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Post by bison137 on Apr 8, 2022 9:19:09 GMT -5
How else would Langel know that we was contemplating a transfer? Spies in the locker room? is there evidence that Langell knew he was contemplating a transfer before he put his name in the portal?
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Post by bison137 on Apr 8, 2022 8:55:12 GMT -5
I think it's dishonorable for one PL school to poach players from another. I've lost all respect for Langel. Somewhere along the way karma might come into play. What if Langel had only contacted RJJ after his name went into the portal? i’m sure that is the case.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 7, 2022 11:32:00 GMT -5
How many volleyball scholarships does Grambling actually have? No idea. But I do know the maximum number of volleyball scholarships allowed under NCAA rules is 12. Like the majority of sports, volleyball scholarships can be divided up and frequently are.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 5, 2022 21:00:22 GMT -5
Your shared optimism with 94grad is admirable. I have been negative for months following the basketball team. I enjoy going to the baseball games and following the team. Talking to the players parents the scholarships thing makes it tough to compete. I also follow knowing that we are not going to be Vanderbilt. Yes, it makes it tough to compete OOC. But there are almost no scholarships for baseball anywhere in the PL.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 5, 2022 20:58:25 GMT -5
I don't see where HC is any different at all than AU. AU's transfers are all players who will graduate this spring. HC is losing the players in that category in similar fashion. The PL in general has not been losing many players other than those who are graduating. Oops, I read the post about Loyola losing many players but put down AU in my post instead. I suspect a lot of the Loyola players are being pushed out by their new coach.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 5, 2022 20:46:55 GMT -5
When a 44 year old up and coming coach would rather coach a program moving down to D3 that take a mid-major job in a talent rich city, you know your program is in trouble. Forget the program, the entire school is in trouble. If Langel went to Lasalle and signed the same contract he just signed at Colgate, there’s a decent chance the school would close before the contract expired. Yes, Forbes currently gives them a financial grade of D - which I think may be as low as they go. It's no wonder Langel wanted no part of the job. He will likely wait until Billy Lange or possibly Steve Donahue gets fired. Or possibly Temple.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 5, 2022 17:54:49 GMT -5
Having difficulty following the logic of this post. I've heard that before. I mean while the free Covid extra year of eligibility is available there are five classes of players seeking the same amount of scholarships that traditionally go to four classes of players. Thus schools with scholarships available should be able to bargain for a more talented player than usual. The second point is that Coach Magarity has done a good job of retaining her players while the portal explodes with activity, such as at AU. And HC has a good opportunity to trade up in talent to replace SD. Even though her talent and potential is hard to discern accurately due to injuries. I don't see where HC is any different at all than AU. AU's transfers are all players who will graduate this spring. HC is losing the players in that category in similar fashion. The PL in general has not been losing many players other than those who are graduating.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 4, 2022 14:31:18 GMT -5
There's some NCAA rule that says SAT's are required for athletes (or at least scholarship athletes). Non athletes at Holy Cross are not required to submit 1. Yes, I believe every prospective collegiate student athlete who goes through the NCAA Clearinghouse is required to take the SATs. There's an SAT floor to be eligible to play an NCAA sport at any school -- I believe there may be some kind of sliding scale that combines your SAT and GPA, similar to the Patriot League AI but with much, much lower grades and scores being allowable. 2. SAT scores are a part of the PL AI, even when determining the eligibility of junior transfers who are halfway through undergraduate coursework. 1. Yes, there is a grid that shows SAT and GPA. The higher the GPA, the lower the acceptable SAT. Etc. 2. According to several PL coaches, that is not correct. I have been told by several people that the PL still applies the original AI calculation (which includes SAT) to freshmen who are transferring. But once a student-athlete reaches second semester of sophomore year, only his college performance counts. SAT is no longer relevant for the AI.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 1, 2022 20:40:50 GMT -5
Portal is a buyer's market right now for the big girls, to paraphrase Geno from a recent interview - there are 900 players in the portal, 300 of them are not going to end up playing in D1. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that many of the players entering the portal have no expectation of playing D1. There are many who have already failed at the midmajor level and are looking to transfer down to D2 or D3. And there are also graduating seniors who put their name in the portal to see if they might get an offer for grad school, but who had no real expectations of it happening.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 1, 2022 17:53:31 GMT -5
LSU situation is similar to the Syracuse women's team this year. Syracuse finished 11-18 and 4-14 in the ACC. One of their transfers was Emily Engstler who now stars for Louisville and will be playing in 17 minutes against #1 South Carolina. similar in terms of the massive number of transfers. However very different as to why the coaches were fired.
