Re: LSSU Hockey 2011-2012
You people always have to blame everyone else but not yourselves. Other fans, parents, big schools, refs, money, players, the list goes on and on, and will here over the next few weeks, in order to keep the same coaches for another year. Yet Frank Anzalone won a National Championship, largely responsible for the other two, and he had many of these same issues you people constantly use in order to promote your agenda.
Are there any tickets available for this weekend's series? Hard to tops last year's first-round attendance on national television when about 500 fans were at Friday's game.
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Frank won in 1988. He gets full props for that. Full.
But Jackson recruited every player on the 1992 team. And every player on the 1994 team. And the equally excellent 93, 95, and 96 teams. I liked Frank, don't get me wrong -- but Jackson was the real deal in his prime. Frank was a disaster in his second tenure. He was just as bad, and just as damaging to the program, as Scott Borek. The numbers don't lie -- the worst four year stretch in LSSU hockey history was Frank's second term. He built a great program once, and he was clearly unable to do it again. This has nothing to do with the administration, or the town, or the school, or the alumni -- it has to do with winning and losing, and in Frank's second term he lost a TON of game. He lost MOST of his games. His teams were routinely outplayed badly. He brought into the program players lacking talent, size, speed, or abilitity. His second term was a complete and total waste of years. The program would have been better off hiring a Spanish bullfighter's wife than Frank -- I can't see how the results would have been much different. And I LIKE Frank. I know he cared. I know he WANTED to win. I know he worked so hard for this school. But he just didn't have it. He sucked. Horribly. Terribly. Borek put the program on life-support and Frank darn near killed it.
I don't know if Jim Roque will ever turn it all the way around. I don't know if he can get the team over the hump. I do know a few things, though. Roque stabilized the program. At the end of Franks second term, the program could've easily been shuttered -- thats how bad the situation had become. Roque is no genius. He is not Scotty Bowman. But he has been a steady hand to correct the disaster of Borek and the ubber-disaster of Frank's second term. Roque might not last the summer. Perhaps its time to get a hot-shot assistant behind the bench? Perhaps.
I don't know much -- but Frank's term was a train wreck. Roque has struggled to find players and establish a system. The team has played much better last year and even slightly better this year. Is this enough improvement? I don't know. I don't get to make that choice.
I will tell anyone who asks this: I will support my Little School in my Little Village no matter who is behind the bench. i will buy my season tickets and promote the program in a positive way. I was always hopeful (despite my deeper fear I was being fooled) that Borek would find his feet. I was hopeful Frank would put it together like he used to do. I remain hopeful that Roque will get over the hump. And you know what? I will cheer on Roque's replacement, too. And if the Lakers never get over the hump, I will still cheer on these boys, and this program, and this little school on the hill. Its mine, for better or worse. Nobody forces a person to cheer for a sports team. Its not required to live. Its not required in any sense.
So if we LSSU people want to cheer for your little team in our little village, we do it and don't, generally, give a rat's behind what a disgruntled jackhole thinks. Frankly, if people in the Soo worried about outside opinion, we'd have real problems. And if LSSU grads and alumni worried about the ignorant rantings of some down-state rube, we would not have a very happy life.
But thanks for caring enough to randomly post, repeatedly, your obvious dislike for LSSU's current administration. Noted.
