Chuck had one of the two most difficult jobs in Division 1 college
hockey. (Mike Riley at Army has the other)
 
The NC$$ forces the service academies to play at the Division 1 level.
Unfortunately, the service academies can not recruit on an even basis
with the remaining Division 1 Programs.
1) They can not even look at Canadian Players
2) They are typically restricted to recruiting "straight out of
   high school" athletes
3) Coming to the academy practically shuts the door on a future in
   professional hockey
4) The academy can apparently no longer guarantee pilot training as
   an inducement.
 
Despite this, Chuck made a significant improvement in the schedule and
the level of play.  The academy played a weaker schedule when Chuch
arrived, and he had winning records his first 5 seasons.  He then
began to upgrade the level of competition to where the falcons were
playing a legitimate Division I schedule.  Sure, the record says
4-24-5 for 1995-96, but they played 21 games against teams from the
big 4 conferences including 6 games against tournament teams
        2 ties against Mass Lowell (lowell tied the first with less than 20
                seconds left)
        a loss against Colorado College (though leading for most of the game)
        2 losses against Providence
        a loss against Cornell
 
This year they played 13 games against conference competition, taking
Colorado College to overtime before losing.
 
 
         charlie shub   University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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