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Well, it reads as a pro-Morris article. To be in favor of a Div I program hiring Morris could be right, could be wrong --honestly, I'm not really interested in debating it-- but the article has the dressing of a news piece, not a opinion/editorial (the writer is not identified as an editor and the item appears on the "Sports" page, not the "Opinion" page). As an opinion piece, it's pretty good (except for my big gripe below), as a news piece it comes across as somewhat "one-sided".

The one part of the article that does really bother me is the following (the emphasis is my addition):

"But the administration stuck behind Eaves—and is undoubtedly satisfied with his performance since. Wisconsin poss a 17-9-6 record this season and is a good bet to make the NCAA tournament, while Eaves won a Gold Medal last month as head coach of Team USA at the World Junior Championships.

You also might remember Bobby Knight, the Neil Reed tape and alleged Kent Harvey arm-grab/cuss-out incident. Indiana had enough of him, but he's found a new niche at Texas Tech and has made the Red Raiders a Top 25 program."

Success on the playing field somehow absolves a coach of battery against his players?!?!  It shouldn't matter a bit what Coach Eaves's or Coach Knight's win-loss record is in deciding if they learned from their mistakes and made amends.

EDIT: Rich H, I jump in to try to offer a defense of your statement and you go and walk away from the fight while I'm putting together my post, what are you doing to me? :-)



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Hillel, tremendous preview, thanks. I hope you're able to provide insight/analysis throughout the lacrosse season.

Well, my wife (also a Cornell grad) claims that the first time she considered me in a romantic sense (we had friends in common and were both in the same lab course at the time) was when she saw me at a Cornell game (we were with two different groups that happened to be in adjacent rows) and our first official date was to Little Joe's and then a game. Boy, did I know how to show a lady a good time or what! :-P

Going to my first Coach's Lunch this Friday. Anyone with experience willing to clue me in to what to expect? Anyone else going to be at it? Thanks.

Chris,
Thanks for investigating that. I'll try to remember to change the website to reflect that the link is operational.

You're wish is Vesce's command. 2-0.

In other news: BU has just given up two short handed goals on the same pp.

bra, Cornell has had several chances but are still snakebitten. I don't think UVM has had a threatening shot (not sure if they've had a shot, period).

Anyone able to log into the chat via Warped.net's web interface? I couldn't last week either.

I use this as an excuse to repost this link, for those who need audio for the second half of the season:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~letsgored/audiolinks.html

I've had three people email me requesting the tapes and offering to make add'l copies, so I'll send them copies and hopefully once they have them they'll offer copies here to others still interested.

Everyone,

I'll try to make a few copies of the games, but I can probably only make two or three sets of the games before my wife's patience with me hogging the Tivo runs out (I have to play the games back from Tivo so three sets of the games means about 15 hours of Tivo being unavailable for other viewing).  If people are still looking for the games, email me at letsgored@hotmail.com. Preference will be given to those who are willing to recopy and forward it to others seeking the game --if you are so willing, please let me know. Sorry I can't accomodate all the requests here. As for remuneration, rather than pay me, I'll ask people I send the tapes to to send $10 to Cornell Athletics to the attention of Sue Detzer at the Cornell Hockey Office (I think that is where it should go) --Jim, I think this solution was your creation, so if you could post the details that would be great-- or $10 to eLynah (see Age's donate button), whichever you're more comfortable with.

Excerpt from Boston Globe article re Harvard - St. Cloud game:

"Mazzoleni stacked his No. 1 line and it paid off. He placed Cavanagh between Tim Pettit (1 goal, 1 assist) and Tyler Kolarik (two assists) and they were dangerous. He'd kept them apart in an effort to produce balanced scoring.

"Maybe I should have them play together and have the other three lines trap," said Mazzoleni."

Sounds like something said out of frustration. Hell, I'm frustrated with Harvard's performance.

Full article at: http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/mens_hockey/articles/2003/12/28/st_cloud_outguns_harvard/

I didn't look at it too closely to realize that the LiveStats (which is what I copied) was showing less than all players. Sorry it caused confusion. BTW, the recap is up at USCHO: http://www.uscho.com/recaps/20032004/m/12/16/hu-pri.php . One thing it highlights is that Harvard is 1-5 against Princeton in their last six contests. Makes me think of how Dartmouth has vexed Cornell so much in recent years.

I just went to Princeton's LiveStats and *gasp* they did it again! Princeton 2, Harvard 1.

Goals  1  2  3  Tot  Faceoff            Shots  1  2  3  Tot  P-Plays
HARV   0  1  0 -  1    27               HARV   5 15 12 - 32    0-3
PRIN   0  1  1 -  2    32               PRIN   3 11  6 - 20    1-6

Harvard              Sv GA   Min        Princeton            Sv GA   Min
30 Grumet-Morris, Do 18  2 59:04        60 Eric Leroux...... 31  1 60:00
TM TEAM.............  0  0 00:56        TM Team.............  0  0 00:00

Harvard              Sh G A P-Min +/-   Princeton            Sh G A P-Min +/-
16 Kolarik, Tyler...  4 0 0  0-0   -1   14 Mike Patton......  3 0 1  0-0   +1
28 Smith, Kenny.....  4 0 0  0-0   +1   25 Dan Hursh........  3 0 0  0-0    0
11 Pettit, Tim......  3 1 0  0-0   +1    5 Patrick Neundorfe  2 0 1  2-4   +1
23 Barlow, Blair....  3 0 0  0-0    0    9 Grant Goeckner-Zo  2 1 0  0-0    0
18 Bernakevitch, Bre  3 0 0  0-0    0   18 B.J. Mackasey....  2 0 0  0-0    0
20 Lannon, Ryan.....  3 0 0  1-2    0   16 Neil Stevenson-Mo  2 0 0  0-0    0
14 Maki, Ryan.......  2 0 0  0-0    0   10 Chris Owen.......  1 1 0  1-2   +1
15 Walsh, Tom.......  2 0 0  1-2   +1    2 Seamus Young.....  1 0 1  0-0   -1
 5 Welch, Noah......  2 0 0  1-2   -1   13 Dustin Sproat....  1 0 0  0-0   -1
26 Mandes, Steve....  1 0 1  1-2   +1   17 Brian Carthas....  1 0 0  0-0    0
22 Packard, Dennis..  1 0 0  1-2   -1   90 Steve Slaton.....  1 0 0  0-0   +1
17 Fried, Rob.......  1 0 0  1-2    0   91 Sebastian Borza..  1 0 0  0-0    0
27 Du, Kevin........  1 0 0  0-0   +1   24 Max Cousins......  0 0 1  0-0   +1
 8 Murphy, Dan......  1 0 0  0-0    0   27 Daryl Marcoux....  0 0 0  0-0   -1
19 Johnson, Charlie.  1 0 0  1-2    0   22 Brett Westgarth..  0 0 0  1-2    0

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