>
> At 7:23 PM -0500 11/14/96, Deron Treadwell wrote:
> > At 07:05 PM 11/12/96 -0500, Frank Brickelmaier Jr wrote:
> > >2) Was Cronin out coached ?
>
> Could be that Crowder just has Maine's number because he knows their system
> well enough.  He fared well against Maine when at Lowell, too.
>
 
I can't really agree with this.  In his five years at Lowell, this is how
the Lowell-Maine matchups worked out:
 
91-92: (Lowell is a weak 11-19-4 team)  Lowell goes 0-4 against Maine
92-93: (Lowell is 20-17-2) Lowell goes 0-4
93-94: (Lowell is 25-10-5, goes to NCAA's) Lowell goes 1-0-2
94-95: (Lowell is 17-19-4) They go 1-3 against Maine
95-96: (Lowell is 26-10-4 NCAA's) Lowell goes 1-2-1
 
The first two years can probably be dismissed because Lowell was weak the
first year and no one was going to beat Maine the second year.  Even looking
at the remaining three years, during which Lowell made the NCAA quarterfinal
two of the three, the River Hawks still had a losing record against the
Black Bears.
 
I think most teams know the systems employed by league opponents well enough
that things like Crowder's time at Maine really make only a subtle difference,
if that.
 
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