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Post by efg72 on Mar 24, 2024 21:34:23 GMT -5
For more perspective on Clark, check out the Iowa board (especially the last few pages of the game thread and the link below). Lots of Hawkeye fans thought she was a jerk. Her dad thought she was a jerk. Why? Maybe because she can be . . . a jerk. iowa.forums.rivals.com/threads/clark.440201/She plays with an edge and a personality Much like other great players like Pistol Pete
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Post by efg72 on Mar 24, 2024 18:56:31 GMT -5
Spend the money to make it better- it doesn't take much more of an investment to jump a level or two
The school counts on us to fund this and that responsibility should be owned by the Administration and the Board
They are failing the student athletes of our school, while our competition does the opposite
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Post by efg72 on Mar 24, 2024 18:22:52 GMT -5
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Post by efg72 on Mar 24, 2024 17:30:10 GMT -5
Bats came alive again
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Post by efg72 on Mar 23, 2024 21:43:43 GMT -5
A logical worry. Coach LaChapelle was extended on the women's side I believe. It would be a shame if there is not enough left to reward and extend Coach Riga. Change the budget😇✝️ We have the dollars they just need to make the right investments
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Post by efg72 on Mar 23, 2024 20:28:44 GMT -5
Change the budget😇
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Post by efg72 on Mar 23, 2024 19:41:44 GMT -5
Happening as we write a read on the board
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Post by efg72 on Mar 23, 2024 19:38:08 GMT -5
All of our major sports should play a a national OOC schedule with three to five buy games for hoops, two or three for hockey, and two for football.
Regional games offer little, save for a few memories of time gone by
If that isn’t possible, and I were Kit which I am not, I would be really creative and attempt to put schools like Iowa, UVA, Stanford, Northwestern, Vandy, Rice, Duke, and BC on a three year contract, with an away, home, away set of games with no payment over the next five to seven years for women and men’s hoops
I would have two FBS buy games per year for football and in a twelve game season bring a team to Worcester
Aspirational of course but it would change the future world of HC sports without leaving a conference that most here seem to enjoy- naturally I don’t but as an N of 1, I wave the flag at least for now
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Post by efg72 on Mar 23, 2024 16:25:29 GMT -5
Start cutting checks to the CAF and get this group of seniors or former players to set up the NIL
Kit do what is needed to lock up MM, especially since she is engaged and an attractive candidate for another job just like her fiancée to move up a level
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Post by efg72 on Mar 23, 2024 15:59:04 GMT -5
We played and executed to the best of our ability Crusader nation should be very proud
If they work to develop the younger players we might have gained more than we thought from today
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Post by efg72 on Mar 23, 2024 15:56:02 GMT -5
Clarks boyfriend is Fran mccaffeys son May explain a lot Attitude and complaining comes from somewhere a wonderful player, but only from watching her play I won’t judge the person but will take a few of ours over her despite her unbelievable talent
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Post by efg72 on Mar 23, 2024 15:50:57 GMT -5
First and third Qtr a three point differential
Second quarter a lot of foul trouble inside creating the much larger spread
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Post by efg72 on Mar 23, 2024 13:22:24 GMT -5
Thus far, Wills is the only non-senior in the portal (though the portal list is growing rapidly). He, along with Williams and Ryan are the scholarship recruits Coach Paulsen brought to campus. That is where the 1 out of 3 going to the portal came from Technically those players added to the roster after early April are Paulsen recruits, but in fairness to evaluating his ability to keep his players I am not sure I would use this as his first class.
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Post by efg72 on Mar 23, 2024 10:27:29 GMT -5
It was a very good pick and the program needed someone just like him
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Post by efg72 on Mar 22, 2024 19:34:00 GMT -5
Washington State may pay Saturday for denying us Drake-Iowa State in NCAA 2nd round Cardboard boats returning to C.R. Freedom Festival HOME / SPORTS / IOWA HAWKEYES SPORTS / IOWA BASKETBALL
No. 2 Iowa vs. Holy Cross NCAA women’s basketball tournament glance: Time, TV, live stream, game notes (March 23, 2024) Crusaders advanced with a 72-45 First Four victory over Tennessee-Martin on Thursday
Jeff LinderJeff Linder Mar. 22, 2024 1:36 pm, Updated: Mar. 22, 2024 3:49 pm
Iowa guard Kate Martin smiles as she runs through warm-ups during practice with her team at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on Friday. The Hawkeyes face Holy Cross in the first round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament at 2 p.m. Saturday. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Iowa guard Kate Martin smiles as she runs through warm-ups during practice with her team at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on Friday. The Hawkeyes face Holy Cross in the first round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament at 2 p.m. Saturday. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) What: No. 2 Iowa (29-4) vs. Holy Cross (21-12), NCAA women’s basketball tournament first round
When/where: 2 p.m. Saturday, Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City
TV: ABC
Live stream: ESPN3
Radio: Hawkeye Radio Network affiliates
Iowa’s next game: Winner faces West Virginia or Princeton in the second round Monday (time TBA)
What to know: Saturday’s game will be Iowa’s first in 13 days (the Hawkeyes beat Nebraska in overtime in the Big Ten championship game March 10 at Minneapolis).
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Holy Cross whipped Tennessee-Martin, 72-45, in a First Four game Thursday night at Carver. The Crusaders got out to a 45-24 lead by halftime and cruised behind 12 3-pointers.
