Prospect Updates

[Keith K \'93]

[Q](1) Is it unusual at all for recruiting to be completed by November?[/Q]Well, if applications are still due by Jan 1 (are they?) then recruiting has to be finished sufficiently before the end of the year that the kids can formally apply.  A state school with rolling admissions can afford to keep recruiting into the spring.

[Q](2) Is it unusual at all to have a recruiting class of 4? Understood, we have 4 seniors. Is there ever an effort to rebalance class sizes?[/Q]I'd have to go back and look, but this doesn't seem too strange to me.  I think Schafer has tended to have a recruiting class that is just a little larger than the graduating class.

[Keith K \'93]

[Q]that's putting a lot of confidence in ... Stachurski,[/Q]Especially if he recently quit the team, as calgARI '07 recently reported in the Notre Game game thread (too lazy to link it).

[Will]

I was just about to say the same thing, Adam.  One would think we'd pick up at least one defenseman, to compensate for Wallace's graduation.  I'd feel much better if we had eight guys competing for playing time instead of seven.

[Give My Regards]

Ken Pavelle '92 wrote:

(1) Is it unusual at all for recruiting to be completed by November?

Cornell has had guys sign in January, February, or even later.  Louis Chabot signed in May.  David McKee, of course, signed in July.  I strongly suspect Coach Schafer and his staff are not done.

(2) Is it unusual at all to have a recruiting class of 4?  Understood, we have 4 seniors.  Is there ever an effort to rebalance class sizes?

Pre-Schafer, Cornell once had a recruiting class of 3 (with 2 seniors leaving).  Under Schafer, however, we've never had a class smaller than 7.  Keep in mind that the current 4 seniors are what's left of a class of 7 plus one transfer.

[Keith K \'93]

[Q]Cornell has had guys sign in January, February, or even later. Louis Chabot signed in May. David McKee, of course, signed in July. I strongly suspect Coach Schafer and his staff are not done.[/Q]McKee presumably applied to Cornell months before and had been planning to defer admission.  He only moved up his enrollment date in July.  Just trying to show that my earlier answer mentioning application dates wasn't totally full of it. :-)

[Greg Berge]

1/1/04 scoring updates on the class of 2008:

Topher Scott, Chicago (USHL) 12-10-22 in 28 GP
Tyler Mugford, Nanaimo (BCHL) 9-7-16 in 38 GP
Ray Sawada, Nanaimo (BCHL) 16-21-37 in 38 GP
Matt McKeown, Niagara Falls (GHJHL) 6-5-11 in 26 GP

[Josh '99]

Ken Pavelle '92 wrote:
Tyler Mugford F 6' 1" 195 Nanaimo (BCHL)  
Ray Sawada F 6' 3" 190 Nanaimo (BCHL)  

Are we allowed to use the word "pipeline" yet?  :-D

[atb9]

Was Nanaimo the team that McKee was going to play for this season?  If so, does anyone know if we sent him to them or if they sent him to us (even though he never actually played for them)?  Although Nanaimo may not like it, I think it is fair to classify them as a part of the Big Red farm system--.but a lot of Nanaimo players go the NCAA root and not necessarily the Cornell root.

[Greg Berge]

We root.  They route.

Looking back, I see... that I don't have the records to check who came from Nanaimo, but I swear we've had at least a half dozen going back the last 4-5 years.

Those 2
Hynes
LeNeveu
Hornby
...



Post Edited (01-02-04 14:17)

[cbuckser]

Greg Hornby, David LeNeveu, Shane Hynes, Byron Bitz, Ryan O'Byrne, Raymond Sawada, and Tyler Mugford are our seven players recruited from Nanaimo.  To answer Adam Brown's question, David McKee would have played for the Clippers this year if LeNeveu didn't sign a contract with the Coyotes.

[crodger1]

Greg Berge '85 wrote:
We root. They route.

Looking back, I see... that I don't have the records to check who cam from Nanaimo, but I swear we've had at least a half dozen going back the last 4-5 years.

Cam came from Sarnia. ( http://db.elynah.com/player.php?id=39 )

Just routing out errors where possible


EDIT:  Please note that Greg corrected his spelling between his original post and my snide remark.  But I just couldn't resist, not that I am not guilty of the same charge.



Post Edited (01-02-04 14:24)

[pfibiger]

There was also talk here this summer that Matt McKeown was headed to Nanaimo before some trade happened, and he left that league to play for his hometown team (Niagara Falls) in a different league. Since he had been recruited well before that happened, it does seem like the street is two-ways and it could be that Cornell recruiters "sent" McKee to Nanaimo, much like McKeown.

[Greg Berge]

 ::laugh::   Very good catch.

[crodger1]

Just an opportune one, Greg... no offense intended.  :-}

[Greg Berge]

Just type carefully.  ;-)

(This from someone who transposes every eleventh wrod.)