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Goodbye Enrico!

Hockeybuckeye said:
I remember the first home game hosting Miami the season following their blowing the National Championship game that during warm ups several Ohio State students behind the Miami net were wearing Boston University jerseys and rubbing their chests against the glass in front of their players.
Enrico was NOT amused! LOL!
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You two have done it now. Dan will be by shortly to inform you that Miami is Harvard academics, Montreal Canadiens facilities and Arizona State women all rolled into one.
 
Re: Goodbye Enrico!

Hockeybuckeye said:
Miller's daughter told me personally that Killer has no desire to be head coach, he much prefers the associate role. Obviously with his credentials he would and could have been a head coach years ago almost anywhere of his choosing if this wasn't true.
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I understand that. I meant if Miami hired Gwozdecky to be the new HC (for 4-5 years to get the program back to being competitive) that Miller might join him as an associate. Miller worked with Gwozdecky at Miami, previously, and then, obviously, for many years at DU. I don't know if Gwozdecky would even be a candidate, or if Miller would want to join him again just because they've spent so much time together in the past (and I know you don't want to lose Miller!) - its just an outside the box thought. Additionally, Mannino, who has the relationship with all of Miami's current commits (and remains on staff with a chance to interview with the new HC) played for both at DU. Its not a bad idea, a national championship coach who won more than 20-games in 21 of his 27 college seasons and has coached at the school, joined by two strong-recruiting assistants he's very familiar with...

Perhaps its too good to be true.
 
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Re: Goodbye Enrico!

Eddie Schorr said:
You two have done it now. Dan will be by shortly to inform you that Miami is Harvard academics, Montreal Canadiens facilities and Arizona State women all rolled into one.
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If there are no embarrassingly uninformed takes I shouldn't have to do so...

Strong play by OSU since our last discussion though!
 
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jericho said:
Seth Appert probably wants another crack at an NCAA head coaching gig. I’m sure he could do much better at a place like Miami than at RPI.
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I'm not quite so inclined to write off Mr. Appert since the powers that be at RPI provide little, if any, meaningful institutional support for its once-great hockey program. Anyone who coaches there (including the incumbent), IMO, is set up to fail.
 
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Dan said:
This isn't correct. As I said earlier - if Miami had a financial dilemma, it was whether or not to fire the football coach or the hockey coach. The football coach, for all his misgivings (having yet to win a non-conference game, continuously insulting the conference and the fans, continuing to blow close games in embarrassing fashion, etc) has at least been competitive in conference play the last few seasons. The fact that its the MAC aside, that is what saved him from an early exit. Rico has been on the hot-seat for a few seasons, especially since last spring when he was forced to fire his entire staff. This decision has nothing to do with the NCHC and the express desire to remain in the conference is exactly why they felt this move had to be made.
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Football is a bad comparison. Unlike in Football, hockey actually has a competitive nature where even small schools with smaller budgets can regularly beat the bigger schools. When's the last time Ohio State lost to a warm up school in football? When's the time a big budget hockey school lost to one of its non-Canadian warmup challengers? It happens a few times each and every year. Hockey is actually competitive, when all is said and done. Football is only competitive when you put schools with similar budgets on the field together.
 
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bravohankins said:
LOL....

I've lived in both Ohio and AZ......um yea no. LOL
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Have you ever been to Miami's campus? Its not Cleveland. Run a quick google search on colleges with the hottest girls and you'll see Miami (rightly) all over those lists - with many ranking them at the very top. It is a huge part of Miami's reputation and is absolutely the kind of thing that would be attractive (pun intended) to college-aged hockey players. Recruits know this, discuss it and believe it - that is first-hand information. The school was also nearly 65% women when I attended.

The very first link that comes up for me - ranks them a modest tenth. Which is lower than they usually are - but who could complain?

https://totalfratmove.com/tfms-top-10-universities-with-the-hottest-girls/

I'm not going to get into it with Eddie - he proved last time he's a clown, doesn't understand the topic and has a massive axe to grind against Miami (best of all he KNOWS its true) - but I'd encourage you to attend a game at Miami and head uptown for a night. Report back to me if you think I'm wrong.
 
