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Sherman and Denison, located in Grayson County just below the Texas-Oklahoma border, are cities 75 miles north of Dallas. Named after a Texas Revolution hero, Sherman was incorporated in 1850 and started as a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, a semiweekly mail and passenger stage service that ran from St. Louis and Memphis across Texas to San Francisco. Eventually, it became a cotton-growing community, which led to the development of such industries as milling and cottonseed oil producing. Denison was formed years later, in 1872, when the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad line came through town. In 1901, Sherman and Denison were connected with Texas' first electric interurban railway, merging the two cities' histories together.
As the two cities blossomed, many Jews from St. Louis and other northern cities came to settle in Sherman and Denison. In both places most Jews were successfully engaged in the mercantile business. Already by 1873, Jews in the area were meeting for the high holidays. One Jewish resident of Denison reported in the American Israelite newspaper in 1873 that "at the very borders of civilizations, on the frontier of Texas, we celebrated [Yom Kippur], and verily, you with your temples and organs and preacher could not have been more devout and sincere than we were, in out little frame-house, destitute of all furniture and ornaments save a few dozen chairs and a dry-good box improvised as a desk." When newspaper editor Charles Wessolowsky traveled through the area in 1879, he found about 100 Jews from 20 families in Sherman, which had a total population of 10,000 people. On his stop in Denison, he found just ten Jewish families. The American Israelite newspaper reported that 30 members formed Congregation Adath Israel in Sherman in 1879, though no mention of the group is found again in the historical record.
In Sherman, Jews quickly moved to the forefront of the city's economic and civic life. One of Wessolowsky's first meetings was with William Levy, a former Confederate Army major from Altona, Germany. Describing Levy as "the well known vindicator of Judaism," Wessolowsky praised him for his efforts to use "his able pen, learned and logical arguments, clear and distinct reasons [to] hurl back the slander and defamation and false accusations brought against the Jews and Judaism by some narrow-minded and bigoted man or men." After the war, Levy opened a men's clothing store in town and became involved in the larger Sherman community. He served as an alderman from 1873 to 1881 and 1883 to 1889. From 1881 to 1883, Levy served as mayor of Sherman. In 1890, he was asked to give the dedication address for an African American college in town. During his speech, Levy called on the town's black residents to emulate Jews by pursuing education. While perhaps condescending in tone, Levy's speech was progressive for its time. His son Jake Levy served as mayor from 1891 to 1893. Herman Kuhn was also a prominent Jew in the community, serving as editor of the Denison Evening Herald. In Sherman, Wessolowky noted that "the most extensive and largest business," Schneider & Co. was run by a Jewish family.
While Wessolowky observed that many Jews in Sherman and Denison were not particularly religious, they did form organizations centered around their faith. In 1879, Jews organized the Denison Hebrew Mutual Relief Association, whose purpose, according to its constitution, was to "aid the needy, care for the sick and bury the dead." By 1887, it had 25 members, held monthly meetings, and had a board with L. Eppstein as its president, S. Weisman as its secretary and H. Casper as its treasurer. By 1900, it had shrunk to ten members with an annual income of $60; Henry Regensburger served as its president. By 1879, Sherman had a B'nai B'rith Lodge with E. Hernstadt as its president. Jewish sections in local cemeteries were also acquired in both Denison and Sherman, in 1878 and 1890 respectively. Despite this organizational activity, there seems to have been no active Jewish congregation in either city during the first half of the 20th century.
1898 ad for the U.S. Clothing Company, owned by Henry & Elias RegensburgerDuring the late 19th century, the Jewish community was concentrated in retail trade. The 1887-1888 Denison City Directory shows a number of Jewish-owned stores clustered on Main Street. Levy Louis and L. Bernheim both had clothing stores, while J. Casper established a dry goods store. Joseph Weisman and Daniel Doppelmayer partnered together to open the Weisman & Co. clothing store, while Solomon Weisman worked as the store's business manager. Brothers Henry and Elias Regensburger, immigrants from Germany, sold clothing, boots and shoes at their U.S. Clothing Company. Their establishment was open for many years, celebrating its 60th anniversary in October 1945. In addition to many businesses already mentioned, the 1899-1900 Denison City Directory also lists the Eppstein & Son store. Owned by Leopold Eppstein and his son Milton, the store sold wholesale liquors, wines, and cigars. Milton was also the proprietor of the Denison Opera House. Morris Emilstein, an 1876 immigrant from Russia, operated his own grocery business.
