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Northeastern Huskies 2019-20: Reloaded...and Still in Love with Stacy's Mom

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mookie1995 said:
No offense, but it’s a better job than nu. (and mookie ain’t in sales :))
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Yup. Three Beanpots and two HEA championships in four years are stark evidence of the inferiority of the NU job. :cool:
 
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i think he may have been referring to being an ac at nu versus hc at uvm, which would be a step up for keefer.
(other than that mookie usually just bu tthurt... either that or the virus playin' mind gms again. :)
 
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mookie1995 said:
No offense, but it’s a better job than nu. (and mookie ain’t in sales :))
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There is no chnace that it is a better job than NU. Now if you mean being a head coach vs assistant than I agree. Just hard to believe that this is where he held out for. Tough break for BU. He could have taken over there in a year or 2 when albie gets canned
 
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Split-N said:
Yup. Three Beanpots and two HEA championships in four years are stark evidence of the inferiority of the NU job. :cool:
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Don’t take it that nu is appreciably worst. But

State school
Better history
Better alumni

Sure, the job nu and madigan have done the last couple years is better than what bu has shown. But it is only 4 years. And what year was the last one nu even won a game in the NCAA tournament??

Mookie will agree nu is vastly superior to Mack :). So all y’all have that going for you!
 
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Thiessen'sBetter said:
LOL. It was 10 years ago but now it's not even close. So this is either a classic Mookie troll job (if so kudos) or classic Mookie living in the past.
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C’mon :)

Your boys have made 3 ncaa in the last five years.... and 4 in the last 10? :confused: and still then 0 for 4.

So where is this deep run of excellence that is so impressive?

Look it, y’all have come a long way from the red headed step child.... but not that far. ;)
 
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JerryP66 said:
There is no chnace that it is a better job than NU. Now if you mean being a head coach vs assistant than I agree. Just hard to believe that this is where he held out for. Tough break for BU. He could have taken over there in a year or 2 when albie gets canned
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Will nu be better than uvm the next time we see hockey? Yes. No doubt yes.

Will nu be better than uvm in 4 yrs? Coin flip at best.
10 yrs? Mookie will take the odds on uvm.

With the right coach uvm will pass uhn and umo in the pecking order for hea state schools.
 
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So by that logic you'd say Maine is better job right now then SCSU or Mankato?

Recency matters a lot more than success 10+ years ago or retired NHL alumni. I don't know if you've noticed but the "blue bloods" don't run college hockey anymore.
 
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Thiessen'sBetter said:
So by that logic you'd say Maine is better job right now then SCSU or Mankato?

Recency matters a lot more than success 10+ years ago or retired NHL alumni. I don't know if you've noticed but the "blue bloods" don't run college hockey anymore.
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Well.... flagship is better than satellites. But for recruiting pipeline mookie thinks MN and the ushl presence makes Jan Brady and Mankato better spots. Mankato gets to carry on the WCHA history which is waning, but still relevant. Jan has a strong role in the best conference in hockey.

Marty St. Louis is more recent than Paul kariya;)
All MA kids can recall Tim Thomas too.

Uvm history is still more recent than mtu :)
 
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mookie1995 said:
Don’t take it that nu is appreciably worst. But

State school
Better history
Better alumni

Sure, the job nu and madigan have done the last couple years is better than what bu has shown. But it is only 4 years. And what year was the last one nu even won a game in the NCAA tournament??

Mookie will agree nu is vastly superior to Mack :). So all y’all have that going for you!
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Mookie
I want to believe that you are a strong swimmer as you are far from shore and treading on thin ice.:(
 
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mookie1995 said:
Don’t take it that nu is appreciably worst. But

State school
Better history
Better alumni...

...And what year was the last one nu even won a game in the NCAA tournament??...
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State School? If you’re trying to imply that state schools are inherently better than private schools, I don’t follow the logic. Sure, there are come great state schools and some crappy private schools but if you put any credence in the USNWR college rankings, the Top 100 is dominated by private schools. In fact, NU and BU are tied (and going to OT?) at #40. UVM is #121. So, your point is?

Better history? Agree that UVM has a longer history by a century or so but better? Depends on how you measure it. I, for one, would never question UVM’s long and enduring history as one of the nation’s great party schools, which has no doubt contributed to notable contributions in the field of Animal Husbandry.

Better alumni? By what measure? More former NHLers (edge to UVM)? Or alumni in general (not just current or former pros) who put their money where their mouths are and aren’t bashful about pulling their checkbooks out to support the hockey program. I’d bet my mortgage that the NU program is on much sounder financial footing than is the case at UVM.

And there were three NCAA tournament wins in 1982. But I do concede the paucity of recent NCAA Tournament wins, for which I duly show shame.
 
