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RPI 2022 Off-season: Surely, We Deserve Better

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Today is 28 July 2022. There are 65 days until RPI's next game.

This is based upon 1 October 2022 for the start of next season.
 
Waite21 said:
That certainly is a memorable scene of a Ferris wheel, though the music isn't really my style.

As I recall, when I was a student, I asked my roommate, who worked at WRPI, what song was used to introduce RPI hockey broadcasts. He didn't know the title - all he knew was that it came off an album titled "Great College Football Fight Songs."

Years later, I figured out that it was actually the L. A. Rams' fight song. Why it was included in a collection of college fight songs, I will never know.
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The instrumental piece "Machine Gun" by the Commodores was used for many years.
 
vicious said:
The instrumental piece "Machine Gun" by the Commodores was used for many years.
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I sure remember that piece!!! Back in the mid-70 Salfi days. Who were the WRPI broadcast team back then? I recall someone named Marcel who generally picked two or three Engineers as the stars of the game even if we lost by two goals. LOL! There was a Kevin (couldn't be Hamberger, was it?) who got in on the ground floor with MTV Networks.
 
Today is 29 July 2022. There are 64 days until RPI's next game.

This is based upon 1 October 2022 for the start of next season.
 
Congrats to Mike Bergin, named AC with the Adirondack Thunder joining the staff of new HC Peter MacArthur. Bergin has been an AC with Skidmore prior to his new gig.
 
Today is 30 July 2022. There are 63 days (9 weeks) until RPI's next game.

This is based upon 1 October 2022 for the start of next season.
 
fr. joe said:
I sure remember that piece!!! Back in the mid-70 Salfi days. Who were the WRPI broadcast team back then? I recall someone named Marcel who generally picked two or three Engineers as the stars of the game even if we lost by two goals. LOL! There was a Kevin (couldn't be Hamberger, was it?) who got in on the ground floor with MTV Networks.
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The name was Marcel LaPoint. Did the color commentary on radio for four years or so. May have overlapped for at least a couple of those years with a play by play guy named Al Able. If I remember what I later heard correctly, Able never did put his engineering degree to use and instead took a job as a sportswriter eventually becoming the sports editor of a major paper in the Toronto area.

Marcel's catch phrase was "college hockey at its' finest". Though not a player himself, lived with a number of players in an apartment they rented above a barber shop that at that time was owned by my barber to this very day. The players had a very good deal all things considered. They got a nice place to live and the barber(s) threw in their haircuts for free. More than a few times over those few years they were getting haircuts the same time I was there. Players I recall hanging around the shop back then included Darryl Meyer, Rob McNab, Don Armstrong and Marcel's best friend Dino Serra.

Marcel was a total complete certifiable whack job likely to do or say ANYTHING at ANY TIME including on the air. One of those times was single handedly responsible for both radio station people and school officials blowing their gaskets when he decided out of nowhere to throw in an on air plug for his favorite barber shop on NON COMMERCIAL WRPI. Don't really know why myself, but, that is apparently something that is not allowed and that you just don't do on the non commercial bands.

Despite almost a half a century along with with two location changes for the barber shop passing since those days, Marcel achieved such "legendary status" that his name still comes up occasionally at the shop. It almost always still results in a good laugh for the long standing customers that still gets their haircuts there. Whenever one of us long time customers ask out loud "wonder what Marcel is doing these days", the answer is often TIME!!!

The other guy you may be wondering about may be the "human scream machine" (listen to the call of Carter's OT goal against Minnesota Duluth in 1985) Richie Glassberg who, I believe, did end up with MTV. Along with the "voice of reason" Dave Simon on color, they were the broadcast team for the four years that culminated with the national championship. Pretty sure that the two games in Detroit were the last two they would ever broadcast as they both graduated that year.

Yes, as hard as it seems to believe today, there was actually a period covering decades that a student body of over 4,000 was capable of producing at least a handful of students that could adequately cover the football and hockey schedules at minimum. Sadly, the present is almost totally dependent on staff and alumni.
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
If folks thought what just transpired with the transfer portal was nuts, we'd best buckle up. Unlimited transfers without sitting a year appears to be imminent.... Ugly. So much for seeing a kid development in your program.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...aa-allows-players-to-transfer-multiple-times/
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It may or will become little more than the New York Penn League baseball team that used to play in a stadium I could walk to from my home or the independent league team that plays there now. Those rosters virtually flip in their entirety from one year to the next. Walking distance not withstanding, developing the emotional attachment necessary to attend and pay regularly to watch any of those teams is next to impossible.
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
If folks thought what just transpired with the transfer portal was nuts, we'd best buckle up. Unlimited transfers without sitting a year appears to be imminent.... Ugly. So much for seeing a kid development in your program.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...aa-allows-players-to-transfer-multiple-times/
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This is going to make it hard to get attached to individual players, but I am sure that we will adjust.
After all, we lose seniors every year and we move on. It really comes down to the name on the front of the jersey.

Lets go red!!!!!!!!
 
engineerhockeyfan said:
This is going to make it hard to get attached to individual players, but I am sure that we will adjust.
After all, we lose seniors every year and we move on. It really comes down to the name on the front of the jersey.

Lets go red!!!!!!!!
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I became more interested in college hockey when the NHL became a game of musical chairs. My interest in college hockey may suffer the same result. Yes, the name on the front of the jersey is the important thing, but far less significant when you know that behind the jersey is someone with no real attachment to the college.
 
Today is 31 July 2022. There are 62 days until RPI's next game.

This is based upon 1 October 2022 for the start of next season.
 
hab said:
I became more interested in college hockey when the NHL became a game of musical chairs. My interest in college hockey may suffer the same result. Yes, the name on the front of the jersey is the important thing, but far less significant when you know that behind the jersey is someone with no real attachment to the college.
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I don't think this rule change will have a major impact. The door was already opened with the one transfer rule. I don't expect many players, especially the 95% that can reasonably expect, at most, a minor league career and then will need to actually use their education, to be bouncing around a lot. Those that are willing to subject themselves to the academic rigors and oversight at RPI generally fall into that category. There are reasons that the overwhelming majority of our team are on the commissioner's list - they come in expecting to work academically and players are not just offered support resources, they are expected to use them.

The risk of any free transfer rule is having the big shot schools cherry-pick a late-emerging player that fell under their radar. That may be a freshman hotshot, but when was the last time we actually had one? Most of our top players develop over time. The more likely scenario for us is to continue losing an occasional athletic senior, as many use credits accumulated in juniors and other sources to be graduate students for their 4th season. I don't, however, expect as many as we saw this season where the pandemic created a situation where the upcoming athletic seniors were going into their 5th academic year.

I think the multi-transfer rule may actually help some of the non-superstar schools. I can envision scenarios where a late-bloomer breakout freshman attends one of the non-preordained for the tournament schools and takes off. He transfers to superstar U after his freshman or sophomore year only to find himself going from top 6 and special teams duty to bottom six and periodic DNP status at his dream school. He may decide to spend his junior, senior or graduate eligible years at a school where he will get more ice time and perhaps even a greater focus on a degree.
 
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Today is 1 August 2022. There are 61 days (2 months) until RPI's next game.

This is based upon 1 October 2022 for the start of next season.
 
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