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Post by trimster on Apr 21, 2023 9:38:51 GMT -5
My guess is our head coach isn’t traveling 3,000 miles to focus on ‘24 and ‘25s on an AAU team up the road that will be playing in multiple events in the coming months much closer to home. I think there is more to it than that. Maybe I am wrong. This could be one of the last major AAU events before the ‘23s graduate. Who knows?
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Post by trimster on Apr 21, 2023 6:39:33 GMT -5
note 'Unsigned Seniors Showcase' seems to align with DP's comment about opportunity to recruit high school talent passed over by transfer portal talent that take roster spots that might have gone to hs recruits. Looks like CDP hasn’t given up on finding 2023 hs recruits at this late date. Also noticed the Middlesex Magic has two squads participating.
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Post by trimster on Apr 20, 2023 18:16:24 GMT -5
Interesting to listen today. My first pickup was that DP wanted to share the OOC schedule, even though we have verbal commitments but not all contracts are signed. He askedKH but was told "no names." However, he did share that he believes our games against other Jesuit institutions in urban centers will please fans and players. And he added "if we find ourselves in the Capitol I am sure we can arange activities for the team." That sounds like Georgetown to me. The baseball field parking was presented with positive spin as a fund raiser and a way to get premier parking for some of our biggest supporters. I know they can use the funds, but it also means some of thise who are long time fans and parked there may not get a spot unless they can come up with at least a $2500 gift to get on the President's Council. much bigger than Gtown Welcome back!
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Post by trimster on Apr 19, 2023 16:05:37 GMT -5
Louth & Rabs have height. Maybe, they can add size. And, maybe good coaching could improve their game. And, maybe... Does DP choose by position or best player available? IMHO, our new coach really needs to bolster the 4/5 spots with at least one recruit this Spring. I get the best player available thinking but you aren't going anywhere without at least one effective big man and that guy needs a serviceable backup. Our 2 big men are largely unknowns and we don't even know about their injury status heading into the summer workouts.
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Post by trimster on Apr 19, 2023 7:43:16 GMT -5
I don't think that BC or Providence would be interested in bringing back the Colonial Classic. Three possibilities that I would consider would be Harvard, Umass and Northeastern. New England college hoops was quite special in the 60’s and 70’s, especially in the ECAC Tourney era of ‘75 to ‘79. It’s really a shame the rivalries between PC, URI, BC, HC, UMass, UConn and Fairfield are almost all dead. The only ones still alive are PC-URI and PC-UConn. Even if some of them play each other once in a blue moon like PC and HC, the game has little feel like the days of yore. Too bad.
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Post by trimster on Apr 18, 2023 8:51:47 GMT -5
I have a memory of a HC ay UConn hoops game in the mid 70's..The game was is a field house, portable bleachers I think..Where was that? On the UConn campus, but before Gampel was built. Yes it has on campus. I went to a game there I believe in the early 80’s and remember the portable bleachers.
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Post by trimster on Apr 18, 2023 7:10:12 GMT -5
Those were the days. Those were the New England teams of stature. I'd say UConn was an afterthought, except they weren't even a thought on anyone's radar screen. Mind boggling what they've accomplished since. My memory from those days is that UConn was completely irrelevant in the NE basketball scene, let alone the national scene. Wasn't this the Toby Kimball era at UConn? Kimball was from the 60’s along with Wes Bialousoknia. Seventies were guys like Hanson and Whelton.
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Post by trimster on Apr 17, 2023 15:57:21 GMT -5
The NCAA now allows for Alston Awards of up to almost $6,000.00 each academic year to scholarship student-athletes who meet certain academic requirements. In the case of UConn, that meant maintaining academic eligibilty in '21-'22.
UConn paid Alston awards to almost every basketball player after fall
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It’s no secret that UConn prioritized its men’s and women’s basketball programs when it left the American Athletic Conference for the BIG EAST, leaving its football program in the wilderness that is FBS independence. UConn also put its money where its mouth is by choosing to pay only its basketball players Alston awards, or financial awards for academic achievement, last academic year.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, a university spokesperson responded in an email that 27 men’s or women’s basketball players each received an award of $2,990 after the fall semester, which totaled $80,730. The spokesperson said as of July 19, UConn hadn’t yet distributed its awards from the spring semester.
