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Post by oldnewbie on Mar 21, 2023 10:15:25 GMT -5
It's Indiana. And not even a nice small city. The campus is amazing, but once you leave it's an industrial Midwestern city not particularly close to anything. If South Bend isn't small to have a university, I do not know what is. The university is not in South Bend. The population of the greater South Bend/Mishiwaka area is 324,501. That's big enough, especially with it's relative proximity to Chicago. |
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Post by dodger on Mar 21, 2023 10:36:52 GMT -5
Of course, now that I look closer, I see Olivia Maulding, a 6-2 2023 MB out of Oregon, committed to Notre Dame, but I don't see where she signed a LOI. Lily Fenton, setter from PA also committed there -- not super physical, not sure if she makes an immediate impact -- going to get some great setter coaching Salima is an awesome personality: but “getting great setter coaching”  🙏🏻ing and hoping she succeeds at ND but really dont think we will see anything like what happened at Louisville, SanDiego or Creighton: i want her too; but dont see that path for her |
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Post by AmeriCanVBfan on Mar 21, 2023 10:56:36 GMT -5
Lily Fenton, setter from PA also committed there -- not super physical, not sure if she makes an immediate impact -- going to get some great setter coaching Salima is an awesome personality: but “getting great setter coaching” 🙏🏻ing and hoping she succeeds at ND but really dont think we will see anything like what happened at Louisville, SanDiego or Creighton: i want her too; but dont see that path for her Any thoughts on what the difference is between the schools you mentioned and Norte Dame? |
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Post by stevehorn on Mar 21, 2023 11:56:45 GMT -5
It's Indiana. And not even a nice small city. The campus is amazing, but once you leave it's an industrial Midwestern city not particularly close to anything. If South Bend isn't small to have a university, I do not know what is. Not sure why you say this. South Bend is larger than the location of a number of colleges. For example, Oxford, Mississippi is home to Ole Miss and its population is less than 30,000. |
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Post by oldnewbie on Mar 21, 2023 12:24:23 GMT -5
They have consistently had good recruiting classes since Jim McLaughlin got there, they just had a big hiccup with his health and then it imploded a bit. Their lineup for next year was pretty good on paper: OH Aubrey Hamilton, Marquette OH Eva Hudson, Purdue OH Lucy Trump, ND RS Carol Meuth, Texas A&M MB, Lindsey Miller, USC MB, Lauren Tarnoff, ND MB, Rachel Jepsen, Pitt S, Phyona Schroeder, ND L Hattie Monson, ND |
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Post by SportyBucky on Mar 21, 2023 13:12:36 GMT -5
If South Bend isn't small to have a university, I do not know what is. Not sure why you say this. South Bend is larger than the location of a number of colleges. For example, Oxford, Mississippi is home to Ole Miss and its population is less than 30,000. I am saying it because I consider a town of 100K small. It's the 335th biggest city in the US. Unless you have an objective measure, mine is as good as any. I have no idea why Oxford is the logical comparison or how that proves whatever point it is you're trying to make. |
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Post by SportyBucky on Mar 21, 2023 13:14:04 GMT -5
If South Bend isn't small to have a university, I do not know what is. The university is not in South Bend. The population of the greater South Bend/Mishiwaka area is 324,501. That's big enough, especially with it's relative proximity to Chicago. So it's in the even smaller city of Notre Dame. |
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Post by stevehorn on Mar 21, 2023 13:26:31 GMT -5
Not sure why you say this. South Bend is larger than the location of a number of colleges. For example, Oxford, Mississippi is home to Ole Miss and its population is less than 30,000. I am saying it because I consider a town of 100K small. It's the 335th biggest city in the US. Unless you have an objective measure, mine is as good as any. I have no idea why Oxford is the logical comparison or how that proves whatever point it is you're trying to make. Why must a city be large to have an university located in it? My point was that quite a few universities are located in towns that are smaller than South Bend. Even several where the student body is larger than the population of the town. |
