Actually, those who are ghosts (read "dead") only had recruiting
Minnesotans as a philosophy.  It's only the recent living who had it as a
dogma.  When I was attending back in the early 1980's there were at least
three players not from Minnesota playing (Alaska, California, Canada).
Even Mariucci, who started the philosophy to push the development of
hockey in Minnesota, recruited in Canada.  You still need to have a good,
successful program to provide those development opportunities.

Right now the Junior A leagues in Canada have this same issue.
European players (I don't know about U.S. players) are outright banned
with the argument that they cost too much and they are taking
development opportunities away from Canadian players.  I understand the
philosophy, but tend not to agreed with a dogmatic implementation.

Doug Peterson

On 22 Apr 2002 at 4:17, Clay Satow wrote:

> --- Doug Peterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The University of Minnesota men's hockey program has announced
the
> > signing of three student-athletes to national letters of intent to play for
the
> > Golden Gophers beginning with the 2002-2003 season.
> >
> >
> > Peter Kennedy, a 6' 2", 175-pound defenseman from Brookfield, Nova
> > Scotia, Canada
>
> I imagine some ghosts are turning over in graves, and some eyebrows
are raised.
>
> Clay
>
>
>
>
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