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Post by bison137 on Nov 28, 2022 15:33:43 GMT -5
prediction: we may win, we'll probably lose, we will be outcoached ( even by amaker). And Amaker is not considered in the coaching fraternity a very good coach.
Reportly when Coach K had to help pick the heir apparent to himself, he never considered Amaker.
One bit of trivia: in the spring of 1994, when Bucknell was looking for a new basketball head coach, one of the coaches who interviewed for the job was Tommy Amaker . At the beginning of the process, the favorite appeared to be Jeff Bzdelik. But ultimately the job went to Pat Flannery. That worked out pretty well. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 27, 2022 12:03:56 GMT -5
What is it about Schmidt that you really like? Any specific examples of his approach to offense or defense that you can cite? 15 seasons at St. Bonaventure, Olean, NY .580 winning percentage .560 in A-10 3 losing seasons, all in first 6 years, two in first 3. And he’s done it at a really hard place to recruit to. Very good coach. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 25, 2022 21:05:51 GMT -5
Any shots on goal in the game? A few. Christian Pulisic hit the crossbar. that was definitely the best scoring chance, but ironically not counted as a shot on goal. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 23, 2022 17:09:09 GMT -5
Has Massey or Sagarin ever had a D3 team favored over a D1 team? I guess there's a first time for everything. Don't know what matchups have occurred, but I do know that the top D3 teams (Massey) are ranked ahead of the weakest D1's. For example, Wisconsin-Lacrosse and Christopher Newport would both be favored over HC on a neutral court in that ranking system. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 23, 2022 15:15:19 GMT -5
Ewing was given a reprieve after last season’s disaster. The axe will fall after this season Sounds familiar It's incredible he survived last season. Ended with 21 consecutive losses. Went 0-19 in the Big East. Wouldn't have been a contender in the Patriot League. Started this year just as bad. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 23, 2022 15:13:26 GMT -5
This from a fan of a team which has never gone to the NCAA tournament, had two winning seasons this century, and lost 20+ games the last seven full seasons.
Too cold in Orono for self-awareness to survive, I guess.
. I don't think that the likes of Lehigh, Lafayette, Bucknell, Colgate, American and Loyola are raising the profiles of your programs and helping you attract better recruits though. I really don't care.....I am very happy with the addition of Bryant.....they are a much more upwardly mobile athletic program than Holy Cross and they are in the same footprint. Hopefully AE can snag a few others like Quinnipiac. I'd love Holy Cross to be another one but regrettably it seems like Holy Cross admin and fans are stuck in their ways....and the past. LOL!!! |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 22, 2022 11:52:26 GMT -5
Any European team that gives up a tie (or loses) to the US causes apoplexy among true football fans. That would have been more true 20 years ago. Only 11 European nations, out of more than 45, rank ahead of the U.S. in FIFA's rankings. U.S. is ahead of all of eastern Europe (except Croatia) and all of Scandinavia. Also well ahead of Scotland and Ireland.. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 21, 2022 18:43:30 GMT -5
They took Loyola Chicago’s place They took 1/3 of their place anyway.  The MVC added three schools - Belmont, Murray State, and UIC - when Loyola left for the A10 recently. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 21, 2022 17:20:49 GMT -5
That is absurd. No one, except possibly you, would suggest that. No NEXCAC coach would say that privately. Connecticut College finished 4-17 and 2-6 in the NESCAC last season finishing in ninth place. Amherst went to the NCAA Final Four and didn't even win the NESCAC regular season or postseason title. And your point is what? Although it's far from perfect, Massey ranks D2 and D3 teams relative to D1. There has never been a year when the NESCAC was close to the PL. Maybe more to the point, Bucknell's current coach in his four years at Scranton got to the D3 Final Four, Elite 8, and Sweet 16 (twice). He would be the first to tell you that the average PL team is significantly better than the average NESCAC team. Bucknell has also scrimmaged good D3 teams in the past and was not challenged. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 21, 2022 11:14:28 GMT -5
Maybe the NESCAC WBB >Patriot League? That is absurd. No one, except possibly you, would suggest that. No NEXCAC coach would say that privately. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 20, 2022 19:18:56 GMT -5
Some players start their career as bad D2 players and end up as really good players. Burnett as a freshman only played for the Navy JV, and as a sophomore he did not play much. Then he sat out a year and has now played three years at Stonehill. So this is his sixth season of practicing/playing and I guarantee he is light years better than he was in his first season.
