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Post by bfoley82 on Dec 30, 2021 18:43:52 GMT -5
And crossposts is a pretty good place to visit if you take out the foley posts. Why do you insist on trying to create custom stats? Do you think that makes anything better or more clear? Or do you want to say 10 NCAA appearances (five of those under Willard in a ten year span) since 1953-1954 season. Still that is an appearance every 6.7 seasons. When you take out Willard's seasons it is an appearance every 11.4 years.
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 30, 2021 18:53:42 GMT -5
Didn't Willard coach at HC? Of course he did. Why take him out? After all, it shows what can be done.
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Post by bfoley82 on Dec 30, 2021 18:54:55 GMT -5
Didn't Willard coach at HC? Of course he did. Why take him out? After all, it shows what can be done. Seems like an outlier to me with all that "success" that HC has had.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Dec 30, 2021 20:18:08 GMT -5
Really? If we didn't already know you were not an HC alum, that'd prove it. First, based on your "every 5 years", we've just barely missed the NCAA in 2016. "Competitive" means we're in the finals and win most times. This is Holy Cross, not UNH. We've got history and higher expectations. Maybe we should offer up Nelson to Durham? To be fair, Foley's benchmark there is pretty reasonable. Although I'd slightly raise the bar for an NCAA appearance from once every 5 years to once every academic cycle (4 years). Given what everyone's been through this past decade, who wouldn't sign up for that? That being said, as much as the Patriot League through and through is overall a stronger conference than it was during the Willard years, there's still no reason why Holy Cross shouldn't be able to cement itself as a flagship program in this league alongside Bucknell. First, we need to bring back a winning culture and get the fans back in the building.
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Post by efg72 on Dec 30, 2021 20:52:30 GMT -5
Sign me up, but set the bar a bit higher
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 30, 2021 21:15:54 GMT -5
Should our Associate ADs be at D 2,3 tournaments this year scouting potential new coaches. Or just leave it to the search firm that found BN? Our people have a full slate now and we can't expect them to be skilled at identifying coaching talent, can we? We don't need that in-house expertise to compete against larger schools like BU who have many more tuitions to spread over fewer sports, do we?
It is interesting that the only individuals occasionally held accountable for poor won/loss records are the coaches. The ADs leave before it's their responsibility and upper management is only charged with managing the process whether the teams win or lose.
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Post by Wormtown Railers Fan on Jan 3, 2022 13:47:57 GMT -5
That's a bridge too far for Nichols with an endowment way below $25M. But, one can dream. Like Holy Cross having a winning men's basketball team once again. According to their web site their endowment is now $31 million. Although, they should focus their efforts on tapping in to their wealthy alumni base and increase their endowment instead moving up to a higher division.
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Post by sader1970 on Jan 3, 2022 14:20:42 GMT -5
My initial statement was accurate but you may well be correct. From the Nichols Presidential Report, FY endowment was a shade under $22 Million. But, they had a "Bicentennial Campaign" and that same presidential report said they had a "330% growth in endowment." It says they raised $66.1 million during the campaign.
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