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Post by purplehaze on Jul 5, 2017 15:22:00 GMT -5
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jul 5, 2017 19:50:07 GMT -5
Didn't realize the A-10 was considered mid-major
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Post by cmo on Jul 5, 2017 20:41:11 GMT -5
Vermont - Vermont: Here is my bold prediction for next year..... Vermont will make the Sweet 16.
Would like to see UVM back on our future schedules.
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Post by ncaam on Jul 6, 2017 6:22:42 GMT -5
Bus ride to Burlington about 4 hours. Maybe they would give us a 2-1.
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Post by Tom on Jul 6, 2017 7:14:09 GMT -5
Bus ride to Burlington about 4 hours. Maybe they would give us a 2-1. America East and the Patriot League are both ranked somewhere in the mid-20's among the D-I conferences. I don't recall HC ever setting up a 2-1 with a school from a conference that wasn't ranked in the top 10. Home and home was set up with Albany when they were the top dog in American East, if both schools were interested, this of course would be a home and home as well
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Post by rf1 on Jul 6, 2017 7:52:58 GMT -5
Didn't realize the A-10 was considered mid-major Seems odd that they consider the A-10 a mid major but not the AAC. I believe the A-10 has more NCAA bids since the AAC came into being. Six A-10 teams on the list (SLU, URI, St Joes, VCU, Davidson, and Dayton) would also seem to contradict this. This list basically puts an A-10 program at the top in six of the eight states where the league has teams.
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Post by hchoops on Jul 6, 2017 7:56:31 GMT -5
This may be primarily because of Uconn and their NCAA championships
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Post by Tom on Jul 6, 2017 8:57:14 GMT -5
This may be primarily because of Uconn and their NCAA championships Probably, but only one of those was as a member of the AAC. Still one win every four years doesn't stink
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Post by hc87 on Jul 6, 2017 9:35:14 GMT -5
All you need to know: "Massachusetts - Harvard: Tommy Amaker has found a way to bring in high-end recruits to Harvard and it has payed off."
Payed???
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 6, 2017 10:24:31 GMT -5
Another absolutely absurd, slow-time-of-year, click-bait story. Gonzaga is "mid-major" in conference affiliation ONLY.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 6, 2017 10:26:24 GMT -5
The whole notion of "mid-major" is absurd in my opinion
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Post by rickii on Jul 6, 2017 10:33:31 GMT -5
As always, such nonsense....
Try telling hoops folks at UNLV, San Diego State, New Mexico, Dayton, VCU and most of all Gonzaga that they're so-called mid-major programs....yea sure.
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Post by Tom on Jul 6, 2017 10:44:42 GMT -5
Since there's no official classification of "mid-major" and it's just a made up thing that us sports junkies like to talk about, there's no clear definition of what is or isn't a mid-major - especially since there's no such thing as a low major
No one would dare say it out loud, but I'd call a mid-or low major as a school that does not pay guarantee money. We all know that URI paid HC a guarantee so they don't count. On the other hand, I don't know if their A-10 brother Fordham offers guarantee games (I'm also pretty sure HC wouldn't be interested in a 2-1 with them)
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 6, 2017 11:05:24 GMT -5
Since there's no official classification of "mid-major" and it's just a made up thing that us sports junkies like to talk about, there's no clear definition of what is or isn't a mid-major - especially since there's no such thing as a low major No one would dare say it out loud, but I'd call a mid-or low major as a school that does not pay guarantee money. We all know that URI paid HC a guarantee so they don't count. On the other hand, I don't know if their A-10 brother Fordham offers guarantee games (I'm also pretty sure HC wouldn't be interested in a 2-1 with them) Are you sure about this? Who says "we"?
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Post by Tom on Jul 6, 2017 13:07:46 GMT -5
Perhaps we assumed. In terms of "we", all of us that follow HC hoops know HC played down there two years in a row. It had been reported on this board that at least the first game was a guarantee, and I saw an ad on TV that said everything on the internet was true. That's where my liberal use of "we" came from referring to Crossport'ers
There was an article linked on the board a year or so ago from the ProJo about URI guarantee games. They liked having either a Brown or Bryant on the schedule most years as they could pay a smaller guarantee for someone who was only a short bus ride away.
To my original point, I'll consider the ProJo a reliable source and say that URI pays guarantee games. I would not label a school that pays guarantee money to tip their OOC schedule heavily home (last year 7 home, 3 road, and one in season neutral tourney vs HC which was 4 at Hart, 8 away, and one semi-home neutral)) a mid major
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Post by ncaam on Jul 6, 2017 13:37:03 GMT -5
Bucknell high mid major with A10 teams like UMass and LaSalle.
