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UVM Catamounts 2019/20

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Charlie Catamount said:
Only thing that matters is if his contract has a buyout clause that the coach or the other school would have to pay to AIC because like any other employee he can leave that deal any time he wants for a new one or whatever else and the school is off the hook paying him outside a firing where a termination buyout is probably negotiated. I don't know the terms of his new deal and his salary bump but AIC's 990 form from 2018 which was the year before his extension he's not among their 10 highest paid school employees and the lowest number on that list is $142k. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/42103701

Sneddon has a base salary of $289k this year which doesn't include any bonuses or stuff like that. I am going to guess that UVM will start the head coach at about this mark possibly 300k so if UVM could double Lang's salary him being under contract doesn't matter at all.
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Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it. He seems like he should be toward the top of UVM's list, wouldn't you say?
 
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I would rather see an assistant coach from one of the successful D1 programs rather a current head coach outside of Hockey East. Preferably someone with some recruiting experience.
 
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Lang has completely rebuilt two programs from dead last in the country at probably two of the more challenging places to win.
Don’t forget Army was 59/60 when he got there and AIC was 60 when he got there.
He might as well build another bottom of the country program. He is accustomed to challenges. Which makes him a perfect fit here!
 
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Torrey Mitchell = retired x 3 kids = running skills camps in Essex Junction. Should he be Head Coach x 500 games in the NHL? Maybe not...but yeah, pretty **** close. Next UVM Head Coach better have Torrey x Assistant (#1) or whatever skills coach he wants to be.
 
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Hopefully power issue s are fixed at UNH and the game is actually on NESN tomorrow!!

Did not know Mitchel was in Essex! Hope he wants to be part of the future of UVM hockey.
 
UVM Catamounts 2019/20

Need to remember that UVM Athletics is in budget crisis, no money to hire big time coach or ‘buy-out’ other contracts. Expect a former div 3 coach who wants to make a jump, probably very young, paid about 75% of KS contract.



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goREBER said:
Need to remember that UVM Athletics is in budget crisis, no money to hire big time coach or ‘buy-out’ other contracts. Expect a former div 3 coach who wants to make a jump, probably very young, paid about 75% of KS contract.



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Well that would be extremely foolish and shortsighted to say you're slashing 73k out of the salary budget to pay someone $216k which would rank among the lowest in all of D1 a position UVM probably is already in the lower half of with Sneddon's 289k. I have no problem hiring a qualified D3 head coach who has D1 coaching experience within the last decade (Ellsworth) but very rarely does this work out and UVM knows this. Their former basketball coach up to 2015 was a D3 coach who made the jump and ran the program into the ground. Plumer isn't exactly lighting the world on fire with the women's hockey program either. They're in a better place than they were before he took over but his best season was with players the previous staff recruited. He needs to start showing a lot more than effort and more losing seasons in league play too at some point even if it's a sport that is low on the priority chart. Also Ron Fogarty at Princeton save his one run to the tourney still has been a disaster at Princeton and was a hot up and coming D3 coach. That's why guys like Greason at Trinity give me plenty of pause unless they're some miracle worker and I tend to doubt it with people who have similar resumes to him.

If that's all UVM wanted and if that's how they focus their search well they're only asking for a disaster. At a minimum they should only go 85% of Sneddon's salary this year which is 245k but they are going to have to have the window open all the way to 300k. They'll need the assistant coaching budget to be at least 185-200k as well depending on the number of roles they allow to be full time otherwise hire Kevin Patrick and let this clown show roll on for another decade. And before anyone comes in here and gives the whole UVM isn't the powerhouse people think it is speech just know I'm fully aware but even people like you would have to admit this sort of approach would be completely defeatist and the school might as well just go D3 if it wants to go down that road. If they don't want to give the institutional support then they give Sneddon another deal last year.
 
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Can someone start posting wild, speculative coaching rumors that I can get unjustifiably excited about please?
 
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Waiting for the job posting to go up and make it official. There is at least 1 coach from a past Frozen Four team who is interested in moving to Vermont.
 
