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Post by Tom on Feb 29, 2024 8:46:29 GMT -5
Last night made things very simple - in a bad way
#8 HC hosts #9 Army if HC beats BU AND Loyola beats Army
Anything else HC heads to West Point. Navy holds a tiebreaker against Army and cannot drop to the #8 spot
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Feb 29, 2024 9:26:18 GMT -5
Was the last HC tournament game at Army in March 2016? That might have been their best game of the year; ironically, the regular season that year ended with a loss at BU (where they looked dead in the water at that point). Does Eric Green have 1 month of eligibility?
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 29, 2024 10:44:46 GMT -5
Anyone else remember the many posts that said Eric Green was a waste of a scholarship and that whoever thought he had talent knew little or nothing about college hoops?  We might want to keep that spectacular miss in mind when speaking about the futures of current players. |
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Post by Ray on Feb 29, 2024 10:45:59 GMT -5
Was the last HC tournament game at Army in March 2016? That might have been their best game of the year; ironically, the regular season that year ended with a loss at BU (where they looked dead in the water at that point). Does Eric Green have 1 month of eligibility? Or maybe Coach Paulsen can check the bottom drawer of his desk and see if Carmody left his 1-3-1 notes there? |
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 29, 2024 10:54:07 GMT -5
Anyone else remember the many posts that said Eric Green was a waste of a scholarship and that whoever thought he had talent knew little or nothing about college hoops? We might want to keep that spectacular miss in mind when speaking about the futures of current players. If Eric hadn't been adamant about finishing his degree in four years and walking with his classmates he wouldn't have come back from injury to play in a few last meaningless games for a losing team at the cost of a year of eligibility. If grad transfers were more of a thing back then he might have preserved his eligibility and sat out. Timing was serendipity. |
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 29, 2024 11:10:09 GMT -5
In other words, if the bonds he formed at HC were not so important to him he might have left. OK. As fiction goes this post is free from possible criticism since it never hapened and never will for Eric. Shame on HC for offering him a great education and for creating a place to which he felt (and, from what I hear, still feels) such a strong bond. |
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Post by timholycross on Feb 29, 2024 11:11:27 GMT -5
Anyone else remember the many posts that said Eric Green was a waste of a scholarship and that whoever thought he had talent knew little or nothing about college hoops? We might want to keep that spectacular miss in mind when speaking about the futures of current players. If Eric hadn't been adamant about finishing his degree in four years and walking with his classmates he wouldn't have come back from injury to play in a few last meaningless games for a losing team at the cost of a year of eligibility. If grad transfers were more of a thing back then he might have preserved his eligibility and sat out. Timing was serendipity. Eric lost a year as well- wasn't there something in his past that caused his year of prep school to count against his eligibility? Don't remember anyone criticizing the young man for anything other than that. It was easy to see the potential. In MB's last game, HC was up 3 at Bucknell; Eric fouled a guy shooting w/under 20 seconds to go. They hit the shot and tied it up, Bucknell won in OT. Had he not done that, no OT....and OT is where Eric blew his knee out. |
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Feb 29, 2024 12:30:16 GMT -5
If Eric hadn't been adamant about finishing his degree in four years and walking with his classmates he wouldn't have come back from injury to play in a few last meaningless games for a losing team at the cost of a year of eligibility. If grad transfers were more of a thing back then he might have preserved his eligibility and sat out. Timing was serendipity.
Don't remember anyone criticizing the young man for anything other than that. It was easy to see the potential. In MB's last game, HC was up 3 at Bucknell; Eric fouled a guy shooting w/under 20 seconds to go. They hit the shot and tied it up, Bucknell won in OT. Had he not done that, no OT....and OT is where Eric blew his knee out. Yes - he had the nerve to spend an extra year in high school/prep school to improve his academics (and no reminder needed that it was a coaches' approved rule). Given all of today's shenanigans with transfers, waivers and such, he got screwed - only played 2 1/2 years. He was on the receiving end of one of the better alley oop dunks ever seen at the Hart: |
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 29, 2024 12:40:23 GMT -5
How nice to hear Dick Lutsk's voice again. Bring him back!
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Post by hcnj on Feb 29, 2024 12:44:54 GMT -5
Eric lost a year as well- wasn't there something in his past that caused his year of prep school to count against his eligibility?
Don't remember anyone criticizing the young man for anything other than that. It was easy to see the potential. In MB's last game, HC was up 3 at Bucknell; Eric fouled a guy shooting w/under 20 seconds to go. They hit the shot and tied it up, Bucknell won in OT. Had he not done that, no OT....and OT is where Eric blew his knee out. Yes - he had the nerve to spend an extra year in high school/prep school to improve his academics (and no reminder needed that it was a coaches' approved rule). Given all of today's shenanigans with transfers, waivers and such, he got screwed - only played 2 1/2 years. He was on the receiving end of one of the better alley oop dunks ever seen at the Hart: all of this is correct but the real negativity was grom the group of posters who wanted to dump MB from the start. He was criticized for bring so incompetent he didn't know Eric had only three yrs of eligibility. MB told me when Eric was a frosh he was aware of the possibility, we would appeal but regardless he considered him a talent worth the potential loss of a yr. The talent on that team carried us through that remarkable run. We lost 20 games as I recall. |
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Post by timholycross on Feb 29, 2024 13:35:02 GMT -5
Didn't recall that 10 years ago the pants were that long. Hate the look.
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 29, 2024 13:44:30 GMT -5
In other words, if the bonds he formed at HC were not so important to him he might have left. OK. As fiction goes this post is free from possible criticism since it never hapened and never will for Eric. Shame on HC for offering him a great education and for creating a place to which he felt (and, from what I hear, still feels) such a strong bond. HC doesn't offer grad school. Our fine Alma Mater can't be framed as a victim in this scenario. The non-fiction part is that I remember Eric being interviewed in some in-house or external media format discussing his possibilities and clearly choosing to play the end of the season with his teammates and graduate with his class. That may even have been an interview after the great PLT run. His option was to extend his recovery to the end of the season which would have preserved a medical red shirt year -whether he was interested in using it or not, or coming back aggressively from injury and play the season out with his teammates. No one knew he would lead a miracle run. I remember him saying he wanted to graduate with his class (he was already five years out of high school) but that may not be relevant. Perhaps my use of "adamant" was just my memory of how it was presented and could be overstated. In general, six years beyond H.S. to earn a B.A. is not appealing in most situations. Sluka is an example. He is firm in his HC loyalty and desire to graduate with his class but then will enter graduate school. Other schools could offer him a Masters program, we can't. That's reality but not a death sentence for HC sports. |
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