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The girls that Miami brought to the Frozen Fours were nothing to write home about but I have to give them the benefit of the doubt as we saw mostly their backside as they hit the Ford Field exits quickly in 2010 and had all sorts of "makeup malfunctions" due to excessive "moisture" in 2009. :eek:
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
The girls that Miami brought to the Frozen Fours were nothing to write home about but I have to give them the benefit of the doubt as we saw mostly their backside as they hit the Ford Field exits quickly in 2010 and had all sorts of "makeup malfunctions" due to excessive "moisture" in 2009. :eek:
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<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De8_N43W0AMMcOX.jpg" alt="Thats funny right there";">
 
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St. Clown said:
Football is a bad comparison. Unlike in Football, hockey actually has a competitive nature where even small schools with smaller budgets can regularly beat the bigger schools. When's the last time Ohio State lost to a warm up school in football? When's the time a big budget hockey school lost to one of its non-Canadian warmup challengers? It happens a few times each and every year. Hockey is actually competitive, when all is said and done. Football is only competitive when you put schools with similar budgets on the field together.
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I don't disagree with you. Its not really a comparison of hockey and football, rather a comparison of two Miami coaches on the hot-seat. No one expects Miami to compete with OSU on the gridiron. However, failing to compete for MAC Championships, be competitive with rival Cincinnati or to win more than ZERO non-conference games against FBS schools (they werent all P5 elite) isn't going to cut it. On top of that Martin's failure in close games and his behavior has him squarely in the cross-hairs and MANY Miami fans would have preferred to see him go before Blasi. I do believe it would be financially untenable to fire BOTH in one off-season and that's all I was commenting on. They chose to move on from Blasi and give let Martin play out his deal... ''

Just in case anyone is curious here is Martin's non-conference resume versus non-P5 opponents in five years at Miami...

Marshall - L
Eastern Kentucky - L
Cincinnati - L
Presbyterian - W
Western Kentucky - L
Marshall - L
Eastern Illinois - L
Western Kentucky - L
Cincinnati - L
Marshall - L
Austin Peay - W
Cincinnati - L
Marshall - L
Cincinnati - L
Army - L

So, against non-P5s Martin is 22-33 at Miami (20-20 in the MAC). Miami is a top-30 NCAA program in football wins and winning-percentage (with a long history of 'Tomahawk Victories' over P5 schools). Still, I dont think anyone expects them to win at Notre Dame, Ohio State or Iowa. Struggling in the MAC and going .500 against FCS schools isn't good enough. He is lucky that Rico's struggles were so pronounced and they cannot afford two early buyouts...
 
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Dan said:
Have you ever been to Miami's campus? Its not Cleveland. Run a quick google search on colleges with the hottest girls and you'll see Miami (rightly) all over those lists - with many ranking them at the very top. It is a huge part of Miami's reputation and is absolutely the kind of thing that would be attractive (pun intended) to college-aged hockey players. Recruits know this, discuss it and believe it - that is first-hand information. The school was also nearly 65% women when I attended.

The very first link that comes up for me - ranks them a modest tenth. Which is lower than they usually are - but who could complain?

https://totalfratmove.com/tfms-top-10-universities-with-the-hottest-girls/

I'm not going to get into it with Eddie - he proved last time he's a clown, doesn't understand the topic and has a massive axe to grind against Miami (and worst of all he KNOWS its true) - but I'd encourage you to attend a game at Miami and head uptown for a night. Report back to me if you think I'm wrong.
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I was just at Miami for the UMD series. For the Midwest, Miami scores well, but compared to Florida, Boston, California, Arizona,... Miami loses, no question.
 
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I would really like if Bergeron went back to Miami, but I doubt he will. His program is doing very well and he has all the job security in the world. Also, the family has grown roots there. Maybe in a couple years, when his youngest is off to college, he may be more willing to move, but I don't see it happening this summer.
 
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Lost_Husky said:
I was just at Miami for the UMD series. For the Midwest, Miami scores well, but compared to Florida, Boston, California, Arizona,... Miami loses, no question.
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Every campus has hot girls and to be able to rank schools by it is rather subjective but if you rank Miami on a clean well maintained and organized campus it's pretty high on the list. They erect no new structures that don't conform to the existing architecture so you will never see a hodge podge of different types of build styles. Brick colonial is the norm.
 
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Hockeybuckeye said:
Every campus has hot girls and to be able to rank schools by it is rather subjective but if you rank Miami on a clean well maintained and organized campus it's pretty high on the list. They erect no new structures that don't conform to the existing architecture so you will never see a hodge podge of different types of build styles. Brick colonial is the norm.
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Michigan Tech may defy your first statement. We no longer have to trade a plane full of snow for a Winter Carnival Queen and her court, so things are improving.

Miami is nice and uniform with the buildings looking like they belong together. Very well maintained as well. Doesn't feel like southeastern Ohio. Then you get to the edge of campus.
 
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purpleinnebraska said:
Well, we can fault Blasi for a lot of things, but "excellent working knowledge of giant intestinal parasites" is probably not something you'd expect a coach to have.
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All I can say is it's a good thing they got that tapeworm out of Meyer before it had a chance to fully mature into a referee!
 
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