Quote from: jumpshot on March 11, 2015, 10:56:27 AM
grabtherim ---

What are the two rivalries and what attributes cause you to consider them exceptions?

Amherst and the Yankees?  Or is that redundant?

Friendly's was in fact founded in Springfield.  I fooled everyone, myself included.  But, emotionally-speaking, it was founded in Wilbraham.

what about before or after he DIDN'T invent the internet?   

also, Friendly's was starting in Wilbraham, hence the hedges on 90! 

General question for posters here, although it kind of applies specifically to Albertus, given their recruiting: What do you think of transfers (JUCO specifically)?  I ask as an Amherst fan - their coach landed 2 D1 transfers.

On the one hand, they come in with a year of experience - in the case of Amherst's recruits, that year was spent practicing/even playing a little against D1 talent; on the other hand, it takes away time from developing with the team for which one ultimately ends up playing.

With JUCO transfers specfically, they've had TWO years at a different program.  Do you think this gives an advantage/disadvantage in any sense?  Does it prevent a coach from being fully able to mold/model a program?  Or is the targeting of transfers itself a certain model?

No Cardinal Egan, though - R.I.P., for those concerned. 

I was a resident of NYC before/during/after the events of Sept. 11, and although I don't "follow" him in any particular sense, he was a rock (pun intended).

I'm an alum of Sage and I've never heard of it.

I don't think there was anything untoward/scandalous re Green - I think he's just a 20 year old kid who had a bad shooting day.  I was never a star basketball player, although I am a stud bowler, but it seems to me that anyone with a star's responsibility would put winning above personal performance - even Green's one 3-ball that went in was backboarded - he just seemed really off, and some of the Green-less configs Hixon arranged simply worked better. 

Also, Toomey and Olson were point guards - the way a star point guard takes over/runs a game/acts as a go-to player is not the same as the way a star swingman/whatever position Green plays does. 

Dawson seems to have come along.  He still runs quite often into four opposing defenders rather than pass, but did anyone see the bullet he sent to Conklin?  I am much more satisfied with the Berman/Dawson rotation now as compared to the beginning of the year.  Across the board - ha - folks seem quite confident re Amherst's chance at an at-large - if they do make it, I am very interested to see how this recently-gelled team faces off against teams they don't have any experience against. 

Quote from: middhoops on January 26, 2015, 04:21:56 PM

Quote from: P'bearfan on January 26, 2015, 03:21:17 PM

QuoteNew Bowdoin President: http://www.bowdoin.edu/presidential-search/

Fascinating choice for Bowdoin's new President.  Not the background I would have expected for a liberal arts college

A NESCAC President with an M.B.A.
Put me near the top of the list of people who love the concept.

What we need is a -- business administration!

George F Babbitt

What is preventing Berman from assuming the pg role and Dawson moving to the 2?  I'm perplexed.  McCarthy/Green/George seems like a pretty sweet frontcourt.

Nabatoff doesn't really inspire me - I swear every time he goes for a rebound against a guard, it ends up a jumpball.  McCarthy is pretty much the Second Coming, though - his style is really fluid, and (based on years of streetball participation/observation from the depths of the heavily Irish neighborhood in which I was raised) exTREMELY Irish, if that makes any sense at all.

Anyway, back to my OG point: I know Berman doesn't shoot, but who cares?  Dawson shoots enough for the both of them!  And this way Amherst would have a pretty competent/visual point guard to temper Dawson's offensive life.  Or is the theory that they shouldn't both be on the court because of durability, etc?  Even then, with Barry coming back (?), and all the 2s-4s in the world, Hixon could always shuffle things such that Berman/Dawson are on the court together a lot but still get enough rest. 

Re Amherst pg situation - is the theory that Barry will take over?  I'm rather uncomfortable with the immediate future whenever Dawson's got the ball - it seems every time he has it, he drives to the hoop and attempts some really acrobatic stuff while 2-3 guys stand open watching.  Never goes in, either.  I love Berman, though he doesn't shoot (at all, seemingly) - were Barry to get back into things, would the three of them split 2 positions, or would Berman and Barry split PG while Dawson assumes the 2?