Re: LMU Notes

by DoubleDipper Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:44 pm

Apparently it was getting a little too crowded at point guard for Simon Krajcovic from Slovakia, as it was announced today that he'll be transferring.

Without Krajcovic, LMU lists six point guards on the roster including three walk-ons and two who recently gave verbal commitments.

Krajcovic's departure brings to four the number of players who have transferred from LMU since the end of the season....two who would have been juniors and two who would have sophomores.

by DoubleDipper Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:56 pm

According to this article from West Coast Convo: http://westcoastconvo.com/2015/04/27/lions-get-four-new-commits/
LMU has four very good recruits coming in next year....including one outstanding PG, Brandon Brown, who did not serve a two year mission, but instead served a two year prison sentence.

Not included in the article is a fifth student-athlete who signed today, Adom Jacko, a 6-8 PF out of Chaffey College.

by DoubleDipper Sat Jun 20, 2015 9:36 am

DoubleDipper wrote:Last week LMU's top scorer (18ppg) sophomore Evan Payne, from Akron, Ohio, announced he would be leaving the team, and now it is rumored that 6-11 Zambian, Patson Siame will also be leaving.

Patson Siame has signed with the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

by DoubleDipper Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:47 am

More movement at LMU.....this time 6-7/245 forward Sherman Vernon has decided to transfer to NAIA Biola University.

Sherman is a bright kid who was at the Air Force Academy a couple of years before transferring to LMU for his redshirt year.

He'll be a junior Biola.

by DoubleDipper Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:13 am

The exodus continues.....

Former walk-ons Casey Norris and Connor Jean have left the team. Neither of the two played a minute last year, and both are seniors this coming fall, so one has to assume graduating became more important than being a "practice player."

Of the 17 players listed on LMU's roster at the end of the 2014-15 season, only seven remain.

LMU has two incoming freshmen and four incoming JC transfers who will be juniors = 13 on scholarship.

by DoubleDipper Tue May 17, 2016 9:01 pm

Adom Jacko, LMU's top scorer and rebounder (he scored 35 against UP in LA in February) has decided to forego his senior year to play professionally.

Unfortunately for LMU, the big-time four-star transfer from Oregon who was expected to replace Jacko in 2017, Trevor Manuel, will have to redshirt this coming season.

by Guest Thu Jun 22, 2017 4:52 pm

Terrible story, condolences to the family and to all LMU fans.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/loyola-marymount-basketball-signee-dies-day-before-high-school-graduation/ar-BBD3ag0?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

Cancer sucks. Mad

by Guest Fri Jun 01, 2018 10:45 pm

The Lions get a new athletic director:
lmu_names_oregons_craig_pinten

by Geezaldinho Sat Jun 02, 2018 6:05 am

Condolences to the Williams family..

Too young.

by Guest Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:20 pm

Here is a MMM article on LMU, arguing that Max Good should not have been fired.
https://www.midmajormadness.com/2018/8/6/loyola-marymount-lions-wcc-hoops-max-good

The premise is that he had some good players who ended up transferring, and he had a couple good recruits coming. Not sure that means he would have been able to coach them to winning seasons, and that they all would have stayed.

by StudentPilot Fri Apr 10, 2020 10:46 pm

Have you noticed how many offers and commitments LMU's new coach is creating?

And he's had a pretty good couple of days bringing back center Mattias Markusson off the transfer portal, and now getting a commitment from Stanford 4-star forward Kodye Pugh, a grad transfer with two years of eligibility remaining.

by StudentPilot Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:00 am

StudentPilot wrote:Have you noticed how many offers and commitments LMU's new coach is creating?

And he's had a pretty good couple of days bringing back center Mattias Markusson off the transfer portal, and now getting a commitment from Stanford 4-star forward Kodye Pugh, a grad transfer with two years of eligibility remaining.

"On a rampage," LMU's Stan Johnson now picks up Temple grad-transfer guard Quentin Jackson, Jr....not mentioned in this article:

http://lmulionsroar.com/?p=4342&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recapping-an-amazing-week-for-lmu-basketball

by up7587 Tue Mar 15, 2022 8:47 am

Verbal Commits says Joe Quintana, a 6'2" senior guard who torched the nets against UOP in the opening round of WCC tourney games, will be transferring. Looks like he has one year to play.

by DoubleDipper Mon Apr 11, 2022 2:12 pm

up7587 wrote:Verbal Commits says Joe Quintana, a 6'2" senior guard who torched the nets against UOP in the opening round of WCC tourney games, will be transferring. Looks like he has one year to play.

Good to read that Quintana has found a home at Cal Baptist...I was told Santa Clara was making a push to get him.

by up7587 Mon Apr 11, 2022 2:31 pm

DoubleDipper wrote:
up7587 wrote:Verbal Commits says Joe Quintana, a 6'2" senior guard who torched the nets against UOP in the opening round of WCC tourney games, will be transferring. Looks like he has one year to play.
Good to read that Quintana has found a home at Cal Baptist...I was told Santa Clara was making a push to get him.

Quintana had a very vocal group of what I assume were family members cheering him on in Las Vegas. Since he's from West Covina, went to high school in La Verne, and Cal Baptist is only 40 miles away in Riverside, I am guessing that was a factor.

by DoubleDipper Mon Mar 27, 2023 4:50 pm

Sorry to see LMU's wonderful freshman guard, Chance Stephens, in the portal.

