WBB: Landmark Conference

[ronk]

 Hopefully, they'll win at least 21 games so that the 6 from Lyco, Wilkes, and Goucher can be dropped from their NPI.

[kate]

Hey Saratoga, just checking on here -would like you to know that as a top MAC fan, I would very gladly take back Lycoming & Wilkes - in a heart beat!

[saratoga]

Hi Kate,

By all means...have at it.
They're all yours. 

[kate]

See, that's what I'm talking about - it sure as heck isn't because of 'beatabilty' - Nothing like that - it's the personality of the school and the coaches - I shouldn't have to tell you how much I love d3 sports.   Favorite, of course, is basketball, and especially exciting, to me, is the fact that the WNBA will have a team in Philadelphia by 2030.   All that said, good luck to Scranton this coming season, and I do realize that there's nothing wrong with wanting the total BEST for your TEAM, but as tempting as it apparently is for some (that 'like-minded' phrase will stick with me til I die), it's really not cool to dis ANY D3 team for whatever reason.   Just remember what FDU Florham Park did a few years back.   I DO so miss the back & forth with all you guys.

[saratoga]

Kate:

I love your passion for all things Del. Valley & women's athletics in general, but the reality of the matter is those 2 schools have 6 combined victories in the Landmark last year & the year before it was worse.

The fact of the matter in today's world of NPI is that those schools & their very poor results can & do impact good teams by being locked in for 2 games per year for each struggling program.

The reality is they are in the conference & until they make serious positive strides, they will continue to hurt the better teams in national rankings and it will continue to be incumbent on the better teams to schedule the best they can in non-conference games.

Not a dis...just the new world of NPI & competitive college athletics.

[kate]

Can you imagine how dull it would get if all the 'cream of the crop' teams won the National title every single year?   Well, probably not for you Scranton fans, but for the rest of D3 women's basketball.   Does this conversation lend itself to that saying of 'a league of their own'?   Maybe Hubby and I just enjoyed some of the non-basketball things about a team, like even the beauty of Wilkes (loved their bush enshrined parking lots where the Hub and I ate many a packed lunch & watched people drive in) and that spectacular atrium where Lyco has their food court - you can stand there, eat your hotdog and look out over those glorious PA mountains!   See, you guys ARE lucky to have em!!!   

[saratoga]

Love ya Kate.
Always keep that glass half full! 

[kate]

I'm ashamed to say I don't even know what NPI stands for - did you realize that your old coach is now at Lafayette College right here in Easton?   Sort of the same scenario - the Pards being a lower level D1 team who has kind of floundered in the past several years.   I'm really anxious to see how he does.   You know darn well that I always keep my eyes on the Lady Royals!!!

[saratoga]

Ben will have Lafayette the talk of the town within a few years.
Outstanding coach, great recruiter & good person...if Lafayette ups their financial awards to keep pace with other schools in the Patriot, he'll hold his own with any of them.
Stay well!