DelCastillo Out at Alaska

Best wishes to UAF in rebuilding a strong and proud program.
Apr 10 2008, 9:35 am by Siouxfan, Duluth

They'd be stupid to remove Doc after one year.
Apr 10 2008, 10:33 am by St. Cloud, MN

I'm suprised UAF didn't give him more of a chance. So much of the college game comes down to recruiting. Doc didn't get handed a winning team. Any new coach has the right to build his own team, which is exactly what he was doing. Anybody that knows Doc's style knows that nobody is guaranteed playing time. He plays the players that work for HIM. He had a lot of recruits coming in next season and that team was going to look very different. Maybe that is what is scaring people. If they fire Doc after one season, they are going to have a tough time filling that spot. What quality coach is going to move to Fairbanks only to put themselves in that type of hot seat.
Apr 10 2008, 11:35 am by Hutchinson, MN

Doc has chase several of quality people and player out of this town due to his politics. He will play a yes man over a hard worker. The upper classmen often get benched for underclassmen just because they are new "toys" for Doc.
Apr 10 2008, 1:57 pm by Kevin, Omaha

People trues colors come out eventually..This smells like hockey and non-issues.
Apr 10 2008, 2:36 pm by elk river,mn

Doc Del Catillo has hurt a number of players - both their hockey and academic careers - with unethical, selfish actions. His actions have hurt families. Now, Doc and his family get to experience what it feels like.
Apr 10 2008, 3:32 pm by Mark, Dayton, NY

All I know when he left his almamater it was under controversy {quietly fired} and now he is resgning {fired} with more controversy. Too many things stck up against this "family guy" Some reporter should really check into his past.
Apr 10 2008, 3:53 pm by st.paul,mn

I feel bad for the current players and those he has made scholarship offers to for next season. Clearly there will be several who won't be there because he has too many players - violates the NCAA rules. Who gets cut? Who's offer gets pulled? These are college kids lives he is playing with here!
Apr 10 2008, 4:03 pm by

Despite all of Doc's past problems at St. Cloud State and at Fairbanks, he has always been a stand up guy in all of my professional dealings with him.
Apr 10 2008, 4:47 pm by Brent, Ithaca NY

Its a shame that the UAF Administration can not back a coach they hired. There will always be re-structuring when new managment is put in place, both in the business world and sports world. If the players say "it us or him" the Administration needs to put its faith in the man they selected just a few months ago and tell these young know-it-all players that this D1 program isn't going to listen to their whining. It is truly sad to see Doc go before we had a chance to see him build a team.
Apr 10 2008, 5:42 pm by Jennie, Fairbanks Alaska

Harassment rumor all over campus.
Apr 10 2008, 6:26 pm by North Pole, AK

You have to give the guy more than one year. At the DI level a coach needs 4-5 years to prove what type of talent and what type character people he can recruit. It is different if an assistant takes over. The players that threaten to leave after one year,are players you have to question what they bring to the table. If anyone knows Doc, they know he is a competitor and knows that he tries to win only with the best interest of his players in mind. Phone or talk to anyone in the hockey circles and they will tell you that he recruited his tale off to build a program at UAF. I don't even know the whole story, but at the Di level, if players are told to do something within reason, then you shut up and do it. You don't have to agree with it, or for that matter, like it-you just do it. Especially if it deals with playing time. If guys are producing and playing the way the coach teaches them to do, they will play. Give Doc an opportunity to implement his plan to be a contender.
Apr 10 2008, 10:04 pm by Herman Town, Duluth

Damn. I had a whole series of Yoda-posts for my blog next season that were honestly going to write themselves.
Apr 10 2008, 10:41 pm by Donald, Anchorage

What a bunch of crap!! When is collegiate althetics going to figure out that sensitive liberal politics has no place in universities and especially in althletics. The NCAA sports world is going to continue to down sprial untill the same poltics are taken out of the sports as. If I had to guess, and I'm a guessin type of guy, Doc (don't know if he's a Democrat or Republican, nor do I care) probally wouldn't bend over and take it up the you know what from the so called Administration, and if that is true I applaud him 100% for standing up for what is RIGHT, not poltically correct!!! Shame on the BLACK HOLE on the hill UAF). Good luck too you Doc, I hope you win multiple championships!!! A lot of us know you would have done one hell of a job here in Fairbanks!! In closing I'd like to remind the university of the ole saying, "What goes around comes around". Like I said I don't know the story, but I usually know when something stinks, and I smell something comming from the UAF hill!
Apr 10 2008, 11:53 pm by Ryan B. Fairbanks, Alaska

