Hmmm, Baruch. Oh, hey! Friday night will feel just like an "Amherst Classic" early season tournament game! What luck! Maybe Senator Frost can come up to heckle the officals and sumfun can wait outside the locker for autographs to complete the picture.

I'll be rooting for UNE this evening. The Nor'Easters' coach tells it like it is.

If there's a bright side to Saturday's outcome, we've avoided another misogynistic rant out of Senator Frost since two of the four coaches are male. Next week's Amherst-Bates game might replace Christmas, July 4th and Thanksgiving in terms of joyous events for Frosty. As long as his wife remembers to iron his shirts, that is...

Quote from: Pat Coleman on February 19, 2010, 12:04:24 PM
We can expect more than 10 New England teams, perhaps well more than 10, to qualify for the tournament. Some will filter out into the "East" bracket and "Atlantic" bracket.

Captain Obvious, to the rescue!

Bowdoin should decline any further NESCAC or NCAA bids, take the travel money and put it towards lowering the concession stand costs at the hockey rink for the NESCAC tourney. It will save the Lady Bears two quick losses.

Quote from: BBstudent on December 24, 2009, 07:04:08 AMIn commenting on the schedules one should keep in mind that most of the student athletes graduate within four years. This leads to constant turnover which results in programs that may have been good one year not being as good another year. So, for example, Lehman last year had an All-American and did fairly well while this year they are probably not as strong.
In addition to guaranteed turnover every four years a certain number of girls stop playing during their careers which also leading to variation in the strength of programs from year to year. How can the Amherst coach know the strength of each schools recruiting class or which players may drop out, get injured or burn out?

Simple solution: trade in Lehman, Clark, and Baruch for Southern Maine, Salem State, and Brandeis. That way Gromacki doesn't have to worry about "the strength of each schools recruiting class or which players may drop out, get injured or burn out." Or would this dig too deep into the Amherst philosophy of playing teams with an "All-American [that] did fairly well, while this year they are probably not as strong?"

Quote from: senatorfrostOne day women coaches outside of Maine will be as good as men coaches. Men coaches will never be as good as women NESCAC coaches in Maine, and fans of Women's NESCAC basketball in Maine will always be better than all other fans. Their brillance is wicked awesome as well as amazing.

(nodding)

Quote from: deiscanton on December 16, 2009, 05:50:15 AMAs for a deep run in the NCAAs for the Judges this year-- I hope that is possible-- but that is not top priority on my mind right now.

I shudder to think what is top priority on your mind. Wasn't that the basis for much of the Saw movie franchise?

Speaking of horror shows, is it too late to get another rant from Senator Frost about the evils of female basketball coaches? It's certainly film noir, but entertaining nonetheless.

Can't wait to see the end of the cut-throat Amherst non-conference schedule. Let's see, we've got Lehman, Clark and...wait for it...Bridgewater State! Phew, it looks like the Lady Jeffs statistical victory for widest victory margin is safely in the books.

"Amherst Women's Basketball: We'll play the terrible teams no one else wants to."

(Too long for a T-shirt?)

I was a little worried about Amherst's schedule this year, but I'm glad to see they've decided to keep the traditional non-conference powerhouses like Mount Holyoke, Lehman and Clark on the schedule again. It's always impressive to see student-athletes really challenge themselves in the classroom and the gym.

I'll assume that the evolving Baruch rivalry will just take a one-year hiatus and be back next winter.

Congrats to Amherst, its players and coaches. A great run. Many -- even the players and coaches themselves -- may view the last two games as a reflection of the season en masse, but that would be a mistake. Amherst represented the conference well and should be exceedingly proud.

Relatively speaking, the NESCAC is still a young conference (15 years, if memory serves) in terms of the NCAAs, and the student-athletes have always acquited themselves well. Some day down the road we'll get that national title.

To NESCACers and non, have a nice offseason.

Quote from: Title9Fan on February 25, 2009, 02:41:41 PM

Quote from: feces monkey on February 24, 2009, 12:49:43 AM
Prediction: the officials will once again hand the NESCAC title to Bowdoin.

Record of the Bowdoin women's team when there has been fair officiating: 0-35

Man....we've all done some whining about refs before but that's some serious
sour grape wine right there....

Must have been bad ref-ing that accounted for that 33 POINT LOSS by Williams (the land where they forgot that even Tennessee has to recruit) at Bowdoin last weekend.       

Um....forget it.

Anyway, it's good to have the hairless Eagles in the house -- welcome back boys. I figured it would take just a little cage-rattling to get Frederick's Finest to reappear. It's also nice to have the Polar Bears back in their rightful place. It's just a shame the refs had to spoil things again for Amherst.

If I'm reading things correctly, I think we can have a regional of USM, Mary Washington, Bowdoin and Brandeis in Brunswick. That would be a peach, and just like old times. Stripers don't run for a couple more months in Merrymeeting Bay, but we can get Balder a bobber and worm and see what happens. Or maybe a four for a one-weight. That's your stick of choice, right?

