The college hockey landscape has changed as others have pointed out, but that should not be a reason for lowering one's expectations. Comparisons to Walsh may not be fair, but they are inevitable. Shawn never made excuses that I can recall regarding the location in Orono, Maine. On the contrary, he sought out players who welcomed the challenge, and embraced the community. In exchange, he never lowered the expectations of his program, his players, or himself.
We need to not lower our expectations of our head hockey coach. If we do, we get what we deserve. If we keep our standards high for our coach and our program, we will have a team that all of us will be proud of.
I do want to emphasize that I think we have a great core group of players, that with the right coaching, mentoring, and leadership, is capable of doing great things. They deserve a coach that will demand great things of them, and one who will do everything in his power to develop them into the best possible players they can be.
