Originally posted by Bog Hockey
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I will say (and this is coming from a huge college hockey fan), that’s it’s a lot “easier” to compete nationally in hockey than other sports. How many D3 men’s ice hockey programs are there? 60? There’s 250 D3 football schools, and far more basketball/soccer/etc. Coach McShane once said the very same thing to me.
20 years ago, Norwich decided to get good at hockey. They hired a stud, PAID him, built the best rink in D3, gave some amazing financial aid, and the rest is history. With success came community support, and the snowball took off.
Norwich is notoriously stingy (outside of hockey) with coaches’ salaries. When you can’t attract coaches financially, sometimes you don’t get your first (or second, or third) choice. I don’t know if it’s fair to blame the AD completely.
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