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Sounds like a reasonable 'personal situation' to me. Usually you can't release information about grades without the player's consent (privacy laws and all), so maybe that is in fact the case. We may never know!

AmericaEast.com Story 2004 America East Baseball Awards Handed Out University at Albany first baseman Dan Schoonmaker and head coach Jon Mueller were honored as America East Len Harlow Player of the Year and Coach of the Year respectively at the conference's annual awards banquet held Wednesday night. The league's premier ace Jordan Thomson of Northeastern University was tabbed Pitcher of the Year, while University of Vermont third baseman Miguel Magrass was named Rookie of the Year. All voting was conducted by the conference's head coaches. All-Conference Teams. Schoonmaker is the first Great Dane to win the Len Harlow Award as Albany is in just its third season in America East. The 6-2 first baseman finished the regular season as the league leader in total bases on the conference's most lethal offense. Schoonmaker also ranks second in America East in runs batted in (49), hits (71), hits per game (1.45) and triples (4). The first team all-conference first baseman also flashed some leather as he boasts a .994 fielding percentage, good for fifth in the league, with just two errors through 48 games played. Mueller, in his fifth season at the helm of the Great Danes, led Albany to an impressive 36-12 regular season mark, shattering the previous school record for wins in a single campaign (21), which was set back in 1998. The only coach in Albany's Division I existence, Mueller also guided the Great Danes to their best conference mark (14-7) in the program's history. Thomson has been dominant on the hill all season for the Huskies. The 6-2 right hander leads America East in wins (8) and earned run average (1.31). Versus conference opponents, Thomson has been nearly unhittable as he holds opponents to a .171 batting average with a microscopic 0.50 ERA. In a May 14 start at University of Hartford, he was a bunt-single away from throwing a no-hitter as he went nine full innings allowing just the one hit and striking out a season-high 13 batters. Magrass is the first Catamount to be named America East Rookie of the Year. The third baseman leads the league in RBI (52), RBI per game (1.21), doubles (18) and doubles per game (0.42). He is also tops amongst freshmen in hits (58), hits per game (1.35), total bases (2.35) and slugging percentage (.598). A stellar rookie campaign featured the 6-3 slugger becoming UVM's single-season leader in RBI, doubles and tying the total bases mark with 101. Thomson was joined on the first team by fellow pitcher Steve Emmerthal of Albany and catcher Aaron Izaryk of University of Maine. The first team infield consisted of three Great Danes, Schoonmaker (1B), Kirt Zimniewicz (2B) and Joe Lamb (SS), as well as Binghamton University's Jay Balback (3B). The first team outfielders were Brendan Chivaro of Albany, Joe Hough of Maine and Jeff Heriot of Northeastern. Junior Derek DeGrazio of Albany was the designated hitter. Zimniewicz leads America East in batting (.391), on base percentage (.448) and runs scored per game (1.02), while teammate Lamb is tops in the league in runs scored (46) and Emmerthal has equaled Thomson's win total of eight. Balback slugs a conference-best .729 as he leads the league in home runs (14), and homers per game (0.33). Creek has tallied the most hits (75) and hits per game (1.47) among conference players. The second team pitchers were Maine's Mike McDonald and Scott Roy of Hartford, while fellow Hawk Brian Eck was the catcher. The second team infield consisted of Binghamton's Jamie Boyer (1B), Dean Geoffrey of Vermont (2B), Greg Creek of Maine (3B) and Matt Devins of Stony Brook University (SS). The second team outfield included T.J. Kowalchuk of Binghamton, Brad Czarnowski of Northeastern and Vermont's Kyle Brault. Rookie Brendon Hitch###### of Binghamton was tabbed as the designated hitter. Magrass and Hitch###### are joined on the all-rookie team by Binghamton's Matt Simek (2B) and Pat Haughie ©, Maine's Matt McGraw (DH), Joel Barrett (1B) and Steve Richard (P), University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Jon Gossard © and Stony Brook's Chris Sipp (2B). The all-rookie squad is chosen regardless of position. Ten of the first-team selections and four of the second-team choices are in action this week at the America East Baseball Championship at Mahaney Diamond in Orono, Maine. The four-team, double-elimination tournament begins Thursday May 27, when No. 1 Northeastern plays No. 4 Stony Brook at 3:30 p.m. and No. 2 Maine hosts No. 3 Albany at 7 p.m. The championship continues with three games Friday and the title game(s) Saturday.

