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HopFan16 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 5:45 pm

Maverick wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 5:30 pm

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 2:42 pm Somebody is definitely salty lately. Good thing my identity isn’t completely tied to a team at a college I went to and was a fan of. Makes sense though since you’ve acknowledge being around boards as a student. Cool.

Insular never wants to have any conversation outside of other Hop people, many of whine didn’t play any sports in college let alone this one.

Finally someone says what we've all been thinking. If you say anything perceived as negative he'll jump down your throat and hurl childish insults. He also fully assessed Baltimore's crime situation after the first sunny afternoon at Homewood, they're was a car jacking down the street with 5 armed suspects the same night. Man is all knowing and all powerful and beyond reproach. Delusional as well

Can't find anything online about a carjacking down the street from Homewood "with 5 armed suspects" on the night of the Maryland game. Searched the crime database and found nothing in the area of Homewood for the entire month of April. You got a link? Or did you just make that up in an attempt to support your narrative that Charles Village is, and I quote, a "ghetto"?

1766 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 6:22 pm I've never heard anyone recently make a case that Baltimore isn't a decaying crime ridden city. Including family members and friends that live there.

It's one of the most dangerous cities in the entire country. Just look at the data. And that's what gets reported. I'm not sure why anyone would even argue this.

Maverick wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 6:36 pm

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 5:45 pm

Maverick wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 5:30 pm

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 2:42 pm Somebody is definitely salty lately. Good thing my identity isn’t completely tied to a team at a college I went to and was a fan of. Makes sense though since you’ve acknowledge being around boards as a student. Cool.

Insular never wants to have any conversation outside of other Hop people, many of whine didn’t play any sports in college let alone this one.

Finally someone says what we've all been thinking. If you say anything perceived as negative he'll jump down your throat and hurl childish insults. He also fully assessed Baltimore's crime situation after the first sunny afternoon at Homewood, they're was a car jacking down the street with 5 armed suspects the same night. Man is all knowing and all powerful and beyond reproach. Delusional as well

Can't find anything online about a carjacking down the street from Homewood "with 5 armed suspects" on the night of the Maryland game. Searched the crime database and found nothing in the area of Homewood for the entire month of April. You got a link? Or did you just make that up in an attempt to support your narrative that Charles Village is, and I quote, a "ghetto"?

Live right down the street for a citizen app notification. But nah you're right the most dangerous city in the country is actually safe. Carry on living in your own little world

Maverick wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 6:39 pm

1766 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 6:22 pm I've never heard anyone recently make a case that Baltimore isn't a decaying crime ridden city. Including family members and friends that live there.

It's one of the most dangerous cities in the entire country. Just look at the data. And that's what gets reported. I'm not sure why anyone would even argue this.

Hop16 seems to think Charles village is like Hogwarts. I mean he drew that exact comparison

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 6:45 pm

Maverick wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 6:36 pm

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 5:45 pm

Maverick wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 5:30 pm

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 2:42 pm Somebody is definitely salty lately. Good thing my identity isn’t completely tied to a team at a college I went to and was a fan of. Makes sense though since you’ve acknowledge being around boards as a student. Cool.

Insular never wants to have any conversation outside of other Hop people, many of whine didn’t play any sports in college let alone this one.

Finally someone says what we've all been thinking. If you say anything perceived as negative he'll jump down your throat and hurl childish insults. He also fully assessed Baltimore's crime situation after the first sunny afternoon at Homewood, they're was a car jacking down the street with 5 armed suspects the same night. Man is all knowing and all powerful and beyond reproach. Delusional as well

Can't find anything online about a carjacking down the street from Homewood "with 5 armed suspects" on the night of the Maryland game. Searched the crime database and found nothing in the area of Homewood for the entire month of April. You got a link? Or did you just make that up in an attempt to support your narrative that Charles Village is, and I quote, a "ghetto"?

Live right down the street for a citizen app notification. But nah you're right the most dangerous city in the country is actually safe. Carry on living in your own little world

Ok. So that's a no. No link.

Maverick wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 6:39 pm

1766 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 6:22 pm I've never heard anyone recently make a case that Baltimore isn't a decaying crime ridden city. Including family members and friends that live there.

It's one of the most dangerous cities in the entire country. Just look at the data. And that's what gets reported. I'm not sure why anyone would even argue this.

Hop16 seems to think Charles village is like Hogwarts. I mean he drew that exact comparison

Nah, I said going to school at Homewood is closer to Hogwarts than it is to being in The Wire. I did not say the whole of Charles Village is Hogwarts. Once again, you're making stuff up. Seems like it's a pattern for you.

DocBarrister wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 2:46 pm

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 2:25 pm Make the case without invoking tradition or titles that no one under 40 cares about for a transfer to go to Hop.

Education - great but replaceable.

City/campus-not a tiebreaker most likely

Coach - two losing seasons. Younger guy with limited experience as HC and little name cache. Grant Jr? I guess but again from a time long gone by.

