OT: Kennesaw State
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They lost to California Baptist. I bet no one on this forum ever heard of California Baptist. We better freaking win.
Cal Baptist isn't a bad team, they've been a D1 team since 2018-19. They've been a top half quad 4 team in the NET era and stays around 0.500 or better every year. Rick Croy is 104-85 in D1, 233-113 since taking over Cal Baptist 2013-14. Interesting tidbit, Croy coached the Citrus Owls(2005-10) 130-35, a JUCO, won a JUCO title in year 3 and 3 consecutive Final Fours, years 4-5, runner up and FF. The guy can coach.
Ty Pennington (Extreme Home Makeover, Trading Places) is the most famous alum from Kenneshaw State.
Only 6,000 of students live on campus making it essentially a commuter school (87%) , which is why parking is the constant bane of student life.
It's not a great school academically (70% acceptance, 46% graduation) but it serves an important function in Georgia and does it pretty well. Those grad % need to improve. #445 Top college
$38K/year with 40K students (95% under grad)
18 Div I teams in the Atlantic Sun Conf
Historically Cobb county/Kennesaw was the site of the Andrew's Raid where Union volunteers commandeered a train called the General and cut of path of damage rail lines and downed telegraph to great effect and for which survivors where the first to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase
Only 6,000 of students live on campus making it essentially a commuter school (87%) , which is why parking is the constant bane of student life.
It's not a great school academically (70% acceptance, 46% graduation) but it serves an important function in Georgia and does it pretty well. Those grad % need to improve. #445 Top college
$38K/year with 40K students (95% under grad)
18 Div I teams in the Atlantic Sun Conf
Historically Cobb county/Kennesaw was the site of the Andrew's Raid where Union volunteers commandeered a train called the General and cut of path of damage rail lines and downed telegraph to great effect and for which survivors where the first to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase
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Top right of center is the gym.Ty Pennington (Extreme Home Makeover, Trading Places) is the most famous alum from Kenneshaw State.
Only 6,000 of students live on campus making it essentially a commuter school (87%) , which is why parking is the constant bane of student life.
It's not a great school academically (70% acceptance, 46% graduation) but it serves an important function in Georgia and does it pretty well. Those grad % need to improve. #445 Top college
$38K/year with 40K students (95% under grad)
18 Div I teams in the Atlantic Sun Conf
Historically Cobb county/Kennesaw was the site of the Andrew's Raid where Union volunteers commandeered a train called the General and cut of path of damage rail lines and downed telegraph to great effect and for which survivors where the first to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase
Merrimack can't miss, and their zone d is causing issues for Princeton.
Up big early over Princeton
Just looked at the box score. How on earth did Merrimack stay within even 11 points?
Princeton shot 53% from the field (26-49) to Merrimack's 38% (21-56); 45% from 3 (on 10-22) to Merrimack's 23% (7-30), outrebounded Merrimack 37-23 - including 10-8 on the offensive boards; Princeton did only make 6 of 9 FT - but Merrimack only was 8-10 FT, not a huge advantage. Princeton did have 14 TO to Merrimack's 8 - that had to be the only thing keeping Merrimack with 15 points ... even so ... Princeton was up 62-48 with 3 minutes left, and 64-51 with 2 minutes left.
Merrimack was unconscious early... But obviously cooled off
In their previous game they went 1-19 from 3 😳
Gonna be interesting how we do against a zone team
Former journeyman MLB player Willie Harris, who was with the Mets in 2011, also attended KSU.
Ty Pennington (Extreme Home Makeover, Trading Places) is the most famous alum from Kenneshaw State.
Only 6,000 of students live on campus making it essentially a commuter school (87%) , which is why parking is the constant bane of student life.
It's not a great school academically (70% acceptance, 46% graduation) but it serves an important function in Georgia and does it pretty well. Those grad % need to improve. #445 Top college
$38K/year with 40K students (95% under grad)
18 Div I teams in the Atlantic Sun Conf
Historically Cobb county/Kennesaw was the site of the Andrew's Raid where Union volunteers commandeered a train called the General and cut of path of damage rail lines and downed telegraph to great effect and for which survivors where the first to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase
I know they're in Conference USA for football.Ty Pennington (Extreme Home Makeover, Trading Places) is the most famous alum from Kenneshaw State.
Only 6,000 of students live on campus making it essentially a commuter school (87%) , which is why parking is the constant bane of student life.
It's not a great school academically (70% acceptance, 46% graduation) but it serves an important function in Georgia and does it pretty well. Those grad % need to improve. #445 Top college
$38K/year with 40K students (95% under grad)
18 Div I teams in the Atlantic Sun Conf
Historically Cobb county/Kennesaw was the site of the Andrew's Raid where Union volunteers commandeered a train called the General and cut of path of damage rail lines and downed telegraph to great effect and for which survivors where the first to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase
Been there multiple times. About 20 minutes away from me.
Because Rutgers is just like every every other high level program and caters to elite talents/one and done players.
Why is it difficult for you to understand? Just as Pike scheduled the game for Eugene Omoruyi in Toronto a few years back. Only he left before it happened. It gives the kids a chance to play close to home and have family and friends who cannot see games at Rutgers. It is a reward for the kids.
Dean Smith of UNC ALWAYS scheduled a road game against a team in the hometown of seniors on his team, for decades.
Very typical, especially of high class coaches.
It's more common than people think. Some people here have yet to grasp it.
The only way it makes sense is if it helped land Ace in the first place.
A post-commitment reward for the kids? You'd run out of away games. And travel costs money.
I'll add this: Do you think it an accident that RU is playing Merrimack this season (where Derkack is from). Or that in prior years RU has played Stony Brook (where Pikiell coached), or teams where Pikiell's ex-coaches sometimes landed? There are many reasons to play versus certain teams ... it is not always possible to accommodate all the possible reasons.
This has become a process of just spitting out unrelated things. None of these is traveling to Kennesaw, wherever that is.
I don't think I've ever even kennesaw it.
It's about a 30 minute drive from Powder Springs, Ga, where McEachern HS is, and Kennesaw, Ga where Kennesaw St is, if it helps.
It’s ridiculous that we are making these “concessions” to these kids. They should be grateful to play at Rutgers with our amazing history and big NIL coffers. Hell, they should pay us for the privilege of coming here so we can question their character. In fact the coaches shouldn't recruit at all IMO or even talk to the players. Let the Duke’s and UNCs of the world try to “convince” kids to come to their school. We are better than that.
Welcome to the big leagues. When you learn the rules, it will make more sense. If you read Lion 1983's post, you will see that he said UNC and other big-time programs do it all the time. The other option is to return to being a bad program with small-time recruits, which will only give people another reason to complain. Some people have an agenda, and facts only get in the way of sticking to their guns.
For a split second I missed what you were saying. Agree 100%. This is the right move by a classy coach.
Now if we had a game in Aune-Adoka, Nigeria......
Hard to tell sometimes on this board. For that, I apologize to Eagleton96.
