Re: UAH Hockey 2013-14: Feeling like a real D-I program again
Congrats on the first win! (**** these must be some good drugs they have me on).
May it be your only win this season. ;p. (There I feel better)
I've been watching your condition improve, buddy. Keep going. Also, we have two more wins to get. You know where we want them.
I had a few questions regarding recruiting I was hoping I could get some insight on (specifically Geof and UAHStatman). How does UAH handle the recruiting? Is Matty Thomas the guy who goes out and gets the boys? I know our roster and recruits coming in for 2014-2015 are pretty full up, but I wonder how many more we'll take on. Obviously another tender should be in the class. I take it there is no way to know who some prospective recruits are, but I would love to know who is on our radar. We are obviously desperate for goals and there are some top-flight goal scorers in leagues we do well in (OJHL and BCHL) that are in their last year of junior eligibility and I wonder if we're in the hunt for em.
Anyways, I've been following our recruits relatively closely and am very excited about Max McHugh. Guy is playing a regular shift on an excellent Dubuque team and putting up respectable numbers. Getting guys from the Ushow is huge IMO, the competition is as close to college as you'll get outside of Major Junior. Hope we can steal another kid similar to him who wants to come down here and potentially be "the guy" from the start.
Sorry for my rambling, but one last question. Can anyone give me the lowdown on how/who identified Brent Fletcher in the recruiting process? The guy puts up a stat line that you wouldn't think would warrant a D1 scholarship in the BCHL. But he comes in and plays an unbelievably mature and detailed game with a motor most players on any team simply don't have. Hope we can find more diamonds in the rough like this kid.
1. All three coaches recruit. The hockey office was pretty empty in September. This is a change from years past (although I know Kleinendorst wouldn't tender an offer unless he'd watched a kid play).
2. I would say that Matty recruits a little bit more than Gavin, but I don't think that it's a huge amount more. They're both pretty busy.
3. I hope that Carlson and McHugh are the beginning of a USHL pipeline to Huntsville. It doesn't have to be just Dubuque, either, but that program is doing pretty well.
4. Not sure who grabbed Fletch. I'm going to guess Garber picked up on him, but it'll be my luck that it's Gavin and I get guff next time I see him.
I stay out of the way on recruiting. We talk to guys after they've done verbal commitments, but we'll be sure to note that we're going on their verbals and not anything from the school. McHugh signed during the early NLI period, as evidenced on Twitter. I'm not aware that anyone else signed. The school has not done a release, and I will ask about that Friday night during the post-game press row/operations bull session, the contents of which will never, ever be discussed here.
GFM
