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Post by bison137 on Jul 16, 2021 13:27:46 GMT -5
American and Colgate also have posted men's soccer schedules. Also the PL schedule has been available for a long time: s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/patriotleague.org/documents/2021/6/11/2021_2022_Men_s_Soccer.pdfBucknell OOC schedule is: - FDU (Home) - Penn State (Away) - Villanova (Away) - North Carolina (Away) - Wake Forest (Away) - St. Peter's (Away) - Mt. St. Mary's (Away) - St. Bona (Home) - St. Francis (Away) - Binghamton (Away) - Syracuse (Home) That includes three of last season's national top 15 teams, which is probably too many. One other item of note is that the PL tournament format has changed. Now all games are at the higher seeded team. No more "final four", with all semis and finals on the home field of the regular season champ.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 15, 2021 15:35:40 GMT -5
I love how the article calls the trainer a "Doctor" when he doesn't have a medical degree! Not the article but rather Powell and his attorney. The author of the article correctly points out the named individual (SH's director of sports medicine) is not a doctor.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 14, 2021 22:21:59 GMT -5
More than a decade ago, SAS made a number of derogatory remarks about women in general. Any one of them these days would likely get him fired.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 13, 2021 18:04:52 GMT -5
Going one step forward on the above, the majority of those listed as sophs on this year's roster played in 2019.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 13, 2021 17:59:27 GMT -5
Most of the seniors who you reference played in 2017, 2018 and 2019, according to their roster bios. Thus they are mostly players who were rising 2020 seniors. Presumably they dropped out for the fall semester of 2020 since they are still being allowed to play. thank you for digging into the roster bios for that info. But that would also indicate that rising juniors in 2020 (who would have played in 2018 and 2019) also took a hike in 2020, else they would be a senior for this 2021 season. The 16 on the roster would include both fifth year seniors from the class of 2021 and true seniors from the class of 2022. The majority of those listed as juniors on this year's roster played in 2018 and 2019. They would have been juniors in 2020 but apparently took off the season, so that they are still juniors this year - instead of being seniors, as they would have been without the covid shutdown.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 13, 2021 17:04:54 GMT -5
Harvard's 2021 roster is up, I counted 16 seniors, where typically there would be 25-30. I don't believe Harvard allows you to withdraw for your senior year, so the rising seniors for the 2020 season are gone. Most of the seniors who you reference played in 2017, 2018 and 2019, according to their roster bios. Thus they are mostly players who were rising 2020 seniors. Presumably they dropped out for the fall semester of 2020 since they are still being allowed to play.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 13, 2021 16:29:50 GMT -5
That could be a part of the explanation as to why Massey has HC favored in that game. Massey makes no attempt to look at injuries, returning starters, players who have left the program, incoming freshman, transfers, etc. For the preseason rankings it merely looks at a weighted average for the last few seasons, with a bit of consideration of trend. Massey himself says that his early-season rankings mean very little.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 9, 2021 15:11:01 GMT -5
Massey has HC getting 7 wins and 4 losses. It is far too early to take any of this seriously. Just for laughs, here is the current Massey prediction for the HC season. L at UConn (17-35) W Merrimack (34-7) L at Yale (24-28) L at Monmouth (21-26) W at Harvard (24-21) W Georgetown (26-14) W Colgate (neutral field) (24-17) W at Lehigh (21-17) W Lafayette (24-17) L at Fordham (21-20) *Early prediction or not, this is a key game for the PL title. W at Bucknell (21-18) Looking at the probabilities put forth by Massey, he has HC getting 6.33 wins. I'd bet the over against that prediction.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 8, 2021 16:37:16 GMT -5
Clayton Le Sann?
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Post by bison137 on Jul 1, 2021 13:47:53 GMT -5
Was the great Torey Thomas a Summer signee? April 27th, according to an internet article at the time.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 1, 2021 11:11:30 GMT -5
Kids are still entering the men’s hoop portal. Thirteen in the last 13 hours. I thought I read today is the cutoff date but I am not sure if it takes effect today or July 1, 2022. Today is the final day for an athlete to notify the school without having to sit out a year. Starting next year, notification date will be May 1st.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 29, 2021 18:21:38 GMT -5
Fairfield dropping football was a strategic long term mistake for their athletic program. My opinion, they would have had a Patriot League offer instead of BU. Institutionally regarding size and programs, it would have been a better match, and provided HC with a bona fide rival . . . . Often, you see on the Fairfield Voy Board, someone mentioning leaving the MAAC, and wanting to join the PL for perceived academic peer reasons. If they had retained their football program, IMHO, every year, the last regular game schedule of the season would be balanced with HC vs. Fairfield, Fordham vs Georgetown, Lehigh vs Lafayette and Bucknell vs Colgate. Too bad....what could have been, but for an ill conceived decision. 1. Agree 100%. Fairfield would have been the choice had they had football. 2. Some on the Fairfield board are a bit delusional, thinking that the PL would be happy to add Fairfield. Unless Fairfield reinstates football (which isn't happening), Fairfield will not be asked into the PL unless someone else leaves.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 28, 2021 19:14:03 GMT -5
Maura threw the other day in the Olympic trials and finished 7th. She managed to compete at a high level this year despite throwing with a torn labrum, which greatly limited her practice time and number of throws in competition.. In the PL meet she threw a record 181 feet, winning by 26 feet. Also at 5-3, Maura was the smallest thrower in the NCAA field. Despite that, she made All-American all three years of her Bucknell career. Maura grew up in a small town about 40 minutes from Bucknell. She averaged 18 ppg in basketball as a junior but had to give up the sport due to ongoing knee problems.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 27, 2021 19:05:06 GMT -5
Sponsoring 27 sports at the size of HC's enrollment is another contributing factor. And I believe we're the only non-Ivy to sponsor ALL of the following: FCS Football Men's & Women's Ice Hockey Baseball & Softball Men's & Women's Lacrosse Men's & Women's Soccer That's correct. Btw, of PL schools, the two with the most sports are Holy Cross and Bucknell, both with 27 (counting indoor and outdoor T&F as separate sports, as you have done).
