I am pretty sure that this season doesn't have anything to do with financial aid or faith.

Misericordia football featured on front page of d3football.com in a story by Brian Lester:  https://d3football.com/columns/features/2025/misericordia-not-satisfied-at-4-1

Quote from: Ron Boerger on July 22, 2025, 07:42:55 PM

Quote from: IC798891 on July 22, 2025, 04:59:46 PMThe thing I can't quite wrap my head around is, what "going all in" on athletics looks like. Albright's already got a robust athletics program, in terms of what they offer. They're adding men's wrestling (which seems like it makes women's wrestling the obvious next move) and women's stunt. But they've already got 19 teams. They don't have swimming, and from a cursory glance on the web, it doesn't look like they have required existing facilities needed to add it.

So, is the plan to just try and attract more athletes to the sports you're struggling to do so already? (The track teams strike me as very small)

According to the DoE's Equity in Athletics site, Albright had 1,215 FTE in the last year for which data was available (2023?), of which there were 324 male and 145 female athletes after duplicates were removed - nearly 40% of enrollment are athletes.  Lightly endowed schools that get much higher than that don't have much success in the long run.

And if I'd only *read the freaking article* I would have seen that they gained $13.8M in one-time revenue and nearly $4M in donations, so absent that they would have lost around $8M last year.  That would be an improvement over the '23-'24 year when they lost $22.7M and the '22-'23 year when they lost $27.8M, but at the end of '23-'24 they had $155M in liabilities and $224M in assets, liabilities having increased by nearly $50M in that one year.  The school listed $53M in endowments at the end of the year, but also $76+M in "lease liabililties", the increase in which accounted for most of the increase in liabilities over the prior year.

Albright dropped swimming a year ago.  They were dominant in the MAC on the women's side in the 2000s and on the men's side in the 2010s.

Bess' granddaughter Emily Bessoir heading to the Olympics as part of Team Germany.

Yes, this title never would've been possible if Doc Mould didn't 'transfer' to Misericordia in 1990.

First 'team' sport title.  We've won a few individual titles in swimming/track & field.

Yes, first D-III champion from PA.

https://www.d3baseball.com/playoffs/all-time

Thanks Gordon.  Baseball might be one of the toughest to win.  You have to win a minimum of 10 games in the NCAA Tournament.

Tyler Cottle named interim head coach at Misericordia.

https://athletics.misericordia.edu/news/2024/2/28/mu-names-tyler-cottle-interim-head-football-coach.aspx

Quote from: Stretch4 on February 25, 2024, 04:44:24 PMI believe 1 MAC Freedom championship for DeSales in past 10 years, with 6 or 7 regular season 1st place finishes. I know for sure that their very talented senior class this year had four regular season 1st place finishes, and lost 3 home game championships and 1 home game semi-final. At some point that does creep in to the heads of the coaches and players. As far as yesterday went, I think you need to give credit to Stevens who put together a very good defense effort, and quite honestly were the tougher team yesterday. Hard to beat a good team 3 times in one year, and Stevens is clearly a good team. 

In my opinion, the way this D3 season has played out with seemingly any team vulnerable on any given night, it is a challenge to put a Sweet Sixteen lock label on anyone.

You can check your math here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1goo2eKaPC5byw3Ki2f6YF6tB5Ni1ekgN5MxKVONooaE/edit?path=mbball#gid=634347005

John Davis is resigning as head football coach at Misericordia, effective March 4.


https://athletics.misericordia.edu/news/2024/2/17/john-davis-stepping-down-as-misericordia-football-coach.aspx

Quote from: saratoga on November 23, 2023, 09:39:35 AM

Perhaps a little known fact of Miseri basketball...

Mike Dunleavey, current Governor of the great state of Alaska & graduate of Scranton Central High School, was a pretty darn good basketball player for the Cougars.

After graduating from Miseri, he headed northwest & the rest is history.

I didn't know Mike Dunleavy was from Scranton - maybe they should name a street after him.

Quote from: ronk on November 21, 2023, 10:56:14 PM

Quote from: Great Day to be a Royal on November 21, 2023, 08:45:02 PM
Yeesh. About as bad a loss as I can remember. Winless program which will cease to exist in 3 months. Ranks up with 03 loss to Marywood.

That was a miserable season which also included a home loss to Miseri when they & Marywood had only had a men's team for 10 years. The Royals had 2 returning starters from the team that had won twice in the NCAA tourney the year before but 1(Brian O'Donnell) broke his hand and missed the next 5 weeks of the season. The other(Ryan Rogan) transferred out 2 weeks later.
  Mason Thompson showed some offense in the 2nd half after fouling 3 times in 3 mins in the 1st half.
  Back door cuts killed them plus at least 3 inbound passes intercepted under their own basket.
  Hopefully, Will returns for the start of the conference season in 8 days.

Misericordia's men's program started in the early 1980's.  Marywood's program came along in the mid-90's.

Quote from: jmcozenlaw on November 17, 2023, 02:36:22 PM

Quote from: saratoga on November 16, 2023, 06:35:57 PM

The athletic department needs to provide a 2 semester internship each year to Marketing students or others, with the best ideas to implement internal interest...in all teams.

However, the lack of support for men's basketball is especially noticeable & has needed attention for years.

One of "lost" members of the brotherhood will be coming home Saturday & will probably drop 24 on his ex mates.

Penn State's Whiteout game aside, students at many levels of play, have lost interest in not just attending, but even following sports in general. I was in a group of primarily young men, talking about Hurts and Mahomes and the upcoming Super Bowl rematch. They looked at me as if I had five heads and six eyes. Now, when the discussion turned to the Middle East.........they couldn't shut up (and you wouldn't have wanted to have heard the commentary.......think delusional libs).

I think that the days of gyms and stadiums packed with students is gone and never coming back.

But to be honest, I'm more concerned about the future WWIII than I am about getting 500 students back in the Long Center and other PA college gyms. But I'm old and getting cranky!

Well, it seems like you are in the right room.

Misericordia Head Coach Will Chandler won his 100th career game tonight, likely becoming the first member of the 2,500 point/100 win club.