Paluch will return for next year

MACMAN · Post by **MACMAN** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:06 pm

Falcon hockeyis great
Falcon hockey RULES!!!!!

WHEWWWWWHOOOOO!!!!!!1

Puckhead · Post by **Puckhead** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:38 pm

Allow me to try to provide some cover for Paul Krebs.
In 2002-03 we were 11th place, 04 we were 9th place, 04 - 05 we finished
5th in the league, we almost had a .500 average. I can see where Paul would think that things were on their way. Then we got swept by UAF in our own building 3 - 6 and 3 - 6. I understand some of the logic of locking in an up and coming coach, I think that you were a little pre-mature Paul.

What I want to know is why do you give someone that has won 35 games out of a possible 110 games a raise from $ 90,000 to $ 110,000. Would a teacher get a 22% raise if only 32 % of his/he students learned to read?

Why was this kept a secret? If the director of communications does not know about this deal, and the Sentinel Tribune did not know about the deal; someone had to work at this cover-up.

I wish there was only one former player that had said bad things about the coach, I wish that the win / loss record was not what it is, I wish the attendence figures were not what they have been. There appears to be many insiders that are coming forth on this board with comments. I know of at least 10 other players / alumni that would tell you that Coach Paluch does not know how to manage people or the X's and O's of the game.

So where do we go from here? Half of me says get behind the Falcons
and the coaching staff. The other half of my brain ( what is left after this season) says do not worry about it, MacMan is right all is well. The third half of my brain says get on your life jacket, I see an iceberg dead ahead.

I have called for the Administration to make a major commitment to the facility. For the sake of recruiting now more than ever do we need a major renovation to the building. On the other hand if I'm the Administration, why invest $ 10 million into a program that only has attendence of 1500
paying customers? ( average attendence 2300 per game minus the students)

Paul Krebs I am giving you benefit of the doubt about your rational;
but you may have doomed BGSU to basement hockey for the next 3 to 5 years.

bgbill · Post by **bgbill** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:39 pm

Flipper wrote: It's kind of fun to watch the coaches trying to close recruits out at a hockey game

Brandon and Mrs. Ribeau were all over a kid and his mom a few weeks ago during the Notre Dame game.
They were sitting right behind the Irish penalty box, and Gregg was taunting the guys who were serving penalties.

NWLB · Post by **NWLB** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:42 pm

Getting "behind the falcons" is obvious. We love the team. We hate the results.

At least the AD has publically spoken the words and is on record as saying there has to be a boost in University support for the program.

But as for Krebs, you give extensions for winning, not almost winning. Pooch hadn't finished the job, and still hasn't.

FlagCityFalcon · Post by **FlagCityFalcon** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:07 pm

To Christopher's point, the support doesn't need to only come from the university.

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:53 pm

FlagCityFalcon wrote:To Christopher's point, the support doesn't need to only come from the university.

To FlagCityFalcon's point, the support isn't going to come from the University if some of the complainers don't get up off of their arses and start actually raising money.

I don't mean to make it sound like it is incumbent upon us to get the ball rolling, but, collectively, we all need to come to the sad realization that BGSU is a public institution in the State of Ohio. We are not rolling in cash by any stretch of the imagination. We are coming up on the 2008-09 state biennial budget vote in May, and from all indications, higher ed. is going to recieve further cuts. Can anyone tell me the percentage of BGSU's budget that the state contributes? If you said roughly 27%, get up and get yourself a cookie. It is likely to be even less than that next year.

The fact of the matter is that the University is not swimming in the liquid cash that people like Puckhead (sorry to singly you out) seem to think the administration has at their disposal. It isn't like Sidney Ribeau has woken up every morning for the past decade, looked himself in the mirror and thought, 'hmm...I wonder how I can ignore the hockey program today?' On top of that, there are dire facilities needs all over the campus, as is the case on every other campus of every other university in the country that experienced massive structural growth in the 1960's. Plain and simple: the University is not going to find the money under a couch to renovate the Ice Arena, and I think it would be prudent for everyone to simply stop expecting them to. Period.

On a positive note, given Greg Christopher's professional background, it is clear that he was hired primarily to raise money for the Athletics Department in the private sector, and I've no doubt that he will do just that over the coming years and be quite effective. We may not agree with the hiring and firing decisions that he makes in the short term, but to give up on his efforts if we don't see a new pop machine in the rink (an exaggeration, admittedly) next year, or on the program because of their record or the coach, would be a very short-sighted thing to do. The best thing that any of us can do, especially those of us with a tangible means to do so, would be to support and assist our AD in all of his efforts. This is the only way that anything is going to change physically for the hockey program, and the process would be greatly expedited were it done in a positive, optomistic, and proactive environment.