That’s the thing … in order to succeed at Johns Hopkins, Coach Milliman will need to outrecruit or match competitors like Brecht, Tillman, and Shay.

Petro succeeded for a time in outrecruiting or matching legends like Starsia, Tierney, and Desko.

The success of a Johns Hopkins lacrosse head coach has never depended on academic reputation, campus facilities, the locale (despite the obvious charms of Baltimore ), or even the “tradition”. It has depended on the coach creating a winning culture at the program and successfully instilling full faith in his vision for the team.

In order to succeed, Milliman is going to have to outcompete his great rivals.

Tall task. No one ever said the Hopkins gig was easy.

DocBarrister

1766 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 6:22 pm I've never heard anyone recently make a case that Baltimore isn't a decaying crime ridden city. Including family members and friends that live there.

It's one of the most dangerous cities in the entire country. Just look at the data. And that's what gets reported. I'm not sure why anyone would even argue this.

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 2:42 pm Insular never wants to have any conversation outside of other Hop people, many of whine didn’t play any sports in college let alone this one.

GSP wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 6:48 pm FWIW, Baskin just scored 4 goals against Georgetown in a 14-12 loss.

Ruffled_Feathers wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:17 pm As for the mention of the state of Baltimore city and its relationship with recruiting at the end of the day I think that can be applied as globally to every recruiting situation as the notion that "everyone on Earth wants to go to big football U".

ICGrad wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:29 pm

Ruffled_Feathers wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:17 pm As for the mention of the state of Baltimore city and its relationship with recruiting at the end of the day I think that can be applied as globally to every recruiting situation as the notion that "everyone on Earth wants to go to big football U".

Does anyone actually say this or believe it? I've never heard it (and I did my graduate work at a big football school).

Anyway, we're at 5 pages; at this rate, by the end of the weekend this Hopkins 2023 thread will have more pages than the Delaware Blue Hens 2022 thread (which stands at 10 pages, in case you're wondering).

ICGrad wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:29 pm

Ruffled_Feathers wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:17 pm As for the mention of the state of Baltimore city and its relationship with recruiting at the end of the day I think that can be applied as globally to every recruiting situation as the notion that "everyone on Earth wants to go to big football U".

Does anyone actually say this or believe it? I've never heard it (and I did my graduate work at a big football school).

Ruffled_Feathers wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:41 pm

ICGrad wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:29 pm

Ruffled_Feathers wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:17 pm As for the mention of the state of Baltimore city and its relationship with recruiting at the end of the day I think that can be applied as globally to every recruiting situation as the notion that "everyone on Earth wants to go to big football U".

Does anyone actually say this or believe it? I've never heard it (and I did my graduate work at a big football school).

Just gotta stop in at the Michigan thread and linger a minute. But it's the same story for Maryland or Rutgers as campuses and schools eventhough their football isnt particularly amazing or as storied. Neither College Park nor Trenton are places to me that one "falls in love with" just as many will argue the opposite and rail that Baltimore is 100% a crime ridden dump. Different strokes for different folks.

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:31 pm

ICGrad wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:29 pm

Ruffled_Feathers wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:17 pm As for the mention of the state of Baltimore city and its relationship with recruiting at the end of the day I think that can be applied as globally to every recruiting situation as the notion that "everyone on Earth wants to go to big football U".

Does anyone actually say this or believe it? I've never heard it (and I did my graduate work at a big football school).

Anyway, we're at 5 pages; at this rate, by the end of the weekend this Hopkins 2023 thread will have more pages than the Delaware Blue Hens 2022 thread (which stands at 10 pages, in case you're wondering).

Give it a week or two and we'll have more pages than there are Cornell lacrosse fans in the world.

jhu06 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:49 pm https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/michigan/

michigans last rose bowl win came before most of those kids even the syracuse duke and rutgers 8th years were born. are we sure college park, rutgers and michigan count as major college football?

Ruffled_Feathers wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:17 pm

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 2:42 pm Insular never wants to have any conversation outside of other Hop people, many of whine didn’t play any sports in college let alone this one.

It's not a matter of wanting "outsiders" in the conversation or not. Many of the outspoken "insiders" some of us would rather hear less from, I know I at least find the constant b*tching, unrealistic expectations, and dirt shoveling in the general direction of the new staff rather tiresome. Most of the time from either source it all just ends up being trolling and not actually adding anything of value to the discussion and is at best rehashing a potential misstep by the staff for the 10th or further time. i.e. see the Baskin mention a few posts ago

Your response post asking how coach should hope to have success in the transfer portal to my initial reading definitely felt a little antagonistic in the same vein of earlier posts from the rest of the peanut gallery like "don't you guys play D3". It presumably wasn't intended that way so the answer to your question beyond Docs grandiose idea that is surely implementable of "just recruit better" is coach probably won't actually be out recruiting anyone in the portal for those guys. If someone in the portal with only a single year of eligibility ends up at Hopkins right now it is likely because...

