Let's see if you can stay with me on this. Quinnipiac has played 35 games, Harvard has played 29. Quinnipiac started their season against BC on October 3rd. Harvard started their season on October 29th vs. UConn. Still with me? Yeah, the Bobcats have a longer schedule. Maybe someone should buy you a calculator and a calendar for your birthday.
Regarding Quinnipiac leaving and hurting the ECAC nationally, that's pure rubbish. The NCAA has expanded invites to include the Atlantic Hockey Conference as well as D-1 Independents. No one gets hurt nationally if you play teams outside your conference. And the day may come when the Ivy League decides to split off from the ECAC to get their own autobid to the tournament. Never say never where the NCAA is concerned.
I'm still laughing at your comment about Harvard out recruiting every team in the conference. This is a tired, overused excuse that everyone who didn't go to Harvard loves to shove in our faces. If this were true, we would be in the Frozen Four every year. Pure BS. Fact is, we lose more recruits to other schools who either offer scholarships or other incentives that we can't offer. The NIL and transfer portal is a real factor, whether you choose to accept it or not.
But hey, good for you guys for going for national championships. You don't worry about the academic index because you're on the lower end of the spectrum. And for the record, I've been critical of Teddy and his approach and have not backed down from my comments. Nor will I.
I don't know what I said that compelled you to reply with such vitriol. Unfortunately, literally everything you just wrote is wrong.
Let's see if you can stay with me on this. Quinnipiac has played 35 games, Harvard has played 29. Quinnipiac started their season against BC on October 3rd. Harvard started their season on October 29th vs. UConn. Still with me? Yeah, the Bobcats have a longer schedule. Maybe someone should buy you a calculator and a calendar for your birthday.
Maybe someone should buy you a dictionary for your birthday so you can understand your own words. You did not write that Quinnipiac plays more games than Harvard. Instead, you wrote: "They play a longer schedule than
anyone else." Which I informed you is not true, because they play the same number of games as about 57 other teams in NCAA Division I hockey
including six teams in their own conference, a conference you want to kick them out of because..."they play more games than anyone else"????
Regarding Quinnipiac leaving and hurting the ECAC nationally, that's pure rubbish. The NCAA has expanded invites to include the Atlantic Hockey Conference as well as D-1 Independents. No one gets hurt nationally if you play teams outside your conference. And the day may come when the Ivy League decides to split off from the ECAC to get their own autobid to the tournament. Never say never where the NCAA is concerned.
So according to you, the Big 10 and the Atlantic Hockey, and all the teams that comprise them, have the same national standing? That's obviously a completely absurd thing to say. The best players don't want to play in Atlantic Hockey in large part because the competition is so much worse. Atlantic Hockey gets exactly one team into the NCAAs every year. You'd rather the ECAC's reputation go in the dumpster?
I'm still laughing at your comment about Harvard out recruiting every team in the conference.
You clearly don't follow recruiting at all, because if you did you'd know Harvard recruits better talent than the rest of the ECAC and usually it isn't even close. Harvard recruits more players on the NHL Central Scouting rankings, it recruits more players who get drafted, it recruits way more players from the USNTDP. This has been true basically every single year for 10-15 years now. Go read about it or ask a coach or advisor instead of making shit up.
This is a tired, overused excuse that everyone who didn't go to Harvard loves to shove in our faces."
First of all, I attended Harvard for graduate school. Second of all, people "shove that in your face" because it's considered an objective truth by anyone who follows these things.
If this were true, we would be in the Frozen Four every year.
Where'd you learn that logic? If you recruit better than the rest of the ECAC, you go to the Frozen Four every year?
Pure BS. Fact is, we lose more recruits to other schools who either offer scholarships or other incentives that we can't offer. The NIL and transfer portal is a real factor, whether you choose to accept it or not.
"Fact is," Harvard has lost recruits to scholarship schools for ages, including when it last won the national championship and when it last went to the Frozen Four. "Fact is," Harvard has the most generous financial aid in the entire country along with countless other advantages that enables it to win many recruiting battles against those same scholarship schools as well as against the rest of the ECAC. "Fact is," since the no-penalty transfer rule went into effect, Harvard hockey has NEVER lost a player to the transfer portal that it wanted to keep.
But hey, good for you guys for going for national championships. You don't worry about the academic index because you're on the lower end of the spectrum.
The academic index to which you refer is a function of (a) 2/3 test scores and (b) 1/3 GPA. Google tells me the average Harvard admitted student's SAT is a 1540. Meanwhile, the average Cornell admit's SAT is...
also a1540. For GPA, the average Harvard admit's is a 4.2, whereas the average Cornell admit's is a 4.125. So please explain to me how the exact same SAT and a functionally identical GPA makes it so much easier for Cornell to compete for national championships than Harvard.
I'm sorry your team sucks, but there's really no need to debase yourself.
