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Toot Cahoon Steps Down as UMass Head Coach

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Hokydad throwing out a riddle free prediction and admitting he'll probably be wrong as usual? Wow...
 
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Parker Ranger said:
Perhaps you can give us non-subscribers the sparks notes version?
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Main point is that Mark Dennehy is who UMass really wants and then there are a bunch of other candidates they'll turn to if they can't land Dennehy. The article provides background on the candidates as well as pros & possible cans of each.
 
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Who do they site as sources for that? No way they get Dennehy. I'll be the happiest person if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
 
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Does the song U-Mass by the Pixies get any play around campus? :)
 
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College Hockey News reporting Quinnipiac's Rand Pecknold will take over at UMass
 
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BoSox3066 said:
College Hockey News reporting Quinnipiac's Rand Pecknold will take over at UMass
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That's a great hire by UMass. We're all surprised he actually left Quinnipiac. The only D-I coach in QU history, has had fantastic success, and ran a very classy program.
 
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I know absolutely nothing about him. However, I like the direction the Quinnipiac program is heading in. They would have been my choice for number 12 in Hockey East. Hopefully he succeeds in Amherst.
 
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Hilarious if rumor is true that Quinnipiac counter offered and Pecknold stayed. Shows how little commitment to d1 hockey there is in Amherst.
 
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irishfan85 said:
Hilarious if rumor is true that Quinnipiac counter offered and Pecknold stayed. Shows how little commitment to d1 hockey there is in Amherst.
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I wouldn't call this an indication of the level of commitment that UMass has to the hockey program. This isn't the first time a coach uses another schools offer to get an extension and a raise and won't be the last. Remember who was in the running the last time UMass was looking for a coach...
 
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irishfan85 said:
Hilarious if rumor is true that Quinnipiac counter offered and Pecknold stayed. Shows how little commitment to d1 hockey there is in Amherst.
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Yep. Just like Billy Beane turning down the Red Sox GM job to stick with Oakland shows how little commitment to Major League Baseball there was in Boston in 2002. :rolleyes:
 
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jjmc85 said:
I know absolutely nothing about him. However, I like the direction the Quinnipiac program is heading in. They would have been my choice for number 12 in Hockey East. Hopefully he succeeds in Amherst.
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He is a good coach, but look for teams of 25 year old Canadians. That was his m.o. at Quinipiac as a way to make them competitive quickly. It worked to a degree, I think. Doubt he's going to land lots of Greater Boston talent...more likely Greater Saskatoon. Not a knock on the guy by the way. He needed to get competetive quickly at QU to be considered for the ECAC and he did. Then he needed to quickly get there in the ECAC, and he did. I suspect there is a limited upside to his approach but I don't know what it is.
 
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I fail to see how it's loyal to accept a position, get a counter-offer from your previous employer, and then un-accept.

Loyalty would have been not even interviewing or talking to UMass.
 
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Jim said:
He is a good coach, but look for teams of 25 year old Canadians. That was his m.o. at Quinipiac as a way to make them competitive quickly. It worked to a degree, I think. Doubt he's going to land lots of Greater Boston talent...more likely Greater Saskatoon. Not a knock on the guy by the way. He needed to get competetive quickly at QU to be considered for the ECAC and he did. Then he needed to quickly get there in the ECAC, and he did. I suspect there is a limited upside to his approach but I don't know what it is.
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I couldn't care less where the players are from or how old they are. I want players who want to work hard, get a degree and play hockey.
 
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jjmc85 said:
I fail to see how it's loyal to accept a position, get a counter-offer from your previous employer, and then un-accept.

Loyalty would have been not even interviewing or talking to UMass.
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Getting loyalty denominated in $$$ is fine by me... two-way street and all that.
 
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