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Post by longsuffering on Nov 22, 2023 21:38:34 GMT -5
Just for the record, we can play 12 game schedules in back to back seasons every 5 years. Next year and in '25 and then again in '29 and '30.....2030, maybe flying cars by then. Our future FBS games bring some geographical diversity: Northern Illinois in 25 Miami (OH) in 26 San Jose St in 29. I think we can still add another FBS game in 25....I realize this might have hurt us for playoff consideration but put me in the "2 FBS games" a year camp if it's possible. I realize that is daunting for the team but we have a lot of snoozefest type games most years....the FBS games provide excitement to the schedule. Pretty sure it helps recruiting as well. Flying cars! Syracuse.com has no idea what they are missing I'd really like to see us limit FBS to 1 per year but appreciate the fact that our PL schedule has high snooze-potential. Beyond Fordham, it seems our PL football foes are becoming less-riveting (if possible) than ever. I think the answer is Merrimack and regional CAA instead of a second FBS. Although that may not be thrilling either. I love the "high snooze" description because I still marvel at how the poster child for high snooze, Lafayette woke up and turned into a monster this season. HC can continue growing in national FCS significance by playing a competitive OOC schedule and by other PL teams improving. This year Lafayette joined with HC and Fordham giving the league three teams in the discussion of at least bubble teams at different points in the season. And Georgetown was released from the ICU. It could be worse.🙂
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Post by dharry13 on Nov 22, 2023 21:50:06 GMT -5
I have to chime in on the comment perhaps UMASS or Nova would be to your liking comment. Yikes.
I love HC. I played football at HC. I bleed purple. Objectively I’d send my child to Nova in a heartbeat. For anyone to believe HC is a better school is laughable. A peer - sure, why not.
Nova, Richmond, W&M are our comps. I’d send my kid to anyone of the three and just as proud of their degree.
Class of 2027 at Nova - 21% acceptance rate. What a school.
I’ll bleed purple til they bury me - but please. Stop with the idiocy.
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Post by mm67 on Nov 22, 2023 23:04:28 GMT -5
I have to chime in on the comment perhaps UMASS or Nova would be to your liking comment. Yikes. I love HC. I played football at HC. I bleed purple. Objectively I’d send my child to Nova in a heartbeat. For anyone to believe HC is a better school is laughable. A peer - sure, why not. Nova, Richmond, W&M are our comps. I’d send my kid to anyone of the three and just as proud of their degree. Class of 2027 at Nova - 21% acceptance rate. What a school. I’ll bleed purple til they bury me - but please. Stop with the idiocy. Idiocy? No need to get defensive & strike out. As I stated in one of my posts which you must have missed or ignored or did not understand: No brief against Villanova or UMass or any school for that matter. I would expect you would realize college choices are not usually a black & white choice. A is better than B thus... Think you are a bit too involved in the superficiality of the numbers game. Obviously, the best college is the college which works best for the individual student. Of course, we are all proud of our kids who graduate from any college. Hope I cleared up any misconceptions you may have had, Best to let it rest.
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Post by longsuffering on Nov 23, 2023 0:33:11 GMT -5
Discussions comparing Holy Cross with other schools have been happening for eons. When Bob Cousy (Mr. Basketball) and Bob Fouracre (Mr. Entertainment) were the broadcast team on channel 27 (Celtics 1970s?) Mr. E. said "Cooz and I both went to fine academic institutions. He graduated from Holy Cross and I graduated from the Boston School of Broadcasting."
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Post by wstruz71 on Nov 23, 2023 8:23:28 GMT -5
Villanova has won two NCAA baseball championships in recent years. The school gets national exposure as a great basketball school. Duh! Good for Villanova.Thought HC's acceptance rate was around 20% & yield relatively decent in the 45% range. (The yield is a good indicator that HC is not artificially pumping up applications/denominator.) Obviously the denominator has a great impact on the rate. So, what? I don't understand the point of the post. There are many great national schools which are not widely known nor are athletic power houses and are considered superior to Villanova or HC for that matter. Try Bowdoin, Middlebury, Hamilton, Claremont McKenna & many others. Look it up. Wesleyan? Where is that? I have no brief against Villanova or any other school. For those who prefer Villanova, go there or encourage your kids to apply. Happy Thanksgiving. I love your post, and I agree with it 100%. For those poster who insist it takes winning athletics to give a school a name and reputation the BEST example to use is UConn. USA Today voted it the number one school in the country for sports fans, because most of the school's athletic teams (both men and women) have winning traditions. In addition, UConn has no problems recruiting top notch athletes, because their teams are winners, and many of their athletes end up in professional sports. Plus, it is a school that lets its winning athletics drive the rest of the school. For example, when the men won the NCAA basketball championship last season, all I heard and read was "we also have the number one medical school and law school in the country;" the best business school, etc. Moreover, the school staff will tell you how al their athletes are top notch students with GPA's of a 5.0 on a 4.0 scale and SAT's of 2000 on a 1600 scale (LOL). Talk about ego and sports giving a school a name, there it is at its best.
