Quote from: nescac1 on January 14, 2025, 08:27:03 PMBowdoin is really hard to figure, eviscerating Colby after a tough league weekend, and the great effort vs Harvard before that.

One thing is for sure - Ray Cuevas is absolutely legit.  Reminiscent of Lucas Hausman in that he's explosive off the bounce, really hard to stay in front of, but a better deep shooter.  Bowdoin has a real star to build around. 

Some injuries to contend with, with both Kevin Reeves and Liam McBride out. The Reeves injury happened at the very beginning of the Tufts game. He is on crutches so likely a consequential injury. Not sure the nature of the McBride injury but he last played versus Tufts.

My Polar Bears ended up falling to Harvard 71 to 65 but put on a good show for a D3 team.

Yes -- He would have been a difference maker for Bowdoin. Between the COVID shutsown and Gilbride announcing his retirement just after what would have been the basketball season during the COVID year,I totally get why Chebuhar would have transferred, especially since he had an opportunity at a D1 school (Lehigh) where he would see some playing time. And now graduate school at ND -- things worked out well for him . .

Here is a somewhat circuitous NESCAC to D1 transfer story. One of Tim Gilbride's prize recruits toward the end of his tenure as HC at Bowdoin was a big power forward from Georgia by the name of Burke Chebuhar. He spent only 1 year at Bowdoin, and it was the Covid shutdown year. He transferred to D1 Lehigh after the Covid season where he played 3 seasons, blossoming into an impact player in his final season. He has now transferred to Notre Dame as a graduate student and seems to be seeing some playing time and scoring some points:
https://fightingirish.com/roster/burke-chebuhar/

Bowdoin's FY QB, Peter Macaulay, tied a school record for TD passes in a game when he threw for 5 TDs in the PBs' 35-24 win over Bates. . .

Lumbercat -- There are a good 2,000 fans at most Bowdoin football games. Lots of alums and students and of course the ever-loyal parents. Seeing and listening to the commentary of the old alums at a Bowdoin game provides a quick insight into why football is not going away any time soon at the likes of Bowdoin. Obviously, these are not the crowds of 5,000 or more that used to attend the games with UMO back in the sixties but the current crowds are good and enthusiastic. That has been true at least since BJ Hammer took over the program.
Bowdoin let its hockey program go for a disastrous 5-year period due entirely to a poor coaching hire but rectified that reversal of fortune with a coaching change in the fall of 2022 that resulted in a rather quick turn-around of the program . .

Quote from: Nescacman on October 23, 2024, 09:58:11 PM

Quote from: lumbercat on October 23, 2024, 09:27:21 PMI'm a distant but long time observer of Athletics at both Purple schools. From the bleachers I will say I've always felt a different vibe when attending random Football, Basketball and Baseball games at Amherst and Williams over the last 35 years.
Williams is a much more friendly and supportive Athletic environment.
Seems like there is often a distraction at Amherst or some counter group(s) that just isn't totally supportive of athletics and specifically Football.
Reminds me of Bowdoin in that regard.

The Williams administrative and academic community seems to embrace Athletics as great supplement to the overall student experience. They seem less intimidated by Athletics and helmet sports  which, to me, is the litmus test of a school with truly open and diverse offerings for the students as a whole.

We've been attending both home and away NESCAC games for a long time. And not just football...

Lumber, Bowdoin may be turning the corner. Saturday was, by far, the best atmosphere we have ever seen for a sporting event on the Polar campus. Kudo's to the Bowdoin student body as well as the alums, parents, profs, et al for coming out and supporting the team (we know it was "parents weekend" so that certainly helped). Supporting the student-athletes makes a (big) difference.

It is not a new thing for large and enthusiastic crowds to attend Bowdoin football games. There is deep and strong alumni support no matter how poor the product on the field has been. And Bowdoin does turn out in big numbers for its marquee sports like men's hockey and women's basketball. Apparently you have never attended a packed-to-the-rafters Bowdoin-Colby hockey game or a women's basketball play-off game or you wouldn't be co-signing Lumbercat's bleak assessment of Bowdoin support for its teams . .

