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Post by sader1970 on Jan 13, 2022 10:53:35 GMT -5
And we’re off . . . . .
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Post by rgs318 on Jan 13, 2022 11:05:35 GMT -5
"I find no fault with any HC decisions or actions by Brooks at any time since his death." Very true; while alive Fr Brooks made the worst athletic decisions in the history of college sports; bar none. Indeed, subsequent to his death, he has made no bad decisions. So the trend is positive. We may disagree about the athletic related decisions he made while president, but I am glad you do not find fault with any made by him since his death. Now that it has been so many decades since those decisions were made, think it may be time for us to let it go?
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Post by timholycross on Jan 13, 2022 11:39:37 GMT -5
Can we get this inserted into the "Insert Smiley" area, please!
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Post by timholycross on Jan 13, 2022 11:45:25 GMT -5
Honestly, I find no fault with any HC decisions or actions by Brooks at any time since his death. If anything he has become a distraction for HC critics from saying anything negative about the choices and actions of those still alive. I guess that can be seen as useful. There's precedence for the clever quip that started this all. Archie: “No! That's a lie! General MacArthur won that war (WW2). And Roosevelt fired him for it.” Maude: “That was Truman.” Archie: “Under secret sealed orders from F.D.R.!”
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jan 13, 2022 11:54:51 GMT -5
Zero comparison between that stretch and the current stretch of lets say 2013 to now. I remember when I was a student, most Saturday games BOTH student sections would be full by the first media timeout. If you got to Hart at that point, you were sitting in the rafters. I remember we'd easily get a group of us, living between NYC and Portland, to take day trips to regular season home games during winter break. Those days are long gone. The decline in attendance, particularly among students started my senior year which was 2009-2010, the SK year. I was in Bethlehem, PA IIRC that year when the first home game was a "black out" against Sacred Heart on a Friday night in November. I heard that one was full of students but the crowds waned that season after that. Boring home schedule, highlighted by Jeremy Lin and Harvard, plus what was then the worst HC team in a long long time at 9-22. But even the year after, my first winter homecoming against Bucknell in January 2011, was one of the most electric Hart Center crowds I remember. And there were always at least one or two home games that were pretty raucous up to about February 2013. BC at the DCU, Bucknell game at Hart in 2013, etc. After that, it's been total crickets, HC officially stopped being a "basketball school". The one exception I remember was winter homecoming against BU in January 2017, the year after "5 games in March" which was a sellout. My group of friends went to that and we went out and stayed in Worcester afterwards. Great time. I'm starting to enter the "acceptance stage" of following Holy Cross basketball. Is it that time to just come to the realization that we're not a flagship PL program, we're not an esteemed mid-major anymore? We're no different than SHU, Bryant, Central Connecticut State, Canisius or UNH. Just as a point of HC historical accuracy, I believe that SH game was the last RW year. SK's first official game was at the Hart against Harvard and Jeremy Lin. We then lost to St. Joe's and had that heartbreaker against Loyola IL at the Hart. You're right. The SHU opener was November 2008. Lafayette football game was that Saturday so I was in Lehigh Valley the night prior.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Jan 13, 2022 12:26:58 GMT -5
That Loyola game featured the most torturous last minute meltdown I've ever witnessed in person. That was Loyola pre Porter Moser; don't think Sister Jean was there to dance on the Crusader logo either. One of many highlights from the SK era.
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Post by princetoncrusader on Jan 13, 2022 14:25:02 GMT -5
You mean "lowlights."
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Jan 13, 2022 14:37:17 GMT -5
well put, princetoncrusader
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Post by purplehaze on Jan 14, 2022 12:13:29 GMT -5
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jan 14, 2022 12:21:05 GMT -5
Hot start, Kit!
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Post by sader1970 on Jan 14, 2022 12:24:10 GMT -5
Highlighted the "author," Kit Hughes as some thought he hasn't been on-duty yet due to the last communications coming from his lieutenants.
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Post by HC92 on Jan 14, 2022 12:24:36 GMT -5
One positive is that we are slowly moving away from a policy that didn’t make a lot of sense. Would have been easier to just stick with the prior policy for the rest of the season. So, kudos to Kit and Rougeau for that though we would be just as safe with a less restrictive policy. Hopefully Omicron crests soon and we can get closer to normal.
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Post by Crosser on Jan 14, 2022 12:28:20 GMT -5
Yaaaaaay! I'm now able to go to ..... wait for it ..... zero games before I leave for Florida.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jan 14, 2022 12:36:15 GMT -5
So someone who is COVID positive but vaccinated and boosted can attend the game, yet someone who tests negative but isn't vaccinated and boosted cannot attend.