Louis LebrechtFifteen years after Sherman's first Jewish mayor was elected, Louis Lebrecht became mayor of Denison in 1896. Born in Birgen, Germany in 1848, he came from a very religious family, with both his father and grandfather being rabbis. However, he had an unpleasant childhood and chose not to practice any religion. His obituary described him as "a Jew…[but one who] lived outside the faith of his fathers." He left Europe in 1866 and ended up settling in Denison in 1873. He proceeded to establish a wine and cigar business, located on Main Street. Lebrecht was critical in founding the German Vorwaerts Society in 1877, serving as its first president and reelected to the post for the next 25 years. An organization for local German families, its members were "leaders in the social, educational and cultural life of the city," according to The Denison Herald. On April 7, 1896, Lebrecht was elected mayor of Denison, serving two terms until he lost his bid for a third term in 1900. His impact on the city was significant. His 1902 obituary stated that "there is no man who has ever lived in Denison whose life has been more closely interwoven with our history than Louis Lebrecht."
Another notable Jew to live in Denison was Ray Karchmer. Fleeing persecution in their native Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, her family arrived in the United States through Galveston in 1907. After settling in Denison, her father, Kalman, became a junk dealer and was, according to his great-grandson, "the poorest man in Dension." However, Ray successfully completed high school in 1909, graduating as valedictorian of her class. She earned a scholarship at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Graduating in 1913, she was one of the first women – and Jews – to graduate from a Texas medical school. Her academic excellence garnered attention from the Galveston Daily News, which wrote that she was "a Russian maid who six years ago was unable to speak English, and who has completed eight years of scholastic work in six years." Though she no longer lived in Denison, she went on to become a Jewish and female pioneer in the medical and other fields. She became a successful and renowned ophthalmologist and served 24 years on the Houston School Board.
Temple Beth Emeth in ShermanThe Jewish population in both cities decreased as the years went on, with some 36 in Denison and 43 in Sherman in 1937. However, the establishment of the Perrin Air Force Base in Sherman in 1941 brought new Jews to the area. Sometime in the 1950s, a group of about 20 families from both cities came together to build a synagogue, known as Temple Beth Emeth, in Sherman. A member of the congregation, Irvin Suckle, who owned a scrap iron business, donated the property. A lay leader conducted services each Friday night, which one member remembers were led in about three-quarters English and one-quarter Hebrew and was "pretty much Reform." By 1965, the congregation had joined the Reform Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Beth Emeth reached a peak of 32 members in the 1970s.
In the 1940s and 50s, Jews in the area continued to concentrate in retail trade. After settling in Illinois, Austrian immigrants Louis and Esther Ringler came to Sherman in 1946 to pursue better business opportunities. There, they opened a women's clothing store, The Cinderella Shop (later known as Ringler's) and employed many local Jews. Milton Schwartz also owned a ladies clothing store. In Denison, the Label and Hartholtz families operated clothing stores while the Weingartens, coming from Austria, owned a millinery shop. Jack Gordon, a Holocaust survivor, opened a Western-wear store. Marks Brothers Department Store and Julie's Dress Shop were other Jewish-owned businesses in the area. After the war, a handful of Jewish professionals began to settle in Sherman and Denison. For example, Sam Levine worked as a doctor in Denison.
Unable to sell their businesses and with their children moving away, most Jewish merchants were forced to shut down their stores in the 1960s. The Perrin Air Force Base closed in 1970, which led to a decline in the area's Jewish population. After over 40 years in business, Herman Ringler, the son of Louis and Esther, retired and sold Ringler's Women's Wear. It was the last downtown Jewish-owned store. Despite this decline, Jews continued to have a significant impact on the area. In the 1980s, brothers Bill and Morris Regensburger died leaving a foundation trust of $1 million to the city of Denison.
With the railroad boom long gone and the air force base closed, the Sherman-Denison Jewish community has declined. Yet the nearby Austin College has helped attract Jews to the area. The college recently selected Dr. Marjorie Hass as its president, becoming the first woman and Jew to serve in the position. Since the 1980s, Beth Emeth has sustained a decline in its already small membership. The congregation has also had to overcome anti-Semitism. In October 2009, the temple was broken into and vandalized. Its Torah scroll was stolen and never recovered. Recently, a congregation from McGehee, Arkansas donated their Torah to the Temple Beth Emeth congregation.
Unlike the early Jewish settlers in Sherman and Denison, the remaining Jews in the area are committed to maintaining their religious traditions. In 2011, the congregation had fifteen members, most of whom were fairly recent arrivals in the area. Despite their small numbers, the congregation is active, attracting 20 to 40 worshippers at its monthly services led by part-time rabbi Anna Bonheim.


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these (siberia v2) are among the top5 most comfortable headsets i have ever used... up there with the $200 audio technica A900 sets thanks to the light weight and suspension cable.
audio quality is about par for a $50 gaming headset... nothing amazing but not bad either... if you are not some high end audiophile and just want a solid comfortable headset for gaming and light music/movies, this is great for the price if you want high end sound and gaming, look at audio technica AD700 or sennheiser HD555 or similar... |
I have these, not this special edition though. I have an average sized head and they are a little snug for my liking. They will greatly increase the severity of a headache if I've already got one/am getting one. I should also mention I usually play in one and a half to two hour intervals and at most twice a day.
