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JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:42 pm Malever in the portal. That's more shocking then Balsamo.

This might have caused it

https://x.com/tyxanders/status/1796257675208020427?s=46

Finster wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 3:29 pm

JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:42 pm Malever in the portal. That's more shocking then Balsamo.

This might have caused it

https://x.com/tyxanders/status/1796257675208020427?s=46

Really good player. Remember he was lighting it up as a Frosh before covid cancelled the season.

Saw he played in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024 at Fairfield. 2021 redshirt.

2020 Covid + 2021 medical redshirt? Seems like he can potentially play 2 years?

GaitsRightHand wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 3:36 pm

Finster wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 3:29 pm

JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:42 pm Malever in the portal. That's more shocking then Balsamo.

This might have caused it

https://x.com/tyxanders/status/1796257675208020427?s=46

Really good player. Remember he was lighting it up as a Frosh before covid cancelled the season.

Saw he played in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024 at Fairfield. 2021 redshirt.

2020 Covid + 2021 medical redshirt? Seems like he can potentially play 2 years?

he has used 3 eligibility seasons. has 1 left.

JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:42 pm Malever in the portal. That's more shocking then Balsamo.

it seems more understandable since he's now a grad student pursing grad programs?

GaitsRightHand wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 11:13 am Ty Xanders tweeted that Balsamo is a "no contact" portal entry. Meaning that he does not want schools reaching out to him. The only school's in contact with him will be through him reaching out.

Duke is one helluva degree. Outside of Ivy's... maybe a ND or UM degree would be comparable?

https://x.com/tyxanders/status/1796185514036408699

Makes sense but I don't recall that being an option when a player enters the portal. But it especially makes sense because the number of schools that act on Hail Mary reach outs can be shocking. It's time intensive acknowledging or responding to 40 D3 and D2 schools and no way in hell D1 schools.

norcalhop wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 4:37 pm

JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:42 pm Malever in the portal. That's more shocking then Balsamo.

it seems more understandable since he's now a grad student pursing grad programs?

I thought he was a rising junior? Seems like just yesterday he was in HS.

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 4:51 pm

norcalhop wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 4:37 pm

JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:42 pm Malever in the portal. That's more shocking then Balsamo.

it seems more understandable since he's now a grad student pursing grad programs?

I thought he was a rising junior? Seems like just yesterday he was in HS.

https://umterps.com/sports/mens-lacross ... ever/12118

Classified as a Senior this year. Will have a year of eligibility left I believe since he missed one year due to injury.

norcalhop wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 5:56 pm

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 4:51 pm

norcalhop wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 4:37 pm

JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:42 pm Malever in the portal. That's more shocking then Balsamo.

it seems more understandable since he's now a grad student pursing grad programs?

I thought he was a rising junior? Seems like just yesterday he was in HS.

https://umterps.com/sports/mens-lacross ... ever/12118

Classified as a Senior this year. Will have a year of eligibility left I believe since he missed one year due to injury.

I was referring to Balsamo. I saw the Fairfield kid is transferring in. Good player stuck on bad teams.

Shocking to me would be if an undergrad star (like Nate Kabiri or Spallina) moved from one decent DI program to another.

norcalhop wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 6:42 pm Shocking to me would be if an undergrad star (like Nate Kabiri or Spallina) moved from one decent DI program to another.

Idk maybe like Charles balsamo

vburk6 wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 8:38 pm

norcalhop wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 6:42 pm Shocking to me would be if an undergrad star (like Nate Kabiri or Spallina) moved from one decent DI program to another.

Idk maybe like Charles balsamo

He's probably the closest thing but definitely not a star like those other guys. He had 16 pts this season lol

Still rare to see a player like him leave a program like Duke as an undergrad

vburk6 wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 8:38 pm

norcalhop wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 6:42 pm Shocking to me would be if an undergrad star (like Nate Kabiri or Spallina) moved from one decent DI program to another.

Idk maybe like Charles balsamo

Not close. He only started 3 out of 19 games this season with 16 points (less than a point a game) and is nowhere near the face of the program.

vburk6 wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 8:38 pm

norcalhop wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 6:42 pm Shocking to me would be if an undergrad star (like Nate Kabiri or Spallina) moved from one decent DI program to another.