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Post by dodger on Mar 21, 2023 13:41:45 GMT -5
Salima is an awesome personality: but “getting great setter coaching” 🙏🏻ing and hoping she succeeds at ND but really dont think we will see anything like what happened at Louisville, SanDiego or Creighton: i want her too; but dont see that path for her Any thoughts on what the difference is between the schools you mentioned and Norte Dame? . Female coaches who have had significant levels of success as head coaches: is what i hope for SR |
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Post by AmeriCanVBfan on Mar 21, 2023 14:40:56 GMT -5
Any thoughts on what the difference is between the schools you mentioned and Norte Dame? . Female coaches who have had significant levels of success as head coaches: is what i hope for SR I hope the same for SR! |
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Post by ay2013 on Mar 21, 2023 15:29:08 GMT -5
Lily Fenton, setter from PA also committed there -- not super physical, not sure if she makes an immediate impact -- going to get some great setter coaching Salima is an awesome personality: but “getting great setter coaching” 🙏🏻ing and hoping she succeeds at ND but really dont think we will see anything like what happened at Louisville, SanDiego or Creighton: i want her too; but dont see that path for her Well, what happened at San Diego and Creighton? Petrie has been at San Diego for over TWO decades, and only ONCE has the program advanced past the sweet 16, which was, incidentally, this past year, which was covid super senior / transfer portal influenced. Booth at Creighton has also been there for two decades and Creighton plays in the Big East, which isn't as difficult to stand out in. You can count on one hand the number of times these programs have made it to the second week of the tournament. I'm not trying to suggest that either of these coaches are overrated or anything, but I have a hard time understanding why you think that Rockwell wouldn't or couldn't have similar success over 20 years, at a heavily resourced program like Notre Dame. |
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Post by knapplc on Mar 21, 2023 17:15:09 GMT -5
You're completely correct and I'm on board with you... except for this example. Evanston may be small within its borders but it's part of Chicagoland stretching uninterrupted from Wisconsin to Indiana. |
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Post by stevehorn on Mar 21, 2023 18:09:06 GMT -5
You're completely correct and I'm on board with you... except for this example. Evanston may be small within its borders but it's part of Chicagoland stretching uninterrupted from Wisconsin to Indiana. However at the time of the founding of Northwestern, I feel certain that it a standalone city that was just considered close to Chicago or maybe not that close when you were traveling typically by horseback or carriage. |
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Post by DaDawgFather on Mar 21, 2023 18:18:30 GMT -5
If South Bend isn't small to have a university, I do not know what is. Such a strange and uninformed statement. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you tossed it out there off the cuff without really thinking. Here are some other cities with equal or smaller populations that somehow, amazingly, have a university. - Iowa City, IA 74K
- State College, PA 40K
- Charlottesville, VA 45K
- Tuscaloosa, AL 100K
- West Lafayette, IN 44K
- Lawrence, KS 95K
- Morgantown, WV 29K
- Bloomington, IN 80K
- College Park, MD 35K
- Chapel Hill, NC 61K
It took about four minutes to find this information. I'm sure there are dozens, if not hundreds more examples. Additional examples: - Auburn, AL 78K
- Ames, IA 66K
- Boulder, CO 104K
- Storrs, CT 16K
- Clemson, SC 18K
- Champaign-Urbana, IL 89K
- Evanston, IL 77K
- East Lansing, MI 47K
- Fayetteville, AR 95K
- Stillwater, OK 48K
- Manhatten, KS 55K
- Starkville, MS 25K
- Pullman, WA 33K
These aren't small schools either. All these examples are locations of Power 5 schools except for Storrs, CT.
I'd have to mention Laramie, WY in this case with the sole D1 university in the state. Their population is a hair under 32k. |
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Post by stevehorn on Mar 21, 2023 19:20:52 GMT -5
I'd have to mention Laramie, WY in this case with the sole D1 university in the state. Their population is a hair under 32k. Still over 5% of the state's population. |
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🙏🏻ing and hoping she succeeds at ND but really dont think we will see anything like what happened at Louisville, SanDiego or Creighton: i want her too; but dont see that path for her 
