Also, one more thing about CC water polo specific to the women’s side that should be mentioned in this conversation: because the CC women’s season is in the fall, if a player transfers between fall and spring they are able to play the NCAA four year season in the same academic year. So reasonably a player could play her first ( or first two) seasons in the fall at a CC and not waste any eligibility and still be able to play that same academic year for a school they transferred to. This used to be a way to essentially double dip a year of eligibility at two schools in one year and you’d see it a lot with sciac transfers, but I wonder if that’s as lucrative if the CC season(s) don’t count against your eligibility.
Those are two good relays. It will be interesting to see if Trevor can dig up comparable times for the Fordham relay-in-our-minds. But what really matters is not how fast these are guys are off the blocks and with a flip turn, but how fast they are from a water start at <5M (for drives); 5-20 M (for counters); or 10-25 M (for recovering from behind against the counter). It’s a related but quite different skill set.
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Just checked stats. For Fordham, Toth won 83 sprints in 33 games. Other players won 13. Ignoring OT’s and sprints that other players might have lost, that’d make Toth at least 83/119. I can’t find UCLA stats for the season, and if I could we’d face the problem that UCLA’s average competition was stronger so we’d not have an apples to apples comparison. Unfortunately, the two teams never played head to head, so we don’t know who’d have won the swim-off title.
I completely agree with Mepolo. While it’s interesting to look at the data on what a player swims in a fast suit, tapered and shaved from 1-2 years ago, there isn’t much relevance to polo. I would be more interested in recent 500 or 1650-yard splits.
Those are two good relays. It will be interesting to see if Trevor can dig up comparable times for the Fordham relay-in-our-minds. But what really matters is not how fast these are guys are off the blocks and with a flip turn, but how fast they are from a water start at <5M (for drives); 5-20 M (for counters); or 10-25 M (for recovering from behind against the counter). It’s a related but quite different skill set.
Agreed 100% - I would add in response time and anticipation to the calculation.
Just checked stats. For Fordham, Toth won 83 sprints in 33 games. Other players won 13. Ignoring OT’s and sprints that other players might have lost, that’d make Toth at least 83/119.
Mihailo Vukazic to USC
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Not sure how up to date this.
Nikola Jancic - LB State in transfer portal which is closed until May?
Would love to see him at Fordham
Toth and Provenziani are there long term. They knew what they were coming into: one year where they go all in with the 9 seniors and the year after it would be their team which it for sure is. Not to mention Fordham probably comped the entirety of their tuition
Alika Naone, formerly at Cal and LBSU, has reportedly entered the transfer portal as a graduate student. A lot of history here. I’m curious to see which schools offer him a spot.
Jeff, I didn’t think the portal was open until early May. Is this just speculation or prior knowledge?
Good question. Graduate students aren’t subject to the same rules as undergraduates.
Rules, schmules. It’s the wild west out there.
May be wrong , but I don’t believe grad students need to go into portal.
Good to know! Thank you!
I’m pretty sure there is a portal for grad students- look at the NCAA website
I stand corrected @SkipShot thanks! From site →
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Graduate transfers are exempt from sport-specific transfer windows, meaning they can enter the transfer portal at any time during the academic year.
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However, they must enter the portal by the conclusion of their respective sport’s final transfer window.
curious how you can play 2 years, take 3 off and come back year 6? I thought it was 4 of 5 years, from the start of enrollment?
Good question, rolled1. Although the normal rule is that an athlete must complete his/her four years of NCAA eligibility within five years from the start of his/her enrollment, I don’t think the 2020-21 academic year (the COVID-19 year) is counted in the calculation. If I’m correct, Naone’s 5-year eligibility period began in the fall of 2021, giving him one more year of eligibility.