{"id":76135,"date":"2017-03-10T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=76135"},"modified":"2020-06-22T04:31:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:31:33","slug":"kyle-out-after-15-years-as-northern-michigan-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2017\/03\/10\/kyle-out-after-15-years-as-northern-michigan-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle out after 15 years as Northern Michigan head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"ps_captionIns\" aria-describedby=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000SV2Lv2a8gl4\/s\/500\/342\/wjec-nmu-w-kyle.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walt Kyle was head coach at Northern Michigan since Rick Comley left in 2002 (photo: Melissa Wade).<\/figcaption><\/figure>Northern Michigan fired Walt Kyle on Friday after 15 seasons as head coach.The school announced that Kyle&#8217;s contract wouldn&#8217;t be renewed and that it would begin a search for the third head coach in program history.Kyle was 265-263-68 in 15 seasons, after taking over for Rick Comley.The Wildcats were 13-22-4 this season and finished eighth in the 10-team WCHA.&#8221;Walt has played a major role in the most significant moments in Northern Michigan hockey history,&#8221; Northern Michigan athletic director Forrest Karr said in a statement. &#8220;I enjoyed working with him, and I am thankful that he always supported every program in the department. I appreciate his work and dedication to the hockey program and wish him well in all future endeavors.&#8221;Kyle played two seasons at Northern Michigan after transferring from Boston College. He captained the 1980 and 1981 Wildcats teams that advanced to the Frozen Four.He was then a graduate assistant under Comley and, starting in 1982, an assistant coach.In 2015, Kyle was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2015\/01\/21\/northern-michigan-puts-kyle-on-administrative-leave-assistants-to-take-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">placed on administrative leave by the school for undisclosed reasons<\/a>. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2015\/01\/26\/northern-michigan-reinstates-coach-kyle-administrator-after-administrative-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reinstated a week later<\/a>.Kyle renegotiated his contract with the school later in 2015, adding an end date of the conclusion of the 2016-17 season instead of a rolling end date, <i>The Mining Journal<\/i> of Marquette reported.<span class=\"fix\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school announced that Kyle&#8217;s contract wouldn&#8217;t be renewed and that it would begin a search for the third head coach in program history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":107016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[807],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kyle out after 15 years as Northern Michigan head coach - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The school announced that Kyle&#039;s contract wouldn&#039;t be renewed and that it would begin a search for the third head coach in program history.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76135\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kyle out after 15 years as Northern Michigan head coach - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The school announced that Kyle&#039;s contract wouldn&#039;t be renewed and that it would begin a search for the third head coach in program history.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76135\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-03-10T17:30:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-06-22T09:31:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/;https:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000SV2Lv2a8gl4\/s\/500\/342\/wjec-nmu-w-kyle.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Todd D. 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