RPI 2022 Off-season: Surely, We Deserve Better

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Anyone attend the golf outing? Any news

Crickets chirping ......

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

WNYT Ch. 13 did a piece on the golf outing.
https://wnyt.com/big-board-sports/rp...-season-ahead/

Edit: The new prez was in attendance.

 

[DavidNardolillo]

WNYT Ch. 13 did a piece on the golf outing.
https://wnyt.com/big-board-sports/rp...-season-ahead/

Edit: The new prez was in attendance.

Sounds like season tickets are a go! Will have my application in by the end of the week.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Today is 10 August 2022. There are 52 days until RPI's next game.

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

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

I noticed that Ken Ralph is leaving U. Maine to take a DIII A.D. job in Texas.....which is somewhat odd. In his presser, he mentioned the changes occurring in D1 athletics where athletes are now treated as "commodities" as his reason for heading to DIII.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l01VaUJF84s

 

[tony/troy]

I noticed that Ken Ralph is leaving U. Maine to take a DIII A.D. job in Texas.....which is somewhat odd. In his presser, he mentioned the changes occurring in D1 athletics where athletes are now treated as "commodities" as his reason for heading to DIII.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l01VaUJF84s

Was taken back a bit by the "demeanor" of a now middle age, grayer and, especially after the financial security that goes with a couple decades of six figure annual incomes, a far blunter Ken Ralph that now appears to shoot from the hip.

Not that I ever disliked the younger and probably poorer Ken Ralph with his first AD job here, but, I think I REALLY would have liked the current version. Were he still here and based on this clip, I doubt his comments to the media regarding pauses, cancellations, and fan bans would have resembled the dribble that emanated from that same position over the last 30 months. Of course, the dribble was kept to a minimum only by the fact that most inquiries were totally ignored.

Based on the current clip and were he still here, I would have loved to hear his comments about either of the following:
1) Being the AD of the only KNOWN football program (out of about 850 US colleges that play football) whose administration was still banning parents, relatives and fans as late as the fall of 2021. The only known exception was Hawaii who did same only for the first three weeks.
2) Being the AD of record at a place where parents and grandparents (ages very late 40's through 80's) of football players were relegated by the administration to watching from a distant hill and having to tromp into and through the woods to relieve themselves.

His present day comments about the above would have possibly resembled mine and that probably means he would have been fired and gone the very next day.

The honest impression I always had of the younger and poorer Ralph when he was here was that of the star pupil and product of a media relations training firm where you learn how to spew a bevy of carefully parsed words that say absolutely nothing. Nothing like the guy in this clip but very much like the present.

P.S. Most of us, especially those of us who live locally, all know who should be holding Ken's old position here and should have already been holding it for quite some time now. ENOUGH!!! Work problem. Solve problem. Solution has been sitting there right under freaking noses for far too long already.

 

[DavidNardolillo]

I noticed that Ken Ralph is leaving U. Maine to take a DIII A.D. job in Texas.....which is somewhat odd. In his presser, he mentioned the changes occurring in D1 athletics where athletes are now treated as "commodities" as his reason for heading to DIII.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l01VaUJF84s

Sounds like he wants nothing to do with managing the compliance issues that are arising from the Name, Image, and Likeness situation at the Division I level. I don't blame him. Southwest must have been the first available job. He'd be a great fit at a lot of DIII colleges in the Northeast.

 

[DavidNardolillo]

Email blast late this afternoon from the Field House re: season tickets and meet-and-greet with the men's and women's teams.

August 5, 2022


Dear RPI Men’s and Women’s Hockey Season Ticket Holder,

Welcome back!!! We have missed you and as always appreciate your patience while we, and the rest of the world, navigate the global pandemic. We are reaching out to you to let you know we are planning on going with our full schedule of sporting events this season which includes Men’s and Women’s Hockey at the Houston Field House. Many of you joined us last spring as the Men hosted ECAC playoffs and it was great to have you all back and we look forward to getting back to pre-March 2020 level of operations. Our hope is that we can continue to move in that direction of normalcy as much as possible.