Here are highlights of Bowdoin's 28-21 win over Hamilton. Robbie Long was excellent at QB for Bowdoin, with 3 nice TD tosses. Hamilton was very game and hang on until the end. Noteworthy is that the reigning NESCAC ROTY, Luke Kurzum, was chased from the game in the early going after throwing a bad interception on the goal line. He was replaced by junior Henry Rubey, who acquitted himself reasonably well.

Quote from: lumbercat on September 12, 2024, 10:59:44 PM. .. . .
No contesting the great Bowdoin grandstand. Truly classic and iconic venue that extends well beyond New England football venues. The travesty here occurred a few years back when the Bowdoin AD and some hidden group within the Bowdoin athletic culture decided that they would rip out half of the home side stands and move the Bowdoin home side across the field to the newly renovated stands on the other side of the field which had been the visitors side for around 100 years. They relinquished their iconic home bleachers to their visitors!!!
(Note when you go to a Bowdoin game this year that the Polar Bear logo faces what is now the visitors side!)
Justifiably, there has never been a bigger uproar of Polar Bear stuffed shirt Alums. Needless to say the decision was reversed promptly after one tragic year where the black and white were unbelievably displaced on their iconic home field.
Sadly they also tore down the supporting structures adjacent to the iconic grandstand and now the visitors side is much larger than the home side and always sparsely filled. Tragic mistake.

So now the Bear logo faces the visiting side and the Bowdoin Cub AD narrowly kept his job.

The bleachers that surrounded the Hubbard grandstand and diminished its look were basically a mess. Plus they would have precluded the landmarking of the grandstand since they were not a part of the original design in the early part of the 20th century. They are not missed. The grandstand generally suffices in terms of home seating. Plus many student fans prefer to stand on the track so they can be closer to the action.

I can't argue with how strange it was for the planners to think that the grandstand should be turned over to visting fans while Bowdoin fans should sit on metal bleachers in what had been visitors' seating for many decades. Truly inexplicable. Unfortunately, the PB logo cannot be properly re-oriented until the existing turf is replaced.. 

Finally!! Bowdoin's 2024 roster is revealed.

Quote from: Viking on June 05, 2024, 11:51:12 AMWith June here and the list of 2024 reported recruits and transfers on the previous page getting cluttered with all the red-coded edits since late March, I'm posting an updated list.

Thanks to teams sharing official posts welcoming new recruits and transfers, it's significantly more accurate than earlier versions, but that doesn't mean it should be trusted any more than you'd trust any compilation that's based primarily on news media reports, internet listings, and social media posts. And that's not the only factor that should make folks cautious about trusting this type of compilation. Here's another: A staple of Division III athletics culture is the incoming student who exists in the gray zone between "officially acknowledged recruit with a (semi-)guaranteed roster spot" and "walk-on." Many of them are likely to make 2024 rosters. As we should expect, some of those students are on this list, some aren't.

Updates since this morning in red.

Please share additions and corrections!


REPORTED INCOMING NESCAC CLASS OF 2024 RECRUITS AND TRANSFERS

 . . .
Bowdoin
Arthur Dos Santos, F, Intercontinental FA of New England/Rivers S, MA
Andrew Markham, M, Lamorinda SC/Berkeley HS, CA
Liam Myers, D, Chicago FC United/New Trier HS, IL
Alexander Nicholas, F/M, Bethesda SC/St. John's College HS, MD
Jonathan Perez, G, Hopkins S, CT
Adam Prince, M, Intercontinental FA of New England/Rivers S, MA
 . . .

One more for Bowdoin:

Masai Gordon, D, Landon School, MD

I would guess that the third (and tallest) Simonds brother will have an impact for Bowdoin.

@nescac1

Another Bowdoin commit:

Ray Cuevas, 6'2 PG, Pingree (MA)

@nescac1 Here is another Bowdoin commit:

Adam Bello, combo guard, 6-2, Masters School (NY)

@Nescac1

Here is a name to add to the Bowdoin list:

Chris Rey, 6-7 SG. A 2022 grad of Beaver Country Day (All-NEPSAC (Class B)). He did a PG year at Andover and then enrolled at Fairfield University where he was listed on the pre-season roster but not the regular roster for 2023-24. It is unclear whether he redshirted at Fairfield or what happened there.