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>>> RIT Tigers 2020-21: A Season "Reconsidered" <<<

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RIT Winters said:
Any number between 1-12 is still higher than what RIT offers. And it's worth pointing out that AIC's baseline tuition rate is nearly $10,000 less than RIT's. That is still $40,000 less for a 4 year degree to play for a program on the upswing vs spending more for less in Rochester.
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Fair point. You guys do seem awfully large to be a D3 school. Has there ever been talk of jumping to D2?
 
Leather Lungs said:
Fair point. You guys do seem awfully large to be a D3 school. Has there ever been talk of jumping to D2?
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In 2020, RIT's trustees commissioned and reviewed a study to go from D-III to D-I directly, along the lines of what St. Thomas has done, but things have been delayed because of the pandemic. D-II is not a good option in this area because there are not many D-II schools in proximity.
 
Has there been anything official on Brick City? Last I heard we were playing Union this year, but Union released their schedule without RIT on it.
 
LtPowers said:
Ian Andriano, Nick Bruce, Dan Willett, and Jake Hamacher will be taking advantage of the NCAA's offer of an extra year of eligibility and returning to the team for another run at a championship.


Powers &8^]
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Nice news, and it's announced weeks after April 1st. Next years roster will be pretty clogged with the addition of these four. Wonder if/which recruits will be pushed off a year, or explore other options?

I imagine other AHA teams will be seeing the same decision made by some of their seniors.
 
LtPowers said:
Schedule dropped: https://ritathletics.com/news/2021/6...-schedule.aspx

Somehow the AHA managed to screw us over big time. What kind of bush-league scheduling operation are they running? Did we have four home games against Robert Morris they didn't bother replacing or something?


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I'll save others the counting and trying to figure out what your complaint is, because it took me a few minutes to realize myself. RIT has 10 conference games at home, and 16 on the road.
Away series:
Army
AIC
Canisius
Sacred Heart
Niagara
Bentley
Mercyhurst
Air Force

Home Series:
Mercyhurst
Holy Cross
Army
Niagara
AIC

Note that the 2 Niagara series are home/home weekends.
 
LtPowers said:
Yes, sorry I wasn't more explicit. I was rather ticked off.


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I assume it's a simple error and one of the four single series on the road will be corrected to be RIT home games. I've seen it in the past where both teams have posted the same game vs each other as a road game at first. The team that had the wrong location later updated their schedule with it as a home game.

Sean
 
Sean Pickett said:
I assume it's a simple error and one of the four single series on the road will be corrected to be RIT home games. I've seen it in the past where both teams have posted the same game vs each other as a road game at first. The team that had the wrong location later updated their schedule with it as a home game.

Sean
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I'm making some inquiries.
 
Ed Trefzger said:
The league office explained that the Air Force series was moved from Rochester to Colorado Springs because RIT canceled its trip there last season.
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I assume we also lost two RMU home games? Those two changes would turn a 14-14 schedule into the 16-10 we see now.

That's a hell of a double-whammy for RIT, though. They're going to have to aim higher than just a weekend split on road trips this year. Why did RIT cancel the Air Force trip?


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LtPowers said:
I assume we also lost two RMU home games? Those two changes would turn a 14-14 schedule into the 16-10 we see now.

That's a hell of a double-whammy for RIT, though. They're going to have to aim higher than just a weekend split on road trips this year. Why did RIT cancel the Air Force trip?


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I don't have numbers to back it up, but i feel like our away record has been better than our home record anyway, so maybe that's a good thing?

The games were cancelled due to COVID protocol: https://www.uscho.com/2021/02/04/ri...t-weekend-postponed-due-to-covid-19-protocol/
 
mar7967 said:
I don't have numbers to back it up, but i feel like our away record has been better than our home record anyway, so maybe that's a good thing?

The games were cancelled due to COVID protocol: https://www.uscho.com/2021/02/04/rit...d-19-protocol/
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Yeah, this seems ridiculous to punish the Tigers for games cancelled under COVID protocol.

But, Mickey Mouse league gonna Mickey Mouse. Atlantic Hockey is a joke. Even if you take out that the Air Force series was switched, they'd still have a 12-14 home/road imbalance. Did they just drop the RMU games and call it a day instead of, you know, actually bothering to make a new, balanced schedule?? What about teams who were scheduled to play RMU more than twice? Are they going to have less conference games so they'll have to go by point % again? This isn't even acceptable for a D3 league, much less a supposed D1 league.

And RIT's been much better at the Pollesini the last couple of seasons. In conference play: 5-0-1-0 (W-L-SOW-SOL) last year compared to 2-5-0-0 on the road (2-7-0-0 if you include playoffs). And 8-3-1-2 (28 pts in 14 games) two years ago at home with crowds compared to 7-6-0-1(22 pts in 14 games) on the road.

Now that I've looked that up, we played more road games than home games in conference last year, so if that's the rationale for making us go to Air Force, why aren't other teams coming to the GPC more often? Absolute absurdity. (Again, not that I'm advocating for that - every team should be playing the same amount of home and road games and the same amount of games total as every other team). EDIT 2: Hell, Air Force had a freaking PLAYOFF series scheduled for the GPC cancelled by COVID in 2019-2020, why does last year's series matter but that one doesn't??

RE-EDIT: Miscounted teams lol. Let's try again. A 10 team schedule really shouldn't be hard to re-jigger. They could even have RIT go to Air Force while maintaining home/road integrity. It's not that hard!
 
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jflory81 said:
Yeah, this seems ridiculous to punish the Tigers for games cancelled under COVID protocol.

But, Mickey Mouse league gonna Mickey Mouse. Atlantic Hockey is a joke. Even if you take out that the Air Force series was switched, they'd still have a 12-14 home/road imbalance. Did they just drop the RMU games and call it a day instead of, you know, actually bothering to make a new, balanced schedule?? What about teams who were scheduled to play RMU more than twice? Are they going to have less conference games so they'll have to go by point % again? This isn't even acceptable for a D3 league, much less a supposed D1 league.

And RIT's been much better at the Pollesini the last couple of seasons. In conference play: 5-0-1-0 (W-L-SOW-SOL) last year compared to 2-5-0-0 on the road (2-7-0-0 if you include playoffs). And 8-3-1-2 (28 pts in 14 games) two years ago at home with crowds compared to 7-6-0-1(22 pts in 14 games) on the road.

Now that I've looked that up, we played more road games than home games in conference last year, so if that's the rationale for making us go to Air Force, why aren't other teams coming to the GPC more often? Absolute absurdity. (Again, not that I'm advocating for that - every team should be playing the same amount of home and road games and the same amount of games total as every other team). EDIT 2: Hell, Air Force had a freaking PLAYOFF series scheduled for the GPC cancelled by COVID in 2019-2020, why does last year's series matter but that one doesn't??

RE-EDIT: Miscounted teams lol. Let's try again. A 10 team schedule really shouldn't be hard to re-jigger. They could even have RIT go to Air Force while maintaining home/road integrity. It's not that hard!
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Math is hard... {ducks}
 
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