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Originally posted by chickod View PostMoot point anyway, and as I write this the Igles are running another opponent out of the building...Originally posted by Bomber View PostDoesn't matter what you root for, they have #5 in the bag.
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Originally posted by mookie1995 View PostI CAN NOT see bavis getting this job. Sorry.
I still like Mike Sullivan for this job. Eventually.Boston University: 2009 NCAA Champions
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Originally posted by brassbonanza View PostThis. To say this team "underachieved" is absurd. If we had a full roster all year, yes, this would be massively underachieving. Losing your top two centers including your top scorer, and one of your top D is virtually impossible to overcome. That we were able to win faceoffs through the second half of the year is amazing. Add in the fact that guys were clearly playing injured, #6 at least twice after coming back from his broken wrist skated off the ice clearly in writhing pain holding that wrist, only to come back later in the game. It's not a satisfying result to the season, but considering what they had to patch together and that realistically, we had two lines that could produce against top competition, we achieved more than most predicted. We were skating seven walk-ons!
Having two guys kicked off the team and one leave mid-season is not OK. The 20 penalty minutes per game is not OK.Boston University: 2009 NCAA Champions
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I'm not vouching for the conduct of the team but I suspect the investigation won't find the program is a problem, in and of itself. That being said, I don't think it would be good timing for anybody to ask or suggest Parker leave at the same time...the implication will be that a coach of 39 years was asked to leave because of the investigation's findings. That would be a bad move on several fronts.
So, the program will get a few suggestions made, the coach will stay at least one more year and then, after next season, look for a potential change.I believe in life, and I believe in love, but the world in which I live in keeps trying to prove me wrong.
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Originally posted by BU Fan 84 View PostI was a big fan of the Get Rid of Parker movement, but the last two seasons have me kind of reconsidering it a bit because from everything that I see going on behind the bench during games, Parker's not even the one doing the coaching anymore. I think after '09, he started grooming Bavis for the job and every season since then, he's turned over more and more responsibility to him. It seems every game I see something that points to Bavis taking over. Last weekend, it was Bavis talking to the team and drawing a play up on the whiteboard during a timeout. Yesterday, it was Bavis standing over the bench, arguing with the ref when he was over to the bench explaining a call. During both of these situations, Parker was standing by himself, leaning against the glass, not paying any attention at all - totally disinterested in what was going on. Do we really want Bavis coaching this team? I don't think anything will be change if he does. I guess the only bright side to this would be that if he turns in three or four years of poor results, Mike Lynch and President Brown would actually be willing and able to fire him.BS UML '04, PhD UConn '09
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Originally posted by BU Fan 84 View PostI was a big fan of the Get Rid of Parker movement, but the last two seasons have me kind of reconsidering it a bit because from everything that I see going on behind the bench during games, Parker's not even the one doing the coaching anymore. I think after '09, he started grooming Bavis for the job and every season since then, he's turned over more and more responsibility to him. It seems every game I see something that points to Bavis taking over. Last weekend, it was Bavis talking to the team and drawing a play up on the whiteboard during a timeout. Yesterday, it was Bavis standing over the bench, arguing with the ref when he was over to the bench explaining a call. During both of these situations, Parker was standing by himself, leaning against the glass, not paying any attention at all - totally disinterested in what was going on. Do we really want Bavis coaching this team? I don't think anything will be change if he does. I guess the only bright side to this would be that if he turns in three or four years of poor results, Mike Lynch and President Brown would actually be willing and able to fire him.
I wouldn't read too much into that.
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Originally posted by Brian Gentry View PostAgreed, no question BC takes their 5th title next week and ties BU.Originally posted by mookie1995bc is superior to bu in nearly everything. while it is sad that it has come to it, it's the truth. if bu doesn't like it, improve.
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Why is anyone surprised that Old Pio is acting like a grumpy old f^ck? He is a grumpy old f^ck.
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I was under the impression that Parker told his doctors after heart surgery that he was going to take it a lot easier on the bench during games and delegate more to his assistants (bench and practice + other areas). Am I making that up?
I think BU fans should be proud of how BU handled this fiasco of a season after the Nicastro thing went down. Of course they should be equally upset (or more) with the two incidents off the ice. And I think it's ridiculous that BU just couldn't stay out of the box vs. Minnesota even though they knew they were the most penalized team and that it would probably come back to haunt them in the NCAAs in a one and done format. That should have been priority #1 in this week's preparation/team meetings. I guess it's tough to ask a team to change like that but you would think all of these kids individually would be able to do so for the rest of their team in the NCAAs. Crazy season for BU when you throw all of those things in a big and mix it together. We'll see what we have from BU next year. Breaking in a new goalie is always scary but has worked out well for BC and BU lately so who knows.Last edited by Nick Papagiorgio; 03-26-2012, 09:01 AM.Originally posted by Greg Ambrose on 3/7/2010The fact that you BC fans revel in the superiority of your team in an admittedly weak league leads me to believe you will be more sorely disappointed when the end comes than we will.
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Originally posted by theprofromdover View PostSandbagger!
Amazing how again and again, York takes a team that is in the doldrums midseason and whips them into a force by the playoffs.
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Originally posted by sterlippo1 View Posti was just going to type the same thing.................like Minnesota has no chance, lol
I was hanging out with some diehard Gopher fans yesterday and they said "Oh, so you honestly believe BC is going to toll over Duluth?" As if I said that I felt that it was going snow in July. Saw them afterwards at Tom Reid's watching the BC game and said "Now do you believe me?"
Congrats on making it to Tampa and enjoy that 5th title!
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Originally posted by Jacques Joubert View PostInjuries aside as #6 played well and is gritty.
Having two guys kicked off the team and one leave mid-season is not OK. The 20 penalty minutes per game is not OK.
You're right about the penalty minutes, discipline on ice this season was very poor, aside from a couple of absolutely horrendous calls Saturday, Privitera's "interference" being front and center in that department. But that definitely needs to be a point of emphasis for next season.
For me, I look at this season as more of an incomplete grade. If you watch their play in the weeks before Trivino and Coyle left, they were playing excellent hockey. They twice skated circles around BC at Conte, could've beat Maine 10-1 if not for three or four posts, and picked up a big win in a tough environment over a very solid Cornell team. They were beginning to really hit their stride when the crap happened, and were never able to fully recover from it from a personnel standpoint.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Originally posted by Brian Gentry View PostAgreed, no question BC takes their 5th title next week and ties BU.
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Originally posted by mookie1995 View PostOr...1 title since '96
1 single frozen four from 1997-2012 ain't getting it done.
Frozen Fours 1998-2012
10 -- BC
7 -- North Dakota
6 -- Maine, Michigan
4 -- Minnesota, UNH
3 -- Mich St
2 -- Denver, UMD, Wisc, NotreDame, Miami
1 -- Ohio St, St Lawrence, Cornell, CC, RIT, Bemidji, Vermont, Ferris, Union, BUBugs Bunny - 96
Gas House Gorillas - 95
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