Leaving alone the fact that it was a 1-goal game with 6:30 to go in the 4th quarter, the underlying stats support that it was a competitive game:
Shots: 44-42 (JHU)
SOG: 23-20 (Duke)
Saves: 11-9 (Duke)
Turnovers 9-8 (JHU)
Clears: 14-16, 13-15
GBS: 26-24 (Duke)
Faceoffs: 18-7 (Duke)
EMO: 3-8, 0-2 (JHU)
The Jays actually won non-faceoff groundballs by a decent margin. Problem was they couldn't win any faceoffs. Every part of the box score was neck and neck except faceoffs. Hopkins took more shots and turned it over fewer times. Duke was better, which is why they won, but insisting it wasn't competitive (seemingly in order to better prove a historical argument that doesn't need any more support) does not match reality. It doesn't fit the pattern of these other blowouts.
My point was that, outside of the other stuff going on, UVA let Dom go after four very bad years that were empirically worse than our most recent seasons under Petro—they weren't just bad by UVA standards, they were bad period. They couldn't win an ACC game. If Petro has a season like Dom did in 2016, then you can probably start looking up Nadelen's number in the phone book. But them saying sayonara to Dom after that is very different from if Petro is pink-slipped right after making a quarterfinal.steel_hop wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:40 am
Regardless of what happens this year, and it is June 1st (or 30th whenever his contract ends) and he doesn't have a new contract, his seat won't be hot, he won't have a seat because he won't be employed any longer.
Someone asked what the standard should be for him to get a new contract. That is what my thinking is. I have no control over what happens beyond what I say here.