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Post by bison137 on Jan 15, 2024 22:12:31 GMT -5
Moose Skowron was a long time Yankee. I am unsure he ever played for the Dodgers, certainly not in Brooklyn. I do not recall Ken McMullen. He played for the Dodgers in 1963. Only that one year.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 12, 2024 19:51:23 GMT -5
Many wakes have a more exciting environment than Chrystl. At the games I attend, often half of the crowd is Bucknell fans. I assume the same will be the case for Holy Cross. Usually there are no more than a handful of cadets there, often less. Once there was a collection of students sitting at the far end with notebook/textbooks, none of whom were watching the game. It turned out it was a punishment detail, with the punishment being that they had to watch Army basketball. Midway through the second half, their punishment was at an end, and all of them exited as quickly as possible. Students actually support soccer better than basketball, although the behavior at women’s games can be fairly nasty (or worse) towards the opposition. Stabler is worse than what you’re describing. My mistake. As I was reading the description. I thought it was talking about army. But yes, Stabler has an incredibly poor game environment as well. And Stabler might easily be the ugliest D1 arena in the country. It was built the 1970s and I don’t think they’ve even added a coat of paint since then. Nothing but bad lighting and bare concrete. No lights above the court, third rate scoreboards, no lighting at all in the end zone seats and thin plywood underneath the chairback seating Also the best seats are far removed from the court.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 12, 2024 19:33:08 GMT -5
Many wakes have a more exciting environment than Chrystl. At the games I attend, often half of the crowd is Bucknell fans. I assume the same will be the case for Holy Cross. Usually there are no more than a handful of cadets there, often less. Once there was a collection of students sitting at the far end with notebook/textbooks, none of whom were watching the game. It turned out it was a punishment detail, with the punishment being that they had to watch Army basketball. Midway through the second half, their punishment was at an end, and all of them exited as quickly as possible. Students actually support soccer better than basketball, although the behavior at women’s games can be fairly nasty (or worse) towards the opposition.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 7, 2024 22:26:31 GMT -5
Probably should have stopped at "I know nothing about the case", and done the five minutes of googling needed to get better informed.
This isn't even the latest article... McCaffrey did in fact get sentenced to a $1,000 fine and 6-month lost of his license.
I bolded some key passages. Clearly a tragic situation all around, with zero evidence of preferential treatment.
"Drivers must yield to pedestrians even if they don't know they are there?" How is that doable. easy. If you are approaching a crosswalk where you are required to stop if there is a pedestrian near the crosswalk, then you should slow down to make sure there’s not a pedestrian that you can’t see. Thankfully, most people do that.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 7, 2024 19:23:10 GMT -5
Not sure how the driver gets charged with anything if he had no ability to react differently than he did. Definitely a sad situation for all involved. I think the reason is that a motorist, when approaching a marked crosswalk, is supposed to slow down as much as necessary if his view is obstructed.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 7, 2024 18:44:09 GMT -5
Have to say, Dorsey hasn't yet been replaced . Well, if past is prologue . . . in his second season at Bucknell, DP brought in Bryan Cohen, who was Defensive PoY three straight years, And when Cohen left, he was replaced by another plus defender, Steve Kaspar. Cohen was a Pat Flannery recruit.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 7, 2024 12:02:12 GMT -5
. Paulsen was in one of HC 's best coaching duels with RW. Think you may be thinking of Flannery. DP coaced only one year vs RW, and Bucknell that year had its worst season in at least 27 years.. Certainly there was no coaching duel.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 6, 2024 22:39:04 GMT -5
Correct. Here is Colgate’s rankings for the last six years, starting with 2019. This is where they rank out of about 360 D1 programs: 126 118 89 117 115 151 Among their wins are two double digit victories at Syracuse in 2022 and 2023. I don't think being out of the top 100 every year and 89 in their best year makes them a "very good mid-major program". I actually think they were much better than 89 that one year and probably the adjoining year but your best team being 115-150 is not the gold standard for a very good program, and Colgate was clearly the best in the PL. the great majority of the teams ahead of them are high majors, not mid majors
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Post by bison137 on Jan 6, 2024 20:23:05 GMT -5
2024. I don’t think HC will EVER have a great b-ball team again. Don’t say”how did Colgate do it?” They just appear good because the PL sucks so bad. This coach may be able to get us back to .500 league wise. That’s it. So discouraging. Wrong on Colgate. Maybe they're down a bit this year versus the couple of seasons prior, but they were a very good mid-major team during their recent run. Correct. Here is Colgate’s rankings for the last six years, starting with 2019. This is where they rank out of about 360 D1 programs: 126 118 89 117 115 151 Among their wins are two double digit victories at Syracuse in 2022 and 2023.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 4, 2024 22:50:46 GMT -5
….Thanks to BU and most years Lehigh - if this young lady is being depended upon this season I’d be surprised But it takes more than two teams to have the conference ranked ahead of all of those other northeastern leagues. The next three in the patriot league are all better than the middle of the pack teams in the Ivy League or the MAAC or America East or NEC.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 4, 2024 20:55:37 GMT -5
Probably true that the NESCAC plays better softball than most of the D. PL The PL collectively is actually a pretty good conference for softball, at least by northeastern standards. Last season it ranked ahead of the A10, Ivy League, MAAC, America, East, and NEC, among others.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 4, 2024 10:50:22 GMT -5
Here's what KenPom has to say about each team's OOC strength of schedule.
