MBB: Conference of New England

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I guess my memory is poor.  Oh well.  The original purpose of the statement still stands.  ENC would be ecstatic with one trip to the NCAAs.

[d3bballinboston]

Anyone hear that they are going Co-ED in Fall of 2007?  I herd that this week

[All-around]

Rumor has it that Dana Barros is going to be the first assistant at Northeastern next year under new coach Cohen

[Maq Diesel]

Who is going CO-ED in 2007?

[Crusader3]

Rumor has it that Dana Barros is going to be the first assistant at Northeastern next year under new coach Cohen

Actually its not a rumor. I got an inside tip and I was told by someone who works closely with Northeastern basketball that Dana Barros will be associate head coach, former bc palyer Uki Agabi will be assistant coach and some gentlemen from Yale will also be an assistant coach. If ENC really had a chance to get Barros and they didin't than I think they really lost out on a once in a life time opportunity. Oh well I'm sure they will find a good coach for the job!

[d3bballinboston]

regis college is rumored to being going co-ed in Fall of 07

[roy_williams]

regis is going coed and northeastern is moving to newton mass and changing their mascot to an Eagle

[d3bballinboston]

i am just wondering if this is true.. if it is true.. how does this change the dynamic of the CCC.  I would think regis college athletics as a whole would get much better with male teams.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I've heard those rumors too, mostly as an explanation why the CCC added WNEC and doesn't seem to care about getting anyone else to even things up.

Although, the other explanation is that Anna Maria has petitioned to join the GNAC and is counting on their baseball team to get them in.  If that happens, things will be back to the way they were last year anyway.

I don't know which one will happen, but I don't think AMC has as good a shot at the GNAC as they do.  To me, Regis going co-ed is the more likely scenario.

[Maq Diesel]

Regis going Co-ED means nothing to me.  They have academic policies in place which make competing in the CCC hard.  If they go Co-ED and nothing chnages it wil be just another week school in the conference.  And if AMC stays and WNEC joins that is a 15 team league half of which can't hold their own which would make for a very week conference.  Hopefully REGIS will look to take their new Co-ED athletics to a new conference.  If this happens and Anna Maria goes to the GNAC that will leave the CCC with a 2007 line up of,

UNE
NEC
CSC
GORDON
ENDICOTT
WENTWORTH
SALVE
RWU
WNEC
ENC
NICHOLS
CURRY

Personally if we could drop two schools, and based on their overall performance on and off the field, I would say get rid of CURRY and ENC and that is a pretty good 10 team conference.  With two divisions most likely UNE, CSC, NEC, ENDICOTT and GORDON in the north and SALVE, RWU, NICHOLS, WNEC and Wentworth in the South, if they split, or you just play each team once or home and away in Basketball.  Again this is all total speculation and wishfull thinking but it is what I would like to see happen.

[the_cru]

I have a better idea.  Why dont Gordon and Endicott go play in another conference.  From the way Maq talks, those 2 schools should just go join the ACC.  And in his mind, that's probably a possibility.  MY ideal conference would look like this...

UNE
NEC
CSC
WENTWORTH
SALVE
RWU
WNEC
ENC
NICHOLS
CURRY.

The ACC would then look like this...

MARYLAND
DUKE
UNC
NC STATE
WAKE FOREST
FLORIDA STATE
CLEMSON
VA TECH
VIRGINIA
BOSTON COLLEGE
GORDON
ENDICOTT
MIAMI
GEORGIA TECH.

[Maq Diesel]

Actually CRU i would rather see GC and EC join the Big East but I guess the ACC wouldn't be a bad second option.  For one thing I know that this is a basketball board for the most part and that the people posting here have knowledge limited to that alone.  That being said when the idea of new or changing conferences comes into play much more goes into the equation than simply Men's basketball.  Overall I would have to say that in all sports Endicott has been the best over the past few years followed by Gordon, RWU, Salve, CSC and then the rest.  The reason I eliminated ENC and Curry is that from an institutional stand point I would consider them outliers when compared to the other possible choices.  In addition a 10 team league would be much better on many front and I would love to see the CCC move in that dirrection.  ENC and Curry might like moving to another conference where they can actually win on a regular basis.  Look at the records for both me and women in all sports and you will see that Gordon, RWU, CSC, and Endicott are at the top of the heap in the CCC.  If you want to ship us out to the ACC we really wouldn't mind but I would rather stay where we are at and lose a couple of the lower teir schools.  Remeber this is not entirely a basketball argument.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Perhaps we should move this over to the new board, created specifically to talk about conference restructuring.  It's a good offseason topic.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

ENC has chosen their man.  According to the SID, they went with Grace College (NAIA in Indiana) assistant Jon Yeh.

I don't know too much about him.  I'm doing some checking as we speak.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I guess he was a big time high school player in Wisconsin.  He seems to have a decent resume.    He appears to be early 30's, lots of experience.  And the coach he's been under the past few years has 500 wins, so at least that's some decent tutoring.

We'll see if he likes to run a little more than Zink did.  I think that's what ENC is going to need.