Tierney leaving Princeton for Denver

[Josh '99]

[quote TimV]Hey- Will some of these want to join the ECAC for a little....HOCKEY???::dribble::[/quote]I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Denver isn't jumping ship from the WCHA to come play in the ECAC.

[RichH]

[quote Josh '99][quote TimV]Hey- Will some of these want to join the ECAC for a little....HOCKEY???::dribble::[/quote]I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Denver isn't jumping ship from the WCHA to come play in the ECAC.[/quote]

That would totally ruin the travel-partner relationship, but again...IF UNION WERE TO BE KICKED THE HELL BACK TO D3...RPI could partner with Colgate, and Cornell would be happy to pair with Denver, being the two most western schools in the league.  I'd bet Cornell's Saturday home winning percentage would be terrific.

[RichH]

[quote Kyle Rose][quote mnagowski]

They'd have to convert The Chapter House into an Eating Club.

No thank you.[/quote]
The Chapter House would be a whole lot better with *some* food that isn't nasty popcorn.  Well, to be fair, it's slightly less nasty than the popcorn at Dunbar's.[/quote]

Frankly, as far as bar popcorn goes, Chapter House has pretty great (and to me, addictive) popcorn.  Anecdote: Remember this year when Princeton (the hockey team) thought it would be smart to stay in Hamilton Friday night and then their bus broke down Saturday and we all got to pick our butts for 2 hours while waiting for them to show up?  Even though their band had a perfectly good bus and their band had no problem making it to Lynah by 7 pm?  Aaaaanyway...a couple of us heard about the delay and went to Chapter House instead and there was a dude there who told us that he was the guy who provided the bar with their popcorn.  So locally produced and all.

Now there was something about Tierney in this thread, what?

[ben03]

here's a LaxPower podcast discussing the Tierney move out west to DU:

http://www.laxpower.com/media/media.php?story=907

enjoy!

[TimV]

Jeez- they were saying so many nice things about him I thought he was dead and I was at the funeral.

[billhoward]

The West will rise. Eventually the lacrosse top teams will include Stanford and USC and Washington. Tierney's move to Denver accelerates (jump starts?) the trend from club lacrosse, fooling around lacrosse out West to something way more serious. Denver and Air Force play serious lacrosse but not many other teams. This is great for lacrosse, not so great for Cornell being competitive. Just as in hockey as the sport spreads.

If Metzbower takes over at Princeton, is it possible the Tigers do BETTER under him? Tierney built the Princeton dynasty but others can carry it on.

Assuming the rumors were true about who was being courted - Mike Pressler of Bryant / ex-Duke, Richie Meade at Navy, Jim Nagle at Colgate - you wonder why Denver didn't go after Jeff Tambroni. Let's hope it's because Tambroni is happy in Ithaca no matter who comes calling.

[ugarte]

[quote billhoward]Assuming the rumors were true about who was being courted - Mike Pressler of Bryant / ex-Duke, Richie Meade at Navy, Jim Nagle at Colgate - you wonder why Denver didn't go after Jeff Tambroni. Let's hope it's because Tambroni is happy in Ithaca no matter who comes calling.[/quote]
In light of the reasons given for the move, I wouldn't have been surprised if Tierney contacted Denver when he heard about their coaching search. I think cold-calling Tierney and asking "So, how happy are you at Princeton?" would take guts.