Hi Greg

Well, I still listen.  But, being at a Div III school (AND stuck with a "home team" [UW] in a rebuilding year) I rarely have anything to say.  I check in as USCHO       only for scores or an occaisional article, not for the message boards.  If the list dies, I will become significantly less well informed.

Tom Rowe                            UWSP dept of Psych
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Home of Division III National Champion Pointers
89, 90, 91 & 93, National Runners-up 92 & 98,
and likely never again  :-{
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Ambrose [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 7:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: USCHO message boards
>
>
> Bob, Ed, et al.
>
> As a frequent contributor to USCHO, I have learned to take
> the good with the
> bad.  No doubt there are some real flamers on there, there
> are plenty who
> want to just stir the pot.  But there are also many
> thoughtful posters like
> Brian Gentry (BU), Mike Machnik (Merrimack) and even a UNH a
> senior who goes
> by the name of the Da Big Bad Cow (real name Dave) who mostly
> sticks to the
> issues.  There have been some very good discussions on the
> board this year,
> the issue of Mark Morris' dismissal being one that quickly
> comes to mind.
>
> The problem with USCHO is that the reasonable voices, more
> often than not,
> are drowned out by the college kids and near college kids who
> are unable to
> keep the emotions in check and have little or no historical
> perspective.
> But is that much different that the early days of Hockey-L?  I vividly
> recall some of the vitriol that was spewed on this board back
> not so many
> years ago.
>
> To be honest, I would rather discuss issues and games in this
> forum than the
> other one but, folks, there aren't many here who are
> listening, so I go were
> the people are.
>
> Greg Ambrose
>
> > From: Bob Stagat <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: Bob Stagat <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:13:33 -0800
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: USCHO message boards
> >
> > Edward Moller wrote...
> >
> >> This weekend I read the USCHO message board more thoroughly than I
> >> have done in the past...  When Rick McAdoo refers to the
> posts on the
> >> board as flaming and anger from idiots, he is barely scratching the
> >> surface.
> >>
> >> Now I love USCHO...  But...
> >>
> >> ...the level of discourse I read this weekend on the USCHO
> board defied
> >> all sensibilities.
> >
> > At the risk of starting a USCHO-like flame war right here
> on Hockey-L
> > (Nah, that'd never happen -- Wayne won't let it) let me comment that
> > I agree with Rick and Ed about the general tenor of the
> USCHO message
> > boards, BUT...
> >
> > Being an RPI alumnus I read mostly the ECAC-related threads. I have
> > found that those threads are generally far and away more civil than
> > most of the other threads I occasionally browse. I'll leave it to
> > others to speculate as to why this might be, but I'll note that I'm
> > not alone in this observation. Another RPI alumnus, who goes by the
> > nom de plume of 'frjoe' (an RPI grad turned priest!?!) has
> been moved
> > to include as his signature: "Friends don't let friends Hockey East
> > their threads!"
> >
> > Perhaps if HE folks like Rick and Ed were to spend more time
> > browseing some of the ECAC threads, they might get some enjoyment
> > from the USCHO message boards. For current amusing reading I might
> > suggest the "Cornell-RPI: The Red Greeks" thread,
> > (http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23437)
> > which analyzes the upcoming RPI@Cornell series in terms of Odysseus'
> > journey from Troy to Ithaca in Homer's "The Odyssey."
> >
> > -Bob Stagat-
> > RPI  '64 & '68
> > --
>