Re: >>> RIT Tigers Offseason: Looking forward to more in 2019-20 <<<
Re: >>> RIT Tigers Offseason: Looking forward to more in 2019-20 <<<
To me, the only allure for Wilson to go to BG is that it is his alma mater. The WCHA is pretty close to being the AHA of the west where it's hard to get an at large. Yes they got it this year, but it's hard to do. It's scholarships, but really - that job is only a slightly step up and there will likely be more pressure for him to win there. Coach can pretty much call his shot at RIT for what he has done with 3 NCAA appearances and a frozen four appearance.
I agree with you Komey with one small difference...there's a National Championship banner hanging in BG's barn, and Wilson was part of that.
Why did Dave Smith leave Canisius and go to RPI, RPI hasn't sniffed the NCAA in many years, and they are only slightly better than their AHA counterparts, but they have two banners hanging in the HFH. There's a history there, and an alumni that asks a little more from Coach Smith than he would get asked at Canisius. Coach Smith is up to the challenge of trying to turn around that program instead of riding out a career at Cansius. I hope he returns RPI to glory and if he doesn't at least he can say he gave it a try instead of turning them down.
Another thought, if Adam Oates could coach any D1 program (and he wanted to), do you think his alma mater (RPI), where he won a National Championship, would be high on his list? I would think so.
It's all speculation but it does make a great 'hot stove' topic. I mean do you think Jerry York and BC and later on BG would of come to our Brick City weekends without the link to Coach Wilson?
I know down in my neck of the woods, you all know that Coach K of Duke basketball fame was a cadet at West Point. Even to this day there remains a pretty good cross pollination of athletic folks (coaches, trainers, etc.) at both Duke and West Point who have worked at both schools. When the two schools play against each other, at least in my town, you hear about old friends and families getting together to catch up with each other, folks who have moved out of the northeast and now live in North Carolina and are up for a weekend when Duke plays Army in football. I would imagine the coaching community is smaller and tighter than most of us know.
So like I said before I hope the changes at BG have zero impact at RIT, but the ties between the two schools, as Winters pointed out, are indisputable, and if RIT lost any coaches to BG I wouldn't be surprised.
