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Have a friend who is very good friends with Matt father. While with him last night they were chatting and heard him say Indiana, Notre Dame, Syracuse, UConn among others have started reaching out to him. Pretty sure he's class of 2023. Don't know much about his game but have heard glowing reports
 
methodology said:
Have a friend who is very good friends with Matt father. While with him last night they were chatting and heard him say Indiana, Notre Dame, Syracuse, UConn among others have started reaching out to him. Pretty sure he's class of 2023. Don't know much about his game but have heard glowing reports
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2022. Wouldn't hurt for him to do a PG year at a better prep school though.

Rumor is Reilly at East Catholic wouldn't take him because of defense. Would be a humongous f up for him if true. Probably already is. Kid averaged likex25 a game for northwest
 
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husky429 said:
2022. Wouldn't hurt for him to do a PG year at a better prep school though.

Rumor is Reilly at East Catholic wouldn't take him because of defense. Would be a humongous f up for him if true. Probably already is. Kid averaged likex25 a game for northwest
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He's a sophomore this year, 14 years old, wouldn't that make him 2023?
 
husky429 said:
2022. Wouldn't hurt for him to do a PG year at a better prep school though.

Rumor is Reilly at East Catholic wouldn't take him because of defense. Would be a humongous f up for him if true. Probably already is. Kid averaged likex25 a game for northwest
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You mean he wouldn't offer him a scholarship?
 
methodology said:
He's a sophomore this year, 14 years old, wouldn't that make him 2023?
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He wasn't originally a sophomore this year. If that's what you've heard he's reclassified. This is year 3 at Northwest
 
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husky429 said:
ELLINGTON of all places has produced 3 d1 players in the past 4 years. Mike McGuirl at K State, Knowling at Yale and now curtis. Something must be in the water
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It’s called SMELLington lol. They’ve had some good soccer players come out of that town as well. Must be all the fresh farm food they’re eating. Maybe it’s Johnny Appleseeds.
 
husky429 said:
ELLINGTON of all places has produced 3 d1 players in the past 4 years. Mike McGuirl at K State, Knowling at Yale and now curtis. Something must be in the water
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It’s the constant smell of cow poop in the air forcing kids into the gym. Did any of them play for Ellington High? Would have been a squad...
 
husky429 said:
ELLINGTON of all places has produced 3 d1 players in the past 4 years. Mike McGuirl at K State, Knowling at Yale and now curtis. Something must be in the water
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They always have had a good program, yet none of those kids played there haha.. We would play them in summer league, that conference is tough out there. We almost left our conference 5 years ago and joined it, would have loved the competition.
 
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Fatroony5 said:
It’s called SMELLington lol. They’ve had some good soccer players come out of that town as well. Must be all the fresh farm food they’re eating. Maybe it’s Johnny Appleseeds.
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I played EHS in high school (Hoops) and one of their fans threw a stink bomb onto the court (my school’s) and delayed the game for like 15 minutes.

Our fan section started chanting “smells like Ellington”

Fantastic hs memory lol
 
Fatroony5 said:
It’s called SMELLington lol. They’ve had some good soccer players come out of that town as well. Must be all the fresh farm food they’re eating. Maybe it’s Johnny Appleseeds.
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Making me miss my old digs in South Windsor and taking our kids to apple pick at Appleseeds. SW had some good jocks. My kids are contemporaries of hockey stud Chris Clark.
 
M.S.G. said:
They always have had a good program, yet none of those kids played there haha.. We would play them in summer league, that conference is tough out there. We almost left our conference 5 years ago and joined it, would have loved the competition.
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Yes and no. East Windsor, East Granby, Bolton, Coventry, stafford are guaranteed wins most years unless your team sucks. The rest of the conference always has talent. But the 5 easy wins (usually) make making the state tourney pretty easy compared to the CCC. Coached the freshman team for a team in that conference 1 year before I moved up to the CCC.
 
husky429 said:
Yes and no. East Windsor, East Granby, Bolton, Coventry, stafford are guaranteed wins most years unless your team sucks. The rest of the conference always has talent. But the 5 easy wins (usually) make making the state tourney pretty easy compared to the CCC. Coached the freshman team for a team in that conference 1 year before I moved up to the CCC.
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dating myself on this one but the 2007 season in the NCCC was pretty deep. Can’t for the life of me remember the kids name but Stafford Springs had a real talented kid that year. The league had some solid players that year from Tolland, Granby, Avon, and East Windsor. East Windsor won Class S that season against Cromwell who had Salafia from Yale. Can’t believe that was 13 years ago.
 
