MBB: MAC Freedom League

[diehardfan]

Bosko Djurickovicrzyzewskiovitchski (did I spell it right that time??)

   

April, your point is true.  Locally, one need only look at Scranton '03 vs Scranton '04 to see the relevance of an assistant coach.  Scranton goes from 5-20 to 20-5 and the Sweet 16 in one season DIRECTLY because they hired a former assistant coach.

Now Cj, i know you really don't believe that. There was a little more to it than that.

Maybe it was becase the Scranton assistant coach and/or players had a really long last names, and it took the other players and coaches forever to try to trash talk them by name. Therefore, Scranton could just concentrate on their game and did better.     8)

You guys are too funny, I'm glad I took the effort to get caught up on the boards, cause I missed some funny stuff during the season. 

[ColonelJohn4Life]

Locally, one need only look at Scranton '03 vs Scranton '04 to see the relevance of an assistant coach.  Scranton goes from 5-20 to 20-5 and the Sweet 16 in one season DIRECTLY because they hired a former assistant coach.

Now Cj, i know you really don't believe that. There was a little more to it than that.

NEPAFAN, I 100% believe that.  Other than Canio Cianci, who was an assistant under Bob Bessoir for like 60 years, what other material changes did Scranton make?

Any thoughts to a recruit database?

Heheh, I thought "recruiting" was "illegal" at the D3 level. 
(Recruiting not exisiting?  I really don't believe THAT.  )

[ColonelJohn4Life]

Wow... another feature of this site that I never noticed...

Pat put a cake in my profile today.    Thanks!!

[NEPAFAN]

A division 2 transfer, a healthy Brian O'donnell and an actual fresham recruiting class might have played a small part.

Any thoughts to a recruit database?

Heheh, I thought "recruiting" was "illegal" at the D3 level. 
(Recruiting not exisiting?  I really don't believe THAT.  )

www.laxpower.com has recruits for all divisions of lacrosse.


You have to be a graduate of MIT to figure out this freaking quote function

[Pat Coleman]

That's lacrosse. Anything for the sports we actually cover?

Quoting is easy. Hit the quote button on a person's post. Delete the stuff between the two {quote} tags that you don't want to use. Post.

[cold_case]

CJ,
Scranton went to the Sweet 16 in 2002-2003, then finished 5-20 the following season. You had it backwards.
Canio had nothing to do with either season since he didn't rejoin the program until 2004-2005.
Secondly, Scranton's poor showing that year was a direct by-product of the lack of recruiting effort put in by the previous coaching staff. There were no senior or junior classes, except for O'Donnell, leaving Danzig with a squad full of freshman and a weak sophomore class.
Check their roster now and you'll find a nice balance of freshman, sophomores and juniors, along with a couple seniors that played well this season.
Canio came into the picture the same time as Darren Cannon, Ryan Kirk, James Powell and Randy Arnold. Plus, players like Mike McGowan, Pat Clabby, Mike Kreuter and others were a year removed from their freshman years and had gained valuable experience.
One assistant coach didn't do it all. It was a combo of all the above.

[NEPAFAN]

That's lacrosse. Anything for the sports we actually cover?

Sorry, hard to tell which sports you cover when you were just on this board trying to plug the other message boards for the sports that have no posts. My point is if they can do it for Lacrosse, you can certainly do it for Basketball. Just a suggestion.

[Pat Coleman]

We cover football and basketball, like the bottom of all of my message board posts says.

I believe your assertion that it must be possible for basketball (800 programs) since it's possible for lacrosse (289) is a logical fallacy. However, we did post recruiting info on the Daily Dose last year and we'll do it again this year. That doesn't look to be all that different than what laxpower does -- except ours is only based on published reports, not hearsay.

[diehardfan]

Wow... another feature of this site that I never noticed...

Pat put a cake in my profile today.    Thanks!!

Happy Birthday!

[NEPAFAN]

Any conference realignment chatter?

[ColonelJohn4Life]

Let's hope not... I plan to close my eyes, put my fingers in my ears, and sing.  The system is not broken - don't fix it. 

[Gregory Sager]

But with three schools leaving the MAC Commonwealth, can anyone really expect the MAC Freedom to remain unaffected?

I wouldn't worry about it too much, CJ. No matter what happens, I can't possibly envision a scenario in which Wilkes, Scranton, and King's wouldn't be joined together at the hip like some sort of unholy set of Siamese triplets.

[NEPAFAN]

But with three schools leaving the MAC Commonwealth, can anyone really expect the MAC Freedom to remain unaffected?

I wouldn't worry about it too much, CJ. No matter what happens, I can't possibly envision a scenario in which Wilkes, Scranton, and King's wouldn't be joined together at the hip like some sort of unholy set of Siamese triplets.

It is two Commonwealth teams and one Freedom team.

Unholy set of siamese triplets, now there is an image!

[Gregory Sager]

We're both wrong. According to the AP press release reprinted on this site and discussed in the New Conference Forming room under General Basketball, the new conference will include three current MAC Commonwealth schools (Juniata, Susquehanna, and Moravian) and one current MAC Freedom school (Drew).

It still doesn't make any difference as far as my original point goes, because the MACF will keep the seven members required for an automatic bid. But the MACC would be down to five members, two below the minimum, and the Commonwealthers might clamor for a reorganization of the MAC under those circumstances. Of course, there's always the possibility that two more members could be recruited and the two separate conferences (and two separate Pool A bids) could thus remain intact. Warren Thompson mentioned back in December that he'd heard that Misericordia and Wesley were interested in joining the MAC, but I haven't read anything else along those lines.

[Knightstalker]

I am pretty sure TCNJ would jump at the chance to join the MAC, but the MAC doesn't want them.