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I would rather see an assistant coach from one of the successful D1 programs rather a current head coach outside of Hockey East. Preferably someone with some recruiting experience.
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Benny Barr would have to be a short list candidate at UVM. He's been an integral recruiter and AC currently at UMass with past stops at Providence, WMU, and Union. By all accounts he was the runner up for the RPI job, which to the dismay of the fan base, went to a career .500 coach from a lesser league . Point being, Barr has been mentored by a few great coaches, he knows the HE recruiting landscape extremely well and he's ready to make the jump to HC.
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
Benny Barr would have to be a short list candidate at UVM. He's been an integral recruiter and AC currently at UMass with past stops at Providence, WMU, and Union. By all accounts he was the runner up for the RPI job, which to the dismay of the fan base, went to a career .500 coach from a lesser league . Point being, Barr has been mentored by a few great coaches, he knows the HE recruiting landscape extremely well and he's ready to make the jump to HC.
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I agree that Barr would be a great head coach for UVM
 
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All right, here's my running list of candidates, in rough order based on my personal guess as the the likelihood they end up being the coach:

1- Ben Barr
2- Eric Lang
3- Rico Blasi
4- Kris Mayotte
5- Jim Montgomery
6- Martin St. Louis

Please add to it with other known/hoped for candidates.
 
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This is Schulman’s big hire. Hopefully with his 30 years in college hockey, he has enough inside info and judgement to make the right hire. I don’t have the depth of knowledge on who’s out there, but we need some new blood, so I’d opt for a hungry D1 assistant.

Still a bit disconcerting in his over the top praise of Sneddon and the team after Sneddon “retired”. Some of it is to be expected, but to me it sounds like he truly believes what he is saying. It’s almost like Sneddon would be back if we had some puck luck and were fighting for that coveted 8th position in HE.
 
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Hey UVM..what ever happened to Thomas Aldsworth?? He has high end talent and was an explosive skater for Quinnipiac for a couple of years. He transferred to UVM and sat out last year and is eligible this year. Not sure why he transferred out but he obviously was in Q staff's doghouse at the end. He was a healthy scratch often his final year and they needed his scoring ability. He would have been on your 1st line this year no doubt. He has a tremendous amount of raw ability and great 1V1 going to the net with speed. He's not on your roster?
 
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I was poking around that Elite Prospects website looking at some old Frozen Four and national title teams trying to find their coaching staffs after the person here said someone from a past Frozen Four and I came across someone I think would be an interesting person to look at. Dan Muse who is currently an assistant with the Nashville Predators. He was on Yale's staff with Red Gendron for their national title team and it looks like he has plenty of connections to Vermont too. He went to Vermont Academy before playing hockey at Stonehill and his sister worked there. Also his brother in law is a former Yale player from Norwich Vt or Hanover nearly the same thing, whose sister is Olympic gold medalist Hannah Kearney.

He's 37 had stops at Williams, Sacred Heart, Yale and was head coach of Chicago Steel in USHL where he won the title in that league before joining Nashville as an assistant https://www.eliteprospects.com/staff/2063/dan-muse

If not him his old boss Peter Laviolette is also available!

I would really like it to not be a Rico Blasi (who I think is one of Sneddon's friends so you have to wonder if he'd take the job from his friend) or Seth Appert type and would much prefer the likes of Lang or Potulny if we're talking current head coaches in the college ranks. I am just really hoping Schulman is doing his homework and casting a large net to get this right.
 
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Charlie Catamount said:
I am just really hoping Schulman is doing his homework and casting a large net to get this right.
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Schulman could still be considering Joey Gasparini. ;) :D My thinking:
--It's how they were able to bag Joey's nephew Mario Gasparini.
--He's a UVM guy, having played and coached at UVM.
--He's got assistant coaching experience at multiple Hockey East schools.
--He's apparently been selling insurance, so even at a reduced Sneddon salary, he'll happily take the job.
--He can easily bundle Schulman's auto and homeowners insurance, thus providing a significant savings on premiums.
 
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Potulny is from ND, played at Minny and coaching at NMU. Midwest guy. Couldn't see him jumping to UVM when he has a good thing going at Northern. Might be in line for the Minnesota job down the line as well.
 
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