BobMarleyNYR
Rangers future on D
This is all well and good... but can you inform us on the quality of these beverages you speak of?
rt said:I think you got me wrong. If the kid is a pompus ***, then rate him lower. You don't need to clown on him all day in the hall, though.
His wake up call will come draft day, when instead of sneaking into the first round, he plummets to the late third.
Either he'll gain maturity, or he won't. Jokes at his expense, aren't any help.
WrightOn said:Is the interview process supposed to be a healing and hand-holding life hug?
WrightOn said:Maybe so....but if you are an idiot, then you are fair game in any hallway.
WrightOn said:Sucks for him, but sounds like he begged for it.
rt said:I'd agree totally, but we're talking about a kid.
PuckFan01 said:I guess it would be tough to know what warranted Fischer supposedly being called an idiot. He didn't have the greatest coaching at Apple Valley so he would only be telling the truth about that. His past teammates seem to really like him. At one game, a mother of one of his teammates raved in the stands about how good a kid he is and the father of another kid was very positive about him as well. It would seem to me they would know better than most since they have had kids playing on teams with him for years.
Maybe his confidence in himself came across badly in interviews but I wasn't there to see what happened so I can't say. I guess I would rather draft a kid with confidence that he can do good things than to draft a kid with no spine and is a shrinking violet.
Burke's Evil Spirit said:I wouldn't put a lot of stock into the original post.
In any other business, if you were interviewing for a profession and had a bizarre candidate, you wouldn't go crowing about it to all your colleagues. It would be the height of unprofessionalism. I doubt scouts would tell any old gomer who interviewed poorly.
WrightOn said:So what? He's still got a right to be an idiot, and people still have a right to point it out to eachother in a hallway.
Burke's Evil Spirit said:In any other business, if you were interviewing for a profession and had a bizarre candidate, you wouldn't go crowing about it to all your colleagues. It would be the height of unprofessionalism.
Spongebob said:Well you haven't worked in the business world then. People do that kind of stuff all the time. It may be unprofessional.......but it happens everyday.
WrightOn said:Am I really still discussing this with you?
Someone should be calling me an idiot in a hallway right now.
Matt MacInnis said:Furthermore, it only takes one team who didn't share the view to buck the trend. It's easy to say: "well, two scouts told me a few guys thought the guy was a joke so that means he's going to fall several rounds" and this may be true for the most part, but it only takes one team having him high on their list to pick him.
We see this all the time. I'm sure that most teams didn't ahve Setoguchi as a top 15 pick last year. The Sharks saw something they liked a lot and acted on it. Also, one scout's opinion doesn't mean a team will act upon that. Last year I sat beside a Western Conference scout who was very clearly extremely high on a certain player from the start to the finish of the season. Yet, come draft day, his team actually traded away the pick that was ultimately used to select that player.
X-SHARKIE said:Some times there are bad coaches, hell I had a terrible hs coach who a year after going to state, scrapped our top line and put his freshman son on the left wing over last years second leading scorer.
turnbuckle said:Fischer was asked by this scout if he was prepared to be the fifth or sixth defenceman on his college team next season; he replied that the coaches would have to be brain dead given his talent. That was just one of his comments.
A scout told me that he really liked Terry Ryan going in to the 1996 draft, but when he got into the interview room the first thing he did was turn his back to the scouts as he pigged out on the food on the hospitality table.
turnbuckle said:Heard lots of interesting stuff, including that Fischer is the biggest "idiot" of the draft. Mr. Fischer spent the majority of his combine interviews espousing his greatness and putting down his coaching - and I mean "really" putting down his coaching. This was not an isolated thing - Fischer managed to turn off pretty much every team he interviewed, and the scouts had a running joke going after awhile. One scout told me that he ran into a colleague partway through the interviews, and he said "Did you interview the idiot yet?" He asked who it was, and the fellow scout replied 'Oh, you'll know when you talk to him."
The next time he met scouts in the hallway, others began talking about whether others had interviewed "the idiot" - he was perhaps
the most obnoxious interview they had ever had. It became a running joke.
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TinCanCommunications said:I suppose HFboards doesn't care about libel?
This is pretty outlandish.
PecaFan said:I don't see those two events as comparable at all. Ryan is showing a complete lack of focus, more interested in the food than what he's there for.
boredmale said:turnbuckle from all the info i got from your posts, i am guessing you talked to montreal scouts
second guess would be Minnesota.
Dr.Sens(e) said:Well, the math goes both ways. 5 teams may have had Robbie Schremp in their top 15, but he still dropped to 25. Similaryl, most players are never picked at their "highest ranking". The odds of that are quite remote outside of the top few picks. For every player picked at 20, he was probably rated better than #20 on several teams list.
An interesting read. You can never take this stuff too literally, but at the same time, it's not something I'll forget either.