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Friday, January 26, 2007
Friday morning readaround
There is news about next season's scheduling hidden in the the latest post on CoachRalph.com.

While recapping Holy Cross' overtime win at American, Ralph Willard dropped in a bit of previously unannounced news. Lamenting the lack of gym time for practice and a walk-through at American, Willard wrote:
Thank God this will change next year and we will go in opposite directions next year, like every other league in America.
The league tried that a couple years back. It got mixed reviews. While the men's coaches liked having a fixed start time that was not subject to shifting if the women's games ran late.

Obhviously it also makes it a little easier for visiting teams to find gym time on the road, too.

The downside is fewer fans and less media coverage for the women. When they play doubleheaders, the women's teams often benefit down the stretch from a crowd swelled by early arrivals for the men's nightcap. Assignment editors are also far more likely to have a writer cover the women's game if they are already going to be there for the men's game than they are to send someone to cover a women's game alone.

It also is hell on the sports information and game management folks, who have to host twice as many dates.

ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB:
  • David Jones of The Patriot-News takes a look at Bucknell forward Donald brown's emergence as a force in the league his senior season.

  • The Morning Call's Stephen Miller looks at Lehigh's road woes and tosses in other notes from the Lehigh Valley in his column today.

  • Jerry Stackhouse disses the Patriot League in a story about the Dallas Mavericks' loss last night to the Chicago Bulls.

  • Some Kyle Whelliston wannabe named Max Waxman writes about a visit to Lafayette's Kirby Sports Center as part of CSTV.com's Hoops Odyssey. It's the first of two Patriot League venues they will visit as they try to capture the magic of Kyle's infamous 100-games project.
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