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I'm saying that for MTU to honor all the commitments made by pearson, they would be violating NCAA rules. Shawhan offered all the recruits the opportunity to still walk on and deal with the numbers but had no money left.
Pretty crappy situation Mel left Joe with, in his rush to flee Houghton under cover of darkness and kiss the One Ring.
We've got some pretty good depth at forward. I see us finishing anywhere from 2nd to 6th next year.
Rostagno and Gingell had NLIs so they were not walk-ons, say what ever you want but Pearson completely F-d this up.
You tell that to Travis Brown, Aleksi Poikola, Tristan Rostagno, Jake Gingell, and their families. all but Poikola committed over a year ago and we're all in on MTU, now they're pushing aging out and have limited options. No one can deny that Pearson succeeded on ice, but there is more to a program than just winning. You need to treat people the right way. Those four guys and their families deserved better from Pearson. As you can see from the THG article, this has been happening for awhile and this year is just the worst example.
Is there any evidence of this happening with Mel and Red at UM before he came to tech? Or other schools? Seems to me that it wouldn't be as big of a problem if more kids left after 1 or 2 years like some of those programs have.
the difference is that leftovers from Michigan have options. Most of the WCHA would take a decommit from Michigan if it happened and typically that all goes down before they get too old to play another year of juniors and find a new team. None of the above have that option except Gingell and he has to enroll somewhere and then will have 4 years to play his 4 if it works out for him.
My intent is that a women's team would have to stand on its own supported by new donations from female donors. Donors who won't/don't donate to the men's team. If the well paid female Tech alums can't raise the money then no team. Put a number out there, inspire people, and see what happens. I'd like to know what the number is. It might take a few years to raise enough.