(12-24-2016 09:08 AM)CoastGuardHawk06 Wrote: The key is that they have a quality coach. Sustained success. They'll be a contender in the conference for sure.
I think Huskies fans will admit, we pick Coen apart like crazy. He frustrates us to no end. But at the end of the day, I think we all understand that we are fortunate to have a guy like him. If we were to get rid of him it would be difficult to bring in someone better. Coen is a fine coach who is a good recruiter, but frustrates us with his development of players, many times kids never know what their role is over the years.
Our school president does not care about sports. He has an athletic director who does not care about winning. From a high level outsider perspective, this isn't really a bad thing. The president has improved the academic standing of Northeastern since he has come here, and our AD cares more about fairness, equality, and doing the right thing more than anything else. All good things.
However, all these things come at the cost of winning at times, and it frustrates a lot of the diehards. In my opinion, as a midmajor school, can't complain too much, but it's hard sometimes. We are fairly successful lately, winning the conference tournament in men's hockey and men's basketball once each in the last couple seasons. Also winning men's and women's soccer in the last few seasons as well.
Long story short, I think all schools at our level have lots of frustrations, NU is no exception, but I know I can appreciate the success we've had lately, even if it hasn't translated to national awareness.