Idk maybe like Charles balsamo

Balsamo is solid but far from a star IMO. It felt like he regressed from his impressive rookie campaign and didn’t do much this year, especially in the second half of the season. Struggled to beat shorties and was 1-9 shooting in his last 10 games.

norcalhop wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 11:40 am

DA/PU wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 11:38 am

JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 5:30 pm

norcalhop wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 5:25 pm

JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 5:09 pm

GaitsRightHand wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 5:00 pm Called someone a lil more in the know. Sounds like cuse is just a rumor. He’s trying to go Ivy - hearing UPenn.

That would make sense, Penn one of few IVY's who takes transfers and he'd certainly be a Day 1 starter.

Hm, I think every lax ivy allows transfers?

I thought Princeton and a few other's didn't but maybe your right.

Much to my dismay Princeton does not take transfers. Seems like the admin takes pride in being the most strict in the league (see their disastrous Covid policies). To my knowledge all of the other ivies take transfers, but vary in terms of how active they are with it and what sports take transfers. Off the top of my head Yale and Penn have been most willing recently to take transfers.

They do take general transfers - it is just rare like most of the ivies and top privates (for undergraduate transfers):

https://admission.princeton.edu/transfer-students

Jason Garrett can confirm this.

GaitsRightHand wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 3:36 pm

Finster wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 3:29 pm

JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:42 pm Malever in the portal. That's more shocking then Balsamo.

This might have caused it

https://x.com/tyxanders/status/1796257675208020427?s=46

Really good player. Remember he was lighting it up as a Frosh before covid cancelled the season.

Saw he played in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024 at Fairfield. 2021 redshirt.

2020 Covid + 2021 medical redshirt? Seems like he can potentially play 2 years?

I think griffin king is as good as ford and never saw the field this year.

GaitsRightHand wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 11:13 am Ty Xanders tweeted that Balsamo is a "no contact" portal entry. Meaning that he does not want schools reaching out to him. The only school's in contact with him will be through him reaching out.

Duke is one helluva degree. Outside of Ivy's... maybe a ND or UM degree would be comparable?

https://x.com/tyxanders/status/1796185514036408699

He’s fine going to gt or a number of patriot schools also let’s not get too crazy on schools not like going…sorry but Jax. Duke is fine but I’ve seen plenty of suboptimal outcomes from Duke kids. Especially when we are really not talking about Boswell student body but more comparable to other non revenue athletes. That’s the right comparison for outcomes not student body writ large as so many keep insisting here.

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:38 pm

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:07 pm

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 1:57 pm
Aside from TD, who has transferred into Yale for lacrosse? Brown, Cornell and Penn have been more active but not sure of rising juniors for Brown. Harvard took a transfer from Amherst a few years ago. As for Princeton, supposedly Matt Moore and TD wanted to transfer in…

Penn has taken some recently, including Mac Eldridge and Connell Kumar, both from UVA. Could definitely see Balsamo going to there. They need the offensive punch.

EDIT: Sorry misread your post, but the point still stands. Penn seems like a likely destination

Thanks. I can see Penn being and option. Burkinshaw was also a UVA transfer to Penn. I would speculate that Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth are not likely transfer destinations.

Maybe they give kerwin a little latitude for 2-3yrs?

DocBarrister wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 3:21 pm

JeremyCuse wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 2:42 pm Malever in the portal. That's more shocking then Balsamo.

Good players.

Think the transfer portal will always have significant talent in it. It won’t end with the Covid classes. If anything, NIL and even (possibly in the future) direct payments (for example, “transfer bonuses”) will draw players into the portal. Most transfers will transfer for the most common reasons today: academic, lacrosse, and personal reasons.

DocBarrister

Transfer bonus really screams Name, Image & Likeness

vburk6 wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 8:38 pm

norcalhop wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 6:42 pm Shocking to me would be if an undergrad star (like Nate Kabiri or Spallina) moved from one decent DI program to another.

Idk maybe like Charles balsamo

He most all his minutes to Johnston this year. Did you stop watching in spring 23?

Dan Arestia tweet

Bowdoin faceoff specialist Ethan Barnard is taking a grad year at @RUmlax.

Barnard, an All American, is one of the top specialists in DIII, going 62% for his career at Bowdoin. He's never had a season below 60% facing off. In the last three seasons he has 457 ground balls.

https://x.com/danarestia/status/1796513 ... EO2hFStaxg