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Nick Papagiorgio said:
Greg Brown is a gd fool for not trying to rework the lines after the Northeastern debacle. An absolute gd fool.

My money is going to BOB and football until this gets sorted and we have an athletic director that can cure BC Hockey of its Brown Syndrome.
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Don't forget the other problem, Leahy does not leave until next year. So the new president who is more supportive to athletics can't do a thing.

I have season tickets to all 3 sports with my buddies. Hoops cannot be allowed to go on like this which should be a revenue making sport like football. Brown was not my first choice when JY retired, for the reasons we all see now but he was given the job.

As soon as DU scored first my gut feeing was that was the game. Pohlkamp's goal was too much giving time and space. Three defenders skating backwards, you have to stand him up and not let him have an uncontested shot that was labeled. Now I have to dump my FF ticket to fan sitting beside me.
 
Potluck said:
The only problem BC has is the youth of its top recruits. BC consistently attracts the best 18 year olds in college hockey. The problem with these kids is they’re not physically men yet. Many other teams feature men - 21-25 year olds.

Brown is doing a great job. He’s dealing with a chemistry issue though. He cannot have a team at 18-21 year olds. He needs a group of elite 18-19 year olds balanced with more mature 21-25 year olds.

BC needs a recruiting formula that includes two different types of recruits. The 18 year old and 21 year old freshman. In the alternative, BC can simply use the portal to add top shelf college 22 year old upperclassmen each year to supplement the super frosh

This is the ultimate caviar and champagne problem. Just give Brown a bit more time in the laboratory.
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If you look at DU they have the same youth but retained Davis as their goalie. DU is heavy on the SO class along with 5 Freshmen. The difference is coaching. Carle is doing a great job for the short amount of time he has been coach after Montgomery left.
 
Seacaptim said:
I noticed this last year. BC only finished #1 in the pairwise and won HE regular season championship and then HE playoff championship over BU 6-2 at the Garden. Eagles then only won 3 of 4 NCAA tournament games before losing the finale against Denver. If we could only win them all.
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BC was too tentative in the 1st period last year and DU took it to them in the 2nd period. He still hasn't won a beanpot which is getting close to 10 years now, since 2016. Last year and this year he had good teams and couldn't do it. The drought goes on.
 
Chuck Murray said:
Somewhere out there, Jerry York quietly chuckles as his ambitious understudies fail to live up to his pedigree, doing their Ceglarski impersonations .
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If I know Jerry, he's got an attitude of gratitude for both Cav and Brownie.

Great season for both teams. Not 10 frozen fours in 15 seasons and 4 natty's great, but great nonetheless. I guess we can thank them, and their BC Hockey early millennium success, for elevating BC fan expectations. Although isn't this guy a UNH fan? I suppose that explains the negativity.
 
Nick Papagiorgio said:
Pretty sure Vegas had DU as the favorite in this matchup.
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Whatever Vegas had, it didn't matter because as BC fans and observers we knew this team had flaws that we all knew all season.

Brown failing to address the problems and it did them in when it mattered in the big games. One of my friends was all in for BC and he was surprised at my opinion and assessment of the game and the team overall which turn out to be the case.
 
Chuck Murray said:
Somewhere out there, Jerry York quietly chuckles as his ambitious understudies fail to live up to his pedigree, doing their Ceglarski impersonations ...
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I doubt it knowing JY.

You may be chuckling Chuck but not York. He can only hope for the best and leave it at that.
 
The only problem BC has is the youth of its top recruits. BC consistently attracts the best 18 year olds in college hockey. The problem with these kids is they’re not physically men yet. Many other teams feature men - 21-25 year olds.

Brown is doing a great job. He’s dealing with a chemistry issue though. He cannot have a team at 18-21 year olds. He needs a group of elite 18-19 year olds balanced with more mature 21-25 year olds.

BC needs to recruiting formulas that includes two different types of recruits. The 18 year old and 21 year old freshman.

This is the ultimate caviar and champagne problem. Just give Brown a bit more time in the laboratory.
 
DNAEagle said:
I agree, JY is not into schadenfreude, but apparently Chuck is.
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Request from UNH. If UNH puts Chuck Murray a/k/a Buford into the portal will BC accept him and using him as a tackling dummy for the football team? BC owes UNH nothing, but its part of your Jesuit mandate to try to alleviate the suffering of others, including the state of New Hampshire. Buford knows nothing about college hockey and causes UNH fans to suffer.
 
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Potluck said:
Request from UNH. If UNH puts Chuck Murray a/k/a Buford into the portal will BC accept him and using him as a tackling dummy for the football team? BC owes UNH nothing, but its part of your Jesuit mandate to try to alleviate the suffering of other. Buford nothing about college hockey and causes UNH fans to suffer.
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We have the BC Campus School for the mentally disabled. Chuck will fit right in there and it's right up the stairs from the hockey rink so he should be comfortable there.
 
lifeoncommave said:
BC was the underdog going in? They were the #1 team in the country with a gazillion NHL picks. Rationalize all you want, I just hope your friends at the other end of Comm. Ave. can count on your support in the Frozen Four. The BU Green Line Fan Train is warm - jump on!
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It's a mutual hate,
BU never roots for BC and BC never roots for BU. End of discussion )
 
Nick Papagiorgio said:
Greg Brown is a gd fool for not trying to rework the lines after the Northeastern debacle. An absolute gd fool.

My money is going to BOB and football until this gets sorted and we have an athletic director that can cure BC Hockey of its Brown Syndrome.
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Somewhere out there, Jerry York quietly chuckles as his ambitious understudies fail to live up to his pedigree, doing their Ceglarski impersonations ...
DNAEagle said:
I agree, JY is not into schadenfreude, but apparently Chuck is.
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Just pointing out that one of his old guys earlier sold himself on the recruiting trails by pointing out Coach York never won without him (overlooking, of course, the BGSU title many years before his BC stint), and has since gone on to win nothing himself in a dozen years - no RS title, no HEA title, and not even a Regional "title" in his one (1) foray into that arena. I hold both Coach York AND the Brown hockey family in the highest of regards, so you can figure out who I left out.

So I was probably being unfair to GB there, hence my apologies. As to Jerry, as virtuous as he may be, he is also human, and that human had some input on which of his former assistants would be the better replacement. You guys know what happened next. FWIW I think it was 100% the correct call to hire GB.

In the meantime, your fast friend Potty is Souza's lone defender on the UNH thread, so just understand who you're getting into bed with ... :ROFLMAO: :poop:🤮
 
As much as I'd like to pile on BC I don't see a major issue here. Denver is one of the few teams that can skate with BC no problem throughout their lineup and their puck possession skills are insane. That makes each match up a rock fight with DU with a small advantage due to their goalie (one goal given up on a clean breakaway in two games?!? Yikes).
 
Rover said:
As much as I'd like to pile on BC I don't see a major issue here. Denver is one of the few teams that can skate with BC no problem throughout their lineup and their puck possession skills are insane. That makes each match up a rock fight with DU with a small advantage due to their goalie (one goal given up on a clean breakaway in two games?!? Yikes).
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Denver tends to be gamers too. They tend to play twice as good when the big games come.
 
Nick P - wasn't there a game in December, just before semester end, where Letourneau was going to be scratched, and a late illness/injury got him back in the lineup? I saw suggestions that there was consideration of sending him to the USHL at that point, too. I wonder if that was really on the table tho.
 
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