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Split-N said:
Better alumni? By what measure? More former NHLers (edge to UVM)? Or alumni in general (not just current or former pros) who put their money where their mouths are and aren’t bashful about pulling their checkbooks out to support the hockey program. I’d bet my mortgage that the NU program is on much sounder financial footing than is the case at UVM.
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My dad worked at Northeastern for 15+ years and was at a position directly under a Dean/VP level. He had a really good relationship with Madigan and couldn’t have higher things to say about someone as him. The administration is a much different story.

All that said, the hockey team is not on as firm of footing as you’d believe. The only reason the football team was discontinued instead of the hockey team was the football team was losing more money. It was between the 2 programs. Luckily the hockey team has produced, people have gone to games and the ice rents. If it faults and the team becomes uncompetitive again, they’ll be tough to survive. The administration does not feel sports is an incentive it will lose significant money on to attract non athletes to attend the university.

There is not a significant alumni population supporting the hockey team, frankly it’s fundraising support is pretty bleak.
 
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sigx15 said:
My dad worked at Northeastern for 15+ years and was at a position directly under a Dean/VP level. He had a really good relationship with Madigan and couldn’t have higher things to say about someone as him. The administration is a much different story.

All that said, the hockey team is not on as firm of footing as you’d believe. The only reason the football team was discontinued instead of the hockey team was the football team was losing more money. It was between the 2 programs. Luckily the hockey team has produced, people have gone to games and the ice rents. If it faults and the team becomes uncompetitive again, they’ll be tough to survive. The administration does not feel sports is an incentive it will lose significant money on to attract non athletes to attend the university.

There is not a significant alumni population supporting the hockey team, frankly it’s fundraising support is pretty bleak.
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I am curious about how long ago did you come upon your unaudited accounting of the hockey team’s financial condition. Was it before the Fern Flaman Fund was created, before donors endowed the Head Coach’s position?
Did you come upon this misinformation prior to Jim Madigan’s becoming the HC? You must be aware of his years of experience raising funds for DMSB and his incredibly broad number of friends and contacts among the alumni, the faculty, friends of the University, and members of the American and Canadian hockey community. I seriously doubt that three consecutive Beanpot championships has caused the fundraising to become what you described as “pretty bleak!”
 
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This is all about hockey. Nothing with us news rankings. Nothing against student alumni. All hockey.

Hockey hockey hockey
 
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sigx15 said:
My dad worked at Northeastern for 15+ years and was at a position directly under a Dean/VP level. He had a really good relationship with Madigan and couldn’t have higher things to say about someone as him. The administration is a much different story.

All that said, the hockey team is not on as firm of footing as you’d believe. The only reason the football team was discontinued instead of the hockey team was the football team was losing more money. It was between the 2 programs. Luckily the hockey team has produced, people have gone to games and the ice rents. If it faults and the team becomes uncompetitive again, they’ll be tough to survive. The administration does not feel sports is an incentive it will lose significant money on to attract non athletes to attend the university.

There is not a significant alumni population supporting the hockey team, frankly it’s fundraising support is pretty bleak.
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The Football team was on the chopping block for years. Never heard hockey was in trouble. I don't believe this even for a second. All sports lose money. Unless you are in big time college football in a major conference. They all lose, every hockey team in the nations loses money on its program.
 
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Bit of an eyebrow raise that Vermont did not name its coach over the weekend. Info leaked from a direct person of knowledge said that Keefe was ahead by a hair and decision was being made Saturday. Wonder if there is indecision within the admin.
 
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sigx15 said:
...All that said, the hockey team is not on as firm of footing as you’d believe. The only reason the football team was discontinued instead of the hockey team was the football team was losing more money. It was between the 2 programs. Luckily the hockey team has produced, people have gone to games and the ice rents. If it faults and the team becomes uncompetitive again, they’ll be tough to survive. The administration does not feel sports is an incentive it will lose significant money on to attract non athletes to attend the university.

There is not a significant alumni population supporting the hockey team, frankly it’s fundraising support is pretty bleak.
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With respect, I think you're working from very old data. Alumni support (both ex players and others) for the hockey program has never been higher. And to my knowledge, the hockey program was never on the chopping block. Football got axed because of 1) no acceptable home field and no prospect of getting one and 2) The fact that football--even at the 1AA/FCS level--had become such a financial arms race that NU had no interest in competing and could never win. I hated to see football go but it was the right decision.

And referring to "the administration" is applying a very broad brush. Certainly there are academics and assorted administrators who feel that competitive athletics and academics are incompatible but there are others in the administration, including some highly respected academics, who feel otherwise.
 
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