NAC

[CCCalum2]

Okay, again you are trying to have it both ways, it really doesn't work like this.  Please pick an arguement and stay with it.  You are saying in one breathe that the NAC is a joke and anybody can win it, yet the next breathe you are saying that it was the schedule that was the problem last year.  Which is it?  Last time I looked, even though the NAC "sucks", Lasell didn't win the league, and actually lost to some teams they had no business losing to.  Maybe I'm reading from the wrong Lasell website, but it looks like they lost to Lesley (1st year program) 3 times last year.  That really doesn't sound like a program that was doing a lot of good things last year!

[hoop fan]

truth be told, I know him only through the players.  apparently, you have an affliation to the college b/c you are so defensive. he is not a friend  but what i hear he was not given an option.  anybody can go on the Nac website to see the school the standing. the school and the conference are weak. good luck in the gnac..those schools will eat you alive.  from what he was not given an option there was obviously something between him and the adminstration.  if you look at the records of the winning all the coaches have been there for awhile. sad state of affairs. 

CCCalum take a look at the non-conference records of their opponents. Amherst, Williams, Trinity, Brandeis, Salem St, WPI etc....Try finding someone who played a tougher schedule. Clearly you and fanatique have no basketball knowledge only trying to defend the school, adminstration and new coach!!!

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Clearly you and fanatique have no basketball knowledge only trying to defend the school, adminstration and new coach!!!

That might be close to a TOS violation.  You might want to watch that.

[CCCalum2]

Okay, not sure what a TOS violation is, but i'll try to not commit one here.
I agree that Lasell played a ridiculous schedule, probably one of the tougher ones in the NE region, i'm not debating that.  This whole arguement started with your speculation of the happenings at Lasell, and I jumped to their defense because I don't think it's right that you are speculating on things that you have second hand knowledge of.  I'm defending them, and you are bashing them, how is that any different.  My basketball knowledge really doesn't come into play here.  I"m giving you facts about the LC hoop team and you continue to rip apart their league, administration, new league, so really, I think it's your hoop knowledge that is coming into question here.  Twice I've tried to tell you that you are contradicting yourself, but you have no rebuttal for that, you just continue to rail against Lasell, and I don't think it's fair that you are doing that, that's why I jumped to their defense.

[fanatique]

no affiliation with the college, but ya im on the NAC site, so i am defending the college and the conference...
so you know the players on the team, why did they go there in the first place?  another coach was there when they were recruited, and if they respected coach d, arent they disappointed that he deserted them? 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

It stands for Terms of Service, basically the rules of the site.  You can access them from the front page, but it basically says do not be defamatory or bash another poster.

Saying that clearly someone has no basketball knowledge (no matter how true or untrue it may be) is not helping anything.  Certainly a d3 educated person should be able to come up with a better way to disagree with someone and not resort to hurling insults.

[Pat Coleman]

truth be told, I know him only through the players.  apparently, you have an affliation to the college b/c you are so defensive. he is not a friend  but what i hear he was not given an option. 

No offense, but this doesn't fly. Either you DO know him (because you are him) or you are impersonating him with your e-mail address.

Frankly, I don't want to know which it is. I would hope that you read the terms of service and noticed that your e-mail address is visible to every registered user.

[GnacAlum55]

Not too bright buddy.  I just looked at your email address as well.  After re-reading all of your posts, it has become very clear who you are.  NOT cool. 

[hoop fan]

The goal has been accomplished. The Athletic Director made false allegations against me and forced my hand. I dont care how it looks. 

[CCCalum2]

hoop fan,
haha, are you freaking kidding me?  Going through the past posts that you put on this website make me laugh knowing now that you are in fact the former coach.  Why should anyone believe any of your posts, your credibility has been severely damaged.  I think it would be best if you just stop posting and let it go.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I guess that's exhibit A on one of the troubles with division 3 sports.  There are just so many teams with small budgets that at some point there are coaches hired who just shouldn't be working at a college level.  I'm not talking about coaching performance, because Lasell didn't have a lot to work with and I think he did the best he could on the floor.  However coming onto a message board and pretending to be someone else to defend yourself is quite a few rungs below proper conduct for a college basketball coach.  I'm not sure what the purpose was?  Maybe to get the word out that he was forced out of the job?  If that was such a big concern for you, maybe you should have let them fire you rather than resigning.

I don't know the situation so I can't say whether the whole thing was justified or not, but your response to this mess certainly has not been.  I don't know how many people would have cared one way or another about whether you were right for the AD was right, but I think many of us are less inclined to believe you after this display.

I certainly wish you the best in the future and hopefully we can put all of this behind us.

[Gregory Sager]

A few thoughts:

1) Posting Up is an archived record with public access. If Coach DeSantis tries to get hired as a basketball coach at some other school, the posts he made here in the past few days could come back to haunt him.

2) Who in the world would try to cast himself as an uninvolved bystander in a situation like this one after registering himself under his own name? It's like trying to rob a bank while wearing a work shirt that has your name tag on it.

3) Making a public statement about your former employer that "the school is a joke" is a very, very bad thing for your future job prospects.

4) Lying about your status -- that you don't know the coach, but have secondhand knowledge about his situation through knowing his players, when in fact you are the coach -- is as disgraceful as it is embarrassing.

It isn't unprecedented for a coach to come on to this site and post anonymously in defense of himself or his program. And it isn't unprecedented for a coach to get caught at it. But the fact that it casts such an extremely poor light upon both the coach's intelligence and his ethics makes you wonder why any of them are foolhardy enough to try it in the first place.

[hoop fan]

Maybe I made a mistake by hidding by an alias but do not call my ethic in to question. I could care less if I ever work again.  who the hell cares what you all think anyway...

[GnacAlum55]

Hmmm.......not sure what to make of that.  Digging the hole a little deeper, aren't we??

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

It's not so much what we think, but most of these boards are monitored quite regularly by athletic administrators at a number of schools.  They usually do not post, but they remain knowledgable of the goings on.  I think that is all Greg was referring to, because you're right.  It's doesn't matter at all what any of us think.