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A-10 Exodus.
Some real talent already showing up on the transfer list. A lot of deep bench guys but the following talent has left the A-10:
Kethan Savage,GW, transferred to Butler
Eric Paschall, Fordham, undecided
Biggie Minnis, URI, undecided
Derrick Gordon, UMass, undecided
those are the big dogs, also
Austin McBroom from SLU and a couple other Billikens. i saw a couple of Dukes and a couple of Spiders whose names i recognized. There were others who didn't ring a bell
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VCU has lost 1 transfer, all of their commits (or at least they've asked out of their LOI) and their are rumors of 1 or 2 more players thinking about transferring.
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Originally Posted by Medford
VCU has lost 1 transfer, all of their commits (or at least they've asked out of their LOI) and their are rumors of 1 or 2 more players thinking about transferring.
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Ouch! If true, the Rams are in for some rough sledding for a year or two.
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good catch medford. Justin Tillman is gone and rumors of Larrier wanting out. Losing Larrier would be crippling
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More wins for the Flyers.
Lower SOS.
Would you trade 3 more wins for a 50 lower SOS rating? Wonder if there is a ratio.
Figgie?
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Originally Posted by tirebiter
More wins for the Flyers.
Lower SOS.
Would you trade 3 more wins for a 50 lower SOS rating? Wonder if there is a ratio.
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I've thought about that, I bet there is a ratio.
Seems like for every 15 or 20 spots worth of improvement in your SOS, you can afford 1 more loss and maintain the same rpi.
http://realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html
Examples:
Stephen F. Austin SOS 170, 4 losses, rpi 32
Dayton SOS 93, 8 losses, rpi 33
Temple SOS 62, 10 losses, rpi 34
Georgia SOS 39, 11 losses, rpi 38
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All i know is SOS almost cost us big time this year. Funny though, whatever the committee's hot bullet point for the year almost always favors getting weak Power 5 in. UCLA,Indiana,Texas,Purdue......etc.
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So Justin Tillman decided to stay at VCU after all. Better for the league, I think.
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I was impressed with Eric Paschall at Fordham. He is a beast with a touch. The big question is can he be coached to fit into a UD style. Fordham players went one and one a lot and played poor defense.
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I don't know what the A10 rule is on in-conference transfers. I know Sandoval went JUCO for a year, then to Dayton. Not sure if that's because he didn't want to not sit a year, or if a direct transfer would have required him to sit more than one year, or would have required him to pay a year himself.
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The A10 has an intra-conference transfer rule that would have required him to sit two years. Intra-conference transfers should be very limited.
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Saw UMass picked up Texas A&M transfer Antwan Space today. He averaged about 6 and 5 last year. Immediately eligible for them. Here's hoping more good players come into the conference.
Another aside, I saw it was announced that URI's EC Matthews decided to stay and come back for his junior year. I think he is very good and may someday play in the League, but it would have been a very, very bad decision for him to leave after this year. Interesting that it warranted an announcement/release but maybe just the school looking for some publicity. Anyway, good for him, good for the A10 that he's staying.
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Eric Paschall did indeed leave Fordham and is transferring to Villanova. Good for him I guess.
In other good news for the league, Jared Sina from Seton Hall to GW. He's a former top-100 recruit but will sit out a year. Alex Mitola also is joining GW, and I think he is immediately eligible - 5'11" shooter. Don't forget former UD transfer target Tyler Cavanaugh also will be eligible for GW this year.
VCU filled one of their spots with immediately eligible Kory Billbury from Oral Roberts, who averaged 14 ppg or so last year.
So there's some good influx of talent to the A10 too. Good to see.
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SLU recently hosted an official visit with the #1 recruit from the 2015-16 class
The other schools he's choosing from: UK, Duke, UNC
Wonder if the perceptions of Crews as a head coach changes if he closes the deal
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/high-...c94621864.html
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Originally Posted by NCkevi
SLU recently hosted an official visit with the #1 recruit from the 2015-16 class
The other schools he's choosing from: UK, Duke, UNC
Wonder if the perceptions of Crews as a head coach changes if he closes the deal
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/high-...c94621864.html
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Didn't his father go to SLU? It was a courtesy visit. They have no chance.
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Originally Posted by CE80
Didn't his father go to SLU? It was a courtesy visit. They have no chance.
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From the A10 board:
"He's from St. Louis, his dad played at SLU, his mom went to law school at SLU, his godfather, Larry Hughes, went to SLU and then left for the NBA after a year. He's really close friends with 3 or 4 guys on the team and plays pick up with them a lot. He visits SLU about once a week to hang out.
