Ex-Cornell coaches (& players -> coaches): Where are the now?

Where the former head and assistant coaches now?

Dick Bertrand '70 has been running a youth program in Grand Rapids for years. That's quite a change from the glory years (for him, if not post-1973 for Big Red hockey) of the 1970s.

Laing Kennedy '63 is long-running athletic director at Kent State.

Others?

And as suggested below, what of Cornell players who went on to coach, also?

lou raycroft is a scout for cornell and other teams i think.

An excellent thread idea! I vote to widen it to include former players who have gone on to coaching NCAA gigs.

Shaun Hannah ('94) -- Sacred Heart coach
Jaime Russell (former assistant coach) -- MTU coach
Karl Williams ('92) -- used to be an assistant at UAA, have lost track of him
Don Vaughn (former assistant coach) -- Colgate coach
Casey Jones ('90) -- Ohio State assistant coach

Here's a nice Ned Harkness biography, stolen from the US Hockey HOF site: [www.tbrw.info]

He is now retired and not under indictment in Florida.

Brian McCutchen '71 -- Assistant Coach, Buffalo Sabres (these days - hockey father watching son Mark and working on his house!)

Lou Reycroft is a scout for the NJ Devils
Brian McCutcheon is an Asst. Coach for the Buffalo Sabres

Has Dick Bertrand ever returned to campus or ever been back in touch ... with anyone related to Cornell? I was thinking Al DeFlorio might know but he's offline for a bit.

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

Has Dick Bertrand ever returned to campus or ever been back in touch ... with anyone related to Cornell? I was thinking Al DeFlorio might know but he's offline for a bit. [/q]

Does hosting the alumni event at the Western Michigan series count?

Good article from a couple years ago on Joe Dragon, PhD who is now an environmental biologist. The article discusses his work with Caribou in the NW Territories.

[www.expressnews.ualberta.ca]

I spoke with Dick at Western Mich. in Dec. '02. He hosted the Cornell gathering after the second game and he seemed to be be in touch with Mike periodically. I emailed him before the Mich. State series asking about weekend events - his reply mentioned that he'd be out of town that weekend and therefore couldn't attend those games.
There was an update in the Cornell Alumni Magazine re Dick at:
[cornell-magazine.cornell.edu]

This seems like the type of thread that would show up in the middle of July. Not with one week remaining in the regular season!!!

I was bored now. In July we'll be bored but probably not online.

In fact this would be a good stat to keep online somewhere. Those who follow the minors, etc. could keep it up to date. Greg?

Could've sworn somebody told me that one of our alums was coaching at Cortland State, but if he was, it wasn't in the last few years according to USCHO.

Beeeej

i thought he might have been an nhl scout but i didnt want to guess wrong.

[Q]Beeeej Wrote:

Could've sworn somebody told me that one of our alums was coaching at Cortland State, but if he was, it wasn't in the last few years according to USCHO.

Beeeej[/q]

That was Tim Vanini, I believe.

It would also be a good thing for USCHO to plug into each team's home page if USCHO wants to go to the next level and provide ever more info. Maybe it's a link to ex coaches and famous players who've gone pro and Olympians and etcetera.

As would a link to each team's fan site(s) be helpful for USCHO.

In the meantime, it would be nice to have this somewhere on eLynah and/or TBRW. That and even more game stats. Every stat, every game, every player, all of it searchable, reportable. For instance, most goals by players who had more than 100 career penalty minutes. Or goals against average vs. team's average height. Most of it's silly, but sometimes you might pick up a gem or two. Sometimes you're never sure if it's cause and effect or vice versa or coincidental. I continue to be in awe of how much stuff is on TBRW.

[q]It would also be a good thing for USCHO to plug into each team's home page[/q]

They link to each team's official homepage already.

Beeeej

Tim Vanini was at Cortland State. I forgot exactly why, but he was at the MSU games in November. Part of my brain is telling me that he said he was in Med School out that way, but the rest of my brain is telling me I'm crazy...

[Q]Robb Wrote:
Tim Vanini was at Cortland State. I forgot exactly why, but he was at the MSU games in November. Part of my brain is telling me that he said he was in Med School out that way, but the rest of my brain is telling me I'm crazy...[/q]

The first part of your brain is right. Vanini stepped down as coach at Cortland in 2002, I believe, to attend medical school.

Edit: Oops, checked USCHO -- Tim must have left in 2001 (he was SUNYAC Coach of the Year that season).

Mark Taylor, an assistant under Brian McCutcheon (and I think Mark was also an assistant at Elmira when Brian was head coach there), has been the head coach at Hobart since 2000.

[Q]billhoward Wrote:
As would a link to each team's fan site(s) be helpful for USCHO. [/q]

USCHO made an editorial decision 5 years ago to stop linking to fan sites. Too many of them, too widely disparate in quality, too cumbersome to keep track of, and not really necessary since you can obtain that info many other ways.

As Beeeej noted, USCHO has always linked to the official team page. It's off USCHO's team page.

[Q]Robb Wrote:

Tim Vanini was at Cortland State. I forgot exactly why, but he was at the MSU games in November. Part of my brain is telling me that he said he was in Med School out that way, but the rest of my brain is telling me I'm crazy...[/q]

I'm pretty sure he got some type of graduate degree at MSU in golf course management (caretaking, not shot playing).

[Q]CUlater 89 Wrote:

Robb Wrote:

Tim Vanini was at Cortland State. I forgot exactly why, but he was at the MSU games in November. Part of my brain is telling me that he said he was in Med School out that way, but the rest of my brain is telling me I'm crazy...[/Q]
I'm pretty sure he got some type of graduate degree at MSU in golf course management (caretaking, not shot playing).[/q]

Googling "Tim Vanini" will show you that there is certainly someone of that name who is prominent in turf management.