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Danner27

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  1. Cliff is a good skills guy, can’t speak on his team / game coaching. He was doing something some years back with the rink rats - he ran practices but only went to home games. In general he’s a good guy, wrong place at the wrong time - ppe needed a scape goat imo.
  2. I’ve heard good things in the past about West Chester. Very disappointed my Alma has turned to shit, IUP was such a great part of my young adult life. It’s very sad what has happened to the school & town.
  3. I was about to reccomened my alma to a friend’s kid out east. Talented player not bothering with the junior stuff. I ended up going down a rabbit hole when I ask my kids buddy tonight how things are at iup for him. He dead face looked at me and said I can’t wait to graduate in 2 weeks. that place is dangerous, my eduction declined rapidly over the years. He stated - acedmic support is awful, the food gets people sick. Aramark has some contract, it’s bad. the school keeps cutting back on faculty, if you leave campus you are likely to get in a fight at the bars even if you are not drinking. fights daily on campus. rape on and off campus. He’s walked past a few used needles this year on campus, bags of weed laying around everywhere. racial tension is very high on campus. Some of the buildings are literally falling down. I was a bit thrown back. I assumed he was exaggerating. my day was 40 years ago, I understand things change - that was a nice area along with a good education back in the day. Before he left our place he told me to Google “iup student deaths” & “iup student deaths 2022” - So I did. Very sad. I then googled fights, crime etc - it doesn’t stop! Homecoming this year had major arrests (fights, rape & drugs). this wpxi video from st patty’s day is nuts - that’s not dumb kids having a few getting into a fight at a frat house. This video is showing a border line riot happening, wpxi states the main video going around social media is much worse. https://www.wpxi.com/video/archive/arrests-mar-pre-st-patricks-day-party-iup/H45K4OCB3AH67QTHVRUUIYTUBM/ I know in this day and age you can find trouble at any college if you want to but not like this stuff. I am not hearing or seeing anything to this consistent level at the other western pa colleges. I‘m a iup alumni - sure there was a good amount of partying back in my day - might see a fight in front of a bar or on the streets once a year. nothing like what I am finding out that’s been happening over the last 5 years. what changed ? I just looked up IUP’s current acedmic ranking - it’s as bad as this kid just told me. I darn near talked a close friend into taking a look at iup due to hockey, not even thinking about the school itself.
  4. Don’t believe I said there was anything “cutting edge” - just stated in years past yuri had a working relationship with PPE. He knew who the cuts would be etc.
  5. Good to hear, best of luck to the students trying to organize!
  6. Is it really possible ? Sure seemed like school didn’t want the club anymore long before they terminated it. Good luck to the folks trying to revive it!
  7. Imo - bad penalty for Cooley to take. It wasn’t offsetting wouldn’t have been the right call. Cooley was frustrated, he was getting beat around in the corners easy, most of the game. Cooley has great speed, talent - there were others kids his same age in that game (even on his team) that looked better.
  8. Yep. There always has been a working relationship of sorts between them. Yuri always had the heads up who was getting cut at U15 when PPE would go down to one team from two. Obviously, things have changed a lot since those ppe black teams. Yuri was an evaulator one tryout that I recall. I also remember one year he was out front starting the recruiting process for esmark before the tryout was over.
  9. Odd. In years past, yuri would always attend the PPE tryouts. Maybe black bear has something to do with the change.
  10. This. At midget esmark has always gone after ppe. If it’s midget, it’s out of the norm.
  11. I did say, yes there are their 3 players on the top acha teams if you read my post. if the poster above is accurate, 6 out of 30 Adrian players are from tier 3. 7 out of 30 liberty players are from tier 3. That’s not a lot.
  12. Think that comment should be re-phrased by the poster. The local teams are getting kids from tier 3 juniors. The big acha programs are getting the middle level & bottom kids from tier 2 juniors across the states & Canada. Big difference. there is a decent skill difference between usa tier 3 and Canadain tier 3 favoring the Canadian leauges. Minot won M1 nationals, the team is mainly Canadians. Take a look where the 3rd leading scorer came from, one of the few Americans. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/520111/jay-buchholz there are M2 & M3 schools around the country that also have players like the above kid. yes, before some hockey crazy parent jumps down my throat - yes, even the top programs do have some tier 3 players.
  13. I’ve only seen them play twice in the past 2 years. Last year ? They beat iup’s club team in OT 1-0 or 2-1. @Pa Hockey would know better about that game he was there. Personally I’m not a fan of ncaa d3. It’s mostly on par with the acha. “Ncaa” is used as a status recruiting tool to pay some very high tuition. 50% of these schools you wouldn’t send your kid to for an education to begin with. I’m sure there are a few that are pretty dang good, but I also have seen a few that couldn’t hang with our local acha programs. There is a kid on the pitt acha team that transferred from a ncca d3 school - he doesn’t play on the top half of the team if that tells you much. I personally know a kid who passed on multiple ncaa d3 schools to play for miami’s acha team. Cost of the school ended up much less. In his words “the hockey is much better & I don’t have to submit to all the ncaa rules” in general he really like Miami of Ohio’s degree program to top it off. yes rmu is back - lots of Canadian prospects from what I’ve seen.
  14. Could of, should of, would of. but I do agree with you, it was the point I made earlier in this thread. Our western pa acha clubs can not compete with those real top ranked teams. It’s not a slight, it’s a reality. Just look at the skating ability alone, it’s not close. ps - whomever was running the clock for that pitt game was lost, they were counting anything that looked like a shot including 3 that sailed over the net.
  15. Iup got blown out 9-1 in their first game, sent home. Same with Pitt with their top 12 ranking - 7-2 final. Liberty was up 7-1 in the second, liberty put their second goalie in, rested their top players.
  16. A year or two ago, I don’t remember when really, someone outed puckcovid here. The posts were deleted, they had real names in them or something of the sort. Peppridge Farms remembers. if I recall correctly, he lives in SF district, his kid never played varsity. he sent him away to a usphl “junior” team that folded. He hates SF for whatever reason.
  17. PS - read my reply above about the pervious head of HR for my previous company. Very similar to what you are saying. I would like to add, we know plenty of kids that went to a school for club hockey only to drop out or fail out in a year or two. One is a master plumber now making more money then me lol
  18. I can tell you as someone who’s job was to find the right candidates before I started my own company - I didn’t care where the person got their degree - the interview, how they presented, their demeanor along with knowledge defined my criteria for who I sent up the ladder. In this day & age, it doesn’t matter much were you get your BA/BS unless you are in something specialized. The previous head of HR for my previous company (who I didn’t higher) went to community college AS - slippery rock BA, she got her masters while employeed by said company (I think it was rmu I was already gone at this point) but now she works for Boeing. Point is - when it comes to an undergrad, not many care unless they are an alum from the school. It’s about what the person learned, not where they went.
  19. If I recall correctly the total cost was around 19k a year before scholarships and grants. This is my child that doesn’t play any sports, his aid package was grandfathered in before the merger.
  20. I agree - some are paid postions in pihl - Parents are paying these salaries in their fees!
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