When they host again in 2025 it will be the only true eastern venue.
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UNH Hockey 2023 Off Season Thread Turn and Face the Strange
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When they host again in 2025 it will be the only true eastern venue.
Hadn't realized that- Apparently Allentown will be considered an eastern site then
Nice job in Manchester this weekend- Certainly a stimulus for a city and arena that could use it
Apparently I wasn't paying enough attention to the college hockey world the last year (or 5), it is what happens when your team really SUCKS. So I was surprised that Mel Pearson wasn't the Michigan head coach while watching Michigan demolish Colgate. Since that game got more than a little out of hand I did some digging and boy does it look like he got screwed.
A crazy thought came to me. I would try to hire Mel Person as a consultant to evaluate and help build a strategy to fix this dumpster fire of a hockey program. I will start with, there is no way he takes the UNH coaching job for what they will pay and at 65 years old I don't think UNH should even offer the job. Add in that in a interview he did, it sounded like he was having fun at the youth level, and I wonder if he will ever want to coach at the college level again. I think that UNH needs guidance and where are they going to get it? AD Rich has little hockey in her background, yes Princeton made it to the NCAAs once while she was there, and otherwise had a very similar abysmal record the other 8 years.
Michigan Tech had 30 years of what we have been living for just 10. From when MacInnes retired as a .642 coach (Umile was .603...) at the end of 81-82 they went through 7 coaches in 30 years of mostly sub .500 play... much was sub .300 play ugh. Mel Pearson arrived and in 4 years (really one recruiting cycle) they were back in the NCAAs. NOTE: that 4th year was the first year of Big 10 hockey and the NCHC, at the same time Michigan Tech went .732 and still played multiple games with Michigan, Wisconsin, Minn-Duluth and St Cloud State. Mel Pearson clearly had a strategy to pull off that turn around, and I am certain it was recruiting plus style of play, etc. Since Michigan Tech got back on the map, they have stayed on the map even after Pearson left 6 years ago.
Having somebody like that, with experience in a major turn around, to help identify what is working, what isn't and provide advice on who to hire next would hopefully prevent 2 more decades of suck in Durham.
P.S. "It hurts doesn’t it? Your hopes dashed, your dreams down the toilet. And your fate is sitting right besides you." Teddy KGB... Rounders is an underrated / little known movie (Damon, Norton, Malkovich)
A crazy thought came to me. I would try to hire Mel Person as a consultant to evaluate and help build a strategy to fix this dumpster fire of a hockey program. I will start with, there is no way he takes the UNH coaching job for what they will pay and at 65 years old I don't think UNH should even offer the job. Add in that in a interview he did, it sounded like he was having fun at the youth level, and I wonder if he will ever want to coach at the college level again. I think that UNH needs guidance and where are they going to get it? AD Rich has little hockey in her background, yes Princeton made it to the NCAAs once while she was there, and otherwise had a very similar abysmal record the other 8 years.
Michigan Tech had 30 years of what we have been living for just 10. From when MacInnes retired as a .642 coach (Umile was .603...) at the end of 81-82 they went through 7 coaches in 30 years of mostly sub .500 play... much was sub .300 play ugh. Mel Pearson arrived and in 4 years (really one recruiting cycle) they were back in the NCAAs. NOTE: that 4th year was the first year of Big 10 hockey and the NCHC, at the same time Michigan Tech went .732 and still played multiple games with Michigan, Wisconsin, Minn-Duluth and St Cloud State. Mel Pearson clearly had a strategy to pull off that turn around, and I am certain it was recruiting plus style of play, etc. Since Michigan Tech got back on the map, they have stayed on the map even after Pearson left 6 years ago.
Having somebody like that, with experience in a major turn around, to help identify what is working, what isn't and provide advice on who to hire next would hopefully prevent 2 more decades of suck in Durham.
P.S. "It hurts doesn’t it? Your hopes dashed, your dreams down the toilet. And your fate is sitting right besides you." Teddy KGB... Rounders is an underrated / little known movie (Damon, Norton, Malkovich)
Darius
Go 'cats!