Cara McCormick hit 7-of-10 3-pointers in that game and led all scorers with 23 points.
Bronagh Power-Cassidy leads Holy Cross at 16.7 points per game.
The Crusaders won the Patriot League regular-season championship (with an 11-7 league mark), then followed that with the league tournament title.
Iowa is a 1-seed in the Albany-2 Region. The Hawkeyes’ previous two 1-seeds came in 1988 and 1992.
One-seeds have a 115-1 record against 16-seeds since the NCAA expanded to 64 teams in 1994.
Caitlin Clark leads the nation in scoring (31.9 points per game) and assists (8.9 per game). She has totaled 3,771 points in her career.
A win would send Iowa to its second consecutive 30-win season. Last year’s team earned a school-record 31 victories.
The Hawkeyes are making their 30th NCAA appearance and have an all-time tournament record of 33-29. Holy Cross is in its 14th tournament and owns a 2-13 all-time mark.
This is the first meeting between the two programs.
West Virginia (24-7) and Princeton (25-4) play at 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
Read
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Post by efg72 on Mar 20, 2024 17:49:22 GMT -5
I don't expect any surprises from HC. Cahalan has started contributing and has a clear path to solid playing time next year with Janelle and Callie graduating. Her height would make her attractive in the portal. I can't think of any other logical candidates. I'm thinking most PL level freshmen need to show decent production to get a scholarship offer. Otherwise a blank slate, non-disgruntled HS senior looks like a cleaner bet. Unless a program has turned into a bus station and doesn't want half the team to be freshmen. Why leave HC for that situation? Without film or a long term relationship prior to college it is unlikely they get an offer
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Post by efg72 on Mar 20, 2024 17:46:11 GMT -5
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Post by efg72 on Mar 20, 2024 12:28:18 GMT -5
Playing two sports in college today is a rarity. I don't know that it was ever very common In the mid 60s HC had John Wendelken,’65, Bud Knittel,’65, Tom Kelly,’67, Pete Kimener’67 and probably more. Also at Harvard John Dockery’66. In the mid 50s there was Ron Perry Sr ‘54 and more, no doubt. In the late 70s-early 80s there was Ronnie Perry Jr. Phil O'Neill and Pat Bourque class of 69 and possibly one or two more from that class- brain lock
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Post by efg72 on Mar 20, 2024 9:24:58 GMT -5
While you could very well be right, one of my kids, who is with St Jude's and active in the Memphis community, said Bo was offered an opportunity to return home.
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Post by efg72 on Mar 20, 2024 8:53:40 GMT -5
and pulled Bo back from the portal
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Post by efg72 on Mar 17, 2024 15:44:55 GMT -5
Gosh, I saw the thread, which was from years ago, but I feared there might be rumors about her departure
Thankfully, I was wrong
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Post by efg72 on Mar 17, 2024 15:41:54 GMT -5
Those who are more tuned into college hockey than me...should we be concerned that Riga might be poached by another school? Of course. That's why I was glad Kit hired Coach Curran, recently up from D-2 with no FCS hardware yet instead of a more expensive "name" coach that an insecure AD might feel compelled to do to replace star coach Chesney. I hope that leaves funds to extend Riga with a well deserved raise. Maybe the two aren't connected but Kit seems to have made good decisions so far. The money is only an issue because we underpay whenever possible. Pay these coaches what they have earned plus a slight bonus for working in a league that has barriers to success. I might be incorrect, but I believe the CAF was moved from a support fund paid by alumni to become an athletic budget line item. If true we should be very upset that the rules of the contribution game have changed, and we should demand they no longer be a line-item entry for the budget. The school should pay for a fully functioning athletic program, without alumni and parent/supporter CAF gifts. There should be a full accounting by TPTB of the dollars received by the CAF and how they are being implemented to grow programs the way we want them supported and developed. I want the CAF to grow and be successful, but I want it to represent the intent of the funds given. And while I am not a fan of the NIL concept, it is the new world we live in so as KY might say empty the pockets and give what you can and let the success of our programs SOAR. Soar is also Save Our Aging Religious so if you want to give there it is a worthy cause as well.
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Post by efg72 on Mar 17, 2024 8:07:12 GMT -5
I don't follow. He's getting a movie deal from another school if he goes there to play basketball? Or do you mean he may already have the deal and now is shopping for a nearby college to play basketball when he's not on the set? Will's is reaching the end of the strangest recruiting and playing cycle I can remember at HC. Leaving his past and future movie stardom aside he'll be a loss from a basketball perspective. I thought he was the best fit we had as a PG. I don't think Williams or Singleton are more than emergency PG options on a good team. I like Williams more as a defender off the bench and think Singleton could be more a Bo or Octave type for scoring (hopefully more consistent). Assuming Boston is the automatic PG I'm not crazy about the other two plus Batch behind him at PG. I was simply saying his decision to leave might not be a basketball only reason but perhaps he misses the screen
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Post by efg72 on Mar 17, 2024 8:00:12 GMT -5
Look for this to be a class with athleticism and demonstrated toughness Will be complementary of the class arriving this summer of which I see three to five freshmen starters by the Syracuse game 3 to 5 freshman starters? Wow! A stretch and likely overstatement I know, especially to say by Syracuse, but there are a couple of really talented youngsters coming in- So instead of starters let me say I believe they will be in the two deep at some point this season and ready to go
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Post by efg72 on Mar 16, 2024 18:58:09 GMT -5
And game 2?
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