RPI 2024–25: Come for the Hockey, Stay for the Football

[Waite21]

Whoops. Bowersk@rpi.edu

It's been my observation that most RPI e-mail addresses consist of the first five letters of the last name, followed by the first letter of the first name, and then @rpi.edu.

Bowersk@rpi.edu might be right. If it doesn't work, I'd suggest trying bowerk@rpi.edu.

 

[tony/troy]

I would have fired him months ago. The team is never prepared to play particularly the 1st period. They make the same mistakes today as they did in October. This year obviously the schedule was much easier than last year with a bunch of Atlantic teams. Doesn’t matter we still lose 20 games. When we play hockey East teams we lose by 5-7 goals. Dave brings in Gilson,McDermott, Bergmanis which are good veteran players to fix the d core which was absolutely awful last year and it still makes no difference. It’s ridiculous already. How many games have we won at the fieldhouse since last year 4 games? Last year we finished last in ecac a first in program history. Clean house

Not to nitpick but, no. Twice and back to back. My first year of regular attendance as a pre teen in 65-66 (0-13 ECAC) and the next one in 66-67 (1-14 ECAC). My very first year of occasional attendance in 64-65 was 10th out of 15 (5-8-2 ECAC). The 64-65 season was the first year of the coach who legend has it committed five years to lead the program back from a genocide the administration of that time performed on it. As genocides go, history does repeat itself and those that refuse to learn from it are doomed to repeat it.

They did not fire that coach after the two back to back last place finishes. Instead, they left him alone to finish the last two years of the five year pledge. In those last two years the program not only recovered but in the last one (68-69) got their first playoff berth since 1964 complements of the one year guy who succeeded Harkness.

That coach stepped down after his successful five year commitment. Instead, he returned to his regular part time and full time gigs. Adjunct professor of architecture at guess where and partner of a still existing local architecture firm. In fact, a mutual acquaintance told me fairly recently that he still goes in on a limited basis. Regardless, he never coached again.

 

[vicious]

Troyboy - can we find a somewhat different term to use than Malpractice? Every time I see or hear that raises my blood pressure a bit. Besides, that term does not come close to doing justice in describing the situation. As one who has watched or participated in this program for over 60 years, I have never felt this badly about how things have deteriorated. Even in 1965-66 while we were getting destroyed on the ice, we did not lose the feeling that the nightmare would be over shortly and we would be back.
Most important - this is my criticism of the program and the school and the administration. Not for one moment do I blame those boys or ladies on the ice. I never felt for one moment that they were mailing it in. They kept trying even as the Titanic was going down. Both squads deserve our support for giving as much as they had.

We still have at least one more game to play, so I won't weigh in on the coaching situation until the season is officially over. And neither will the Institute, I suspect.

With the loss to Cornell the other night, we have now lost 20 games for four straight seasons, five of the last six, eight of the last 10, and 12 of the last 20.

We have not won 20 games in the past 13 seasons.

That's a lot of losing. Frankly I'm amazed that 2000 fans still turn out on average. That says a lot about the loyalty of the fans and their support for the skaters who don the Cherry and White.

This has been a pretty consistent fall-off going back 20+ years, with the exceptions of a few seasons here and there, such as 2010-11 and 2019-20 when we appeared a lock for LP and then the season was cancelled. The last 10 years have been brutal, and this is easily the worst two decades in the history of the program.

DrD: thanks for much-needed humor in your post. Agree wholeheartedly that the players are not to blame.

 

[AspyDad]

We still have at least one more game to play, so I won't weigh in on the coaching situation until the season is officially over. And neither will the Institute, I suspect.

With the loss to Cornell the other night, we have now lost 20 games for four straight seasons, five of the last six, eight of the last 10, and 12 of the last 20.

We have not won 20 games in the past 13 seasons.

That's a lot of losing. Frankly I'm amazed that 2000 fans still turn out on average. That says a lot about the loyalty of the fans and their support for the skaters who don the Cherry and White.

This has been a pretty consistent fall-off going back 20+ years, with the exceptions of a few seasons here and there, such as 2010-11 and 2019-20 when we appeared a lock for LP and then the season was cancelled. The last 10 years have been brutal, and this is easily the worst two decades in the history of the program.

DrD: thanks for much-needed humor in your post. Agree wholeheartedly that the players are not to blame.

In 12-13 season came in 2nd in ECAC. Good season. 19-20 , we're Nolan and Seth's recruits besides Savory