Team= KenPom's Calculation/Ranking among all D-1 teams
Colgate= +5.90/ #43 Lehigh= +4.58/ #57 Lafayette= +1.77/#117 Bucknell=+1.43/#126 Loyola= (0.64)=#195 Boston U= (2.62)/#253 Holy Cross= (3.84)/#285 American U= (4.960/ #311 Navy= (6.48)/ #337 Army= (7.18)/ #346
it should be noted that Pomeroy simply ignores the D3 games that some teams have played. Those games would have a significant effect on SOS if included. The place where it makes the biggest difference is Lehigh, who has played two very weak D3 teams. If they were included, Lehigh’s SOS would be worse than #150.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 2, 2024 20:53:26 GMT -5
Strange anomaly. Its head-scratching that Clemson, Miami, Florida State, UNC and UVA have combined for one title during that entire time. Miami was in the acc when they won their titles... Wrong again. Before posting things like this, you should do some basic research if you don’t know the facts. Miami was in fact an independent when they won their first two titles, and then they were in the Big East when they won their second two titles.. They first joined the ACC in 2004. to repeat, since you apparently didn’t read it accurately, the ACC in total has exactly one NCAA championship in the last 60 years.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 2, 2024 14:00:26 GMT -5
BC did make the NCAA tournament last season and played in a Regional Final. Holy Cross hasn't won two games in a single NCAA Tournament since 1963. If BC had played the Holy Cross game last season (it was PPD) it would have hurt their end of season #22 RPI and made them a weaker NCAA seed. Cite your math. There clearly was no math, or any logic. The effect of one game in a 54 game schedule, assuming BC won it, would have been minimal on the RPI. And the RPI, as you know, is not the major factor in seeding for any sport.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 1, 2024 21:12:27 GMT -5
The schedule time is completely up to the individual schools for these games. When the HC women play at Bucknell, the start time will be 6 PM.
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Post by bison137 on Dec 31, 2023 20:52:13 GMT -5
Williamson, at 7 feet, could be a BIG problem... he is 7–0, but he has poor hands and is not at all strong. At best he is a project. Nathan Davis left Griffin only one real player, I.e. Jack Forrest.
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Post by bison137 on Dec 31, 2023 15:19:57 GMT -5
Actually, the main fault on this play belongs to the Lions. They tried to deceptively have multiple players run up to the ref and the ref got confused. The ref clearly announced the player that he thought had checked in, and Detroit should’ve recognized that there was confusion.
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Post by bison137 on Dec 30, 2023 19:24:56 GMT -5
Possible Regulars: (Bucknell has been using a variety of starting lineups) 24 Jack Forest G (Sr 6’5”) 16 ppg / 6 rpg / 36 mpg 03 Noah Williamson F (Soph 7’0”) 11 ppg / 6 rpg / 27 mpg 06 Elvin Edmonds IV G (Jr 6’2”) 9 ppg / 2 rpg / 27 mpg 13 Josh Bascoe G (Jr 6’0”) 9 ppg / 2 rpg / 29 mpog 22 Ruot Bijiek F (Soph, 6’9”) 7 ppg / 3 rpg / 19 mpg 01 Ian Motta F (Jr 6’6”) 5 ppg / 3 rpg / 18 mpg 02 Brady Muller F (Soph 6’4”) 1 ppg / 1 rpg / 5 mpg 23 Pip Ajayi F (Jr 6’7”) 3 ppg / 1 rpg / 11 mpg Four starters are locked in. Williamson, Bijiek, and Forrest have started every game in the entire season. Bascoe has started the last nine games and played fairly well, so he will start. The only question mark is the fifth starter. Elvin Edmonds has started every game when healthy this year, but he missed time with a sprained MCL earlier in the year. And today he sprained his ankle, leaving his availability up in the air. If he doesn’t play, it could be Ian Motta if they go to a big lineup, or more likely freshman guard Brandon McCreesh, or possibly a placeholder in Brady Muller, who only play a couple of minutes if he starts. Bucknell only has two freshmen, and one of them is not a D1 player. Nathan Davis lost interest in recruiting last year and pretty much did nothing in that category.
