In response the Mike Greenberg:
 
McCutcheon may have done a good job getting in Elliot and Smart, but as I
mentioned, that's not enough.  You need to bring in about 6 guys per year.
  Furthermore, it is silly to think McCutcheon went wrong by playing Elliott.
Many people (I'm not one) slaughter him for never playing Duffus as a freshman,
knowing he would be better than D'Alessio and/or Crozier.  Now, I don't think
that is fair, but Bandurski and Skazyk are hardly D'Alessio and Crozier.
Neither of those guys were taking Cornell anywhere.  As for who started in the
playoff, who knows and it doesn't matter - because Captain Hook changed them
back and forth about three times in that game, as he has done very often in
recent years.
   There is no need to "break the goalie into college"  There are 6 goalies in
the ECAC that are freshman that are currently #1 goalies.  Baker (Dart.),
Brenzavich (Col.), Owen (SLU), Koenig (Union), Murphy (Clark.) and Elliott.
They're all doing OK to varying degrees.
 
 
In response to Tom Smith Tseng:
 
I did not mean to imply it was admissions fault at Cornell.  But I do KNOW there
is something going on between admissions and hockey.  Your tone when speaking
about the "hockey coach" implies that there definitely is something wrong.  When
a player like Matt Brush, whose father played on the '70 championship team and
who got into Princeton, can't get into Cornell, something is very wrong.
Cornell was his first choice.
   The Princeton admissions people talk highly of the organizational skills of
the hockey office, and vice-versa.  They work together.  There doesn't seem to
be that same cooperation at Cornell.  Where the blame is, I don't know, but I
follow it closely enough to know something's up.
 
   I am not beating up on Cornell admissions at all.  Maybe they are partially
to blame, maybe not -- There has been a general change in philosophy at Cornell,
however.  I don't know where it starts, but why didn't the radio crew make the
road trip for the tournament this year?  I also heard they elminated waiting on
line for season tickets.  Attendance is down.  What happened to Lacrosse?  It's
been the same coach there.  I'm just asking the questions.  I don't claim to
know the answers.
 
 
Finally, In response to Geoff Howell and ECAC best def. Forward --- I also
follow Princeton, and I'm obviously swayed by that.  But I have not seen a
player dominate the defensive zone as a forward the way Ian Sharp does.  Mervin
Kopeck, as Geoff mentioned, is good, and his speed allows him to be a great
backchecker, but I don't think he's as all-around efficient as Sharp.  It's
close.  Mike Flynn on Brown impressed me, too
 
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