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10 Reactions to 2010 New England's
- Hopkins is unreal!
- The NEPSAC should combine Class A and Class B because although Class A schools are bigger, they aren't as good.
- Class C should be eliminated. Congrats to Rivers on winning Class C but it is only 15 people smaller than BB&N. Do classes go by size or ability?? There are about 12 schools in Class C and it's pointless to keep doing Class C Tournaments, plus I hate seeing Rivers wearing New England Champs jackets.
- I did my homework and Nobles and St. Paul's didn't play New England's for different reasons. I already ripped Nobles in an earlier post but they didn't play this year basically because they don't value the tournament. I might add that Nobles has also never played in the tournament so they don't really know what they're missing. From what I've gathered St. Paul's didn't play because the AD doesn't care about tennis.
- Carl Reid took down the Brunswick #1 Sam King (who's also the FAA Champion) in an epic match on Saturday.
- Belmont Hill could've beaten Hotchkiss.
- Did I already mention that Hopkins is unreal?
- I don't understand how Ned Gallagher does the draws for New England's because on the PrepTennis website it says that "unseeded teams were assigned the remaining slots in the draw by random lot." I know for a fact though that teams are randomly assigned to the draw because in the past ten years (when the ISL has averaged four teams in the eight team Class B Draw) no two ISL teams have ever played each other in the first round. With that being said, it's obvious that the guidelines which he has said he follows aren't being followed. While I'm not accusing him of rigging draws, I wish that he was clear on how he actually makes the draws because it doesn't seem right to keep everyone in the dark. I do want to point out that his team (Choate) got a bad draw and had to play the second seed, Deerfield, in the first round.
- It's time for the ISL to play the 7-point format (with Super-tiebreakers) that we use for New England's
- I picked all of the Class A and Class B matches correctly except for one, I did get the Hopkins "upset" of Brunswick though.
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rivers is not 15 students less than BB&N. thats cos its both their lower and upper school combined. i think they only count their upper school programme in the new englands. They are a ton smaller than BB&N
Nobles coach is also the coach for squash... and he's not too passionate about those things... what a shame
Okay, well I guess I should have done my homework about the Rivers enrollment. Thanks for pointing that out; I still think that Class C should be abolished though.
I heard a rumor that Nobles didn't play sqauash in New England's and then after I posted it a Nobles player told me that Nobles actually participated in squash New England's. Does anyone know what actually happened? Because that last comment has me wondering.
for the record, you didn't correctly predict the class A draw. You had Loomis in the finals...so you can stop bragging about it. Yes, you did a very fine job on predicting all the other matches in New Englands, but you lose validity when you say that you predicted those draws, and you sound pompous.
Yeah you're right. I forgot about the Loomis prediction, thanks for pointing that out to me. I've been getting a little bit sloppy.
They did play at the New Englands, it was the nationals they had some issues. As far as I know, I think they dropped out in the middle of the tournament since they didn't have much chance to do well on it. I think they forefeited their last match or two. I would hate to do that since playing in such high-level tournament is a pretty darn gd experience by itself.
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