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  1. I cannot help with the scouting of Dartmouth but this is Keggy:
  2. I am going to game! Thanks for thinking of a long lost prodigal poster. I will be rooting on the Bills and my wife will be cheering for Vermont. I will try to post later. I have no insights on the Catamounts.
  3. 2 players are playing in the Cape Cod League. 13 players are playing in summer leagues around the country. Two are playing in the NECBL which I usually go to at least one game--I will try to make it to the Vermont Mountaineers v. Nighthawks game or maybe to a Mountaineers home game.
  4. A month ago a gambler I know contacted me and wanted my thoughts about the World Cup and particularly wanted my thoughts on underrated teams. I watched a fair bit of African qualifying and Senegal seems underrated as Mané, Sané, Baldé , Pape Alioune Badou Ndiaye (there are three Ndiayes on the team) seem like a pretty solid core to get you out of the group and possibly into the quarters (not much of chance past that). They are in a pretty open group so it worth a bet to get out of the group (200-1 to win it all is worthy of a small bet if you can get it as well). I think they are underrated mainly because they took a very conservative approach to qualifying (which was smart) and are going to open up offensively for the World Cup. A lot of people have talked about Nigeria being exciting to watch but I am guessing that Senegal will be much more interesting as they get past the conservative tactics of qualifying (they have been playing an open 3--5-2 lately in friendlies but even them in a 4-5-1 would be exciting if Mané (Liverpool) has an central attacking role). They have had problems with Baldé's(Lazio/Monaco) behavior/injuries in the past but I am guessing any positive result early and all that will be gone until at least the World Cup ends. Sakho is an underrated striker as well. Their regular goalie was hurt but back up Khadim Ndiaye is fine. Overall, Skip has mentioned the big contenders (well he "skipped" over France but they are likely behind Brazil, Germany and Spain) but if you are looking for some exciting soccer and a slight underdog my guess is Senegal as they have had very little World Cup experience yet have a team that has impressive club experience.
  5. This numbers driven forecast using Isabell's numbers (not Wiley's yet) projects SLU as best in A-10 (and 14 seed for tourney) and 49th overall. Note that this is projecting Isabell as SLU's best offensive player (because of his efficient play last year) and does not project Gordon or even French as major factor. http://www.barttorvik.com/team.php?team=Saint+Louis&year=2019
  6. This is using a database (Real GM) that excludes limited time players so should work for the question (all the players with low FTA totals per minute are guards): The lowest FT per Minute out of the 2000+ players is Dillon Avare (Eastern Kentucky) 2-2FTs in 560 mins. Tum Tum Nairn of Michigan St. is 3rd with 5 FTs in 586 minutes but is included as I wanted to write Tum Tum. Wiley is 19th but the order seems to be FTA per game (I cannot directly rank the FT per minute)
  7. College Soccer News reports a top 15 recruiting class ranking but I have not seen it for this year. Top Drawer reviews players--SLU has 3 players in this recruiting class in their database (Mootz and Ramadan are 2 stars). The third is Alex Karasinski who committed to McGinty and seems to have gone somewhere else--he was 3 stars. The other 4 players are not in the database so would not be helpful to any ranking by them. I do not think anyone is rating transfers and this is hopefully where the strength of this class lies--the freshman may be fine players but they are not drawing a lot of recruiting attention. The sad part is that Top Drawer rates the top 20 players in every conference--SLU only has one player . . . in the A-10 (this would indicate they were overperforming but I suspect these ratings are not the best).
  8. The game is available on the A-10 Network http://www.atlantic10.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?CONTENT_ID=2136465&DB_OEM_ID=31600&id=6264968&db_oem_id=31600
  9. This is the stats through 3 sessions at EYBL(May 19th). SLU recruit Tyler Bertram (discussed on page 59) is third (I do not see Dingle but it may be a different grouping).
  10. Simi Shittu, a 5-star recruit (Top 10 before injury), is going to play this year at Vandy. Nothing can top the loss I felt when Dayton signed Obadiah Toppin (and yes he wears mustache sometimes but no it is not of the handlebar variety).
  11. Apologies for incorrectly stating that Bertram had a Vandy offer (Pistol, as you all know, is the better source of information). I can tell you more about Saxtons River though (Vermont Academy campus is very nice and Saxtons River has the kind of 4th of July celebration that is very cool and very unintentionally retro). Pistol would have appreciated their brewpub but in a town of 685 even good places go out of business. Last year Bertram and Torrance had to do a lot after Shittu got injured. The team lost a lot of games without Shittu so I could see why there was less interest in Vermont Academy from bigger programs.
  12. Bertram is the top 2019 recruit in Vermont! This would have meant little 10 years ago but Vermont Academy is a top prep school (Shittu was there best recruit this past year and he went to Vandy--note Vandy have also offered Bertram). Bertram is a top 20 NE recruit for sure. Symir Torrance (Guard, 2020) is also a great shooting Vermont Academy player for this year.
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