Makes perfect sense.
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Post by hcpride on Jan 14, 2022 12:48:26 GMT -5
One positive is that we are slowly moving away from a policy that didn’t make a lot of sense. Would have been easier to just stick with the prior policy for the rest of the season. So, kudos to Kit and Rougeau for that though we would be just as safe with a less restrictive policy. Hopefully Omicron crests soon and we can get closer to normal. It is more a case of Covid-alarmism cresting . The alarmists will soon abandon the odd 'humans spread respiratory viruses and endanger the vulnerable' line of argument.
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 14, 2022 12:57:01 GMT -5
One positive is that we are slowly moving away from a policy that didn’t make a lot of sense. Would have been easier to just stick with the prior policy for the rest of the season. So, kudos to Kit and Rougeau for that though we would be just as safe with a less restrictive policy. Hopefully Omicron crests soon and we can get closer to normal. It is more a case of Covid-alarmism cresting . The alarmists will soon abandon the odd 'humans spread respiratory viruses and endanger the vulnerable' line of argument. You guys are beating the alarmism out of me, post by post.🙂
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Post by HC92 on Jan 14, 2022 13:01:46 GMT -5
Yaaaaaay! I'm now able to go to ..... wait for it ..... zero games before I leave for Florida. Not really nice to brag about going to Florida under the guise of complaining about not going to crappy HC games.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jan 14, 2022 13:59:57 GMT -5
Highlighted the "author," Kit Hughes as some thought he hasn't been on-duty yet due to the last communications coming from his lieutenants. This might be the craziest policy I HAVE EVER seen during this pandemic. I can see allowing HC students/staff into games but if you are going to allow Season Ticket holders what difference is it going to make to sell some more tickets?
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 14, 2022 14:06:45 GMT -5
A tin ear for the Worcester area sports fans who can afford to bring the family to a few games a year between the Woo Sox, Railers and HC but not afford to or have time to be season ticket holders anywhere.
Granted, not too many of those left going to the Hart anymore.
Nice flexibility for season ticket holders to decide if they want to attend a particular game with a refund if they don't without having to provide a Doctor's note.
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Post by sader1970 on Jan 14, 2022 14:22:56 GMT -5
Come on, Foley!!! You do realize how few season ticket holders there are, right? This is purposely self-limiting as to how many people will be at any given game. They know exactly how many season tickets there are - not many! This allows the long time ("chronic"? ) Holy Cross fans to see the game live if they dare (I won't) plus the players' families. Everyone else, watch on ESPN+. Those fly-by-night individual game fans (I'm looking at you, 45! ) are S.O.L. Makes perfect sense to me. (Then again, I like Australians). You're not angry that they won't let you in to take pictures, are you?
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 14, 2022 14:28:29 GMT -5
I wonder if they would sell a season ticket for the remainder of the season if asked?
Our energetic young Ticket Director is like the Maytag Repairman now.🤔
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Post by HCFC45 on Jan 14, 2022 15:01:25 GMT -5
Will they allow our 2 cardboard cutouts back in?
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Post by bfoley82 on Jan 14, 2022 15:06:23 GMT -5
Come on, Foley!!! You do realize how few season ticket holders there are, right? This is purposely self-limiting as to how many people will be at any given game. They know exactly how many season tickets there are - not many! This allows the long time ("chronic"? ) Holy Cross fans to see the game live if they dare (I won't) plus the players' families. Everyone else, watch on ESPN+. Those fly-by-night individual game fans (I'm looking at you, 45! ) are S.O.L. Makes perfect sense to me. (Then again, I like Australians). You're not angry that they won't let you in to take pictures, are you? I literally work for different colleges and organizations.
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Post by timholycross on Jan 14, 2022 15:54:24 GMT -5
If, for example, NAD gives someone his tickets, is there something on the tickets that say they're his?
And individual tickets look different in some way, shape or form; than season's tickets?
Or maybe it's an app now, but even the app could get transferred, couldn't it?
I don't think keeping the crowd down is a bad idea given the alternative that was in place....but, let's face it, if they just didn't allow any unsold tickets to be sold and made some adjustments to where folks sat (like they are doing anyway), wouldn't that have done the trick? That, and, of course, the awful product they are putting on the court.
Also, you have a totally vaccinated student body, yet even a small number of them (which is what it would be anyway given the lack of enthusiasm for the team) CANNOT GO!
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Post by sader1970 on Jan 14, 2022 16:14:08 GMT -5
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