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Post by HC13 on Jul 30, 2019 16:49:51 GMT -5
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Post by hc87 on Jul 30, 2019 17:08:35 GMT -5
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jul 30, 2019 17:28:09 GMT -5
Did the following quote from Sullivan make anyone else laugh or just me?
"I am extremely grateful to join a prestigious university such as Boston University that espouses academic inquiry and achievement while also placing integral value on the athletic co-curricular involvement of our students."
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 30, 2019 22:02:36 GMT -5
Got to expect more departures from the senior administration with a new AD coming in
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 30, 2019 22:17:44 GMT -5
Very short commute for Sullivan to BU from where he lives vs the daily round trip to Worc.
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 31, 2019 0:03:05 GMT -5
Since Blossom and Sullivan are both finance guys, perhaps Brendan's position was less of a priority for Blossom than it was for Pine. Amazing that Asst. Business Manager Linda George has been there for at least 47-48 years. She and Nancy Olsen used to handle tickets just fine, and now they have a dedicated Director of Tickets and operations. The irony is HC most certainly sold more tickets back when Linda and Nancy were doing it as just part of their duties as opposed to now.
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Post by trimster on Aug 2, 2019 14:14:34 GMT -5
Since Blossom and Sullivan are both finance guys, perhaps Brendan's position was less of a priority for Blossom than it was for Pine. Amazing that Asst. Business Manager Linda George has been there for at least 47-48 years. She and Nancy Olsen used to handle tickets just fine, and now they have a dedicated Director of Tickets and operations. The irony is HC most certainly sold more tickets back when Linda and Nancy were doing it as just part of their duties as opposed to now. I know it was a different era but somehow HC managed to compete at a true D1 level in the 1970s with an athletic administration staff of 4 as in four. Ron Perry, Joe McDonough, Richie Lewis and Linda George. Now the staff is tripping over each other in the hallways. |
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Post by trimster on Aug 2, 2019 14:15:36 GMT -5
The Turnpike Trophy battle will be at a fever pitch. |
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 2, 2019 20:48:19 GMT -5
Since Blossom and Sullivan are both finance guys, perhaps Brendan's position was less of a priority for Blossom than it was for Pine. Amazing that Asst. Business Manager Linda George has been there for at least 47-48 years. She and Nancy Olsen used to handle tickets just fine, and now they have a dedicated Director of Tickets and operations. The irony is HC most certainly sold more tickets back when Linda and Nancy were doing it as just part of their duties as opposed to now. I know it was a different era but somehow HC managed to compete at a true D1 level in the 1970s with an athletic administration staff of 4 as in four. Ron Perry, Joe McDonough, Richie Lewis and Linda George. Now the staff is tripping over each other in the hallways. I marvel at that exact concept when I scroll down the long list of staff on Goholycross.com. Maybe ADMB also feels the administrative staff is top heavy and is right sizing the dept. as opposed to making room for his own people. Nah, that's unlikely. And does anyone know what a Senior Associate Director of Athletics/External Operations does, and what external operations HC has? Perhaps he negotiates the lucrative Stadium, Charter TV3 and 1440AM broadcast deals and the position pays for itself many times over? |
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Aug 3, 2019 21:12:09 GMT -5
I know it was a different era but somehow HC managed to compete at a true D1 level in the 1970s with an athletic administration staff of 4 as in four. Ron Perry, Joe McDonough, Richie Lewis and Linda George. Now the staff is tripping over each other in the hallways. I marvel at that exact concept when I scroll down the long list of staff on Goholycross.com. Maybe ADMB also feels the administrative staff is top heavy and is right sizing the dept. as opposed to making room for his own people. Nah, that's unlikely. And does anyone know what a Senior Associate Director of Athletics/External Operations does, and what external operations HC has? Perhaps he negotiates the lucrative Stadium, Charter TV3 and 1440AM broadcast deals and the position pays for itself many times over?He is involved with this stuff, however HC through their sponsorship sales partner- Outfront Media Sports buys the air time from WEEI, own the entire broadcasts, and paying HC sponsors get their ads on the air and signage around the venues. This is how HC makes $ on the broadcasts. Models differ school to school across the country w/many larger schools getting paid by their broadcast partners, and the stations keep the ad $, but not often at HC's level, and it's up to what the school and their media sales partner wants, and in HC's case, they prefer it this way. Stadium deal is league-wide in the PL (for not much $), managed by the league, and every league school gets the same scrape of the rights. TV3 doesn't pay to broadcast games. They need programming, and the games fill up time, and they make some $ on the commercials that air during the games. |
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 5, 2019 22:47:16 GMT -5
I was under the impression that for years Bob Fouracre sold/recruited many of the ads on HC radio broadcasts and BG sold/recruited many/most of the ads on the Holy Cross Women's Basketball show on TV3. I made the assumption that the various men's coaches didn't have the interest in or local contacts to sell/recruit ads for a men's basketball TV show. What is your understanding, and do you think Coach AM will keep the Holy Cross women's basketball show going in the upcoming season?
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Aug 6, 2019 9:43:25 GMT -5
I was under the impression that for years Bob Fouracre sold/recruited many of the ads on HC radio broadcasts and BG sold/recruited many/most of the ads on the Holy Cross Women's Basketball show on TV3. I made the assumption that the various men's coaches didn't have the interest in or local contacts to sell/recruit ads for a men's basketball TV show. What is your understanding, and do you think Coach AM will keep the Holy Cross women's basketball show going in the upcoming season? Bob did. However the days of school broadcasters going into restaurants asking for $500 cash and $500 in gift certs for self-use to play said restaurants commercials on the air are long gone. Bill G. did indeed pitch sponsors himself. This worked for him being a well-known, long-time, Worc guy. No idea if the WBB show on TV3 will continue. |
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Post by Tom on Aug 6, 2019 10:52:39 GMT -5
She and Nancy Olsen used to handle tickets just fine, and now they have a dedicated Director of Tickets and operations. The irony is HC most certainly sold more tickets back when Linda and Nancy were doing it as just part of their duties as opposed to now. Selling tickets was easier back then. Someone handed you cash and you handed them a ticket off of a stack beside you. That was all. Transaction time approx 30 seconds. We are too advanced for that today. I've been to some away games where it can take 3-4 minutes to buy a single ticket, but it's really modern and computerized. On topic, when you're #2 to the old guy and promoted to acting head guy during a hiring process, it's hard to stick around and go back to #2. Frank Vellaccio is an exception |
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Aug 7, 2019 8:33:17 GMT -5
At 13 posts I think we've broken the record for the longest thread about assistant athletic directors, far eclipsing the previous record of 1 post held be several threads.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Aug 7, 2019 12:03:54 GMT -5
Apparently Sullivan is double-dipping, as though he's already up on the BU athletics directory, he's still on the HC masthead.
This tells us everything we need to know...
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