The mic is pretty sensitive and everyone will hear my breathing over xbox live, if I move it so that they can't hear my breathing then they won't hear my voice. I usually have to talk quietly given that I play late and don't want to disturb anyone. I've had to take a foam peice from the regular xbox mic to put over this because it doesn't have anything to cut ambient/wind noise, it's just a raw mic. I like it overall, just a couple of quick tiffs. For reference http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/70944/ebay.com-steelseries-siberia-v2-gaming-headset Last edited by bruteshot; 10-22-2012 at 10:51 AM.. |
Wish the sale was for a white one
For comparison, we tried the Logitech G35's, the Trittor AxPC Pro's, and the expensive Sennheiser headset (can't remember the model - it's was usually about $180). This set is by far the most comfortable. I liked the Tritton's, but after breaking my third set in 6 months while just taking them off my head, I decided that they had to go. The hard plastic broke way too easily -- these are much more flexible. One thing to be careful about -- this set looks legit, but in the past, I got some of these from 1SaleADay that actually turned out to be a cheaper PS3 version of the V2's. So if you search past deals and find a slightly cheaper price, it was probably that cheaper set. |
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Parish History
In 1870 - CHESTER, a city and two sub-districts in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; and a diocese in Cheshire and part of Lancashire. The city stands on the river Dee and on the Via Devana, 5 miles SE of the head of the Dee's estuary, and 16, through Birkenhead, SSE of Liverpool.
The places of worship within the city, in 1851, were 15 of the Church of England; 17 of dissenters; and 3 of other bodies. In 1869, besides the cathedral and some in the suburban parts, the Church of England, English Presbyterians, independents, Baptists, Quakers, Unitarians, Wesleyans, N. Methodists, P. Methodists, Welsh Calvinists, and Roman Catholics. The livings in the city, or connected with it, are the rectories of, St. Peter, and Holy Trinity; the vicarages of St. John the Baptist, St. Oswald, Lache-with-Saltney, and Bruera; and the p. curacies of Little St. John, St. Paul, and Christ-Church. St. Martin is annexed to St. Bridget; St. Olave to St. Michael; Upton to St. Mary. on-the-Hill.[1]
Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from 1 July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. Here are two excellent Internet sites with birth, marriage a nd death indexes available:
Church records
Chester parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials have been indexed by the following groups:
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To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
The individual parishes within Chester:
- Chester Cathedral
- Chester Holy Trinity
- Chester St Bridget
- Chester St John the Baptist
- Chester St Mary
- Chester St Michael
- Chester St Olave
- Chester St Oswald
- Chester St Peter
- Chester Little St John
- Chester Christ Church
- Chester St Paul
- Chester St Barnabas
Bennett collection, ca.1252-1955 Authors Bennett, J. H. E. (John Henry Elliot), 1873- (Main Author)
Broster, John Lawson, P. H. Richards, Raymond Of interest to Cheshire generally but specific Chester content includes:
On-line transcripts for the parishes of Chester St. John and Chester St Mary are available at Cheshire Parish Register project
Other content | FHL Film |
Cheshire Topography General 1:" (St. Oswald's Parish, Chester - notes and original records; includes numbered plan of parish burial grounds with list of tombstone inscriptions, i.e., names and general data for individuals buried there; includes also churchwardens accounts, overseers of the poor accounts, workhouse accounts, etc.); |
Monumental Inscriptions:" (St. John the Baptist, Chester - inscriptions to the churchyard and church, and inscriptions not now to be found | BRITISH 375328 Item 4 |
"Monumental Inscriptions:" (St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester, and Christleton, Backford and Shotwick in Cheshire - inscriptions in the churchyards and churches, and inscriptions not now extant | BRITISH 375329 Item 1 |
"Monumental Inscriptions:" (St. Michael's, Chester, and Bruera, Eccleston, Dodleston, Plemstall [i.e., Plemonstall], and Pulford in Cheshire - inscriptions in the churchyards and churches, and inscriptions not now extant | BRITISH 375329 Item 2 |
"Monumental Inscriptions:" (Aldford, Cheshire County; St. Bridget's, Chester; St. Martin's Chester; Llanidan, Anglesey, Wales - inscriptions in the church and on monuments, some now lost | BRITISH 375329 Item 3 |
"Parish Register Transcript:" (St. John the Baptist, Chester - transcript of registers of baptisms, 1559-1779 | BRITISH 375329 Item 4 |
"Parish Register Transcript:" (St. John the Baptist, Chester - transcript of registers of marriages, 1559-1793, and burials, 1560-1735 | BRITISH 375330 Item 1 |
"C[hester] Misc. 1:" (extracts from Chester Corps. records - notes on ms. & printed works in the possession of Raymond Richards; 1640 rental of the Manor of Handbridge; 1664 hearth tax returns for Chester; includes lists of Chester freemen, 1784, 1805-1831; roll of Chester journeymen tailors, 1688- 1754; 1799 survey & valuation of lands and houses in parish of Holy Trinity, Chester); | BRITISH 375330 Item 3 |
"C. Misc. 2:" (notes on Archdeacons of Chester, and Deans and Canons of St. John's, Chester; newspaper cuttings;, notes and articles on Chester and Chesley's history; seal impressions; notes on two mss. in possession of Raymond Richards; includes extracts from Papal register calendars, 1252-1431, list of electors from the 1733 poll book, etc.); "C. Misc. 3:" (list of parish register publications; parish register extracts relating to Bennett and other families; lecture notes of J.H.E.B.; correspondence; 1719-1720 calendar of 41 Chester marriage licences; etc.); "C. Misc. 4:" (list of sources consulted for genealogical and historical research; notes on Chester Corps., Diocesan registry, probate registry, and St. Joseph probate registry records; notes of reference to Chester and Cheshire history in various printed works; includes index to lay subsidy rolls, Chester, 15 Henry VIII - 30 Charles II) | BRITISH 375331 Item 1-3 |
"Cuttings book no. 3:" (newspaper clippings, as listed in detailed table of contents; includes note of intended removal of headstones and gravestones, Christ Church, Chester). | BRITISH 375332 Item 2 |
Non Conformist Churches
Chester, St. Werburgh (Roman Catholic), Grosvenor Park Road. Built in 1875, replacing Queens Street Chapel (built c.1800). Registers of baptisms 1794–1956, marriages 1827–1973 and burials 1861–1923 are at the Cheshire Record Office. Indexes to baptisms 1790–1956 are at the Cheshire Record Office.
