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Post by bison137 on Feb 8, 2024 13:58:40 GMT -5
Leone's 72 years old- was their coach when HC entered the PL. Some would call him a “Youngster” 😊 Leone was almost certainly the worst coach in patriot league history. In his five years in the PL, LC had a league record of 15-53, with many of the wins over an equally weak army team. In his final season, before getting fired, LC was winless in the patriot league and 1–27 overall, having managed to beat a weak Columbia team early in the year. unfortunately he is no better as a color man than he was as a coach. He is never prepared and doesn’t seem to understand the game very well at all. Unfortunately, his announcing partner is no better.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 5, 2024 0:54:15 GMT -5
I saw the 3 point shot, the shooter land inside the arc and Singleton come down on his foot there - after the shot. I still can't figure why he got 3 shots instead of the 2 he should have been awarded. Yes, if the ref thought he put his foot out there to have Singleton land on it he could have been called for an offensive foul...that was not their interpretation. no, the referees were correct in awarding him three shots. The only thing that matters is where his feet are when he leaves the court. It is irrelevant where he lands in terms of the number of FTs. I am not sure why the color man started talking about one foot having landed inside the arc, since that did not matter at all as far as how many shots should be awarded. Someone might want to send him a copy of the rulebook.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 3, 2024 11:47:04 GMT -5
with a bachelor's, he's just 1 of many grad transfers with immediate 1 yr of eligibility The rule is written that an athlete gets one and only one transfer and immediate eligibility. It even explicitly states that someone who uses that one time pass cannot get another one if they graduate and go on to another school for a masters. Pridgen used that free pass when he went from HC to North Carolina. The tweet above says he left the team for personal reasons. That could be paving the way for a waiver to let him play next year. Without some sort of waiver, he is not playing next year even if he has a Bachelors. It is possible that he left the team because he graduated in December. Pridgen had to sit a year when he transferred to Northeastern (it was his second transfer). so this is his 5th year of college Recently the NCAA has been extremely liberal in granting waivers for second and even third transfers. I would be surprised if he does not get one.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 2, 2024 21:51:31 GMT -5
(Reading about Max Green..) 38.0 the highest ppg in Long Island high school hoops history. It should not be hard to guess the player, but I had never seen this stat previously. Any takers ? Wikipedia's accuracy record is not perfect, but under Brown's bio and also in another spot, it says: "Brown averaged a Long Island record 38 points per game for his basketball team. That record was later broken by future Boston Red Sox star Carl Yastrzemski of Bridgehampton." It's pretty well documented that Yaz set the LI record for points in a season - 628 - but less certain if he did it in 16 games, which would give him an average of over 39 ppg.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 28, 2024 14:02:28 GMT -5
Great comeback by Wyoming, but certainly not the greatest regular season comeback in history. I can think of a few better ones including Bucknell beating Colgate in 2018 after trailing by eight points with 22 seconds left. And they didn’t even need OT to win that one.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 26, 2024 20:53:59 GMT -5
When there is parity amoung the teams & fannies in the seats. Very accurate. If they played the first two rounds of the women’s tournament on neutral courts, the attendance at best would be counted in hundreds. Except for UConn and a few others.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 22, 2024 22:22:18 GMT -5
Nathan Davis, for all his faults, does have UNH 10-7 against D1 teams. They began the year ranked 300 by Pomeroy and are now up to 207, which would rank second in the PL. Check his record in four years, when he has to rely on his own recruits. And check out how much of the fan base he has driven away. He probably does benefit from being able to recruit low-academic players at UNH - ones who didn't fit under the AI. At Bucknell, his recruiting went from OK to poor to horrendous as time went by. Things got worse when Griffin left to become Associate Head Coach at St. Joes.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 22, 2024 22:17:03 GMT -5
Did Davis jump from Bucknell to UNH or did he first get whacked by Bucknell ? He was fired the day the season ended. About 98% of the fan base wanted him gone a year earlier but contract provisions bought him another horrible year, which made the hole much deeper. AD Truax knew he was going to fire him with at least a month left in the season and was thus prepared to act quickly. Davis was canned about eight days earlier than Nelson, and Bucknell had already interviewed their top candidates twice before Nelson was gone.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 22, 2024 14:03:42 GMT -5
Bison, What are your thoughts about your new coach ? Very happy with him so far. But Nathan Davis decimated the program and it will take at least a few years to dig out. Griffin has brought enormous energy to the program and is reconnecting with fans, something that was essential after what Davis did. That is one reason Bucknell chose Griffin instead of Paulson.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 22, 2024 13:02:43 GMT -5
