Had the players that left known she was getting fired they would have stayed.
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2026 Coaching Changes
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The AD likes to drag his feet and dismiss critical issues. The SL saga ended when 80% of the team reported major issues, the AD had no choice but he was initially quite dismissive. TW wasn't much better, after a couple months her real persona started to shine. Brutal POS, just rotten.
Two years into Crowell's time at Dartmouth and no visible improvement in the team's record. The team really hasn't been very good since Mark Hudak was the coach. Firing him seems to have been a mistake in hindsight. Why was he fired anyway? They're on their 4th head coach since then if you include Joe Marsh during the Olympic year of 2017-18. Do you think Crowell is having any regrets about deciding to take this job when she was doing so well at UMD?
A couple things - first, I've heard Crowell had family reasons for wanting to be on the East Coast. If that's true, she's probably not having regrets, especially if she likes a relatively remote place like Duluth OR Hanover. Second, you could argue that Dartmouth's record the last 2 years doesn't tell the complete story - they've had a ton of 1-goal losses, including OT games, some against pretty solid teams. They seem to really struggle to score goals. Interesting that Jason Carter, who coached their forwards I believe, is moving on (per Instagram). Maybe they think their offensive systems need a boost? Their goaltending is super-strong (Hesova, the starter, played a few games for Czechia in the Olympics); if they could squeeze out another goal or two their record could improve considerably. Anyone know if any of the skaters coming in this year might bring any near-term offensive production?
That said, Crowell does seem to have an uphill battle - she's got a small school, which will weed out some kids, in a relatively remote, rural area, which will weed out others, with presumably challenging academic standards, which will weed out still more, AND that doesn't give athletic scholarships (tho supposedly need-based aid at Ivy League schools is readily available). While Bellamy at Harvard is one year ahead of Crowell and had something of a resurgent season this year, I feel like Harvard, Princeton and Yale probably get a leg up in recruiting by being in a different category prestige-wise than even the other Ivy schools. If Crowell can show just a bit of progress the next two seasons, maybe her name recognition and reported popularity with players can get them back to respectability? We'll see.
eastcoastgopher
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I've lived in the Upper Valley, so I'm probably more sympathetic to Dartmouth than most. Crowell went to Colgate, which seems like a good goal to have—great academic school that isn't all that close to anything but has had some real success in women's hockey. She wanted to be close to family and you have to respect that, but it has crossed my mind that if she can even start to turn Dartmouth around, and there's an opening at, say, a Beanpot school, that might be where they'd want to look.
Timothy A
Let's go RED!
IDK, Dartmouth's men's team made the NCAA's this year. She should have made SOME progress. You'd think the 4th place WCHA coach who sporadically got her team into the ncaa's could made a dent in the EZAC.
eastcoastgopher
Active member
In Cashman's second season—which was really his third because his first year the Ivies didn't have a season—Dartmouth men's record was almost identical to their women's record this year.
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
My guess would be that three straight losing seasons, including just six wins in his final year, convinced the decision makers that the glory years of his tenure had come and gone. I remember Dartmouth being elite while Oberting's recruits were still around, but the team drifted downward after that. Perhaps the decline was inevitable for a smaller school as bigger budgets entered the competition, or maybe he contributed in some way to the decline. In any case, he wasn't able to prevent it.
ARM
Fan of chipmunk-like mascots.
They were good enough to bounce the Badgers from their first NCAA trip.
2005 had 8 teams. Badgers lost 4-3 in quarterfinals. We all know what started the next year though.