Wayne
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Post by Wayne on Aug 7, 2024 16:33:36 GMT -5
There are three low major D1 programs along the 495 belt within an hour drive of Worcester. Another low major is 30 minutes down 146 just across the RI state line. Another lies two hours west in the capital city of New York. Another is located in a remote location in Northern New Hampshire along the Connecticut River and has extra OOC games to fill playing in an eight team conference. Nothing could be worked out where they couldn't get one of these teams to come in with a return game next season at their place?
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Post by hcfan85 on Aug 7, 2024 16:45:05 GMT -5
I understand that getting other teams to play at a low-major (that has been down for years) is a tough sell. But once again scheduling TWO D3 teams is some Nelson-era nonsense. IF you have to go out-of-division to get a game, go D2 and bring in Assumption. OR at least have the D3 team be local, like Clark, WPI, or Nichols. No excuse to have Regis and Mitchell come in for glorified scrimmages. I know I was very critical of Mitchell College in my post. Academically, it is the pits. However, their athletic program is very good, so I suspect this game may not be a "glorified scrimmage." By the way, the women play Division 3 Connecticut College, also from New London. At least this is a fine school academically. The women won't have a D3 game this year.
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Post by purplehaze on Aug 7, 2024 17:19:25 GMT -5
It's a long road back to respectability, guys.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Aug 7, 2024 17:24:05 GMT -5
Really unfortunate and downright awful home OOC slate.
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 7, 2024 17:36:09 GMT -5
I can hardly wait to renew my season tickets!š¤®
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Post by thecrossisback on Aug 7, 2024 17:41:23 GMT -5
Really unfortunate and downright awful home OOC slate. Sad this is all mid to low majors can get nowadays. Creates no exciting environment for fans or students.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 7, 2024 17:51:53 GMT -5
Really unfortunate and downright awful home OOC slate. Sad this is all mid to low majors can get nowadays. Creates no exciting environment for fans or students. it has very little to do with HCās status as a āmid to low majorā. Itās apparently what HCDP wanted. Compare it to Bucknellās schedule, a team that wasnāt that much better than HC the last couple of years. Itās possible for a team at that level to get a very good schedule.
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Post by cfrivals on Aug 7, 2024 17:56:38 GMT -5
Who is Mitchell? D4?? But Regis is much better, Iām sure they demanded a return game
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Post by thecrossisback on Aug 7, 2024 18:25:35 GMT -5
Sad this is all mid to low majors can get nowadays. Creates no exciting environment for fans or students. it has very little to do with HCās status as a āmid to low majorā. Itās apparently what HCDP wanted. Compare it to Bucknellās schedule, a team that wasnāt that much better than HC the last couple of years. Itās possible for a team at that level to get a very good schedule. Yeah but 95% of the mid to low major has to play those games on the road! Same with Bucknell. That was my point.
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wstruz71
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Post by wstruz71 on Aug 7, 2024 18:26:30 GMT -5
Who is Mitchell? D4?? But Regis is much better, Iām sure they demanded a return game Mitchell College is located in a residential area of New London, CT. It used to be a 2 year school, but the college now offers some 4 year programs. Mitchell College is the lowest rated college in Connecticut. It is a school that caters to the special needs, although you do not have to have special needs to go there. Academically, it ranks at the bottom of the barrel. Athletically, it competes at the Division 3 level. Their athletic programs are decent, and they have appeared in the Division 3 post season tournaments. I suspect this game will be more competitive than the Regis game.
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Post by hchoops on Aug 7, 2024 18:38:03 GMT -5
Who is Mitchell? D4?? But Regis is much better, Iām sure they demanded a return game Mitchell College is the lowest rated college in Connecticut. It is a school that caters to the special needs, although you do not have to have special needs to go there. Academically, it ranks at the bottom of the barrel. If a school caters to special needs students, it logically will not be rated high academically. To expect it to be strong academically is unfair.
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Post by bfoley82 on Aug 7, 2024 19:40:44 GMT -5
Who is Mitchell? D4?? But Regis is much better, Iām sure they demanded a return game Mitchell College is located in a residential area of New London, CT. It used to be a 2 year school, but the college now offers some 4 year programs. Mitchell College is the lowest rated college in Connecticut. It is a school that caters to the special needs, although you do not have to have special needs to go there. Academically, it ranks at the bottom of the barrel. Athletically, it competes at the Division 3 level. Their athletic programs are decent, and they have appeared in the Division 3 post season tournaments. I suspect this game will be more competitive than the Regis game. Mitchell (4-10) last year finished four games BEHIND Regis (8-6) which was Mitchell's first year in the GNAC. We all know Holy Cross is staying away from University of St. Joe's because they might lose to them.
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Post by trimster on Aug 8, 2024 2:29:25 GMT -5
Really unfortunate and downright awful home OOC slate. Sad this is all mid to low majors can get nowadays. Creates no exciting environment for fans or students. The crossisback's avatar caught my eye. King Gaskins. The college he transferred to after HC? Mitchell College.
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Post by trimster on Aug 8, 2024 8:09:40 GMT -5
There are three low major D1 programs along the 495 belt within an hour drive of Worcester. Another low major is 30 minutes down 146 just across the RI state line. Another lies two hours west in the capital city of New York. Another is located in a remote location in Northern New Hampshire along the Connecticut River and has extra OOC games to fill playing in an eight team conference. Nothing could be worked out where they couldn't get one of these teams to come in with a return game next season at their place? If given the choice between playing 2 road games from the group you mentioned or 2 D3 home games, Iād take the former.
