University Athletic Association

[DagarmanSpartan]

SpartanMom,

Thanks!

I hope that your son does consider a military career.  He can still go to Naval OCS after he graduates, if he wishes.

Or, alternately, he could get involved in Army ROTC right there on campus if he wishes.  I highly recommend it!  Of course, when it comes to branches of service, I'm biased.

 

[SpartanMom_2016]

SpartanMom,

Thanks!

I hope that your son does consider a military career.  He can still go to Naval OCS after he graduates, if he wishes.

Or, alternately, he could get involved in Army ROTC right there on campus if he wishes.  I highly recommend it!  Of course, when it comes to branches of service, I'm biased.

 

I think he would be most interested in the Navy/Marines.  He applied to USNA and five civilian schools.  Our congressional rep told him that West Point had him ranked very high but he told me that he didn't want to go there because he didn't want to be in the Army.  I think he would have considered the AF but I think his illness might permanently prevent him from being a pilot even though it will not permanently prevent him from military service.

Personally, I would love to see him as a Marine.  I think he is well suited to the military.  But right now all he is concerned about is getting on the field next season.  So far it is looking good for him but we will know more when he gets back to Cleveland in August.  I am looking forward to his arrival tonight.

[ADL70]

47 new Tartans

http://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/fball/2012-13/releases/20130502i8he6i

26 new Maroons

http://athletics.uchicago.edu/news-2012-13/FB-incoming-players-04192013.htm


I'm told we should see the new Spartans in about a week.

[DagarmanSpartan]

I realize that this isn't football, but I gotta give a "shout out" to the CWRU Spartans baseball team, which eliminated #2 ranked St. Thomas (Minn) in the Midwest Regional.

GO SPARTANS!!!

[D O.C.]

Thanks to Case Western I now know about the UAA.
What a busy Athletic Director!

I want to thank CW for hosting LINFIELD in a necessary D3 game.
(I see The NWC offers up Puget Sound the next weekend for a little softer chewing.)

Some of us hope to show up and meet you -  but then, that's a few miles down the road.

Here is something to chew on for the summer....

http://www.catdomealumni.com/


and that's my sense of humor

[casefldad]

Any ideas as to why Case's list of recruits has not yet been posted? 

[ADL70]

Pretty sure the SI office has been busy with baseball.   

From what I was told by the SID ten days ago, I suspect it will be posted this week.

Do you know of any Florida recruits? 

[casefldad]

None for football.  There is another Belen Jesuit registering but he plays basketball.  Looking forward to how we did recruiting 'big men'.......

[SpartanMom_2016]

CWRU recruits:

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2013-14/releases/20130522fdywnv

[D3MAFAN]

CWRU recruits:

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2013-14/releases/20130522fdywnv

One kid from Hawaii to Ohio and is undecided. Must have been one helluva pitch.

[ADL70]

CWRU recruits:

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2013-14/releases/20130522fdywnv

One kid from Hawaii to Ohio and is undecided. Must have been one helluva pitch.

He's undecided about his major, because their are so many great choices.

Is 6'4 330 Pete Wenderski (and doesn't look fat) big enough for fldad?

I also like Nate Lewis (6'4 250) who was 2nd team District

Dante Capicchioni (5'11 240) isn't big, but is a national champion powerlifter and his highlights on youtube had far and away the most views of any other CWRU recruit.

While 29 isn't a big class, it is skewed toward defense which is the biggest need.

Now we just need to see which upperclassmen are returning.

In other news, Chicago's HC Dick Maloney just announced that he is retiring at the end of June.

[casefldad]

Not a large group of freshmen but some big guys...we certainly need them...

[ExTartanPlayer]

CWRU recruits:

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2013-14/releases/20130522fdywnv

One kid from Hawaii to Ohio and is undecided. Must have been one helluva pitch.

He's undecided about his major, because their are so many great choices.

Is 6'4 330 Pete Wenderski (and doesn't look fat) big enough for fldad?

I also like Nate Lewis (6'4 250) who was 2nd team District

Dante Capicchioni (5'11 240) isn't big, but is a national champion powerlifter and his highlights on youtube had far and away the most views of any other CWRU recruit.

While 29 isn't a big class, it is skewed toward defense which is the biggest need.

Now we just need to see which upperclassmen are returning.

In other news, Chicago's HC Dick Maloney just announced that he is retiring at the end of June.

Tough time to announce that the coach is retiring, sadly, it makes me wonder if perhaps there are health concerns...otherwise why wait until this late in the game?  They will presumably have to name a coordinator as the interim coach for this season and then reevaluate later...

29 recruits isn't a huge class but IMO it's "enough" if a) there are at least half a dozen quality players and b) it's bookended by a couple of bigger classes.  Certainly this is not a hard-and-fast rule, but I think that a "normal" Division III program should try to bring in 35-40 per year, allowing for some year-to-year variation, but that's the average I'd want to shoot for knowing that injuries, academics, and "this is harder than I thought it would be" will eventually knock out about half the incoming recruits in any given class.

[ADL70]

Around 30 has been the norm for CWRU recruiting classes.  There have only been a couple of recent classes that were larger.  I hope there are more like a dozen quality players.

Oberlin has managed to be competitive in NCAC with far smaller recruiting classes.

Update:

WUStL updated roster  28 frosh

http://bearsports.wustl.edu/SPORTS/FOOTBALL/Pages/roster.aspx

[ExTartanPlayer]

Oberlin has managed to be competitive in NCAC with far smaller recruiting classes.

I think Oberlin's a bit of an anomaly in this respect, and a case study worth examining that IMO actually illustrates the near-impossibility of being "good" with such small recruiting classes.

First, let's be realistic: Oberlin has won a combined 11 games in the past three seasons (and was actually worse before that).  There's more to evaluating a team's quality than the record, and there have been a few very impressive performances - beating Wabash last year, pushing Wabash hard in 2011, and a number of "competitive losses" in 2010 - but still...they didn't even crack .500 once (although I think they had a chance in 2012 with a healthy Mandel, see below).

I don't mean this as a slight, moreso as a compliment: I can't imagine a team doing any better than Oberlin has in the past three seasons with such a small roster, and yet even with that said they have only managed an 11-19 record with one high-quality win (2012 Wabash) and a few other "competitive losses" against decent teams.

Second, I think a significant portion of Oberlin's modicum of success over the last few years can be attributed to a couple of outstanding players (Mandel and Witjes).  I would love to know what 2012 Oberlin could have done with a healthy Mandel all season; they were 4-3 in games that he started and lost all three games where he was out, games that might have been winnable with him in the lineup, especially seeing how well Oberlin played when he returned. 

IMO, that alone makes the argument about how difficult it is to compete with such small recruiting classes: a deeper team might have been able to withstand an injury or two, but Oberlin's hopes essentially went out the window with one injury, albeit the most important player on the roster.  They went from "the team that could compete with Wabash and OWU" (two of the NCAC's three best teams last year) to "the team that lost by double digits to Chicago, Allegheny, and Kenyon" (all of whom were decent, but not on the level of Wabash and OWU).

Am I impressed with what Oberlin has done being so undermanned?  ABSOLUTELY.  But I actually think it shows how difficult/impossible it is to compete adequately without a larger recruiting class.