He played in 28 of 31 games, including four starts as a true freshman… Scored 167 points and averaged 6.0 points per game… Third on the team with 49 made threes and fourth on the team at 37.4 percent shooting from deep…

Stephens hit a team-high seven three-pointers and season-high 23 points in LMU’s Jamaica Classic Championship game win over Wake Forest in November, leading to his being named Tournament MVP and WCC Freshman of the Week honors…

Stephen's move may have been motivated by First Team All-MEAC point guard, Justin Wright's commitment to LMU after transferring from North Carolina Central.

by DoubleDipper Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:22 pm

I guess it's a sign of the times, but LMU will discontinue six sports at the conclusion of the 2023-24 season.

Sports targeted for cuts are men’s cross-country, men’s rowing, men’s track and field,
women’s rowing, women’s swimming, and women’s track and field...

https://resources.lmu.edu/reshaping-athletics/pr/

by ExpatPilot Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:04 pm

DoubleDipper wrote:I guess it's a sign of the times, but LMU will discontinue six sports at the conclusion of the 2023-24 season.

Sports targeted for cuts are men’s cross-country, men’s rowing, men’s track and field,
women’s rowing, women’s swimming, and women’s track and field...

https://resources.lmu.edu/reshaping-athletics/pr/

Just sharing some (I believe) well-informed perspective on this from Matt Brown of Extra Points

1. "That is not why LMU cut any of these programs (in response to the LA Times article: Loyola Marymount to cut 6 sports in response to NIL rules. These are the teams affected)"

2. "Think we'll see more mid/low major schools drop some Olympic sports over next 2 years not bc of NIL, or even to save sport-specific $, but bc they were overbuilt and cant allocate the admin, health and student services to properly support a larger department."

3. "hypothetically, dropping a rowing team might only save you like, 90K. Could even be a loss with tuition $. But if cutting means you also change trainer workload, SID, academic support, and if rowing isnt in your conference long term plans...the calculus can change. Make sense?"

by wrv Mon Feb 05, 2024 4:16 pm

For those paying attention to the changing D1 college landscape, note that today an NLRB judge/hearings officer/ regional director(?)
ruled that members of the Dartmouth men's basketball team were employees and entitled to unionize. There is similar litigation pending regarding several USC teams. If the ruling holds on appeal, the affect will likely be devastating to mid-majors and possibly even larger institutions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/02/05/dartmouth-basketball-union/

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/05/nlrb-union-election-dartmouth-00139737#:~:text=The%20NLRB's%20regional%20director%20in,the%20players%20perform%20that%20work

by up7587 Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:48 am

From their Forum, a member posted their Day of Giving results:

golions wrote:Day of Giving - Men’s Sports

Sport Amount Raised ▼ Donors
1. Golf $84,535 36
2. Men's Soccer $40,160 93
3. Men's Water Polo $29,970 100
4. Baseball $12,245 30
5. Men's Tennis $7,070 13
6. Men's Basketball $5,510 17

Day of Giving - Women’s Sports

Sport Amount Raised ▼ Donors
1. Women's Water Polo $80,465 47
2. Beach Volleyball $45,190 61
3. Softball $33,000 117
4. Women's Soccer $15,390 30
5. Volleyball $11,670 28
6. Women's Basketball $4,195 22
7. Women's Tennis $1,010 8
8. Women's Cross Country $10 1

Support for LMU basketball looks poor.

by up7587 Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:39 pm

@CoachesChanges wrote:We are told Loyola Marymount may have an opening on staff.

Or two.

Or all of them.

Apparently, they told Stan either he can make changes or they can.

Happens a lot, rarely changes anything the following year.

Best wishes to his former staff, assuming our info is correct.

by up7587 Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:35 am

Oh-oh

@JonRothstein wrote:Sources: Loyola Marymount's Stan Johnson is finalizing a deal to hire Lorenzo Romar as an assistant coach.

Former head coach at Pepperdine, Washington, and Saint Louis.

How many PU players in the portal end up at LMU?

by up7587 Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:22 pm

@JamieShaw5 wrote:Loyola Marymount senior Justin Wright plans to enter the transfer portal, he tells @On3sports

The 6-1 North Carolina native averaged 11.1 points on 49.0% FG this season. He has scored 1,204 points in his career. Began his career at NC Central.

by up7587 Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:34 pm

@TiptonEdits wrote:LMU guard Dominick Harris plans to enter the transfer portal and will also test the NBA Draft waters, a source tells @On3sports

The 6-4 junior and former 4 shot nearly 45% from 3 this season (third-highest percentage in NCAA) while leading the Lions in scoring (14.3 PPG + 3.3 RPG).

Harris missed the last two games against UP with injury.

by DoubleDipper Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:10 pm

up7587 wrote:Oh-oh
@JonRothstein wrote:Sources: Loyola Marymount's Stan Johnson is finalizing a deal to hire Lorenzo Romar as an assistant coach.

Former head coach at Pepperdine, Washington, and Saint Louis.

It's official, "basketball elite" Romar now an assistant at LMU...

https://lmulions.com/news/2024/3/19/mens-basketball-lmu-hires-college-basketball-elite-lorenzo-romar-as-new-assistant-coach.aspx