Quote from: amh63 on November 17, 2015, 11:41:35 AM
Also, there is a transfer from Darmouth on the team...and GWU is the school that Red A. attended...yes the Boston Celtics coach was a D.C. native.

Wasn't Auerbach from Brooklyn?

It's got to be tough to get the right coach at a place like Hamilton - someone who's good enough to be a successful coach and get the right kids into the program, but who's not looking to move on to something bigger after the first signs of success.  That said, the school doesn't seem to put a lot of effort into improving the program.

What happened at Hamilton? The AD is taking over and Cohen left Feb. 1.

Not many competitive games today...closest is a 14-point spread at the moment

Quote from: jumpshot on February 08, 2014, 12:19:18 PM
Anyone else notice the public display of mid-week co-habitation at Middlebury at the outset of the recent video posted here? Not new at Mid or other schools ----surprised it wasn't edited. A bit of an affront to parents and others .

I also liked the beer pong setup from the previous night

This is Hamilton, but I wouldn't be surprised if a similar setup existed at many of the NESCACs, no?
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/12/27/53437.htm

Judging by the scores so far this season (including tonight's loss to Keystone), it looks like it could be a long year for Hamilton.

Quote from: Old Guy on October 12, 2012, 10:17:07 AM
I grew up in Maine - even that long ago schools like MCI (Maine Central Institute) and Bridgton Academy had powerhouse pg sports programs, that was their signature purpose. Then other schools too in NE - Cushing Academy and Brewster come to mind - emphasized pg sports. My question is when did the "rich and famous" (Choate, Taft, Deerfield, Mt Hermon, etc) decide to go this route - and why? And has the pg prep year become something of a "red shirt freshman" concept, a year to get bigger and stronger before entering the college fray? Seems something of a violation of the D3 ethos, no?

We have adopted too the lexicon of D1: we talk about "recruits" and "walk-ons." We have programs that put out their rosters before the season starts and "tryouts" are held. Seems like we might want to celebrate on this board those players who were lightly recruited or "walked-on" and made an impact on their squads (Nolan Thompson at Middlebury).

Not only are post grad students somewhat of a red shirt concept, a lot of students who come to school as a freshman, sophmore, or junior simply repeat the year they just did in public school.  So a kid who just finished his sophmore year at his local high school goes to prep school and enrolls as a sophmore again.

A Hamilton preview from the Utica paper

http://www.uticaod.com/sports/x218318577/Hamilton-football-attempts-to-take-another-step

Let me preface this by saying that I'm not criticizing the rankings - I am just curious.  In the kickoff special (I apologize if I shouldn't mention this stuff, because it's not part of the free site), Hamilton is predicted to finish 3-5, ahead of three other teams in the conference.  However, when ranking the teams throughout the nation from 1-239, Hamilton comes in at 228, 28 spots lower than any other team in the NESCAC, and 60 spots lower than the team they are placed one spot ahead of in the conference preview.  Again, I'm not disputing that Hamilton might well be the 228th-best team in D3, but I'm curious as to what kind of process results in the kind of discrepancy I noted above.

Quote from: watercow on August 24, 2012, 08:23:38 AM

Quote from: frank uible on August 23, 2012, 07:42:13 PM
Are Amherst's and Williams' applicant pools broadened more by those colleges' reputations than those pools are shrunk by the greater strictures of those colleges' Admissions Offices? Only a very few NESCAC football wonks might care about this question or its possible answers!

While I can only aspire to NESCAC football "wonk-dom," insofar as Frank frames an interesting question I guess I'll bite. My take (read: guess) is that in football (along with basketball, hockey, and maybe lacrosse), notwithstanding the broader recruit/applicant pool owing to school reputation, admissions standards at Amherst and Williams impose, on net, a smaller functional recruit pool. In pretty much all other sports, however, notably soccer, field hockey, swimming, track (x-c), tennis, baseball, etc., I think it's manifestly clear that the academic reputations of Amherst/Williams dramatically increases the functional recruit pools, despite the higher admissions bar (or, actually, because of the stringent admissions standards). The pool of competitive athletes in these sports that don't require any admissions accommodations and drawn to schools like Amherst and Williams continues to astonish me. Williams' run (though now broken) of Directors Cups is Exhibit A.

Whatever the size of the recruiting pool, I think it's pretty evident that Amherst and Williams do not struggle to pull in talent in football and basketball.  My guess is that at any time, if Amherst were to decide that they were not competing at a high enough level to their liking, they could turn whatever sport or program was struggling into a NESCAC (or D3) leader in no time.  Whatever the self-imposed recruiting/admissions limitations relative to other NESCAC schools are, Amherst is going to draw from such a wide area and carry such a strong reputation that they're usually going to have a leg up on most of their competition.  I would think this same dynamic occurs, to some degree, in almost every conference in the country.

New OC at Hamilton - Ryan Anderson from WNEC

From an email from the Hamilton AD this morning:

"Later today we will announce the appointment of Andrew Cohen, defensive coordinator at Bowdoin College, as the new Mary Jayne Comey and Mac Bristol '43 Head Football Coach at Hamilton."

Quote from: lumbercat on July 14, 2012, 12:50:39 PM
Hamilton HC search gets crazier with time. Still no announcement. The 4 finalists were leaked a few weeks ago. All are head coaches with other programs. At this late date the departure of any of these coaches from their respective program would be highly disruptive and unfair to those schools who will be starting preseason workouts in a few weeks.
This leads to the conclusion that the rumored finalists must be off the table at this late date.  At this point the Continentals may have to turn to exisiting staff with an "interim" hiring or call Stetson back in from the links.
Not good for a struggling program trying to move forward.

I heard this weekend from a staff member at Hamilton that they were going to be announcing the new coach this week (he believed).  He didn't know who it was though.

Quote from: lumbercat on May 10, 2012, 12:59:16 PM
Was he asked to step aside and consoled with the Golf job?
The new coach has a very good QB who will be a fifth year senior.

I don't think so...he stepped in to fill in a pinch with golf this year and he's a pretty avid golfer.  I'm guessing he was ready to be done with the longer hours of football at age 61.  Can't get much better than coaching D3 golf for a job.