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Post by rf1 on Jul 6, 2017 15:43:35 GMT -5
URI does pay opponents for guarantee games in Kingston. URI however plays Brown in an even alternating home and away series due to the long history between the schools. URI has offered Bryant a guarantee game but they have declined since going D1 as they can get more money from other schools. The current series with Holy Cross does not have a guarantee game from what I understand. I believe it is a 2-1 with URI owing a return game at the DCU Center from what was reported by a URI employee last year. I believe that URI plays about three guarantee games in Kingston most years. Dartmouth, Belmont, and William & Mary were such games this past season.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jul 6, 2017 20:42:23 GMT -5
URI does pay opponents for guarantee games in Kingston. URI however plays Brown in an even alternating home and away series due to the long history between the schools. URI has offered Bryant a guarantee game but they have declined since going D1 as they can get more money from other schools. The current series with Holy Cross does not have a guarantee game from what I understand. I believe it is a 2-1 with URI owing a return game at the DCU Center from what was reported by a URI employee last year. I believe that URI plays about three guarantee games in Kingston most years. Dartmouth, Belmont, and William & Mary were such games this past season. What about our game in Kingston in December 2009? They never came to Worcester between then and our game last year. That first game must've been a guarantee, correct?
Or is that game from eight years ago part of the current series?
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Post by rf1 on Jul 6, 2017 21:10:49 GMT -5
URI does pay opponents for guarantee games in Kingston. URI however plays Brown in an even alternating home and away series due to the long history between the schools. URI has offered Bryant a guarantee game but they have declined since going D1 as they can get more money from other schools. The current series with Holy Cross does not have a guarantee game from what I understand. I believe it is a 2-1 with URI owing a return game at the DCU Center from what was reported by a URI employee last year. I believe that URI plays about three guarantee games in Kingston most years. Dartmouth, Belmont, and William & Mary were such games this past season. What about our game in Kingston in December 2009? They never came to Worcester between then and our game last year. That first game must've been a guarantee, correct?
Or is that game from eight years ago part of the current series?
I believe the games that Holy Cross played at the Ryan Center prior to 2016 were one time guarantee games.
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Post by Tom on Jul 6, 2017 21:25:59 GMT -5
URI does pay opponents for guarantee games in Kingston. URI however plays Brown in an even alternating home and away series due to the long history between the schools. URI has offered Bryant a guarantee game but they have declined since going D1 as they can get more money from other schools. The current series with Holy Cross does not have a guarantee game from what I understand. I believe it is a 2-1 with URI owing a return game at the DCU Center from what was reported by a URI employee last year. I believe that URI plays about three guarantee games in Kingston most years. Dartmouth, Belmont, and William & Mary were such games this past season. I'm not sure where to go with this. There has been stuff posted on this board about the 2-1 from more than one source. However, HC played in Kingston in December 2015 and then again in December 2016. The season ticket press release is out and makes no mention of any game at the Centrum or URI in Worcester, yet specifically mentions Harvard, Albany, and Iona. I can't believe Iona is touted as a big game in Worcester and URI is ignored. If URI isn't in Worcester this year this is an awfully strange 2-1 or at least one of the last two games wasn't part of the 2-1
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 6, 2017 21:44:18 GMT -5
There are no HC hoop (or hockey) games sked for the Centrum in '17-'18.
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Post by ts1970 on Jul 6, 2017 23:29:21 GMT -5
All you need to know: "Massachusetts - Harvard: Tommy Amaker has found a way to bring in high-end recruits to Harvard and it has payed off." Payed??? Yes, that's what the man sayed.
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Post by rf1 on Jul 7, 2017 10:20:48 GMT -5
URI does pay opponents for guarantee games in Kingston. URI however plays Brown in an even alternating home and away series due to the long history between the schools. URI has offered Bryant a guarantee game but they have declined since going D1 as they can get more money from other schools. The current series with Holy Cross does not have a guarantee game from what I understand. I believe it is a 2-1 with URI owing a return game at the DCU Center from what was reported by a URI employee last year. I believe that URI plays about three guarantee games in Kingston most years. Dartmouth, Belmont, and William & Mary were such games this past season. I'm not sure where to go with this. There has been stuff posted on this board about the 2-1 from more than one source. However, HC played in Kingston in December 2015 and then again in December 2016. The season ticket press release is out and makes no mention of any game at the Centrum or URI in Worcester, yet specifically mentions Harvard, Albany, and Iona. I can't believe Iona is touted as a big game in Worcester and URI is ignored. If URI isn't in Worcester this year this is an awfully strange 2-1 or at least one of the last two games wasn't part of the 2-1 According to an employee of URI that posted schedule information per a question I posed on the URI Fan Forum, the game in 2015-16 was a one time guarantee game which predated the three game series: This same person posted that the game in 2016-17 was the first in a three year 2-1 series. It seems however that the return game in 17-18 which he wrote about last year is not happening. It is unknown whether this simply got shifted to 2018-19 or the series was completely restructured with no trip to Worcester.
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Post by sader1970 on Jul 7, 2017 10:29:34 GMT -5
What the heck!!?? Who do my Rhodie Rams think they are? Yale!?
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