Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

So in 1837, he has to get a scholarship if he wants to go to college, and he does by hard work with a state naturalist who recommends him.

He goes to Rensselaer College, which is now Rensselaer Polytechnic and in one year manages to graduate with a bachelor's degree in engineering.

He's that good at math.

He goes to work for the New York State Geological Survey, and he also teaches at various colleges, including a women's college in Albany, New York.

And it's not necessarily a complete requirement.

I mean, I recruited guys at RPI from huge...

I shouldn't say huge, but very competitive programs in... other pockets of this country that didn't really pitch a whole lot on their high school team.

But, you know, they had three guys that were going and playing in the SEC and ACC, and he was the fifth arm and didn't really see a whole hell of a lot of time and, you know, saw him pitch and ended up having a really good career at RPI.

So those outliers are out there, but the overwhelming majority of them, you're going to have to be able to, in those situations, you've got to be good enough to make the team.

In most situations, you've got to be good enough to be a guy.

Division II, Division I, if you're at Division I, you're going to practice and you're going straight into individual work, eight hours, all that stuff.

So you're going all the way up to Thanksgiving where you're probably talking having six, eight weeks where you're quote-unquote on your own.

We got them right here.

RPI hockey head coach Eric Lang will be joining us around 1230, 1245.

Talk all things red, all things RPI.

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I feel like that, but I'm burning it on the youth hockey circuit.

It's the youth hockey, the mites, this time of year with the soccer still going.

So we've got Monday night mites, Tuesday night mites, Wednesday night soccer, Wednesday night beer league tonight, tomorrow's an off day, Friday learn to skate, an RPI union, Saturday morning, 7 a.m. mite game, 10.30 final soccer tournament.