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Boston University Part IV: Off-Season or New Season?

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SteveF said:
well i guess you must have the worst karma of us all... missing the tournament two years in a row now and such.


and to be honest, i laughed when you got last in the beanpot.
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Shouldn't you get back to patting your fellow Eagle fans on the back for what nice fans you are?? Such sweethearts!
 
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goalguard said:
For whatever it's worth, BC still trails BU 5 to 4 in national championships.
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Did he not say that in his post?

BU Fan 84 said:
I guess unlike you, I can read between the lines a bit. I assume he was using karma to refer to the fact that the list of BC fans I wrote in my last post act like *********s, *******s and scumbags on this messageboard and Eagle Action and now they have to deal with the agony of defeat. In that sense, it has everything to do with karma - that is what karma is, if you believe in that sort of thing. I don't think he was using the word in respect to particular players or coaches.
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Let me tip my cap to you for having superior intelligence, especially when it comes to reading between the lines of a truly moronic message board post. Also, since you know all about how karma supposedly works...is it karma whenever BC loses? Whenever they lose an NCAA tournament game? Whenever they are favored to win but lose? Or is it when they lose by more than a couple goals? Please enlighten me. What a stupid argument.

Newsflash: BC isn't undefeated in NCAA tournament play and won't go undefeated from this point forward. You can't simply throw out karma every time they lose.

It's nice seeing you're another one who frequents EagleAction though.

Now, if BC won a tournament game they shouldn't have based on a bad call or if someone actually associated with the team guaranteed victory...then I might buy the karma BS. Not here. Sorry.

BUPhD said:
The fact that there's all these BC fans that spend so much time in our threads says a lot about them as well.
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I like college hockey and this is the board where you can talk about every team. I certainly don't mind BU fans posting in the BC thread. That's what we do here. Not sure it says any more about us than you guys talking about BC says about you. Again, that's what we do.
 
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Correct you are...Not about any player or the coaches, who I have much respect for...they have earned it. It is for certain fans of BC who think they are the annointed ones... BC and then everyone else... per their thread title. Now how does it feel to come back to earth.. and hit it hard???? Thanks BU Fan 84 for your support and your clarification. it IS Karma... PS, BC fans...if you don't like what BU fans discuss on their thread, then STAY OFF IT and troll your own threads.. Also since we are attracting so many BC fans, watch how many of your players sign before next season and then see how you like rebuilding like we are doing...it's part of the process which you will find out about again shortly. Some of their "key players" have the "pens in hand".
 
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SteveF said:
well i guess you must have the worst karma of us all... missing the tournament two years in a row now and such.


and to be honest, i laughed when you got last in the beanpot.
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hey, i would have laughed if it had been bc. any time you lose to a team like harvard you have to laugh at how pathetic it is
 
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BUTerrierfan said:
It is for certain fans of BC who think they are the annointed ones... BC and then everyone else... per their thread title. Now how does it feel to come back to earth.. and hit it hard???? Thanks BU Fan 84 for your support and your clarification. it IS Karma... PS, BC fans...if you don't like what BU fans discuss on their thread, then STAY OFF IT and troll your own threads.. Also since we are attracting so many BC fans, watch how many of your players sign before next season and then see how you like rebuilding like we are doing...it's part of the process which you will find out about again shortly. Some of their "key players" have the "pens in hand".
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LOL...you're getting worked up over a thread title? Lighten up, dude. As for how it felt...it was a shocking ending to a great season/four year run. Now, how has it felt to miss the tourney in three of the last four years?

How does one troll their own thread? Anyway, you have the right to say whatever you want on here (for the most part). And I have the right to respond. Hate to break it to you, but you're not breaking any news. Most expect Jimmy Hayes and Cam Atkinson to leave (as a matter of fact, Cam just signed with Columbus). By the way, the last time BC was entering a true rebuilding year was 2005-2006. They proceeded to stomp BU in the Northeast Regional Final and went on to play for the national title. Another question mark of a year was 2007-2008...that ended in a national title. To simply assume BC is going to miss the tournament the next two years is foolish on your part.
 
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J.D. said:
Anyway, you have the right to say whatever you want on here (for the most part). And I have the right to respond. Hate to break it to you, but you're not breaking any news. Most expect Jimmy Hayes and Cam Atkinson to leave (as a matter of fact, Cam just signed with Columbus). By the way, the last time BC was entering a true rebuilding year was 2005-2006. They proceeded to stomp BU in the Northeast Regional Final and went on to play for the national title. Another question mark of a year was 2007-2008...that ended in a national title. To simply assume BC is going to miss the tournament the next two years is foolish on your part.
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I'll agree that assuming BC will miss the next two years is foolish but it certainly isn't impossible either. What would you classify 08-09 as then if 07-08 was rebuilding and you won it, then you should have repeated in 08-09.? championship hangover? I know Muse certainly had a down year as I remember BC fans at the BU-BC game bashing Muse and certainly NU had their best regular season in a good amount of time that year but BC still had talent that year as always
 
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They underachieved in 2008-2009. Could very well have been a championship hangover. Muse, Smith and Ferriero all battled injuries. Underestimated loss of Gerbe.
 
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Yeah. I've caught NoDak a few times on the TV through the season as my FiOS picks up some channel that carries a lot of their games. They've been scary good all year really.
 
