Is anyone here really thinking about the NCAA tournament!?!?!?!?!?!? Really people, do we deserve to being playing in it?   All said and done, we don't.  Let's see what we can do game by game and go from there.  Maybe if we win a couple of games here, and begin to gel a bit, we can even think about discussing it.  Sorry, but really, it has to be said, and frankly I don't care who reads it, I hope the team and the coaches do.  Maybe that will make them say, "hey, this isn't the MAINE program it should be".......

Forget the Captain stuff too.  Metcalf was a great, Frankly I liked Todd Jackson too, but as I've said for 2 years now, this is a joke...........
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> From: james acheson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2005/01/05 Wed PM 03:37:40 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Small margin for error
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> This season has borne out quite the contrary... that we do not need to work hard becasue all good things come to Men in BLue... well, I think that there are many of our boys who are waiting for the good things to simply come to them.
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> I think that they would be quite motivated NEXT year if they have to feel like Merrimack for one post season.
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> they will also see what happens in the recruiting and the fan support, and maybe become a bit more motivated.   (these guys walked through 55 minutes at Harvard, 3 guys looked good, I already said all that.)
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> Deron Treadwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Nope, I don't think so.
>
> At Maine you compete for the national championship. You can't win that
> if you don't make the dance.
>
> I think losing in the national title game would be more motivating than
> not making the tournament. Yet, this season has not borne that out.
>
> -Deron
>
>
> --- james acheson wrote:
>
> > hmmm.... well barring the unlikely championship win, do you think
> > that maybe a team led by Captains Damon and Levielle (and not
> > Mushaluck, regarless of his 27 or 29 years on this planet) would do
> > better next year not having made it to the big dance the previous
> > year?
> >
> > sometimes you gotta get slapped in the face to wake up, and if our
> > boys make it to the big dance, maybe they will think that they do not
> > need to work out a lot more over the summer.
> >
> > Deron Treadwell wrote:
> > At this point, I'll take an at-large berth and a trip west if it
> > means
> > we get to play in the tournament.
> >
> > -Deron
> >
> >
> > --- "D. B. Doucette" wrote:
> >
> > > Well, first PWR of this season is out, and things do not look
> > > promising.
> > > Maine is now at a 15th place tie...even Lowell is ahead of them !
> > >
> > > Maine will in my opinion really have problems if it were going for
> > an
> > > at-large bid: its record when it comes to the intangibles the
> > > Committee
> > > gives to "good wins", especially neutral site and road wins. Other
> > > than
> > > Vermont (ahead of them also), and Lowell (barely snatched victory
> > > from the
> > > jaws of a tie) Maine on the road this year has been a disaster. The
> > > fans
> > > travel well, but the team ?
> > >
> > > This season might come down to having to post at least one win at
> > > each of
> > > the two-game away series at New Hampshire and Boston College, and
> > win
> > > all
> > > else, for the Black Bears to be in any contention for an at-large
> > > invite to
> > > the Tournament. Quite the change this season, that Maine seemingly
> > > HAS to
> > > win in Boston to have the best shot to control its' post-season
> > fate.
> > >
> > > Even were they to win the HE auto-bid at not-to-be-the-Bank of
> > > America
> > > Center, Maine might be so low in the seedings so that they are
> > prime
> > > fodder
> > > to be posted other than to Amherst or Worcester, and sent west.
> > Even
> > > more
> > > scary, that the CHA (most likely a #16) auto-bid could be kept in
> > the
> > > East
> > > given Maine is the "bigger" school and might be thought to be more
> > > flexible
> > > with regards to traveling.
> > >
> > > At least the Red Sox won the World Series....
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > Deron Treadwell wrote:
> > >
> > > >I recently wrote that Maine might only be able to lose 2-3 games
> > in
> > > order
> > > >to realistically have a shot at an at-large berth to the NCAA
> > > Tournament.
> > > >While we are still waiting for the Pairwise Rankings to debut (as
> > of
> > > >Monday night), but if they are anything like the below there is
> > much
> > > work
> > > >to do.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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