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Suny cortland season thread 1.

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hockeyfollower said:
When are they getting rid of that coach there seriously...i used to be part of that program and he doesnt even play the best players.
Most of the guys question everything he does and he continues to lose all the time. Time for a change there for sure. A good young
energetic coach is what they need there at Cortland.
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donny16 said:
I think the best solution is a change at the helm. Obviously Coach Baldarotta has had his chance to turn it around and it is only getting worse there.
Cortlands hockey program should be great just like all the other athletic teams at the school. They are in the syracuse area and right by the ontario jr a
leagues. Maybe he just doesnt recruit hard enough
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PSUChamps2001 said:
Really? A team that has how many playoff wins in how many years and its the coaches problem? Losing is not something that's new to Cortland. The 24 wins at Cortland matches the most wins in a five year period at Cortland.

Second, while I will not dispute the tradition Cortland athletics this is HOCKEY. It's a very unique sport in which the majority of your "quality player pool" is located north of the border eh. You can NOT get the grade A recruits when you already have three strikes against you:

1) You're in a league with Plattsburgh and Oswego
2) Your school doesn't offer the generious FA packages like other fellow SUNYAC schools do
3) Putting it nicely, your team has s***ed for years......

When the school wants to put you behind the 8-ball before you even leave the locker room its hard to put together a competitive team year in year out, no matter who the coach is. I for one was excited to see Coach Baldarotta picked for the Cortland job as I thought it would become a little better, but it just goes to show not even some of the best coaches EVER can turn a program around that has no interest in turning around.
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More than one person thinks Baldy may not be the right guy for the job. Baldy has a fantastic background but perhaps he just isnt the right guy for the Red Dragons. Im not very closely tied to the D3 game as im a highschooler that just began having interest in the program last year so i wont say much beyond that as id be talking out of the rear. I know Cortland may never back the hockey program as much as football or lacrosse, but what they need is someone that can smooth talk the brass of the school and get support in small steps. Seth Appert, the coach at RPI has semi-successfully been able to do this, getting major renovations underway in the rink, some of which were nor in the plan, and recruit talent has gone up in Troy,bringing the team back to the NCAA tourney for the first time since 95. Some early departures (and major graduation losses) left a hole in the lineup, which can partially explain the tough stretch they had in the first half of this year. The reason i said that is if you dont have a coach/AD that are able to play the few cards they have just right to slowly build support, a struggling program like Cortland/RPI will never go anywhere. I cant speak for Baldy but it seems to me the AD doesnt give a darn about hockey and i highly doubt anything will change until the admins or athletic department enter a new regime.As i said i dont have much to add but thats just my 2 cents
 
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What a disappointing weekend for our team. We gave up 16 goals and blew a nice lead against Brockport. Our scoring is there but we just couldnt keep it out of our net this weekend. I heard in the stands from one of the parents that Balderatta kicked the teams 2 best goalies off the team at the beginning of the season. It would have been nice to throw one of them in the past 4 or 5 games. Not sure why they were kicked off but I feel that they could have been helping take the load off the current starter.

With the two losses we are now in last place in the league. I wonder how much longer the athletic director is going to put up with such poor results. I would like to hear his justification of keeping a coach who hasnt made the playoffs in 5 years. I guess technically, we could still make the playoffs and I have my fingers crossed that they can pull it out!
 
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tabernacle67 said:
I heard in the stands from one of the parents that Balderatta kicked the teams 2 best goalies off the team at the beginning of the season. It would have been nice to throw one of them in the past 4 or 5 games. Not sure why they were kicked off but I feel that they could have been helping take the load off the current starter.
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Not sure why you think the two (former) goalies should be helping hte team now. Without understanding why they were kicked off (and that the coach and school may not be able to comment on it due to student confidentiality), not sure how you can consider it. There are any number of valid reasons.
 
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jerrynu26 said:
Not sure why you think the two (former) goalies should be helping hte team now. Without understanding why they were kicked off (and that the coach and school may not be able to comment on it due to student confidentiality), not sure how you can consider it. There are any number of valid reasons.
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Team discipline, etc. falls under FERPA - that means unless the student self-discloses, there is no way of knowing why things like that happen.
 
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I think im the only one who is happy with they tie. that keeps us right in the mix and I think we are in a good spot to make a move into the playoffs. I also heard clarified why our senior goaltender was kicked off the team. Apparently the coach told him he was not allowed to miss practice due to school and Khulman told him that school came first. Khulman was then kicked off the team and in the recent weeks this has been brought up to the AD. Us cortland fans are hopeful because in the stands tonight we heard that there will be a goaltending change this next weekend! This is not to say that our goaltending to day has been sub par. It just looks like who we have now is over worked and when he plays he looks tired.
 
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tabernacle67 said:
I think im the only one who is happy with they tie. that keeps us right in the mix and I think we are in a good spot to make a move into the playoffs. I also heard clarified why our senior goaltender was kicked off the team. Apparently the coach told him he was not allowed to miss practice due to school and Khulman told him that school came first. Khulman was then kicked off the team and in the recent weeks this has been brought up to the AD. Us cortland fans are hopeful because in the stands tonight we heard that there will be a goaltending change this next weekend! This is not to say that our goaltending to day has been sub par. It just looks like who we have now is over worked and when he plays he looks tired.
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Honestly we are in 7th place and we have a game in hand. I feel like we control our own destiny and that we will at least sneak into the playoffs. In my opinion we have the two best forwards in the league in kalata and lysyj and word around campus is our #1 goalie is coming back this weekend. I was at the game tonight and we looked good. We gave up a few bad goals but we battled back and answered right away to the goals. Looking over the stats 2 wins out of the next 3 games puts us in the playoffs. I know people will think im crazy, but im very confident that we can take 2 out of 3
 
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Side note: the game at Fredonia tonight was top notch... Me and the few other cortland faithful were treated with the upmost amount of respect.
 
