At 01:00 AM 1/30/96 EST, you wrote: > > 3. Ron Mason--Still got a few years left and has built three quality > programs in BG, LSSU and Michigan State. His Spartan teams have > been down a touch the last 6 years due to improved recruiting in > ann arbor and Sault Ste. Marie but he's still only had one losing > that I can remember. > --Steve Moerland Several people on Hockey-L have attributed LSSU's success (in part) to Ron Mason. That seems a little strong, considering that he left (then) LSSC in 1973. He had a good record at Lake State, but the NAIA schedule was much different from the CCHA schedule that they have had to play since that time. I will credit that if his record had not been as good, Lake State may never have moved on. I don't have the stats for his first three years at MSU, but having watched Mason's first 3 years a MSU, the team didn't grow noticably better over those three years. Keith LSSC '77 HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.