Morris to Vermont?

[CUKnight]

USCHO confirms Mark Morris' name in the UVM coaches hunt.

Among the more intriguing names USCHO has confirmed are former Clarkson coach Mark Morris, who was fired last November after 15 years, and former Lake Superior coach Jeff Jackson.

I dont know if I could handle that! It would be a rood homecoming at cheel thats for sure!

[MikeR]

Certainly would be an interesting return...I'd expect he would get some cheers as well. Personally, I believe the controversy is a little too much for UVM to hire Coach Morris, and too many good alternatives.

more UVM/Morris discussion
UVM Coaching Selection (http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?threadid=26669)

here's the link to the uscho story
Who is the next UVM coach? (http://www.uscho.com/news/2003/06/02_006782.php)


InsideCollegeHockey Candidates (http://insidecollegehockey.com/7Archives/Features/uvm_0134.htm)

[JR]

More Clarkson links to the UVM job search are cropping up as Casey Jones and Ron Rolston have applied for the job.

From the USCHO article:

Some prominent assistants confirmed to have applied for the job are Ohio State's Casey Jones, a Cornell graduate (1990) who has been an assistant at Clarkson and Cornell; and Boston College's Ron Rolston, who was a finalist at Clarkson earlier this offseason and has been an assistant at Clarkson and Harvard.

"[Jones is] the guy that I hope they'll look at as being one of the better [candidates] among the assistant coaches out there," said Ohio State head coach John Markell. "Casey came here to a nontraditional hockey program, and he got it up to the point where it can compete with everyone else. Don't get me wrong — I don't want to lose him — but he's definitely a great candidate for this."

Markell said that Jones is "the type of candidate that you know if he's applying, that he really wants the position." Jones, for example, did not put his name in at Michigan Tech this summer or Miami in 1999, but was a finalist for the Bowling Green job last year. And Markell thinks that, with Jones' experience recruiting at Cornell and Clarkson, Vermont would be a good fit.

"Their hotbeds are in the Quebec-Ontario range, and he's well-experienced there," Markell said. "When he was at Clarkson, he helped build them into a national contender, and he's been with me eight years and done great things for this program. "And [Vermont] is the type of school that can go national [in recruiting], and he's done that, too. We've got three All-Americans here and three first-rounders."

Rolston has plenty of credentials too.

"It's a great job. It has a lot of potential, and I know that there will be numerous people, both assistants and head coaches, that are going to apply," Rolston said. "This is really going to bring out some big names in terms of candidates."

[tbch13]

article in the watertown paper today on Mark Morris in the running for UVM's head coaching position...
(here are some of the quotes)


"Right now I'm unemployed, and I'm used to a full day, and I'm passionate about hockey," Morris said. "I found it very enlightening to be amongst the coaches and players and the media at the National Hockey League level. I was thoroughly impressed with how classy it is to be up close and personal and to be traveling and meeting personalities that you see every day on TV. I was in awe, for a while. Then you realize that hockey is hockey and they have their problems much like coaches and players do at every level, trying to get 20 guys pulling in the same direction at the same time. I would say that watching the elite athlete is quite impressive." "Others who have been rumored to be candidates for the opening include Brown coach Roger Grillo, former St. Lawrence University and current Norwich coach Mike McShane and Middlebury coach Bill Beaney. Former Lake Superior State coach Jeff Jackson has also applied for the job." "Right now I'm unemployed, and I'm used to a full day, and I'm passionate about hockey," Morris said. "I found it very enlightening to be amongst the coaches and players and the media at the National Hockey League level. I was thoroughly impressed with how classy it is to be up close and personal and to be traveling and meeting personalities that you see every day on TV. I was in awe, for a while. Then you realize that hockey is hockey and they have their problems much like coaches and players do at every level, trying to get 20 guys pulling in the same direction at the same time. I would say that watching the elite athlete is quite impressive."

[tbch13]

opps...some of it doubled. Guess I dont know ALL there is to know about computers!:confused: Here is the other part that it skipped out...to read it all, just go to Watertown's website.


"All of the candidates have solid credentials for the job. Jackson, Beaney and McShane have coached NCAA championship teams at differing levels, and Grillo has led Brown to the ECAC semifinals."

[Lil Elwood]

UVM announced it's finalists for the coaching position, and Morris isn't one of the names mentioned. There are five names on the list, with Brown coach Roger Grillo and Union coach Kevin Sneddon being two of them. There's an article on USCHO.com with more details.