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tabernacle67 said:
Honestly we are in 7th place and we have a game in hand. I feel like we control our own destiny and that we will at least sneak into the playoffs. In my opinion we have the two best forwards in the league in kalata and lysyj and word around campus is our #1 goalie is coming back this weekend. I was at the game tonight and we looked good. We gave up a few bad goals but we battled back and answered right away to the goals. Looking over the stats 2 wins out of the next 3 games puts us in the playoffs. I know people will think im crazy, but im very confident that we can take 2 out of 3
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That's a bold statement... (thus why I bolded it:p)
 
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Ozz said:
That's a bold statement... (thus why I bolded it:p)
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What they have done with a team that isnt as good and a coach who isnt as good as Oswego's should speak for itself. The fact that both players are in the top of the league in separate categories should carry enough weight.
 
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Lysyj and Kaleta are having great seasons this year but I don't see them as the two best forwards in the league. Luke Moodie, Paul Rodrigues and Jon Whitelaw from Oswego, Zachary Vit from Geneseo, Trevor McKinney from Buffalo State, and Jared Docking from Plattsburgh are also guys that are very good. The thing that separates the great players from the rest is the ability to score that big goal when the game is on the line and Lysyj and Kaleta have failed to do that against some good teams,Geneseo, Neumann, Platty, Manhattanville and now Fredonia. I know those two guys scored in those games but a goal or two in OT would certainly help their case. It's not all about how many you score, it is more about when you score them. And lets face it, it is much harder to perform when everyone expects you to.

And before you get too down on Baldy, remember this is a guy who has won over 300 games and a National title with Stevens Point.
 
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Laker28 said:
Lysyj and Kaleta are having great seasons this year but I don't see them as the two best forwards in the league. Luke Moodie, Paul Rodrigues and Jon Whitelaw from Oswego, Zachary Vit from Geneseo, Trevor McKinney from Buffalo State, and Jared Docking from Plattsburgh are also guys that are very good. The thing that separates the great players from the rest is the ability to score that big goal when the game is on the line and Lysyj and Kaleta have failed to do that against some good teams,Geneseo, Neumann, Platty, Manhattanville and now Fredonia. I know those two guys scored in those games but a goal or two in OT would certainly help their case. It's not all about how many you score, it is more about when you score them. And lets face it, it is much harder to perform when everyone expects you to. And before you get too down on Baldy, remember this is a guy who has won over 300 games and a National title with Stevens Point.
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what I was saying is that they are not playing for a traditional powerhouse and they are not playing with guys who should be playing Div. 1. Take either of them and put them on a top like on oswego or plattsburghm or heck, even genesseo and they are top conference guys. Take a look of the top scorers and who they are playing with. Now take cortlands top couple guys and put them with guys who played top tier junior A. Your All America voting and All conference voting would be a lot different.


Now... Joe Balderatta has 300 wins... and he is also really really close to 300 losses. He hasnt made the playoffs in 4 years. If the AD at cortland doesnt get rid of him it shows they really dont care. He obviously is the problem
 
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tabernacle67 said:
If the AD at cortland doesnt get rid of him it shows they really dont care. He obviously is the problem
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This is the real problem at Cortland, the administration simply does not care about hockey. They have Lacrosse, track, football, baseball etc. to make them their coin and hockey is an afterthought. The level of effort it takes to put a competitive hockey team on the ice is something that Cortland simply doesn't want to do. They have taken a step in the right direction this year but it really isn't enough.

You may be right about Lysyj and Kaleta but I don't know. Lysyj I will give you because he is so big and uses his size well and he scores a lot of dirty goals. Kaleta I have always felt has been a dirty player and while he is scoring more this year, I think he would find himself on the bench a lot at one of the top schools.
 
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Mike Lysyj in the Elmira Jackals (ECHL) lineup for tomorrow nights game vs Orlando. Congrats Mike.
 
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tabernacle67 said:
http://d3hockey.com/recruits/2013/SUNYAC

Really solid recruiting class coming in for Cortland. This is the type of news that really gets us fans excited for the upcoming season......
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Do Cortland fans really get excited? I mean in all seriousness until you see the headlines of "New Administration Focusing on Hockey for the **** season" is there any reason to get excited? Or is going from 5 games under .500 to 3 games under .500 reason for excitement? Gotta give you Red Dragon fans credit, you (for the most part) stick with your team. It's just amazing that such a sport school like Cortland, the Admins don't see the writing on the walls on how to build a successful DIII hockey program. Maybe not on par with Plattsburgh or Oswego, but my gosh Brockport has passed Cortland, Buff State has passed Cortland. They understand how to be successful in DIII. You almost thought that bringing in Baldy the Admins "might" be leaning that way...yea um not. You can have a nice building, nice school, blah blah blah but with zero history and not opening your pocket books (AKA FA packages), the list will always be slim pickn's. As I've said before, what Baldy has done with his hands being tied says a lot about a coach (minus his lack of discipline for cheap shot players)
 
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