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Post by bison137 on Jul 12, 2022 17:32:13 GMT -5
Re: Vanderbaan. Must have misunderstood. Thought the reference to education major was a veiled criticism of his academics. Peace. It wasn’t at all intended as a slight of his academics. I was merely pointing out that someone who has majored in education for a few years doesn’t suddenly become an engineering major. That would be true of most majors.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 12, 2022 13:38:49 GMT -5
Bucknell is a fine university. I could not imagine they wpiuld lower their high standards to admit merely a b-ball player. Honestly. I would be shocked & disheartened. What makes you believe Vander Baan wouldn't qualify? 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.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 12, 2022 12:38:33 GMT -5
Bucknell is a fine university. I could not imagine they wpiuld lower their high standards to admit merely a b-ball player. Honestly. I would be shocked & disheartened. At this point, they couldn't even take a transfer from Kentucky or Duke or Kansas since Nathan Davis has chosen to not have any available scholarships.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 12, 2022 12:25:36 GMT -5
If Vander Baan jr is headed to PA, I hope he's planning on studying engineering He was an education major at BC. Chance of him studying engineering at his new school is approximately zero.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 12, 2022 12:23:20 GMT -5
Justin Vander Baan (BC 7' center and cousin of Alex) entered the portal on March 25, 2022. Hearing from a reliable source that he will be coming to the Hart Center this coming season, but just not as a member of the Crusader basketball team... likely to be a Bison, Mountain Hawk or Leopard.... stay tuned! There may be truth in part of that report, but not all of it. Bucknell has no available scholarships for this season, which has been the case for two months. Lafayette may have one available, depending on whether Zambie is a walk-on, which I think is the case. Also it appears Lehigh has one available, although it is hard to tell because Brett Reed usually has a large number of walk-ons. Either four or five at present. If there is any chance VDB would have chosen Bucknell, then I will be even more disgusted with Nathan Davis than I already am. He opted to throw away a scholarship on a project 7-footer, who had no other offers and who won't be a contributor for a few years if ever, following a pattern of wasting a scholarship every April on a player who has no other offers. VDB is massively better than the guy Bucknell wasted the scholarship on.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 3, 2022 20:23:34 GMT -5
And here I always thought "YMCA" stood for Young Men's Christian Association and though far fewer, YM HA was for Young Men's Hebrew Association. Misprint or just an ecumenical effort? it is indeed a YMCA. I believe it is the largest sports and fitness center in Jerusalem. Also has a large modern hotel.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 2, 2022 11:23:50 GMT -5
This is such a mess. Odd that this comes to light I think some 11 years later. As one might suspect, more recent players seem to be very supportive of the coach. In any case, a blueprint in how not to run a player off from a program. Given the time lag, you'd have to think that some other incident(s) have occurred fairly recently. As you say, it's definitely a blueprint how not to run a player off a program - although I'm not sure there is an acceptable way. Some coaches are very cutthroat when it comes to quickly changing a roster they inherited. One ugly example that got some press involved a Bucknell guard, Amanda Brown, who was from a North Dallas suburb and always wanted to play in the Big 12. She ended up signing with Oklahoma State and turned down some other good offers. But in March of 2005, OK State fired their coach. In April, the new coach phones Amanda Brown and says he doesn't want her there. (He was trying to free up space to bring in a couple of juco's.) He tells her that since she has a signed contract, he can't keep her from coming. But if she does, she won't be allowed to practice or play. Won't be on the team roster. Won't be allowed in the practice facility at any time. Won't live in the dorm with the other players. And at the end of the year, her scholarship will not be renewed. She obviously was distraught and found there were limited options at the point in the year. (This was way before the portal, and most teams in April had filled their rosters.) But her AAU coach knew an assistant at Bucknell, and it turned out they had a scholarship available. Brown ended up coming to Bucknell, where she made All-PL first team twice. (Missed it her junior year when she missed a lot of time with an injury.) She ended up getting an MBA while working as a grad assistant, and she is now Associate Director of Academic Services at Georgia Tech. So at least the story had a happy ending.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 30, 2022 20:54:19 GMT -5
FU vs HC. Football: Historically, FU has had a more prominent program than HC. ( National rankings, Lombardi, NFL Rams, etc.) Yet from at least my time at HC in the 60's HC has led in the series. Basketball: It's the reverse. Obviously HC has reached greater heights and historically had a more famous program than FU.. Yet, from my time at HC, FU has led in the series. I was quite surprised to read this my sophomore year. PS FU had some fine teams in the 50's Conlin, Cunningham, McCadney, etc. In fact I saw FU defeat an HC team led by Heinsohn at the Rose Hill Gym. Maybe, it's the magic of the Jesuits trying to keep alums from both schools unhappy but not mutinous. We'll see how it goes this autumn. Great to have a game like HC vs FU at Fitton on 10-29 to look forward to. Now that we have daylight savings year round that will be just about peak time for football. Year round daylight savings time is not close to being a reality at this point. It passed the Senate in a stealth vote, but the House has shown no interest at all in voting on it or even studying it.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 30, 2022 18:27:15 GMT -5
