Quote from: Soccerlover on October 24, 2025, 12:45:31 PMDoes anyone have any insight into why Middlebury is so bad this year??? Sad to see a team get so much worse in such a small period of time... Truly shocking.

Channeling smoova and producing some saved receipts of my own . . .

Quote from: northman on October 28, 2025, 09:00:39 PMThanks.  Makes sense.  And now we have a Midd fan suggesting that Midd will romp easily to the national title...

LOL. Are you referring to me? As the only Midd fan who has posted today, I'm assuming so.

Curious as to how you interpreted my post as a suggestion that Midd will romp easily to a national title.

To recap:

• I stated that Midd had an emphatic win at Williams today
• I stated this locked the Panthers into the 6th seed against an opponent tbd
• I stated that those who calculate NPI numbers predict the win gets Middlebury into the tournament.
• I stated that a win or two in conference tourney would only solidify a tournament berth.
• I stated nothing further.

Middlebury with an emphatic 3-0 win at Williams.

Panthers lock in the 6th seed in the NESCAC tournament and will travel to and face any of Tufts, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Williams, or Conn, depending on the outcomes of games to be played later today.

As far as NCAA tournament hopes for Midd, those who calculate NPI numbers believe that a win today puts the Panthers safely in the field. Of course, result(s) against any of the potential future NESCAC tourney opponents would only help even more. 

Quote from: maineman on October 27, 2025, 12:32:56 PMWith Middlebury at #29, a loss to Williams on Tuesday coupled with a loss in the opening round of the NESCAC tournament to Tufts or Williams could be devastating to their chances for ac NCAA bid.

Actually, no. Wins (or ties) would be huge, but losses to such highly NPI rated teams would not move the needle downward much, if at all.

Quote from: smoova on October 08, 2025, 04:48:11 PM

Quote from: flyingdutchman on October 08, 2025, 03:10:29 PMWesleyan's recent results have been impressive, don't get me wrong; however, watching them play, I don't understand how they are getting the results they are. Talking about Wesleyan as a potential league winner seems absurd to me. They are proving they are hard to beat, but I don't think anyone in their offense is particularly threatening. I don't see them advancing past the first round of the NESCAC tournament, unless it's a 0-0 tie and they win it in penalties. Maybe they will continue to prove me wrong, but these results have to be a fluke

So ... four "flukes"?

LOL. Agree. By the fourth result, the term "fluke" is no longer applicable.

Quote from: rdanie03 on September 06, 2025, 07:09:24 PM

Quote from: jumpshot on September 06, 2025, 06:12:11 PMAnyone know today's result of the Tufts-Williams men's soccer game? Final 2-0 Ephs? Still delayed due to weather, or postponed to be completed at later date?

It is still suspended. It's unclear if it will be continued. If not, because they have not reached 70 minutes, the game gets wiped and it would only be replayed if it is needed to determine NESCAC playoff qualification

Oof. Mother Nature 1, Williams 0

Middlebury rolls over Bridgewater State in its season opener, 6-0.

Eduardo Casanova and Will Sawin each with two goals and an assist. Keegan Harder, last year's Freshman of the Year and the Panther's leading scorer, added a goal and an assist.

Some notes:

• Replacing a defender like Luke Madden is no easy task, but Pablo Gonzalez, the transfer from UConn, looked solid in his Panther debut
• Midd started two first-years—defender Orlando Cavaceppi-Dove and midfielder Hamin Kim
• Was great to see Antonio Cosentino back on the pitch as a starting fullback, just 10 months after a brutal injury ended his impressive 2025 first-year season.
• Just as great to see Harper Nichol back and playing fut again. The forward from Brooklyn was super impressive during his first-year in 2023, before missing all of last season with an injury. His return adds to the depth and dynamism of the Panther offense.
• First player off the bench was another first-year with a familiar surname: Payne. Dylan Payne (one assist) is the younger brother of recent Panther standout Tyler Payne, who graduated last year.

Panthers travel to Clinton, New York on Saturday to start NESCAC play against Hamilton.

Message from AD to "Friends of Colby Athletics" is reported here (need to scroll to last item):

https://hoopdirt.com/daily-dirt-5-13-25/

A lot of rumblings going on at Colby regarding the lacrosse program, as well. Talk of of new coach cutting up to 20 current players to make room for an exceedingly large recruiting class.

Pretty cool to see that Matt Hart is joining Ryan Odom's staff at UVa as Director of Analytics.

https://virginiasports.com/sports/mbball/roster/season/2025-26/coach/matt-hart/

The former Hamilton star (who was quite successful transferring to DI George Washington) was with Odom in a similar capacity at Utah State and VCU.

Quote from: jumbomumbo on March 20, 2025, 09:05:37 AMSupposedly the hotel where the UAA teams are playing got evacuated at 3:15-3:45 am last night. Mumbo's models just skewed even further to the winner of Trin / Wes winning the natty. Bring it home boys!!!

NESCAC tomfoolery!

Quote from: stlawus on March 17, 2025, 07:21:49 PM

Quote from: toad22 on March 17, 2025, 01:31:09 PMD1 is a bad place to be a coach. It is no fun anymore and you will likely get fired no matter what you do. D3 is the place to be!

I get the sentiment, but this just is not true.  For every coach that gets fired, there are hundreds that would kill to be in their place even with very little job security.  Most of the time the really weak job security applies to the power conference programs, and the amount of money you get as a fired power conference coach in terms of buyouts or remaining contract salary will always make d1 the place to be.  Anderson will get paid the remaining 3 years on his contract which is about 10 years worth of salary at a very high end coaching position you'd see at a NESCAC or UAA.   A situation like the one at Iona is still an exception when it comes to mid majors. I love d3 as much as the next person, but d1 is most definitely not a bad place to be a coach.

Tony Bennett would like to have a word.

The D1 game has changed drastically in a very short time, and it is only going to get worse.

It's all so grotesque, and this quote from the Iona AD says it all:

"With the impact of NIL changing college basketball in ways no one could have imagined, Iona feels the need to shift the direction of our men's basketball program. This requires an overhaul of our entire business model and program structure."

Anderson had two years, with a .500 record. He took the Gaels to the MAAC championship game this year. But time to blow it up.

It's so sad.

Quote from: ItsATuftSituation on March 10, 2025, 06:32:17 PMI was at the game on Saturday at Tufts. There's so much dialog about everything, but nothing is going to change. The crowd was fine, the Redlands reaction was close to the line but I still thought it was honestly not the worst thing ever. The 4-5 guys that ran on the floor were out there for half a second, and retreated to the bench. It wasn't enough in my opinion to make that tech call. In the end, Redlands made one more play that Tufts did. That's sports. It's no one's fault, no one's to blame, that's just how it goes sometimes. People are upset understandably because they care so much, but name calling and saying Tufts has a reputation of this or that is unfair. I was there both days, and personally I thought the event was well done, administrators were everywhere and handled issues fine and it was a great experience despite the Jumbos loss.

Post of the year. Bravo.

My son just had the same thought that someone posted earlier, that Tufts should have hit one of those bench players with the inbounds pass to force a call.