Re: LSSU Laker Hockey 2011-12
Before this gets off topic again, let me state that no-one on this site represents the Anzalone family and “Truth” coming on the thread again with smoke and mirrors is getting quite old. This has nothing to do with Frank. Each time LSSU is in the midst of controversy Truth turns the discussion to Frank. When Jim Roque got fined last winter “Truth” turned the conversation to Frank’s record in Quad Cities. When Jim Roque got suspended by the league, the topic was Frank’s record while at LSSU. When Jim Roque applied for the Clarkson job, the discussion was Frank applying for the Clarkson job. Everything Frank did while at LSSU, good or bad, was for the good of LSSU hockey and there were no secrets. Can the same be said for Jim Roque? LSSU needs quality people in charge and they desperately lack that right now (that includes 3dognight who says he/she doesn’t have any ties to the coach and has never met Frank yet continually ridicules him). This makes no sense for a person in that position. In your last post you mention that you are re-evaluating the level of the project based on the college hockey landscape. Is it fair to ask if you have given the money promised to the University or are you holding it and making sure things work out to your satisfaction first? Your comments make one think there is a chance that the long awaited renovations may actually not even occur. There is only one reason why there is such an interest in degrading Frank even by major donors who claim to be new to LSSU, and guilt is never a good thing?
There is no comparison between Jim Roque and Frank Anzalone. Are you people even aware that the NCAA issues that Jim reported to the school as violations when Frank got fired involved Jim as well? (public record) Franks biggest fault at Lake Superior was his loyalty to his staff. Frank has coached 27 full seasons professionally with only 6 losing seasons. Only once has he had consecutive losing seasons and that was the four straight at LSSU with Jim at his side. That means he has just two full losing seasons in the other 23 years of professional coaching. Doesn’t that seem a little strange? He has the most wins in LSSU school history and is third in winning percentage even with those four horrible years including multiple trips to the NCAA tournament and an NCAA championship. Is anyone aware that in his final two years at LSSU he elevated Tim Christian’s role in recruiting and it paid off with Tim landing defenseman Derrick Smith? Are you aware that Jim did not want Frank to bring Jeff Jakaitis to LSSU to fill an emergency in goal? These two players changed the face of Laker hockey and Jim Roque, who was hired to recruit, was not involved in either of them.
Did you ever hear Frank make any comments publicly or privately degrading Jim’s efforts or lack of loyalty before or after he was fired? The answer is no so why continue with this? Frank was never fined by the league. Frank was never suspended. Only once did Frank go after another job while at LSSU and as a result his contract was not renewed for doing so (in comes Jeff Jackson). How can the discussion be so tilted against Frank and so supportive of Jim Roque. Frank has been gone six years. The same people degrade Frank based on four season’s that are absolutely out of what was normal for him. With the relationship between the Frank and Jim suffering a complete breakdown, Frank still didn’t fire him. Instead he simply did more of the recruiting himself and sent Tim Christian on the road more. He didn’t and wouldn’t put Jim’s family in that situation. Would Jim Roque do the same for one of his employees?
What were Jim Roque’s motives when he went to the administration to discuss his thoughts on the team and discuss leaving LSSU prior to Frank being fired? It seems there are more pressing issues for LSSU right now trying to survive than discussing Frank. Is the hiring of Doug Laprade, brother in law of athletic director Kris Dunbar, good for the program or good for Jim Roque? Does he even care that he makes his boss a target with the hiring? Wasn’t Doug Laprade the central figure in the public relations disaster a couple years ago when he convinced Dunbar to change Laker hockey to his radio station after more than forty years with its prior relationship? With the Laker program and many other teams in the CCHA in serious trouble, Jim applied for the Clarkson position and you people ridicule Frank! Focus your attention on Jim Roque and the current state of Laker hockey and leave Frank alone. TBA is not Theresa Anzalone or any other member of the Anzalone family. Truth is either a Jim Roque smoke screen or a very unhappy individual. Your program needs help right now. Focus on that and leave Frank out of it.
