Florida Golf Coast University - who recently won over the hearts of Americans with a record setting run to the Sweet 16 as a 15 seed in the D-1 NCAA basketball tournament - is set to join the NESCAC for all sports in 2013-14. With a U.S. News and World Report score of 38, Florida Gulf Coast only brings the average score of the NESCAC schools down to 82.6 from 86.7 (Wil. 100, Amh. 98, Midd. 94, Bow. 93, Ham. 87, Wes. 86, Col. 84, Bat. 83, Tuf. 75, Trin. 75, Conn. 73).NESCAC officials cited FGCU's lack of squash and hockey, sociological dedication to a 20 year ethnographic study of what it is like to run a college out of trailer parks and Andy Endfield (men's basketball coach)'s wife as reasons for admitting the Fort Myers, FL school into the conference.
Since Bates, Middlebury and Wesleyan have already filled the 'CAC's three normal mascot limit, the Eagles will be forced to change their nickname to either the Trailer Gators or Solar Bears.
Happy April Fools Day.
New Recruit (Not a Joke) for Wesleyan
This one is actually for real. Via Robby Harbison's twitter feed, he is set to join the Wesleyan Cardinal hockey team next year. The Taft product is apparently smart enough to make his twitter account private, so we aren't able to embed the tweet. Harbison, a 5'10" defenseman from Pittsburgh who had 1 point in the 2011-12 prep season (0-1-1), spent the past three years at Taft playing alongside several NESCAC players including Williams Peter Mistretta (F, So.) and Amherst's Pat Arena (F, Fr.).
Buffalo Sabres Fire Sale
And finally...with the Wednesday afternoon NHL trade deadline looming, a Buffalo Sabres fan created this humorous "EVERYTHING MUST GO" used car dealership style mock commercial for the Northeast Division cellar dwellers.
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