Mike Schafer retiring 2025

[adamw]

I didn't want to start a new thread, but this article probably should be on a thread entitled, "Casey Jones: Cornell Men's Hockey's next coach."

No love for my Coach Schafer hagiography?

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2024/06/14_Not-Goodbye-Yet-But-.php

[Trotsky]

Cornell players return to campus at the end of July, because on Aug. 2, the team leaves for a European tour, five exhibition games against foreign teams.

Huh.

[Trotsky]

I didn't want to start a new thread, but this article probably should be on a thread entitled, "Casey Jones: Cornell Men's Hockey's next coach."

No love for my Coach Schafer hagiography?

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2024/06/14_Not-Goodbye-Yet-But-.php

Excellent job, Adam. I loved it.

I did enjoy the fact that you managed to slip in a superfluous and utterly wrong opinion, just as a gift to me.

And while that may be good for some individuals, it won't be for most.

That's my Adam!  ::drunk::

[BearLover]

Cornell vs Clarkson in PWR since Casey has coached Clarkson:
2012: Cornell-13, Clarkson-40
2013: Cornell-24, Clarkson-51
2014: Cornell-17, Clarkson-25
2015: Cornell-36, Clarkson-44
2016: Cornell-15, Clarkson-23
2017: Cornell-11, Clarkson-24
2018: Cornell-3, Clarkson-10
2019: Cornell-11, Clarkson-5
2020: Cornell-3, Clarkson-9
2021: Cornell-DNP, Clarkson-16 [tiny ECAC and no OOC games, so fairly irrelevant]
2022: Cornell-24, Clarkson-16
2023: Cornell-13, Clarkson-32
2024: Cornell-12, Clarkson-37

So, only twice in the twelve seasons in which both Cornell and Clarkson played did Clarkson finish ahead of Cornell. The question of whether Casey is a step down from Schafer seems to depend on the relative situations between the two schools. Is Clarkson a much more difficult place to win at? If so, this hire looks solid. Is Clarkson only minorly disadvantaged (if at all)? In that case, the hire doesn't look so great.

Cornell has been very, very good under Schafer. We will soon find out how much of that was Schafer himself.

[scoop85]

I didn't want to start a new thread, but this article probably should be on a thread entitled, "Casey Jones: Cornell Men's Hockey's next coach."

No love for my Coach Schafer hagiography?

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2024/06/14_Not-Goodbye-Yet-But-.php

I finally got to read it. Superb work! And the Jones article today was also a delightful read.

[jeff '84]

What he said - great job!

[cbuckser]

I didn't want to start a new thread, but this article probably should be on a thread entitled, "Casey Jones: Cornell Men's Hockey's next coach."

No love for my Coach Schafer hagiography?

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2024/06/14_Not-Goodbye-Yet-But-.php

I did love it. Tremendously. But I didn't read it until Monday, so I thought it was a little late to provide kudos. But I guess it's never too late.

Thank you, Adam.

[cbuckser]

Cornell players return to campus at the end of July, because on Aug. 2, the team leaves for a European tour, five exhibition games against foreign teams.

Huh.

The men's hockey team made a trip like this in 2014. One of the opponents was Mike Knoepfli's pro team in Switzerland.

It appears that Nicki Moore is a big supporter of varsity teams making quadrennial international trips, I think they're great.

[marty]

Cornell players return to campus at the end of July, because on Aug. 2, the team leaves for a European tour, five exhibition games against foreign teams.

Huh.

Yes.  What is this?  When did this touring begin?   Perhaps it was back in August of 2024.

Has anyone else here ever heard of an every four year European tour allowance?

CBuckster seems to have answered the question.

Is there a schedule for this year?

[dbilmes]

Yes.  What is this?  When did this touring begin?   Perhaps it was back in August of 2024.

Has anyone else here ever heard of an every four year European tour allowance?

NCAA teams have been allowed to go on one foreign tour every four years for a long time (they can go anywhere overseas). Last year, for example, 61 men's basketball teams went on foreign tours. The UConn women's basketball team has done so on multiple occasions.

[David Harding]

Yes.  What is this?  When did this touring begin?   Perhaps it was back in August of 2024.

Has anyone else here ever heard of an every four year European tour allowance?

NCAA teams have been allowed to go on one foreign tour every four years for a long time (they can go anywhere overseas). Last year, for example, 61 men's basketball teams went on foreign tours. The UConn women's basketball team has done so on multiple occasions.

 Join the party!  Registration has been open since January 1.  

 Here's an account of the 2014 tour.

[Swampy]

I didn't want to start a new thread, but this article probably should be on a thread entitled, "Casey Jones: Cornell Men's Hockey's next coach."

No love for my Coach Schafer hagiography?

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2024/06/14_Not-Goodbye-Yet-But-.php

I didn't know it existed, even though I've been checking collegehockeynews every few days. I have to be more attentive.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Terrific job!

[Swampy]

Yes.  What is this?  When did this touring begin?   Perhaps it was back in August of 2024.

Has anyone else here ever heard of an every four year European tour allowance?

NCAA teams have been allowed to go on one foreign tour every four years for a long time (they can go anywhere overseas). Last year, for example, 61 men's basketball teams went on foreign tours. The UConn women's basketball team has done so on multiple occasions.

 Join the party!  Registration has been open since January 1.  

 Here's an account of the 2014 tour.

This is great news. I was very worried about us opening the season against UND, even though we did pretty well against them the last time we played them. It just seemed unfair opening against a really good team that had 3 or 4 extra games under its belt. This tour evens things up. Hopefully, nobody gets injured or eats too much strudel. ::popcorn::

[adamw]

I didn't want to start a new thread, but this article probably should be on a thread entitled, "Casey Jones: Cornell Men's Hockey's next coach."

No love for my Coach Schafer hagiography?

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2024/06/14_Not-Goodbye-Yet-But-.php

Excellent job, Adam. I loved it.

I did enjoy the fact that you managed to slip in a superfluous and utterly wrong opinion, just as a gift to me.

And while that may be good for some individuals, it won't be for most.

That's my Adam!  ::drunk::

Check back with me in 5 years. What shall we wager on this one over who is right?

[adamw]

Cornell players return to campus at the end of July, because on Aug. 2, the team leaves for a European tour, five exhibition games against foreign teams.

Huh.

BTW - I just made some updates to the paragraph with a correction and additional info.