These awards are capped at $5,980 annually per student.
The BIG EAST is mandating the availability of Alston awards for men’s and women’s basketball players starting in the 2022-23 school year. They were optional during the 2021-22 school year.
It will be optional for BIG EAST schools to provide Alston awards in the upcoming school year to athletes who compete in other sports.
UConn players must remain eligible
UConn’s publicly available rosters online from the 2021-22 season list 16 men’s basketball players and 12 women’s basketball players. That means 27 of UConn’s 28 men’s or women’s players, or 96.4%, received the maximum possible amount for the fall semester.
Amid an admittedly limited sample size of Division I schools that provided Alston awards last year, that’s a higher percentage than other universities.
For comparison, 71% of athletes at Oregon earned the maximum amount of $5,980 across three academic terms last school year. At Missouri, 32.2% of athletes earned the maximum per-semester amount ($2,990) last fall.
While the two schools’ percentages of athletes who earned the maximum amount are lower than that of UConn, they made their academic financial awards available to all their athletes, not just basketball players. Oregon and Missouri had a total of 536 and 537 athletes, respectively, based on the data obtained from public records requests.
The UConn Alston awards policy, dated January 2022, said the awards for basketball players are “based on their ability to remain academically eligible.” Players must be eligible from the fall to the spring, then from the spring to the fall, in order to receive the financial award both semesters. The university will provide the funds through direct deposit, similar to cost-of-attendance stipends.
Over a four-year career, a college athlete could earn up to $23,920 from Alston payments alone, depending on the policy at the athlete’s school. If a player’s career is five years, due to a developmental or medical redshirt season, that potential total approaches $30,000.
Based on UConn’s data from last fall, it’s almost a guarantee that its men’s and women’s basketball players will earn the award in a given semester.
What are Alston awards?
In a 9-0 decision in the NCAA v. Alston case last summer, the Supreme Court affirmed a district court’s injunction regarding NCAA rules that limited education-related benefits in violation of the Sherman Act.
While college athletes can earn new forms of compensation — through NIL and Alston awards — due to notable events in the summer of 2021, there are important distinctions between the two sources of income. Third parties, such as businesses or boosters, provide NIL compensation for the use of an athlete’s name, image and likeness. Alston awards are direct compensation from universities to athletes, which are tied to an athlete’s academic achievement.
Each school can determine its own policy for providing the academic financial awards — if it offers them at all. Many Division I schools have announced that they’ll start offering Alston awards in the 2022-23 academic year.
There’s no limit to what an athlete can earn through NIL activities. For example, Sierra Canyon High School guard Bronny James leads the NIL 100 with an On3 NIL Valuation that places his projected market value at more than $6 million. However, there’s an argument to be made that if and when Alston awards are ubiquitous at the DI level, they could prove to be the more financially beneficial source of compensation for athletes across all sports.
NIL technology provider Opendorse projects that on average, DI athletes will earn $3,195 in the second academic year of the NCAA’s NIL era. That’s 53% of the maximum Alston award amount per year.
Opendorse projects that athletes who compete in the Group of Five — the AAC, C-USA, MAC, Mountain West or Sun Belt — will earn an average of $5,572 from NIL.
UCLA quarterback Chase Griffin told On3, “I’d like to stress that the one thing that will help all athletes, more than NIL, is funding the Alston stipends this year. That is honestly more than most athletes are making on NIL.”
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Post by trimster on Apr 17, 2023 15:32:06 GMT -5
Bring back the old Colonial Classic and have HC host it at the DCU Center. Four teams, (HC, BC, PC and UMass), that sadly, never play each other.
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Post by trimster on Apr 17, 2023 14:36:34 GMT -5
This is one of the most entertaining, surprising and enjoyable string of tweets that I ever remember reading on CrossSports! You can say that again.
