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Post by trimster on Apr 18, 2024 17:29:01 GMT -5
Tell him he can play baseball too even if it means an occasional baseball workout in Jan, Feb and hopefully, March.
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Post by trimster on Apr 18, 2024 7:56:04 GMT -5
Has he received an HC offer? Blurb didn’t mention who has reached out to him.
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Post by trimster on Apr 18, 2024 7:54:59 GMT -5
I saw things on the Rhody board that pretty much sums up the state of men’s hoops. Arkansas alum Jerry Jones has offered to pay Kentucky recruits twice what the Wildcats were paying them and a hs senior who committed to URI, (seated in a gold gilded King’s Chair), has asked for a release from his LOI because the assistant who recruited him left URI. Someone will do a study of college hoops, post Covid, when it went totally off the rails. Oh, almost forgot, I saw something about an NCAA committee ok’ing additional transfers after your first, without sitting a year, as long as you are in good academic standing. The Day is coming when your teammate before Christmas will be your opponent after New Year’s Day. Speaking of which, don’t you have to be a student at a college or university a minimum amount of time to earn a degree from said institution. I will close with this. Ever wonder if a grad transfer student-athlete with one year of eligibility who plays a fall sport like football, ever sets foot in a class whether it be in person or online?
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Post by trimster on Apr 18, 2024 7:41:31 GMT -5
A kid from Brown, Kala Anya, a 6’8”, 215 lb forward, entered the portal two days ago. His hometown is Worcester Ma. Looks like he spent his first two years of hs at Doherty before transferring to IMG Academy in Florida. Listed as a sophomore. Averaged about 10 ppg, 7.5 rpg and just under 2 apg last season.
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Post by trimster on Apr 17, 2024 16:02:15 GMT -5
Portal chugs past 1700 in D 1. Now at 1716.
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Post by trimster on Apr 17, 2024 11:12:57 GMT -5
Deon Perry of Loyola MD commits to Fairfield and Harvard's Malik Mack,IL ROY, transfers to Georgetown.
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Post by trimster on Apr 16, 2024 14:24:50 GMT -5
Basket by CHAMBERLAIN !! (name stretched out considerably) Walllleeee. Grrreeeer.
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Post by trimster on Apr 16, 2024 10:02:54 GMT -5
According to Verbal Commits, Jeff Woodward has committed to …….Colgate. Looks like he isn’t transferring.
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Post by trimster on Apr 15, 2024 10:23:26 GMT -5
See the thread on tenure.
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Post by trimster on Apr 14, 2024 19:08:06 GMT -5
Name please ?everyone will understand stats ? Tyler Perkins from Landon, MD. First-team All Met, (DC), last year. (BTW, Tyler Boston was 2nd team All Met last year). Played about 30 mpg at Penn as a frosh. Averaged 14 ppg, 5 rpg and 2 apg. 6'4" and a sturdy 205. I suspect everyone will understand why I said HC would take him in a heartbeat even though we probably have greater need for a big. I have no idea if this kid has any interest in HC. We did offer him a schollie before his senior year. Apparently, Tyler Perkins wasn’t down on Philly as he transferred to Villanova.
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Post by trimster on Apr 11, 2024 10:28:02 GMT -5
The Lexington Herald Leader recently announced its All-State Hoops Teams and Max finished 4th in the coaches voting. Coaches were asked to rank the top ten players. Max had one more vote than a kid named Unseld.
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Post by trimster on Apr 9, 2024 15:32:17 GMT -5
Check NCAA.org for “transfer portal data” . I think you can do extensive exploration there. One graph I saw for men’s basketball -where the players ended up 76% Div 1 “Aided” ( guessing this means scholarship???) 4% Div 1 unaided 17% Div 2 aided 1% Div 2 unaided 2% division 3 However I don’t know, without deeper exploration, whether the N here is All players who entered the portal or all players who found a landing spot More exploration needed It would be interesting to know how many of the portalists are walk-ons. Let me clarify, walk-ons at the school they are leaving.
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Post by trimster on Apr 9, 2024 15:31:10 GMT -5
At this late date how many players do we think have no home moving forward. Check NCAA.org for “transfer portal data” . I think you can do extensive exploration there. One graph I saw for men’s basketball -where the players ended up 76% Div 1 “Aided” ( guessing this means scholarship???) 4% Div 1 unaided 17% Div 2 aided 1% Div 2 unaided 2% division 3 However I don’t know, without deeper exploration, whether the N here is All players who entered the portal or all players who found a landing spot More exploration needed It would be interesting to know how many of the portalists are walk-ons.
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Post by trimster on Apr 9, 2024 13:25:08 GMT -5
Two more Sycamores enter the portal. Seven so far today.
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Post by trimster on Apr 9, 2024 11:30:17 GMT -5
Portal passed 1500 this morning. Indiana State had 5 players enter so far today.
