's right. The transfer portal in hockey is going to be interesting this year with the players from the remaining Canadian junior leagues now eligible to play in college. There's a little more risk for players: only 64 Division I teams out there, and once you hit the portal, you forfeit your scholarship (if you have one). Which may mean that guys in there now have a good idea about where they are going...
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Right, which means there’s probably some tampering, er , negotiations between advisors and players, going on during the season.
 
Ralph Baer said:
I didn't expect him to enter the portal since he supposedly was an AeroE major.
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He may have discovered how hard it is to be a D1 athlete and an engineering major. Go to any school and look at the majors of the athletes. They aren't generally representative of the student body as a whole, much less majors like Aero. I question whether I would have made it to an engineering degree with the time commitments these guys absorb.
 
rpi82 said:
He may have discovered how hard it is to be a D1 athlete and an engineering major. Go to any school and look at the majors of the athletes. They aren't generally representative of the student body as a whole, much less majors like Aero. I question whether I would have made it to an engineering degree with the time commitments these guys absorb.
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He showed flashes but his penchant for driving guys into the boards from behind won`t fly at too many schools.
 
DavidNardolillo said:
Dave Aiello followed his statement about the shut down with the following: "What will always be questioned is whether the unique approach that RPI took to bringing athletics back to campus was best for our school?"

Seems like a diplomatic, gentlemanly way of suggesting that RPI's "unique approach" was incorrect.

Even if one feels that COVID shutdowns were unnecessary in March 2020 (that would have been quite the call to make at the time given how many people were dying in NY hospitals every day in March and April), there would have been nobody for RPI to play. The NCAA canceled the remaining competitions, even the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
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The NCAA did not cancel 2020-2021. Only Shirley and seven other fools did. Most have yet to recover. Unfortunately, Dave was one of those that was unable to fix that.

The NCAA did not mandate empty buildings for 2021-2022. Only Shirley did. No one else had to fix that.
 
rpi82 said:
You left out a few key points. Ole Miss played football with a max capacity of 25% - and the only game that came close to that number was the Egg Bowl against Mississippi State. They played #2 Alabama before 14,000 fans in a 65,000 seat stadium. After canceling early season games they began the basketball season with similar restrictions and they must have tightened them even further because most of their games were played before an announced attendance of 895 (in a nearly 10,000 seat arena). The reason games were played was simple - TV money. I'll bet if RPI was going to sacrifice tens of millions of dollars by cancelling athletics even Shirley would have found a way to get the games played.
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You are absolutely correct about the TV money which I did not even mention. You are probably also right about if that kind of money was involved, even Shirley would have found a way to get the games played. Didn't mention that either.

Supposedly and according to legend (who knows for sure), while working here Shirley was solicited about the President's job at the University of Georgia. With the kind of money involved with that program and the maniacal fan base that program has, could not even imagine Shirley pulling the kind of crap down there she pulled up here on us. Doubt she would have even considered stepping in the way of their back to back national championship runs. Had she done so, especially with those nuts they have for a fan base down there (ever heard them call the Finebaum show???), she would have needed for real the around the clock armed security that she imagined she needed up here!!!

I have no doubt you made an honest attempt at researching both Ole Miss "capacity limits" and actual "given" attendance figures and stated them accurately. However, please note that as I mentioned in my post, both were laughed off by people that were actually present at Ole Miss facilities at that time as being computed in a base other than 10. Not present as often or consistently for basketball and baseball as they are for football (they live 60 miles away), but, actually present is actually present. Their estimates as eyewitnesses at facilities they have known for decades like the back of their hands trumps any "figures" listed anywhere in my book. Especially from an era where even dead red states could sometimes be deceptive (though nowhere near as often as the blue ones).

To have some fun at my expense they actually called me in the spring of 2021 while driving home from a very big baseball game in Oxford. For that game every seat in the stadium had a fanny in it, every single square inch of the grass hill burn that rims the outfield had a fanny on it and they were standing two to three deep on the concourse behind the bern. Wonder what the "listed" attendance was for whatever game that was. Eyewitness estimate was well over 10,000. Anyway, they wanted to know if I was still being banned from attending small school "beer league baseball" (their words, not mine) playing to crowds of 100 to 200. They had a good laugh when I told them I was still banned even from the outdoors!!!

What the hell else is needed to show how absurd people up here were during that time??? Oh, by the way, with utter absurdity eliminated and out of the way something happened slightly over a year after receiving the above mentioned 2021 phone call. Your 2022 NCAA D1 Baseball Champions were indeed the Ole Miss Rebels!!! I guess Dave was supposed to match that while working at a loony bin. I will forgive him for not being able to pull it off.
 