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Post by trimster on Apr 17, 2023 7:54:46 GMT -5
EFG72 will be happy, assuming this is true.
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Post by trimster on Apr 16, 2023 7:26:15 GMT -5
I had a very nice conversation with Khalil at the Spring football game this afternoon. He is looking forward to being at HC. CDP is very pleased that he will be wearing purple next season. According to the Worcester Telegram, CDP had 3 recruits on campus yesterday. I assume Singleton and Nugent were two of the three.
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Post by trimster on Apr 16, 2023 7:11:48 GMT -5
You look just fine Dave. CDP appears to be jumping into the HC family with both feet and that is a good sign.
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Post by trimster on Apr 16, 2023 6:40:44 GMT -5
Jack Graham, a 6-4 wing from Milton Academy, has decommitted from High Point. Graham had only a couple offers, but he was the NEPSAC Class A PoY, playing at a highly selective prep school. Maybe worth kicking the tires. Milton Academy won the NEPSAC Class A title this year. Graham hit 11 three’s in the semifinal win and scored 42 points. He is from Smithfield, RI, no more than 30 minutes from HC down Rte 146.
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Post by trimster on Apr 14, 2023 14:20:42 GMT -5
I wonder if Caleb Kenney crossed paths with Smith in high school? Our bigs are largely great unknowns heading into what is their 4th year at HC. I have to think a 4 and a 5 are at the top of DP's list with the 2 schollies available.
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Post by trimster on Apr 14, 2023 13:33:48 GMT -5
Smith had offers from 7 high academic schools while in HS so I suspect academics wouldn't be an issue.
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Post by trimster on Apr 14, 2023 6:48:03 GMT -5
Nice analysis,Tom. Maybe the next step in those arguing for the "employee of the college" status would be that the schools are facilitating payments to the players by engaging with those holding the NIL purses. Fran McCaffrey said in response to a question on NIL that agents for mid-major players are shopping them for deals before the student-athlete enters the portal. He went on to say the NCAA has screwed this up royally. Fran may be right on this front.
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Post by trimster on Apr 14, 2023 6:18:29 GMT -5
Rumor on the American board is Sam Ferry is going to Duane Simpkins’ staff at AU.
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Post by trimster on Apr 13, 2023 9:09:52 GMT -5
haven't been this excited for hc basketball since the rw days! dp is a real pro and an outstanding fit for the type of student-athletes that will thrive at a school like hc. Couldn’t agree more. I think Kit et al hit a home run. Hopefully supporters don’t expect miracles overnight but Ithink much better days are ahead for the hoop program.
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Post by trimster on Apr 11, 2023 17:00:01 GMT -5
Devin Carney, a 6' pg from Butler, PA has entered the portal after a redshirt frosh year at Duquesne. HC was one of 20 schools to offer him a schollie as was George Mason.
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Post by trimster on Apr 11, 2023 16:30:21 GMT -5
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Post by trimster on Apr 11, 2023 15:31:23 GMT -5
I think Bo made a wise decision. I am sure DP had a lot to do with this decision but Bo aside, either HC has been very fortunate or someone has done yeoman work keeping the roster and recruits intact during this transition. It is almost unheard of with a coaching change these days.
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Post by trimster on Apr 11, 2023 10:44:27 GMT -5
It's actually Larson. He didn't play much as a frosh, (7 games), and suffered a season-ending injury after 5 games as a soph. He did start the season opener vs Iona. Kind of surprised he's leaving Penn after two years.
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Post by trimster on Apr 11, 2023 10:36:57 GMT -5
Gus Larsen, a 6'10" F/C from Penn just hit the portal. He is from CT and played 3 years at Northfield Mount Hermon. Ranked #15 in New England in 2021 by NERR. Had 3 Ivy Offers and Richmond.
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Post by trimster on Apr 11, 2023 9:22:06 GMT -5
I expect HC’s ranking to improve a great deal under Paulsen’s leadership. The PL, not so much.
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