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Post by sader1970 on Dec 15, 2023 19:24:42 GMT -5
Anyone ekse remember the negative and/or skeptical posts when FHCBC was named. He was not D1, he did not knoiw hiow to recruit FCS talent, HC had made a mistake? Well, we now have our coach for 2024. Let's wait at keast until: 1. he assembles his coaching staff 2. he meets with his players and recruits 3. he and his staff start running practices 4. his team actually plays a game. No decision can be better than the information on which it is based...and that eans on all information, not just selected points. Let's post opinions, certainly. However, at this point we really knoiw so little gthat any fial judgement lies in the future, IMHO. Let;s see what develops under Coiach Curran. GO CROSS GOI’ve been in personal attendance at all HC-Merrimack games. Win or lose, they played us tough every game. I have to assume that was at least partially the result of their head coach, I was hoping that Chris Smith would be Bob Chesney’s successor. I have a lot of respect for how Merrimack played us. My position, simply put is, neutrality on the new coach and rgs said it better than I could. |
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Post by 78purple on Dec 15, 2023 19:45:30 GMT -5
I’m feeling really good about Curran. HC is the opportunity he needed to take things to the next level. Chesney built the foundation. Now Curran is gonna punch the Dakotas in the f@cking teeth. Let’s go!! Yessir !!! |
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Post by 78purple on Dec 15, 2023 19:49:55 GMT -5
Not that it matters, but driving back from the beach earlier, Molly my chocolate lab and I heard on the Sports Hub radio 98.5 that Dan Curran was hired at HC....you almost nevah hear news about college football on Boston sports radio. Isn't that the truth.....it was a collective yawn in Boston sportstalk radio when BC was #2 in the country with MattyIce |
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Post by gks on Dec 15, 2023 19:57:16 GMT -5
98.5 the Sports Hub has been mentioning our hire on their headline segments each hour. Nice to see the Boston media taking notice. That was Tim McKone doing the headlines on the Sports Hub today. He's a Worcester guy. Don't get your hopes up that the rest of them there care about life west of 128. |
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 15, 2023 20:00:16 GMT -5
Did Merrimack lose a lot of players to the portal over the past few years? Did Coach Curran bring in many transfers? He brought in the fifth year QB who lit up Fitton Field in the first HC-Merrimack game. |
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Post by 78purple on Dec 15, 2023 20:02:06 GMT -5
98.5 the Sports Hub has been mentioning our hire on their headline segments each hour. Nice to see the Boston media taking notice. That was Tim McKone doing the headlines on the Sports Hub today. He's a Worcester guy. Don't get your hopes up that the rest of them there care about life west of 128. good call....duly noted |
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 15, 2023 20:07:19 GMT -5
Wasn't sure how to feel initially, as he was I guy I personally didn't look at too much during the interview process. After a few hours looking around, I think there's a lot to like here. I totally get some of the concerns folks have, but I'm willing to give him a shot. Hopefully he does a meet & greet at some point so I can get a chance to at least see and hear him in person. We should have had a drone stationed at the intersection of Routes 495 and 290 as well as checking flight logs.🙂 |
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Post by newfieguy74 on Dec 15, 2023 20:07:28 GMT -5
98.5 the Sports Hub has been mentioning our hire on their headline segments each hour. Nice to see the Boston media taking notice. That was Tim McKone doing the headlines on the Sports Hub today. He's a Worcester guy. Don't get your hopes up that the rest of them there care about life west of 128. Yes, for the Boston media the world ends at Rt. 128. HC might as well be in Idaho, UMass in Oregon. |
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Post by bfoley82 on Dec 15, 2023 20:11:11 GMT -5
Did Merrimack lose a lot of players to the portal over the past few years? Did Coach Curran bring in many transfers? He brought in the fifth year QB who lit up Fitton Field in the first HC-Merrimack game. Which he can't do at Holy Cross...I believe my alma mater made a huge mistake not hiring him |
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 15, 2023 20:15:20 GMT -5