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Fatroony5 said:
Dayi

dating myself on this one but the 20007 season in the NCCC was pretty deep. Can’t for the life of me remember the kids name but Stafford Springs had a real talented kid that year. The league had some solid players that year from Tolland, Granby, Avon, and East Windsor. East Windsor won Class S that season against Cromwell who had Salafia from Yale. Can’t believe that was 13 years ago.
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Yeah when I played in nccc Avon and Enfield were the class of the Conference. Enfield becuase they were by far the largest school. I believe they won a state title in the early to mid 2000s.

windsor locks won a title and East granby has one class that was absurd and got them to a state final.

ellington went on a run to the final before running into Pat Egan (whose cheap shot bs almost caused a brawl when my team played him.

Also Suffield had viggiano. Dude got every single call.
 
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the Q said:
Yeah when I played in nccc Avon and Enfield were the class of the Conference. Enfield becuase they were by far the largest school. I believe they won a state title in the early to mid 2000s.

windsor locks won a title and East granby has one class that was absurd and got them to a state final.

ellington went on a run to the final before running into Pat Egan (whose cheap shot bs almost caused a brawl when my team played him.

Also Suffield had viggiano. Dude got every single call.
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Why was Enfield in the NCCC? Aren't they like the 3rd or 4th biggest high school in the state? Their enrollement has got to be 5x some of those tiny school like E. Granby
 
husky429 said:
Why was Enfield in the NCCC? Aren't they like the 3rd or 4th biggest high school in the state? Their enrollement has got to be 5x some of those tiny school like E. Granby
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this was when enfield had 2 schools.

although I believe both were L sized.
 
husky429 said:
2022. Wouldn't hurt for him to do a PG year at a better prep school though.

Rumor is Reilly at East Catholic wouldn't take him because of defense. Would be a humongous f up for him if true. Probably already is. Kid averaged likex25 a game for northwest
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I sit here and I think, how bad was his defense?

But on the other hand, I ref middle school travel ball and middle school aged aau ball. I’d say 99% of the kids can’t even fathom the defensive shell yet.
 
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this was when enfield had 2 schools.

although I believe both were L sized.
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In my day Fermi was an L in the CCC East, Enfield High was tiny (early-mid2000s)
 
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husky429 said:
ELLINGTON of all places has produced 3 d1 players in the past 4 years. Mike McGuirl at K State, Knowling at Yale and now curtis. Something must be in the water
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It’s wild to me how these little shit towns do it.

Ellington here.

Tolland had a run In the early 2000s with trubia and McGinn (both huskies) for basbeall and susko was one of the most prolific football players in CT history.

Windsor locks in the mid 2000s churned out baseball studs with Quagliaroli and Giannuzi leading the way.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
In my day Fermi was an L in the CCC East, Enfield High was tiny (early-mid2000s)
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I graduated in 03 and Enfield was consistently a class L
 
the Q said:
I graduated in 03 and Enfield was consistently a class L
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Really? I must be misremembering. I went to Rockville which is now M I believe, was L in my day. Crazy to think that Ellington and Tolland have grown beyond it and joined the CCC East and RHS has dropped to the NCCC and doesn’t even play South Windsor anymore!!? I hear that their big rival is East Granby now!?!

