Re: Wisconsin Recruiting Vol. XXX: 1 All American at a Time
Moves of this nature will push college hockey to be more like women's basketball where you can generally pencil in the final 4 any given year. And with all due respect, winning a national championship is a great accomplishemnt regardless of who you go through to get there.
You can't take a historical view of this in saying that Yale's roster consisted of players that fell under the radar. Would Agostino, etc been on Yale's roster if the verbal agreement was not honored? None of us have the answer to that one, but what I do know is that Yale doesn't win without him.
I'm very interested in how this plays out over the next few years:
1) Obviously coaches/fans of the big schools love not obliging to verbals because now they can have their cake and eat it too. They can go after the 1-2 & Dones and not have to worry about roster integrity when surprises happen.
2) Be interesting to see if the coaching fraternity weakens as a result of this cherry picking and whether MJ can exploit a divided front
Originally posted by markwojo
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You can't take a historical view of this in saying that Yale's roster consisted of players that fell under the radar. Would Agostino, etc been on Yale's roster if the verbal agreement was not honored? None of us have the answer to that one, but what I do know is that Yale doesn't win without him.
I'm very interested in how this plays out over the next few years:
1) Obviously coaches/fans of the big schools love not obliging to verbals because now they can have their cake and eat it too. They can go after the 1-2 & Dones and not have to worry about roster integrity when surprises happen.
2) Be interesting to see if the coaching fraternity weakens as a result of this cherry picking and whether MJ can exploit a divided front
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