Forgot to mention Noah Williamson, who averaged 18 PPG, 12 RPG, and two BPG in games at Boston U and Lafayette.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 22, 2024 11:54:36 GMT -5
I think Austin Benigni for Navy will get it. 22 ppg and Navy won both of their games. If not him, Mark Butler (Lafayette). 15 ppg, 5 apg, 14-20 FG -- remarkable shooting percentage for a guard. Had Bucknell not blown a lead and lost in OT at Lafayette, I think Jack Forrest would have had a good shot. In two road games, including a win at Boston U, he averaged 20.5 ppg, 6.5 rpg, and 3.5 apg. But the OT loss at lafayette probably will cost him.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 16, 2024 17:28:43 GMT -5
I never use Warren Nolan and have no idea how it is calculated, but I'm not sure how any SOS rankings wouldn't have Bucknell ranked in the same neighborhood as Lafayette and Colgate. Below are the Massey SOS ratings for the PL. Note these ratings include the four league games that have been played, which obviously make the ratings worse for the teams that have played a strong OOC SOS. Colgate 134 Lafayette 149 Bucknell 150 Loyola 275 Boston 290 Lehigh 299 American 307 Holy Cross 309 Navy 323 Army 361 Unfortunately Pomeroy's SOS can't be used because it omits the D3 games played by seven of the PL teams. I missed the Bison at 235 in the Nolan SOS rankings. Next is Lehigh at 304 followed by the remaining 6 well into the 300's capped by AU at 362. Looking at Nolan's page, I see that those SOS figures are from the old NCAA RPI model that the NCAA discontinued a number of years ago. No idea why he still uses it, but in any event it is not very reliable at least until February. Maybe not even then.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 16, 2024 14:08:18 GMT -5
According to Warren Nolan, Lafayette comes in at 187 in strength of schedule. Other than Colgate at 200, the rest of the PL is way behind the Leopards. HC is at 342. I never use Warren Nolan and have no idea how it is calculated, but I'm not sure how any SOS rankings wouldn't have Bucknell ranked in the same neighborhood as Lafayette and Colgate. Below are the Massey SOS ratings for the PL. Note these ratings include the four league games that have been played, which obviously make the ratings worse for the teams that have played a strong OOC SOS. Colgate 134 Lafayette 149 Bucknell 150 Loyola 275 Boston 290 Lehigh 299 American 307 Holy Cross 309 Navy 323 Army 361 Unfortunately Pomeroy's SOS can't be used because it omits the D3 games played by seven of the PL teams.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 16, 2024 13:56:30 GMT -5
Anaheim (Angel Stadium) opened in 1966. Has had a couple of renovations since then.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 15, 2024 22:12:31 GMT -5
Moose Skowron was a long time Yankee. I am unsure he ever played for the Dodgers, certainly not in Brooklyn. I do not recall Ken McMullen. He played for the Dodgers in 1963. Only that one year.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 12, 2024 19:51:23 GMT -5
Many wakes have a more exciting environment than Chrystl. At the games I attend, often half of the crowd is Bucknell fans. I assume the same will be the case for Holy Cross. Usually there are no more than a handful of cadets there, often less. Once there was a collection of students sitting at the far end with notebook/textbooks, none of whom were watching the game. It turned out it was a punishment detail, with the punishment being that they had to watch Army basketball. Midway through the second half, their punishment was at an end, and all of them exited as quickly as possible. Students actually support soccer better than basketball, although the behavior at women’s games can be fairly nasty (or worse) towards the opposition. Stabler is worse than what you’re describing. My mistake. As I was reading the description. I thought it was talking about army. But yes, Stabler has an incredibly poor game environment as well. And Stabler might easily be the ugliest D1 arena in the country. It was built the 1970s and I don’t think they’ve even added a coat of paint since then. Nothing but bad lighting and bare concrete. No lights above the court, third rate scoreboards, no lighting at all in the end zone seats and thin plywood underneath the chairback seating Also the best seats are far removed from the court.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 12, 2024 19:33:08 GMT -5
Many wakes have a more exciting environment than Chrystl. At the games I attend, often half of the crowd is Bucknell fans. I assume the same will be the case for Holy Cross. Usually there are no more than a handful of cadets there, often less. Once there was a collection of students sitting at the far end with notebook/textbooks, none of whom were watching the game. It turned out it was a punishment detail, with the punishment being that they had to watch Army basketball. Midway through the second half, their punishment was at an end, and all of them exited as quickly as possible. Students actually support soccer better than basketball, although the behavior at women’s games can be fairly nasty (or worse) towards the opposition.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 7, 2024 22:26:31 GMT -5
Probably should have stopped at "I know nothing about the case", and done the five minutes of googling needed to get better informed.
