old_school posted:2019cubdad posted:
Lafayette, Bucknell and Holy Cross are all in "aggressive" mode for 2019's as soon as the dead period lifts (term used by a coach at one of the aforementioned schools during a phone conversation last night). My son has been fortunate to be asked to attend basketball games in the coming month at all three schools by the head coach at each.
On a side note, he has not put on a winter coat since a trip we took to Sun Valley, ID when he was 10. Living in SoCal, we are a warm climate to warm climate vacation family (not that we have been on one thanks to BASEBALL!) The Lafayette coach was NOT amused when he jokingly asked if it was "shorts, tee-shirt and flip flop weather out in PA". Oops...
Lafayette is practically warm / tropical compared to Bucknell.
Bucknell sits up in the mountains along the river...it is a good 10 degrees colder there then Easton where Lafayette is. It has an amazing campus and alumni network but all 3 are high quality schools. What is 65k a year between friends...if they get you down to 40k they probably really like you!
Bucknell is VERY cold, as is all of PA. However, Bucknell is beyond beautiful! I know nothing about their sports, but it was one of my favorite campuses.
I went to Kutztown, we had to go to Bucknell often for inter-college things with the college service org linked to Kiwanis.