Census records
Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 241252. To view these census images online, they are available through the following websites for a fee ($) or free:
- FamilySearch has some of the British Censuses available.
- FindMyPast ($) has all available census records including images, and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and some public and academic libraries.
- Ancestry.co.uk ($) has now all available census records but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and at numerous public and academic libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com.
- The Genealogist.co.uk ($) has all available censuses and is free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries.
- FreeCen is a UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.
Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cheshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Poor Law Unions
Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.
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Web sites
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Official Review by Ryan Norris, Stadium Journey Regional Correspondent
The Alex G. Spanos Center is located on the University of the Pacific campus in Stockton, California. It opened in 1981 and now seats over 6,000 spectators and is named after the owner of the San Diego Chargers, a UOP alumn.
From 1981 to the opening of Stockton Arena�in 2005, the Spanos Center was the premiere entertainment destination in Stockton as the facility is expandable to accommodate 8,000 people.
When entering the Spanos Center you notice the chair backed seats on one side of the court, wrapping around the backboards on both sides. The opposite side of the court has wooden bleachers, without backs.
The game I went to was against, currently out of conference, Hawaii. However starting next year, Hawaii will be joining the Big West in every sport except football.
The FANFARE scale is our metric device for rating each stadium experience. It covers the following:
Each area is rated from 0 to 5 stars with 5 being the best. The overall composite score is the "FANFARE Score".
There are two main snack bars in opposite corners of the venue as well as a smaller one beyond one end-line. There should be enough to satisfy your hunger albeit without getting too creative.�
Hot dogs ($3.50), polish sausages ($4.50), and personal pizzas ($6.50) were the main dishes. However chili played a big role; chili dogs ($4), chili cheese dogs ($4.50), chili cheese nachos ($4.50-$5.50) or a plain old cup of chili ($2.50) were all available.
Pepsi products ($2.50-$3) and an array of candy and ice cream accompanied the main courses. Cans of Coors Original were available for $3.
The Spanos Center is a beautiful facility with a nicely designed ceiling, centered over the middle of the court. Orange and black banners close in the action and the excellent public address announcer work in concert for a great experience. This is a great place to watch college basketball.
All that being said, there weren't enough spectators to positively affect the atmosphere. The entire upper section was vacant. I'm sure this would be different for a weekend matchup.
The area surrounding the Spanos Center is largely upscale residential, including parts of the UOP campus. There isn't much in way of good hangouts in the immediate area but you can be sure you're in a safe neighborhood, unlike other parts of Stockton.
Though bars and restaurants within walking distance to and from the venue aren't very available, downtown Stockton, as well as the Miracle Mile, is not far away.
I'd recommend going to Valley Brewing Co about two miles away. They serve their own micro brews, good pub food, and you can take in sports memorabilia from all over Northern California as well as Stocktonians who made it to the big leagues.
Lastly, the Stockton Thunder and Stockton Ports play two and a half miles away on the Stockton waterfront.
Though the arena was far emptier than I'd have preferred to see, the fans in attendance were knowledgable and kept up with the roster of their Tigers. My section was full of regulars who all knew each other and talked shop on the previous home game or the last time the Tigers and the Hawaii Warriors met up.
Pacific won by about 10 on this particular night and the crowd of students and families were engaged throughout.
Less than thrilling was the student section that showed up in a large group, midway through the first quarter. When they did arrive I would have liked to see them sporting orange and black but instead the rolled in wearing street clothes and frat sweatshirts.
