Opponent News 18-19

[dbilmes]

But a positive is that you can eat dinner in New Haven, including at one of the overrated-but-still-good pizza places, instead of eating the shit they serve at the arena.

You really have this one wrong.  Best pizza anywhere.  Stick to lacrosse.

Please don't leave the joint nameless. We've not really visited NH since 06.

The legendary New Haven pizza places are Sally's Apizza, Modern Apizza and Pepe's Pizza. Bar is considered close, but just a notch below them. Most pizza lovers are passionate about their favorite one of the New Haven trio. I'm a huge Modern fan, for example, and will be going there before the Yale game. But on a weekend you have to expect long lines at all of them, so give yourself plenty of time.

[Al DeFlorio]

You really have this one wrong.  Best pizza anywhere.

Please don't leave the joint nameless. We've not really visited NH since 06.

https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/101-best-pizzas-america-2018-gallery/slide-102

Scroll alladaway down.

[Iceberg]

So last night here in Philly, Princeton and Penn State played a game over at Wells Fargo Center (the Flyers arena) and it wound up being a pretty good game. I was able to go last minute because of a friend that works at Princeton and we saw Princeton play poorly for the first period (went down 4-1 and pulled their goaltender early in the 2nd) until they came all the way back to tie in the last 2 minutes of regulation. They even had a breakaway in OT that the Penn State goaltender made a stellar save on. As one can imagine, the place was 90-95% Penn state fans (this city has no shortage of their alumni) and they were quite vocal, although rather tame compared to what we're used to hearing at Lynah.

[Jim Hyla]

Dartmouth hockey coach, George Crowe, has died.

I don't know what happened to him after his buildup to the very successful '79 & '80 seasons, but those were certainly 2 of Dartmouth's best.

[adamw]

Dartmouth hockey coach, George Crowe, has died.

I don't know what happened to him after his buildup to the very successful '79 & '80 seasons, but those were certainly 2 of Dartmouth's best.

They went in the tank pretty hard after that, for whatever reason.

[Jim Hyla]

Dartmouth hockey coach, George Crowe, has died.

I don't know what happened to him after his buildup to the very successful '79 & '80 seasons, but those were certainly 2 of Dartmouth's best.

They went in the tank pretty hard after that, for whatever reason.

Adam, I know they tanked.:-D Why is the reason.

I like to think it was because as an 8 seed we beat them in the 1980 ECAC Finals. It "took all the starch out of them".::dribble::

Of course they did go on to stomp on us in the meaningless NCAA consy game.

That was a strange year. We were .500 in the season, the #8 ECAC seed and went on to beat, in order, the #1, #2 and then #3 Dartmouth to be the ECAC Champion.

In the NCAAs we almost made it to the finals, which is why those consy games were so terrible.

[marty]

I noticed BU was up 1-0 over Harvard,  listed at the Bright.  Why isn't this showing up on ESPN+ on my ROKU? I wanted to watch the 3rd period.

Forget it,  I found it listed under hockey - it just wasn't where I expected.

[ugarte]

I noticed BU was up 1-0 over Harvard,  listed at the Bright.  Why isn't this showing up on ESPN+ on my ROKU? I wanted to watch the 3rd period.

Forget it,  I found it listed under hockey - it just wasn't where I expected.

their listing is very wonky but you can often find stuff by searching for the school name (but this is also wonky)

[marty]

I noticed BU was up 1-0 over Harvard,  listed at the Bright.  Why isn't this showing up on ESPN+ on my ROKU? I wanted to watch the 3rd period.

Forget it,  I found it listed under hockey - it just wasn't where I expected.

their listing is very wonky but you can often find stuff by searching for the school name (but this is also wonky)

When I first went to the Roku app "Live and Upcoming" didn't show the game.  I later found it when I looked at "Hockey" but the ridiculous thing was that when I clicked out of the game after the OT period, it WAS listed as "Live and Upcoming". this is still megabytes better than ILDN and cheaper to boot.

[Trotsky]

Dartmouth hockey coach, George Crowe, has died.

I don't know what happened to him after his buildup to the very successful '79 & '80 seasons, but those were certainly 2 of Dartmouth's best.

They went in the tank pretty hard after that, for whatever reason.

Supposedly they tanked right after they adopted the Academic Index and stopped letting in the mouth breathers.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Dartmouth hockey coach, George Crowe, has died.

I don't know what happened to him after his buildup to the very successful '79 & '80 seasons, but those were certainly 2 of Dartmouth's best.

They went in the tank pretty hard after that, for whatever reason.

Supposedly they tanked right after they adopted the Academic Index and stopped letting in the mouth breathers.

Like Bob Gaudet!

[marty]

Less than 4 minutes into the Brown,  Providence game and Brown down 2-0. Ughhhhly!

[billhoward]

Boston Globe reports Normand Bazin, head coach of hockey at #1 ranked UMass Amherst earns $464,538.53 and is the 16th best-paid employee of the state of Massachusetts workers. Football and basketball coach each make just about $500K.  https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/01/16/table-the-highest-paid-massachusetts-workers/nZ5wZ42sMH1T8m2tZZ17bN/story.html?fbclid=IwAR3UcIx2BrqhTVRdDb3weFfXLI05n55MIwH3_sGjshLPAqpGighxOZJJGYw [Edit add: This is the UM-Lowell coach. UM-Amherst coach is Greg Carvel St. Lawrence '93 / St Lawrence coach through 2016, paid in the low 300s.]

One could see why it might be tempting for a really good Ivy coach to jump and salt away enough for his kids' college education and retirement. Conversely, the Ivies, through significant alumni support, not operating funds, could make it worthwhile for coaches in key sports - football, hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, basketball at least - to stick around, and offset the lack of athletic scholarships might be offset.

(IIRC Penn State in the past has been able to sidestep state employee salary reporting / sunshine law rules, so it's not easy to see what Jeff Tambroni makes. In doing a quick search on Penn State salaries, I found this tidbit: Penn State's athletic director hire in 2014 came from UC Berkeley, was making $400, was asked to leave, and winds up in Happy Valley making $700K. https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/08/penn_states_highest-paid_emplo.html)

[Iceberg]

Bazin is the Lowell coach. The guy you want is Greg Carvel, who was paid around $318,000 in 2018.

[Swampy]

One could see why it might be tempting for a really good Ivy coach to jump and salt away enough for his kids' college education and retirement. Conversely, the Ivies, through significant alumni support, not operating funds, could make it worthwhile for coaches in key sports - football, hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, basketball at least - to stick around, and offset the lack of athletic scholarships might be offset.

I believe it's also true that many (all) Ivies offer free tuition to children of employees, and that many (all?) of the Ivies have deals with "peer" institutions that allow their employees' children to attend the peer institution at similar cost. So to a coach with, say, 3 kids who expects them to go to schools like Johns Hopkins, rather than "weather vane" schools like, for example, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, a gig at an Ivy could be worth an (inflation-protected) $600K or more.