Some of this duplicates what Sid & Rich said, but I wrote it before getting their mail and then my first attempt to send this failed due to mailer problems. So forgive the repeat stuff; a lot of this is different, however. I heard the last half of the press conference. Thanks, Rich, for letting us know that it would be on. Here are some other things I picked up: * WEEI's Dale Arnold pointed out after the press conference that Mike Milbury's opening statement (which I missed) wished good luck to Boston College and Fr Monan (president), but that AD Chet Gladchuk's name was noticeably absent. * As Rich wrote, Milbury said he left because of philosophical differences (presumably with Gladchuk) over how the BC program should be run. He gave no indication as to what those might have been. The one that immediately came to my mind was recruiting of Canadian players. But I had always been under the impression that Gladchuk and Milbury both wanted to extend BC's recruiting into Canada, so that doesn't make sense. I can only speculate on what some of the others might have been. * Milbury used rather harsh words, it seemed to me, in describing the situation - but then again, he has always been a guy to tell it like it is. He said that his accepting the job turned out to be "a mistake" (his words), both for him and BC, and that it was better to walk away now than in October. He said that there were some things he believed he had verbal agreements on when he accepted the job, but that turned out not to be true. * Milbury also said that BC was the only college coaching job he would have ever considered. He will not, apparently, entertain offers from other college teams. He indicated that he wanted to return to coaching and when asked if he would consider any of the NHL jobs currently open, he said that he isn't financially wealthy and is going to have to work. Combine that with his statement about coaching and it sure looks like behind an NHL team's bench is his next stop. He did not seem interested in returning to his former job as Bruins asst GM. Whether anything about the specific differences that Milbury and Gladchuk apparently had will come out as time passes, I don't know, but I am sure we will hear many rumors. I know I was looking forward to seeing him behind the BC bench. I thought it would have been very interesting and I was curious to see how he would fare with a college team. So, now we ask, who will coach BC next season. I suspect that the Lowell fans are starting to sweat again about the possibility of Bruce Crowder taking the job; I don't know what the chances are of that happening. Dale said that Crowder was the guy he (Dale) would hire if he ran the show. He also said that he expected Shawn Walsh's name to be mentioned as a possible candidate. I do not know who BC may be considering. At any rate, it certainly seems as if things with BC hockey are in unbelievable turmoil. How much blame does Gladchuk deserve for this? Did he mislead Milbury, or were there just misunderstandings between the two? And how deep did the philosophical differences run, such that apparently whatever Milbury wanted was something Gladchuk could not give him? I'm sure these questions will be asked for a long time, but right now, the ones hurt most by this are the current and entering BC players...they will have gone through three coaches in a matter of months (much like Dartmouth a few years ago). Also, I heard one of the callers to Dale's show say that his friend had signed a letter of intent to play at BC this season, but that he had just talked to him and was seriously considering transferring already - and the school mentioned was BU. (having signed already, he would have to sit a year, I believe.) So here we are three months before the teams would begin dry-land, and 2 of the 9 HE teams don't seem to have any idea who their head coaches will be... --- --- 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 <<<<<<