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  1. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Now if it was Swarm that'd be a different story...
  2. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Couldn't agree more and said as much way back in the annals of this thread's history. Whatever they can do to get butts in the seats and generate some buzz should be high on the AD's to do list. Near the top of that list should be having a real social media and online engagement presence...
  3. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I think you have to take the attitude that first year, even the first two, are rebuilds and you are happy for whatever success you manage to get. It's tough for us as fans after having waited so long for that success to come and we're impatient now, but if his coaching is as much an improvement...
  4. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Like I said about 40 pages ago, enough things have lined up at the Tute to feel like a real sea change rather than some deck chair rearranging. We can, for now at least, feel some optimism! :)
  5. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Interestingly, I recently watched that '85 championship retrospective video with Pierre Langevin and he made mention of how big the D guys on that team were. Seems like a pretty critical ingredient.
  6. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Agree, it's not on the short list of things to address. I think it's more that the shuttering of the tournament was an indication of the decline of the program overall, and its (eventual) revival would be part of a renaissance. Aspirational at this point.
  7. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I like this idea! How about this... RPI and Union could co-host the "Capital District Invitational Tournament" in place of the Mayor's Cup. Invite two other schools and have RPI and Union play other opponents in the first round. If they both advance then they play for bragging rights in the...
  8. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    It was the oldest in the country when it ended was it not? If we can rekindle interest in the team and get attendance up then maybe they could bring it back - with you on that 100%!
  9. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I agree, I feel like he could be The Guy. Dave Smith's hiring surprised me, and although he had things moving in a better direction before getting done in by COVID and Shirley, I never really felt like he was The Guy. Not to get ahead of ourselves here but with Lang I feel like we might have...
  10. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    The presser was pretty good! I was hoping there would be some televised Q&A from the press after the speeches but they just had breakout sessions and ended the live feed. Coach Lang had some pretty encouraging things to say about his expectations for being able to win and support from the...
  11. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I hope possibly being a "factor in the ECAC" is the bare minimum we're shooting for here! :)
  12. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    All this optimism and interest in the coaching change got me down a rabbit hole of reliving the glory days (and the dream of perhaps returning to them). I had consumed plenty of info over the years about the '85 championship, which was during my lifetime and not long before I matriculated, but...
  13. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Great post. I was genuinely upset when you shut WaP down but I understood. Honestly it was hard to fathom the amount of time and effort you put into it, especially considering the headwinds of administrative (lack of) support. I have heard from enough people in the alumni community with...
  14. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Must-See (RPI) TV!
  15. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Yeah, I totally agree. More of just a way for me to vent about the sorry state of the Blueshirts. Can't imagine Lav is still there next season.
  16. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I'm elated that we got Lang but watching the Rangers' dumpster fire of a season wind down has me wondering if Dan Muse might have ended up being available after all. :p
  17. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    Exactly. RPI, you have the college hockey world's attention - show them you mean business. Hiring Lang was a huge step in the right direction.
  18. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    It's probably a good thing they are still in the ECAC where I think they can be competitive at least in their league. A guy like Lang has demonstrated he can do a lot with a little and hopefully RPI gives him more to work with than he had at AIC. If they can make it to the big dance every now...
  19. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    I sure hope he conditioned his hiring on investment in the program, because boy do they need it. Upgrade or replace HFH, get your social media presence up to snuff, engage the community, the alumni, embrace your program's storied history and treat it as the crown jewel of campus life and not an...
  20. tanman

    RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

    It's up on the Tute's page now. https://rpiathletics.com/news/2025/4/8/eric-lang-named-rpi-mens-hockey-coach.aspx
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