Do I detect a sense of entitlement here???
A good coach does not care how much money someone spent to go to prep school, nor that their parents came up every weekend to tote them down to play club hockey on many teams that were largely picked before the tryouts ever occurred. The good coach doesn't care about how many playoffs or championships your prep or club team won.
I could go on about my own daughter's trials and tribulations like you seem to, but quite frankly nobody here wishes to hear that, so I know not to print it.
A good coach tries to select players who demonstrate the level of physical tools necessary and the knowledge of the game to do the job. Beyond that, they want a player who respects that this coach wants her to play this way and not necessarily the way they played where they came from. A player may be given a year or 2 to adjust to a new level and game style.
From everything said here, the expectations of the coach and the players did not match, so players and team went separate ways.
Players and their sympathetic parents will argue that it is the "stupid" coach causing this. The ones who go public with this sort of line in my book and seemingly the majority of people without a vested interest (inpartial) seems to be that they are whining.
Let's not forget that it is the coach's team and players play at the pleasure of the coach. If the players or their parents (who suddenly register on USCHO during their freshman year - where have you been?) have an issue with the coach, take it up with the AD and university president. If you've got something more than she said/she said, you might actually get an audience. If you donate enough to build a practice facility, you might even get more attention
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Point here is that the collection of newbie Brown freshmen parents here don't run the show and don't need to start multiple threads showing their whiney nature and then bring up the forum rule book when they are roundly called out for their behavior. There are regulars here who started out on a wrong note, but they figured out how to get along here and have gained a lot of respect doing so. Not seeing that from this Brown bunch. What I am seeing in this public display is destructive to their daughters, the team, and womens college hockey as I have called out earlier.
I'm not keeping track of which one of them said what here necessarily, but the fact that they all seem to refuse to acknowledge one another's lack of credibility here impugns the whole bunch. At least the RIT folks will tell their own to chill out when they go overboard (not picking on the RIT folks as bad as they seem to be quite knowledgable and witty, but just saying that a D3 school bunch can self-regulate).
And as to the bunch commenting here that you seem to think know only general stuff. These folks have been around college hockey a lot longer than the frosh parents at Brown. Several of them are well connected on both sides of the border with many of the top programs. And I'm sure a few of them are quite familiar with Digit and Brown - perhaps not as parents, but quite frankly none of you parents are in the locker room nor attend all the practices or team meetings. You hear what your daughters tell you. Perhaps they aren't hearing the things they want to hear from Digit. You don't need to be a megaphone for that. What I'm saying here is that you are not the experts here but on a very narrow and biased view of the program. Not a one of the Brown parents here seem to have asked the tough questions up front about why the turnover? As one parent clearly did the research (and posted numbers here) but failed to investigate. Not our fault, so don't complain to us.
I'm still not sure why I am taking the point on this discussion except that I am probably more sensative to this type of parent behavior than others, although I do appreciate the support of the regulars around here. As I said earlier, I could go on publically about what my daughter has had to deal with, but nobody cares. And nobody should care. I do talk to a few trusted friends here about a few specific incidents, but really it is to get a level set about how the environment actually works and how to work with it.
Perhaps if a few of these Brown folks would take that approach, they would find more people willing to listen and provide insight (although not necessarily what you want to hear still).
