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Post by bison137 on Aug 20, 2022 18:11:29 GMT -5
When the scary stories of non-elite talented players giving up a safe scholarship to enter the portal and ending up out of D-1 start to accumulate and spread, there may be less non elite talented players entering. (Maybe not also) What might be interesting is if the NCAA could create a list showing how many players gave up a scholarship and ended up without one - especially ones who had not yet graduated. Right now the stats in VC are not very informative because we know a number of players who entered the portal were non-scholarship players. And another group had been on scholarship but had graduated and were just trying to find a spot for free grad school.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 20, 2022 7:56:33 GMT -5
What six programs have not added a player via the transfer portal? As of now, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State, UCLA, USC, and Villanova are the only six programs that have not added any players from the transfer portal for the 2022-23 season. Last year there were only four programs, Purdue, Stanford, UConn, and Villanova. Tobias Bass this presumably only refers to power conferences. There are lots of schools in the Patriot League who have not added a transfer this year. And there were many Patriot League schools who did not add a transfer last year. I presume there are a number of schools in other leagues in this category as well.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 19, 2022 1:07:02 GMT -5
Why do you think he’s not getting a scholarship? Because D-3 doesn't give athletic scholarships and I assumed that Community Colleges did not either. I have another assumption that community colleges do not give non-athletic scholarships to out of state students because they exist to serve the local community but I could well be wrong on both. Almost all community colleges that are known for basketball give numerous athletic scholarships.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 18, 2022 20:05:14 GMT -5
Da'Jion Humphrey has committed to Garden City Community College in Kansas. He's from Michigan. Paying out of state tuition in Kansas sounds odd so Garden City probably has a good coach who is sympatico with players who will be one and done and will be working on their game to get back to the "show" and not necessarily bleeding whatever the GCCC school colors are. I don't mean that as a criticism of either Bubba or the coach. Why do you think he’s not getting a scholarship?
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Post by bison137 on Aug 17, 2022 0:17:05 GMT -5
They are allowed at least two paid assistant coaches...are they going to hire a second? Or are they being cheap? Or, to be more exact, they are allowed no more than two assistant coaches.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 16, 2022 20:05:39 GMT -5
What percent of the percentages end up in D2, D3 or Juco/CC's? The latter category is hardly ever what the athlete had in mind. The other two may be. One thing to remember is that a number of the players who put their names in the portal don’t really have an expectation of ending up with a scholarship spot at any level. For example, Bucknell had a walk-on a few years ago who graduated and then put his name into the portal. He really had no expectation of finding anything other than another walk-on spot but he figured it couldn’t hurt. Also if you look back at the transfer data compiled by VC, there are a number of players who found a home but it is never recorded on their website. They rely on Twitter and similar Internet sources.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 16, 2022 13:09:04 GMT -5
In putting the stats together, did you notice the drop of over 30% in murders? Yes, murder thankfully is down. But virtually every other type of crime is up dramatically. Some NYPD officers will tell you that minor crimes are up even more because many officers have stopped making arrests for those crimes. It's a lot of paperwork and the charges are usually dismissed, at least in some of the boroughs. There are a couple of stores near where my daughter lives in Manhattan who have closed due to uncontrollable crime.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 16, 2022 12:42:37 GMT -5
They are using two different courses in Paramus for the qualifying rounds: Ridgewood CC and Arcola CC. I assume the rough is brutal at both of them. Ridgewood is the better known, having been designed by Tillinghast and later tweaked by Gil Hanse. It periodically has hosted a Fed EX Cup event near the end of the season and has also hosted some U.S. Senior Opens.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 13, 2022 13:22:51 GMT -5
FWIW, MSG is hosting the NCAA men’s East Regional in March.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 11, 2022 18:11:44 GMT -5
HC could end up with a group of mature and realistic players, which aren't the worst possible traits. We've only had one player, Grandy, leave early and have a "fairy tale ending" so far. His journey isn't even over but so far it's been the exception that proves the rule that the grass isn't generally greener in the other fellow's yard. The same year that Grandison transferred to Illinois, there was another player from New England who also transferred to Illinois. He played for Wesleyan, may have been NESCAC Player of the Year, high scorer. They both transferred as rising juniors and sat a year. I don't think the player from Wesleyan ever played a minute for the Illini. The transfer from Wesleyan you reference is Austin Hutcherson. He had some very bad luck with injuries. After sitting a year due to the transfer, he then injured his back and had to sit out all of 2020-21. He returned in 2021-22 and played about 20 mpg in their first three games, including one start. Then he unfortunately developed a sports hernia that caused him to miss the rest of the year - and his career was over just like that. He was up for the NBA draft last month but not taken. He was not the NESCAC POY but he was the league's leading scorer as a soph.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 9, 2022 18:13:58 GMT -5
