Re: Plattsburgh State Hockey 2010-11
Vokey played where??
Transfers havn't made an impact? Don Patricks goal over Plattsburgh in the SUNYAC Finals....Where would Oswego be without Fox? Where would they have been with out KGT? Would Plattsburgh kept the tie alive with out Bootes? Oswego is 4-0 against Plattsburgh in the last 4 games....Transfers...6 goals, 5 assists, 3 wins.....nope transfers have had ZERO impact...
Of course it wouldn't matter to you at all why they come to Oswego....if you won the lottery would you care how you came up with the winning ticket? Of course not...Sorry like I said, a team that has to continually bring in transfers and DI players 2 and 3 a year to be competitive says something about a program.
I never said the transfers have had no impact at all, I just think it is doing a great disservice to guys like Whitelaw, Rodrigues, Selleck, Lyon etc. to say that the transfers carried them to wins. A lot of home grown talent has had a hand in it as well.
Don Patrick was from Fulton and chose to come home to play after his D1 career crapped the bed at Ferris State and George Roll was the coach when he came in not Eddie. Vokey was encouraged by Patrick to come to Oswego but never played a single game. Yes he was brought in but he didn't play, so the National championship team had no transfers on it.
I don't think the presence of the transfers and D1 players, and lets be honest the D1 players were basically D3 players in D1 uniforms aside from Boots and Bremner, says anything bad about a program. What it says is that at the moment they are puting a winning team on the ice, they are doing it a different way than some other programs thats all. Bob chooses to go with guys he picks, that he knows he can coach and will buy into what he says which if I was a coach is the way I would do it. Eddie takes a big risk by bringing in guys like Boots, Gunn-Taylor and Bremner who were run out of town on a rail and recently it has paid off. Joel Kitchen and Tim Vokey are examples of how it can backfire on you.
I respect your opinion on most things because you are very sharp and more importantly you are into racing, but I think you are getting a little too hung up on the transfer thing. Maybe some frustration that Plattsburgh, isn't getting these players or something, but as you said they don't need them. I really don't think Oswego "needs" them either but they have them and they use them. When Platty is back to kicking the crap out of Oswego, which we both know is going to happen, then I am sure you will forget all about it. As it is now you sound like Sammy Swindell, we won by half a lap but coulda lapped the field if we didn't have 5,000 things wrong with the car. Plattsburgh has been the dominant team in SUNYAC for 20 years but just think is Oswego, Geneseo and Fredonia would just roll over and die, they would have won 20 titles in a row.
I suppose I should add that Eddie is a good friend of my family so I guess I take offense to people questioning his integrity and his coaching ability which is what I think you are doing. He does what he needs to do to keep a winning team on the ice and if that means bringing in transfers then so be it.