Cheers to Blogger Herman Town, Duluth! Exactly Right!
Apr 10 2008, 11:53 pm by Jennie, Fairbanks Alaska

Doc is simply a jackbutt of a coach. He's been canned or asked to leave everywhere he's been. Da, he never moves up a level, just on to another job. Intimidation doesn't work anymore!
Apr 11 2008, 9:50 am by Hockey Master, Roch, MN

Hockey Master from Rochester you nailed it!! This is a man who only is looking out for himself and not the wellfair of his players or program. He has a good hockey mind but its sad it ends there, he is only good with people who have his interests in mind. North Pole, AK I would love to hear the harassment rumors on campus.
Apr 11 2008, 11:34 am by Kevin, Omaha

Anyone who treats his players like this man has in the past gets what he deserves.Still don't understand how he got this far.Treat your players with dignity---something he hasn't been able to figure out even with people trying to help him.What goes around comes around
Apr 11 2008, 12:04 pm by Sam---- Roch,Mn

Thank You.. I found any dealing with this man difficult no matter if its personal or business.
Apr 11 2008, 12:27 pm by UNO alumni, Omaha

Six kids? How can the guy afford that?
Apr 11 2008, 2:06 pm by Iowa, Iowa City

For those of you hae have never played college hockey--a coaches goal is not to mess with kids' minds, it is to win hockey games and get kids to graduate. In this day and age everyone make an excuse for a player if he is not a star. Doc should get a four year shot, lets his recruits do the talking if not quite whinning and just enjot the bottom of the CCHA
Apr 11 2008, 2:17 pm by Brandon, St. Paul

I agree he should get more than a year unless ther are circumstances that go on behind the closed door that merit his release.
Apr 11 2008, 2:37 pm by UNO alumni, Omaha

I love how Doc gets to tell the community of Fairbanks and the rest of the Nation that "it is a 100% family decision". Well, I hope nobody beleives this...the fact of the matter is that Doc is a horrible coach, as well as a hipocryte. He preaches religion and respect, but belittled his players far beyond a reason!! Any coach can be deemed a hard worker with his players, but a good coach is also well respected!! Look at his track record so far in college hockey...resigned at St. Cloud, left UNO under harrasment speculations, and now leaving UAF under the same speculations!!! hmmm...I hope this man looks deep in the mirror and finds his ways!
Apr 12 2008, 5:39 pm by Vancouver, BC

Another piece of **** hockey coach who is nothing but a small man..Its real easy to be that type of coach and all of those types get what they deserve..A true big time Coach may not be liked but he has to be respected..This guy was neither..Huge rumors in Alaska about about what this guy did..this deal has everything to do about character and the truth will be known..
Apr 15 2008, 3:44 am by tnt ,Anchorage

People..get real....Doc had to do something to either get fired or have to resign..he chose the latter....Hw was gonna be here for more than a season..this was a project that he was going to rebuild and structure his way...NOW no more...
Apr 16 2008, 1:25 am by hockey puck-fairbanks

THE GUY IS A JOKE THE FACT HE THINKS HE IS A HOCKEY COACH IS EVEN MORE FUNNY. HE SAID HE LEFT FOR FAMILY REASON YEAH OK I BELIEVE THAT ONE . HE HAW WANTED TO BE A HEAD COACH FOREVER HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT HIS FAMILY OR ANYONE THE ONLY PERSON THAT MATTERS IS DOC OR SHOULD I SAY MICHEAL WHICH IS HIS REAL NAME WHICH HE MIGHT CONSIDER USING SINCE HE IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO A DOCTOR MORE LIKE A MORON
May 7 2008, 11:14 am by FRED MIDWEST

I am a few thousand miles removed from Fbks., but I am an allum, and have watched hundreds of college hockey games. Last season I saw the Nooks play in Bowling Green Ohio. It was a close game and the student crowd was very active around the visitior bench - not vulgar, not throwing water etc. on the bench, but very active. Doc. lost it and began reacting to, yelling at, and calling for security to deal with the students near the bench. I knew he was in trouble. He lost complete focuss on the game, several times having his back to the ice while play occurring so he could make gestures and comments to the student crowd. I knew then something was wrong. Good luck Dallas...see you in the Midwest.
Jul 9 2008, 8:14 am by Sully, Toledo