Quote from: HansenRatings on July 25, 2025, 09:15:57 AMI put together a "Preseason Magazine" style preview for the NESCAC this season. It's easily the most balanced conference in the country, with 7/10 teams projected 0.500 or better, no team projected with fewer than 2 wins and no team projected with fewer than 2 losses.

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Nice work - Jordan Atkinson transferred from Trinity to Georgetown, it was a spring transfer but was wondering if it is 100% accurate otherwise in regards to outgoing players

I don't know my team and maybe I'll get around to putting some thought into one but I would struggle to build a team that consists too heavily of guys that didn't play in the second weekend of the tournament and/or win the NESCAC. Too many great players and that would have to be the decider for me. Lot of post pandemic guys who put up numbers with little team success to show for it

Loved Aronson at Tufts. Was surprised the jumper never came around but always seemed like a gamer. Best of luck to him at Trin

Sam Peek has been really impressive for this team and is a guy who, between the pandemic and the fact that he didn't play for Amherst/Williams has kind of gotten lost in the shuffle historically (and probably because Sobel was right after him as POY).

Peek won NESCAC player of the year as a junior (sort of) averaging 17/8/2 on 50/35/73 splits while playing plus defense, first 1st team All American in Wesleyan history. Then goes to Stetson and basically plays power forward for them, averages 18 minutes a game, and makes some spot starts - now seemingly headed into his third year in the G league or a half decent gig in Europe. Seems to be the 3rd most important player on this TBT team.

If I was drafting a post 2015 NESCAC team he seems like he would fit into basically any iteration of it. Tremendous player and fits in with just about everybody

I read a HoopDirt post on the finalists that mentioned unnamed coaches with backgrounds that all fit the three names listed as well as a D1 assistant which must be Rutigliano.

It seems like Colby has run a competent search besides inexcusably waiting so long to make the change. They will hire, it seems, a fine coach, but no names that in my opinion justify the move. I don't expect the trajectory of their program to change.

Rutigliano is interesting with a D1 background but don't think it will help them overcome this year's recruiting struggles - he has very little D3 experience and is from out of region. I don't think it would be wise to hire your new coach based on one recruiting class that is going to be a struggle regardless but worth noting. I would hire Simms personally

Worth sharing during the handicapping exercise that Williams QB Owen McHugh is out for the season with a torn UCL (Tommy John surgery)

I don't work in Amherst admissions but talent acquisition has not been their problem. Chris Hammond, Ryker Vance, Charlie Randall, Elias Chin, Drew Martin, Will Scherer, and probably others that I can't remember because it's June are players that Williams was interested in in some form or fashion and are players that I have watched and think would have been rotational pieces in the last three years.

From the outside, their issue is player development, roster fit, and scheme. Talent is not an issue

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.