SLU has a chance."
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Originally Posted by KYFlyer
From the A10 board:
"He's from St. Louis, his dad played at SLU, his mom went to law school at SLU, his godfather, Larry Hughes, went to SLU and then left for the NBA after a year. He's really close friends with 3 or 4 guys on the team and plays pick up with them a lot. He visits SLU about once a week to hang out.
SLU has a chance."
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The latter sounds like Adreian Payne's story.
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Pookie Powell headed from Memphis to LaSalle. Sounds like it was between LaSalle and IUPUI. Supposedly he was pretty highly ranked in high school but has had some issues at Memphis. Probably a solid A10 player though.
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Originally Posted by BRob2Perryman3
All i know is SOS almost cost us big time this year. Funny though, whatever the committee's hot bullet point for the year almost always favors getting weak Power 5 in. UCLA,Indiana,Texas,Purdue......etc.
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Sorta true, but not exactly. Lack of top 25 and Top 50 games cost us. You can have a decent SOS, but limited opportunities at top 25 top 50 wins.
I feel the same way about the bias, but we need 6+ Top 50 RPI Games and 4+ Top 25 RPI games. Take away our 3 NCAA games from last year and we only played VCU and Arkansas in the Top 25. VCU was borderline 25-35. Ole Miss and A&M laid eggs down the stretch and fell out of the Top 50. We had one perceived great win (@VCU).
Looking back at 2014 the A10 had 6 top 50 teams and was rewarded.
Looking ahead - We need to draw and beat Note Dame and another (Iowa, Xavier, Wichita) to get 3 Top 50 non conference games because we will likely only get 2 Top 50 games out of the A10 this year.
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Might have been easier to win at the Dukes and Explorers down the stretch last year. All for improving the OOC, and as our image improves that will be easier to do. Don't count on playing any NBE teams though, none will schedule us in a regular season non-tournament game. Top level mid-majors or mid level P5 teams would work though. We have entered an era that we haven't had since the 50's and 60's, consistent top level teams, everyone, including most fans, are in unfamiliar territory. Great time to be a Flyer.
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Originally Posted by UD62
All for improving the OOC, and as our image improves that will be easier to do.
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Agree.
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Derrick Gordon headed from UMass to Seton Hall for his final year of eligibility this season. I think he's originally a Jersey guy.
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Originally Posted by THirt
Derrick Gordon headed from UMass to Seton Hall for his final year of eligibility this season. I think he's originally a Jersey guy.
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I thought Gordon had some interesting quotes on the matter. I hope that schools did not in fact discriminate against him, although I'm sure that they did. Very sad situation if true IMO.
From ESPN:
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...-senior-season
The guard told USA Today that a number of schools weren't interested in him due to his sexual orientation, calling it "blatant homophobia."
"Honestly, it caught me off-guard. It really hurt. It had me stressing, crying. I was starting to lose hope," he said. "I felt like I was being treated like an outsider, like I didn't belong in the NCAA. I couldn't believe it because I'm a good player and they were looking at the opposite -- something that doesn't mean anything with my [sexuality]. ... 'Nah, not the gay guy.'"
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I read an analysis of this year's NFL draft vs. the NFL draft for the year that homosexual NFL player Michael Sam was in the draft.
They compared Sam, who played at Missouri, vs. Shane Ray in this year's draft. Both players had very, very similar college stats like number of tackles, qb sacks, interceptions, etc., height, weight, same school they both played at: Missouri, same college coach and same college defensive system/scheme, bench press, 40 yard dash time, both players played the same position which I think was linebacker, etc., all of those quantitative stats/things were nearly identical, yet, Sam was drafted in the 7th round, while Ray was a first rounder.
And Ray had a drug charge against him too, yet he was still a first round pick.
I thought the article made a very compelling case showing clear discrimination against Sam.
Sad.
http://www.outsports.com/2015/4/30/8...hael-sam-draft
http://www.outsports.com/2015/2/8/80...ams-gay-roster
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I read an analysis of this year's NFL draft vs. the NFL draft for the year that homosexual NFL player Michael Sam was in the draft.
They compared Sam, who played at Missouri, vs. a Missouri linebacker? in this year's draft. Both players had very, very similar college stats like number of tackles, qb sacks, interceptions, etc., height, weight, same school they both played at: Missouri, bench press, 40 yard dash time, both players played the same position which I think was linebacker, etc., all of those quantitative stats/things were nearly identical, yet, I think Sam was drafted in the 3rd or 4th round while the other guy was projected to be a first rounder.
I thought the article made a very compelling case showing clear discrimination against Sam.