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Post by trimster on Apr 9, 2024 10:06:17 GMT -5
Trimster I agree with your selections- I was referring to the NE schools, and as you noted for all sports. I don't disagree with Northeastern being a fit, but it doesn't have football, and if we went to an all sports league, we would lose BU, Loyola, Army, Navy, Fordham, and Georgetown. Colgate would be in that group if you have baseball in that group. Leaves us with Bucknell, Holy Cross, Laffy, and Lehigh. And if you include Hockey, it changes even more with Holy Cross in a league of its own. The landscape remains uncertain when it comes to future realignment. We could see a new football league, keeping the current PL for most other sports, Hockey remaining a sport outside of the PL, and perhaps we reduce our offerings for other sports. I would substitute Richmond and W&M in a heartbeat for the OOC rotation of Bryant, Merrimack and CCSU. Possibly even UNH. Do you see positives in a six game FB league schedule?
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Post by trimster on Apr 9, 2024 8:48:05 GMT -5
How about if the Ancient 8 went the scholarship route and invited HC to join. Who would be the 10th member? Again, just thinking out loud.
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Post by trimster on Apr 8, 2024 23:01:50 GMT -5
As an addendum, there is more to the college hoop season than the month of March, usually the PL Champ gets bounced in Round One and who knows if the Big Dance will even exist in 5 years in its current iteration.
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Post by trimster on Apr 8, 2024 22:58:23 GMT -5
Is there any school, outside of the high major/ivy from New England that you would want in the PL for all sports? I can't think of a single school that makes the PL better. Richmond would definitely make the league better and W&M would probably as well. I think Fordham as an all sport could meet that low bar also. Davidson wouldn't bring football so I left them out as well as Villanova which would never leave the league they are in on the hoops front. Fairfield and Northeastern are other strong academic schools that wouldn't bring football. I would take all of the above minus Villanova, as all sport members, minus football for those that don't sponsor it, in a heartbeat. I would divide the league into North and South and would do it even if it remained a one bid league. IMHO, it would make the regular season more interesting since it would restore some old rivalries, several of which are Jesuit to boot. I am just thinking out loud and highly doubt such a conference would ever come about.
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Post by trimster on Apr 8, 2024 7:33:54 GMT -5
NU joined a league that really doesn't exist any more- Georgia State, Old Dominion, JMU, Mason, VCU, Delaware all moved on since the Huskies moved in; that list includes two schools that made it to the Final Four this century in that conference (plus ODU had a couple of first round wins). One could say that's comparable to the Maac HC left versus what it is now. Northeastern must value being in a league that traverses the eastern seaboard as opposed to a highly regional one. I have thought for a long time that Northeastern would make a perfect PL partner to BU.
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Post by trimster on Apr 6, 2024 9:46:18 GMT -5
Are we really going to be in the same subdivision as Mercyhurst? From a pure "feels" perspective, it feels like we belong with Harvard and Yale, AWP, Navy, the Dakotas and Montanas of the world, but Mercyhurst and RMU? At least we are not in the same conference as them. If they tried to get in the PL (which calm down guys it wouldn't happen with academic indexes and the like) I'd rather be an affiliate of the mvfc. If we took an honest look at things, our peers in men’s basketball over the last 5 years have been America East and the NEC, the latter comprised mainly of former D2 schools from a bygone era. How does that feel?
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Post by trimster on Apr 6, 2024 9:26:29 GMT -5
Just read about a kid from Belmont who entered the portal after his sophomore season and is now coveted by the bluest of the the blue bloods. Two years ago he was an unranked hs recruit. I know this has nothing to do with HC but I thought I’d put it out there to point out recruiting can be a very inenxact science.
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Post by trimster on Apr 5, 2024 6:44:59 GMT -5
On the plus side, other than Loyola MD, I don’t see many PL underclassman in the portal.
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Post by trimster on Apr 4, 2024 16:11:56 GMT -5
Another wing, courtesy of the Richmond board. Top of a possibly random list for UCF’s Comeh Emuobor. From Raleigh with a stop at Brewster, saw only spot minutes in his first year at UCF. Like Reactions:urfan1 Sorry, Tweet List didn't copy. We seem to be contacting a lot of the same kids as Richmond which isn't surprising given their academic standing. (The PL should try to entice them, at least for football). Emuobor was ranked 20th in New England in 2023 by NERR. Three years of eligibility. BTW, Ducharme was ranked 10th in the same class.
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Post by trimster on Apr 4, 2024 16:06:47 GMT -5
Another wing, courtesy of the Richmond board.
Top of a possibly random list for UCF’s Comeh Emuobor. From Raleigh with a stop at Brewster, saw only spot minutes in his first year at UCF.
Like Reactions:urfan1
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