Sometimes in life we have to force things. For some of us, this may be one of those times.

hockey fan · Post by **hockey fan** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:21 pm

Many of you have made reasonable posts here. My rage has died down to mild dispair.

Krebs really screwed us with that one. It isn't so much just that Pooch got an extension after a .500 season, it's that he got a five-year extension. I wouldn't want to answer any questions about that one if I were him. The thought of three more years of total inepitude is just depressing.

As for the people that seem to be having a good time with this ... WHAT PART OF WORST TEAM EVER DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND.

FlagCityFalcon · Post by **FlagCityFalcon** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:18 pm

What concerns me is the real possibility of a MASS EXODUS with this news. I wouldn't be surprised to loose 5 (just a number, no significance to it) guys from this years team.

MACMAN · Post by **MACMAN** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:19 pm

hockey fan wrote:Many of you have made reasonable posts here. My rage has died down to mild dispair.

Krebs really screwed us with that one. It isn't so much just that Pooch got an extension after a .500 season, it's that he got a five-year extension. I wouldn't want to answer any questions about that one if I were him. The thought of three more years of total inepitude is just depressing.

As for the people that seem to be having a good time with this ... WHAT PART OF WORST TEAM EVER DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND.

dont think anyone doesnt see the end result. Its where you....place the blame in the end. I blame ACT OF GOD as to injury and illness after seeing how the TEAM played when whole. I know its hard to understand, but I like to watch the team even when they lose...as long as I can see they were playing their best and made a game of it...which is what we did in the end here...and from that I know that if they had been able to play the whole season as a complete unit, the result would hvae been better, far far better.

As for the facility and fund raising and the fact that Sid....doubtfully even ever thinks about hockey...ever....that is all good dialog and right on.

We are no swimming in bucks that is right..ever program is out spending us in every sport and category and its just plain the way it is and will be. Forward thinkers would have rallied for a new rink way back when we relay did not "need" it but we would have greatly benefited from it and it would have not lead us to where we are...but alais we are here. and we need to make some changes and improvements
a dual purpose arena would be an ideal compromise for both basketball and hockey.
I am interested in seeing what is done in the next decade...my guess is nothing..

McConvey · Post by **McConvey** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:55 pm

Puckhead wrote:Why was this kept a secret? If the director of communications does not know about this deal, and the Sentinel Tribune did not know about the deal; someone had to work at this cover-up.

Actually, I can think of at least five reasons off the top of my head as possibilities of why this wasn't announced that aren't remotely sinister.

I don't know anything about this specific situation, but the lack of an announcement isn't necessarily a coverup. It could have been a simple oversight. (Again, I don't know anything about this particular situation but I can see how it could happen)

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:55 am

I don't know. When the guy in charge of announcing these things (and who's VERY high up in the AD) doesn't know the guy was given an extension, it's just weird. I'm not even claiming shenanigans here, it's just a weird thing for the department not to announce this sort of thing. Maybe they only announce extensions when it's a coach who's highly successful? (a la Gregg Brandon after winning the MCB)

dannyk · Post by **dannyk** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:01 am

Here is my reasoning in why there will not be a mass exodus. Most of the guys we have really have no other place to play. If you look at DIII rosters many teams have 1 or 2 DI guys who have transferred down, but with our team I dont think there are two many guys who are talented enough to really be wanted by other DI teams.

Im sure some of our younger guys could transfer to a places like AL-Huntsville or Robert Morris but thats about it. We dont have to worry about anyone leaving for the WCHA or Hockey East.

BGFan · Post by **BGFan** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:01 pm

dannyk wrote:Here is my reasoning in why there will not be a mass exodus. Most of the guys we have really have no other place to play. If you look at DIII rosters many teams have 1 or 2 DI guys who have transferred down, but with our team I dont think there are two many guys who are talented enough to really be wanted by other DI teams.

Im sure some of our younger guys could transfer to a places like AL-Huntsville or Robert Morris but thats about it. We dont have to worry about anyone leaving for the WCHA or Hockey East.

So what you're saying is that it's not really the coaching that's the issue....it's the players.

You don't pay much attention to the recruiting sites, do you?

dannyk · Post by **dannyk** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:57 pm

Are you suggesting that we are getting blue chip recruits? C'mon look at the guys we scratch on a nightly basis we have one guy that is 5'5" no joke and a few other benders. Some of these guys have no business playing DI

bigdog · Post by **bigdog** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:19 pm

Theres no reason to think that there won't be a large amount of players moving to other teams, I mean look at the past 5 years and how many have quit already due to the coach. The only thing that keeps them in BG is the fact that they would have to sit out a year before playing again. It would have been a huge mutiny before if that wasn't the case.

Also I hope Paulch is read this, I thought you were the dumbest person I have ever met but I have been proven wrong. That award goes to Paul Krebs. The team is doomed for another 3 years!!!!