Sad.
http://www.outsports.com/2015/4/30/8...hael-sam-draft
http://www.outsports.com/2015/2/8/80...ams-gay-roster
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Sam was drafted in the seventh round as a lineman, and did not make the team out of training camp. So probably about right for a guy who got a lot of honors in college, but is not pro material. Sam is a tweener, too small to play defensive line and struggles at pro linebacker.
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Originally Posted by ud2
I read an analysis of this year's NFL draft vs. the NFL draft for the year that homosexual NFL player Michael Sam was in the draft.
They compared Sam, who played at Missouri, vs. Shane Ray in this year's draft. Both players had very, very similar college stats like number of tackles, qb sacks, interceptions, etc., height, weight, same school they both played at: Missouri, bench press, 40 yard dash time, both players played the same position which I think was linebacker, etc., all of those quantitative stats/things were nearly identical, yet, Sam was drafted in the 7th round, while Ray was a first rounder.
And Ray had a drug charge against him too, yet he was still a first round pick.
I thought the article made a very compelling case showing clear discrimination against Sam.
Sad.
http://www.outsports.com/2015/4/30/8...hael-sam-draft
http://www.outsports.com/2015/2/8/80...ams-gay-roster
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Not to be that guy, but Michael Sam ran a 5.0 40 and a 4.99 40. Shane Ray ran a 4.64. That is a huge difference for 2 guys that would be playing outside linebacker in the NFL. Sam was very limited to being a pass rusher only in the NFL and Ray could play all 4 downs as he has a much better skill set. As somebody who watched a lot a Missouri football because of a good friend on the coaching staff, Ray is the much better more athletic player.
Edit: That 40 time was at the NFL Vet Combine this past spring.
http://www.nfl.com/draft/2014/profil...sam?id=2543734
http://www.nfl.com/draft/2015/profil...ray?id=2552451
As for Gordon, if that is the case, that is sad if true. I would hope teams did not pass on him for being gay.
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Per Jeff Goodman: Isaiah Jackson and Eric Lockett were given their release from George Mason yesterday. Another blow to GMU. They continue to go down hill since joining the A-10.
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The knock on Sam is that he is too small and two slow.
Yeah, sorry, after reading my links, I'm just not buying the above argument.
He is an extreme statistical outlier, considering what he accomplished in college, in terms of not being given an opportunity by a NFL team to show what he can do.
From outsports.com:
http://www.outsports.com/2014/11/4/7...draft-snub-gay
Sam is the only drafted Defensive Player of the Year of any of the big five football conferences - ACC, Big Ten, Big XII, Pac 12 and SEC - in the last 20 years to not make an active roster his rookie season. The only one of 89 players.
Of the 20 defensive ends with one or more sacks and eight or more tackles this preseason (again, less than Sam's numbers), all but two were on a season-long practice squad or on an active roster.
Slicing the pie another way, of the 31 rookies since 2010 with two or more sacks and 10 or more tackles in the preseason (again, Sam exceeded those numbers), Sam is one of only three (10%) to not make at least a season-long practice squad.
Of their top-70 rated defensive ends from last preseason (Sam was rated No. 45), only three (4%) weren't on an active roster this season, a practice squad at the end of the season, or place on injured reserve:
While a lot of talk had been made about the NFL Draft history of SEC Defensive Players of the Year (Michael is the first ever to not be selected in the first five rounds, and only the second to not go in the first two rounds),
To put it another way, of the 73 DPOYs in the big conferences since 2000, 95 percent were selected earlier than Michael Sam; all but two since 2000 (97 percent) – and 100 percent in the last eight years – made an active roster his rookie season ... all except for Sam.
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Stanford Robinson transferring from Indiana to Rhody. Good get for the Rams. He was headed to the A-10 no matter what, it seems, picking the Rhody Rams and their whiny coach over the VCU Rams and their new coach.
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Couple other entrants to the A-10 who ought to help a couple teams. Matt Mobley, a 6'1" guard out of Central Connecticut State to St. Bonaventure. He averaged 17.2 ppg last year.
Zach Lewis led Canisius in scoring last year at a little more than 12 ppg and he is headed to UMass. I think he has two more years of eligibility.
Good to see an influx of talent into the league.
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Alonzo Nelson-Ododa to Pitt. Can't say I'm sorry to see him leave the league. He killed us the prior year @ Richmond.
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Alonzo Nelson-Ododa to Pitt. Can't say I'm sorry to see him leave the league. He killed us the prior year @ Richmond.
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Or, as Bucky used to call him, "Nelson-Adodo". 😆
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