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Guest Commentary: Mercyhurst Deserved Better
Lakers' Demise a Loss For Everyone
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Is this the support you were trying to avoid while lacking transparency and acting like snakes behind closed doors? You must’ve known it would be coming. Where is your leadership IQ? Now deal with this mess you’ve made. @HurstAthletics @MercyhurstU
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🚨College Hockey Fans!
Please consider signing this petition to help out the @HurstMHockey program that was recently cut by the school to help preserve it.
No commitments are needed, just your support!
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Help save our @HurstMHockey program by signing the petition!
@JLazzy23 @MikeGrinnell_ @BizNasty2point0 @ryanwhitney6 @spittinchiclets @GameNotesBud @ErieNewsNow @MikeMcMahonCHN
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If the hockey program needed help to continue, why was this ask not made last fall? Why wasn’t the university honest with alumni so help to have started long ago? Any donations received for hockey must be returned.
Mike McMahon@MikeMcMahonCHN
This was posted 24 hours before they announced they cut the program. I say “announced” because the decision was made before yesterday, and they still asked for hockey donors to give money. Embarrassing by the Mercyhurst administration. Feel for the players and coaches.
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I'm beyond mortified what Mercyhurst did to those kids in the Men's D1 hockey program. Lets' hope this is not a trend starting at smaller schools. We need more men's and women's college hockey programs...#growthegame
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As an alum of the program, I am so disappointed in the University. Decades of hard work undone with one short-sighted decision.
As a coach who is all too familiar with having a program cut, my heart breaks for the players and staff.
Hurst Hockey Family✊🏼☘️
Mercyhurst University@MercyhurstU
Mercyhurst University today announced strategic academic program adjustments and the discontinuation of its Division I Men’s Ice Hockey program as part of broader institutional planning. Read more: mercyhurst.edu/news/mercyhurs…
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Bingo. Excellent thread.
Danielle Riley@drileyyy
Both of my brothers, both successful DI hockey coaches, are products of @HurstMHockey I am also an alum of @MercyhurstU and former GA coach in the @HurstAthletics department …I have some thoughts on recent news regarding the men’s hockey program please read and share ⬇️⬇️
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Both of my brothers, both successful DI hockey coaches, are products of @HurstMHockey I am also an alum of @MercyhurstU and former GA coach in the @HurstAthletics department …I have some thoughts on recent news regarding the men’s hockey program please read and share ⬇️⬇️
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Mercyhurst named a head coach in waiting, asked people to donate to men’s hockey for Giving Day, then cut the program two days later. A program that helped build the school’s identity deserved better. So did the players, coaches, alumni, and supporters.
Mercyhurst University@MercyhurstU
Mercyhurst University today announced strategic academic program adjustments and the discontinuation of its Division I Men’s Ice Hockey program as part of broader institutional planning. Read more: mercyhurst.edu/news/mercyhurs…
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I know the past few years have been challenging for @HurstMHockey, but the program carries a deep tradition and was, for a long time, the only Division I program at @MercyhurstU.
Countless dedicated people have invested years into building and supporting this team, which makes the abrupt way it’s being cut especially difficult to accept.
My heart goes out to the players who wore that jersey with pride and represented a small school with so much passion.
This isn’t how it should end.
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Had it at the D1 level as a D2 school. Reclassified to D1 to chase more money and then you shut down only men’s hockey? Who is in charge of these places?
Awful.
Mercyhurst University@MercyhurstU
Mercyhurst University today announced strategic academic program adjustments and the discontinuation of its Division I Men’s Ice Hockey program as part of broader institutional planning. Read more: mercyhurst.edu/news/mercyhurs…
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This was posted 24 hours before they announced they cut the program. I say “announced” because the decision was made before yesterday, and they still asked for hockey donors to give money.
Embarrassing by the Mercyhurst administration.
Feel for the players and coaches.
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Only one D1 program was cut, and that was the Hockey team. Cowardice stuff.
Gutted for all the Mercyhurst players, coaching staff and alumni, who in mere seconds, just lost everything. Hope they all land on their feet somewhere else. 🙏🏻😢
BucciOT.Com@Buccigross
Mercyhurst University today announced a series of academic program adjustments and the discontinuation of its Division I Men’s Ice Hockey program.
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Embarrassing. Rick was there for 38 years and built that program from the ground up through every level.
CLANKO MEDIA@ClankoMedia
Sources tell us HC Rick Gotkin found out only this morning, just FIVE MINUTES before the players did. 🤯
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@MercyhurstU @HurstMHockey As an alumni, this is a very sad day. @HurstMHockey gave me an opportunity to continue my education while also playing the game I love. It gave me lifelong friends that I still keep in touch with to this day. Very disappointing news to read today after recently visiting 😞
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Mercyhurst University today announced strategic academic program adjustments and the discontinuation of its Division I Men’s Ice Hockey program as part of broader institutional planning.
Read more: mercyhurst.edu/news/mercyhurs…
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The last time the @BlueJays played in a #WorldSeries Game 6, Joe Carter hit a LEGENDARY walk-off home run to win it all!
Will we see similar heroics tonight in Toronto?
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