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Exactly! Those are all her players, either can't recruit or identify talent...

They still lost! The better coach pulled their team through! Fact! Stats don't lie

How many people were at LaValle stadium several years ago to witness Cuse come back to beat Gators in the Semi finals? That game was in the books and any coach could have preserved the win. She blew it. SBrook coach is doing far more with much less talent. Impressed with his ability to coach, just not a fan of the screaming. I was in the upper deck and heard him screaming at a girl who didn't have a shot backed up, this possession is on you, if they score its on you, screaming during live play. Wasn't sure if he was screaming at a girl who was supposed to be behind the cage for shot or the girl who rushed the shot before someone could back it up? Either way, wasn't a pretty sight.

Hofstra is an absolute mess, daughter has had it there don't think it will get any better. Team is miserable

Please stop, SS is still young and once again being a great player doesn't mean you will be a great coach that can evaluate and recruit. But many many kids are miserable in D1 programs. My family lived it. Above average kid on her club team, a middle to lower kid on her college team, limited game minutes and having the program own her for about 5 hours a day with tons of travel and missed classes. This is not exclusive to Hofstra and just like club where people always chase the hot programs LOSING SUCKS and right now Hofstra is losing.

I think this is getting crazy. To say O'Leary, and Halfpenny are not as good a coach as Spellina is crazy. if you want to talk facts lets talk facts,


Including Sundays game, Florida had played 7 games, three in the same week including SB, One in 'cuse... one back in Florida... and then one in SB all within 7 days, thats one more game in just that week than SB has played all year, 2 against ranked opponents while SB played Bryant in RI, a short bus trip.

JS in all his press has yet to take a D! team past the 2nd round while both other coaches have.

You want to talk Adelphi.... with all the raving JS gets about them if you go to Laxpower you can see there records backs far as 2005, in that span there has been 4 coaches including JS. the most loses from any coach is 3, twice (Grella). in that same span they have only lost championship 4 times 3 times to LIU post (2x grella, 1x Spallina). basically what I'm saying is you rant about his time at Adelphi, and Adelphi was just as good under 3 other coaches.

You complain that he is doing more with less talent.... I say B.S. the talent at SB is top caliber, they are ranked 10 in the nation not because of Joe Spallina but because of the girls on the field. How dare you say they are not as good, you should be ashamed for saying such nonsense.

In the end it was not the Idea of the girls to hold the ball for 6+ minuets of the last 10, it was Joe Spallinas' His coaching lost that game

Spallina coaching Adelphi is like me coaching a YJ Blue team dump out the ball bag and get out of the way because the best players are there. Do you really think the YJ's have the best coaches? 18, 20 something girls in flip flops that are manipulated by parents? They attract the best talent (as does Adelphi) which makes any coach look good. Was Tony Dungy a great NFL coach or did he just have Peyton Manning? Players make the coach except for a few decisions in big games.

I think this is getting crazy. To say O'Leary, and Halfpenny are not as good a coach as Spellina is crazy. if you want to talk facts lets talk facts,


Including Sundays game, Florida had played 7 games, three in the same week including SB, One in 'cuse... one back in Florida... and then one in SB all within 7 days, thats one more game in just that week than SB has played all year, 2 against ranked opponents while SB played Bryant in RI, a short bus trip.

JS in all his press has yet to take a D! team past the 2nd round while both other coaches have.

You want to talk Adelphi.... with all the raving JS gets about them if you go to Laxpower you can see there records backs far as 2005, in that span there has been 4 coaches including JS. the most loses from any coach is 3, twice (Grella). in that same span they have only lost championship 4 times 3 times to LIU post (2x grella, 1x Spallina). basically what I'm saying is you rant about his time at Adelphi, and Adelphi was just as good under 3 other coaches.

You complain that he is doing more with less talent.... I say B.S. the talent at SB is top caliber, they are ranked 10 in the nation not because of Joe Spallina but because of the girls on the field. How dare you say they are not as good, you should be ashamed for saying such nonsense.

In the end it was not the Idea of the girls to hold the ball for 6+ minuets of the last 10, it was Joe Spallinas' His coaching lost that game

If the "great" SB coach new what he was doing he would of found a way to beat a sloppy Florida team!

Some schools name alone is all the recruitment they need. SB is not one of them. Stony Brook is now the D1 version of Adelphi. Tons of talented LI kids that don't want to go off the island are now choosing SB but when you look at their roster not 1 kid from Maryland. Maryland area schools have tons of LI girls. That might be the difference is being in top 10 and winning a national championship

MKVELE what "top recruits are in SB ? Compared to Florida, I will preface this as saying my daughter doesn't play on SB or Florida but a top D1 school to underscore his impact at SB Makes you laughable. And clearly jealous. Now don't get all sensitive and apologize to the boards.. SB last year beat Florida, Norte Dame USC AND Northwestern. Please tell us when a LI college team has done that? Grind your ax somewhere else Your clogging this board with your nonsense then to respond to your own post "annomously makes you really pathetic "we see you MKVELE" also notice how you keep mentioning halfpenny hmmm. SB beat them too before ND dropped them Oh we get it now

It's getting hot at Hofstra real hot

Yep. Forecasted high temp of 70 tomorrow.