Except one post (not this one) says "UA is trying to get a game in mid-December against UA"

Here are the fictitious Mayor's Cup Standings following the completion of the 2003-04 year. Since this competition doesn't exist, we don't play Siena in everything and as such the results are incomplete. Unlike some other schools that have a competition similar to this, I did not award more points to basketball since Siena doesn't have football and we can't have played them. (Most competitions like this weight the points based on the importance of the sport or the scholarship dollars). Thus, awarding extra points to basketball without also awarding extra points in football would favor whichever school had the stronger hoops program in that particular year. OVERALL UAlbany 7, Siena 5; 3 DNP FALL - UAlbany, 5-1; 1 DNP ------------------------ Men's Soccer - UAlbany Women's Soccer - Siena Volleyball - UAlbany Field Hockey - UAlbany Men's X-C - UAlbany* Women's X-C - UAlbany* Football - DNP * beat them in ECAC and IC4A and NCAA's WINTER - Siena, 2-0 ----------------------------------- Men's Basketball - Siena Women's Basketball - Siena SPRING - Tied, 2-2; 2 DNP --------------------------------------------- Women's Lacrosse - UAlbany Softball - UAlbany 4-0 (!) Women's Tennis - Siena Women's Golf - Siena Baseball - DNP Men's Lacrosse - DNP

Here are the fictitious Mayor's Cup Standings following the completion of the 2003-04 year. Since this competition doesn't exist, we don't play Siena in everything and as such the results are incomplete. Unlike some other schools that have a competition similar to this, I did not award more points to basketball since Siena doesn't have football and we can't have played them. (Most competitions like this weight the points based on the importance of the sport or the scholarship dollars). Thus, awarding extra points to basketball without also awarding extra points in football would favor whichever school had the stronger hoops program in that particular year. OVERALL UAlbany 7, Siena 5; 3 DNP FALL - UAlbany, 5-1; 1 DNP ------------------------ Men's Soccer - UAlbany Women's Soccer - Siena Volleyball - UAlbany Field Hockey - UAlbany Men's X-C - UAlbany* Women's X-C - UAlbany* Football - DNP * beat them in ECAC and IC4A and NCAA's WINTER - Siena, 2-0 ----------------------------------- Men's Basketball - Siena Women's Basketball - Siena SPRING - Tied, 2-2; 2 DNP --------------------------------------------- Women's Lacrosse - UAlbany Softball - UAlbany 4-0 (!) Women's Tennis - Siena Women's Golf - Siena Baseball - DNP Men's Lacrosse - DNP

Here are the fictitious Mayor's Cup Standings following the completion of the 2003-04 year. Since this competition doesn't exist, we don't play Siena in everything and as such the results are incomplete. Unlike some other schools that have a competition similar to this, I did not award more points to basketball since Siena doesn't have football and we can't have played them. (Most competitions like this weight the points based on the importance of the sport or the scholarship dollars). Thus, awarding extra points to basketball without also awarding extra points in football would favor whichever school had the stronger hoops program in that particular year. OVERALL UAlbany 7, Siena 5; 3 DNP FALL - UAlbany, 5-1; 1 DNP ------------------------ Men's Soccer - UAlbany Women's Soccer - Siena Volleyball - UAlbany Field Hockey - UAlbany Men's X-C - UAlbany* Women's X-C - UAlbany* Football - DNP * beat them in ECAC and IC4A and NCAA's WINTER - Siena, 2-0 ----------------------------------- Men's Basketball - Siena Women's Basketball - Siena SPRING - Tied, 2-2; 2 DNP --------------------------------------------- Women's Lacrosse - UAlbany Softball - UAlbany 4-0 (!) Women's Tennis - Siena Women's Golf - Siena Baseball - DNP Men's Lacrosse - DNP

