I know I will never know, but I would like to know how academics affect the portal entries and exits. Are we worried about the grades if they are only playing one year? Can we bring a student in with bad grades who has no intentions of having a college degree just to play ball for a year? I guess i...

Tennis advances to the championship https://x.com/appwtennis/status/1784324 ... bs8LvOrhzQ

I would love for folks that had the opportunity to catch one of the Yosef Tours to give an overview of what they heard/saw. Some of us live out of state (to the north) and don't have access to the tour. Some folks have dropped a tidbit here or there but I would like to hear what was said about the e...

I see one common factor in all the transfers: the coaches. Many of you have waxed on about NIL and whatnot, but in the end, relationships are very important and in some cases more important than money It was pointed out very early how together this team was. Could it be that they were together agai...

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Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:14 am

Did we sign a player from St. Stephen’s high school in Hickory?
Any details available?

I believe its a PWO (Preferred Walk On).

Marsh leaving is a good thing. Was he a problem? Not happy with minutes I assume? He was a PG, a Freshman PG at that, and led the team in shots taken per minute played. He put up .46 shots per minutes played. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but the next highest was .37. Gregory was .33 per minute fo...

You should win a game when you score twelve runs, unless you give up 12. The one thing you can say about this team, you can never count them out with their ability to score runs. Of course, with only one reliable starting pitcher, it's hard to think we can last long against the top of the league.

It's clear that NIL has not been the sole motivating factor for these departures. In terms of leaving for greener pastures, so far, only Spillers going to Wake fits that category. I assume Abson will make the jump to a higher level. It is a bit perplexing. I do understand that folks have their reaso...

JMU's portal activity: https://jmusportsnews.com/2024/04/19/jm ... l-tracker/

Harcum going to Murray State? That makes absolutely zero sense unless he's simply getting a paycheck. If some of our players transferred to get 3 more minutes a game screw them. Murray State is a way better program than ours. They’ve made it to the second round of the tourney 4x since 2010. We’ve b...

Harcum going to Murray State? That makes absolutely zero sense unless he's simply getting a paycheck. If some of our players transferred to get 3 more minutes a game screw them. Murray State is a way better program than ours. They’ve made it to the second round of the tourney 4x since 2010. We’ve b...

It’s not that I didn’ like it, the logic is strange. Nope not really. Most coaches usually use them as a low risk sandbox to give younger guys more seasoning. If you never play the young guys, you’ll never know what to expect from them when the pressure is on. You don't see that much at APP. Correc...

That's at least three that have left the program not counting the recent decommitment.

The Spring is a tough time for App sports. Women's Tennis is the only team in the top half of the conference standings and they are 7th. Baseball is 9th and softball is 11th out of 12 teams.

We are in a three way tie for ninth.

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Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:36 am

https://x.com/appbaseball/status/177951 ... 3hJ5cku44g

Should be an excellent crowd today. Best weather day of the year?
Bark at the park!

I didn’t know we have a vet tech degree, that’s pretty cool!

I think we are in the 2nd or 3rd year of the program.

Presser for Coach Sharp.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Kjd8-VHFUx ... q8RDUXPXE7

Am I the only one that isn't going to pull for players when they leave App? I'm not rooting against them, but I don't feel any lingering ties to a player that transfer. I'll caveat that with the exception of grad transfers. Exactly. Even the caveat. After Donavan Gregory raised the bar for loyalty…...

We are talking about amateur athletes getting paid $25-$100k (on top of a $25k scholarship and $6k stipend annually) to play in front of maybe 5k people and on ESPN+ with less than 30k viewers. I recommend reading that sentence out loud to realize how crazy and unsustainable this is for anyone outs...

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Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:00 am

hapapp wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:07 am

I read a 247 article that says the median basketball NIL spending for 2024-25 will be $1.5m per team.

That is among power programs. The Sun Belt average is about 200k I heard.

Correct.