When a team is losing it's always hot for the coach. I bet it's hot at JMU, Loyola and others. NU...not doing as well as in the past. And, using previous logic that was used in reference to SS and Hofstra, since NU, Loyola and JMU are not doing as well as they usually do it must be the girls the coach recruited. Since Amonte-Hiller, Adams and Klaes-Bawcombe have been at their schools for longer than 4 years these teams are losing with the players that this coach recruited, right?

I think this is getting crazy. To say O'Leary, and Halfpenny are not as good a coach as Spellina is crazy. if you want to talk facts lets talk facts,


Including Sundays game, Florida had played 7 games, three in the same week including SB, One in 'cuse... one back in Florida... and then one in SB all within 7 days, thats one more game in just that week than SB has played all year, 2 against ranked opponents while SB played Bryant in RI, a short bus trip.

JS in all his press has yet to take a D! team past the 2nd round while both other coaches have.

You want to talk Adelphi.... with all the raving JS gets about them if you go to Laxpower you can see there records backs far as 2005, in that span there has been 4 coaches including JS. the most loses from any coach is 3, twice (Grella). in that same span they have only lost championship 4 times 3 times to LIU post (2x grella, 1x Spallina). basically what I'm saying is you rant about his time at Adelphi, and Adelphi was just as good under 3 other coaches.

You complain that he is doing more with less talent.... I say B.S. the talent at SB is top caliber, they are ranked 10 in the nation not because of Joe Spallina but because of the girls on the field. How dare you say they are not as good, you should be ashamed for saying such nonsense.

In the end it was not the Idea of the girls to hold the ball for 6+ minuets of the last 10, it was Joe Spallinas' His coaching lost that game

It comes with the territory when you get paid to have success

When a team is losing it's always hot for the coach. I bet it's hot at JMU, Loyola and others. NU...not doing as well as in the past. And, using previous logic that was used in reference to SS and Hofstra, since NU, Loyola and JMU are not doing as well as they usually do it must be the girls the coach recruited. Since Amonte-Hiller, Adams and Klaes-Bawcombe have been at their schools for longer than 4 years these teams are losing with the players that this coach recruited, right?

Yep.

It comes with the territory when you get paid to have success

you freakin' jokers sound like the dbags that call Fat Francesa all day...."Hey, BOTC, first time, long time..i wanna talk about Hofstra lax and how I think they should fire their coach"...

SS good coach, Hofstra no talent

Here you go: The Professors Rankings

1. Maryland
2. Florida
3. Louisville
4. North Carolina
5. Syracuse
6. Princeton
7. Stony Brook
8. Notre Dame
9. Stanford
10. Virginia
11. Penn State
12. Towson
13. Boston College
14. Northwestern
15. UConn
16. Southern Cal
17. Umass
18. Temple
19. Colorado
20. Loyola

Others schools considered

Vanderbilt
Penn
Duke
Delaware
Hopkins
Elon

Mkvele not involved in your squabble but you are a piece of work Sounds like you personal dislike warps your honest opinion. Regardless move on its annoying

You got it part way correct , he is a piece of something .

i have friends whose daughters are now in college and played for Shannon. These are fathers who are lax guys. They all loved having their daughters learn from SS. Current HS players in my town play for her right now and respect her. The problem at HU is similar to NYC basketball. All the great players have nice options going out of state and usually take those options. Also there seems to be a bias against her as SS always has to play tough non conference games (maryland this year, I think UNC last year) she is a fine coach doing a great job. haters are probably parents of kids who did not measure up or like to go around yelling "fear the bee" removing all doubt that you are a loser living vicariously through your children.

i have friends whose daughters are now in college and played for Shannon. These are fathers who are lax guys. They all loved having their daughters learn from SS. Current HS players in my town play for her right now and respect her. The problem at HU is similar to NYC basketball. All the great players have nice options going out of state and usually take those options. Also there seems to be a bias against her as SS always has to play tough non conference games (maryland this year, I think UNC last year) she is a fine coach doing a great job. haters are probably parents of kids who did not measure up or like to go around yelling "fear the bee" removing all doubt that you are a loser living vicariously through your children.

i have friends whose daughters are now in college and played for Shannon. These are fathers who are lax guys. They all loved having their daughters learn from SS. Current HS players in my town play for her right now and respect her. The problem at HU is similar to NYC basketball. All the great players have nice options going out of state and usually take those options. Also there seems to be a bias against her as SS always has to play tough non conference games (maryland this year, I think UNC last year) she is a fine coach doing a great job. haters are probably parents of kids who did not measure up or like to go around yelling "fear the bee" removing all doubt that you are a loser living vicariously through your children.