ECAC Early Departures

[Iceberg]

Gaudet basically had that job for life but it was evident Dartmouth wasn't going to be even a divisional championship threat if he stuck around. I'm curious to see who the next coach will be, although I'm not so sure hockey is on the top of mind of the Dartmouth administration necessarily. I'm sure someone would jump at the opportunity to coach a program that has been around for a while though (even with the recruiting hurdles)

[Trotsky]

Dartmouth is like a guilt-ridden alcoholic.  Their default setting is relaxing standards and skirting rules to feed their toxic bro culture.
 This is punctuated by operatic moments of repentance when they shut everything down and publicly whip themselves for their transgressions.

[Dafatone]

Dartmouth is like a guilt-ridden alcoholic.  Their default setting is relaxing standards and skirting rules to feed their toxic bro culture.
 This is punctuated by operatic moments of repentance when they shut everything down and publicly whip themselves for their transgressions.

There's a reason I hate them more than Sucks.

[Scersk '97]

Dartmouth is like a guilt-ridden alcoholic.  Their default setting is relaxing standards and skirting rules to feed their toxic bro culture.
 This is punctuated by operatic moments of repentance when they shut everything down and publicly whip themselves for their transgressions.

Operatic: Gaudet is "Throw your clipboard! Clap-clap-clapclapclap." Right?

[adamw]

if you were on HOCKEY-L in 1995 and remember the Princeton-Brown series, it's only because of my monumental argument over it - because otherwise it would've been in the void, and no one would've noticed.

there's not a lot of excuse for on-bench antics - except to say that it was genuine passion, and not calculated. It also was largely a long time ago. But off the ice, you will never find a better person in college sports.

[Scersk '97]

Seriously though, Gaudet's tenure at Brown and Dartmouth is one of the things that's made the ECAC the ECAC the last 25+ years.

Second.

He was definitely a "character." Maybe I'm just getting old, but there seem to be fewer characters around these days. Something something social media something something litigious society something something administrative double-speak something something my lawn.

[Trotsky]

Dartmouth is like a guilt-ridden alcoholic.  Their default setting is relaxing standards and skirting rules to feed their toxic bro culture.
 This is punctuated by operatic moments of repentance when they shut everything down and publicly whip themselves for their transgressions.

Operatic: Gaudet is "Throw your clipboard! Clap-clap-clapclapclap." Right?

IIRC that was Toots Cahoon.

[Trotsky]

Seriously though, Gaudet's tenure at Brown and Dartmouth is one of the things that's made the ECAC the ECAC the last 25+ years.

Second.

He was definitely a "character." Maybe I'm just getting old, but there seem to be fewer characters around these days. Something something social media something something litigious society something something administrative double-speak something something my lawn.

I think that's just us getting old.  We are less in the loop as we get older so we miss the "new" characters.

People have made that lament in all eras and I don't believe les neiges d'antan were any more striking than today; we were just younger and more romantic.

[andyw2100]

And (Cornell coach Mike) Schafer gets on, and of course my (Zoom) background is the background in my basement, and Schafer's is a background picture of me. And I looked like Chucky, got my brow all furled up.

Zing!

Bet it was Mark A.'s picture:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mhaithaca/2318158448

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Seriously though, Gaudet's tenure at Brown and Dartmouth is one of the things that's made the ECAC the ECAC the last 25+ years.

Second.

He was definitely a "character." Maybe I'm just getting old, but there seem to be fewer characters around these days. Something something social media something something litigious society something something administrative double-speak something something my lawn.

I think that's just us getting old.  We are less in the loop as we get older so we miss the "new" characters.

People have made that lament in all eras and I don't believe les neiges d'antan were any more striking than today; we were just younger and more romantic.

I just remember him trying to shoot a puck at us during warm-ups at the Garden in 1980 because we kept calling him an ugly sieve.  Fortunately he was a goalie - he missed by 20 or 30 feet.

[Trotsky]

I missed that by a year.

[billhoward]

He was definitely a "character." Maybe I'm just getting old, but there seem to be fewer characters around these days. Something something social media something something litigious society something something administrative double-speak something something my lawn.

"Characters" sometimes get themselves and their schools in trouble.

[RichH]

He was definitely a "character." Maybe I'm just getting old, but there seem to be fewer characters around these days. Something something social media something something litigious society something something administrative double-speak something something my lawn.

"Characters" sometimes get themselves and their schools in trouble.

From what I hear, Ned was quite the character.

[Trotsky]

He was definitely a "character." Maybe I'm just getting old, but there seem to be fewer characters around these days. Something something social media something something litigious society something something administrative double-speak something something my lawn.

"Characters" sometimes get themselves and their schools in trouble.

Mike Addesa and Mark Morris were "characters."

[Scersk '97]

He was definitely a "character." Maybe I'm just getting old, but there seem to be fewer characters around these days. Something something social media something something litigious society something something administrative double-speak something something my lawn.

"Characters" sometimes get themselves and their schools in trouble.

Mike Addesa and Mark Morris were "characters."

I did some quick internet digging into the Adessa case a bit ago, because I was very curious about what had gotten such a successful coach dropped so quickly. I found out. He said something that he should not have, and the attitudes that surely were part of generating what he said ought not have been in his heart. Yet people are complex and make mistakes. He certainly paid a price. RPI reacted in a manner that was a bit surprising at the time but wouldn't be surprising at all today. That's progress.

Regarding Morris, I still have questions regarding what happened. One of the constants of the human experience is that people involved in an incident can differ in reporting what happened and be absolutely certain that what they have reported is "the truth." In the absence of evidence, absolute truth is a chimera; even a preponderance of eyewitness testimony does not really constitute evidence. But Morris was most definitely losing control of the team and the program. He needed to go: too bad it happened that way.

Sometimes "characters" operate a bit beyond the pale, or beyond the commonly accepted pale. I have a pretty big pale, but Adessa definitely went beyond it. Morris? I'll never really know, but, even after writing what I wrote above, I suspect he was operating beyond even my pale regarding hockey coaches. Thankfully, his termination was not my decision to make.

I am constantly thankful that we seem to have one of the good characters.