Should He Stay or Shoul He Go Part 2

[Trotsky]

Cornell has also been unlucky with recruits in the past few years--M. McCarron, De Jong, and Hudson all decommitted/couldn't get in (and maybe some others I'm forgetting).  All three went on to be drafted, McCarron in the first round.  We've also had players leave at inopportune times (Hudon (5th round pick), Brisson, Lewis).  If they had come/stayed, our fortunes may have been different.  To be fair, though, I'm sure things like this have happened in past years too.

EDIT: Added Hudon

Another fairly recent decommit was Mark Scheifele, who became a 1st round draft choice of the Winnipeg Jets

He tore up the OHL.  That there would have been a goalscorer. ::wow::

Thanks, Saginaw.

[Tcl123]

Hypothetically speaking:

If Mike was to leave, would our HC position be at least a lateral move for Dan Ratushny if he was offered the job? He's currently HC  in Austrian league if I'm not mistaken.

I'm very unfamiliar with pay scale and such in any of the European leagues. So please excuse my ignorance. Haha

[Jim Hyla]

Hypothetically speaking:

If Mike was to leave, would our HC position be at least a lateral move for Dan Ratushny if he was offered the job? He's currently HC  in Austrian league if I'm not mistaken.

I'm very unfamiliar with pay scale and such in any of the European leagues. So please excuse my ignorance. Haha

Who knows if he can recruit.

[BearLover]

Hypothetically speaking:

If Mike was to leave, would our HC position be at least a lateral move for Dan Ratushny if he was offered the job? He's currently HC  in Austrian league if I'm not mistaken.

I'm very unfamiliar with pay scale and such in any of the European leagues. So please excuse my ignorance. Haha

Who knows if he can recruit.

I'd rather take a chance than keep going down the road we're on.

[Trotsky]

Hypothetically speaking:

If Mike was to leave, would our HC position be at least a lateral move for Dan Ratushny if he was offered the job? He's currently HC  in Austrian league if I'm not mistaken.

I'm very unfamiliar with pay scale and such in any of the European leagues. So please excuse my ignorance. Haha

Who knows if he can recruit.

Maybe the recruiting comes from the assistants.

[Tom Lento]

Cornell has also been unlucky with recruits in the past few years--M. McCarron, De Jong, and Hudson all decommitted/couldn't get in (and maybe some others I'm forgetting).

Matt Cimetta, Philipe Hudon and Stephen Miller were also commits who disappeared.

Not counting M. McCarron, that's five guys over a very short period who decommitted.  Would love to know whether they were just using Cornell as a safety in some other career plan, or whether something happened to turn them away.

They've had varying success since:

Nolan De Jong (Michigan)

Woody Hudson (SLU)

Matt Cimetta (seems to have left hockey)

Philippe Hudon (Concordia)

Stephen Miller (Canisius)

It's really hard to say if this is an unusually large number relative to recent years, if this is pretty normal and information about recruits is just better than it used to be, or if this is more than in the past but fully expected given how many recruits commit early.

[Scersk '97]

Moved to 15–16 thread.

[BearLover]

For all of us saying it's unlikely that Cornell can find someone better than Schafer, it's worth noting that Union, a mediocre hockey school in the middle of nowhere, was able to find two coaches in the past twelve years that won NCAA Championships.  It's definitely possible...

[RichH]

For all of us saying it's unlikely that Cornell can find someone better than Schafer, it's worth noting that Union, a mediocre hockey school in the middle of nowhere, was able to find two coaches in the past twelve years that won NCAA Championships.  It's definitely possible...

But how many other coaching changes were made in the same time period that resulted in worse performances? What are the odds?

[redice]

Perhaps it is time to let the Union administraton chose the next Cornell men's hockey coach.....

[TimV]

Perhaps it is time to let the Union administraton chose the next Cornell men's hockey coach.....

Ya, that'll work!  What could possibly go wrong?