Re: Boston University 2009-2010 Season Thread II: Still got a pulse, time for CPR
I don't know, I kind of get the exact opposite feeling from reading this letter. I'm one of the biggest Fire Parker guys out there, but I agree with Rover. It seems like he knows what's wrong and it doesn't seem like the things that are wrong are new or have never been encountered before. I think there's a 50/50 chance he can fix them. We'll have to see. On a side note, the fact that he knows what's wrong and that these are things that have been encountered in the past make me wonder why the hell they are back again and how he could have let that happen again in the first place, but I digress.
Furthermore, I feel the exact opposite about recruiting. I agree he screwed up this year because I just don't see Megan, Santana, Courtnall or Rosen adding anything to the team over the next three and a half years, but I think the future is bright. You don't see the National Championship effect for at least one year anyway and as long as the post-National Championship effect (4-10-3 at the break) doesn't screw things up (like, say, convince Clendening to go to Canada), I expect our class next year to be #1 in the country and good stuff seems to be happening down the road.
I do think Kraus needs a start because his second appearence this season has been better than everything we've seen from Millan or Rollheiser except for Millan's first two periods against BC.
On to other things - I finally got around to starting Burn the Boats today. I'm on page 31. It's a good read so far, though in my personal opinion, if you are going to quote someone's column on page 13, I think you should put the writer's name in there somewhere. But more relevant, I really enjoyed reading about Z. Cohen's laziness. I couldn't really see it his freshman year because he wasn't very good anyway and his sophomore year, I thought he improved his skating drastically but didn't get any playing time, so you couldn't see it then. I think almost getting kicked off the team got his butt in gear last season, but (and this was before I even read the book) if you asked me who the laziest player on the team is this year, I'd have said Z. Cohen. I also thought it was interesting to learn that no one liked Wilson his first year because he was an immature little kid, and that Bennett is a good kid who thanked Parker for the opportunity after being booted. The latter is something a little different than the general tenor of the statements made about him on here.
Anyway, if you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas! If not, enjoy your time off.
Some scattershooting of thoughts with too much time on my hands:
I'm glad to see parker somewhat acknowledging his over use of a small group of players that had good seasons last year. This, in my mind, would lead one to conclude he needs to give others that show work ethic and heart in practice and the little time on the ice in games a larger role coming out of Christmas break to see if they can make a positive impact with larger roles.
I also noticed he talked about all "3" goaltenders when he mentioned it would be a strong suit for the team. He than went on to talk about the horrible save percentage year to date. The horrible save % and w-l record is with the two that have played.
He says he thinks those two can easily turn that around given their history (haven't seen any indication Rollheiser can be effective this year or last...he had a couple of shutouts with one or two scoring ops with last year's team in front but in tough games has not done much in my mind to demonstrate they can actually win a game on his back). I guess he should either refer to only "2" goalies as that's all he uses or give Kraus a shot once and for all. I'm tired of him implying Kraus can play when we never finds out in a game if that kid is a D-1 goalie.
I agree with other posters discussion of lack of back checking among forwards and wonder why that is not mentioned by him. That is effort and if there are no consequences to lack of effort its poor coaching because it reinforces that lack of effort will be tolerated.
Reading that letter depressed me because there seems to be nothing in there suggesting anything will change as the year goes on.
The recruiting and replenishment of talent does not seem to look too good going forward and the lack of planning to replace the enormous loss of talent last year is biting the Terriers in the a** this year. The loss of Quinn will only become a more glaring issue as time goes by.
I'm afraid the next few years could give us Terrier fans a real understanding of what its like to cheer for Providence or Merrimack.
I don't know, I kind of get the exact opposite feeling from reading this letter. I'm one of the biggest Fire Parker guys out there, but I agree with Rover. It seems like he knows what's wrong and it doesn't seem like the things that are wrong are new or have never been encountered before. I think there's a 50/50 chance he can fix them. We'll have to see. On a side note, the fact that he knows what's wrong and that these are things that have been encountered in the past make me wonder why the hell they are back again and how he could have let that happen again in the first place, but I digress.
Furthermore, I feel the exact opposite about recruiting. I agree he screwed up this year because I just don't see Megan, Santana, Courtnall or Rosen adding anything to the team over the next three and a half years, but I think the future is bright. You don't see the National Championship effect for at least one year anyway and as long as the post-National Championship effect (4-10-3 at the break) doesn't screw things up (like, say, convince Clendening to go to Canada), I expect our class next year to be #1 in the country and good stuff seems to be happening down the road.
I do think Kraus needs a start because his second appearence this season has been better than everything we've seen from Millan or Rollheiser except for Millan's first two periods against BC.
On to other things - I finally got around to starting Burn the Boats today. I'm on page 31. It's a good read so far, though in my personal opinion, if you are going to quote someone's column on page 13, I think you should put the writer's name in there somewhere. But more relevant, I really enjoyed reading about Z. Cohen's laziness. I couldn't really see it his freshman year because he wasn't very good anyway and his sophomore year, I thought he improved his skating drastically but didn't get any playing time, so you couldn't see it then. I think almost getting kicked off the team got his butt in gear last season, but (and this was before I even read the book) if you asked me who the laziest player on the team is this year, I'd have said Z. Cohen. I also thought it was interesting to learn that no one liked Wilson his first year because he was an immature little kid, and that Bennett is a good kid who thanked Parker for the opportunity after being booted. The latter is something a little different than the general tenor of the statements made about him on here.
Anyway, if you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas! If not, enjoy your time off.