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Post by bison137 on Apr 1, 2022 17:35:42 GMT -5
I believe that Wade was fired pretty quickly after the season. Actually he was fired before the end of the season. LSU lost in the SEC quarterfinals, and he was dismissed less than 24 hours after that. They still got a #6 seed in the NCAA tournament and played again six days after his ouster. It may have been mentioned in some thread that the assistant coach who took over was former HC coach Kevin Nickelberry.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 29, 2022 22:45:46 GMT -5
Back when Bryant first went D1, around 2009, they talked to the patriot league about joining. However the academic index was an insurmountable problem. With the AI where it was, Bryant literally would have been unable to field a team. The PL would’ve had to massively reduce the AI floor to make it possible to bring in Bryant, and they did not want to do that.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 29, 2022 22:19:30 GMT -5
Boston's Riley Childs committed to George Mason University as grad transfer Boston U or the other Boston ? Boston U
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Post by bison137 on Mar 29, 2022 21:28:59 GMT -5
Colgate has extended his contract through 2030. Interesting. That's eight years of security. I wonder if the coach bartered for that in liu of Colgate being able to offer the kind of salary a school from a higher league could. Somewhat similar to the Chesney situation, ie: the best BB and FB coaches in the league. I didn't notice the length of Chesney's contract being released. Eight years of security, but I’m sure he has a reasonable buyout when one of the better Philly jobs becomes available. He obviously is not interested in LaSalle, which makes perfect sense.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 29, 2022 20:56:25 GMT -5
Is Pitino providing a warranty? Or a dowry? What is likely is that Pitino ran him off the team.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 29, 2022 18:28:46 GMT -5
Friends: Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it’s been on my mind the last few days and I am not up to speed on NCAA portal rules. Hopefully someone in our community can help me out. Question - if a player enters the portal, can he subsequently decide to exit the portal and return to his current school/team? Follow up question - if a player enters the portal, does he automatically forfeit his scholarship from his current school (after the semester is completed). Bottom line - I’m curious to see if there are players who enter the portal, don’t get picked up by their preferred school(s), and then say “hey, I might as well stay at my existing school…if they will still have me.” 1. A player can decide to change his mind, and that has happened on occasion. However it would be up to the school as to whether they would let him return. There have been players in the patriot league who have entered the portal but then chose to return. 2. The player does not automatically forfeit his scholarship at the end of the semester, any more than any other player does, since most scholarships are one year contract. However it is unlikely a scholarship would be renewed for a player who had decided to enter the portal. That is the risk a player runs by putting his name in.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 29, 2022 16:50:31 GMT -5
Another example of Villanova’s rise in athletics with no sacrifice of their academic standing - we know about their men’s team but now their Women’s team ended UConn’s 145 game regular season league win streak and today they upset BYU in the Women’s tourney 61-57 They now play the Michigan - AU winner Girl from Norwood is going there, Megan Olbrys. 6-0 or 6-1 something like that. Not a polished player at this point, let's see how long before she sees action in college at that level. One of Villanova's starters - Olivia Mullin, niece of Chris - had originally signed with Bucknell, but decommitted after Aaron Roussell left for Richmond. Nova has become much stronger since Harry Perretta, a very mediocre coach, finally retired after about four decades. Denise Dillon, the very successful coach for years at Drexel, has been a major upgrade. Nova figures to be a very tough team in the future.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 26, 2022 13:04:42 GMT -5
Just wonder what the thinking was in dropping an established rule like that. Maybe to try to keep the talent in the league .........? Anyone here recall any past inter league transfers? That was a basketball-only rule. Perhaps they thought it didn’t make sense to have a rule for just one sport. In any event, there have been several intra-league transfers in other sports. Army, for example, took a good lacrosse player away from Bucknell about a decade ago.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 26, 2022 11:59:39 GMT -5
Unless the PL has amended its standing rule that intra-conference transfers have to sit out two years before playing for their new team, I'd be surprised if Luc plays at either BU or Bucknell. (Maybe there's a COVID exception in place now. I don't study PL bylaws minutiae. I know some do. ;-) ) The league dropped that rule about three years ago.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 26, 2022 1:45:09 GMT -5
Lafayette has 3 in the portal, Campbell who went tp Trinity College , Claire Gallagher 5'11 Frosh & Makaila Wilson a grad transfer Just to clarify Campbell situation. She actually played more than half the season this year for Trinity.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 25, 2022 15:16:09 GMT -5
If I were Kit Highes, my first call would be to Dave Paulsen.
