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Subject: Re: Keith Allain Retiring as Yale Head Hockey Coach Author: bulldog10jw [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 18:20:44 08/08/25 Fri In reply to: Son of Eli 's message, "Keith Allain Retiring as Yale Head Hockey Coach" on 17:26:59 08/08/25 Fri A career a lot like Carm Cozza. A great recruiter and coach the first half or more of his career, but he probably stayed on a little too long. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: Keith Allain Retiring as Yale Head Hockey Coach Author: Old Blue [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:39:45 08/10/25 Sun Gentlemen; agree with Mr. bulldog 10 the squad was awful the last several years. Nonetheless, congratulations to Mr. Allain for his contributions over the years, especially the 2013 season.

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Keith Allain Retiring as Yale Head Hockey Coach Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:04:59 08/10/25 Sun I would be curious what others think was the driver behind the diminished performance of the football and men's ice hockey team in the latter innings of the Carm and Keith tenures. Specifically, is it simply extremely unlikely that a formerly high achieving performer in a high pressure, high intensity business like intercollegiate sports maintain his or her success as the years and the miles on the odometer click by? Or were there specific changes or challenges that Carm and Keith could not adapt to? I'm at an age when many if not most of my peers are starting to wind down or plan to retire in the near future. On the other hand, a few of my close friends are not maintaining highway speed, they are accelerating. The end of Carm's tenure is a cautionary tale as to what can go wrong when we stay in the pilot's seat for too long. How inevitable is professional decline as Father Time emerges, as he always does. undefeated?

[> [> [> Subject: James Jones Author: bulldog10jw [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:32:19 08/11/25 Mon James Jones has been the opposite. Started slowly at Yale, although certainly not badly, and has been great for the last decade.

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: James Jones Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:07:54 08/11/25 Mon My take on James is well developed. I think that Yale kept his recruiting on a tight -- that is, normal for Yale -- academic leash and he achieved well but not spectacularly, given that constraint. When Amaker arrived in Cambridge, he broke the Ivy mold and started bringing in guys that might have been the sole academic reach for a given recruiting class. Only he was bringing in more than one of those per class. That's how we ended up with recruits like Camden McRae. Once Amaker took the lead, I think James went back to the powers that be at Yale and said, "C'mon, man. . . ." and they gave him more wiggle room. His natural coaching ability has been paired with better athletes in the second half of his career and here we are: a great program that reloads. I'm thrilled that he has been given the tools that match his natural skill level, like an artist who has been given a new palette, a NASCAR driver with the restrictor plates taken off. Vroom, vroom.