Geoff Howell wrote......
 
 -The following timeline helps put the B.C. decline in perspective.
 -Cedorchuk cited the losses to the Olympic team and the year it took
 -to find Ceglarski's successor as the reasons for the Eagles demise.
 -If you believe even half of the stories emanating from the Heights,
 -the scholarship mess was also a factor.
 
 -90/91 season: 27-12-0, David Emma wins Hobey and B.C. wins Hockey
 -East regular season title. Emma (senior), Heinze, McInnis, Crowley &
 -Guerin all depart for the Olympics.
 
 -3/20/91 Len Ceglarski announces his retirement
 
 -91/92 season: 14-18-3 with freshmen Ian Moran, Todd Hall, Ryan
 -Haggarty, Jerry Buckley, Jim Krayer, Josh Singewald, Mike McCarthy
 -and Rob Canavan on the squad (all probably recruited before Ceglarski
 -announced retirement).
 
Yet, the problems at BC started before then.........look at how kids left BC
before those years......Brian Leetch was there for only a year....Craig
Janney left early too, given they left for the Olympic team and the
pros.....but that stuff started the chain reaction....Steve Schiefele (I
hope spelling is close) left to sign with the Flyers in the middle of a year
and his grades were going down the drain.......Scott LaGrande was caught up
in a gambling problem and missed games.......
 
The bottom line is that no one at BC seemed to be able to handle and
discipline these kids......and they also were losing kids before they could
get new ones in.....on top of which they KEY PROBLEM at BC was that no one
knew how long Lenny was going to stay and if Cedor would be the head
coach......therefore, kids didn't want to go to BC because no one knew what
the story was from year-to-year......
 
Lenny's last few years in BC were basically equal to the Queen's power in
England.....he was a figure head......Cedor and Joe Mallen ran the team and
Lenny was there just giving his blessing to what was going
on........meanwhile, crosstown BU was rebuilding their powerhouse with the
Amontes and McEacherns.....Maine was building a new power up north with the
Capuanos and Weinrichs of the world........BC was missing the boat and the
recruits........and when they got them, you never knew how long they would
be there and what would happen to them......they could become Heinzes and
Guerins or they could become Schiefeles.......IT WAS UP TO THE KIDS, and the
staff had little control of what was going on....
 
Milbury saw the mess he was left with  and didn't want to deal with this
crap and Chet Gladchuck........Jerry York needed a new challenge and this
was the perfect time for him to leave BG for his alma mater.......the only
place he could take this program was up and hopefully, that's where it'll
return.......
 
Yours in the Bond of Chaos in College Hockey,
Jon Barkan
 
PS "Hockey is a slippery game played on ice!" Jack Parker.
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