A proven winner in the PL during his 7 years at Bucknell.
He's only 57 and has a lot of good years of coaching ahead of him.
Curmudgeon Carmody 2.0. Record with Mike Muscala: 92-42 (.687) Record without Mike Muscala: 137-43 (.489) (one 20-win season in nine tries)Unless we can bank on him bringing another Mike Muscala to Worcester (which he couldn't do at George Mason), it's a bad fit. He also inherited Pat Flannery's program at Bucknell -- a far cry from the disaster that has been Holy Cross basketball for the past 13 years. PASS. Two things about Paulsen: 1. When he took the GMU job, he left Nathan Davis the best collection of players ever on one PL roster: Nana Foulland, Zach Thomas, Steven Brown, Kimbal Mackenzie, Nate Sestina, Chris Hass, Dom Hoffman, Nate Jones, Ryan Frazier, etc.. Over the next four years, despite Davis being clueless, they went 56-16 in PL play. Paulsen would have done better. 2. Paulsen had two great recruiters on his staff: Aaron Kelly and, especially, Dane Fischer. The assistants were largely responsible for bringing in guys like Muscala, Foulland, Ayers, and many other All-PL players, based on what those players have said.. Hiring Paulsen without those assistants - who both are head coaches now - would be a gamble.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 22, 2022 13:45:00 GMT -5
Bucknell’s #1 has been out since developing an arm problem two innings into the season. However there is a small chance he might be back for a few innings this weekend so possibly HC might face him in a limited role. He was the PL preseason pitcher of the year. If Greer isn’t your #1, then we really dodged a bullet When team is at full strength, the #1 is lefty Chris DiFiore. He was 1st team All-PL as a soph in 2021 and PL preseason pitcher of the year this year. Had a 2.93 ERA and went 5-1 in PL play for a mediocre team in 2021.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 22, 2022 12:47:29 GMT -5
Not sure why we play 2 midweek games and thin out out pitching heading into PL play. Think we catch a break, as I’m not sure that Navy has a front line starter, and we miss Bucknell’s #1. Good chance for a split weekend, or dare I say 3-1? Bucknell’s #1 has been out since developing an arm problem two innings into the season. However there is a small chance he might be back for a few innings this weekend so possibly HC might face him in a limited role. He was the PL preseason pitcher of the year.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 21, 2022 23:40:40 GMT -5
UMass & UMass Lowell this week as we head into Navy this weekend. Two games we can win to prepare us for the weekend. Navy looks pretty down after dropping 2 of 3 to Bucknell so potentially a way to get a jump on Patriot League standings. Navy is a bit further down, actually having dropped three of four to Bucknell. The Mids lost 12-2, 7-2, and 11-0 before winning the final game 5-2.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 21, 2022 16:47:14 GMT -5
Its grad students allowed at any time if they still have a year of eligibility.
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