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Post by efg72 on Mar 2, 2024 21:59:41 GMT -5
Don't blame this loss or a few others on the players, but ask why they don't execute Answer could be the players, the coaches, we over value our roster, or we are outcoached and the opponent dictates the outcome I am not suggesting any cause but there is a reason I had a snappy answer regarding your question if we over value our roster: Graduate Students on the BU roster. However upon checking, BU doesn't have any currently. Four years free on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston at one of the highly regarded Boston area research universities is probably over valued by recruits compared to HC, however. So I think HC values it's roster realistically and the roster is the best that could be assembled after hard work by staff. Retention, which is also influenced by coaching quality and recruiting, has been excellent. Over valued roster meaning we think it is more talented than it might be
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 2, 2024 22:08:33 GMT -5
I had a snappy answer regarding your question if we over value our roster: Graduate Students on the BU roster. However upon checking, BU doesn't have any currently. Four years free on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston at one of the highly regarded Boston area research universities is probably over valued by recruits compared to HC, however. So I think HC values it's roster realistically and the roster is the best that could be assembled after hard work by staff. Retention, which is also influenced by coaching quality and recruiting, has been excellent. Over valued roster meaning we think it is more talented than it might be Right. We value our roster realistically. We would enroll more talented players if they would come and could get accepted. BU is highly valued by high school students including athletes and offers more programs of study than HC. I estimate that is a small advantage BU has that we overcome with good coaching and retention thus pulling even with BU by splitting the season series.
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Post by efg72 on Mar 2, 2024 23:12:19 GMT -5
As fans we might think we have more talent on the roster than exists- aka overvaluing a roster. Nothing to do with a specific academic institution
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Post by timholycross on Mar 3, 2024 8:37:11 GMT -5
It is concerning that the 3 freshmen are guards (if any of them are expected to play in the frontcourt, that's a concern as well) and none of them have progressed enough to spell Flanagan and McCormack a few minutes a game. Donnelly is out for whatever reason (illness/injury or performance). Munt has not really stepped up.
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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Mar 3, 2024 8:48:16 GMT -5
Starting lineup next year: Flanagan, Foreman, Berger, Munt and ?. I think Flanagan is very good and needs to shoot more. Munt never gets the ball in the very limited minutes that she plays. Next year will be challenging so the ladies need to finish strong this year.
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Post by lou on Mar 3, 2024 9:26:14 GMT -5
Starting lineup next year: Flanagan, Foreman, Berger, Munt and ?. I think Flanagan is very good and needs to shoot more. Munt never gets the ball in the very limited minutes that she plays. Next year will be challenging so the ladies need to finish strong this year. Felt that Flanagan could have driven to the hoop all day yesterday. The way the fouls were being called, she would have camped on the line and we could have maintained the 5-10 point lead. Love Cara's intensity, but when she's missing her shots become turnovers for us
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Post by timholycross on Mar 3, 2024 10:10:27 GMT -5
Starting lineup next year: Flanagan, Foreman, Berger, Munt and ?. I think Flanagan is very good and needs to shoot more. Munt never gets the ball in the very limited minutes that she plays. Next year will be challenging so the ladies need to finish strong this year. Felt that Flanagan could have driven to the hoop all day yesterday. The way the fouls were being called, she would have camped on the line and we could have maintained the 5-10 point lead. Love Cara's intensity, but when she's missing her shots become turnovers for us HC got very passive offensively, ran a lot of time off the shot clock, perhaps because of foul trouble. No baskets underneath save for one or two by Foreman- none by Allen nor BPC. The seeds were sown for this collapse quite a bit earlier than when it actually happened. No surprise when you're up 20 against someone you're not 20 better than, the other team has a run or two in it to cut the deficit. But the first run, that effectively made a 20 point game a reachable 10 point game, was in a lot of ways self-inflicted. BPC's third foul was very silly and, as it turns out, ended her night scoring-wise. Five of the 14 turnovers in the game came in that quarter.
