Kevin Paul Dupont's article on hockey in the Sunday Boston Globe
included a lot of speculation on where Mike Milbury might end up,
along with the following that is relevant to the BC situation:
"Fed up with the change of attitude in the pros, Milbury was looking
forward to the life of a gentleman farmer that a college coach can
lead, only to find out that the other pasture isn't always greener,
especially in bucolic Chestnut Hill - the state capital of expanding
stadia and inflated egos. [BC is expanding its football stadium. - mike]
"Milbury didn't perform his due diligence (i.e. find out the true mess
that is the Boston College hockey program) before leaving the Bruins'
front office. Under previous head coach Steve Cedorchuk, promises
upon promises were made to players and future players - many of them
connected to influential, high-rolling, meddling Eagle alumni - and
Milbury soon saw that his five-year, no-escape commitment to BC was
looking like hard time along that median strip they call a
correctional institution in Dedham. And for weekend furloughs he was
looking at back-to-back, embarrassing hammerings to the likes of the
Maine Black Bears.
"Not the gentile life, after all. Try telling a kid and his parents
that, no, the $100,000 scholarship promised by someone else now isn't
going to happen. It probably would have taken Milbury four years and
4,001 behind-the-scenes fights with athletic director Chet Gladchuk,
the players, the players' parents and the Eagle alums and dons to get
the program finally headed in what he felt was the right direction."
(end excerpt)
Elsewhere in the same article, Dupont refers to the Boston goaltending
situation and the team offering Jon Casey a termination contract,
saying, "They think Blaine Lacher can walk off the Lake Superior
campus and make a real run at the job."
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Mike Machnik [log in to unmask]
Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93
>>>>>> Dean Borrelli (C, Tacoma, AAA) .348, 31-for-89, 3 HR, 15 RBI <<<<<<
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