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palestra38 Professor Posts 32902 |
04-14-24 07:16 AM - Post#367382
https://247sports.com/season/2024-basketbal l/trans... So staying in the Philly area. Wonder the price. |
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Penndemonium PhD Student Posts 1903 |
04-14-24 09:40 PM - Post#367409
Wow. I don’t begrudge his right to choose. The young man played well for us and showed a lot of promise. It’s hard to see him as an impact player at Nova. He will need to really tighten his handles and shooting. Really sorry to lose him. With him and a good incoming class, I finally saw a path forward for our program. He was a key part, though. 
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yoyo Senior Posts 365 |
04-15-24 09:23 AM - Post#367411
I wish they would publish what these transfers get in regards to NIL |
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Penn90 Masters Student Posts 575 
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04-15-24 09:52 AM - Post#367416
Now THAT would be interesting!
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yoyo Senior Posts 365 |
04-15-24 09:55 AM - Post#367417
Even better, put what they are getting next to their names in the game programs. |
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Streamers Professor Posts 8332 
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04-15-24 10:57 AM - Post#367419
Maybe Verbal Commits will add that... ;-) |
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Quakers03 Professor Posts 12533 |
04-15-24 01:11 PM - Post#367430
Getting poached by Nova. Awesome. This is the second year in a row that a coach we faced in the regular season season went on to steal our top talent. Really great trend here. I could have stomached him going home to play for Georgetown. This is just a slap in the face. |
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yoyo Senior Posts 365 |
04-15-24 02:55 PM - Post#367445
Did we play st johns last year? |
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penn nation Professor Posts 21303 |
04-15-24 03:34 PM - Post#367448
We opened our season at Iona when Pitino was there. |
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weinhauers_ghost Postdoc Posts 2144 |
04-15-24 06:36 PM - Post#367458
Getting poached by Nova. Awesome. This is the second year in a row that a coach we faced in the regular season season went on to steal our top talent. Really great trend here. I could have stomached him going home to play for Georgetown. This is just a slap in the face. I agree completely. Now he gets to torment us for the next three years. |
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TigerFan PhD Student Posts 1892 |
04-15-24 07:52 PM - Post#367461
Ouch! I actually feel for you guys. I've been naive about the portal/NIL but I now agree that college basketball is off the rails. Double Princeton basketball legacy Jack Scott deciding to chum the waters with his 2.3 ppg and 2.2 rpg has pushed me over the edge. (Although I guess now I can go back to hating on his father for his reign of terror at Tiger Town.) |
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palestra38 Professor Posts 32902 |
04-15-24 08:04 PM - Post#367462
Under the new Big 6 format, we don't play Villanova every year |
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weinhauers_ghost Postdoc Posts 2144 |
04-15-24 08:13 PM - Post#367463
Under the new Big 6 format, we don't play Villanova every year His mere presence on their roster will be torment enough. |
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Penndemonium PhD Student Posts 1903 |
04-15-24 10:05 PM - Post#367468
TigerFan, nice job twisting the knife. Well played. |
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barryw Sophomore Posts 122 |
04-16-24 03:05 PM - Post#367481
Reasons to hate Villanova if you are a Penn fan- 1. They are the ones who started the breakup of the Big Five. 2. NCAA loss to them in early 1970’s 90-47. 3. Now stealing our best expected returning player. |
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Quakers03 Professor Posts 12533 |
04-16-24 03:25 PM - Post#367483
My grandfather never got over that loss. He hated them until the day he died for it. Kept the starters in until the end. |
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SteveChop PhD Student Posts 1156 |
04-16-24 06:23 PM - Post#367487
Fortunately, I haven’t died yet but as one who was at that 1971 game, I’ve never forgiven them either (and don’t plan to). |
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mbaprof Senior Posts 346 |
04-16-24 07:12 PM - Post#367490
I thought the pods were permanent to preserve the rivalries |
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SteveChop PhD Student Posts 1156 |
04-16-24 09:42 PM - Post#367495
That was my understanding as well. |
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palestra38 Professor Posts 32902 |
04-17-24 08:13 AM - Post#367501
I've heard conflicting things about it. But if that is true, does that mean we never play Temple, LaSalle or Drexel other than a possible Big 5 tournament final anymore? That would be terrible. |
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yoyo Senior Posts 365 |
04-17-24 11:05 AM - Post#367513
