Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
His leaving was related to hockey and
his opinion of the kind of ice time he deserved. He was a good student. The CoOp system was available to him or (as most players) he could finish in a traditional four year period. We had > 46,000 applications for about 2600 spots last year. I understand that we are ahead of that pace. The "system" is attracting a ton of interest. It is scary hard to get in, which is no help to athletics.
Rossi -
When you say we are trying to get rid of Madigan, I have two questions. First, who is "we" exactly? Secondly. why would you want to get rid of a guy who has been a terrific ASSET to the University for many years?
OTOH, when you speak/write about kicking Roby to the curb, I know exactly who "we" is!
Listen, there is no doubt that JM has been a historical asset to the University in varied capacities. So, as a result why not let him go back to an Administrative function. However, this is really about giving someone an opportunity and realizing that being a asset to the university and being a good coach have nothing to do with one another. If that were a prerequisite for coaching a lot of great coaches would never have gotten anywhere. JM is a patsy of a recent university administration much different from the alumni who give the big $$.
A vast majority of the $$ that is going to NU is still coming form people who graduated before it's transformation into a more stellar academic institution. We have no ties to the philosophies of the recent administrations so we don’t care what they think, want or do. JM is popular with many of the old hockey players and athletes, many of whom were my casual friends, but a vast majority of them are now back in Canada and scattered around our big blue marble. Also, here is a newsflash not many of the greats that you see whose names are plastered in the "Media Guide" or in inshrined the rafters in the "Old Barn" have never given a thin cent to NU. The vast majority of peeps I watch the games with, write big checks with of 4, 5, 6 and a few 7 digits before the decimal point.
If this is an experiment, so be it, thus give him a few seasons to see if he can build both winners and the charters of young men, but if he can’t, we shouldn’t keep him around like we did Fern for 20 seasons. It is now crystal clear in hind sight, that we should have had a national search for a top coach from the get go and we should be paying him the Franklin's a that a coach commands in a premiere league. The fact that this search never happened, is clearly the reason we are in the shape we are in now. This game has changed a lot in the 20 years JM was away.
When JM played nearly 100% of the team received their degree or at least wanted too. Today, many top players in hockey may not stick around for a degree. If the university is now changed academically to a top tier institution then that philosophy should also now extend to the athletic arena. However, it p*ss*es me off when I hear Roby poo-poo winning while I am looking at a press box and renovations that were largely funded by locally born and bread hard working blue color yet successful NU grads of the 60’s ,70’s and 80’s who worked their asses off while he was twinkling away under the affirmative action programs that allowed him to receive an Ivy League education.
Does that answer your question as to who? Who is a list of people who stated business in the 128 belt, and we want a winner now. Starting with a beanpot win over BU or BC while we are still on the planet and aren't yet food for worms.
I dunno..