Here are some thought, feel free to comment : Forgive me, but I'll try to attribute excerpts as best as I can. It was about two weeks ago that I heard from a friend at the campus newspaper that Coach Powers had resigned. No more news was forthcoming until I heard about the possibility of him going back to Bowling Green, as mentioned on hockey-l. Then last night (7/11/94), the 11 PM news had reported that Coach Powers was leaving. The Troy Record had an article on it today, and th 6 PM news (CH. 13) said that 35 year old assistant Dan Fridgen would shortly be named as the new head coach. The report also said that he was a top assistant since 1989 and had done most of the recruiting. I thought that there was trouble in Boston with 4 months to find a new coach, well, now we've got even less than that. Quoting Brian Morris : "RPI athletic dirctor Bob Ducatte is currently on vacation, so recruitment for a new coach will not commence until next week. Croce speculates that current assistant coach Dan Fridgen is an early favorite to replace Powers." This would seem to be confirmed by the 6 PM news report, HOWEVER, they did not say that it was a done deal, just that it looked highly probable. Quoting Jayson Moy : "As for the decision of the next head coach, do not look for Dan Fridgen to be the next head coach of the ENgineers. The RPI athletic department here is very bitter at people leaving, and will take it out on "left over" people." What is the likelyhood of this? I can see Fridgen as a replacement for the season while RPI does a search. Unless they wrap it up fast, there isn't much more time. If RPI wants to take more time, then promoting Fridgen while they do the search may be a good idea. Someone else mentioned that the players (I think Jayson) were mostly unaware of what was going on. So to was the campus. The only info I got was from hockey-l, though, in the summer, RPI, for the most part is asleep. Another individual I spoke with mentioned that the RPI move to Hockey East was decided almost two months ago, and that it was tied to Buddy staying at RPI. This is interesting, because unless I missed it, I don't seem to recall that. The last I knew, the group that was to look into it STILL had not made a decision. Can anyone correct my misassumptions and give me some more info? I can't wait for the year to resume, because I know a lot of people are going to be thrown for a loop when they return to campus with all the changes that have happened at RPI this summer. Nazman <[log in to unmask]>