Keeping It Hot
The Navy women's team has set a record for wins by a first-year program following a 19-8 win over Villanova. The Midshipmen are 13-3 and have advanced to the Patriot League tournament. They face top-seeded American on Friday at 1 p.m. at AU.
Navy won the regular season meeting, 13-12....
The Catholic men's team lost to York, 10-9, yesterday at home in a game that lasted seven overtimes. Really. It took 3 hours 1 minute to complete. Chris Chappelle scored the winner with 2 minutes 41 seconds left in the seventh overtime for the Spartans (6-6). Catholic had taken a 9-5 lead following a goal by junior Kyle Brant, a transfer from Division I St. John's, with 10:04 remaining.
As TFBO2F friend Matt Bonesteel notes, by the seventh overtime it was probably the slowest game on two feet.
The Cardinals (6-9) are the one local men's team playing a home game on Saturday. They host Moravian at 2:30 p.m....
Maryland men's coach Dave Cottle said junior Jason Carter will start in goal against Virgina in an ACC semifinal on Friday. It wasn't an easy decision: Carter had 16 saves in a 13-7 win over Virginia in the regular season meeting. But sophomore Brian Phipps had 17 saves and one goal against in a victory over Penn on Saturday....
Speaking of goalies, Towson plays Johns Hopkins tonight at 7 p.m. at Homewood Field (ESPNU, WJFK). Tigers senior Billy Sadtler enters with a .503 save percentage in 11 games. Classmate Matt Antol has a .465 save percentage in 10 games.
TFBO2F was there when Towson went to its scramble defense against Virginia earlier this season. Essentially, the goalies left the crease and chased the ball as if it were the final minute, even though there was about eight minutes to play in the fourth quarter and the game was relatively close. I wonder if Towson will do the same tonight. Or maybe it will use a stall?
By Christian Swezey |
April 23, 2008; 7:47 AM ET
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Posted by: Incredulous | April 24, 2008 12:15 PM
Assume they have 40 players now attracted to JU to add to the student body, and each contributes a net $20,000 (tuition minus the marginal cost of their education). That is $800,000 'profit', excluding fund-raising potential, logo sales. What does it cost to run a low-end non-scholarship D-1 team, especially if the playing fields, locker rooms, weight rooms, etc. do not need upgrades?
Posted by: Marco | April 25, 2008 12:05 PM
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Christian, are you ever going to offer an email address at which your readers can contact you?
Anyway, I saw this article:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/localnews/1624122.html
It says Jacksonville is adding D-I lacrosse in 2009. You probably already knew that.
The interesting thing about the article is that it says the school is doing it to attract students (nothing new there; many D-III schools have done that) and to RAISE MONEY.
They estimate they'll make $200,000 annually after all is said and done, because they won't offer athletic scholarships, only academic scholarships.
I'm fully in favor of adding D-I lacrosse teams. However, if Jacksonville thinks they're going to make money off of a lacrosse team, they're out of their minds. What with equipment, coaching, travel, an extra trainer to pay, etc., there's no way they'll make money. Further, they won't make money as a crappy team (giving no athletic scholarships is not generally a way to build up a strong problem -- yeah, yeah, the Ivies, but they're the IVIES, this is JU).
Anyway, I just thought it was interesting.
Now give us an email address. And let me be an insider.
- Anthony Wilson