I thought Holy Cross would have went with a head coach with a more proven track record or a well respected young FBS coordinator. Nothing about Curran really stands out other than his regional/cultural familiarity given his time at Merrimack. Amazingly, Lehigh is 2-0 against Curran with two bad teams; including this year. I'm very interested to see how this plays out for Holy Cross. One quirk specific to Holy Cross is we already gave the keys to the (formerly🤨) vaunted HC MBB program to two basketball equivalents of a respected young FBS coordinator, the senior assistants at Marquette and Notre Dame and it crushed the program. I don't think Holy Cross could risk offering trial and error, on the job training to a career assistant again after Chesney (head coach at two previous stops) elevated it to national relevance. Curran is a more appropriate choice than most if not all career assistant coaches imo. |
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 15, 2023 20:21:40 GMT -5
98.5 the Sports Hub has been mentioning our hire on their headline segments each hour. Nice to see the Boston media taking notice. That's one tiny benefit of hiring a local guy from Chelmsford-UNH-Merrimack. Not enough to base the pick on but a nice bonus. |
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Post by bfoley82 on Dec 15, 2023 20:23:12 GMT -5
Very interesting-let’s see if Ty has a change of heart This has to be a tough, tough situation for our friend Foley, hating Holy Cross and wanting to denigrate everything HC does but then seeing that our new coach graduated from the school Foley attended….. Why would it be tough? I didn't cross paths in Durham for long with Curran but did with the Ohio State and UCLA head coaches much more. I made very good comments about him earlier |
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Post by hcmawfawo on Dec 15, 2023 20:28:09 GMT -5
Did Merrimack lose a lot of players to the portal over the past few years? Did Coach Curran bring in many transfers? He brought in the fifth year QB who lit up Fitton Field in the first HC-Merrimack game. Westin “Big Cowboy” Elliott — now the Offensive Coordinator at St Thomas More School in CT per his LinkedIn profile |
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Post by hcpride on Dec 15, 2023 20:35:13 GMT -5
I thought Holy Cross would have went with a head coach with a more proven track record or a well respected young FBS coordinator. Nothing about Curran really stands out other than his regional/cultural familiarity given his time at Merrimack. Amazingly, Lehigh is 2-0 against Curran with two bad teams; including this year. I'm very interested to see how this plays out for Holy Cross. The precise thoughts so many (everyone?) had when Lehigh inexplicably hired Tom Gilmore as head coach. And the successor Lehigh hired after that predictable flop may be a clunker too (2 consecutive 2-9 seasons). In contrast, Holy Cross certainly nailed it in their previous football head coach hire and I see no reason to think this football head coach hire will be much different. |
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Post by longsuffering on Dec 15, 2023 20:37:11 GMT -5
And I came back and said - There is now smoke around JMU. Which you conveniently forgot - because it doesn’t fit your narrative. I’m simply drawing attention to the fact that your track record on identifying a good coach vs a poor choice is flawed based on your most recent hoop posts My point all along on Nelson was that he deserved time to turn around a program where the previous head coach was totally negligent and his arrival was followed by COVID + the transfer portal. The new coach is getting exponentially more rope than Nelson ever had. It all doesn’t matter though because the program is a dumpster fire. If we want to cross sports, the Curran resume & hire reminds me of when Milan Brown was hired. Like Curran, Milan had a lot of head coaching years on his resume and those records told us exactly what he was - not good enough. And he was hired by an AD who totally over-indexed on head coaching experience in the search process. Nelson had four seasons. Despite the asterisks of that era, it's enough time to show definitive improvement which we unfortunately never saw. Coach Brown is a fair analogy to Coach Curran but Milan performed better than Coach Nelson so we have that going for us and Coach Curran built an FCS program from scratch in the pandemic, portal and beginning of NIL eras so he enters with a great understanding of Northeast FCS football while Brett had little familiarity with Northeast low/mid major basketball. |