Neither Pacific, nor 10 teams. Fly all over the country. Classes and learning must really be a thing huh. When can we just call it the AAF and put the pro resources into these leagues. Fold the NCAA, stop the charades. It is about five hours for a flight from Ann Arbor to LAX on a charter. Still better than busing back from Lehigh or Lafayette. Door to door, it is more than two hours longer from Michigan to USC than from Lafayette to Holy Cross, which is about four hours on a Saturday night.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 16, 2022 20:08:56 GMT -5
FWIW, Stanford was ranked 41st nationally by Massey last fall while HC was ranked 70th.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 16, 2022 18:04:58 GMT -5
We have been talking about an NIL in the thousands. Reports are that Kentucky’s Player of the Year, Oscar Tshiebwe, is getting $1MM Ky Have you been involved ? Peanuts. Pitt WR Jordan Addison is reportedly going to get $3M+ for transferring to USC.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 13, 2022 19:52:59 GMT -5
Bison, Grandison is receiving a free Covid year for the year was ineligible even though he suffered no lost opportunity to play because of Covid. Has the NCAA policy been clarified on this? It would be easier for the NCAA to just grant a blanket extra year of eligibility for that season rather than try to judge which student athlete is more deserving than the next student athlete through the waiver process. They did grant a blanket year to everyone. That decision was made a long time ago. Any play in 2020-21 did not count towards using up any athletes eligibility. It was a free year. Anyone who has to petition the NCAA is doing it for other reasons: either because they want to play six years after they entered school or because it is their second transfer but they don’t want to have to sit out a year.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 13, 2022 17:42:16 GMT -5
One of the most bizarre games I recall from Curry's time at Davidson was during his junior season they played Loyola (Maryland) who was in the MAAC at the time. For whatever reason, the Loyola coach decided to double team Curry the entire game, all 40 minutes, even when it was obviously clear the strategy wasn't working. Curry wound up with 0 points and Davidson won by 30 points. The brilliant mind of Jimmy Patsos. Patsos was admittedly more concerned about getting publicity then he was with winning the game. Although they held Curry scoreless, they lost 78 to 48. Curry's teammates shot 14 for 26 on threes as Loyola’s three-man zone gave them wide-open three-point attempts the entire game. Petsos was always a showman but never much of a coach. His opponent, Bob McKillop, who is a great coach, was not at all happy with the Loyola strategy.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 11, 2022 21:31:45 GMT -5
You can't make this up! He's decommitted from Tarleton (check out Twitter if you want confirmation of that). There's a photo of "Druzi" in the thesaurus next to "Head Case". What the hell was Carmody thinking when he brought this guy in?
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Post by bison137 on Jun 9, 2022 21:20:38 GMT -5
With regard to Lowder eligibility, he has at least two years and, perhaps three, depending on how his time at Lansing CC is counted. The article from the Lansing State Journal posted on the board several weeks ago seemed to indicate that it is three. Whether that’s accurate or not, who knows? he should have two years left. He used up one of his years while at HC and then a second year at the juco this year. His season at EMU didn’t count due to the NCAA Covid waiver. That leaves him with two years of remaining eligibility.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 6, 2022 19:48:19 GMT -5
Crucis, I don't think that fact will be listed under Holy Cross' "points of pride," do you? It should be a one time Anomaly to HC. However looking a Verbal Commits, and the apparent me first attitude in the current NCAA ecosphere, it may not be as unusual over next several years. Seems the norm now at many schools. Here's a sign of the times. Mikey Henn, an average forward, will be in his seventh season of college ball this fall and will be playing for his fifth D1 school. His resume: 2016-17: UC Davis: 4.1 ppg 2017-18: Cal Baptist (sat out) 2018-19: Cal Baptist: 6.4 ppg 2019-20: Cal Baptist (DNP-INJ) 2020-21: Portland: 7.8 ppg 2021-22: Denver: 8.8 ppg 2022-23: Penn State: ?? (will need waiver to play) One of his teammates will be Andrew Funk, who transferred there after graduating from Bucknell last month. Henn probably won't believe that Funk spent four years playing for the same team.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 5, 2022 5:51:08 GMT -5
Steph moves up to a team that won a game in the NCAA tournament in March. I'm impressed. . . You shouldn’t be too impressed. The NCAA game that Longwood won was a play-in game which they earned due to being a weak team that won a very weak league. According to Massey, Longwood was ranked number 211 in the nation and the team that they beat, Mount St. Mary’s, was number 287. MSM was so bad that they lost to Loyola, the Patriot League’s worst team, during the regular season. This is definitely not a step up, as Longwood was worse this year than the patriot league’s top five teams.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 1, 2022 20:36:12 GMT -5
Speaking of embarrassing, people on the Fordham board, a truly embarrassing program for 25 years until last season, are hammering the field in their MTE. They feel they gain nothing by beating one of the worst teams in the country. Man this hurts. The University of Illinois-Chicago isn't that bad. Fwiw - #287 this past season (Pomeroy). #288 the previous year.
