>Re. Schafer scores again! >On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Billy Lustgarten wrote: > At Cornell during the last home weekend, Coach Mike Schafer >... took hold of a microphone and basically took the student section to >stop using obscene chants ... I'd like to add my name to the list of hockey-lers who have commended Mike Schafer for asking the student fans to tone their chants down. Nevertheless Schafer's request will appear hypocritical unless he starts controlling his own actions and those of his players and assistant coaches during and after games. Towards the end of Cornell's contested, narrow win at Brown, one of Cornell's star players made a complete fool of himself by flipping the the proverbial bird at the Brown bench several times. After the game, a Cornell player taunted the Brown coaching staff in the corridor leading to the locker rooms by yelling "you guys had better get some recruits because your team sucks" at them. Such behavior is inappropriate for student-athletes representing a school with such a distinguished hockey tradition as Cornell. Schafer himself seems to be a master at irking opposing coaches with subtle little things, which makes me question his sportsmanship. For example, Schafer's decision to start freshman Frank Kovac at center against Brown was clearly designed to stick it to the Brown coaching staff, who had spent a great deal of time and energy recruiting that young man, and who had been led to believe as late as March that he was coming to Brown. Schafer may be a great motivator and a good tactical coach, but he's far from the gentleman some of the people in this list would like us to believe him to be. Luiz F. Valente HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.