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Post by trimster on Dec 17, 2023 8:28:20 GMT -5
Ninety percent of the PL men’s hoop teams are in Bart Torvik’s bottom 100.
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Post by trimster on Dec 16, 2023 18:32:28 GMT -5
Another nugget from this game....nearly certain this was the game...saw it as a kid on Channel 10 from Providence with Chris Clark. Pitino missed the front end of a 1 and 1 and then Stacom hit like a half-court shot to win it for the Friars. We are doing this game as a simulcast from Alumni Hall.....
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Post by trimster on Dec 16, 2023 12:01:12 GMT -5
I couldn't help but notice the brief blurb on the athletics website about Monday's game vs the Q didn't include Bo but had the 4 other starters average ppg, rebounds, etc. Maybe we need more attention to detail. Maybe it was an innocent mistake.
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Post by trimster on Dec 16, 2023 9:20:10 GMT -5
Fordham and St. John’s are playing today at MSG.
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Post by trimster on Dec 15, 2023 8:49:31 GMT -5
PS, You don’t really think Fr. Brooks was asleep at the wheel. Are you asking? It's just a saying and I know he wasn't actually asleep, but making such an egregious error makes me wonder... I wasn’t trying to be literal. I think the good Father believed he was going to lead a transformation of college athletics but as he noted years later, no one followed.
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Post by trimster on Dec 15, 2023 8:19:14 GMT -5
PS, You don’t really think Fr. Brooks was asleep at the wheel.
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Post by trimster on Dec 15, 2023 8:17:49 GMT -5
Internet/social media didn’t exist in 1991. Those things make sure every opinion is known and amplified today. I’m sure there were some in 1991 who didn’t like that Duff left even though the school really forced his hand by eliminating scholarships. Most people I knew, including his players, wished him well and didn’t blame him for leaving when he did. Still can't believe the non-scholarship thing happened. What was the primary driver?? Was the school so financially strapped that they couldn't afford scholarships anymore? Were the student athletes not smart enough to cut it in the HC classrooms? Did someone think that if we cut scholarships that we'd get an invite to the Ivy League? Was there a plan to drop to D3 hoping that people would consider us for the NESCAC?? Every time this comes up I just have to think that Father Brooks and the administration were asleep at the wheel....or, wide awake and unbelievably misguided. Fr. Brooks wanted to eliminate athletic scholarships long before it actually happened. He didn’t believe students should be paying nothing to attend HC based on their athletic ability.
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Post by trimster on Dec 12, 2023 21:08:42 GMT -5
Hopefully this works.
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Post by trimster on Dec 12, 2023 20:38:48 GMT -5
What's interesting to me, is what made Chesney so successful at HC? Was it his offensive or defensive philosophy, both? His ability to recruit and/or develop talent at HC? His building of a culture? For me, it's hard to pinpoint exactly. Probably an amalgamation of all these things. Chesney is the total package. Great charisma and personality. A great salesman in a good way which translates into being a great recruiter and someone his players would run thru a wall for. (Sorry for ending in a preposition.) X's and O's are secondary but he excels in that area as well. He's a unicorn HC was fortunate to have. Truly a tough act to follow.
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Post by trimster on Dec 12, 2023 11:55:02 GMT -5
Maybe a true 4/5 is higher up on Paulsen's target list. I suspect it is, more so if he only has one schollie to work with for the class of '25.
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Post by trimster on Dec 12, 2023 8:18:31 GMT -5
WA’s proximity to HC also allows the staff to see players from the Hilltoppers’ opposition we may be recruiting. The Hilltoppers play a very good NEPSAC schedule.
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Post by trimster on Dec 12, 2023 8:05:57 GMT -5
Two of HC offerees, James Jones of ‘24 and Jake Blackburn of ‘25, played two games over the weekend in the Tom Blackburn Tourney. I imagine someone from our staff was there and maybe one of our frosh players perhaps. A WA pipeline would definitely benefit HC.
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Post by trimster on Dec 11, 2023 11:25:06 GMT -5
All too familiar territory.
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Post by trimster on Dec 11, 2023 9:21:31 GMT -5
FWIW, Ken Pom now has HC in its bottom ten at 354.
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Post by trimster on Dec 11, 2023 9:02:30 GMT -5
Only game report/box score I could find on Hare was he had 21/11/5 with the latter being blocks, against St. Andrew’s, a NEPSAC AA school, in the opener.
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Post by trimster on Dec 11, 2023 8:59:10 GMT -5
Hope this guy somehow continues to fly under the radar screen. He has already signed his letter of intent with HC a month ago.
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Post by trimster on Dec 10, 2023 20:38:46 GMT -5
OT but I wish people would table war references when talking about a sporting event. An exception might be' "He/She is someone you'd like next to you in a foxhole."
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Post by trimster on Dec 10, 2023 20:36:10 GMT -5
I like the fact Coach Paulsen was there to see it. I wondered today after my earlier post about Bullis' upcoming games if someone from HC would be there to watch them play IMG. I assume this week will be light on practice with exams on tap and might allow the time for the staff to get to a game or two. I wonder if Chuck Hare and Kingswood Oxford has a game. Certainly within an easy drive to Hartford. TX and KY, not so much.
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Post by trimster on Dec 10, 2023 9:16:22 GMT -5
Bullis has only played one game to date but they have 5 in the next 8 days.
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Post by trimster on Dec 9, 2023 9:21:20 GMT -5
This game was a little bit like the last HC win at the DCU about 10 years or so ago, when BC that night played a bunch of freshmen. I'm not saying to abandon the seniors or anything like that, but CDP has got to find a way to get all of the frosh regular minutes. It could make them a better team in February; never mind next year or beyond. Last night we saw from Ryan what some of us saw at the open practices. Two questions as I see it: (1) As Dave notes, will giving the freshmen more minutes now help develop them faster to benefit the team at season's end and next year? But there's also a second question (2) Are some of the freshmen already better than the upper classmen whose minutes they'd be taking? Yes to both. I was concerned that the late recruits DP brought in during the spring/summer might not be the best use of those scholarships based on the lack of other offers. I know it’s early but I have seen enough flashes from the three to put those concerns to rest. I believe all five frosh should be given significant playing time going forward. I don’t claim to be a basketball savant but I do watch HC very closely and I think we have some nice basketball talent in the frosh class.
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Post by trimster on Dec 8, 2023 23:09:34 GMT -5
PL had another lousy night (not considering Colgate's win over Vermont St Lyndon - who ?) AU lost to St. Joe's BU lost at home to Maine (sound familiar?) Loyola led by 11 with 5 minutes left and scored 1 pt the rest of the way and lost at LaSalle 62-61 I know we have our imme issues with the football coach but this league is really in some trouble - all around 0-3 on Friday night. Now 18 and 69 vs. D1 comp.
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Post by trimster on Dec 8, 2023 20:51:45 GMT -5
I'd like to see a lineup with AJ at the point, Batch at the 2, Bo at the 3 Joe at the 4 and Louth at the 5.. No thanks.
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Post by trimster on Dec 8, 2023 20:44:06 GMT -5
The turnovers are unreal We are just handing the ball to bc They can be corrected. Some of the frosh have basketball skills the rest of the group doesn't have. Play the frosh!
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Post by trimster on Dec 8, 2023 20:32:36 GMT -5
Call me crazy but I might start the 5 frosh against Q. Let the upperclassmen earn back their pt.
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Post by trimster on Dec 8, 2023 20:27:41 GMT -5
The frosh need to get a lot of playing time going forward.
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