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Subject: Re: Will Dartmouth first year player get poached? Author: An Observer [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10:19:03 04/08/24 Mon In reply to: Go Green 's message, "Will Dartmouth first year player get poached?" on 07:13:23 04/08/24 Mon No disrespect to the fine women who play softball in the Ivy League, but if we lose a star freshman pitcher to the NIL transfer portal, we might as well just shut down the conference. That is, if we can't hang onto a softball player, we won't be able to hang onto anybody. Think about how much the world has changed for college coaches. Just three years ago, if a kid committed to you as a high school recruit, you owned that kid. You could yell at that kid, make his life miserable, not play him -- and he was pretty much stuck in your program. And it's not just football and men's basketball; it's a lot of sports you wouldn't expect. Think about Katey Stone at Harvard. She was some kind of wannabe abuser way beyond the desire to win hockey games. I think that, historically, some people, especially men, went into coaching because they got off on yelling at people. I mean, got off on it. Today, the moment that kid throws a no-hitter or makes ten three-pointers in a game, now the Hsu is on the other foot. The player has all the leverage and the coach is reverted back to recruiting the kid -- every single day, in every game, in every practice. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Will Dartmouth first year player get poached? Author: The Mountain Lion [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:20:05 04/08/24 Mon If you follow the sport of softball as Go Green and I do, then you would understand that this young lady's pitching stats are so unbelievably great that it is highly likely that every Top Twenty Ranked college softball team in the USA will be interested in her. Seventeen strikeouts in a seven inning softball no-hitter game is at least the equivalent of let's say, a 40 or 50 point college basketball game. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Definitely a nice run!! Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:34:14 04/08/24 Mon She's also 3-0 (all shutouts) in Ivy play. We will see if she can keep it up!! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Will Dartmouth first year player get poached? Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:02:22 04/08/24 Mon I don't question that young Miss Hall is an extraordinary talent. I can do the math: Seven innings * three outs per inning = 21 total outs in a regulation game (only 18 if the home team does not need to bat in the bottom of the seventh) Therefore, 17 strikeouts = kick ass. At the same time, you know as a self-professed softball fan that these wonderful pitchers are actually not that rare. The 40- or especially the 50-point college basketball scorer is a reach, a significant reach. The top top softball pitchers are a threat to throw a no-hitter every time that they enter the circle, especially if she has the bats on her roster to create the chance of a mercy-rule win after five innings. The best softball pitchers over a period of four years will throw several no-hitters. It's not a question of "if," it's "when." The broader point I was trying to make is that we know there is enough money sloshing around in football and men's basketball to steal our best players. If there is already enough money in softball to steal our best kids, we're done for as a serious Divison I conference. Our sales pitch for the last seven decades was, "We offer the best education and the most valuable network in America." If that's not enough to keep a softball pitcher in Hanover, it's gonna be a long long season in Hanover from now on. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: You got me curious... Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:23:25 04/08/24 Mon But yes -- three times in NCAA history has a pitcher struck out all 21 batters in a 7-inning softball game. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/college-softball-pitcher-struck-21-161315870.html [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: I didn't write that correctly Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:26:17 04/08/24 Mon Only one of those three games was a perfect game. For the other two, the pitcher obtained all 21 outs from the other team by strikeout. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]