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Post by bison137 on Apr 22, 2022 10:32:20 GMT -5
Any test cases yet? That's often when the final interpretation gets set as a precedent. No test cases are necessary. The NCAA was very clear when they laid down the edict. All of the Ivy players know. Not Juan Jones was correct that she has three years left, and I am correct.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 22, 2022 9:47:02 GMT -5
That is not correct. The COVID rule is that the 2020- 21 season just doesn’t count, so if someone played that year that does not use up a year of their eligibility. In her case, she played this year, which leaves her three more years of eligibility. But she took a redshirt as a freshman which was the COVID year. That is irrelevant. Had she played that year, it wouldn’t have counted towards her four years. But By not playing, she doesn’t get an extra year added at the end. The NCAA edict simply said if you played in 2020-21, that did not count as one of your allowable four years.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 21, 2022 22:59:11 GMT -5
That is not correct. The COVID rule is that the 2020- 21 season just doesn’t count, so if someone played that year that does not use up a year of their eligibility. In her case, she played this year, which leaves her three more years of eligibility.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 21, 2022 16:34:08 GMT -5
I believe that the current state of college hoops is a major reason why he retired. Yes, no question.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 21, 2022 1:52:32 GMT -5
I think working a kid out is a violation too (maybe for the transfer portal that's different?) ...hope a workout is just speculation and didn't happen. Tryouts during visits for basketball are generally allowable, whether it is a HS student or someone already in college. That can determine whether or not a player leaves with an offer. Part of the NCAA rule on "tryouts": are shown below: In basketball, an institution may conduct an evaluation of a prospective student-athlete on its campus or at a site where it normally conducts practice or competition, under the following conditions: a) For a high school or preparatory school senior, the evaluation may be conducted only after the conclusion of the prospective student-athlete's season and after exhausting high school or preparatory school eligibility in basketball; . . . (c) For a four-year college prospective student-athlete, the evaluation may be conducted only after the conclusion of the prospective student-athlete's season. (d) The on-campus evaluation may be conducted only during the prospective student-athlete's official or unofficial visit; . . . . . (f) Not more than one on-campus evaluation per prospective student-athlete per institution shall be permitted (h) The institution's basketball student-athletes may participate in an on-campus evaluation, provided such participation is counted toward the applicable hourly and weekly limitations on countable athletically related activities (i) The duration of the on-campus evaluation activities (other than the medical examination or evaluation) shall be limited to two hours
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Post by bison137 on Apr 20, 2022 13:09:28 GMT -5
Inside Lacrosse has a very curious way of coming up with rankings - basing it solely on the average number of stars for a team's recruits who are 3 stars or better. So if Team A has 15 four-star recruits and one three-star recruit, its ranking would be LOWER than a team with one four-star recruit and no others.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 20, 2022 13:06:38 GMT -5
Unless HCBN has another guy lined up who he know he will land, I'm not sure why he wouldn't be offering James. This kid has 10 big time programs offering him right now and he drove up to campus from Iona to take a look at HC. He loved the campus. The kid scored like a 1400 on his boards and carries a 3.6 GPA at Iona. Brett Nelson has NO clue. We have a total of 6 guys on the Holy Cross basketball team as of today. Those 6 ain't going any where because no one wants them and their getting 80k a year free money to go to a prestigious school like HC. Stop making excuses for this program and its coach. I haven't followed this very closely, but I'm curious why a player with "10 big time programs offering him right now" would be bothering to travel to D2 Southern Indiana for a recruiting visit.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 19, 2022 21:15:03 GMT -5
Cam Spencer (Loyola MD) to Rutgers. Great move for him. Yes, definitely a good spot. He should see plenty of playing time and will walk out with a good masters degree. Many will recall that his brother Pat also transferred to the Big Ten (Northwestern) in basketball after he played four spectacular years of lax at Loyola. He became an instant starter at NW even though we hadn’t played any college basketball for four years. Led them in assists and was second in scoring. Prior to that, he was the nations best lacrosse player, as well as being the best lax player ever in the Patriot League. Cam was a very good high school lacrosse player as well.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 18, 2022 21:30:27 GMT -5
