Re: RPI Hockey 2016 - 2017: Here we go again! I hope it's a fun ride.
This program has been driven into the "who cares about RPI hockey stage". .... Some could say its because of a certain poster but I'm not buying it. The hockey we are witnessing stinks regardless of the integrity and class of the student athletes on this team. There used to be a point in time where I would not miss an RPI game and now I'm happy to get there when there is nothing better to do.
Speaking solely for myself, it has been a combination of factors, we agree on one and disagree about another:
-- while it may have started with one poster's persistent manner of phrasing his discontent (
not the content, the unnecessary negativity and name calling), a sort of mean-spiritedness seems to have spread from him more broadly. At one point, this thread was a pleasant social experience, now it seems to be a place to vent. Nothing wrong with that, it's just not for me personally.
-- as part of the above, I miss DrD.
-- the results on the ice have been frustrating. I expect the players to be able to think on their feet and to execute the fundamentals; there is some inner spark or inner drive lacking: the players have not "taken ownership" of the team onto their own backs. I'm not talking about wins; I'm talking about the quality of play. I wouldn't mind if we had losing seasons where we were outplayed by better opponents as long as we played well. The team needs to be entertaining to maintain fan interest.
-- the one score thread I checked into while the game was in progress, 65% of all the posts in the entire thread were from one person. and they were not useful nor interesting. I drop in for dialog, not monolog.
-- I have other things going on in my life that now engage my time and attention more than they did in the past several years.
I still scan the score threads the next morning, and drop by here from time to time without posting anything, usually.
You and I both remember how the results of the 1980 election initially were trumpeted as the end of the world, and how well it then turned out afterward.