Wow—/ would be great if this were anywhere near accurate 1 When they say "recruiting class", they clearly are including transfers. Not only for HC but also for Lafayette (van der Baan and TJ Berger) and Bucknell (Jack Forrest). 2. Based on what I've seen in the past, Major Madness spends very little time following the PL. 3. FWIW, their prediction for the PL top four is Colgate, Boston U, Army, and American. They are also surprisingly high on Loyola.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 4, 2022 19:51:17 GMT -5
Maybe a F.H. trip to South Africa to help keep that pipeline flowing. Other options are The Netherlands and Argentina. Both would be much better options. South Africa is not a good FH country. There are better players in U.S. Mid-Atlantic states than you can find in South Africa.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 4, 2022 16:02:14 GMT -5
Practice?!! Allen Iverson didn't need to practice in an official NBA arena. Preseason camp should be starting next week or so.... August 10, to be exact.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 2, 2022 22:07:51 GMT -5
Looks like Foster brining some PL players with him. Early and Benneche, two top pitchers, headed to Northwestern Early was the league’s best pitcher. His transfer is a big loss to Army. In contrast Benneche was erratic this year for Lafayette and fairly mediocre, finishing with a 1-10 record and a poor WHIP. He has a big arm and gets a lot of strikeouts, but he really only had three good games the entire season. I assume he will be walking on at Northwestern.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 2, 2022 15:43:39 GMT -5
There shouldn't be an inherent barrier to HC challenging for the PL championship unless schools having their own golf courses is too big a recruiting and practice advantage for us to overcome. Fwiw, neither Boston U nor Richmond has its own golf course. In fact, neither even uses a course in the city where they are located.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 29, 2022 17:50:05 GMT -5
After only two seasons. While they weren't very good, one would think that his record wasn't bad enough to get canned after two years. Six game under .500 in the PL isn't disastrous. Why would Lafayette wait three months after the conclusion of the season to make this move? Wonder what the story is here. Yes, it certainly sounds like there is more to it than LC’s performance. PL records have actually been much improved during Reilly's two years. Their PL performance over the past ten years: 2022: 10-15 2021: 12-13 - - - - - - - - - - 2020: covid 2019: 12-13 2018: 4-20 2017: 4-16 2016: 7-13 2015: 9-11 2014: 5-13 2013: 6-14 2012: 7-13
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Post by bison137 on Jul 28, 2022 18:38:25 GMT -5
137, does Nate Davis have pictures of Jermaine Truax? Shocked he’s back after the past three seasons. Also, when Bucknell gets done by 15+ in a game does he stop coaching? Saw that happen multiple times last season. Not sure he needed pictures this year - but he may need them after this season. It turned out he has two years left on his contract, not the one year that many thought. Bucknell was not going to buy out two years. Had John Hardt still been AD, things might have been different, as Hardt had a lot more experience, more clout, and a better ability to find big donors as compared to Truax.. Although Davis is not even close to being a good coach, his PL record his first four years was 58-14. All thanks to inheriting the best group of players in PL history: Nana Foulland (PL POY, three times All-PL), Zach Thomas (PL POY), Stephen Brown (three-time All-PL), Chris Haas (twice 1st team All-PL), Nate Sestina (horribly misused by Davis but a starter at Kentucky, great senior season for Bucknell), Kimbal Mackenzie (All-PL as soph and senior, injured as jr), Nate Jones (starter as a soph before several injuries), Ryan Frazier (solid PG and PL All-defense), Dom Hoffman (strong rebounding PF who deserved more PT), plus a few others. All recruited by Dane Fischer, Aaron Kelly, and Dave Paulsen. But a 58-14 record buys a coach a lot of time - especially with an inexperienced AD. It was obvious by 2019 that Davis and his staff were not doing a good job, but the talent and the record covered that up for a lot of people.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 28, 2022 18:05:02 GMT -5
Here is Bucknell‘s 00C schedule. Not as strong as in past years - but they do have games at Georgia and Rutgers, and two A-10 opponents. Also a long stay in Florida.
Nov. 7 MON Lebanon Valley Nov. 12 SAT Niagara Nov. 15 TUE @st. Peter's Nov. 18 FRI @georgia * Nov. 21 MON Albany, A.Peay, or Presbyterian * Nov. 22 TUE Albany, A.Peay, or Presbyterian * Nov. 26 SAT Marist Nov. 30 WED St. Francis (PA) Dec. 3 SAT @njit Dec. 6 TUE @ La Salle Dec. 18 SUN Merrimack Dec. 21 WED @richmond Dec. 23 FRI @ Rutgers
* = Sunshine Slam (Daytona Beach)
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Post by bison137 on Jul 27, 2022 20:25:01 GMT -5
Note that there is another game in December that isn't showing up on my screen, i.e. at Buffalo on December 20th. Buffalo was a top 75 team last year and won the MAAC.
