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Jon Thompson has the resume - he is groomed for HC. Query - does he have the charisma to recruit and be a head coach? I guess people that know him or have coached with or played for him would know

Absolutely. That is his super power, along with his knowledge and ability to coach the game.

I think this chain will get hot after this weekend.

Interesting development. My short list of calls:

Jon Thompson, UNC, Brown Alum
Ryan Wellner, Notre Dame
Neil Hutchinson, Harvard
Kyle Georgalas, Army
Mike Abbott, Penn

On another note what's up with Conn having both the Coast Guard and Trinity games this week postponed?

Trin game was ppd due to storm in early April. Today was the only day they could squeeze it in, so it replaces a non-conference CGA game.

CCC play is wrapping up and the picture is becoming clearer. All signs point to another WNE @ Endicott final Endicott has had a very good year... beating Springfield by a lot, upsetting Bowdoin, getting the March win v. WNE WNE has had ups & downs, but that's been the case the last few seasons ...

2 things that require more discussion.

Babson looks very good - how good can they be?
Emerson beats Springfield for first time ever. How much further can this staff improve this program?

Good win for Nichols. But this conference never changes. WNE - EC - everyone else. And really nobody else even challenges for a champ game experience anymore. RWU has gotten close once or twice. Gordon has been irrelevant since Macintosh transferred. NEC got kicked out. UNE started to turn the corne...

NEILA preseason teams and rankings are a joke. You should have said, ALL Preseason teams and rankings are a joke...... They are simply put out to create buzz. The NEILA polls area result of which coaches submitted names and then voted. My guess is that the NESCAC coaches/sid's took care of the subm...

To support this I would submit Matt Chlastawa, the best player in Bates history.

Matt was very good, but to claim the best in history? It might be more accurate to say, "one of the best players in the programs history.."

Charlie Fay
Mike Daddario
Jack Allard

Would LOVE to know why he left RWU??...he did a heck of a job there From what I was told, he felt it was time. Had been there a long time, paid very little to do a lot of "other duties as assigned." He has a bunch of kids going off to college, I think one or more is in the south. MK is on...

Definitely an upgrade for them.

Understatement. Congratulations Quakers!

Why would he make this move? Career at the highest level to go to Colby..? I wish him and the White Mules luck. Definitely the big name hire that Colby was looking for.

Somebody mentioned JT name earlier..wondering if he applied or is too far gone and also recently accepting the UNC position

Hahahahahaha, thanks for stating my week off with a good laugh.

Lasagna was an assistant last year. If they were going to hire the other assistant then this should have been announced long ago. My gut tells me they tried to swing for the fences (again) and once again did not attract the studs they were expecting. Just find the right person that wants to be in Wa...

Paging Colby College, any word out of Waterville? Nescac program with no head coach, although maybe that is an upgrade from the last 5 years?

But seriously, why is this taking so long? The 'cac finally has fall ball and Colby decides to not hire coach throughout the entire off season....

I guess Lasagna couldn't stay away too long

Go on, I'm listening.

Anyone have any intel on Colby? Promoting Dowd? Interviewing? Anything?

Well now what then? Who do they get to replace at such a late time? Any alums out there in the coaching world?

Current President and AD are very big supporters of athletics. The problem at Guilford is $. They are very small school with 21 varsity sports including football.... Resources only go so far when the school is broke. It is too bad really, nice little campus in a great area. Carmean was an interestin...

https://castletonsports.com/news/2023/8 ... coach.aspx

Interesting hire for the Spartans. He has spent his entire career in DI, how does this translate? To his credit he built 2 DI programs from scratch. I've also only heard good things about him. Anyone have any intel?