Today is 26 March 2025. There are 192 days until RPI's next game. It has been 17 days since there has been a head coach



This is based upon 4 October 2025 for the start of next season, and 10 March was the day that coach Smith was relieved of duty.
 
tony/troy said:
The NCAA did not cancel 2020-2021. Only Shirley and seven other fools did. Most have yet to recover. Unfortunately, Dave was one of those that was unable to fix that.

The NCAA did not mandate empty buildings for 2021-2022. Only Shirley did. No one else had to fix that.
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I was referring to the cancellation of the end of the 19-20 season, which was what Dave Aiello was referring to as the "beginning of the pandemic". Dave Aiello then diplomatically suggested that RPI's approach to reopening, which would necessarily include the actions you cite here, was questionable. For some reason, you've read him as defending the actions in 20-21, and 21-22, which he did not do.
 
tony/troy said:
You are absolutely correct about the TV money which I did not even mention. You are probably also right about if that kind of money was involved, even Shirley would have found a way to get the games played. Didn't mention that either.

Supposedly and according to legend (who knows for sure), while working here Shirley was solicited about the President's job at the University of Georgia. With the kind of money involved with that program and the maniacal fan base that program has, could not even imagine Shirley pulling the kind of crap down there she pulled up here on us. Doubt she would have even considered stepping in the way of their back to back national championship runs. Had she done so, especially with those nuts they have for a fan base down there (ever heard them call the Finebaum show???), she would have needed for real the around the clock armed security that she imagined she needed up here!!!

I have no doubt you made an honest attempt at researching both Ole Miss "capacity limits" and actual "given" attendance figures and stated them accurately. However, please note that as I mentioned in my post, both were laughed off by people that were actually present at Ole Miss facilities at that time as being computed in a base other than 10. Not present as often or consistently for basketball and baseball as they are for football (they live 60 miles away), but, actually present is actually present. Their estimates as eyewitnesses at facilities they have known for decades like the back of their hands trumps any "figures" listed anywhere in my book. Especially from an era where even dead red states could sometimes be deceptive (though nowhere near as often as the blue ones).

To have some fun at my expense they actually called me in the spring of 2021 while driving home from a very big baseball game in Oxford. For that game every seat in the stadium had a fanny in it, every single square inch of the grass hill burn that rims the outfield had a fanny on it and they were standing two to three deep on the concourse behind the bern. Wonder what the "listed" attendance was for whatever game that was. Eyewitness estimate was well over 10,000. Anyway, they wanted to know if I was still being banned from attending small school "beer league baseball" (their words, not mine) playing to crowds of 100 to 200. They had a good laugh when I told them I was still banned even from the outdoors!!!

What the hell else is needed to show how absurd people up here were during that time??? Oh, by the way, with utter absurdity eliminated and out of the way something happened slightly over a year after receiving the above mentioned 2021 phone call. Your 2022 NCAA D1 Baseball Champions were indeed the Ole Miss Rebels!!! I guess Dave was supposed to match that while working at a loony bin. I will forgive him for not being able to pull it off.
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I got a chuckle at your story. SEC schools cheating on attendance limitations? Say it isn't so. They cheat whenever possible so why stop when they can cheat on their own rules.

I saw pictures from one of the games and it was very clear that there was some limitation, but it was hard to tell how much. The sidelines weren't close to full but still had quite a few people and the end zones looked empty. I think the fans, however many they let in, said "Why am I sitting in the end zone when there are much better seats empty?" So much for social distancing.

Lastly, the only SEC game I've ever seen in person was an Egg Bowl decades ago when they played in Jackson, where I was visiting my wife's relatives. It was fun, but I enjoyed going to a Jackson State game more. The halftime show featuring the JSU band was fantastic and the game was decided on a touchdown off a fumble-rooskie. Whether through renovations or a new rink, if we are going to play D1 hockey RPI has got to get the band a better location.
 
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rvd5star69 said:
i would think rpi would want some sort of alumni presence on the bench. where can we go for a star freshman goalie or portal transfer
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Well, you've got a keeper in the OHL and a freshman recruit ...I don't know enough about either of them to make predictions, but would guess that the new coach will be looking to bring in another contender. Plenty of questions and few answers at this point....
 
Engineers said:
sounding like Brett Riley is the front runner for the Ferris state job.
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Dunno what source you are gleaning info from, but I'd have to think they'd look for someone with midwest hockey ties for recruiting, and perhaps a link to the school. Lalonde, Blashill .....Berry if they are really serious about the program. (Don't get me wrong, I love the Riley kid and think he'd be a great fit in Troy...)

Actually this just occurred to me....I did notice that Lalonde was in L. Placid last weekend for ECACs ...I wonder if he had a stop in Troy on his way north ? ..... hmmm.

The intrigue !! LOL
 
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