http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/membership...ty_seasons.html http://www.scarletknights.com/ncaa/eligibility.htm You cannot redshirt and play in the same season. The exception is when you play, get hurt, and get a medical hardship. There are a few types of redshirts. The first is a medical redshirt (very similar to a medical hardship). Medical redshirt is determined prior to the season based on injury. A medical hardship is based on the percentage of games played during the season. It also requires that a doctor verifies that the student-athlete should not or cannot return to action the rest of that season. If the player has played in a certain percentage of the team's games (not sure if that changes based on the sport), then the player is either allowed (less than the set percentage) or denied (more than the set percentage) the redshirt, and regains the year of eligilbility. A good example of this is Jamar Wilson from Men's Basketball, who had not participated in games last season before his knee injury, and thus regained the year of eligibility. He will be a redshirt sophomore this coming season, even though he will be in his third (junior) year in school. However, there is the ability to arbitararily redshirt a player. I believe this rule was passed at some point because it was decided that since these sports require such physical size and skill, high schoolers could choose to redshirt a year, which would allow them to practice with the team, but not play in any games. Also, as stated in the Rutgers link above, you can take a redshirt year to concentrate on academics, etc. Thus, they would get all the same workouts as the regular players, and develop as a regular player, but have no game experience. Top football schools do this with almost 100% of their linemen, who regularly come out of high school with technical skill but rarely the size required to play at a high D-I level. The player must agree that he will redshirt prior to a certain point in the season (i.e. the coach cannot force a player to redshirt who does not want to). I dont know what that point is, probably the same point as where you would get granted a medical hardship if you got hurt. So, then, you could redshirt during any season, assuming the coach and the player agreed and you were still within your five-year clock. So you can really only redshirt one time without losing a year of eligibility. The second time you redshirted, you would be two years into your five year clock, thus leaving you only three years left to play (thus, it cost you a season).

"The caveat I forgot to add is that the inactive red-shirt who is dressed can be brought into the game if he is listed on the game day roster. Chances are, like I said, that the second player does not play because he will likely be a red-shirt. " There is NEVER any instance where two players with the same number can enter a game. And you can't change numbers mid-game. Thus, there is no way for both with the same number to play. Any player who is going to play in the game will not share a number with a redshirt. Two redshirt players would share the same number, thus negating any potential problems. I said in the post, the only way to do it is if you have over 99 players (well I didn't say that part) and then it would be only for redshirts. But only one player can play with any given number. So if her (presumed) boyfriend is coming here and wants to wear the same number as one of our active players, he's not going to be able to. Albany doesn't have 99 players (thus there are free numbers and no doubling up).

What the hell type of question is that? Is your boyfriend coming to play football at UAlbany? Out with it. You're asking about all the free gear he's going to get, and now you're wondering if he'll get to wear his number? What the hell team lets two players wear the same number? If there are numbers left, then no, you cannot wear the same number as someone else. Two active players (as in, they both play) can never wear the same number. The only situation in which players would even POSSIBLY be permitted to have the same number is when both of the players are inactive (neither will play). Even then, it's not going to happen.

Technically you can't get anything free, outside of what you wear in practice and in games ... how much you get for that remains to be seen. But it's not like you're showered with gear 24-7 or something. You can't keep game jerseys.

I think the whole point was that the University can't control what people say on here, and thus won't promote the site. That is the gist of what i got out of Dane Pounds' post. Thus, selling this site to the University wouldnt' make any sense, because they still couldn't control what people said on the board but then it would be THEIR site, instead of Dane Pounds'. Get it? I'm pretty sure if the University really wanted one, they would set up their own message board. But there are too many legal issues involved in that. I'm sure they don't want to get involved in this mess.