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Post by hc1996 on Nov 23, 2023 9:46:16 GMT -5
This back and forth is amusing. We are all here basically because winning and losing is important to us and rankings matter. That said, I think Holy Cross is an incredible undergraduate institution. My education was top notch. However, I do believe that exposure contributes highly to a school’s academic perception/reputation. With the exception of the Ivies and a select few other schools, athletics don’t help because their reputation has been etched in our culture. Yale is Yale and people will always view it as an elite institution where everyone has a beautiful mind.
Let’s not kid ourselves and think that HC is so much different than any other school though. Money talks and HC absolutely cares about its national ranking and reputation. And, they should if they want to continue to attract high quality students.
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Post by drjack on Nov 27, 2023 10:27:47 GMT -5
Luke Newman plans to enter the portal.
My one Auburn alum friend was actually the one to tell me about it. Apparently he's one of the Auburn message boards top wish list gets from the portal.
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Post by hcpride on Nov 27, 2023 10:39:52 GMT -5
/\ He's certainly got ACC-level talent.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Nov 27, 2023 10:47:26 GMT -5
Luke has Sunday level talent at OG or ideally Center if he can make that transition. Not long enough for OT at P5 or NFL. He will be a great get for someone.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 27, 2023 10:49:57 GMT -5
That leaves one starter returning on the OL.
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Post by bfoley82 on Nov 27, 2023 10:52:02 GMT -5
That leaves one starter returning on the OL. Sounds like a good time for the head coach to move on....not going to be pretty with a new offensive line and new starting QB.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Nov 27, 2023 10:59:47 GMT -5
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Post by midwestsader05 on Nov 27, 2023 11:01:28 GMT -5
That leaves one starter returning on the OL. Will be a rebuild but Declan and Daddona have played a lot. Coupled with Christo and Cam McNair returning from a med redshirt (played a lot as a sophomore in ‘22) and that’s a good base of 4 to work with. Additionally Soph Cam Nolan got some good run this year. That’s likely the starting 5 heading into Spring ball.
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Post by hchoops on Nov 27, 2023 12:07:07 GMT -5
If Luke is ranked #4 at both college levels at tackle for the NFL draft, why would he enter the portal instead of focusing on the draft ? He could get hurt or have his rank drop by playing another year.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Nov 27, 2023 12:09:27 GMT -5
If Luke is ranked #4 at both college levels at tackle for the NFL draft, why would he enter the portal instead of focusing on the draft ? He could get hurt or have his rank drop by playing another year. He needs interior O lineman film. He’s not a tackle at the next level.
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Post by purplehaze on Nov 27, 2023 13:01:11 GMT -5
if Luke's no.4 overall rank is accurate, he would be getting significant NIL money at his next college stop. Getting one more year's development while cashing in might make a lot of sense.
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Post by hcnj on Nov 27, 2023 21:58:42 GMT -5
That leaves one starter returning on the OL. Sounds like a good time for the head coach to move on....not going to be pretty with a new offensive line and new starting QB. in colleges where athletes go to college for 4 yrs about 25% of the team turns over every year, with covid 5th yrs maybe more. Imagine if every coach in the country thinks like you and moves on because he just lost 25% of his team? Look, I know you're not a serious poster but pick your spots.
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Post by 78purple on Nov 27, 2023 23:33:50 GMT -5
If Luke is ranked #4 at both college levels at tackle for the NFL draft, why would he enter the portal instead of focusing on the draft ? He could get hurt or have his rank drop by playing another year. Agree........Take your chances on being a 5th round pick and a possible 10 year NFL career
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Post by bfoley82 on Nov 27, 2023 23:50:22 GMT -5
Sounds like a good time for the head coach to move on....not going to be pretty with a new offensive line and new starting QB. in colleges where athletes go to college for 4 yrs about 25% of the team turns over every year, with covid 5th yrs maybe more. Imagine if every coach in the country thinks like you and moves on because he just lost 25% of his team? Look, I know you're not a serious poster but pick your spots. At most schools, more than 25 percent turns over every year....you would know that if you knew anything about college athletics today.