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Federal League said:
And for the record, I completely agree with Parker's assessment that Warsofsky needed to be challenged more and seemed to think everything was gonna come easy this season. I also agree with the posters who have said it's on Parker for not being able to get him to change that mindset. I don't think Warsofsky's struggles had anything to do with his skill set or hockey IQ. It was all mental in my opinion. Very similar to what happened with Shattenkirk last season.
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Just got back from seeing 1st night of Bridgeport, 2 days of primo VT skiing and lots of ESPN-U watching. I have many thoughts and observations from the regionals, but now that Notre Dame with 12 frosh and 5 sophs are in the FF, what's BU excuse now??? To all those here who are still not buying that the problem is coaching, how do you explain their performance when ND is younger and arguably less experienced than BU? :confused:

They completely stifled UNH yesterday and after overcoming their 1st period jitters vs. MC (and the feeling about just being happy to be there), they gradually took over and found a way to beat a very motivated and strong Warrior team. Classic Jeff Jackson team - they were relentless.
 
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I'm one of the writers from the DFP blog and just started an account on USCHO. Unfortunately I will be the only returning member on the blog for next season. Anyway, most of you have probably seen this by now, but we have the second edition of our grades up on the blog.
If there's anything you guys think we could improve or do for next season, just let me know. We are already considering doing a mailbag of some sort next season, but we're always open to more ideas.
 
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bantam75 said:
Just got back from seeing 1st night of Bridgeport, 2 days of primo VT skiing and lots of ESPN-U watching. I have many thoughts and observations from the regionals, but now that Notre Dame with 12 frosh and 5 sophs are in the FF, what's BU excuse now??? To all those here who are still not buying that the problem is coaching, how do you explain their performance when ND is younger and arguably less experienced than BU? :confused:

They completely stifled UNH yesterday and after overcoming their 1st period jitters vs. MC (and the feeling about just being happy to be there), they gradually took over and found a way to beat a very motivated and strong Warrior team. Classic Jeff Jackson team - they were relentless.
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Jeff Jackson's an unbelievable coach. One of the best in the game and probably one of the best of all-time. What he got his team to do this weekend was nothing short of spectacular. It was the most impressive coaching performance I've covered and the first time I've been moved to write an article almost exclusively about what the coach did.

I don't think it's fair to say that because Jackson and Notre Dame did it, Parker and BU should've done it. Notre Dame had almost as much of an up-and-down season as BU, and Jackson said that was because of the youth. They looked awful in the CCHA semis and finals, and Jackson said that after looking back on it, he thought his team was nervous. Notre Dame just had a few more wins during the season than BU and got into NCAAs despite playing poorly at the end. Then Jackson (with the help of a sports psychologist) went to work and completely turned the team around in a week.

Maybe Parker would've been able to do the same thing. I don't know. I doubt there are many coaches who could, though.

reBlur said:
I'm one of the writers from the DFP blog and just started an account on USCHO. Unfortunately I will be the only returning member on the blog for next season. Anyway, most of you have probably seen this by now, but we have the second edition of our grades up on the blog.
If there's anything you guys think we could improve or do for next season, just let me know. We are already considering doing a mailbag of some sort next season, but we're always open to more ideas.
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Nice to meet you! Thank god that Scott character isn't coming back. :D

ETA: Also, you forgot Houston Field House.
 
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I like the analysis but am a little confused about the grades. Were they graded vs expectations or vs their actual play relative to the rest of the league. If its the later I'd be hard pressed to hand out more than a couple of B's this year, no A's and plenty of D's.
 
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It was a little bit of both. We mostly graded them against expectations but as you can tell by the lack of As among the forwards, we also considered how they performed in comparison to say what you would see from a third-line center elsewhere. If we had graded solely on expectations, I think players like Ben Rosen certainly would have gotten an A since he wasn't even supposed to be a forward this season. Based on his performance however, that seemed too high.
 
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Rover said:
I like the analysis but am a little confused about the grades. Were they graded vs expectations or vs their actual play relative to the rest of the league. If its the later I'd be hard pressed to hand out more than a couple of B's this year, no A's and plenty of D's.
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I think we all (the grades are a combo of what all four of us voted) probably had our own scale of expectations vs. actual play, but just speaking for myself, I tried to go half and half. It's tough because if you start with a C as meeting expectations, does that mean meeting your expectations for that one player or meeting expectations for an average player? I think I probably ended up leaning more toward grading vs. individual expectations, but I tried to balance my thinking as much as possible. In the end, I have a feeling the grades will probably average out to higher than what the team actually deserves for a grade, but that's kind of just the nature of doing this I guess. I remember we had the same problem last year, so I tried to grade even tougher this year and still ended up giving out more B's than C's and D's. Maybe we're all just soft graders.
 
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Federal League said:
I think we all (the grades are a combo of what all four of us voted) probably had our own scale of expectations vs. actual play, but just speaking for myself, I tried to go half and half. It's tough because if you start with a C as meeting expectations, does that mean meeting your expectations for that one player or meeting expectations for an average player? I think I probably ended up leaning more toward grading vs. individual expectations, but I tried to balance my thinking as much as possible. In the end, I have a feeling the grades will probably average out to higher than what the team actually deserves for a grade, but that's kind of just the nature of doing this I guess. I remember we had the same problem last year, so I tried to grade even tougher this year and still ended up giving out more B's than C's and D's. Maybe we're all just soft graders.
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I'm surprised - didn't you go to BU? Don't you know we suffer from grade deflation?
 
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