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[IUPalum]

You mentioned before grad students come with less of a hit on the 'salary cap'. How does that work?

Most graduate transfers take on Grad Assistantships which help decrease the costs of tuition and it pays the student/athlete. I'm sure Petteno had one and my niece is getting one this year at Boro as a Grad Transfer for soccer.

That's also how Fee turned Gannon around so quick. He said all this in an article a few weeks back.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

The federal FAFSA fiasco will probably impact all recruiting this time of year. Old FAFSA was complex but ran like an old well lubricated machine. New FAFSA is simple but the rollout has been bungled. Huge delays in federal and state Depts of Ed telling schools who qualifies for what aid. Nobody at this level gives out aid without knowing what free money the player gets from the government. Combination of federal and state grants could be a half scholarship at a PASSHE school.

You mentioned before grad students come with less of a hit on the 'salary cap'. How does that work?

[Fightingscot82]

The federal FAFSA fiasco will probably impact all recruiting this time of year. Old FAFSA was complex but ran like an old well lubricated machine. New FAFSA is simple but the rollout has been bungled. Huge delays in federal and state Depts of Ed telling schools who qualifies for what aid. Nobody at this level gives out aid without knowing what free money the player gets from the government. Combination of federal and state grants could be a half scholarship at a PASSHE school.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

So far Stewart, Waldo and Lambert have left.

Ethan, KJ and Bryce are done.

Petteno has a year available but it's not confirmed if he's staying.


So, Joe certainly has some salary cap room available.

Ian Herring is signed and he likely didn't come cheap. He had a ton of offers so he's likely on a full ticket.

[EyeoftheHawk]

Wow, an over 3-inch exaggeration is really doing it up right. Usually, two inches seems to be the sweet spot. I've seen a lot of 6-6 guys grow to 6-8 on programs.

Having stood right beside Stewey I can tell you if he’s 6’3” he’s counting the length of his hair too.

[Ship69]

Stewey is back up to 6'5" in the portal. He was 6'5" when he got here. His Junior year he shrunk to 6'3" and it looks like he's grown again for his upcoming senior year.

The only thing better than basketball height/weight listings is football height/weight listings.

Cobo ranged from 6'9" to 6'7" during his four years in Indiana. Side note I think he was actually 6'8".

Joe's had a lot of 6'4" guards who weren't even 6'1".

Wow, an over 3-inch exaggeration is really doing it up right. Usually, two inches seems to be the sweet spot. I've seen a lot of 6-6 guys grow to 6-8 on programs.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Stewey is back up to 6'5" in the portal. He was 6'5" when he got here. His Junior year he shrunk to 6'3" and it looks like he's grown again for his upcoming senior year.

The only thing better than basketball height/weight listings is football height/weight listings.

Cobo ranged from 6'9" to 6'7" during his four years in Indiana. Side note I think he was actually 6'8".

Joe's had a lot of 6'4" guards who weren't even 6'1".

[IUPbigINDIANS]

IUPatty’s was a complete nothing burger this year. The only items making the Gazette crime and punishment section were the usuals and not linked to the event. As a resident, all I can report is a few more kids than usual wearing green and being visible for longer portions of the day. On Sunday morning more than 400 of the hooligans got together and cleaned up.

Apparently a guy from Florida ended up here driving while whacked out on meth and apparently hadn’t slept for five days! A little chase ensued and he’s now in the county clink. Nothing to do with IUPatty’s but that takes going on a bender to a whole new level.

Maybe he was in a hurry to watch Tort Spring Ball '24 ?

[EyeoftheHawk]

IUPatty’s was a complete nothing burger this year. The only items making the Gazette crime and punishment section were the usuals and not linked to the event. As a resident, all I can report is a few more kids than usual wearing green and being visible for longer portions of the day. On Sunday morning more than 400 of the hooligans got together and cleaned up.

Apparently a guy from Florida ended up here driving while whacked out on meth and apparently hadn’t slept for five days! A little chase ensued and he’s now in the county clink. Nothing to do with IUPatty’s but that takes going on a bender to a whole new level.

[IUP24]

It became lame and sterile years ago. If it wasn't in the newspaper most wouldn't even realize it was going on.

That entire event - thankfully - had a short shelf life. At least in terms of it being to the level that it was. Basically 2013-2016. It hit its crescendo in 2014, which would have been my junior year. That was the "riot" year.

I vividly recall the 2013 edition when the PSAC tournament fell that weekend. That was back when they played the semifinals on Friday night and the championship on Saturday - which I'm personally partial to. There have been a lot of big games in the KCAC. Not sure that any quite have had the "juice" that the Saturday night PSAC championship game against Slippery Rock on IUPatty's weekend had. No marketing was needed to get people there. It was Slippery Rock. It was a Saturday night. It was IUPatty's and the students were hammered. The student section was also FULL.

It's funny how time kind of morphs how you view things. I fortunately never took part in the chaos that ensued in 2014 on South 7th Street. But I remember being 21 and laughing at the videos. You look back and you realize it was an elderly couple in one of those cars that got stopped in that madness. That could have gone wrong in a hurry. I remember coming back for that weekend in 2016 the year after I graduated. I looked around at what were likely underaged high school students walking on the street heavily intoxicated and thought to myself, "What am I doing here?" The next year they turned it into a police state and it's been dead ever since. That was a negative light on the school and I'm glad that's been cleaned up.

[Fightingscot82]

That's right. Didn't the admin try to purposefully schedule spring break over St. Pat's to quell the storm? (Only to have it pop up a week later)

That's how these alternate drinking holidays started. The students collude with the bars to have another day that isn't St Patricks Day when the students are around.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Re: IUPattys, the university -- after the "riot" incident of 2014 -- should have taken over ownership of the IUPattys name. Copyright it. It instantly becomes lame and sterile.

Also, former New Castle High School all-stater Jonathan Anderson, Mercyhurst true freshman, entered the portal yesterday. He played about every minute of every game his senior year -- wonder if Joe knows that? (also clanked a few free throws late in the MU OT win over IUP this year.)

It became lame and sterile years ago. If it wasn't in the newspaper most wouldn't even realize it was going on.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Stewart would have been a nice luxury as a 6th or 7th man next year but it's understandable he wouldn't want to come off the bench as a senior.

Word was he and the Big Guy weren't on the best terms so this is probably a mutual break-up.

[IUPalum]

Re: IUPattys, the university -- after the "riot" incident of 2014 -- should have taken over ownership of the IUPattys name. Copyright it. It instantly becomes lame and sterile.

Also, former New Castle High School all-stater Jonathan Anderson, Mercyhurst true freshman, entered the portal yesterday. He played about every minute of every game his senior year -- wonder if Joe knows that? (also clanked a few free throws late in the MU OT win over IUP this year.)

Doesn't mean Joe wants him.

[hawks16]

Re: IUPattys, the university -- after the "riot" incident of 2014 -- should have taken over ownership of the IUPattys name. Copyright it. It instantly becomes lame and sterile.

Also, former New Castle High School all-stater Jonathan Anderson, Mercyhurst true freshman, entered the portal yesterday. He played about every minute of every game his senior year -- wonder if Joe knows that? (also clanked a few free throws late in the MU OT win over IUP this year.)