Quote from: ziggy on May 09, 2016, 06:42:14 PM

Quote from: KnightSlappy on May 09, 2016, 04:32:57 PM
Calvin and Carthage will apparently keep their rivalry alive. The Red Men's schedule shows them hosting the Knights in Kenosha on Tuesday, November 29

https://athletics.carthage.edu/schedule.aspx?schedule=224&path=mbball

Looks like Calvin will be traveling to Wheaton as well.

http://athletics.wheaton.edu/schedule.aspx?path=mbball

Carthage and Wheaton both on the road, but don't worry, there will probably be an exciting game against Grace Bible and/or Finlandia on the home schedule!

Umm, not probably.....Finlandia and Grace at home.   Augustana and Anderson as well.

Two trips to Wisconsin in same week.  Carthage on Tuesday, W Oshkosh on Saturday.

Two games at Wittenberg over the holidays.

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7-7 with the availability that Calvin has for recruiting is absolutely disgusting. Calvin should never finish below 3rd in the league with the resources they have available. No disrespect to any MIAA team, but with the the facilities Calvin has at its disposal, not making the tourney is not an option. Anything less than 3rd is an utter disaster and most of the donors agree with me. This season is cause for concern.

"Availability that Calvin has for recruiting...."  What does that mean?  Asking parents to shell out $38,000 a year so their kid can come and try out for the team?   But hey,  they'll have a really nice gym to play in if they make it. 

You seem to have no clue as to the state of small college recruiting these days.  Virtually every college player has played AAU ball.  The minute they join an AAU program all they hear about is "scholarships."  They're told that their club will help their kid pay for their college education.  And the kids and their parents fall hard for this.   It's  a badge of honor to be "offered", and have that national letter of intent signing day.

And quite frankly,  it's real.  I can think of 5 quality players off the top of my head, all 6'6  or bigger from west Michigan Christian schools ( historically typical Calvin feeder schools), that are currently playing college ball under scholarships at NAIA schools.  Two of them have fathers that has good careers at Calvin .  The program, the history, the academics, and  the facilities cannot compete with what can amount to 10's of thousands of dollars over the course of 4 years.