Before this gets off topic again, let me state that no-one on this site represents the Anzalone family and “Truth” coming on the thread again with smoke and mirrors is getting quite old. This has nothing to do with Frank. Each time LSSU is in the midst of controversy Truth turns the discussion to Frank. When Jim Roque got fined last winter “Truth” turned the conversation to Frank’s record in Quad Cities. When Jim Roque got suspended by the league, the topic was Frank’s record while at LSSU. When Jim Roque applied for the Clarkson job, the discussion was Frank applying for the Clarkson job. Everything Frank did while at LSSU, good or bad, was for the good of LSSU hockey and there were no secrets. Can the same be said for Jim Roque? LSSU needs quality people in charge and they desperately lack that right now (that includes 3dognight who says he/she doesn’t have any ties to the coach and has never met Frank yet continually ridicules him). This makes no sense for a person in that position. In your last post you mention that you are re-evaluating the level of the project based on the college hockey landscape. Is it fair to ask if you have given the money promised to the University or are you holding it and making sure things work out to your satisfaction first? Your comments make one think there is a chance that the long awaited renovations may actually not even occur. There is only one reason why there is such an interest in degrading Frank even by major donors who claim to be new to LSSU, and guilt is never a good thing?
There is no comparison between Jim Roque and Frank Anzalone. Are you people even aware that the NCAA issues that Jim reported to the school as violations when Frank got fired involved Jim as well? (public record) Franks biggest fault at Lake Superior was his loyalty to his staff. Frank has coached 27 full seasons professionally with only 6 losing seasons. Only once has he had consecutive losing seasons and that was the four straight at LSSU with Jim at his side. That means he has just two full losing seasons in the other 23 years of professional coaching. Doesn’t that seem a little strange? He has the most wins in LSSU school history and is third in winning percentage even with those four horrible years including multiple trips to the NCAA tournament and an NCAA championship. Is anyone aware that in his final two years at LSSU he elevated Tim Christian’s role in recruiting and it paid off with Tim landing defenseman Derrick Smith? Are you aware that Jim did not want Frank to bring Jeff Jakaitis to LSSU to fill an emergency in goal? These two players changed the face of Laker hockey and Jim Roque, who was hired to recruit, was not involved in either of them.
Did you ever hear Frank make any comments publicly or privately degrading Jim’s efforts or lack of loyalty before or after he was fired? The answer is no so why continue with this? Frank was never fined by the league. Frank was never suspended. Only once did Frank go after another job while at LSSU and as a result his contract was not renewed for doing so (in comes Jeff Jackson). How can the discussion be so tilted against Frank and so supportive of Jim Roque. Frank has been gone six years. The same people degrade Frank based on four season’s that are absolutely out of what was normal for him. With the relationship between the Frank and Jim suffering a complete breakdown, Frank still didn’t fire him. Instead he simply did more of the recruiting himself and sent Tim Christian on the road more. He didn’t and wouldn’t put Jim’s family in that situation. Would Jim Roque do the same for one of his employees?
What were Jim Roque’s motives when he went to the administration to discuss his thoughts on the team and discuss leaving LSSU prior to Frank being fired? It seems there are more pressing issues for LSSU right now trying to survive than discussing Frank. Is the hiring of Doug Laprade, brother in law of athletic director Kris Dunbar, good for the program or good for Jim Roque? Does he even care that he makes his boss a target with the hiring? Wasn’t Doug Laprade the central figure in the public relations disaster a couple years ago when he convinced Dunbar to change Laker hockey to his radio station after more than forty years with its prior relationship? With the Laker program and many other teams in the CCHA in serious trouble, Jim applied for the Clarkson position and you people ridicule Frank! Focus your attention on Jim Roque and the current state of Laker hockey and leave Frank alone. TBA is not Theresa Anzalone or any other member of the Anzalone family. Truth is either a Jim Roque smoke screen or a very unhappy individual. Your program needs help right now. Focus on that and leave Frank out of it.
). To me it seems like a logical move to have the Yooper schools and the Minn schools in one conference; again filling the arena would easier other northern schools than a piece meal confernce from other areas. 
