Re: >>>>> RIT TIGERS 2009-2010 <<<<< Rockin' The Ritter For Another Year
Re: >>>>> RIT TIGERS 2009-2010 <<<<< Rockin' The Ritter For Another Year
Duh. Who was it, Bill Parcells? that said: "You are what your record says you are"
This is the kind of thick ignorance I am talking about. As a wise man once said "figures don't lie, but liers figure"
You comparing Football to Hockey. In the Pros they play 16 games as oppose to 82. College Football plays 12 games compare to about 35 for Hockey. Every game is much more imporant due to the less amount of games. AGAIN you need some perception... For examples, RIT beat Plattsburgh couple years ago, 6-2 at Plattsburgh. Everyone was ready to hand RIT the national title when the undefeated Tigers met Plattsburgh in the National title game. The Tigers lost 6-2 at the Ritter. Your record is skipping........
Seriously you're pretty off base with this rant. The point I am making (and others) is that we probably don't have as good of a shot at making it out of our conference tournament (this year) because we seem to have taken a step back or two this year. I love how well the program has done since making the jump to D1. But last I knew there wasn't a grace period for getting sellouts where we aren't allowed to criticize the play of some of the team. Isn't this what fans do?
The second part of my “rant” was not solely directed at you, but at several frustrating comments made by several “RIT Fans”. The pipe dreams of many are reaching Michael Phelps on steroids envy levels. I am not off base at all; overall perception is nowhere close to reality on this board. Not that it ever really been, but lately we are going into whole new universe of ignorance.
TRY TO GRASP THIS CONCEPT, IF RIT WINS THE ATLANTIC HOCKEY TOURNAMENT THEY ARE 4 WINS FROM A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
One game playoffs anything can happen, proven by Niagara, Holy Cross, Air Force, and Bemedji St. And RIT prove they can play with anyone. But again your pipe dreaming, we have not even made it their yet and your worrying about winning an NCAA tourament game???? In the 6 year history of the Atlantic, the conference is something like 2-8 in NCAA Tourament games. It is suppose to be very tough to win those games. Not to even mention that the Atlantic has gain a lot more respect thanks to teams like RIT.
Even programs like North Dakota, Minnesota , Michigan, Boston College, and Cornell goes through rough patches. It’s a four year cycle and affects all major college sports. RIT themselves experience a down turn in D-III days around 2004 to the “announcement”. Heck Mr. Chris “Homer” Lerch even called RIT Men’s hockey program over rated at one point. Which of course led him to being sent to bed without dinner by coach Wilson
Despite RIT’s lack of so called “Progress”, the Tigers are still at the top of their conference and playing to sold out arena day in and day out. The early loss of Crowell and Kharin turned last year’s painful losses into very painful “graduation” losses. Despite this, Wilson has been able to rally the troops and been able to make this team a legitimate contender for the NCAAs. It extremely disappointing to see that accomplishment being undercut by Alumni/Students who seem to care more about being able to win ****ing contests against Clarkson, Saint Lawrence, Colgate, and Niagara followers. Speak of which if you find true Niagara follower outside of family and friends at Niagara you’ve made history.
Take a look at the University of the State of New York at Buffalo (AKA UB) sports programs. Since they brought their entire sports programs D-I they have mostly been a laughing stock and not just in Football. Very few highlights since going D-I somewhere in the Mid 90s, RIT’s D-I hockey achievements suppress that of all UB Sports in a much shorter amount of time.
Steps need to be taken, need to make the NCAAs, need to get a new arena, need to get scholarships available by bringing the entire school, D-I. In the meantime be nice to see the team getting support from its “fans” instead of childish whining.