In other words, they suck worst than we suck. #347 versus #343. In Pomeroy’s rankings, they are ahead of HC.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 18, 2022 20:47:05 GMT -5
He will be playing in a gym with a capacity of 881, the second smallest one in D1. Average attendance this past year was 511.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 18, 2022 16:12:34 GMT -5
In 2019-20, season truncated by COVID: Bucknell appears to have spent $350,000 on salaries and recruiting. I doubt Bucknell had scollies. (Operating expenses not included. for 2019-20) HC spent $250,000 on salaries and recruiting. No scollies. Lafayette spent $466,000 on salaries, recruiting, and scollies. That’s correct. Bucknell did not have any baseball scholarships then - and does not have any now.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 18, 2022 15:11:12 GMT -5
Big loss for Bucknell as 6'1" Jr. Carly Krsul (from Minnesota) just hit the portal - I would rather not see the better players in the league opting out - but who knows what the circumstances are She played just 12 minutes off the bench in the championship game. Then I don't think was with the team for the WNIT games. Probably not happy with playing time....? Playing time was not a factor.. Bucknell has two post players with good credentials in the incoming recruiting class. They will have to hope at least one is ready to give them a good 15 minutes a game.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 18, 2022 11:45:08 GMT -5
So this is the coach they hired? Peter Burke went 7-7 and then 4-3 in a shortened season and they get this guy to replace him? 0-11? Really? So the kids he inherited won - at least 50% of the time. The new coach comes in should in theory be able to recruit coming from Maryland. Honestly no clue how his recruits have been, but not good enough to get them to win i’d be surprised if he has any of his own recruits on the roster yet - at least not legitimate ones. The current freshmen were in the second half of their senior year at the time he was hired. Most HS lax players, as you probably know, commit during their junior year.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 13, 2022 21:08:46 GMT -5
The manager consulted him, and Kershaw was 100% on board with it. It was 38° and he has battled arm problems the last couple of years. The last thing the Dodgers wanted for him to develop a serious arm problem in the first two weeks of the season. One thing to remember is that in a normal season, teams would still be in spring training and pitchers would still be building up arm strength.
Johan Santana‘s no-hitter affectively ended his career.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 13, 2022 20:18:31 GMT -5
26-0 in the 7th. There should be a way for the coaches to call this game after 7 innings Under NCAA rules, there is. But the coaches must agree before the game begins. NCAA Rule: "By . . . mutual consent of both coaches before the beginning of the contest, a game may be stopped after seven innings if one team is ahead by at least 10 runs"
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Post by bison137 on Apr 12, 2022 18:52:16 GMT -5
I remember Matt Zignorski saying at the time of his commitment that he saw college not as a 4-year decision, but rather a 40-year one. Not much of this maturity and long-term thinking in evidence, at least not in the Holy Cross MBB program of late. Ironically zignorski’s first commitment was to Fordham. And he signed a letter of intent with Fordham. But then in the spring he decommitted, likely under pressure from the new Fordham coach, and then switched to HC.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 11, 2022 17:12:09 GMT -5
I went looking to see if Noah Kirkwood had entered the portal, and he has not. He has a fifth year at Harvard. I did come across this article on Noah in Harvard Magazine in January, detailing how Amaker had shifted him from guard to forward because of Harvard's frontcourt being thinned by injuries. Did he make first team all-Ivy playing out of position? Noah Kirkwood had offers from 'Nova and Virginia, elected to go to NMH, and Harvard. (It would appear the family prioritizes academics.) www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/01/harvard-basketball-star-noah-kirkwood-s-mid-season-pivotThe article described his father as being a basketball star at Univ of Ottawa. 85-86 season, Art Kirkwood led the team in field goals made, field goals shooting percentage 47.2%, and 69 rebounds. He was the team's leading scorer three straight seasons, best year was 86-87, averaging 20.8 points per game. He was a star player,, winning all-conference honors three years running, playing on a mediocre team that played about 15 games a season. I have to assume the head coach at IMG, having coached at Bucknell, is a straight-shooter, and wouldn't misrepresent to a college head coach on whether Kirkwood can play at a certain level, e.g., the PL I mean, in practice, Kirkwood is daily going up against McDonald's All American guards who have committed to Baylor and Alabama. Do they run him off the court, or does he hold his own? Their coach, Sean McAloon, coached at Bucknell for 21 months about 20 years ago. Coaches at for-profit basketball academies succeed or fail based on how many of their players get scholarships. Thus most of them can be trusted as much as the guy trying to sell you a used car. During his tenure, Nathan Davis has given scholarships to three players in the spring of their senior year or PG year. All had zero D1 offers. All three at this point appear to have been wasted scholarships.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 11, 2022 13:23:24 GMT -5