It won't matter. At this rate the ivies will not be division one much longer |
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yoyo Senior Posts 365 |
04-17-24 11:10 AM - Post#367514
Interesting Perkins chose villanova for the meal plan https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/do es-tyler-... |
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mobrien Masters Student Posts 403 |
04-17-24 11:33 AM - Post#367520
Perkins lit up Nova when you guys beat Nova, and now he plays for Nova. Pretty good example of why there's an enormous disincentive for mid-majors to play Power Six schools now. That's just when your players get scouted, and the tampering begins. Great system we have here. |
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palestra38 Professor Posts 32902 |
04-17-24 11:39 AM - Post#367521
Only way to make money, though.... |
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SomeGuy Professor Posts 6415 |
04-17-24 11:48 AM - Post#367522
Man, Brown just had a second undergrad starter enter the portal. I guess it makes me feel slightly better that it isn’t just a Steve problem. But this is tough. Brown had such a fun run, and it seemed like things were looking good for a real run next year. And then they lose Nana and Anya. I don’t know if the league is going to get worse next year or not, but it certainly is going to be different. |
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Quakers03 Professor Posts 12533 |
04-17-24 12:07 PM - Post#367524
Fortunately, I haven’t died yet but as one who was at that 1971 game, I’ve never forgiven them either (and don’t plan to). Do you have any memory of Nova heading from the airport straight to the Palestra to celebrate before coming home? That’s one I’ve been told too. The Perkins acknowledgment just shows how fast we are sinking. I’ll never understand why the league wont acknowledge the benefits of good athletics. There is such little downside. |
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palestra38 Professor Posts 32902 |
04-17-24 12:25 PM - Post#367527
It's risk and reward. The Ivies don't need athletics. More people are applying than ever, notwithstanding the cost, the endowments are huge and in the case of Penn, it may be the most profitable university in the country, holding a sizeable piece of the mRNA vaccine intellectual property (and royalties--over $1 billion a year the last 3 years) as well as Wharton money. What is Penn going to make from basketball, even with more of an investment? The current student body is nothing like it was in the Penn basketball heyday and doesn't care about sports. Unlike a school like Villanova, Penn doesn't need to attract students through successful sports teams. So it just isn't going to make the effort. If we lose our best players, oh well. Let's recruit some more. |
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Penndemonium PhD Student Posts 1903 |
04-17-24 12:55 PM - Post#367531
I've recently visited some Div. 2/3 schools, and I have to say that the atmosphere is plenty good for the student-athletes (aside from the major revenue sports). For student-athletes in most sports, it isn't even such a step down. A tennis player at upper Div. 2/3 gets as many fans in the stands as a player at Penn, for example. It may not represent the same level of competition on average, though some of them are very good. The rest of the experience is probably unchanged. I clearly have a soft spot for basketball. Football teams are just too large for me to want to passionately support their scholarships and NIL. |
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HARVARDDADGRAD Postdoc Posts 2700 |
04-17-24 02:51 PM - Post#367540
Admission is now so competitive that the system doesn't 'reward' spectating. Excelling at anything - especially on a national level which is what admissions is looking for - takes so much time, in addition to top academic performance. Seems student spectators at Ivy events are there to support their friends. I'd venture that - except for a rare contest (The Game, ECAC Hockey tournament) that a large percentage of students don't attend any athletic events unless they have a personal connection. That's certainly true at Harvard, maybe Penn/Princeton basketball, Cornell hockey and Dartmouth football are holdouts, but for how long if we lost our talent? |
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borschtbelt Freshman Posts 60 |
04-17-24 04:39 PM - Post#367549
Two aggravating side notes--they know Porter was ineligible and did not care; at the time they had the most losses of any team ever in the NCAA and would not have made it had Ernie DiGregorio not missed a one and one in the field house early in the season--a 90% foul shooter. Also--on the way home Steve Chop stopped at a restaurant in Richmond. Eight years later on 3/23/79 my rehearsal dinner was there. We know what happened the day after (besides my wedding). |
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SteveChop PhD Student Posts 1156 |
04-17-24 09:13 PM - Post#367552
Can’t respond re any Palestra celebration. I was in a car driving home so they would have been long gone by the time I got back to Philadelphia. Never heard that before. |
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