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Post by longsuffering on Nov 5, 2019 15:05:29 GMT -5
"You can't go home again." -Thomas Wolfe How do you calculate the value of the intangible concept of being a member of a team for the next sixty years of your life? If anyone can calculate that it is our own valued teammate, the Phreek.
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Post by Ray on Nov 5, 2019 16:31:31 GMT -5
"You can't go home again." -Thomas Wolfe How do you calculate the value of the intangible concept of being a member of a team for the next sixty years of your life? They're joining another team, though...
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Post by Tom on Nov 5, 2019 16:33:35 GMT -5
If we're going to sit here in judgement, there might be some value in looking at cases individually.
Is the kid who leaves because he's miserably homesick and unhappy equally disloyal as the kid who leaves because he wants to see how he fares against better competition? Although, if you bore into individual cases, there might be pertinent pieces of information that we're missing
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Post by timholycross on Nov 5, 2019 16:42:25 GMT -5
I will say if you are at a school and not playing and you know that you can play somewhere else....GO! A win-win in my mind; the school gets to bring in someone else.
That's not the case here, it doesn't appear.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Nov 5, 2019 18:08:48 GMT -5
"You can't go home again." -Thomas Wolfe How do you calculate the value of the intangible concept of being a member of a team for the next sixty years of your life? If anyone can calculate that it is our own valued teammate, the Phreek. Too many variables. For example, I don't know how much her parents were paying for her to attend Harvard, and play basketball there; it might be a lot, or it might be little. I am more familiar with the financial circumstances of players on the men's side during the FS era. There was one player, a starter, whose father headed his own smallish Wall St. firm. He chose to not play his senior year. I am certain he was a full pay. Another player, who had a medical red shirt, played during a fifth year. Both his parents, IIRC, were physicians. I am far less judgmental about a player dropping from a team if he/she is a full pay, or nearly so. When TA took over, his first recruit, rather notoriously, was a player who transferred from Indiana (and not the school in PA) to a junior college in Iowa, and then to Harvard. His basketball pedigree was such to be recruited by Indiana, and TA thought he had struck gold. He played intermittently and reluctantly for one season, dropped hoops., and continued to matriculate. IMO, TA got snookered, and this player demonstrated little loyalty to the Harvard hoops program. A second variable is that I don't know what post-baccalaureate program she will be enrolled in at UTexas. For example, is she seeking a degree from the LBJ school (which IMO, would add much value to a prospective, long-term career path), or will she be studying for a Masters in Kinesiology? JG had not declared a major at HC; at UIllinois, his declared major is not offered at HC, and is a very Berkeley-ish major IMO, but perhaps the major reflects his interest and perceived career path. If JG had decided to be a computer science major at UIllinois, I would posit that transferring to Champaign Urbana was a very wise move on his part..
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Post by hcpride on Nov 5, 2019 18:42:08 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a women's player but there's no reason I would post this other than because of the relationship. www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/10/28/kb-texas-announcement/I'm not sure I've heard of it done this way; that is, player has been(and is) perfectly healthy during their career, apparently no other extenuating circumstances (mentioned); and sits out their senior year to play somewhere else. This does seem very unusual. I do recall a very good male Dartmouth basketball player (Alex Mitola) graduating early (total of three years) in order to move to another school and play for one year without sitting out for a year. FWIW he got a jump on his MBA. Can't be easy to graduate in 3 years at an Ivy League school while playing hoops - I'd imagine she would have gone that route if possible but something tells me that would require a couple of years (at least) of academic planning.
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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Nov 5, 2019 19:14:05 GMT -5
HC is trying to win the PL championship in football; the basketball team is playing it's first game with a new coach tonight.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Nov 5, 2019 19:51:13 GMT -5
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Post by hcpride on Nov 6, 2019 5:14:33 GMT -5
Playing just two years, sitting out the third year, and then graduating (after that third) is certainly an interesting Ivy path ...and one that preserves two years of graduate hoops eligibility on top of an Ivy diploma.
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