Ask the Coach

[CowbellGuy]

Just noticed the current "Ask the Coach" thing on USCHO is for our own Mike Schafer.

[Ack]

"Is it true that you're the most awesome coach in college hockey right now?" seems like a question we all already know the answer to though.

[Jordan 04]

Now's everyone's chance to (at least try to) ask Coach about fish, profanity, toys, etc.

[Ack]

Do we really want to put him on the spot in the national spotlight?

[Robb \'94]

Presumably, Schafer could simply decline to answer any question he felt put him on the spot - I'd say ask away and let him define his own boundaries.

[Jordan 04]

Exactly, Robb.  Obviously there's filtering of questions, probably first by USCHO staff to get rid of some of the complete junk, and then by Schafer himself, simply determinig which questions he feels like answering and which ones he doesn't.

Therefore, it doesn't hurt to ask.  It's not as if you're posting something to a message board for all to see, keeping the nation waiting with baited breath for a response from our coach.

[Shorts]

I'm probably looking really dumb for asking this, but...I can't find the link to the "Ask the Coach" thing (either current or otherwise).  Or, is it just in the magazine form?

[Ack]

It's on the far left, looks like an advertisement....took me a while too.

[jason]

The question I dare not ask (and even if someone did it would understandably go unanswered) is: "Is there a college hockey program that you'd be willing to leave Cornell to coach?". *Shiver* Just thinking about that makes me ill.

[dss28]

Has anyone submitted "how do you personally feel about the throwing of fish against Harvard, use of profanity in cheers, etc. in Lynah?" yet?

[Robb \'94]

It doesn't really matter whether anyone asks those questions, dss28.  Schafer is smart enough to either a) toe the party line and say what the athletics department wants him to say, or b) decline to answer the question....

[dss28]

True enough.  I guess I was reasoning that if enough people ask him the same general question, it'd be enough to warrant some sort of a response.  Enquiring minds want to know, right?

[Greg Berge]

If the intention is to get the administration to back off a little, then airing the issue in public is exactly the wrong approach.  This is one of those things that is done, if at all, behind the scenes and with tact.

[dss28]

So when does this thing "air," for lack of a better word?

[Chris 02]

Schafer's transcript has now been posted at: http://www.ahcahockey.com/ask/index.html