It certainly reads a little crazily but I don't think it specifically has anything to do with Strahorn. My read on it is that there is a lot of verbiage in there that is designed to protect them from any sort of discriminatory issues - i.e, what if someone in a wheelchair applies for the job?

I don't know, just a guess. Also curious to know what names appear as linked to the job this late in the cycle outside of Dave McLoughlin

Larry Anderson retired today after 30+ years as head coach of MIT. I recall that there was reporting at the time that he had been the favorite for the Amherst job in 2020 but withdrew from consideration to stay at MIT. Since then, MIT has had 1 winning season after a decade of dominance and Amherst's struggles have been well documented. I always found that decision to be a lose lose

Quote from: D3BBALL on May 17, 2025, 10:44:49 AMShane Regan to university of Chicago, great pickup for them. Great school academically for him.

Surprised by this - figured if he was going to stay in D3 he would have stayed in Wesleyan. Nice change of scenery I'm sure and maybe an academic component. Nice to have him out of the league!

Also - the Colby AD was the AD at TCNJ and worked with Matt Goldsmith for 8 years. To make this move the same week he is hired at Middlebury is just a cherry on top. Maybe he could've been your first call...two months ago?

This reeks to me of overly ambitious and frankly, dumb AD/administration. Unless Strahorn did something wrong off the court - and to this point we have no indication that he did, but it is worth covering the bases - it's May 12th! If it was on court related, it could've been done two months ago, a month ago at the latest. Now to run a search at D3 speed, they will be lucky to have a coach in charge by July 1st and will be late into the recruiting cycle.

Not to mention, this now allows players to enter the portal for 30 days following a coaching change. If I'm Max Poulton and Dan Civello, my name is going in 1000%, if this was a guy they liked and respected and now you feel like the school has turned their back on you.

In short, assuming again that this has nothing to do with off court conduct, there is really no justification for doing this in the second week of May. Are the students even still on campus?

Repeating a little but Middlebury made a great hire and will really enjoy watching the irony unfold when one of the 2-3 best candidates for the Amherst job immediately outperforms his alma mater. Really great hire by Midd

I love Vetter but I do not think he is a slam dunk D1 player. He doesn't handle it enough to be a full time 1 against scholarship athletes and he isn't big enough to play the 2 full time. Doesn't jump terribly high or run very fast.

Also, if you are entering the portal in the last week it's open you are:

A. Definitely not 100% committed to leaving Trinity


B. Severely limiting your options compared to what they would've been if you went in a month earlier before a lot of teams rebuilt their rosters and there were way more spots.

With that being said, if Vetter leaves that would be massive. Probably takes them from preseason #1 to like, late teens early 20s

Henry Vetter.

With all due respect to the members of the staff that interact on this website, because they're great, but the D3hoops.com All-American list omitting BOTH Henry Vetter and Hank Morgan while somehow including Jarrel Okorougo is one of the most bizarre postseason awards editions I've ever seen.

And yes, I am aware that as I write this, Okorougo has been the best player on the floor in the national championship game.


EDIT: Morgan on second team, guess I can't read.

Won't be in front of the computer tonight for the full 40 minutes I fear but I have ESPN+ so planning on watching on demand. For me the keys are Davis/McDonald limiting How and winning on the glass and at the risk of being too obvious, the 4 guards making shots

By the way, and I know they did this the last few years, but the Thursday/Saturday set up is so much better for this weekend. Makes tomorrow feel way bigger and more important

They obviously have a bunch of great pieces but to me the last two years have been defined by finally having a coherent offensive gameplan and vision, and the players that can execute them. The 10 man rotation is really nice but they have had Drew Lazarres and Dana Smiths and Jarrel Okorougos before - this is maybe unfair to them but Porydzy, Donovan, Donald Jorden, etc, all very good players that have similar traits. Ajayi and Ogundeko before that were more offensively skilled versions of their front court players too. They've never had a Vetter before, with his skillset but more importantly his demeanor and attitude and leadership as a backcourt player.

Is the consensus among players/coaches that Callahan-Gold was the biggest piece to last year's team? Because to my untrained eye it seems very clear that most of their success over the last two years can/should be attributed to Henry Vetter

Not that it really matters but last week would've been the time to take that victory lap - barring a really special season by someone in the GNAC or MASCAC (not impossible), the Region 1 POY is almost definitely going to be the NESCAC POY every year now that the NEWMAC, LEC, and CNE are in Region 2. No one in the NESCAC that isn't player of the year is going to win it and most non conference coaches will probably default to the same line of thinking that Ryan just applied for Okorougo.

Am I wrong to be a little surprised by all the Okorougo love in the past few weeks? The stats are definitely good and I know he won DPOY (never been an area across the league I am good at analyzing) but I guess when I watch I don't see a top 5-10 player in the region.

For example, Dana Smith seemed much more impactful to me on last year's Trinity team and he didn't get any all region nod. Maybe Callahan-Gold was taking a lot of the love and someone on Trinity besides Vetter needed some.