Re: Northeastern 2012-2013 Season Thread: A New Hope
Yes NU got beat by a better team, but really when hasn't BC been better then them? You act like this is unheard of? They are way more talented. The 2nd goal Rawlings needed to come up with, 3rd was tipped, 4th was all D and 5th was all D. Losing Manson hurt, but Saucerman played well. They need better D, they need more depth at Forward. They are losing Saponari and Garrett up front. I know Rossi you say that there is nothing in, but you will say anything you can right now to put down the program cause you have an agenda. But from neutral people I have heard that the class is pretty good coming in. Hopefully Roy gives it another go around. Takes time to rebuild. I actually thought that they played very hard tonight, they lack the talent, but Jim got the most out of them.
Steve, as this is pretty much all I done for 25 years as a hobby with kids, nephews and local kids I have watched play at 6am when they were all mites and in the GBYHL at the coldest MDC rinks and later in places like Detroit and Montreal when they were all Bantams and Pee Wee’s for Teams like the Middlesex Islanders, SS Kings and Honeybaked and Little Ceasers, I have followed many into the top Jr. programs and to the prep schools and now into the USHL, I know all about of the American players 14 to 21 from coast to coast running invitational camps for the Jr Ducks and Team California in Summer, and if they are local I likely know their parents. We have a good class by NU standards, true, but trust me by HE standards it is only fair and will not propel us to the top ranks of this division, BTW CT has recruited better prospects in my view, and is socking away the $$$ for the future, if you want to look at a program that will be winning in the next decade, look to them, as the administration of that University, clearly loves to win, even if you have to bend the rules some of the time. That’s the kind of attitude you need here when your are the 3rd wheel in the College HUB of hockey. We don’t have an administration that cares about winning we never have and likely never will. If you are fine with an occasional 4th or 5th place finish then bye all means continue to support this program. I have written my last check. In the meantime, I say, GO BOBCATS! as they should be a model for quick transition to success that we should model after, We are talking about a program that has made perhaps a dozen NHL players in 70 years, and that’s a crying shame. Madigan has a less than .420 winning % worse than Cronin and even worse than Don McKenney, Crowder and even Ben Smith! However he is both chosen and liked and will continue to try hard to catch better teams, the announcers said it tonight after the game Andy Brickley, said it best, NU simply does not have the talent to hang 4 lines with BC. We tried hard and made a good game of it, we did not embarrass ourselves, big deal, same result as always 2nd place, 3rd place, 4th place, the fact is that unless we expect and demand more, we likely never will get much better. and as a result will always be exactly where we are right now, which is ok becasuse it's where we have always been.
