Greg Ambrose
Registered User
Re: #6 UNH, Home and Home with #12 Merrimack, Fri 2/11 Sat 2/12
Umile certainly has a history of dealing with stupidity on and off the ice. I think any coach has to if he wants to keep his team on an even keel. In my book, if you are too arbitrary, you can alienate the team, if you're too loose, you can you lose respect. As far as specific examples, two years ago Umile finally had enough of Danny Dries' act, on the ice (too many stupid penalties) and off (too many bar incidents) and booted him off the team three days before the Manchester regionals. Garrett Stafford's senior year, one where he sat out the first semester because of his failure to gain a B grade in a summer school class, was further shortened second semester when Umile found out Stafford was blowing off classes again. I believe he sat out two weekends worth of games. He suspended a whole bunch of players in the aftermath of the 2004 Red Sox World Series victory after they were warned not to be anywhere near the "celebration" in downtown Durham and ignored the advice. I think, overall, the players know not to cross Umile. From what I hear, he does a pretty good job of getting his point across if you do.
Umile certainly has a history of dealing with stupidity on and off the ice. I think any coach has to if he wants to keep his team on an even keel. In my book, if you are too arbitrary, you can alienate the team, if you're too loose, you can you lose respect. As far as specific examples, two years ago Umile finally had enough of Danny Dries' act, on the ice (too many stupid penalties) and off (too many bar incidents) and booted him off the team three days before the Manchester regionals. Garrett Stafford's senior year, one where he sat out the first semester because of his failure to gain a B grade in a summer school class, was further shortened second semester when Umile found out Stafford was blowing off classes again. I believe he sat out two weekends worth of games. He suspended a whole bunch of players in the aftermath of the 2004 Red Sox World Series victory after they were warned not to be anywhere near the "celebration" in downtown Durham and ignored the advice. I think, overall, the players know not to cross Umile. From what I hear, he does a pretty good job of getting his point across if you do.
...I think it was Jon over at Friar-ville. If you can get him to dispute his origination of that, I'll stand corrected and will humbly offer an apology....(cough, cough, bs!)
Will search the archives and see if I can find it.