This isn't even the latest article... McCaffrey did in fact get sentenced to a $1,000 fine and 6-month lost of his license.
I bolded some key passages. Clearly a tragic situation all around, with zero evidence of preferential treatment.
"Drivers must yield to pedestrians even if they don't know they are there?" How is that doable. easy. If you are approaching a crosswalk where you are required to stop if there is a pedestrian near the crosswalk, then you should slow down to make sure there’s not a pedestrian that you can’t see. Thankfully, most people do that.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 7, 2024 19:23:10 GMT -5
Not sure how the driver gets charged with anything if he had no ability to react differently than he did. Definitely a sad situation for all involved. I think the reason is that a motorist, when approaching a marked crosswalk, is supposed to slow down as much as necessary if his view is obstructed.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 7, 2024 18:44:09 GMT -5
Have to say, Dorsey hasn't yet been replaced . Well, if past is prologue . . . in his second season at Bucknell, DP brought in Bryan Cohen, who was Defensive PoY three straight years, And when Cohen left, he was replaced by another plus defender, Steve Kaspar. Cohen was a Pat Flannery recruit.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 7, 2024 12:02:12 GMT -5
. Paulsen was in one of HC 's best coaching duels with RW. Think you may be thinking of Flannery. DP coaced only one year vs RW, and Bucknell that year had its worst season in at least 27 years.. Certainly there was no coaching duel.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 6, 2024 22:39:04 GMT -5
Correct. Here is Colgate’s rankings for the last six years, starting with 2019. This is where they rank out of about 360 D1 programs: 126 118 89 117 115 151 Among their wins are two double digit victories at Syracuse in 2022 and 2023. I don't think being out of the top 100 every year and 89 in their best year makes them a "very good mid-major program". I actually think they were much better than 89 that one year and probably the adjoining year but your best team being 115-150 is not the gold standard for a very good program, and Colgate was clearly the best in the PL. the great majority of the teams ahead of them are high majors, not mid majors
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Post by bison137 on Jan 6, 2024 20:23:05 GMT -5
2024. I don’t think HC will EVER have a great b-ball team again. Don’t say”how did Colgate do it?” They just appear good because the PL sucks so bad. This coach may be able to get us back to .500 league wise. That’s it. So discouraging. Wrong on Colgate. Maybe they're down a bit this year versus the couple of seasons prior, but they were a very good mid-major team during their recent run. Correct. Here is Colgate’s rankings for the last six years, starting with 2019. This is where they rank out of about 360 D1 programs: 126 118 89 117 115 151 Among their wins are two double digit victories at Syracuse in 2022 and 2023.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 4, 2024 22:50:46 GMT -5
….Thanks to BU and most years Lehigh - if this young lady is being depended upon this season I’d be surprised But it takes more than two teams to have the conference ranked ahead of all of those other northeastern leagues. The next three in the patriot league are all better than the middle of the pack teams in the Ivy League or the MAAC or America East or NEC.
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Post by bison137 on Jan 4, 2024 20:55:37 GMT -5
Probably true that the NESCAC plays better softball than most of the D. PL The PL collectively is actually a pretty good conference for softball, at least by northeastern standards. Last season it ranked ahead of the A10, Ivy League, MAAC, America, East, and NEC, among others.
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