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RPI 2025 Off-Season: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ralph Baer said:
Oh! Are there exceptions for the AIC players and the few others who have appeared?
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I believe grad transfers, teams that drop, and teams that undergo a coaching change can have players enter early. I do agree with you, that it might be a good sign that they haven’t entered yet.

Of course, I’m no expert on the inner workings that other people think they are.
 
Ralph Baer said:
Interesting, that besides for Nick Strom who entered the portal before Smith was let go, none of our players has appeared yet.
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Players who have eligibility left can't enter portal till March 30th
The two Harvard players listed have time left becuase of injury but school doesn't allow 5th year players
 
Ralph Baer said:
Oh! Are there exceptions for the AIC players and the few others who have appeared?
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Believe that grad students can enter whenever which is why Strom is in. and why you saw more entrants earlier on last year when there were 5th years from covid still available. Aic i think was allowed because there must be a rule about the program getting cut. I am not 1000% sure but I think you'll see the gold rush into the portal happen next week
 
FLHockeyMom said:
Ah, my bad, I saw Muzzatti only played 3 seasons at RPI so that didn't occur to me. MSU fan here so relevant to my interests (Spartan legacy, although there could be a back-story there I don't know). In any event, carry on!
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It's no problem at all, would think the same in your shoes. I just know he's graduating early this semester. I wonder if MSU will be interested given he is a legacy
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
Stumbled onto this posting by RPI alum Dave Aiello...

daveaiello.com

The Search for RPI's Next Men's Hockey Coach - Dave Aiello

I’d like to share a few thoughts on the search for RPI’s next men’s hockey coach, following the news that Dave Smith was let go as head coach of the Men’s Varsity Ice Hockey Team.
daveaiello.com
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Excellent summary except for the following.

"There is no question that Dr. Jackson had to shut down varsity sports at the beginning of the Pandemic."

Today, there are plenty of questions. In fact, people were given preemptive pardons because of them. One very obvious question is why do the archives of virtually all institutions, including RPI, show normal for the times schedules and results for the years 1918, 1919 and 1920??? That was only the time frame of the just as or even more deadly Spanish Flu. Do not ever recall reading or hearing the death toll went up due to people playing games, attending games or just going about their business for anything else. In fact, the peak of it, especially in the United States, is generally stated to have lasted for a matter of double-digit weeks, not years. For future reference, sure seems like looks like the correct procedure is to not shut everything down and not lock healthy people up in their houses like wild animals. Instead, healthy people should just be left alone to go about their business which would give their immune systems enough "practice" to handle just about anything that comes along. Possibly best explained by George Carlin's six and a half minute germs, immune system routine performed years before Covid. Dial up the food for thought. The positively brilliant man not only saw what was going to happen long before it happened but also why it happened.

A century later two of five power five conferences went on as normal with little more than a two-week delay in starting their fall sports. Sure, there were some "attendance limits" put in place but, according to relatives who live in Memphis, they must have been computed in a base other than 10. They attended all five of the home games Ole Miss football played in 2020 as did most of their acquaintances they sit nearby. I have lost no relatives, and they lost none of their acquaintances. Not even when they attended their favorite latter two semester indoor sport and baseball the following spring. Oh, by the way, those two conferences are made up of mostly state institutions under the legislatures of mostly red states. No accident. No accident they are both flourishing today.

Not so for the other three power fives, mostly state institutions under the legislatures of mostly blue states. Initially, they all cancelled their football seasons. However, when they saw what the other two were doing, they feared extinction and scrambled like panicked rats to slap together abbreviated schedules that did not start until October. Though one of them recovered and is doing just fine today, it was too little too late for the other two. One is already dead (maybe like RPI Hockey) while the other is dying a slower death (probably just like RPI Hockey).

"There is no question that Dr. Jackson had to shut down varsity sports at the beginning of the Pandemic." Really!!! Suppose there is no question about the empty building year that followed either!!!
 
tony/troy said:
"There is no question that Dr. Jackson had to shut down varsity sports at the beginning of the Pandemic." Really!!! Suppose there is no question about the empty building year that followed either!!!
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Dave Aiello followed his statement about the shut down with the following: "What will always be questioned is whether the unique approach that RPI took to bringing athletics back to campus was best for our school?"

Seems like a diplomatic, gentlemanly way of suggesting that RPI's "unique approach" was incorrect.

Even if one feels that COVID shutdowns were unnecessary in March 2020 (that would have been quite the call to make at the time given how many people were dying in NY hospitals every day in March and April), there would have been nobody for RPI to play. The NCAA canceled the remaining competitions, even the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
 
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tony/troy said:
Excellent summary except for the following.

"There is no question that Dr. Jackson had to shut down varsity sports at the beginning of the Pandemic."

Today, there are plenty of questions. In fact, people were given preemptive pardons because of them. One very obvious question is why do the archives of virtually all institutions, including RPI, show normal for the times schedules and results for the years 1918, 1919 and 1920??? That was only the time frame of the just as or even more deadly Spanish Flu. Do not ever recall reading or hearing the death toll went up due to people playing games, attending games or just going about their business for anything else. In fact, the peak of it, especially in the United States, is generally stated to have lasted for a matter of double-digit weeks, not years. For future reference, sure seems like looks like the correct procedure is to not shut everything down and not lock healthy people up in their houses like wild animals. Instead, healthy people should just be left alone to go about their business which would give their immune systems enough "practice" to handle just about anything that comes along. Possibly best explained by George Carlin's six and a half minute germs, immune system routine performed years before Covid. Dial up the food for thought. The positively brilliant man not only saw what was going to happen long before it happened but also why it happened.

A century later two of five power five conferences went on as normal with little more than a two-week delay in starting their fall sports. Sure, there were some "attendance limits" put in place but, according to relatives who live in Memphis, they must have been computed in a base other than 10. They attended all five of the home games Ole Miss football played in 2020 as did most of their acquaintances they sit nearby. I have lost no relatives, and they lost none of their acquaintances. Not even when they attended their favorite latter two semester indoor sport and baseball the following spring. Oh, by the way, those two conferences are made up of mostly state institutions under the legislatures of mostly red states. No accident. No accident they are both flourishing today.

Not so for the other three power fives, mostly state institutions under the legislatures of mostly blue states. Initially, they all cancelled their football seasons. However, when they saw what the other two were doing, they feared extinction and scrambled like panicked rats to slap together abbreviated schedules that did not start until October. Though one of them recovered and is doing just fine today, it was too little too late for the other two. One is already dead (maybe like RPI Hockey) while the other is dying a slower death (probably just like RPI Hockey).

"There is no question that Dr. Jackson had to shut down varsity sports at the beginning of the Pandemic." Really!!! Suppose there is no question about the empty building year that followed either!!!
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You left out a few key points. Ole Miss played football with a max capacity of 25% - and the only game that came close to that number was the Egg Bowl against Mississippi State. They played #2 Alabama before 14,000 fans in a 65,000 seat stadium. After canceling early season games they began the basketball season with similar restrictions and they must have tightened them even further because most of their games were played before an announced attendance of 895 (in a nearly 10,000 seat arena). The reason games were played was simple - TV money. I'll bet if RPI was going to sacrifice tens of millions of dollars by cancelling athletics even Shirley would have found a way to get the games played.
 
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