Re: Patty Kaz
... so what if she is a 21 year old freshman...
Nothing really, but it appears that is the direction the school is headed, for one it takes a little luster off the shine.
It appears to be another way to game the system, kinda like The Coach Whose Name Shan’t Be Mentioned brought in older hockey players to build her “dynasty”.
I wonder if other coaches will now do the same, or maybe the NCAA will wake up and realize there is another country with a province whose system is a little different and their NCAA eligibility clock should start running once they start their second year of post high school education.
I’d be curious to know what benefit Clarkson sees from hiring a Canadian coach to bring in Canadian kids for their hockey team. Or for that matter any other school that does. Does it make Canadians decide to opt out of their inexpensive home colleges and universities to attend expensive Clarkson? I doubt it, that hasn’t happened elsewhere. It certainly didn’t happen in Duluth. It hasn't exactly turned Grand Forks into the Silicon Plains.
Do these Canadian graduates then stay in NY contributing to the betterment of the area or do they go home? I’ve never been to Potsdam, is it kinda like Madison, WI for example, where the university is seed to a lot of new companies? If so great, if not, if it’s just a diploma factory, what is the point?
Does it make alumni write big checks? Maybe that is the hope, it does not appear to me that Clarkson has a large endowment, in fact fairly small well under 10 digits, in fact barely 9, a drop in the bucket compared to most of the schools in the ECAC.