Coaching vacancies 2012

[LoneStar]

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As for the remarks regarding Amherst's committment to ice hockey it may be wise to note that.....Amherst's Athletic Director Suzanne Coffey was a major stumbling block in Bates College's efforts to bring the sport to a varsity level. She once referred to hockey as "a subculture we don't need on this campus."

It would not be surprising to see Amherst, like Trinity, do well for 1-2 years. These two coaches have inherited ready made teams. The real test will come when they need to start replacing their predecessors squads. They will get some good kids because of the school's academic reputations. But what they will do to develop them may be a different story. Their lack of experience will drop these programs to middle of the pack status for sure. Time will tell.

[CrossCheck]

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Wait, the President is named "Biddy" ...really?? And the AD comes from Bates? Bates High School?....the place in MAINE with no hockey team or rink??

Better make that 5 year rink plan a 15 year plan.

[dontyelldad]

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Wait, the President is named "Biddy" ...really?? And the AD comes from Bates? Bates High School?....the place in MAINE with no hockey team or rink??

Better make that 5 year rink plan a 15 year plan.

Bates: Club hockey and an on campus rink:

http://www.bates.edu/tour/athletics-...derhill-arena/

[dontyelldad]

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Agree - if there was alumni funding. As noted, fieldhouse/fields project is 100% alumni funded and that was a pre-condition of the project. It appears that they even delayed the science building project a year to get the fieldhouse project in under the lead donor's timeline (and to avoid too much simultaneous construction on a small campus). They've exhausted some of their bigger contributors on the Pratt project. So they will have to find a new series of donors for a new rink - and that will almost certainly take time. But if someone showed up with $20 million today for a new rink, they would be unlikely to turn it down!

I don't know if the delay in the construction plan for the science center and the Pratt Field project are linked. Demolition on the science center site has already started - they're removing a dorm to make space. And as you may know, Pratt Field is off campus by a couple of blocks. Nobody on campus would be impacted.

But two major projects is a lot for the small staff at the school to manage, for sure.

What the school's commitment to hockey is, I can't tell you. I guess we will see over time.

[ARM]

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There won't be any vacancies at Mercyhurst University anytime soon. Coach Sisti just signed on for another 4 years today.

Story:

http://www.uscho.com/2012/07/17/merc...s-coach-sisti/

[CrossCheck]

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Oh my! That's even WORSE! What kind of school spends all that money to build a rink on campus...apparently back in 1995...and spend a ton of money every year maintaining the ice, and the building....and doesn't bother to even try to start a hockey program? Oh, right.....we're talking about Bates H.S. almost forgot. What a hopeless bunch.

[OneTimer]

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Story:

http://www.uscho.com/2012/07/17/merc...s-coach-sisti/

Does this mean now he is not going to interview anymore for D1 jobs that he normally does every year (this year being an exception)?

[d3follower]

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Amherst has already committed to spend about $200 million for a new science center, to be the largest building on campus, over the next 6 years.

https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst...02/node/381981

My expectation is that if there were alumni funding for a new rink, it wouldn't wait 5 yrs.

Why would there be a sudden urgency to replace Orr? Amherst has made do with a modest facility rink for years and done more than o.k. in spite of it. Men's and women's teams are both very strong. Anyway, Amherst rarely fills that rink so does it really need a bigger facility, especially when basketball is the no. 1 sport in the winter?

[obserbear]

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Why would there be a sudden urgency to replace Orr? Amherst has made do with a modest facility rink for years and done more than o.k. in spite of it. Men's and women's teams are both very strong. Anyway, Amherst rarely fills that rink so does it really need a bigger facility, especially when basketball is the no. 1 sport in the winter?

There's a Cold War going on here and you could say there is a "Rink Gap." Not sure when Orr was built, but I know at Bowdoin a big factor in the decision to put up Watson and not improve Dayton (sigh!!!) was uncertainty that the compressor would continue to produce an ice surface (and maybe the desire for the parking spaces on campus?). I am sure all the NESCACs have their selling points and it is doubtless easier to get recruits to take a look at Watson or Kenyon. I imagine success will make seats at the Amherst men's games hard to come by. It has been said that nothing will put up an Orr replacement faster than an announcement from up the Mohawk Trail of a plan to replace Lansing Chapman.

[MICZamboni]

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Does this mean now he is not going to interview anymore for D1 jobs that he normally does every year (this year being an exception)?

Umm, I guess not. What is that supposed to mean?

[CrossCheck]

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Dayton's demise was likely more about Admin parking than a compressor.

[obserbear]

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Dayton's demise was likely more about Admin parking than a compressor.

There was a time in the '07-'08 season when Colby and their Alfond Arena came to the rescue with a compressor part or the Polar Bears might have been playing outdoors, just like back in 1919 (and Longfellow Hall is way on the other side of campus).

[CrossCheck]

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Longfellow Hall???

There is no such place. U must be from Colby.

[d3follower]

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There's a Cold War going on here and you could say there is a "Rink Gap." Not sure when Orr was built, but I know at Bowdoin a big factor in the decision to put up Watson and not improve Dayton (sigh!!!) was uncertainty that the compressor would continue to produce an ice surface (and maybe the desire for the parking spaces on campus?). I am sure all the NESCACs have their selling points and it is doubtless easier to get recruits to take a look at Watson or Kenyon. I imagine success will make seats at the Amherst men's games hard to come by. It has been said that nothing will put up an Orr replacement faster than an announcement from up the Mohawk Trail of a plan to replace Lansing Chapman.

The Amherst men's hockey team was very successful in 2011-12 and 2008-09 (NESCAC champions), with very few full houses in a rink with limited seating. Hockey fans in the Valley tend to head for UMass games and of course Amherst students prefer b-ball. Amherst is a b-ball school as is Williams so no arms race between the two schools for a new hockey rink is likely . .Bowdoin just wanted to build a new rink so of course Bowdoin officials were going to say that Dayton could not be repaired although it could have been for a fraction of the cost of Watson . . .

[d3follower]

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Longfellow Hall???

There is no such place. U must be from Colby.

She means Hawthorne-Longfellow, where the Bowdoin president and other administrators have their offices and their parking spaces . .