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Post by newfieguy74 on Mar 3, 2024 10:21:02 GMT -5
Starting lineup next year: Flanagan, Foreman, Berger, Munt and ?. I think Flanagan is very good and needs to shoot more. Munt never gets the ball in the very limited minutes that she plays. Next year will be challenging so the ladies need to finish strong this year. Next year's freshmen need to provide one starter and another contributor.
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Post by timholycross on Mar 3, 2024 10:25:25 GMT -5
Starting lineup next year: Flanagan, Foreman, Berger, Munt and ?. I think Flanagan is very good and needs to shoot more. Munt never gets the ball in the very limited minutes that she plays. Next year will be challenging so the ladies need to finish strong this year. Next year's freshmen need to provide one starter and another contributor. I'll settle for "contribute noticeably more than the current freshmen". I won't give up on players they already have; although a year from now; if the glue attaching them to the bench is still working....
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Post by Crucis#1 on Mar 3, 2024 12:15:37 GMT -5
Disappointed that Callie was reclassified. Was hoping we had her available to play for another year.
If there is another scholarship available, the staff should search far and wide, once the portal is open, for a 6-3 or taller center. While Cahalan has shown her ability to score from the perimeter, the team needs to bolster its combative inside presence to be effective in rebounding next year. Time to see if the 1843 Collective and the 90 Wide Program will provide additional incentive in recruitment of a high caliber player.
Really ashamed that the previous staff missed on finalizing and having the commitment of Weimar (originally Marist now BU) and Shazer (Marist) who are seniors this year.
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Post by timholycross on Mar 3, 2024 12:17:40 GMT -5
Disappointed that Callie was reclassified. Was hoping we had her available to play for another year. If there is another scholarship available, the staff should far and wide once the portal is open for a 6-3 or taller center. While Cahalan has shown her ability to score from the perimeter, the team needs to bolster its combative inside presence to be effective in rebounding next year. Really ashamed that the previous staff missed on finalizing and having the commitment of Weimar (originally Marist now BU) and Shazer (Marist) who are seniors this year. Recruiting size was not Billy nor coach Mac's forte. And he had bad luck w/the ones he brought in (Demski, e.g.)
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 3, 2024 13:15:14 GMT -5
Disappointed that Callie was reclassified. Was hoping we had her available to play for another year. If there is another scholarship available, the staff should search far and wide, once the portal is open, for a 6-3 or taller center. While Cahalan has shown her ability to score from the perimeter, the team needs to bolster its combative inside presence to be effective in rebounding next year. Time to see if the 1843 Collective and the 90 Wide Program will provide additional incentive in recruitment of a high caliber player. Really ashamed that the previous staff missed on finalizing and having the commitment of Weimar (originally Marist now BU) and Shazer (Marist) who are seniors this year. If Weimar matriculated at Marist as a freshman, how do you know she was academically accepted to Holy Cross?
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Post by Crucis#1 on Mar 3, 2024 13:43:10 GMT -5
She was offered a scholarship. Picture of Weimar and Shazer were on Twitter and posted on Crossports . It was June 29, 2019. Of course, during the reign of the previous Admission Director, and Interim WBB Coach, we can only speculate why the deal was not sealed with HC. crossports.freeforums.net/thread/2797/2020-recruiting-thread?page=2
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 3, 2024 13:43:30 GMT -5
Reading these comments has me channeling Roger Clemons, then a Yankee pitcher when the pinstripes knocked the Red Sox out of the 2003 playoffs in a heartbteaker. The Rocket quipped "there'll be a backup on the Tobin Bridge tonight." That's the structure people have jumped off in despair to end it all.
HC WBB beat BU by 11 points during our M+W sweep in our barn on our winter homecoming with our band blaring our fight song and our fans screaming for us. BU beat HC WBB by three points during their M+W sweep in their loft on their senior day with their band blaring their fight song and their fans screaming for them.
HC and BU were extremely competitive at the top of the league last year and this year. Maybe time to start enjoying one of the few winning teams we get each year at HC and bask in having another championship contender an hour away, which doesn't happen often with our league configurations. Yesterday was not a funeral for HC WBB, it was a three point loss that went down to the wire with our best player hobbled by fouls. Cheer up everyone.
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