Spanos Center is located just a few blocks from highway 5 and two miles from 99. Getting from the freeways is easy through safe city blocks.�
Take main drags Pershing or Alpine to the convenient (and on this night, spacious) parking lot. You can enter the arena from three of the four corner entrances.
You enter the Spanos Center at the top of the first level and the bottom of the second level. Restrooms and concession stands are at every other corner when you make your way around the court.
A night at Spanos Center is a great buy with general admission going for $10 and assigned seating for $12. The assigned seats are in chair backed seats.�
With parking only $5 and concession prices at a reasonable level, combined with quality division I basketball (albeit the Big West Conference) make for a great night in Stockton.
I love the feel in Spanos Center. The banners on one end of the court honor the league championships from every sport for men and women in Pacific history. Below these banners are retired jerseys from all the programs as well. Most notable of which is former number one overall pick, Michael Olowokandi.
At the other end of the court are banners signifying accomplishments at the national collegiate level; for example NCAA tournament appearances by the basketball and swimming teams. Most dominating amongst these are the two National Championships for women's volleyball from the 1980s.
Lastly there was a cool (and very well received) halftime show highlighting a local group of Pacific Islanders. There was a excellent drum circle and (hula?) dancers from Stockton.
move to the WCC
just heard the news that Pacific is moving to the WCC. The WCC has a great geographical balance, but the Big West is now extremely SoCal heavy.
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From the recruiting issue: Heaven or Hell?
John Jiloty - 9/24/2004
Note: This article appears in the current Recruiting Issue of Inside Lacrosse. To get the whole magazine, subscribe today.
If you talk to any college lacrosse coach during June and July he's either at, on his way to or coming back from some sort of recruiting function. Weekday or weekend, New York or Maryland, Delaware or Massachusetts, it doesn't matter. It never stops. To some, this is a good thing—more opportunities to be seen, more opportunities to see—a natural evolution of the sport as it blows up at the youth and high school levels and something that is helping to dramatically juice the level of play in college.
But to others, this is a bad thing—too many opportunities to be seen, too many opportunities to see—an unhealthy trend that needs to be wrenched back to reality before lacrosse turns into the money-driven meat markets that are football and basketball.
Enough college coaches think that something needs to be done that a committee, led by Maryland coach Dave Cottle, was recently formed to look into changing the recruiting calendar. But there are also enough coaches who are leery of putting in place shackles they may never be able to throw off.
Whatever side you favor, the fact that recruiting has changed substantially over the last 10 years, and even the last five, is inarguable—even guys like Georgetown's Scott Urick, who has been a college coach for all of four seasons, talk about how much different the process is these days. And even for coaches who are skittish about further restrictions, the notion that recruiting is at least a tad out of control is tough to fight—guys use words like "absurd", "sickening" and "revolting" and describe it as a "monster" and a "runaway train."
What the college coaches have to do is come to a consensus on whether it needs to be curtailed. And more importantly, if so, how.
But that's not our job. As a result of all this talk and the strong opinions on both sides, we realized these issues needed to be brought to the public's attention. So what follows is a breakdown of how recruiting has changed (good and bad) and where it's going.
Those who have already gone through it: congrats. Those who are about to enter the arena: good luck.
Everyone interviewed for this story was asked the initial question, "How has recruiting changed?" And the most common first answer was the backing up of the whole process. At least for most guys, gone are the days when you could play a couple of tournaments in the summer, take your official visits in the fall of your senior year and then make your decision in November.
Many players are deciding in June. If you wait until even August you might be knocking on a lot of closed doors. "I kinda committed because everybody else was doing it I guess," says one blue-chip high school senior. "It might not be the best thing but I committed at the beginning of the summer and I was the fifth in my [incoming] class. You don't want all the slots to get taken."
This is a development within the last five years and, some say, sprouts originally from Virginia coach Dom Starsia, before spreading to most of the other top programs. Starsia admits to taking a lot of the blame for starting this evolution but says he never pressures kids to commit early. Virginia even had a player who wanted to commit after his sophomore year but Starsia insisted the youngster take another year to shop around. The player took the advice and eventually wound up signing with the Cavaliers the following year.
Starsia says a large part of his summer recruiting tour has him and his staff not ogling rising seniors but more sophomores and juniors so they can be prepared to respond when they come calling. Most other coaches agree.
But herein lies the quandary. Is committing early good because it relieves the stress on these kids and allows them to move on with school quicker? Or is it putting too much pressure to make decisions they're not ready to make? And is that pressure causing them to make a rash choice simply to end the process?
"They start to hear about this guy committing to School X and this guy to School Y in early July and some start to hit the panic button a little bit and feel like they have to make a decision or get left out," says Georgetown coach Dave Urick, who's benefited as much as anyone from the current climate, with a top class this year and one that's shaping up to be just as good next year. "Some coaches are really pressuring them to make decisions very early and when one or two start that trend it does have a ripple effect."
