Milo

[bothman]

Maybe Justin just didn't like donuts....::burnout::

[ebilmes]

Milo's sticks are still in the locker room...

[Jacob '06]

[quote ebilmes]Milo's sticks are still in the locker room...[/quote]

Well the school buys the sticks, so that isn't very surprising.

[DILLIGAF]

5th in Hockey East will generally get you to the NCAAs and have you ranked in the top 20 in the country.

[French Rage]

[quote DILLIGAF]5th in Hockey East will generally get you to the NCAAs and have you ranked in the top 20 in the country.[/quote]

If by "generally" you mean it only happened last year and never before (of course, it only makes sense to go back to 2003), then yes.  Meanwhile, Cornell has done that 4 of the last 6 years.  So yeah, I can see how being 5th in Hockey East is so much better than here.

(And of course if you read the USCHO forums the only reason Hockey East got 5 teams last year was the vast eastern conspiracy.

[Josh '99]

Hey, remember the last time Vermont was in the NCAA?  It was TEN YEARS AGO.  The most notable thing they've done since Martin St. Louis and Eric Perrin and Tim Thomas left was to have a season canceled for hazing.  So let's not go making assumptions about them just yet.

[cquinn]

Article in today's Burlington Free Press about the Milo transfer.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070904/SPORTS/709040312/1002&theme=UVM

[ebilmes]

Justin Milo makes one thing clear: He says he harbors no ill will toward Cornell University and Big Red hockey coach Mike Schafer.

"Cornell is a great place, but it kind of didn't work out on the hockey standpoint," said Milo...

Schafer stated, "He's a great kid. I can say he's a really good hockey player but from my standing, things didn't work out at Cornell. We hope they do work out at Vermont."

On the surface, it seems a lot more amicable than the Romano departure. Then again, if you kick a kid off the team, how disappointed can you be when he transfers?

[Trotsky]

[quote ebilmes]On the surface, it seems a lot more amicable than the Romano departure. Then again, if you kick a kid off the team, how disappointed can you be when he transfers?[/quote]The article implies Schafer helped sell Sneddon on Milo.  That might be journalistic poetic license, or it might mean Schafer and Milo had an unbridgable difference on baseball, but Mike still liked the kid well enough to help him move on.

The only question in my mind is, if this was all about being a two-sport athlete, why wasn't it resolved prior to his admission?  It sounds pretty cut and dried to me.  "Coach, if I come here, can I still play baseball?"  "No."  "OK, then, thanks but I'll take a different route."  Pretty straightforward.

[Townie]

[quote Trotsky]
The only question in my mind is, if this was all about being a two-sport athlete, why wasn't it resolved prior to his admission?  It sounds pretty cut and dried to me.  "Coach, if I come here, can I still play baseball?"  "No."  "OK, then, thanks but I'll take a different route."  Pretty straightforward.[/quote]

Everything I've heard (from reliable sources) indicates it was about him not fitting in with the team from a personality standpoint.

[KeithK]

[quote Townie][quote Trotsky]
The only question in my mind is, if this was all about being a two-sport athlete, why wasn't it resolved prior to his admission?  It sounds pretty cut and dried to me.  "Coach, if I come here, can I still play baseball?"  "No."  "OK, then, thanks but I'll take a different route."  Pretty straightforward.[/quote]

Everything I've heard (from reliable sources) indicates it was about him not fitting in with the team from a personality standpoint.[/quote]
That sounds a lot more realistic than the two-sport theory.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote KeithK][quote Townie][quote Trotsky]
The only question in my mind is, if this was all about being a two-sport athlete, why wasn't it resolved prior to his admission?  It sounds pretty cut and dried to me.  "Coach, if I come here, can I still play baseball?"  "No."  "OK, then, thanks but I'll take a different route."  Pretty straightforward.[/quote]

Everything I've heard (from reliable sources) indicates it was about him not fitting in with the team from a personality standpoint.[/quote]
That sounds a lot more realistic than the two-sport theory.[/quote]
I know I'm old-fashioned, but I love the idea of a good college athlete excelling in more than one sport. [My classmate Bruce Cohen:  lacrosse hall of fame and leading Ivy goal-scorer in soccer.)  It did trouble me when it looked like playing baseball was the reason for dropping Milo from the hockey team.  We'll probably never know the whole truth, but I'm somehow pleased it might not have been the two-sport issue with Milo.

[Trotsky]

[quote Townie]Everything I've heard (from reliable sources) indicates it was about him not fitting in with the team from a personality standpoint.[/quote]

Were either/both Romano and Milo involved in the "unspecified team rules violations" fiasco road trip?

[scannon]

Both were

[DILLIGAF]

The question begging for an answer is what was cause of the difference between the lack of success in hockey and the great success Milo had in baseball?  He obviously fit in fine with the baseball team.  It wasn't talent.  He is a better hockey player than a baseball player.  

IMHO it was absolutely the 2 sport issue - Mike changed his mind.