rickrosenberg

Marketing and business development leader; small business consultant, husband, father and friend....

[Babson Women's Basketball @BabsonWBB]

Proud of this crew! STUDENT athletes 🤓

#GOBABO 💚

[D3Direct @D3Direct]

HS WBB SA's: 399,067
NCAA WBB SA's: 16,509

1.3% land at D1
1.2% play D2
1.7% go D3

Only ~4.2% play in college

If you have an offer - don't take it for granted

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

@coachvint Did the kid have fun, make memories, friendships, good experiences, learned about dealing with adversity, and on and on? Travel sports get a bad rap, some deserved. But not all bad by any means. If only goal is college money, focus on academics.

[Ethan Fuller @ethman43]

I see so much pressure put on high schoolers to get to D1. But the reality is that level doesn't always make you happy.

These players were honest. It was a major mental hurdle to transfer out of D1 — but they felt so much better with their new programs.

For @nehoopjournal ⬇️

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

@_coachrachel Wait what? You missed on this one.

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

@CTbow @BlakeDuDonis Coach @CTbow the standard for all mid major ladies hoops. Haters are funny.

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

@Don_K_Williams Will this be across D2 and D3 as well?

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

@Kmoorebball Doesn't that also expose a hard truth about the coaches who offer kids who aren't a "fit"? Works both ways no?

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

@NotTodayJoe @CoachKamarBlue Happened to my daughter at a D1 last year. It's 100% a real thing.

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

100%

[Pasha Bains @DRIVEBasketball]

Seeing more kids being told to enter the portal (essentially kicked off) than ever before.

So many complain about how many ppl are entering the portal but fail to realize lots had no choice.

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

😀

[WBB with a side of Gymnastics 🪽💙💚🤸🏻‍♀️ @CassieFlips]

Heckel… if you see this.. you are the absolute dawg. As a fan, I adore you. Scrappy, fierce, determined. Forever a fan

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

💪💪💪

[Babson Women's Basketball @BabsonWBB]

These three really putting the STUDENT in student-athlete 🤩

Congrats to Chloe Perreault, MaryKate Flynn, and Rylie Rosenberg on receiving CSC Academic All-District Honors!

#GOBABO 💚

[Babson Athletics @BabsonAthletics]

Three from @BabsonWBB Receive College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Honors: https://t.co/rOUYpXg978 #GoBabo #d3hoops

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

@scott_peterson4 Babson!! 😊returning a strong young core!

[1 on 1 ... Your Shot On Your Terms @1on1YourShotOn1]

@ryliersnbrg24 getting it done on and off the court. The Business major earns
@NEWMACsports Academic All-
Conference Recognition. @ryliersnbrg24 also finished 2nd in scoring for @BabsonWBB with 11.5 ppg @RVGDag @rickrosenberg @SauceRVG @shegone03

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

Kevin....thank you for sharing this. A reminder that all of us sports parents need.

[Kevin Devaney Jr. @KDJmedia1]

In all my years of broadcasting, I'd never gotten emotional on air until tonight. It was impossible to hold back the tears.

Jack Piccione of Tappan Zee lost his father suddenly last Sept. 1. Matthew Piccione died of a heart attack minutes after playing pickleball with friends. He was 51.

Over the last three years, I got to know Matthew Piccione fairly well. One day back in 2023, he asked coach George Gaine for my number so he could call me just to say thank you for calling out Jack's contributions during Tappan Zee's championship run.

Jack was a role player who averaged maybe 5 points a game as a freshman. But he started and never came off the court.

"I know he doesn't score a lot of points," Matthew Piccione said. "But you are one of the only people who appreciates what he does for the team."

Matthew Piccione kept a very low profile at games and reinforced in his son to be the emodiment of all the things that make Tappan Zee basketball different than any other program in the state.

Play unselfish. Defend. Be coachable. Defend. Draw charges. Pass. Sacrifice for your teammates. And, of course, defend some more.

Nobody in the history of Tappan Zee basketball since I have been covering has ever played that role better than Jack Piccione. He's the best best defensive player in the program and is on an elite level of players I've been around in Section 1.

When Matthew died in September, I worried about Jack. I wondered what his senior season might be like. The person most responsible for instilling and reinforcing the values that made Jack great was now tragically gone.

Tonight, Jack Piccione scored 5 points in the Section 1 Championship game. FIVE. Yet not only did his team because of his performance, I had the honor of handing him the MVP Trophy to prove it.

In the final 90 seconds of the game, I shared the story of Matthew Piccione and his passing. You will hear the emotion in my voice. It's genuine, not because of any relationship I had with him. You just can't be a sports parent and not relate to loving your child and always wanting what's best for them.

Because here's what I am going to tell you. And I really want all parents to read this and remember it:

Your kids' youth - not just athletics, but all of it - is short and it's precious. You don't get this time back when it's over. It goes way too quick. And some don't even get to see it to the end.

You have a choice: You can spend this period of their lives stressing about how many points they score, what awards or accolades they receive, begging people to vote in the online poll for Player of the Week, emailing the coach and complaining about playing time or lamenting the number of shots they get in a game. Go ahead. You can make all of that important for yourself and your child. Trust me, you won't be alone in doing so.

Or you can do what Matthew Piccione did. Sit in the stands and enjoy watching your children compete. Teach them that it's team above all else, stress what it means to sacrifice and ensure them that, when you do those things and have success, the feeling of hanging a banner will far exceed any of the personal accolades think are important.

And, sadly, God might choose that you won't be around to see it all anyway.

Matthew didn't get to give his son a hug after he won tonight. And Jack didn't get to see the pride in his father's face. Think about that. If you are a parent, try to put your child in Jack's shoes. If God forbid your child was confronted with the same tragedy, you'd want them looking back on this sacred period of their lives the way Jack will forever recall them with his dad.

Tonight was complete validation for Jack Piccione and all of the things his father always told him.

Jack scored 5 points and won the MVP on his way to becoming the most decorated basketball player in Tappan Zee history.

Nobody has ever won more in a TZ uniform than the most unselfish player they've ever had. He wouldn't trade his career with anyone, either.

Take a moment to listen to myself and Pleasantville coach Nick Bonura from tonight's @SportsEngine broadcast of @TZeeAthletics @TZhoops

[D3Direct @D3Direct]

Recruits will scroll past emails from D3 coaches until they check a roster and realize half the team was all-conference in high school.

[Babson Athletics @BabsonAthletics]

Every Moment. Every Win. Every Milestone. The Barefoot Athletics Challenge is here!

Put your program at the top and support our current student-athletes by making a gift to your team today. Give now at the link in our bio! #GoBabo

[rickrosenberg @rickrosenberg]

Amazing season. Loved this team. ❤️❤️

[Babson Athletics @BabsonAthletics]

Rylie Rosenberg led all players with 21 points but @BabsonWBB saw its season come to an end in a 68-51 loss to @ClarkAthletics in the @NEWMACsports semifinals on Friday night. #GoBabo #d3hoops