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Quote from: hazzben on April 28, 2025, 04:26:59 PMDoes he have to give the NIL money back   

All $75 of it.

I heard it was two free pies at Gary's Pizza.  Hard to give that back...

Crap, we only offered a free game of bowling at Flaherty's ... gonna have to step up our game to steaks at Lindey's 

Not that anyone thought that this years NACC would yield an at large selection, but this nice NCAA published resource gives a look into the selection math, RPI style.

https://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/44396?utf8=%E2%9C%93&commit=Submit

Quote from: GU1999 on April 28, 2025, 12:48:36 PMCrazy week for CUC DH, Jake Mahler (Vernon Hills, Jr.)

In four games he wen 11/17 with 5 doubles, a HR and two walks.

.647/.684/1.471

OPS of 2.155

CUC put up an eye popping week in general with 56 runs scored and 7 allowed in their four wins.

Award went to Stagowski from RKFD.  Also had a good week over 6 games, but the numbers certainly would favour Mahler who had more hits, a higher Average, OBP%, SLUG%, OPS% and his team won all four games.  The only telling stat that tipped toward Stagowski is that he had 8 xbh, 6 doubles and 2 HR to Mahlers 5 doubles and 1 HR... in two extra games.

Quote from: DuffMan on Yesterday at 08:13:40 AM

Quote from: hazzben on April 28, 2025, 04:26:59 PMDoes he have to give the NIL money back   

All $75 of it.

I heard it was two free pies at Gary's Pizza.  Hard to give that back...

Baseball and track overlap quite a lot.

That's a tough pill to swallow losing that many close games.  I say it every year, but it's true...the OAC is so competitive that making the conference tournament is an accomplishment.  That is not the case for a lot of conferences, but it definitely is for this one.  Krupar will be hitting the recruiting trail hard this summer now that he knows exactly what he thinks he needs to push them to the next step.

This year has been an anomaly with Etta and Ott being out of contention.  Even with JCU leaving those two will be back to normal sooner rather than later.  I was looking and at 3-13 currently Ott is having their worst season since Powell's first season in 2000 when they went 4-12 in OAC play. 

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I think for both Vetter and Regan, the biggest issue is outside shooting.  Both have I think JUST enough size and strength to play the 2 at a lower or maybe mid-tier D1 school and are solid enough as your second ball-handler / creator.  But Vetter for his career is a 41 percent shooter overall and 35 percent three point shooter and Regan (who does have great mid-range touch) is only a 33 percent three-point shooter on fairly low volume.  In D1 you absolutely need your two-guard if they don't have elite athleticism to be a lights-out long-distance shooter - both are very good free-throw shooters, so if you are a coach maybe you figure the touch is there and with a full spring and summer to focus primarily on the long-distance shot, maybe they can be a guy who is reliable from beyond the arc.  But with only one off-season to work with, that may be the concern for either.

Certainly, NESCAC (and all of D3) will be rooting for Vetter to get a good D1 offer! 

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

Muskingum really needed Wilmington to win at least one against JCU.  Both were close but couldn't pull through.  Now the Muskies need to sweep Mount and BW needs to sweep JCU.  7 losses in the league and 5 of them by 1 run and 1 in extras by 2 runs.  That hurts.