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Post by Ignutz on Nov 28, 2023 12:07:20 GMT -5
I have to chime in on the comment perhaps UMASS or Nova would be to your liking comment. Yikes. I love HC. I played football at HC. I bleed purple. Objectively I’d send my child to Nova in a heartbeat. For anyone to believe HC is a better school is laughable. A peer - sure, why not. Nova, Richmond, W&M are our comps. I’d send my kid to anyone of the three and just as proud of their degree. Class of 2027 at Nova - 21% acceptance rate. What a school. I’ll bleed purple til they bury me - but please. Stop with the idiocy. No question that Villanova is a very good school, but from some of my kids who graduated from HC - with ten years between the last two, I've repeatedly heard that among many whom have attended these two schools as well as others of similar ilk, Villanova is widely and routinely referred to as Villanofun. Just sayin'.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Nov 28, 2023 12:13:45 GMT -5
Moving this from recruiting thread to here where it belongs.
17, I read this as asking more generally about the team in 2024. As we sit here today (lots more will be known per off-season progression, spring/summer etc), I think 7-5 should be an appropriate benchmark while still in contention for the PL title. The OOC schedule is brutal with 3 CAA (URI, UNH, Bryant) plus Harvard, Yale and Syracuse. Laffy loses some very good pieces on Defense but will return EIGHT starters on Offense, Colgate found something second half of the season which should sustain momentum this off-season and Fordham only loses MJ Wright while returning most of their best players and should be hungry for a turn-around. G’Town continues to recruit well and is still fairly young.
In full disclosure, my preseason W/L predictions last 3 years were 8-3 in 2021, 9-2 in 2022 and 8-3 in 2023. I tried to plant as many seeds as I could to manage expectations for those picking HC to win 10/11 games in 2023 w/o raining on others parade about the hype, but we were not and should have never been a top 5 ranked team. Even w/o the injuries to key players, you don’t get past the FCS quarterfinals rotating 4 freshman along your DL and losing 4 starters (all 5th years) in your secondary. FCS pundits like Herder got caught up in the headlines of Dobbs and Haskins returning. I was saying this in my direct correspondences with several on the board since last summer. We had a top 5 O, top 3 on our best days, but you need a top 30 D at least coupled with that high powered offense to get past the quarters and even with all our preseason pieces, we weren’t going to be that. Back to the quarterfinals was always my ceiling coming into the season.
As for 2024, Joe P will be the X factor. 2 games is really not enough to draw any sweeping conclusions. We know he has a cannon for an arm and a great head on his shoulders. He’s extremely well liked and respected by his teammates. Time well tell with the rest of what it takes. Take this to the bank, Fuller will not be quite the same w/o the dual threat of Matt running the ball. His YPC will go down v this year as defensive schemes/keys will change without the threat of Matt’s legs. OL will be a rebuild with some solid pieces and losing the most dangerous WR in program history can’t be replaced. I’m cautiously optimistic about this still young D (SPEED) but we will still need to score with some teams that bring back very good Offenses.
So that’s how I get to 7-5 as I sit here today. Hope this helps. Edit**- I could easily get to 8-4 depending upon a couple off-season developments re. our roster and our opponents. For example, who does UNH get to replace Brosmer at QB. With him, I had them as the favorite v HC in ‘24, now I’m not so sure.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Nov 29, 2023 13:26:44 GMT -5
x.com/farrellportal/status/1729925033819042200?s=20Another big loss for UNH. It’s almost like since 2024 is the final season with the extra Covid eligibility; most grad transfers with one year left are going to the portal. I’m noticing this across both FCS and FBS. Group think / herd mentality is a powerful behavioral phenomena.
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Post by joutsHC77 on Nov 29, 2023 17:45:43 GMT -5
His major was Outdoor Leadership and Management. What the heck is that?
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Nov 29, 2023 19:32:38 GMT -5
His major was Outdoor Leadership and Management. What the heck is that? Captain of football team???
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Nov 29, 2023 19:46:55 GMT -5
I’m surprised coming out of the timeout with 45 seconds left in the half, Paulsen didn’t want to go two-for-one. That’s pretty simple stuff.
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