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Post by bison137 on Jun 18, 2021 15:45:18 GMT -5
He was eligible to be vaccinated in AZ on March 24 His decision not to be vaccinated then likely cost him 1.6M Read recently that he had been vaccinated but still required to be tested because he had not reached 14 days after the shot by tourney time he actually had had two shots, but as you say, he was still within 14 days of the second shot.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 10, 2021 15:46:17 GMT -5
Tough to lose such a solid player as she enters her senior year. She has already finished her senior year and graduated from Bucknell. She was not allowed to return as Bucknell will normally not allow 5th year players in any sport.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 5, 2021 22:04:02 GMT -5
Agree. No one is going to get covid from a golfer at an outdoor event where it is very easy to socially distance. It's a bad break for Rahm who had the tournament all but wrapped up.
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Post by bison137 on May 30, 2021 19:52:35 GMT -5
Roger Staubach wasn't a traditional transfer either. He was sent to New Mexico Military Institute for a year to get his grades up so that Navy could accept him. Navy used NMMI for lots of players in that era.
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Post by bison137 on May 27, 2021 21:29:44 GMT -5
UConn is one of about five women's basketball programs that can legitimately afford to pay their coach top dollar: 1. The Huskies average nearly 10,000 per game in attendance, much of it in season tickets that run $208 per ticket. Single game tickets run between $15-50 per seat. 2. UConn recently entered a new separate agreement with SNY TV just for women's coverage. In 2012, the deal was worth $1.1 million a season. 3. While women's basketball pays less in NCAA tournament credits than the men's tournamnet does ($337,141 per game), UConn never wins fewer than four tournament games every year. The cheapest UConn season ticket for the women’s team is $70.
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Post by bison137 on May 26, 2021 13:32:45 GMT -5
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Post by bison137 on May 25, 2021 19:52:49 GMT -5
I know it's a wild thought to suggest AHA membership but there are two schools taking a look to dive into D.1 1) A report out of Nashville says HBCU Tennessee State will conduct a feasibility study to determine the viability of starting and maintaining a D1 men's ice hockey program at the school. The report also indicates that a partnership with the NHL Nashville Predators may be announced in the future. If the program is started, it will be the first D1 ice hockey team in the history of the country's historically black colleges and universities. TSU's decision is expected in the Fall. Lack of an adequate facility is their biggest hurdle. www.nashvillepost.com/sports/colleges/tsu-considering-starting-di-ice-hockey-program/article_21d75a40-a629-11eb-94ed-c3f6bad5f895.html2) Lindenwood University in suburban St. Louis is looking to take the D1 leap in hockey. They are being supported by the NHL Blues. If they make the leap, they will skate at the Blues practice rink which seats over 3,000. They are supposed to make their announcement this summer. P.S. Alabama Huntsville recently announced (another time) that they are discontinuing their program effective immediately. Lindenwood has a D-1 women's team already. PS Anchorage is also either stopping the program for the year or cut it completely....I can't find the latest on them. Anchorage announced it was cutting the program completely. But a group of alums are trying to save it. They have raised $2.1 Million thus far and have to reach $3 Million by August for the college to continue the program. They have some sort of partnership with the new Seattle Kraken, which may help.
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Post by bison137 on May 23, 2021 10:35:51 GMT -5
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Post by bison137 on May 22, 2021 13:33:56 GMT -5
Does playing (and prospering) in obscurity* against better competition really produce better athletes? *no one gives a rat's behind about whatever "league" this will be, or the "G league" vis-a-vis the NCAA, with all its faults. And these kids never get to see who rises to the top competitively when there's thousands/millions watching and if you lose, you go home. The level of obscurity of the G league may change if the national media begins to hype future Kobe Bryants and LeBron James in that league or this new league. It's safe to say there are no current G leaguers getting that type of attention. The one and done types go right to the NBA. Fwiw, two of this year's top four projected draft picks - Jalen Green and Jonathan Kuminga - played in the G League this year instead of college. Had they gone to college, they would be getting massive attention. But in the G League, very little publicity.
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Post by bison137 on May 18, 2021 16:20:34 GMT -5
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Post by bison137 on May 16, 2021 23:49:29 GMT -5
The rules are more similar now than what they used to be when the women had only natural (Literally, by nature)boundaries for out of bounds. That was very strange. True. But they are still very different. I think that has hurt the girls sport, as the boys rules I am oh produce so much more exciting game.
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