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Date Posted: 11/28/15 7:10:17pm Sat
Author: Cr
Subject: Re: GR, write your Congressman
In reply to: TheGreenCoat 's message, "Re: GR, write your Congressman" on 11/28/15 5:03:15pm Sat

>>>C'mon man. You can come up with 20 fluff reasons for
>>>flying all the way to Belfast to play hockey and none
>>>of them are valid. Frankly, sending a group of
>>>non-athletes that could have spent all their time
>>>performing some kind of social work would have been
>>>money better spent. This trip amounts to nothing
>more
>>>than a junket for the team and some Colgate
>employees.
>>> Call it what it is. There is nothing wrong with
>>>that. The lame excuses make it sound like you are
>>>trying to disguise it.
>would agree with Gate Raider...sometimes I wonder if
>our administration treats the hockey team like a bunch
>of lab rats...let's waste time and energy traveling to
>Cape Cod for two or three years, now the Belfast
>thing...I hate to say this but it would appear that
>the players have partially quit on the coach and
>perhaps vice versa...all our energy goes into a new
>arena WITHOUT a full complement of scholarships and
>with three years of very poor recruiting...there's a
>lot of blame to go around, but the one thing that
>really burns me up was not laying the foundation for a
>good product BEFORE making a $38 million
>commitment...I hope the incoming kids are good; they'd
>better be or we'll have the same thing we have now:
>1200 bored fans, 100 of which are students...
>>> Now you can try to justify spending 38 million on
>>>a new hockey rink when the current one is rarely more
>>>than half full. Please don't use recruiting as a
>>>reason. Colgate has done pretty good in Starr and
>>>there are colleges with facilities no better than
>>>Colgate's that do quite well.

Coach has been there a LONG time.......

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