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Re: UNH Wildcats 2014 Post-Season Thread: "Maybe Dick" Hunts the Great White Whale
Re: UNH Wildcats 2014 Post-Season Thread: "Maybe Dick" Hunts the Great White Whale
Besides the info on White, do we even know who is up for this coveted position? We know who's out there and available, but any idea/word on who has actually applied for the job? Is that public notice? Just curious...(and we know that info is out there...right?
) I would think who ever wants this job would either be someone who is:
*looking to get started in college hockey/no threat to the head coach job (hey, it has to be said.)
*realizes it may be 'some time' before the head job opens...potentially/most likely the Foley example you cited and is willing to be 'patient'
*is in their last stages of coaching and sees this as a way to just finish up (God, I hope this isn't the case
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*Is someone the UNH admin/coach U sees as a potential future head coach when the time comes (if this is the case, I hope/pray they choose wisely!)
Fun speculating, huh?
Re: UNH Wildcats 2014 Post-Season Thread: "Maybe Dick" Hunts the Great White Whale
There's something to be said for job security. All depends on how urgently the assistant coach would need (in their own mind, on their own timetable) to land the top job. Foley is only in his mid-30's, and by comparison Coach Umile was probably still coaching HS hockey at that age, before assistant jobs at PC and UNH finally landed him the top job at UNH in his early 40's.
When you look at it that way, Foley would be right on schedule to arrive at the top job at UNH at around the same age, when Coach Umile hits his early 70's
In comparison to the Quinn/BU situation ... there may have been promises or understandings there which did not come to pass, Quinn lost his patience, etc. Quinn is pushing 50 now, and at the time he left, he would still have been a good 10 years older than Foley and most of the other would-be younger UNH candidates we're discussing here. So while job security and the promises of a potential "foot in the door" at age 35 might be more important ... when you're 45, the clock is probably ticking on your head coaching ambitions, and you might tend to devalue job security a little bit, and act with a lot more urgency.
I've been in Quinn's shoes before (in an entirely different setting), and can totally understand why he would have felt the pressure to leave. And likewise, when I was Foley's age, I did not feel that same urgency, and could afford to be patient.
Besides the info on White, do we even know who is up for this coveted position? We know who's out there and available, but any idea/word on who has actually applied for the job? Is that public notice? Just curious...(and we know that info is out there...right?
) I would think who ever wants this job would either be someone who is:*looking to get started in college hockey/no threat to the head coach job (hey, it has to be said.)
*realizes it may be 'some time' before the head job opens...potentially/most likely the Foley example you cited and is willing to be 'patient'
*is in their last stages of coaching and sees this as a way to just finish up (God, I hope this isn't the case
)*Is someone the UNH admin/coach U sees as a potential future head coach when the time comes (if this is the case, I hope/pray they choose wisely!)
Fun speculating, huh?
The program has been backsliding competitively over the last few years, after topping out in 2010/2011. No doubt it's a tough place to recruit for, given the other nearby options, and the more recent rise of UMass Lowell. But all I'm hearing and reading here is that he's a great guy and a tireless worker. UNH needs more than that.
Why would Stewart stay as on an assistant/associate if he is overlooked for a younger outside candidate?