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Post by bison137 on Nov 20, 2022 15:49:15 GMT -5
The trend of the program under the current head coach would suggest other wise. | Season | W | L | Pct | | 15 -16 | 17 | 14 | 0.548 | | 16 - 17 | 26 | 9 | 0.743 | | 17 - 18 | 25 | 10 | 0.714 | | 18 -19 | 21 | 12 | 0.636 | | 19 - 20 | 14 | 20 | 0.412 | | 20 - 21 | 5 | 7 | 0.417 | | 21 - 22 | 9 | 23 | 0.281 |
he inherited the best group of players anyone ever did in the patriot league. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 20, 2022 15:48:18 GMT -5
The "Fire Nathan Davis" thread on the Bucknell board is fourteen pages long. and it would be much longer except that a lot of people have just given up. He has done a terrible job and his last few recruiting classes are not good enough to be a Patriot League contender. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 16, 2022 18:39:54 GMT -5
Their first 3 seasons’ winning percentages and PL finishes: Langel- 33%. 7th of 8, 5th of 8, 7th of 10 Nelson -22% 10th of 10, 8th of 10, tied for 7th of 10 Langel has obviously improved that, but I think that is a true equivalency PL Winning % through first three years: Langel: .282 Nelson: .269 In Year 4, Langel was 12-6 and finished second in the pL. 12-6 is right around my minimum expectations for what we need to see from HCBN this year. Those PL winning pacts are totally apples to oranges. The PL opponents that Langel faced his first three years were MUCH better than the PL teams that Nelson has faced. The average PL national ranking in that era was 20th, despite Navy being dismal During the past three years, the PL has ranked 25th. During those three years, Langel went up against Bucknell’s Mike Muscala teams that also included POY Cam Ayers and three other All-PL players; plus the CJ McCollum Lehigh teams that had a number of other good players. When those two stars graduated, a loaded Boston U team entered, featuring Maurice Watson and two other very good players. Also American was very strong that year, as was HC (Dudzinski, Miller). In 2014, four PL teams ranked in the top 160 in the nation. . Over the past three years, only Colgate has ranked better than #160. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 14, 2022 18:28:16 GMT -5
Pomeroy was the one who reported on a national site, but he was not the one who noticed it. He blogged about it after receiving an email asking if any player had ever played regularly for an entire season without getting an offensive rebound.
What is a bit ironic is that Funk was a pretty good defensive rebounder. Other than the post players, Bucknell players in Nathan Davis’ system generally get few offensive rebounds.
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Post by bison137 on Nov 12, 2022 22:00:05 GMT -5
I assume the "Al" is buzzing when UConn WBB is in town. I wonder if they have ever moved those games to the off campus arena? They have never moved it. Despite the number of UConn fans who attend their road games, I don’t believe they’ve ever sold out the 3700 seat McGuire Center. Marquette generally does not draw very well for women’s basketball. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 11, 2022 14:31:51 GMT -5
PS: The low pre-season rating does not account for the transfers Dean has playing. IMO, they will clearly finish higher than 6th or 7th in their league. That poll was voted upon by the league's head coaches a week ago. Wouldn't you think the head coaches know what transfers have been added to each team's roster? |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 10, 2022 21:47:10 GMT -5
In 27 non-conference games, Nelson has four wins. Three are against non-D1 schools. That’s pretty amazing. And ironically Carmody had 9 OOC wins in his final year. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 10, 2022 19:11:00 GMT -5
D2 teams can give a maximum of 10 scholarships. Unlike D1 terms, the scholarships can be split among players. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 9, 2022 21:30:19 GMT -5
Don’t really have a huge problem with his comments. To stop trying and playing hard is probably more disrespectful to the opponent. The bigger problem is why this game was even scheduled. It is a waste of everyone’s time. I think there's a happy medium. When Bryant was up by over 100, they still were leaking out a couple of guards for long passes and layups. Average time from rebound to shot at the other end was less than five seconds for a good part of the game. Bryant would actually learn more if they didn't do that and ran their offense. Btw, Grasso has set up their schedule as if he gets a bonus based on margin of victory. Their early schedule includes Thomas, Dartmouth, Maine-Fort Kent, FIU, Detroit Mercy, Framingham State, and Brown. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 9, 2022 18:15:10 GMT -5
An exercise in character building What a joke ! Grasso has been a jerk since high school. Fordham was wise in not choosing him as coach. Agree on all counts. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 7, 2022 17:19:31 GMT -5
In the broader sense, he may be justified. But his claims about the Dartmouth game sound bogus to me. Probably just wants out, but he should have quit back in April. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 5, 2022 23:27:06 GMT -5
No men.s lacrosse teams. But a number of women’s teams share a field with field hockey since the women’s lax rules make it a non-contact sport where players almost never hit the ground. Ah...Maryland does in Women I know that because they are doing a big fundraising campaign for their field hockey/lax field. At least two of the seven PL field hockey programs have fields that are also used by women's lacrosse: American and Bucknell (not sure about Colgate), Bucknell's facility is very nice, AU not so much. A couple others that I know are UConn and Georgetown. There are no doubt others. There are also a number of schools who play FH on the same field as soccer or football, which obviously is not good at all. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 5, 2022 15:40:05 GMT -5
Can you really play another sport well and safely on that type of surface? Seems like it's meant for field hockey and field hockey only. Unless street hockey becomes an officially recognized NCAA sport! Soccer/lacrosse will have a completely different look. When is that scheduled to be done? Holy Cross for years played mens and womens lax on it too until they finally came to their senses. I don't think there are any lacrosse teams in the country that play on that anymore. No men.s lacrosse teams. But a number of women’s teams share a field with field hockey since the women’s lax rules make it a non-contact sport where players almost never hit the ground. |
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Post by bison137 on Nov 4, 2022 13:21:36 GMT -5
A 4.5% drop (not speaking about the total dollars, just relative value) isn't terrible. Look at your 401k. It probably did much worse! The S&P 500 is down over 20% YTD. But the S&P 500 was down only about 4% for the fiscal year ending June 30th. |
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The MVC added three schools - Belmont, Murray State, and UIC - when Loyola left for the A10 recently. 