Someone mentioned Dan Trubia a couple posts up. He was a few years ahead of me but I competed against his brother Tony who was certainly good but not up to his brother’s level. I think he went D3. In those days we didn’t play against Tolland or Ellington in high school ball but always did in fall ball and All Stars. The demo of those town was so much more blue collar and we considered those kids hicks. Not so much the case anymore. The teams were always pesky and tough to beat even though we (Vernon kids) always felt like should be able to crush them.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Really? I must be misremembering. I went to Rockville which is now M I believe, was L in my day. Crazy to think that Ellington and Tolland have grown beyond it and joined the CCC East and RHS has dropped to the NCCC and doesn’t even play South Windsor anymore!!? I hear that their big rival is East Granby now!?!

Someone mentioned Dan Trubia a couple posts up. He was a few years ahead of me but I competed against his brother Tony who was certainly good but not up to his brother’s level. I think he went D3. In those days we didn’t play against Tolland or Ellington in high school ball but always did in fall ball and All Stars. The demo of those town was so much more blue collar and we considered those kids hicks. Not so much the case anymore. The teams were always pesky and tough to beat even though we (Vernon kids) always felt like should be able to crush them.
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Yeah they were already changing slowly and there was some big Pratt expansions around 2000 that skyrocketed the Change. But there was always a small contingent of Glastonbury wannabes in small towns like those too, granby was the same way.

That’s not fair to tony, Dan was one of the best players to come out the area in a while (him and pollack are the two best off the top of my head). Just a crazy natural athlete.

Rockville always had some talent when I played them. Cravenho could mash. Leonard was a good c. And there was a never ending line of kuckuchka brothers with sick breaking balls.

Plus the 8 foot 7 freeman who could pitch and was a good hoop player.
 
the Q said:
Yeah they were already changing slowly and there was some big Pratt expansions around 2000 that skyrocketed the Change. But there was always a small contingent of Glastonbury wannabes in small towns like those too, granby was the same way.

That’s not fair to tony, Dan was one of the best players to come out the area in a while (him and pollack are the two best off the top of my head). Just a crazy natural athlete.

Rockville always had some talent when I played them. Cravenho could mash. Leonard was a good c. And there was a never ending line of kuckuchka brothers with sick breaking balls.

Plus the 8 foot 7 freeman who could pitch and was a good hoop player.
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RHS took state in Class L in 2000 with Leonard winning Gatorade player of the year. Had a great career at UConn and had a couple good years in A and AA but never quite caught up to pro pitching and had a couple very unfortunate family events that derailed his career. Jeremy Freeman was definitely imposing on the Hill at like 6’8.

Playing little league at the time, guys like Cravenho and Leonard were killing and they were mini-celebrities. The baseball culture in that town was crazy at the time. Two huge little leagues and EVERYONE played.

My freshman year baseball season was 2003 and just being a little used JV pitcher was decent for clout around town/school. Guys like Freeman, Jamie Kukucka, and Mike Tingley (who may have been the best pitcher of all, Lefty who could bring it in the upper 80s when he was like 15) were on there way out and I’m not sure the baseball in that town has ever come back.

NOT TO TURN THIS THREAD INTO ANOTHER ROCKVILLE HIGH YEARBOOK
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
RHS took state in Class L in 2000 with Leonard winning Gatorade player of the year. Had a great career at UConn and had a couple good years in A and AA but never quite caught up to pro pitching and had a couple very unfortunate family events that derailed his career. Jeremy Freeman was definitely imposing on the Hill at like 6’8.

Playing little league at the time, guys like Cravenho and Leonard were killing and they were mini-celebrities. The baseball culture in that town was crazy at the time. Two huge little leagues and EVERYONE played.

My freshman year baseball season was 2003 and just being a little used JV pitcher was decent for clout around town/school. Guys like Freeman, Jamie Kukucka, and Mike Tingley (who may have been the best pitcher of all, Lefty who could bring it in the upper 80s when he was like 15) were on there way out and I’m not sure the baseball in that town has ever come back.

NOT TO TURN THIS THREAD INTO ANOTHER ROCKVILLE HIGH YEARBOOK
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Dude..Tingley was freaking good!

I don’t think he threw that hard or he would’ve been at UConn. I’d guess he was 81-85 when I played him (pre Tommy John). But dude could put it anywhere he wanted. Located that fastball like a beast. Just pinpoint.
 
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