The NH house budget committee is reviewing the Governor’s budget proposal. It was proposed that the $6 million for the Whitt be removed: https://twitter.com/klandriganul/status/1640411376693780482?s=61&t=SD8SPvNAozVVNdZeXfluiw
The committee voted to keep it: https://twitter.com/klandriganul/status/1640414664168185857?s=61&t=SD8SPvNAozVVNdZeXfluiw
The committee voted to keep it: https://twitter.com/klandriganul/status/1640414664168185857?s=61&t=SD8SPvNAozVVNdZeXfluiw
Dig deeperHe did not get screwed. UNH would not touch him with a pole long enough to reach Ann Arbor from Durham.
The report I saw was the only thing the outside attorneys found was he was not completely honest about an interaction with a member of the U. Michigan media staff and that he did not violate any policy on discrimination, retaliation etc. etc. although his knowledge of the trainer and actions with that information was questionable.
It was also a non renewal of his contract.
This was the most detailed I found and did feel a bit tilted towards the coach. https://www.therinklive.com/mens-div...wn-at-michigan
The Detroit Free Press gave it more ink than anybody else seemed to, but still read "in the moment" and slanted towards headlines then depth. I did find this interesting "Manuel said in June he expected Pearson to coach the Wolverines moving forward, one month after the WilmerHale report was given to him." So the AD had the independent report for a month and still wanted him back...
Plus I am not saying to hire him as a coach and put him in charge of people. I am thinking 120 day consultant to help with strategy.
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Like Quinnipiac "This son of bitch, all night its check, check, check."
Reference Quinnipiac... once they get a lead... "Hanging around, hanging around. Kid's got alligator blood. Can't get rid of him."
They had 3 shots in the 2nd period against OSU once up 2-1 and never looked even the slightest bit uncomfortable. The discipline and patience was amazing....
They had 3 shots in the 2nd period against OSU once up 2-1 and never looked even the slightest bit uncomfortable. The discipline and patience was amazing....
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
I'm not rooting against Quinnipiac ... but sorry, I cannot bring myself to root FOR any other first-time winners, especially from the East, as we've been leapfrogged by way too many other schools who've improbably broken through before UNH. Union, Yale, UMass Amherst, even Providence with the *Luckiest Goal Ever ... nope, sorry, no can do ...
Darius
Go 'cats!
Well, it was the coach telling his side of the story. https://www.michigandaily.com/ice-hockey/breaking-down-the-michigan-hockey-investigation-findings/
The MI thread was pretty amusing while this was all breaking during the no hockey summer dog days. My impression comes from there and web searches triggered by what I was reading at the time. I recall that Manuel was a Pearson ally but the President or Regents had heard and had enough.
Not a bad idea, but the wrong guy for UNH and a lot of other if not most schools based on the optics. Good out of the box thinking though. Seriously. Put him on the search committee.
BTW - I’ve flipped. I thought it was better than 50/50 that Coach Souza would be given an extension beyond next season. Coach Herrion not being extended, I now think that Coach Souza is very likely gone.
HockeyRef
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You do you, Chuck!
Darius
Go 'cats!
This… adding Q’s coach from Bedford. I can’t root for MI so Q can win on Thursday.
Go BU!
Think about what? “Why cannot we get coaches like dat?” I remember Rand Pecknold and the Q getting the MAAC autoseed in 2002 when they were humiliated by Cornell 6-1 in the Woostah Centrum regional, the day before UNH dispatched Cornell for our third trip to the FF in five years. Pecknold has been HC at the Q for 29 years: six in Div 2, six with MAAC / Atlantic Hockey, and 17 in ECAC, and has only one losing season, 16-18-4 in 2017/18. Until they got their new rink built on campus (actually on the edge of campus on a hill, a shuttle bus ride away) for the the 2005/06 season, the Bobcats played in a MDC-like community rink several miles off campus, where I attended many Bentley games at both venues. This year is the Q’s third FF, along its eight NCAA’s since 2012/13.
Unlike Chuck, I am all in rooting for the Bobcats to win it all this year. The more teams that leapfrog our Cats to a NC, the better, if that is what it takes to shake up things for our new AD and our incompetent coaching staff.
HockeyRef
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That's the spirit! BU v QU Final!
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
If I thought that would shake up the status quo in Durham, I'd be right with you ... but if it did, you'd think watching Union, Yale, PC and UMass making the magic happen would have shaken things up already??
Like I said, I'm not rooting against anyone at this point (Luce made this March an easy one), but I just can't root FOR it, Snives. I admire those who have what it takes to win the biggest games, don't get me wrong, but unless/until Pecknold starts drawing his paychecks from the USNH, it's just a step too far. Just me being me, right 'Ref?? ;-)
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