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Post by bfoley82 on Mar 4, 2022 1:03:26 GMT -5
How sweet it is to have everything all set a year in advance and pay zero for a national search firm, relocation expenses, salary buy out, etc. HC had a similar event when Katie Lachapelle was hired and Coach Van Buskirk passed the women's hockey baton to her with a year of mentorship thrown in. Smooth transitions don't guarantee winning teams however. The Van Buskirk transition probably set them back as he wasn't up to the D-1 standards of being a head coach. Much different being a D-1 WIH coach playing in a D-3 league than playing in the third best conference in the country against Olympians every week,.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 4, 2022 1:25:17 GMT -5
How sweet it is to have everything all set a year in advance and pay zero for a national search firm, relocation expenses, salary buy out, etc. HC had a similar event when Katie Lachapelle was hired and Coach Van Buskirk passed the women's hockey baton to her with a year of mentorship thrown in. Smooth transitions don't guarantee winning teams however. The Van Buskirk transition probably set them back as he wasn't up to the D-1 standards of being a head coach. Much different being a D-1 WIH coach playing in a D-3 league than playing in the third best conference in the country against Olympians every week,. Hard to blame Van Buskirk for this season's 3-30 record. Are people floating that theory to provide the current coach with cover for the current performance? Or is it simply your own observation which you admittedly have credibility making due to the many coaches and teams you observe through your position?
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Post by timholycross on Mar 4, 2022 10:14:34 GMT -5
How sweet it is to have everything all set a year in advance and pay zero for a national search firm, relocation expenses, salary buy out, etc. HC had a similar event when Katie Lachapelle was hired and Coach Van Buskirk passed the women's hockey baton to her with a year of mentorship thrown in. Smooth transitions don't guarantee winning teams however. The Van Buskirk transition probably set them back as he wasn't up to the D-1 standards of being a head coach. Much different being a D-1 WIH coach playing in a D-3 league than playing in the third best conference in the country against Olympians every week,. You forget he was the men's coach and he did well at that. Given the level of play women's hockey was at when he started coaching that team he was probably overqualified.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 4, 2022 13:10:53 GMT -5
He put together what for HC was a dynasty. His teams skated on a level ice sheet in the sense all league teams had no scholarships, and while HC was a highly rated academic school, most of the other schools had more flexibility in admissions so those factors balanced in general.
Plenty of coaches could have produced meh records at Holy Cross in that league I bet.
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