Hockey Coach Suspended Pending Investigation
Greg Cronin, the head Men's Ice Hockey coach at Northeastern, as well as one of his assistant coaches have been suspended by the school after impermissible phone calls and text messages were discovered. From what has been publicly released so far, it appears that the school is working with their all-sports conference, the Colonial Athletic Association, and not the Hockey East. Coming from a hockey school myself, I know that sport specific conferences don't have the same staffing as a full conference would have.
In any case, the school appears to be taking their finding very seriously as they have suspended two coaches right after finding out about the potential violations. That does not sound good for the school or the coach, there very well could have been prior instances of impermissible phone calls at Northeastern, or what they uncovered was a large number of impermissible calls/texts over a short period of time. The investigation could very well go on for weeks, or even months, it will be interesting to see if Coach Cronin is back on the bench at all this season with conference tournaments in just two weeks. The serious actions by the school right away signal that the school is taking the matter very seriously.