6'5" Soph Piath Gabriel is in the portal from UConn - she's from Manchester, NH - We need her and will certainly transfer down in strength of league I'd expect she will still end up in a P6 conference. One other issue is that she had some academic problems at UConn. While in HS, she had offers from a lot of strong programs, including Louisville, Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio State, West Virginia, and Miami.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 10, 2022 23:36:35 GMT -5
I don’t think a student athlete could take only online courses. However American has a large number of regular masters programs as well.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 10, 2022 19:48:09 GMT -5
I guess Navy got angry. Wow. 13-4 and 20-5. They still have a shot at the PL. A good shot, I'd say. They currently are in 4th place.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 10, 2022 19:46:33 GMT -5
Other than BU, the grad offerings at PL schools with graduate courses must be limited, so it's better to go somewhere to study something that fits you rather than to squeeze a square plug in a round hole just to play another year for Alma Mater. That helps level the playing court for HC. Both American and Lehigh have extensive graduate programs.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 10, 2022 19:43:19 GMT -5
Here's a new name who could end up at HC: PG Rachael Rose who was ROY in the Big South this year at South Carolina Upstate. Rose was an all-state player at Scranton Prep. She apparently is transferring because her coach just left for the job at Buffalo. In the past 48 hours, HC Women's Basketball started following her.
Other than possibly Buffalo, the most logical landing place for her likely would be Bucknell, as she is very close friends with Bucknell's Cecelia Collins - who played with her for many years at Scranton Prep and for the NEPA Elite and who is also her cousin. Also her family knows Bucknell coach Trevor Woodruff well from the 15+ years he coached in the Scranton area - including four years at U. of Scranton, when his teams went 113-10. I know her Dad has followed the Bucknell program fairly closely. However it doesn't appear that Bucknell has any available scholarships at the moment.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 9, 2022 19:28:49 GMT -5
You say this and then on the other hand say the PL is where HC should be? Who is the PL has a better basketball arena? Without question, Bucknell and Navy. Army and Lafayette probably too, but they are more debatable. I doubt you could find many neutral fans who wouldn’t pick Army or Lafayette. I’ve asked a lot of PL fans over the years and haven’t found any.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 9, 2022 17:08:50 GMT -5
Roof is indeed the problem. It is more than the seating. It is the sub optimal look of the place, the bench HS style seating, the HS scoreboards fit snugly on a wall - higher roof, more space, more room for some college level arena style seat back chairs, a more attractive airy space for upper level seating, a center court scoreboard, a more attractive roomy entry with increased seating . Also, what the heck is it with the ugly brown amoeba on the center court floor? Attendance at the games would have been a lot more attractive event. And. it would not have hurt recruiting. Ultimately the gym is a result of poor planning, a lack of vision. Obviously one could point to other crappy basketball gyms with successful teams - St. Peter's, Harvard and others. But, basketball is HC's traditional marquee sports. The school deserved better. You say this and then on the other hand say the PL is where HC should be? Who is the PL has a better basketball arena? Bucknell, Navy, Lafayette, Army
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Post by bison137 on Apr 9, 2022 9:09:18 GMT -5
Re Fairfield facility. IMO. Don't know the seating capacity but it sure looks a hell of a lot better than the Hart. IMO. HC spent all that money and all it got was a crappy glorified HS gym. Seating capacity is 3500. It is supposed to be ready in November, although they have almost no room for any construction delays. The original plan said it would take 18 to 24 months to build it. But the groundbreaking was delayed by three months, so now the construction time will have to be 16 months if it is to be ready for the opener.
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