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Post by bison137 on Dec 29, 2023 20:44:09 GMT -5
I hope that 993 official attendance puts the goofy predictions of 100 or fewer to rest. Anyone who showed up today got to see an entertaining game. Hopefully they will come again. it’s a little bit apples to oranges. The official attendance includes tickets that were sold but not used. The speculation was about how many people would actually show up. I didn’t watch any of the game, but it certainly sounds like it was a lot more than 100.
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Post by bison137 on Dec 27, 2023 21:11:45 GMT -5
As I posted on the "nadir" thread and will ask here since no one responded: I would say that the probability is at least 99% that the game was scheduled by DP. Very unlikely that a coach on his way out would’ve scheduled a game like this back in January, or February.
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Post by bison137 on Dec 27, 2023 14:13:43 GMT -5
What you’ve listed are better than the below, but other good ones… Vermont in 2004-05 (the year they beat Syracuse). Bucknell in 2005-06 (the year they were a 9 seed and beat Arkansas). Siena in 2008-09 (the McCrybaby game. They were really good that year. 9 seed) Harvard in 2011-12 (12 seed and finished the season 26-5) That Bucknell team btw ended up ranked 25th in the final USA Today Coaches Poll. Also were top 25 in RPI and top 30 in OOC SOS.
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Post by bison137 on Dec 24, 2023 17:21:50 GMT -5
Dude you want BC to compete for National Champs. They had 1 good year chill out. They don't even charge for baseball games. The expectation in the ACC is to compete for National Championships... The ACC has produced one national champion in the past 60 years.
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Post by bison137 on Dec 23, 2023 21:17:09 GMT -5
Notre Dame really struggling on threes. They are #30 as far as taking threes (3pt attempts as %of field goal attempts) but #351 in 3 pt percentage at a woeful 26.1%. That's what you get when you hire a head coach with a lot of NBA experience. The 3 is king in the NBA these days, especially w/the Celts, which is where Shrewsberry came from. FWIW, Shrewsbury does have 16 years of college coaching experience.
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Post by bison137 on Dec 23, 2023 11:49:20 GMT -5
As Ray has noted elsewhere, getting to the line frequently is one of Paulsen's mantras. Free throw rate (FTA/FGA) is one of Dean Oliver's "four factors" shown to correlate with successful play. An average D1 team's FTR is about 33% (one free throw attempt for every three field goal attempts). Unsurprisingly, we have been pretty terrible at this for almost a decade - thus far this year, 22% (ranked 357th). Only two players this season have an FTR greater than 33% - Louth (36%) and Declan, with an eye-popping 95% (20 FTA/21 FGA) and 85% FT% to boot. Paulsen said that at Bucknell also. But most years, Bucknell was in the bottom 30% of teams in terms of the ratio of free throws to field goal attempts. In his first three years, which included two years with Mike Muscala, they ranked about 280th in the nation on average.. And once he left, the FT attempts dropped off dramatically once again. In total five of his seven seasons at Bucknell saw the team below average in getting to the line. In his final year, however, they got to the line quite a bit with Chris Haas, Nana Foulland, and Zach Thomas all having a great ability to draw fouls.
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Post by bison137 on Dec 22, 2023 13:47:23 GMT -5
Another example of the utter futility of the PL this season - as we approach the end of Dec. there are 3 teams who have still not notched their first D.1 victory: Lafayette, Lehigh and Loyola. Hard to fathom. Two out of three anyway. Loyola beat Brown early in the year. While NAD might not want to categorize Brown as a D1 program, I think the NCAA does. It may not be D1, but at least Dr. Reed was able to beat Cairn University, the #326 D3 team, by 55 points.
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