Stag's Tipoff Reception at New York Athletic Club

[JoeStag]

Stag's Tipoff Reception is tonight at NYAC. Looks like is Gary Apple of CBS Sports Network instead of Rothstein. Huessler and the coaches will be there. I plan on being there..... anybody else going?

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[stags10]

I was originally going to go but I am swamped with work. Let us know how it goes

[JoeStag]

Texting from the train.....

Former players Jim O Sullivan, Sean Grzek, Mike Pallazzi and Tim Barnes in attendance.

Mikulic back practicing

Coleman Johnson is now 6-9. Might be an exagerration

VVN still out

Freshman are talented, but young. They need to get better.

Needham, Wade, and Nickerson are pushing the Frosh..... Showing great leadership

[JoeStag]

The basic message I got from last night’s meeting was that we need our freshman to play well for us to be a very good team. However, they are not there right now. Sydney emphasized that the Frosh are talented, but they need to improve and do it more quickly. They had a meeting with the frosh yesterday on the urgency of his expectations. The message was that the Frosh have to earn their minutes, or else they won’t play. The seniors have provided great leadership instilling that work ethic.

Sydney feels that there are a lot of good teams at the top of the MAAC, and with most people predicting us between 3rd and 8th , that is probably accurate. He expects us to be very good by season end, but to get to that point we will have to rely on freshmen improvement. He is looking for the trio of Needham, Wade and Nickerson

IMO, Sydney stresses player improvement, and seems to require that happen in practice. He also acknowledged the difficulty of our schedule, and he is feeling both excitement and angst over the difficultly and the lack of home games.