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Post by bison137 on Jun 1, 2022 11:35:43 GMT -5
“MTE?” Multi-team event? Never saw that acronym. Did I guess correctly? Indeed you did. The NCAA now allows one of these 3 team "multiple-team events" (MTE) for each school. Sometimes a MTE will include only three teams, but more frequently there will be four or more. Sometimes as many as eight - although in that case not everyone will play everyone else. The advantage of a MTE is that a participant is allowed to play more total games over the course of a year. To qualify as an MTE, some of the rules are: 1 Max of three contests per school. (Max used to be four.) 2 Last game in the event can't be later than 10 days after the first game. 3 Only one team from any given conference. 4 No school can play in the same MTE more than once every four years. 5 Only one MTE per year for a given school. 6 More than one school can host tournament games. 7 Not every school has to play every other team in the field. 8 Only D1 teams in the field unless a D2/D3 is a host. The MTE has been covered in the NCAA rules for over a decade, although the NCAA rules on the subject have changed somewhat over the years.
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Post by bison137 on May 31, 2022 14:59:53 GMT -5
In men's lax, Boston U has also been at the cap in many seasons. Lehigh is close, but probably just below the cap. Loyola is probably at the cap too. The final four in the PL was BU, Loyola, Army, and Lehigh. [ Yes, they clearly are. That was noted in the original post.
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Post by bison137 on May 31, 2022 13:47:07 GMT -5
If we go from 2 scholarship players to 8 shouldn’t we expect to see dramatic improvement in results? As I understand it, from two to eight scollies in men's lacrosse will bring that sport to the PL average. The NCAA cap is 12.6. I think only Loyola is at the cap. In men's lax, Boston U has also been at the cap in many seasons. Lehigh is close, but probably just below the cap.
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Post by bison137 on May 27, 2022 11:27:44 GMT -5
Lewis and Rabs are considered lost causes? At least Lewis deserves a bit of optimism after building himself up considerably. Rabs? Needs to stay out of the tub to make any contribution to the club. Has Austin built himself up? He is still listed on the roster at 190 pounds. The heights and weights shown on the roster are still those from last fall. I imagine they will update when school begins again.
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Post by bison137 on May 26, 2022 23:47:51 GMT -5
Hoover was/is a better player than coach. She also had a lot of her assistants bail on her. BUs current coach was an assistant with her at Wake. That may have been an excuse used by their AD, but it seems like a pretty lame one to me. Their top assistant left to become the William and Mary head coach. That’s not only understandable but it’s a good thing for a head coach to have good assistants who are getting good offers. Their number two assistant decided to return home to Australia, so her decision had nothing to do with the Wake head coach. And the number three coach decided to follow the other assistant to William and Mary. Possibly as the top assistant. Wake supposedly has the lowest pay scale in the ACC, so it makes it harder to hold onto assistants The Boston U head coach (D’Amico Graves) no doubt is making a lot more money now than she was at Wake where she was the #2 assistant. The previous number one assistant coach also left for a head coaching job. And another assistant left to become the head coach at Davidson. I don’t see any evidence that coaches were leaving because of any issues with the head coach. Rather they were getting better offers, which often reflects upon the head coach. She seems to have a very expansive coaching tree.
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Post by bison137 on May 26, 2022 23:30:24 GMT -5
It's the right move and the right time for her. I wonder if her core returners had not bailed if she would have stayed at AU. Good for her. She'll do great there. Made the move easier, I think, but it was just a matter of time. GW was sniffing around her last year before they hired Caroline McCombs. Frankly, I was surprised we got two extensions with her before she bounced. Recruiting is everything at P5 schools, so that's the big challenge. OTOH, she won't be handcuffed by the AI. In theory, she inherits a very good roster. It looks like seven of their top eight players return, including a first team All–ACC player, Jewel Spear. (She is the sister of a former Bucknell player BTW.). The issue is going to be whether some of those players, especially Spear, decide to bolt. Even this late, the better players can find other options if they want. NJJ, any chance AU will promote up Associate HC Tiffany Coll? I know she has been at AU for almost a decade, and coached at a couple of other D1 schools before that, but I really know nothing about her. It’s a bit amazing that Gebbia’s entire coaching staff remained unchanged for the nine years that she was there.
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Post by bison137 on May 26, 2022 22:27:33 GMT -5
bison, Gibbons would love for you to represent him. While it may be "technical," it is a difference - a big one. If I have a contract for a specific time period, when it's over, it's over, unless both parties agree to renew/extend it. If that's not done, each party goes his/her separate way. That's what happened to Gibbons though he'd like to have people believe otherwise and for nefarious reasons. He was getting paid while suspended and essentially getting full pay to do nothing. Good gig if you can get it. Yeah, Holy Cross could/should have done something to smooth his ego, like kick him upstairs for some administrative job like alumni relations or community relations being he had such strong connections within the Worcester community. I realize there is a big difference legally. However I wasn’t talking about the legal position, but rather how I categorize the reasons for the coaches being gone. If a coach is fired or if his/her contract is simply not renewed, he/she falls into the same bucket when I categorize them. In both cases, the coach was viewed as not doing a good job and the school wanted the coach gone.
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