Just think: if you come to Maine again, you could change your handle to "Baldacci's Eagles." And you can take him back with you (Sorry, forgot. No politics).

So I'll be rooting for Mary Wash to take care of business. I'm not a huge fan of Brandeis, but they've got a Colby gal leading the way, so I'll push for the Judges by default. Southern Maine is a crooked outfit, but they are Mainers. Since Amherst fans are obviously angling for an intellectual "bailout," we've got our regional.

Make it happen.

Prediction: the officials will once again hand the NESCAC title to Bowdoin.

According to the luminaries on this board, since 2001 we've all suffered through the following:

Record of the Bowdoin women's team when the officials have blatantly handed the Polar Bears the game: 224-0

Record of the Bowdoin women's team when there has been fair officiating: 0-35

Frosty's slow-twitch intellectual synapses actually make me pine for the days when all we had to worry about was the Mary Washington crew conjuring up striped phantoms on this board. I suppose with a whack-job liberal in the White House we were due for a Pioneer Valley nutter to finally feel adequate.

Quote from: senatorfrost on January 30, 2009, 11:44:44 PMI have never complained about the refs before. I've seen some bad calls from close up but never so many against one team. I never even try to make a call unless I am right on top of it so to speak. Tonight, well my guess is that one of the refs applied to Amherst a while back and was not accepted. Tonight they got their revenge. This went on for a good part of the game until the last seven minutes or so.

The weakest of weak sauce.

You claim to have never complained about officiating, yet there is no one who complains about officating like you. You're that guy in third row, standing up and yelling during the block/charge calls in women's games. And always in Amherst's favor. There's nothing wrong with being a homer -- it makes you as close to a Williams grad as you'll get -- just don't bore us with your "objectivity."

Moving on to the season at hand. A mid-to-late season ranking:

1. Amherst -- yeah, the Bowdoin loss doesn't look good, especially at home, but the Lady Jerks are the team.
2. Tufts -- the elephants are my pick to win it all, despite not matching up well with Amherst.
3. Bowdoin -- they are what we thought they were.
4. Williams -- what does it take to get fired from that school?
5. Wesleyan -- can we trade them for Hamilton yet?
6. Trinity -- I'm enchanted by the fact there is another contender. Still a year (at least) away.
7. Bates -- a case of the best and worst coaching. Does that make sense?
8. Colby -- shouldn't they be better by now?

Quote from: sumfun on November 29, 2008, 06:57:24 AMWhat does that say about Amherst that beat Lehman by 23. 

What a nerve. Beating a team by 23 that bounced the No. 3 team in the country? Don't the Lady Jeffs realize they need to schedule more like Williams?

As if we needed to quantify the obvious, but just for posterity: Ephoops=Clown.

Ha, ha. A Williams fan posting about weak competition in a regular-season tourney. Perfect. I guess not every school can have such luminaries that the Purple & Gold Classic has boasted in its illustrious history.

I understand Williams types become unhinged when it comes to Amherst and I accept that Eph grads have a higher sense of fair play than the rest of us terrestrial dwellers, but leave the holier-than-thou attitude to the Obama administration.

If you're looking for a real travesty, Bowdoin being ranked in the preseason fits that bill. The new hire would have to be considered negligent, at best. She seems like a sweet gal, but I find it hard to believe that Bowdoin was able to attract Pemper, an assistant at Harvard, who builds a power, and then is left with just a high school coach (with some college experience) as its best choice in the resume pile. The Polar Bears should revert back to a full-scale hockey school within two years.

I'm hopping on the Colby bandwagon early. At least they have a credentialed coach.

http://williams.prestosports.com/sports/mbkb/coaches/index

This guy's CV makes Paulsen look like a savant. At least Riley will have a leg up on somebody...

Eagles classy to the end. Good run for your ladies. Best of the luck in the future.

Have a great summer and stop photoshopping your fishing photos. Kidding. That's a great fish for a five weight. I've got a feeling my pond has a hog waiting for me this summer, but it will take a delicate touch (especially with my cable). Be well and maybe we can meet up in Greenville in the fall. I'll drop a worm off Kineo if they're biting...

It takes an influx of Upstate New Yorkers and an intellectually-challenged midwesterner to make Senator Frost sound cogent. Who knew?

Again, I'll ask Pat to mandate posters crack the four-figure mark on the SATs prior to posting in the NESCAC room (and no ACT equivolency). I think this would help in curtailing the OCD-like compulsion to re-post massive blocks of text that have already been entered into record.

Sending Plattsburgh, Dick Stockton and Brandeis to Amherst is the only logical decision. The fact that this is not the case just shows the NCAA has a sense of humor.

Quote from: BooBallsCasRay on March 09, 2008, 07:26:34 PM
I do not think Amherst has luxury accomodations.. my point was that for out of town visitors, Amherst is a far better place to visit with many more things to do

I hear the city throws a top-notch lacrosse party (baseball bat to the skull optional).

In the words of Doc Holliday: "Very cosmopolitan."