If Albany were a slightly bigger market, or perhaps when the supposed SEMATECH jobs finally start rolling in, some media company would see the vulnerability in the TU and come into this market and steamroll them. Most people hate the TU, IMO. The Gazette is Schenectady-based and as such isn't poised financially or geographically to steal the TU audience. But the hole is there, ready to be filled. This town isn't a two-paper town, but someone could easily leapfrog the pathetic TU if they had the financial resources. If any of the TU reporters or editors read this board, YOUR RAG IS TERRIBLE. No one gives a flying crap about Siena. They have basketball. Whoopie. They've been in Division I for how many years now? And they STILL SUCK relative to the big dogs? They are so pathetic they had to drop football. That is disgusting. Try throwing in some Olympic sports once in a while. It's not all about basketball. PS - UAlbany wins conference championships. Just because YOU don't care about the sports they win them in, doesn't mean they're not important or interesting. Get off your duffs and write some worthwhile stories. PPS - if UAlbany, in its what, fifth year of Division I?, defeats 30-year veteran Siena next season in men's basketball, I expect a two-page spread along with a letter of apology from the sports editor.

You're crazy. People could have said the same thing last year about Iati, then Jamar went down and we were undermanned. Injuries happen, so you have to expect at least one injury. Also, as people have pointed out, not 100% of recruits will pan out. Expect one to flop or only be worthy of Martin-like minutes. Plus if you think that you can't play four guards at a time in the America East, you're nuts. You can't do it game in, game out, but you can do it. Then consider that some of the players only have two years remaining, such as Perry, Lucious, Kirsten, Levine. Aquawasi has one year left. So unless the freshmen came in with unrealistic expectations of starting like Iati did last year, they can learn for a year or two under these veterans. Courtney will be used as a defensive specialist. Don't expect him to play much since he can't or won't shoot. Some games you can go with Jamar, Lucious, Levi. Then you can come back with Iati, Jamar, Lucious the next. Levi can play some four against smaller teams, harken back to 2002-03. You can also make mass substitutions like this. Sub out your 1-3 players all at once. Stay fresh. If you think juggling too many players isn't a better problem than juggling too few, then you're nuts.

http://www.smithbasketball.com/extrojans.html

"Guard Brandon Perry (6-1, 187), from Carrolton Newman-Smith, averaged 13 ppg last season, but did set a Region XIV record with 13 3-pointers in the Jaguars' Dec. 4 game against Panola." - Jacksonville Progress (newspaper) previewing his sophomore year 13 3-pointers in one game at any level is impressive

This team will be fresher at the end of games, has the jump shooting to keep teams honest, and has some big men to pound it inside. You can't really question the kid's decision to sign - we have a legitimate shot to make serious noise in our league, and ours is not a conference where you necessarily have to play a lot of bangers. We could throw four guards out there at times against certain teams. There will be minutes to go around. Also, I believe Class 5A is the largest in Texas, and he played in the Dallas area and was a first-team selection out of high school. I wonder if anyone could find the all-Class 5A teams from his senior year. I'd wager there are other high-Division I players on that team.

UALBANY MEN'S BASKETBALL SIGNS JUNIOR COLLEGE STAR BRANDON PERRY Albany, N.Y. – University at Albany men’s basketball coach Will Brown announced on Wednesday, May 19 that Brandon Perry, a junior college player from Texas, has signed a national letter of intent to play for the Great Danes in 2004-05. Perry, a 6-foot-1, 187-pound guard from Carrollton, Texas, averaged 15.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.2 steals per game as a sophomore at Jacksonville Community College. An All-Region XIV Conference selection, Perry shot 41.2 percent from the three-point line and made 81.2 percent of his free throws. The Jaguars finished 15-16 overall, including 11-11 in conference play, as a member of one of the top JUCO leagues in the nation. Perry averaged 13.9 points and made 78 three-point field goals on a 17-14 squad in his first year at Jacksonville Community College. At the scholastic level, he played at Newman-Smith High School, near Dallas, where he scored at a 22.8 clip as a senior. He was named to the Class 5A All-District first team. "Brandon is strong and athletic, and we expect him to contribute immediately," said Brown, who recently completed his third season as UAlbany’s head coach. "He can defend the perimeter, plus stretch the opponent’s defense as a three-point shooter. He also has the experience of playing against Division I players of all levels on every night over the last two years." Perry joins a class of four high school players who signed during the early period last November. David Bauman, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound guard from Sarver, Pa. (Freeport), Joe Dyson, a 6-foot-9, 240-pound center from Wilmington, Del. (Sanford School), Brian Lillis, a 6-foot-5, 200-pound swingman from Urbandale, Iowa (West Des Moines Dowling) and Brent Wilson, a 6-foot-8, 210-pound forward from Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Prairie) made their commitments last fall. University at Albany’s Men’s Basketball Signings Name, Pos., Ht., Wt., Hometown (High School) David Bauman, G, 6-2, 180, Sarver, Pa. (Freeport) Joe Dyson, C, 6-9, 240, Wilmington, Del. (Sanford School) Brian Lillis, G/F, 6-5, 200, Urbandale, Iowa (West Des Moines Dowling) Brandon Perry+, G, 6-1, 187, Carrollton, Texas (Newman-Smith) Brent Wilson, F, 6-8, 210, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Prairie) +Jacksonville (Texas) Community College transfer