But says St. John's coach Rick Sowell, "If you're a 100 percent sure, great, sew it up early. You don't have to go through the process of official visits in the fall when you're playing football or soccer and chasing your girlfriend around. That's great."
Sometimes it plays both sides. A guy like Loyola High's Ben Rubeor was able to take unofficial visits to Virginia, Georgetown, Hopkins and Princeton in the fall of his junior year and then make a well-educated decision by the following June. His father Bob talks about the great 1-on-1 experiences they had at all the schools and the benefits to the less-choreographed schedules and more focused, individual feel to their unofficial visits.
Still, not everyone started as a freshman attackman in the MIAA and knows going into their junior year that their options are as open as Shaq's at a Ferrari dealership.
This early trend has all-but nixed the official visit for most. No longer can Notre Dame take a recruit to the USC game and knock his socks off with one of the country's most awing college experiences. Urick says he used to take kids to Georgetown basketball games and now, "That's not even close."
Princeton coach Bill Tierney is one who values the official visit more as a crucial decision-maker for recruits than as a tool to sell his university.
"One of those fellow recruits is going to be the best man in your wedding, the godfather to your son or daughter and you don't even know who they are if you don't visit and find out," he says. "If you're making an early commitment you have no idea who else the coach is recruiting."
This lends the obvious question about early commitments leading to more transfers. It's no secret there have been some big-name transfers the last couple of years. And once the fall rosters come out, we're going to see a raft of other newsworthy names swapping jerseys this year. (Transfer rumors rattled around this year's final four like lotto balls.)
"If you listed to me the transfers in the last 3-5 years I promise 95 percent committed in the summer," says one coach. "Kids are making decisions quicker and maybe not visiting schools their senior year to spend time with teammates and in turn we have a lot more transfers because of it," says Cottle. But not everyone sees it that way. And as Cottle says, those who land fleets of early signees are going to disagree and those who don't are going to agree.
A benefit of this new system, though, is at the levels below Division I. With more kids out of the picture early, Division II and III schools can narrow their focus and stop wasting their time wrestling the big fish. "If you haven't been contacted by the end of the summer, for the most part the next step is probably at our level," says Lynchburg (DIII) coach Steve Koudelka.
The other sure-fire response out of every coach's mouth was that there is so much more to recruiting now—more camps and tournaments, more things you can't miss, more players to see.
This is good for players to get exposure and coaches to increase their knowledge, but it also means both can be on the road for two months straight in the summer. "There is something almost every day from June through the end of July," says Nazareth coach Rob Randall.
The trick here is that there are more kids to see than ever before but also more competition from a coach's perspective. Randall talks about going to camps 10 years ago and knowing every coach there. Now he says he doesn't know half.
"The difference between now and five years ago is that everybody's busting their tail doing it," Tierney says. Randall says his staff spends 80 percent more time on recruiting now than 10 years ago, in part because they now have more competition (Nazareth used to recruit primarily against Hobart for the New York kids who didn't go to Syracuse and Cornell, but now there's Le Moyne in DII, Albany and Binghamton and St. John's in DI and improved programs at Cortland and Geneseo in DIII).
Most coaches admit to feeling like they need to be at all of these events not even so much for what they'd be missing if they didn't go but for the fact that they'd be missing. Then the next guy has a leg up.
There's more pressure on coaches too. With a lot more DI schools offering scholarships and more DII and DIII schools seeing the exposure they can get at the final four, administrators are placing more importance on lacrosse. "I feel sorry for some of these guys," says West Genesee (N.Y.) High coach Mike Messere. "There's a lotta dollars involved with being a big-time college coach. With your job security, a lot of things can happen."
Former Virginia assistant Dave Curry describes it perfectly. He talks about how a fuse is lit July 1 at 12:01 p.m. when coaches can first contact rising seniors by phone (some do call at 12:01). As players commit, another inch of that fuse burns. The longer the process goes, the more coaches have to play the game of waiting to give Choice 1 a slot while he decides but holding off on Choices 2 and 3 who already want to commit. Curry says that happened to the Cavs this summer and they wound up losing all three, but that's of course the nature of the game.
This is the back-end of it, but the front side is that there are more talented players out there, so it makes sense to spend more time on the road.
Since 1982, NCAA men's lacrosse participation has grown from about 4,000 to 7,000 athletes in Divisions I, II and III. At the high school level during that same period, participation grew from about 13,000 to just over 50,000. That means there's a lot more competition for those college roster spots. And thanks to Title IX constraints—this year's new DI programs (St. John's, Bellarmine and Robert Morris) aside—there doesn't appear to be a raft of big-time universities lining up to absorb this tidal wave of high school lacrosse players.
Back when there was only a handful of recruiting showcases in the summertime—when Top 205 was actually the top 205 kids—it didn't make much sense for many DII or DIII coaches and even some DI coaches to go because many of these players were out of their reach. Now that the talent has increased and the number of viewing opportunities has exploded, everyone can benefit if they put their time in.
