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2014-15 Rosters

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You're starting to sound like U-Wisconsin....maybe they should just give them a "scrimmage"! Not every program has the start up like Adrian. Not every program takes the winning attitude like Adrian did. Everyone wants to point out 24-0 RIT / Neumann score, but just a few years later Neumann was raising a banner because they challenged themselves. Same thing with Fredonia in the late 80s and 90s. Fredonia got beat 25-0 to Plattsburgh then a few years later was beating Plattsburgh and going to the DIII Championships. The best thing teams like SNC and Adrian could do IS play Aurora. UWS, MSOE, UWRF, STU, Stout...they're trying. I don't know much about the school, but maybe they don't have the resources "yet" to put forth a DIII team, but if you shy away from the big boys who will ever want to come to your school? Take some lumps, take some hits. The real question will come with how they respond. Like us east coasters had said with Lebanon Valley, they had the chance to make a successful team but chose not to. Step 1 is creating a team. If they can't offer a decent recruiting package (we won't go into the whole Adrian thing and the mysterious article that claimed they would be going DI) it will be hard for them to pick up some higher end talent. Looks like its about $30,000 a year for school, with an average of $6,000 in institutional aid. That's for in-state and out of state students. They've pulled in some NAHL kids, D3 Kids, and yes some from the SIJHL which has sent kids on to DI schools and ECHL Semi Pro. Let's see what happens. Give it some time.

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While he is not Roll, let's not make it sound like he hasn't stepped foot on ice before. He does have previous hockey coaching experience, all be it not at the college level...

The Aurora University 2014-2015 Hockey (NCAA) Coaching Staff:

Ryan Buchanan - Head Coach
Shaun Falzone - Assistant Coach
Blake Sorensen - Assistant Coach
Gerald "Grumpy" Fleck Equipment Manager

Shaun Falzone - As a player spent time playing at the high school level in suburban Chicago, and then for a Canadian junior hockey academy in Banff, Alberta before getting into coaching at youth and high school-aged levels; he then became the coach of the MnJHL's Dell Ducks. and then a scout and assistant coach for the Minnesota Owls

Blake Sorensen - Started out his college career in 1994 at SUNY Plattsburgh before transferring to St Norbert, was a 1997 Camp Counselor at the St Norbert College Hockey School, played Professional Hockey in Europe from 1999 - 2005 (UK, Eastern Europe and Austria), spent the 2013-14 season as an assistant coach for the ACHA D1's University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, holds a USA Hockey Coaching Certificate - Level 4, is - currently the Lead Ice Instructor for Functional Hockey as well as the Director of Hockey at The Latin School of Chicago
 
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You need to do yourself a favor. Go find the person who taught you sentence syntax, slap them, and then ask for your money back. It will make you a lot happier, believe me.

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You should do yourself a favor and just call someone who cares. Don't like it, don't read it. You put out so much outstanding content of your unquestionable wisdom I should shudder in your presence. Forgive me. Carry on.

That was much, MUCH better. I knew you could do it. Well done!
 
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All right. For now, I'll eat crow on this one. At this point, Aurora does not appear to be the flaming dumpster fire on wheels that I thought they would be. Losing 6-2 and 6-3 to Superior on opening weekend is better than I expected. The shot totals, while clearly slanted towards UW-Superior, are not overly egregious.

Now, I reserve the right to change my mind on this one down the road, but for now it appears I might have missed by a bit here.
 
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