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Post by trimster on Aug 8, 2024 8:22:40 GMT -5
There are three low major D1 programs along the 495 belt within an hour drive of Worcester. Another low major is 30 minutes down 146 just across the RI state line. Another lies two hours west in the capital city of New York. Another is located in a remote location in Northern New Hampshire along the Connecticut River and has extra OOC games to fill playing in an eight team conference. Nothing could be worked out where they couldn't get one of these teams to come in with a return game next season at their place? If given the choice between playing 2 road games from the group you mentioned or 2 D3 home games, Iād take the former. The 2 non-D1 games shouldnāt be part of the season ticket cost. Make them free and hope you sell a lot of hot dogs.
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Wayne
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Post by Wayne on Aug 8, 2024 8:33:53 GMT -5
I asked for one of those potential teams to play in Worcester this year, not to travel to two of them. If we count the Brown MTE as a single road game, there is presently a 4/2 split in road/home games which theoretically would flip next season. Replacing one of the D3 games with the front end of a home and home helps balance this out. Then again, every non-buy or MTE OOC is a return game from last year, so who knows. Worcester kid DeMarr Langford is a senior who plays for Albany. That would be a good way to approach them about starting a home and home series so he could play in his home city.
I'm sorry, multiple D3 games is unacceptable, especially when one is against a school that is half the size of Algonquin High. Should have just scheduled Anna Maria. At least they are right down the road.
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Post by Tom on Aug 8, 2024 8:36:38 GMT -5
There are three low major D1 programs along the 495 belt within an hour drive of Worcester. Another low major is 30 minutes down 146 just across the RI state line. Another lies two hours west in the capital city of New York. Another is located in a remote location in Northern New Hampshire along the Connecticut River and has extra OOC games to fill playing in an eight team conference. Nothing could be worked out where they couldn't get one of these teams to come in with a return game next season at their place? If given the choice between playing 2 road games from the group you mentioned or 2 D3 home games, Iād take the former. There's the rub There are 11 OOC games "one" game is a multi team event in Providence. That leaves 10 Three buy games (of which one is a lower, but local buy) that leaves 7 There are presumably 5 home and home games. 5 being an odd number sometimes there would be 3 home and 2 away. Sometimes, like this year there would be 2 home and 3 away. This leaves us with only 2 OOC home games and 2 open slots. I suppose one option would be to get rid of the D-III's and replace with two home and homes, but that would be only 3 home games I get the logic, don't necessarily agree with it -------------------------- From an editorial standpoint, I would hope next year when the 5 home/home's favor Hart they could dump a D-III and add a 6th home and home starting on the road (might be easier to schedule) and you could have a stable 4 home with only one D-III If we're so desperate for home games we need to schedule D-III's, why is Regis in December? OK, we want to give the students more opportunities to see their team. No one is around on December 29. To me, it kind of defeats the purpose of doing anything to get a home game. At least it isn't as bad as the Christmas week game last year which was in the middle of the day on a Friday Maybe the scheduling almost guarantees going into the conference schedule on a win streak. ------------------------------------- From a selfish standpoint, only 3 of the OOC slate is outside my normal hoops driving range
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Post by rf1 on Aug 8, 2024 8:37:18 GMT -5
If it makes Crusader fans feel any better, A-10 member St Louis will also play two non D1 opponents - Avila and William Woods are both NAIA. St Louis is located right downtown in one of America's largest metros and plays all its home games in a modern state of the art 10,000 seat on campus arena. It still apparently had issues getting opponents. Five A-10 members have thus far released OOC schedules with non D1 opponents - Dayton, VCU, SLU (2), St Bonaventure and LaSalle. I expect this list will grow (with URI joining). x.com/SaintLouisMBB/status/1821275440167981461
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Post by 78purple on Aug 8, 2024 9:27:51 GMT -5
It's a long road back to respectability, guys. You got that right......I remember back in the '70's we were complaining about Buffalo and Vermont being on the schedule
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Post by Tom on Aug 8, 2024 9:57:46 GMT -5
It's a long road back to respectability, guys. You got that right......I remember back in the '70's we were complaining about Buffalo and Vermont being on the schedule Ohio St isn't coming back to the Hart Center
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Post by timholycross on Aug 8, 2024 10:23:07 GMT -5
The Mitchell game is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of King Gaskins going there (in the 73-74 academic year; and, yes, Mitchell at the time was a JUCO) to shore up his grades to get back into HC.
Of course, trouble followed him there too and that was that.
Saw a soccer game there once; overall, it wasn't a very impressive looking institution.
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Post by 78purple on Aug 8, 2024 10:36:10 GMT -5
You got that right......I remember back in the '70's we were complaining about Buffalo and Vermont being on the schedule Ohio St isn't coming back to the Hart Center No reason why we can not resume the Iona, Fordham, St. Peter's, Manhattan matchups on a regular basis
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Post by trimster on Aug 8, 2024 10:48:40 GMT -5
Ohio St isn't coming back to the Hart Center No reason why we can not resume the Iona, Fordham, St. Peter's, Manhattan matchups on a regular basis I would add Fairfield to the mix.
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Post by 78purple on Aug 8, 2024 10:50:01 GMT -5
No reason why we can not resume the Iona, Fordham, St. Peter's, Manhattan matchups on a regular basis I would add Fairfield to the mix. agreed.....maybe Seton Hall as well..
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Aug 8, 2024 11:55:03 GMT -5
If given the choice between playing 2 road games from the group you mentioned or 2 D3 home games, Iād take the former. The 2 non-D1 games shouldnāt be part of the season ticket cost. Make them free and hope you sell a lot of hot dogs. I was thinking of the opposite approach - fine, charge me for those tickets, but I want free eats that night, and some top of the line swag; I could use a fleece jacket, and maybe a nice sweatshirt for the winter. I can't understand (in this part of the country, especially, where there are so many D1 schools in the area) why so many D-1 one schools are scheduling these games. I get it if you are in one of those huge states in the middle of the country, but not here.
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