2024-25 Players Graduating

[adamw]

Bearlover,

I think that your negative comment about Bancroft was probably made impulsively and a bit irrationally. For his or his parents' sake, would you consider editing it or deleting it entirely?  

He's given so much to Cornell hockey: been a super-valuable and exciting team player with a real zest for the game.  Personally, I'll never forget his hat trick at MSG.

I'm sure you wish him the very best at the Bruins, as we all do.

Umm, does Dalton or his family read this forum? Should we not be criticizing players here? A lot of people other than me were very critical of various parts of the team this year. I'll delete my post if you feel strongly about it. But for the record, I stand by what I said. Joe Miller of Harvard was drafted by the Leafs and has been Harvard's best player several years in a row, but is returning for his senior year and was just named captain of the team. I'm sure he had a deal on the table to go pro, but he decided he'd rather finish the job. The fact Bancroft took the money instead is just the reality, it doesn't make him a bad person or worse than the many other players who did the same thing. But he could have stayed and it's a shame he didn't.

Miller is 22. Thus the difference. Also, far from their best player this year. If you can't see the difference, then can't help you, per usual. You also have zero idea whether he had a deal on the table.

[stereax]

Robertson's in the transfer portal.

FUCK.

[chimpfood]

Ouch, losing 12 players is not good at all

[arugula]

Robertson's in the transfer portal.

FUCK.

What the fuck?  Where did that come from?

[ugarte]

Robertson's in the transfer portal.

FUCK.

What the fuck?  Where did that come from?

probably from being very good and young and teams backchanneling interest

[BearLover]

What the fuck? Is he flunking out of school or something? Does he hate Casey? This is impossible to explain. This team is winning absolutely nothing next season now. 10 players graduate, and then two of the remaining best three players on the team leave (at minimum). Put a fork in them.

[stereax]

Live look at the inside of Myron Taylor Hall right now.

[BearLover]

Guess we should have made the frozen four while we had the chance. Jesus Christ

[ugarte]

What the fuck? Is he flunking out of school or something? Does he hate Casey? This is impossible to explain. This team is winning absolutely nothing next season now. 10 players graduate, and then two of the remaining best three players on the team leave (at minimum). Put a fork in them.

it's not impossible to explain any more than it's impossible to explain "NIL" - i think it is much more likely that he is leaving for someplace that will give him a scholarship+$ than that he is dissatisfied with the coach or the program or the ILR curriculum. i suspect he was under-recruited and over-performed expectations.

this feeds into a different one of your fears but i think this is the more founded one: we are going to have a hard time competing in a more professionalized environment. We already have one hand tied behind our back on scholarships, ameliorated a little by the prestige of the degree (though that is crumbling in the market as well); this is definitely going to be a long-term drag on Ivy competitiveness.

[BearLover]

What the fuck? Is he flunking out of school or something? Does he hate Casey? This is impossible to explain. This team is winning absolutely nothing next season now. 10 players graduate, and then two of the remaining best three players on the team leave (at minimum). Put a fork in them.

it's not impossible to explain any more than it's impossible to explain "NIL" - i think it is much more likely that he is leaving for someplace that will give him a scholarship+$ than that he is dissatisfied with the coach or the program or the ILR curriculum. i suspect he was under-recruited and over-performed expectations.

this feeds into a different one of your fears but i think this is the more founded one: we are going to have a hard time competing in a more professionalized environment. We already have one hand tied behind our back on scholarships, ameliorated a little by the prestige of the degree (though that is crumbling in the market as well); this is definitely going to be a long-term drag on Ivy competitiveness.

There's almost no NIL money in college hockey at the moment.

But yes, the program will no longer be competitive nationally if NIL becomes a thing.

[Beeeej]

Guess we should have made the frozen four while we had the chance. Jesus Christ

Yup, every single one of those boys who didn't give it their all must really feel that egg on their faces.

[BearLover]

Guess we should have made the frozen four while we had the chance. Jesus Christ

Yup, every single one of those boys who didn't give it their all must really feel that egg on their faces.

I didn't say that, obviously, but you already know that.

[stereax]

A meme in these trying times? :-D

[scoop85]

A meme in these trying times? :-D

Did you come up with that during Civ Pro? ;-)

[stereax]

A meme in these trying times? :-D

Did you come up with that during Civ Pro? ;-)

During my lunch break, actually Civ Pro is earlier in the morning!