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[ADL70]

On the admissions front, there was an article in the NYT that the Ivies and other highly selective schools are admitting few students this year.  More should trickle down to the second tier schools like the UAA.

[DagarmanSpartan]

cwru70,

That might be good news for CWRU, however, I'd bet that some of the UAA schools, like Wash U. and Emory may already qualify as "highly selective" schools.

[ADL70]

Schools like Williams, Amherst, Lafayette, and Lehigh were left out of the discussion.  So I susupect they and the top UAA schools are just "bubbling under" that definition.  The lower admissin rate might be a function of fewer aid dollars to go around, which is probably a nearly universal circumstance.

[ADL70]

Despite other school's dropping sports and cutting budgets and projects, CWRU's athletics budget will remain the same for next year as last.  The campus paper had articles on athletics expenditures in its March 20 and April 3 issues.  It also reported an 18% increase in athletics spending during the previous four fiscal years.

http://www.cwruobserver.com/home/archives/

[DagarmanSpartan]

cwru70,

By chance do you know if the "Mather Park" softball field that is being dedicated today has been completed?  If so, then is it essentially a softball equivalent of Nobby's Ballpark?

Please let me know.  Thanks!

[ADL70]

I couldn't find any pix on the website.

I live in Columbus not in Cleveland so I haven't seen it.

He's the Observer article from when plans were announced last fall.

http://observer.case.edu/Archives/Volume_41/Issue_3/Story_2852/

[ADL70]

Found this tribute to the 2008 team on you tube, a slide show in two parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBfY2xblbI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuxAhcVnYU&feature=related

[ADL70]

Coach Perella is going to be OC at St. Eds

[ADL70]

Matt Krause from Ursuline, who vindy.com earlier reported as headed to CWRU, is now reported by valleysports.com as headed to Waynesburg.

[DagarmanSpartan]

cwru70,

Is there still not any word on CWRU football recruiting?

Isn't this about the time that the recruiting class is announced, normally?

[blue4now]

major,
rumor has it another strong class will be announced.  finals are this week and next.  they usually are one of the last ones to make announcements.  with all schools tightening their admission requirements im sure this has an effect as well.

on another front, it looks like 4 night games for the Spartans in 2009, 2 and 2. 

[ADL70]

The earliest official announcements I can recall were about the third week of May.  Last year nothing was officially announced until July.

I believe deposits are due May 15.  I read that applications were up 8% and that 1025 was the target number for the new freshman class.

Blue 4--I thought @ Rochester might be a night game too.

You gotta think recruiting suffered some last year with Coach Kaufman's departure and Debeljak coaching tennis.

[ExTartanPlayer]

Very cool about the night games for CWRU.

Gotta admit that I wish we had played more night games, maybe just once or twice a year.  I do love the traditional Saturday afternoon of college football, but there's just something electric about a night game.

After the four-year "everybody gets a win!" scenario

2004 Chicago
2005 WashU
2006 CMU
2007 Case

Case was finally able to break the streak of "new champions" by winning two in a row. It will be interesting to see if CWRU can win a third straight cement themselves as the perennial favorite for the next decade (much as Wash U was from about 95-04).  CWRU has been far and away the best over the last two years.  One season can be a fluke,  (2006 CMU? Looking more fluky every year after dropping from 11-1 to 7-4 and then 5-5), two seasons is a trend, three seasons starts to look like a full-blown shift in power.

[DagarmanSpartan]

Tartan,

I suspect that we'll be favored again this season.  HOWEVER, I also suspect that the following year, we'll have some pretty serious rebuilding to do.

Just losing Whalen will have a major impact in and of itself.

[fantastic50]

major,
on another front, it looks like 4 night games for the Spartans in 2009, 2 and 2. 

CWRU's game at Wooster will be the first-ever home night game for the Scots, after artificial turf and lights are added over the summer.