Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Coach Weinrebe was probably the safe and predictable option, and comes from the same Seacoast United coaching tree that's given us Coaches Noonan (Clemson) and Hubbard (UNH). A little underwhelming if I'm being honest, but I wouldn't hold the Northeastern thing against him, and that's been a program that's struggled in the past, but Weinrebe was apparently bringing in some of his own younger guys, and they might just follow him to Durham? He goes back with Hubbard all the way to SNHU, and looks to have gotten back to UNH a year or two before Hubbard, as it looks like he was a holdover from Coach Thompson's staff when Hubbard became HC.
If UNH was gonna poach a young up-and-comer, the Resendes kid at Bryant probably would have been my first choice, as he's done more with less in a shorter time, at a comparable Men's Soccer wasteland to NU. Plus he had most of the same shared Hubbard lineage. NU also had quite a widespread recruiting footprint - arguably even more so than UNH - so the transition into a very familiar program should be a pretty easy task.
Whether he has the same tactical nous, and can at least maintain UNH's current standing as an AE powerhouse and annual factor in the NCAA's, remains to be seen. It'll be interesting to see how UNH does in Hubbard's aftermath, and also monitor how things are going at NC State, Bryant and Northeastern. Just have this gut feeling that Resendes is "the guy", and it's too bad Hubbard's decision didn't come only a year into Resendes' stay at Bryant ... time will tell.
If UNH was gonna poach a young up-and-comer, the Resendes kid at Bryant probably would have been my first choice, as he's done more with less in a shorter time, at a comparable Men's Soccer wasteland to NU. Plus he had most of the same shared Hubbard lineage. NU also had quite a widespread recruiting footprint - arguably even more so than UNH - so the transition into a very familiar program should be a pretty easy task.
Whether he has the same tactical nous, and can at least maintain UNH's current standing as an AE powerhouse and annual factor in the NCAA's, remains to be seen. It'll be interesting to see how UNH does in Hubbard's aftermath, and also monitor how things are going at NC State, Bryant and Northeastern. Just have this gut feeling that Resendes is "the guy", and it's too bad Hubbard's decision didn't come only a year into Resendes' stay at Bryant ... time will tell.
