At 8:28 AM +0000 11/1/96, Rand P. Hall wrote:
> Have your co-workers come up with a list. They may be right. Of the top
> of my head I can think of Ziggy Marszalek, maybe. He was certainly more
> valuable than guys like Feeley, Hirsch, Duggan, Sapienza, and Sweeney. I
> don't know if Ron booted him or he quit, though.
 
Ziggy was cut midway through last season as a result of violating team rules.
 
Tim Hirsch transferred to UMass, I believe, where he will be eligible after
sitting out a year and hopes to get more playing time.  He was a walk-on
from the JV team last season.  Jim Sapienza was in the same situation and I
believe transferred to DivIII Plattsburgh State midway through last season.
I'm not sure where Jon Duggan and Sean Sweeney ended up (two more JV
walk-ons from last year who are also not on the roster this year).
 
Arthur Berman wrote:
> As Mike probably inferred, the reason I wanted this information was to
> point out that it is at least possible that Peca lost his scholarship.
> Occasionally some people complain about players who leave school early
> for the pros.  I believe that, at the big schools like BU or Michigan for
> example, the players are nothing more than underpaid employees.
...
> This is not, I hope it is clear, at jab at Merrimack.
 
Understood.  Please understand that the fact that I said "I don't know" in
response to your question should not be taken as an implication that
Claudio did lose his scholarship.  As I said, I truly don't know.  I am
strongly inclined to think he didn't lose it, but I can't be certain.
 
BTW, a reminder, WCAP 980 AM out of Lowell, Mass. will have coverage of the
Merrimack at Colgate and Union games this weekend.  Air time is 7:15 Friday
and 6:45 Saturday, times ET.  It looks like I will probably work color both
nights, as one member of the rotating three-man broadcast team likely
cannot make the trip this weekend.  Since I leave for NY in about an hour,
there will be no boxes/writeups from this corner for a few days.
 
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