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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.
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Post by trimster on Apr 3, 2024 14:14:51 GMT -5
Could you please write who those 4 player references are ? Thanks I didn't go out of my way looking for names. I simply came across them on some low-major boards I check out once a day like Fairfield, Siena, UVM, W&M and LaSalle. I only remember three of them but I do remember all 4 are first or second year players. LA Pratt of Elon Jevin Muniz of Delaware State Nathan Dudukovich of D2 Thomas More I just tried to find the 4th but couldn't. However I did find two more HC mentions on the Richmond Board, (SPIDERNATION). Both are frosh and seem like real reaches: Rodney Brown Jr. of Cal and Reid Ducharme of Xavier. Lots of interest in both per the Twitter copies.
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Post by trimster on Apr 3, 2024 13:49:02 GMT -5
Recent recruiting target Erik Acker just entered the portal after a strong frosh year at LIU. He played a lot of minutes and averaged 13 ppg, 3.5 rpg and 3.5 apg. He is a point guard who played for Kevin Hamilton at Eagle Academy in NYC. It appears the staff wants to add a guard to take Wills' spot as I have seen 4 references on other boards to portal kids HC has contacted. That info came from Twitter. Could you please write who those 4 player references are ? Thanks I didn't go out of my way looking for names. I simply came across them on some low-major boards I check out once a day like Fairfield, Siena, UVM, W&M and LaSalle. I only remember three of them but I do remember all 4 are first or second year players. LA Pratt of Elon Jevin Muniz of Delaware State Nathan Dudukovich of D2 Thomas More
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Post by trimster on Apr 3, 2024 12:48:30 GMT -5
Recent recruiting target Erik Acker just entered the portal after a strong frosh year at LIU. He played a lot of minutes and averaged 13 ppg, 3.5 rpg and 3.5 apg. He is a point guard who played for Kevin Hamilton at Eagle Academy in NYC. It appears the staff wants to add a guard to take Wills' spot as I have seen 4 references on other boards to portal kids HC has contacted. That info came from Twitter.
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Post by trimster on Apr 2, 2024 13:31:59 GMT -5
I am guessing the staff had some familiarity with the Moore kid prior to the last week. I say that because the offer came four days after he announced he was asking to be released from his LOI from Siena due to the coaching change.
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Post by trimster on Apr 2, 2024 13:15:23 GMT -5
I like the rebounding and assist averages.
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Post by trimster on Apr 2, 2024 10:06:43 GMT -5
Portal is just below 1300 D1 entrants.
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Post by trimster on Apr 2, 2024 9:31:01 GMT -5
Like Aidan Richard, Moore was selected by the Texas Bball Coaches Association to his division’s 20 man all-state team. In his case, 5A. Richard made the 6A team.
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Post by trimster on Mar 30, 2024 10:35:27 GMT -5
Here’s his quote from the Yale hoops website. Why Yale? – “Because it truly is the best mix of basketball and education in the world. I had the opportunity to receive an extremely prestigious degree while also playing on a winning team at the highest level of college basketball. Also, the relationship I built with Coach Jones and the coaching staff was real, authentic, and they stuck with me since the first days of my recruiting process.” Giving up the “best mix” for a few NIL bucks. This is all ridiculous. The Ivy undergrads transferring is mind-blowing. I can't imagine 1-2 years at H-Y-P and the rest is as good as earning a degree from them but maybe I am wrong. Interesting if true. Travis Branham @travisbranham_ Danny Wolfe has a "do not contact" symbol next to his name in the portal, per source. In other words, he probably has a good idea as to where he's heading. Quote Travis Branham @travisbranham_ · 18h NEWS: Yale big man Danny Wolfe has entered the transfer portal, per a @247sportsportal source. All Ivy League selection and a big addition to the portal. One of the top bigs and transfers overall on the market. 4:59 PM · Mar 29, 2024 · 260.4K Views
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Post by trimster on Mar 30, 2024 10:31:41 GMT -5
Here’s his quote from the Yale hoops website. Why Yale? – “Because it truly is the best mix of basketball and education in the world. I had the opportunity to receive an extremely prestigious degree while also playing on a winning team at the highest level of college basketball. Also, the relationship I built with Coach Jones and the coaching staff was real, authentic, and they stuck with me since the first days of my recruiting process.” Giving up the “best mix” for a few NIL bucks. This is all ridiculous. The Ivy undergrads transferring is mind-blowing. I can't imagine 1-2 years at H-Y-P and the rest is as good as earning a degree from them but maybe I am wrong.
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Post by trimster on Mar 30, 2024 7:51:11 GMT -5
Another Ivy underclassman enters the portal, Danny Wolf, Yale sophomore.
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Post by trimster on Mar 28, 2024 8:21:14 GMT -5
JB.
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Post by trimster on Mar 27, 2024 15:27:21 GMT -5
UB are the Bulls, not Bison. Duly noted. Are they cousins?
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Post by trimster on Mar 27, 2024 12:49:05 GMT -5
From the Richmond board: @pdtscouting Since entering the portal Rutgers transfer wing Antonio Chol has heard from: George Washington Richmond Central Michigan Monmouth Charleston Southern Western Carolina Iona Howard Oral Robert’s Charlotte Siena NC A&T UNC Asheville Holy Cross Wyoming Chol committed to his hometown university, Buffalo. Correction. Wrong Bison. Chol is going to Howard, not UB.
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Post by trimster on Mar 27, 2024 7:50:49 GMT -5
Aidan Richard was 1 of 20 large school All State players selected by the TX bball coaches.
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Post by trimster on Mar 27, 2024 7:46:21 GMT -5
ESPN’s national rankings this week have Bullis #17. Tyler Boston was selected 4th team All-Met by the Washington Post. Ten first-teamers and 5 on the other 3 teams. Places him in the top 25 players, (all classes), in an area that I believe includes DC, MD and Northern VA.
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