As a partial thank you, we are not raising ticket fees for returning season ticket holders. Attached is the link to the 2022-23 Season Application as well as a pdf. https://rpiathletics.com/documents/2022/8/1/MHKY202223_No_Date.pdf

Please complete the application and email it back to boxoffice@rpi.edu or mail to:
Houston Field House
Attention; RPI Box Office
1900 Peoples Ave
Troy, NY 12180

ALSO: Please plan on joining the Head Coach Dave Smith and Head Coach Bryan Vines with their respective teams on August 25 at 5:30PM at the Houston Field House for a meet and greet, Q&A, and comments from the Head Coaches and Athletic Director, Dr. Lee McElroy. Light food and beverages will be provided. Tickets will not be distributed at that time.

We look forward to seeing you soon and thank you again.

The Houston Field House Staff.

Norris A. Pearson Cecilia Widomski
Operations Manager Business Coordinator

 

[Ralph Baer]

In honor of Finn Brown, today is 11 August 2022. There are 51 days until RPI's next game.

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

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

P.S. Most of us, especially those of us who live locally, all know who should be holding Ken's old position here and should have already been holding it for quite some time now. ENOUGH!!! Work problem. Solve problem. Solution has been sitting there right under freaking noses for far too long already.

While I am honored and flattered to be worthy of your consideration, I am otherwise committed and if nominated I will not serve.... HA

 

[Wicked Slappaahs]

Great to see Mathias Lange behind the behind for Team Austria last night.

 

[rpi82]

Email blast late this afternoon from the Field House re: season tickets and meet-and-greet with the men's and women's teams.

We play Army in October. We play Harvard on Veteran’s Day. Yet “Military Appreciation Night” is against Alaska-Fairbanks. I guess we appreciate the Black Knights except when we are playing them and we can’t appreciate veterans when everyone else does.

 

[DrDemento]

We play Army in October. We play Harvard on Veteran’s Day. Yet “Military Appreciation Night” is against Alaska-Fairbanks. I guess we appreciate the Black Knights except when we are playing them and we can’t appreciate veterans when everyone else does.

Nice catch!

 

[Ralph Baer]

Today is 12 August 2022. There are 50 days until RPI's next game.

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

 

[engineerhockeyfan]

We play Army in October. We play Harvard on Veteran’s Day. Yet “Military Appreciation Night” is against Alaska-Fairbanks. I guess we appreciate the Black Knights except when we are playing them and we can’t appreciate veterans when everyone else does.

Wow. Is it too late to change that?
Who is the genius that couldn't see that?

 

[DavidNardolillo]

We play Army in October. We play Harvard on Veteran’s Day. Yet “Military Appreciation Night” is against Alaska-Fairbanks. I guess we appreciate the Black Knights except when we are playing them and we can’t appreciate veterans when everyone else does.

I wouldn't be too hard on the scheduling team without knowing more. Sometimes organizing these special days requires synchronizing with other events on campus and the academic calendar. And sometimes the weekend is picked before every date on the hockey team's schedule is finalized. FWIW, I could see why trying to do Military Appreciation on Veteran's Day itself might be challenging, as the school's ROTC units may already have other ceremonial obligations that day.

 

[rpi82]

I wouldn't be too hard on the scheduling team without knowing more. Sometimes organizing these special days requires synchronizing with other events on campus and the academic calendar. And sometimes the weekend is picked before every date on the hockey team's schedule is finalized. FWIW, I could see why trying to do Military Appreciation on Veteran's Day itself might be challenging, as the school's ROTC units may already have other ceremonial obligations that day.

I thought of that, but I don't remember any conflicts from my ROTC days in the dark ages. I was in the color guard so we occasionally had community events, including Veterans Day morning, but I don't remember any at night. In fact, the only time we had night time duty was for hockey games when school was in session, but I don't think we've regularly used a color guard at games in decades. In fact, I've been to a couple of the Military Appreciation Nights over the last decade and I'm trying to remember if we even used a color guard then. I think we did but my memory is getting less reliable as I get older.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Today is 13 August 2022. There are 49 days (7 weeks) until RPI's next game.

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

 

[Ralph Baer]

I thought of that, but I don't remember any conflicts from my ROTC days in the dark ages. I was in the color guard so we occasionally had community events, including Veterans Day morning, but I don't remember any at night. In fact, the only time we had night time duty was for hockey games when school was in session, but I don't think we've regularly used a color guard at games in decades. In fact, I've been to a couple of the Military Appreciation Nights over the last decade and I'm trying to remember if we even used a color guard then. I think we did but my memory is getting less reliable as I get older.

Maybe Army has other activities then which would interfere with their hockey team going to Troy. I realize that their team is not playing that day.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Today is 14 August 2022. There are 48 days until RPI's next game.

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