1) They aren't the top guys that can basically choose where they want to go and walk on the field as a starter. We're going to get the scraps or have to find a "diamond in the rough".
2) We get lucky and have a local kid that just wants to come back home to the general Baltimore area after his 4/5 years elsewhere and he liked the feel and fit at JHU both in the classroom and on the field. This wouldn't so much being coach sold him on it but rather the kid himself decided it was something he wanted to do himself.

For a longer term rental or high schoolers you can basically sell the opportunity angle for immediate playing time given the state of the team/roster and the fact that there is a fan base that generally cares and would be interested in seeing you be the star. "Wouldn't it be cool to be the guy that put Hopkins back on top?" I definitely think coach can offer up the notion of immediate playing time that many more loaded rosters cannot.

The roster and fortunes of this program are likely not getting turned around overnight thanks to the Transfer Portal. Anyone providing an indication that they are is somewhere on the spectrum between deluded and wishful thinking. Unless we get lucky this is not going to be a quick process and it isn't going to be like a lightswitch was flipped on, there will be a line trending upwards which hopefully starts with next years freshman class.

As for the mention of the state of Baltimore city and its relationship with recruiting at the end of the day I think that can be applied as globally to every recruiting situation as the notion that "everyone on Earth wants to go to big football U". The way I heard that story is Michigan, OSU, and PSU were supposed to be juggernauts by now. We'd all be irrelevant if Alabama starts up a lax program because we all know deep down in our hearts that every talented lacrosse star from the mid-atlantic has always dreamt of getting out of the one horse town he grew up in to spend 4 years in *checks notes* Tuscaloosa Alabama. Baltimore is good enough for the USNWR rankings people like to discuss around these parts so much; its also good enough for the countless D3 athletes that are excelling at JHU, and the countless students who aren't athletes that go there.

Ruffled_Feathers wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:17 pm

Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 2:42 pm Insular never wants to have any conversation outside of other Hop people, many of whine didn’t play any sports in college let alone this one.

It's not a matter of wanting "outsiders" in the conversation or not. Many of the outspoken "insiders" some of us would rather hear less from, I know I at least find the constant b*tching, unrealistic expectations, and dirt shoveling in the general direction of the new staff rather tiresome. Most of the time from either source it all just ends up being trolling and not actually adding anything of value to the discussion and is at best rehashing a potential misstep by the staff for the 10th or further time. i.e. see the Baskin mention a few posts ago

Your response post asking how coach should hope to have success in the transfer portal to my initial reading definitely felt a little antagonistic in the same vein of earlier posts from the rest of the peanut gallery like "don't you guys play D3". It presumably wasn't intended that way so the answer to your question beyond Docs grandiose idea that is surely implementable of "just recruit better" is coach probably won't actually be out recruiting anyone in the portal for those guys. If someone in the portal with only a single year of eligibility ends up at Hopkins right now it is likely because...

1) They aren't the top guys that can basically choose where they want to go and walk on the field as a starter. We're going to get the scraps or have to find a "diamond in the rough".
2) We get lucky and have a local kid that just wants to come back home to the general Baltimore area after his 4/5 years elsewhere and he liked the feel and fit at JHU both in the classroom and on the field. This wouldn't so much being coach sold him on it but rather the kid himself decided it was something he wanted to do himself.

For a longer term rental or high schoolers you can basically sell the opportunity angle for immediate playing time given the state of the team/roster and the fact that there is a fan base that generally cares and would be interested in seeing you be the star. "Wouldn't it be cool to be the guy that put Hopkins back on top?" I definitely think coach can offer up the notion of immediate playing time that many more loaded rosters cannot.

The roster and fortunes of this program are likely not getting turned around overnight thanks to the Transfer Portal. Anyone providing an indication that they are is somewhere on the spectrum between deluded and wishful thinking. Unless we get lucky this is not going to be a quick process and it isn't going to be like a lightswitch was flipped on, there will be a line trending upwards which hopefully starts with next years freshman class.

As for the mention of the state of Baltimore city and its relationship with recruiting at the end of the day I think that can be applied as globally to every recruiting situation as the notion that "everyone on Earth wants to go to big football U". The way I heard that story is Michigan, OSU, and PSU were supposed to be juggernauts by now. We'd all be irrelevant if Alabama starts up a lax program because we all know deep down in our hearts that every talented lacrosse star from the mid-atlantic has always dreamt of getting out of the one horse town he grew up in to spend 4 years in *checks notes* Tuscaloosa Alabama. Baltimore is good enough for the USNWR rankings people like to discuss around these parts so much; its also good enough for the countless D3 athletes that are excelling at JHU, and the countless students who aren't athletes that go there.

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 8:27 pm One of the top offensive guys in the portal (not Dordevic) is reportedly deciding between Hopkins, another Big Ten school, and an ACC school. We'll see what happens. Could decide to go elsewhere but the Jays are in the mix. He has no connection to Baltimore that I know of.

Ruffled is on the money as usual with some measured, nuanced sanity. Trolls come here to troll and then clutch their pearls when someone treats them as such. It'd be kind of funny if it weren't so pathetic. Just nothing better to do.