Quote from: Kuiper on June 21, 2026, 02:00:49 PMJeremiah Cateau MF Holy Cross (D1) (rising junior) (yet to see action; Trinidad & Tobago U20 and U17 YNT player)

Side bar: how does a u17 and u20 YNT player not see the field at a historically weak D1 program? HC hasn't had a winning season since 2008 and finished below .400 in each of the last 4 years. Edit: Did play 14 games and started twice freshmen year. Maybe was hurt So. year?

I've been arguing that for years, but IFAB won't listen to me.

Endowment per student:

Williams	$1.7m
Bowdoin	$1.4m
Colby	$508k
Middlebury	$494k
Colorado College	$491k
Johns Hopkins	$400k
Tufts	$190k
St. Lawrence	$180k
RPI	$130k
CNU	$25k

Good to see your commentary Falconer.  I'm excited to see if Messiah can bring their swagger back - it sure looks like they have lots of incoming talent.

As an Evangelical institution, AP has a limited pool of interested, quality soccer players to recruit and will be fighting an uphill battle against currently strong institutions of the same ilk.

Quote from: Kuiper on May 29, 2026, 05:06:01 PMEastern Mennonite

Grove City and Geneva are off this schedule this year, but fellow Pennsylvania school Gettysburg travels to EMU.  They also leave off John Jay, Mary Baldwin, and Johnson & Wales (NC) and add Salisbury, St. Mary's College of Maryland, VMI (DI).

That's a massive upgrade for EMU, a team that hasn't been above .500 since 2017.

Hanover College, alma mater of Woody Harrelson - hence the reason the fictional Woody Boyd was from Hanover, IN.

Not a coaching change, but AD change. Christa Racine moves from Drew University to Haverford College. This is interesting as Racine was a HS All-American right around the corner from Drew and had been at the University for over 30, with two daughters even playing soccer at the school. I wonder what pushed her to the Main Line?

She replaces Danielle Lynch, who moved to Pomona-Pitzer in California, which is also interesting because Lynch was native to NJ as well.

https://www.haverford.edu/marketing-and-communications/news/christa-racine-appointed-haverfords-director-athletics

Thought this would be a good place to congratulate all the lurkers who have or will be graduating this month.  Would love to have you come out of the shadows for the fall banter - especially if you're a recent St. Lawrence alum :-)

Nah, I'm just stirring the pot. Scranton graduates on the 23rd but you'll want to include a player panel in the interview process which'll be easier if they're still on campus. And it's an attractive job, which I know from experience brings in plenty of non-obvious coaches (think Calhoun being named the first head coach D3 University of Saint Joseph). Plus I like to mess with NEPAFAN :-)

Quote from: NEPAFAN on May 07, 2026, 08:44:38 PMany rumors?

interviews this week. some surprises in there.

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Quote from: Kuiper on April 17, 2026, 12:42:36 AMFrench National Team moves home base from Babson to Bentley

https://thewellesleynews.com/23335/news-investigation/french-national-football-team-chooses-bentley-over-babson/

Not a big deal in the overall scheme of things, but it would have fun to have the top ranked team in the world training at a D3 school

"The men's French national football team, Les Bleus, will train at Bentley University in Waltham during the World Cup this summer, despite having previously committed to training at Babson College. According to French football reports, the change was sparked by prolonged financial negotiations and an impasse between Babson, the French Football Federation (FFF) and FIFA.

Les Bleus are the top-ranked team in the World Cup as of April 14.

On March 26, Bentley's athletic director, Vaughn Williams, announced that the French team will arrive on June 10 and train at Bentley for the duration of the World Cup. The university will serve as a training site that the team will return to, no matter how far they travel for their tournaments, which are scheduled to happen across the country."

Disappointing, but we'll probably never get the full story.  I too was looking forward to having a World Cup team train there as they have numerous times in the past, and not just for WC matches.  Babson has been very accommodating in the prior years.
I suspect and expect Babson will still get a team.

New Jersey just finished announcing they're home to training grounds for 4 teams:
Morocco will use The Pingry School (k-12) in Basking Ridge
Brazil will use Red Bulls Performance Center in Morris Township
Senegal will use D1 Rutgers University in Piscataway
Haiti will use D3 Stockton University in Galloway

You can see the full list of training grounds and hotels here - https://fwc26teambasecamps.fifa.com/#/tbc/

NYU Women's basketball just had their 91 game winning streak snapped this year.

What about NYU, with 30k UNDERGRADS

See now, I loved it. I love student announcers, especially when they're homers.