Cole Leaves Program for US National Team Development Program
Cole’s replacement should be announced later this week.
That’s right: today is four years from the day that Coach Cole moved to Ann Arbor to work with the USNTDP, and who could blame him? UAH Hockey was headed into uncharted waters with life as an independent coming up quickly on the horizon. None of us knew then how that would go, and goodness knows that it went some very crazy places. We can look on these last four years as a cycle borne of the complete instability of that uncertainty. But we know that these things are true:
- We’re in a league.
- We have a great head coach that’s taking this program forward.
- We have a solid recruiting class coming in that is poised to take on large roles from the outset.
Danton’s departure is one of the very first things that I covered here on UAHHockey.com. He and I stay in touch, and I assure you that he wishes the program well. I hope that we will soon be a program that can snag one of his kids’ attention for a commitment to play for the Chargers for four years. That may be more than four years down the line, but hopefully sooner than later.