Re: Wisconsin Hockey Vol. XXXIII: A Fanbase Gets Smarter When All The Idiots Jump Shi
At this level do you really think a guy sits at his desk in the middle of May and "reviews applications"? I get that you're a myopic apologist in general, but let's not try to come across as completely clueless, k?
Myopic apologist, I like that...I would prefer rational realist, but feel free to put whatever labels on me that you see fit.
I made my speculation based on the publicly available facts. You are free to agree or disagree based on whichever pieces of information you choose to use.
We can speculate all we want about what Barry Alvarez is or isn't doing and keep rehashing his "I'm not a hockey guy" quote from years ago.
We can speculate about what Mike Eaves does or doesn't have the ability to do as a head coach.
Granted, some people have access to additional information through connections to current/former/future players or with adults who are in various levels of responsibility with hockey organizations across the continent and can speak with more knowledge than others can. But even Andy's inside sources give information that has probably been filtered through a couple of channels and while they may be "reliable" they are hardly infallible.
When it comes down to the absolute truths, none of us know what happens behind the closed doors, it is all speculation and in my eyes it is all equally valid.
Perhaps not, but they're certainly more knowledgeable than the average fan that is part of this subjectively determined "majority," possibly moreso than sectors of the athletic administration itself. The department should make its judgements based on what's best for the program, and just because those believing that continuing with Eaves is not what's best for the program may be the your minority it doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong. Same as the administration isn't necessarily right for doing whatever the consensus opinion of your majority is.
Just do what's best for the program as winning (almost always) cures all, and believing Eaves needs to go for the program to attain the consistent success it should be capable of is at least as credible as any of the excuses and rationalizations that have been posted over the past six months -- and I'd suggest far more credible than this supposed majority opinion. Which is what, by the way?
Coming back to my previous post, at your request: None of us can define who the majority of UW Hockey fans are nor can we say with any certainty what the majority of fans think/feel/want.
We don't have access to the surveys that the US Athletics marketing people do, I'm sure they are much more capable of speaking to the attitude of the "majority" of fans than any of us are.
It is easy to take a straw poll of the people on this board and come up with a consensus answer (FIRE EAVES! AND DO IT YESTERDAY!), but I don't think that anyone can honestly say that the people who frequent this board are your typical college hockey fans. We are the 1% of fans (actually less than that if you figure 50 regular posters out of an average attendance of 11,000 we are the .5%), the ones who go beyond the 3 hours at the game, the ones who listen to the pre- and post-game radio shows, the ones who pay attention to the weekly press conferences, the ones who watch high school kids play and wonder how they would fit into a recruiting class 5 years from now, the ones who go to an online message board and argue in the middle of summer about recruits and coaching changes.
We can all say whatever we would like to, and we can all respond however we would like to about what other people say, that is the beauty of a largely anonymous message board like this. So please feel free to continue posting whatever speculations you see fit, I will continue to do the same, and in the end we will all end up rooting for the Badgers to get #7.
At least Luke Strand was listed in the news as having talked to Eaves last week. 