Take the last weekend in July. Years ago it was just the Empire State Games, which this summer featured 132 of the top high school lacrosse players in New York. This year it was also Battle of the Hotbeds (32 teams, including one from Central Florida) at Delaware, and Champ Camp (64 teams, including two Dixie teams representing North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia) at Johns Hopkins. Sowell said he was going to individually be at all three.
"You're crazy if you're not finding a way to see these kids," says Tierney. "At my camp at Princeton we had kids 13-15 years old from Tennessee and if you switched helmets and gave them Baltimore helmets you wouldn't know the difference."
Cottle says the recruiting committee, which includes four other DI coaches (head and assistant), has been discussed for the last two years and was finally put together last January at the Coaches Convention. He hopes to have a revised calendar to discuss by December when the college coaches meet in Florida.
As it stands now, according to the NCAA calendars for the 2004-05 academic year, men's lacrosse has 300.5 days when coaches can either evaluate or contact players on or off campus. Men's basketball has 115. Football has 71.
The NCAA even added an additional caveat this year for all sports other than football, allowing coaches the chance to pay one visit each to juniors on their high school campuses in April. This works in reverse of most of the coaches' feelings that they're already doing too much, but because the opportunity is there, a lot of people undoubtedly will use it. This could have big effects on the season. Maybe coaches try to schedule an "easier" opponent for one of their April weekends so they can get away during that week. Maybe they try to take a week off during what is generally the most important stretch of the regular season, and either start earlier or pack in the extra game midweek in March. "I wouldn't be surprised by anything," says Hopkins coach Dave Pietramala. "If that's the way to gain an advantage, as we've seen, people will do it."
That boils down the primary argument to creating a more restrictive recruiting calendar. Right now you're rewarded for putting in extra effort and working around the clock in the summertime to find recruits. That's the way most professions work. The go-getters move up the ladder, while the apathetic ones remain stuck. A calendar, though, would even the field and take away some of the advantage gained through an insane work ethic.
"Why should I be limited as someone who works hard by someone who doesn't work hard and allow him the equal opportunity that I create for myself?" says one coach.
There's also the problem that every school is different. Location, budget, academic calendar, league affiliation and number of full-time assistants can vary dramatically from school to school, so it's going to be difficult to cajole all the coaches into agreeing on when dead periods can be added.
Then there's the concern that, from the NCAA's perspective and especially given the current concern over recruiting in all college sports, it's a lot easier to take days away than to give them back. "If we start restricting ourselves," says Sowell, "are we ever going to get it back?"
Says Pietramala, "I think there is merit to doing less, but we have to be careful not to go too overboard [with changes]. Then all of a sudden you can't get to all the games you need to and you're evaluating kids on film. I'm less in favor of a lot of big changes." The other side will be pushing for changes, any way to pull back on the reins a bit. Because as most of the coaches admit, they're not going to stop unless someone makes them.
"Too many of us are doing what's in our best interest and not what's in [the recruits'] best interest," Urick says. "It's an unfortunate trend. But to stay competitive with the rest of the lacrosse world, you almost have to join the race or get left at the starting gate."
Sounds like this race might just be getting started.
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The National Football Foundation today revealed the ballot for the 2012 College Football Hall of Fame induction class. Among the 76 Division I-A players nominated are former Bulldogs Matt Stinchcomb and Scott Woerner. The travesty that is Erk Russell's exclusion continues. Go 'Dawgs!
I'm ashamed to say I forgot to renew my membership in the National Football Foundation after the initial (though not final) effort to get Erk Russell enshrined failed, so I wasn't able to vote for him, but former Georgia defensive back Jake Scott will be going into the College Football Hall of Fame in the 2011 induction class. Scott was the first of three former Bulldogs to enjoy a pro career in which he was named a Super Bowl MVP. Go 'Dawgs!
It may take us that long to get Erk Russell into the Hall, but it would be nice to do the induction ceremony here instead of making everyone drive from Statesboro to South Bend. Go 'Dawgs!
This morning, the 2010 divisional class of inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame was announced. Four players and two coaches made the cut, including one coach chosen by the Veterans Committee, but Erskine Russell was not among the honorees. The two coaches selected were Willie Jeffries, who compiled a 179-132-6 record as the head coach at Howard (1984-88), Wichita State (1979-83), and South Carolina State (1973-78, 1989-2001), and Ted Kessinger, who went 219-57-1 at Bethany (Kan.) between 1976 and 2003. Coach Jeffries was chosen by the Veterans Committee. This year's class brings to 124 the total number of players and coaches from outside the Division I-A ranks to be enshrined in the Hall. That number should be 125. While I do not question the qualifications of Coaches Jeffries and Kessinger, the omission of Coach Russell was a travesty. The Veterans Committee, the composition of which is kept secret to prevent its members from being bombarded with letter-writing campaigns by boosters of would-be inductees into the Hall, played an active role in choosing this year's class, as one of the two coaches being enshrined was a Veterans Committee selection. Why, then, was Erk's candidacy found wanting? I do not believe a sufficient justification for his omission may be offered; the only explanation (and the reason he had to go before the Veterans Committee rather than appear on the ballot) is that the well-intended but ill-considered ten-year minimum for head coaches barred Coach Russell's entry. This is a setback, but it is only a setback. If the rule keeps the deserving out, the rule needs to be changed, if only to create an exception for special cases such as this. I would have preferred to have gone about this the easy way, but, as Coach Russell spent his life and career teaching, few things that are worthwhile ever came easy. It is time to regroup and evaluate how best to go about changing the rule from within the system, so that Coach Russell may be considered on his merits rather than excluded on a technicality. Stay tuned. . . . GATA!
