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Post by bfoley82 on May 16, 2021 14:15:12 GMT -5
Rhode Island coach didn't get her contract renewed after 6 years. They're win percentage was worse than ours, but they took 2 out of 3 from us head to head. It's mid-May and the coaching merry-go-round has already started. URI went 5-22 on the season and 2-12 in the A-10. So two out of their three non conference wins were over Holy Cross. The other victory was over ACC member Boston College. |
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Post by longsuffering on May 16, 2021 14:27:26 GMT -5
Rhode Island coach didn't get her contract renewed after 6 years. They're win percentage was worse than ours, but they took 2 out of 3 from us head to head. It's mid-May and the coaching merry-go-round has already started. The URI website still has Bridget Hurlman listed as Head Coach, but a non-renewal after six losing years is fair and gracious. There were five games scheduled between the Rams and Crusaders this season, all in March with two cancelled but all five would have been home games for URI according to their schedule. I am assuming that is because URI has an artificial playing surface? |
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Post by Crucis#1 on May 16, 2021 15:16:35 GMT -5
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Post by longsuffering on May 16, 2021 15:35:06 GMT -5
Very Interesting (but not conspiracy theory level interesting) that the HC website softball schedule does not list the two cancelled games at the end of March that the URI schedule lists as cancelled home games. Does the low flood plain topography of Freshman Field make the current HC softball facility more vulnerable to March weather than other New England grass fields? Or is URI closer to the Gulf Stream or the Trade Winds or something?
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Post by bison137 on May 16, 2021 20:21:41 GMT -5
The March 31 games where HC was supposed to play URI were canceled because URI had a Covid outbreak. HC actually ended up with two last minute home games on that date versus Maine.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 5, 2021 15:23:56 GMT -5
Rhode Island coach didn't get her contract renewed after 6 years. They're win percentage was worse than ours, but they took 2 out of 3 from us head to head. It's mid-May and the coaching merry-go-round has already started. The URI website still has Bridget Hurlman listed as Head Coach, but a non-renewal after six losing years is fair and gracious. There were five games scheduled between the Rams and Crusaders this season, all in March with two cancelled but all five would have been home games for URI according to their schedule. I am assuming that is because URI has an artificial playing surface? WPI head coach and Don Zimmer's granddaughter took the job athletics.wpi.edu/sports/sball/2020-21/releases/20210701dt43kv |
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 5, 2021 18:12:54 GMT -5
The URI website still has Bridget Hurlman listed as Head Coach, but a non-renewal after six losing years is fair and gracious. There were five games scheduled between the Rams and Crusaders this season, all in March with two cancelled but all five would have been home games for URI according to their schedule. I am assuming that is because URI has an artificial playing surface? WPI head coach and Don Zimmer's granddaughter took the job athletics.wpi.edu/sports/sball/2020-21/releases/20210701dt43kvCoach Goldstein has certainly made the late "Gerbil" Don Zimmer proud. I have noted in recent years how much more successful WPI softball was than HC despite being an engineering school with a lower percentage of women students than a liberal arts school. |
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 5, 2021 21:14:07 GMT -5
Regardless of ratio there is a greater total # of female students at WPI than HC.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 6, 2021 11:25:19 GMT -5
Regardless of ratio there is a greater total # of female students at WPI than HC. WPI and MIT played in a softball super regional against each other in 2016. The MIT coach just finished her second year at Dartmouth and now the URI move. Just interesting as Holy Cross hired a new coach in 2017 and done basically nothing. MIT is more selective than Holy Cross. |
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Post by princetoncrusader on Jul 6, 2021 16:31:17 GMT -5
Have you ever seen the softball "stadium" at HC?
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Post by purplehaze on Jul 6, 2021 17:33:57 GMT -5
Despite the lousy facility there is no reason why we lose badly every season - in 2021 our team batting average (.202) ranked 281st out of 285 D.1 schools - we should be doing better
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Post by coacht on Jul 6, 2021 19:00:33 GMT -5
Players are not coming to HC for the softball field. Yes, a new one will be nice and I'm happy it's in the works and it will help. At the margin. You choose HC over other schools for the education. Because you want to be an MD, JD, MBA or PhD and coming out of HC gives you a good shot at a Big Time grad school.
With the reduced practice schedule compared to every D1 except the Ivy's, you really can't recruit 3 star players with the expectation of developing them. You have to go on the recruiting trail and grind it out. Go to the Head First High-Academic Camps, all four of them. Hit the high-academic days at the other showcases. Find players that can get in and make a difference. You don't get many chances to make a mistake with the number of scholarships we have and you'll have to find some "full pay kids" that can and will pick an HC education at retail over a DI/DII education at a lower ranked school (academically) at half the cost. And if you're telling me the coaches are doing all of that, then they need to work on talent evaluation because they're not pulling it in (Ms. Nelson and a couple of others excepted).
Get stud pitching, a quality battery mate, maybe a short-stop. Spread your schollies around as much as you can. Use your slots as you work the high need/merit end of the talent pool to get different types of aid to a greater pool of players, get athletes and then go to work on hitting. Forget the latest launch/approach angle trend that's so popular with the P5 coaches. We don't get P5 talent. Get the barrel on plane. Hit line drives. Yes, it's a bit old-school, but given the academic profile we have to recruit (3.85 GPA+ players with a 30 ACT) and the limited size of that pool, it can work.
Is it easy? Hell no. But others are doing it and they all don't have more scholarship money than we do (although I admit, some do and it does make it easier).
Rant over.
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 6, 2021 20:39:32 GMT -5
Good rant. I like that you don't give the coaches a pass due to the facility.
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