Only 7-5 at halftime is a great score ... too bad Cuse came out with their usual hot third quarter and bumped that up to 11-5, quickly putting the game out of reach.

Let's play guess the opponent. My best research indicates the following teams have the automatic qualifier bids: UAlbany (America East) Ohio State (Great Western) Towson (Colonial) Cornell (Ivy) Providence (MAAC) Navy (Patriot) So going straight off the power rankings, for whatever they are worth, here is "the field". Virginia and Duke get excluded by virtue of a sub-.500 record. Last week's poll ranking in parentheses: 1. Johns Hopkins (1) 11- 1 2. Maryland (3) 12- 2 3. Syracuse (4) 11- 2 4. Navy (2) 12- 2 5. North Carolina (7) 9- 4 6. Georgetown (5) 10- 3 7. Princeton (8) 9- 3 8. Towson (11) 11- 4 9. Ohio State (6) 12- 3 10. Notre Dame (12) 7- 5 11. Cornell (9) 8- 4 12. Rutgers (10) 8- 5 13. Villanova (14) 12- 3 14. Hobart (17) 9- 6 15. UAlbany 10- 5 16. Providence 9- 7 LAST FEW OUT Pennsylvania (13) 7- 6 Army (18) 10- 4 Brown (16) 9- 5 Dartmouth (20) 8- 5

Except for the fact that you could get a coach with significantly better basketball contacts than someone fresh (relatively fresh) out of college ... Even if you like (love) the dude, you have to admit that if you can get someone with even JUCO head coach experience (like a Spisto) or someone with significant ties in one particular area of the country, that you're going to be better off from a recruiting standpoint. That is (should be) a job that people with a relatively high amount of experience would love to take, if only to break from the D-II or D-III ranks to the top level of the NCAA ... and I'm sure they're all nice people too.

In the running at Florida and then Tennessee ... she goes from the SEC to Canada ... have to say that the sports level there is probably more her speed than running with the Gators and Vols

How many beers had you drunk at the time you looked at the baseball page, precisely?

Danes lost to SBU at home. Danes beat Hartford at Hartford. Home field means nothing. Danes will avenge the loss. Bingo will not go 8-0 in league play.

Stony Brook blew it, so even if the Danes win tonight, they will have to travel to Binghamton. Would have hosted on Saturday if the Seawolves could have come through. Binghamton continues to roll, and keeps it low-scoring again. Brook was up 5-2 heading into the fourth quarter, but the Bearcats take them a solid 4-1 during that period to force overtime, and came through with the clutch goal.

Don't forget that the kid went to prep school, meaning he has to be 23 pushing 24 at this point (prep school + five years of college). Not much upside left in him. For any team that takes a chance on him, what you see is what you get. Even the best college players in the nation don't always get a shot in Europe, as those teams have restrictions on the number of foreign-born players they can take on. He's definitely not on par with even a sixth man at a top notch school like Duke or UConn.