I'm not particularly interested in the corporate sponsors of the event, but the salient datum announced by the National Football Foundation today was that this year's College Football Hall of Fame Division I-A induction class will be announced at noon on Thursday, May 27. If Erk Russell is selected by the Veterans Committee, it will be for the divisional class, so it does not appear that we will know for sure whether Coach Russell has been inducted on May 27. However, we will learn the fate of three damn good 'Dawgs (all of whom appeared on my ballot), with the word on Coach Russell's candidacy hopefully to follow. Stay tuned. . . . GATA!
Welcome South, brothers! Now it won't be such a long drive from Statesboro for Erk Russell's induction ceremony. . . . Go 'Dawgs!
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As expected, President Obama returned from his vacation with almost the same script that he left with, blasting Republicans for not allowing action on a small business jobs bill to spur economic growth.
"Small business owners and the communities that rely on them, they don't have time for political games," said the President, who urged the GOP to drop its filibuster in the Senate.
"I know we're entering election season, but the people who sent us here expect us to get things done," said Mr. Obama from the White House Rose Garden.
After a meeting with key advisers, the President conceded that there is no 'magic bullet' to solve the current economic situation, as the White House indicated that there will be a series of plans targeted economic plans laid out in coming weeks.
"The President has, throughout the last many months and today, went over different ideas and different proposals, some of which are new, yes," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
"I think you'll hear the President discuss a series of these ideas over the course of the next many weeks."
But as for getting bills through the Congress that could boost the economy, right now, the White House is concentrating on a small business bill, which includes a $30 billion credit fund to help small businesses expand.
One staffer for a GOP Senator told me that they had heard a lot of complaints from small business groups back home about the lack of action on this small business measure.
So far though, it hasn't really become a political liability, as Republican critics compared the $30 billion fund to the TARP/Wall Street bailout program.
At this point, it looks like the White House alternately lay out ideas and bash Republicans for blocking plans to spur new economic growth.
Republicans meanwhile, will stick with their attacks that the stimulus and other plans aren't the way to get the economy moving again.
Election day is nine weeks away.
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The LA Times reported on a sustainable building workshop hosted by the IoES, Corporate Partner Program company Structure Homes, and Green Builder Media on January 12.
A swarm of workmen constructing a $3-million environmentally friendly house in Pacific Palisades is also trying to build the next generation of ecology-minded developers and consumers.
That explains why 50 carpenters, electricians and other tradesmen took the day off Thursday so hundreds of students and professionals could traipse through the half-finished home and view its energy-saving features before interior walls are enclosed with sheetrock.
The residence on Via De La Paz is part of a national demonstration project by Green Builder Media, an Eastsound, Wash., organization that promotes sustainable construction and "green" building techniques.
For the two-story Pacific Palisades house, the group is working with a Woodland Hills-based construction company, Structure Home.
Students from UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and from Palisades High School's environmental science classes were among those peering through framing to see how spray-on insulation was being used to tightly seal exterior walls.
Other features include low-flow plumbing devices, a termite and mold control application that also serves as a fire retardant and large double-paned windows that flood the home with natural light.
The students listened as Green Builder president Ron Jones explained how the house will be solar-powered and equipped with its own generator for periods of extended cloudiness. Its garage will include a built-in charging station for electric cars and its kitchen will be outfitted with energy-saving appliances.
The visitors had plenty of questions. Tehmina Dinshah, a 17-year-old Palisades High student, wanted to know the how the cost of an eco-friendly home compares to that of a conventional dwelling. Classmate Brandon Newman, 18, was curious whether the builders would eventually sell to an environmentally focused buyer or to "the highest bidder." Stedman Halliday, 17, wondered about the fastest way to turn an older house into an energy-saver.
Jones said adding a solar water heater is the quickest thing Halliday could do. "Even the simplest system will provide all the hot water you need," he said.
He insisted that building ecologically adds only about 3% to the cost of construction. He suggested that the eventual purchaser of the 5,200-square-foot dwelling will probably be environmentally minded. "I've personally turned down clients, but there still are a lot of people waiting to be paid" for their work on the project, he told Newman.
Later, those attending a UCLA workshop led by Jones and Glen MacDonald, director of the school's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, had similar questions.
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