Flying Dutchmen Fans

Jojogunne wrote: ↑Mon Feb 09, 2026 11:58 pm But the Seahawks are not invincible.

HUSID74 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 10:44 am Not sure why everyone thinks of UNCW as invinceable...in the past they paid their coaches and staff the lowest in the CAA...they always got good coaches but they left after a couple of years for the money...I also don't know if their NIL is what we all specuate it to be.

Polito wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 2:30 pm Not sure I understand what you're getting at HUSID... are you suggesting UNCW isn't good? I mean, they're 20-4 / 9-2 dude. They're good lol. No ones invincible, this is college sports. But let's not kid ourselves, they are best positioned to win this conf right now.

Their program is well run, and their admin doesn't accept losing or no NCAAT's like ours does. And yep they are pumping money in. This isn't the past. They don't just expect to win 20 games, that's not the bar of success. They expect to dance. Repeat: they EXPECT to dance. It's not a wish. It's a standard. And if they don't meet the standard, they address it. HU could learn a lot from them and from CofC.

They have a very strong staff, recruit well, coach in game well, and yep, their staffs move on from time to time because they are GOOD. I WISH we had coaches that were coveted and stolen by other big time programs - that's a huge sign of success for mids - it's exactly how VCU operates on a regular basis. It's called winning at a consistently high level with repeated NCAAT's.

Having the same coaching staff at a mid major for a decade or whatever is not a sign of success, at all. It's the opposite. We WANT our players and coaches to be that desirable by P2s guys that they get scooped up for big bucks- that's the whole idea for mids in todays landscape. The last thing we need is to ride the same dudes into the sunset like Northeastern and become a complete bottom feeder because we never advanced ourselves or modernized with the times.


Now your point on inter-conference transfers, I got that and agree 100% - it's insane to me that this is even allowed, much less that you can do so and play immediately - that's just bananas.

HUSID74 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 2:21 pm Wags, thanks for the information but do we know where that money is going. Is it going to offset budgeted money for athletics or to enhance it. In the days of Rabinowitz at Hofstra, funds raised from the outside went to offset school contributions.

Wags wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 3:35 pm

HUSID74 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 2:21 pm Wags, thanks for the information but do we know where that money is going. Is it going to offset budgeted money for athletics or to enhance it. In the days of Rabinowitz at Hofstra, funds raised from the outside went to offset school contributions.

I have to see if I can find it, but I recall reading at the time Siddle was extended to his current deal, that UNCW also announcing that it was pouring a lot of money (I forget the amounts) specifically into the basketball program, and specifically to be able compete in the new NIL world.

Polito wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 4:04 pm Wags, no. It's not the same at all. Not about a marginally better team. I'm talking about P2's dude. Jumping from W&M to UNCW is no major feat. Estrada going from HU to starting on a FF Alabama squad, THAT'S something.

And inter-conference transferring should absolutely not be treated the same. It's not about limits. It's about structure. You can't have a free for all society bud where everything goes with no rules - it leads directly to conflicts of interest and conflicting priorities with no answer because everything is allowed. That's not how successful things are done in any capacity. I mean that should be clear by now in society, on all sides, lol.

Sports is exactly the same. There needs to be governing rules, boundaries, and protocol that aligns with the betterment of not just the athlete (who is very well paid today) but for the sport itself, the fans, and U's, who are all largely footing the bill.

Wags wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 12:43 pm It can change, but they are definitely the standard of the league right now. I also wonder if they would get any chatter in the media about a possible at-large if they were to run the table from here and lose a close one in the finals in DC. Their Kenpom rating is only 111 and their SOS is probably too weak, but that would make them regular season champs at 16-2 and after a finals loss, 29-5 overall. And it's not like the CAA is 25th or even 20th, it's about 14th (depending on where you look). So, with a league rating like that and an overall record like that, it's possible some may at least talk about it in that case.

Polito wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 6:30 pm "What's the difference that Aranguren was inter-conference and May was intra-conference?"

Really? Kinda surprised you are countering on this - it's a huge difference IMO. Intra conference is a level of conflict of interest - you are trading players with teams you will see repeatedly every year, vs teams you may never face. Not even remotely the same wags. I'm not saying it should be prohibited, but there should absolutely be some governance around it. Frankly not following how that concept can be denied...

Polito wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 6:30 pm "Also, why the sudden uproar over this now with no one here batting an eye when former Stony Brook star Frankie Policelli started and scored 12 key points against his former team to help Charleston edge Stony Brook in OT for CAA championship two years ago?"

Again, really? Are you asking me why I didn't get in an uproar over SBU and CofC? Because I'm a Hofstra fan lol - I don't particularly care about either, and I'm certainly not here to fight their battles - we have enough problems of our own!

Polito wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 6:30 pm And I guarantee that some SBU fans had an issue with their star going to their intra conference opponent who's been overtaking this conference making it more difficult for them to make the dance too. This seems common sense to me, not sure what the counter is here...