I expect them to add another game to this schedule, as currently they are two games short of the max and only have one game between December 6th and December 30th.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 27, 2022 9:34:50 GMT -5
I'm surprised Army and Navy don't play Air Force every year They usually do. Maybe date hasn't yet been announced? The OOC schedule that they announced includes 13 games, which is the maximum number that they are allowed to play.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 25, 2022 16:47:25 GMT -5
For comparison, in Year 4 at Colgate (w/out having to deal with a global pandemic), Matt Langel finished: 16-17 Overall 12-6 pL (2nd place in regular season) Lost in pL semifinals to 6th seed American In Years 1-3, his .282 pL winning percentage was less two percentage points above HCBN's current .269 clip. Both guys also took over for coaches who were sleepwalking through the motions (Kermit Davis + HOF Carmody). Did SOV have Matt Langel's poster on his wall after that Year 4 finish or did he wait until Year 7 or 8? Colgate's KenPom ranking in years 1-3 (324, 269, 184). He also was laying the foundation and had a clear plan in place to build the program (bringing in some pretty nice transfers). It was also very clear what Colgate would be doing well under Langel: put the ball in the basket. In his third year, Colgate ranked fifth in eFG% and sixth in 3PT%. Nelson's first three years: 344, 304, 349. One guy was trending upwards, the other is a bottom ten program after three years. Try again. The other thing to remember is that Colgate - when Langel arrived - was a much tougher place to recruit to than was HC when Nelson arrived: 1 Worse facilities 2 Much worse basketball tradition 3 Much lower budget 4 Small town in the middle of nowhere with a long brutal winter.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 19, 2022 19:25:09 GMT -5
Always like to check in with this, if for nothing else, to serve as a countdown to the season (although for some strange reason I'm not quite as pumped as normal. Can't understand, with the NIL, transfers, umpteen losing seasons in a row, and other cool things). Anyway, Colgate appears at #136. No commentary provided this year, just players and stats. I had thought Richardson and Lynch-Daniels were possibly coming back, but this has them as gone. www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/20719You are correct. Both Richardson and Lynch-Daniels are coming back for a fifth year. Colgate has made it really easy for players to return with no academic reason. Part of me wishes Bucknell had that philosophy. Colgate will be a heavy favor to win the league again this year.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 19, 2022 15:16:17 GMT -5
JVB to Lehigh, happened a while ago although haven’t seen anything publicly posted. On Verbal Commits... JVB's name is not highlighted and when you click on it, it says he has "verbally committed to Lafayette".... well, we know he is not going to Bucknell, according to Bison... so will he be a Mountain Hawk or a Leopard? There is something very strange about his commitment to Lafayette on VC. They have the date of either offer or commitment as 3/27/22. However on that date, Lafayette didn't even have a coach - so it is extremely unlikely any interaction between VDB and LC was happening then. Also he only entered the portal on 3/25, so it's very unlikely he could have had any LC offer in less than two days, coach or no. Also is no post/article on twitter or anywhere on the internet linking him to LC, other than that brief reference on VC. (They list him as an incoming freshman btw.)
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Post by bison137 on Jul 19, 2022 13:57:29 GMT -5
why does AU have women's but not men's lacrosse? I imagine that Title IX plays a big part. American’s student body is approximately 62% female, so that is a big factor. In total, AU only has the NCAA minimum of 14 sports, and they have shown No inclination to add more.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 12, 2022 22:59:37 GMT -5
That is the same question I was going to ask. As for Bucknell, like HC they have reasonable standards for transfers. And like HC (and every other D1 program in the U.S.), there is a little more leeway given to athletes. In its 20-year scholarship history, Bucknell has brought in three transfers: Brian Fitzpatrick (from Penn), Miles Latimer (from Stony Brook), and Jack Forrest (Columbia and St. Joes). All three of them had Bucknell offers out of high school and qualified under the PL academic index. Also all three had multiple Ivy/PL offers out of high school. As I understand it, for any PL school to accept a transfer, the transfer must meet two academic standards 1) acceptable performance at his previous school AND 2) an academic profile coming out of high school that would allow him to be admitted under the PL academic index. So, for Tse, Wilbar, Octave, etc. they must have had a high school academic profile that would have allowed them to qualify under the PL academic index as entering freshmen. Based on info on this board, Octave and Wilbar had high school GPAs of 3.6-4.0, making it probable that they would have passed the AI test as entering freshmen. Probably Tse as well. Who knows with Vanderbaan? If he did and HC didn’t pursue him after he left BC…then he lands at another PL school, that’s disappointing..at best. According to a PL coach that I talked with, once an athlete is into the second semester of sophomore year his original academic index is no longer applicable. At that point the only thing the patriot league looks at is his college GPA. I don’t agree with that because the college GPA might be based on courses in basket weaving from the worst college in the country, but that’s the way it is. It’s up to each school to show the proper amount of academic discipline. As for the AI for entering freshmen, don’t forget that half of that calculation normally is based on a students SAT score.
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