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Post by saderfan1998 on Dec 15, 2023 21:13:03 GMT -5
98.5 the Sports Hub has been mentioning our hire on their headline segments each hour. Nice to see the Boston media taking notice. That was Tim McKone doing the headlines on the Sports Hub today. He's a Worcester guy. Don't get your hopes up that the rest of them there care about life west of 128. Regardless of Tim’s Worcester ties, it wouldn’t have happened if HC hadn’t had the recent run. Success begets success |
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Post by 78purple on Dec 15, 2023 22:21:39 GMT -5
That was Tim McKone doing the headlines on the Sports Hub today. He's a Worcester guy. Don't get your hopes up that the rest of them there care about life west of 128. Regardless of Tim’s Worcester ties, it wouldn’t have happened if HC hadn’t had the recent run. Success begets success I don't think UMass' win over NMS made the Sports Hub's updates... |
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Post by alum on Dec 16, 2023 6:16:34 GMT -5
Seems like a good hire, but I would have preferred someone who had played at or coached at a high academic school, like the guy Columbia just hired. How will our new coach deal with the HC admissions office? I would think that is KH and VR do their jobs, he might not have to deal with admisions very often if at all. This is a different world.  Tim Murphy and Tony Reno have succeeded at high academic schools. |
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Post by hcpride on Dec 16, 2023 7:50:25 GMT -5
Seems like a good hire, but I would have preferred someone who had played at or coached at a high academic school, like the guy Columbia just hired. How will our new coach deal with the HC admissions office? I would think that is KH and VR do their jobs, he might not have to deal with admisions very often if at all. This is a different world. I did notice that we haven’t heard anything the last few years regarding athletic admissions issues. I don’t know if it is the demise of standardized test requirements in calculating the Academic Index, across the board high school grade inflation (GPA and AI), or if it was never much of an issue in any case. Or maybe Patriot League schools have stealthily regained the ability to exercise discretion on their own admissions 😱) |
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Post by newfieguy74 on Dec 16, 2023 8:06:31 GMT -5
My view of the hiring is that I know a little about DC but not a lot. I have a lot of trust in KH and feel certain he would have sought the counsel of a lot of savvy people (e.g. Gordie Lockbaum) who know and love HC. It's a job that requires someone with a lot of different abilities (most have the "X's and O's" part, but they also need the ability to engage and motivate the players year round, etc.). I'm all in.
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Post by football44 on Dec 16, 2023 8:07:08 GMT -5
I like the attitude, 1996! Me too  |
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Post by timholycross on Dec 16, 2023 8:17:16 GMT -5
His son is apparently a 3* WR with a HC offer, but is committed to Ball State. Let's see how good of a recruiter he is at home. I can see the kid wanting to play “up” from Merrimack, and at the same time, I can see his old man not wanting him to sign with HC. Maybe now, however, DC can convince the son that he “can have it all” at Holy Cross. I bet the wife & mother would like that! BTW - Per Hudl, Ty Curran is the #1 Slot Receiver in New England. Book ‘em, Danno! If it wasn't mentioned, Chesney did offer his son. Wonder how seriously he considered HC. |
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Post by hc87 on Dec 16, 2023 8:52:32 GMT -5
I can see the kid wanting to play “up” from Merrimack, and at the same time, I can see his old man not wanting him to sign with HC. Maybe now, however, DC can convince the son that he “can have it all” at Holy Cross. I bet the wife & mother would like that! BTW - Per Hudl, Ty Curran is the #1 Slot Receiver in New England. Book ‘em, Danno! If it wasn't mentioned, Chesney did offer his son. Wonder how seriously he considered HC. Where did Chesney's son play football? Position? |
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Post by hchoops on Dec 16, 2023 8:56:33 GMT -5
87
(Unless you are joking)
I believe that timhc meant Curran’s son, not Ches’ son
When do you come up with a nickname for Curran ?
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Post by hc87 on Dec 16, 2023 9:06:06 GMT -5
87 (Unless you are joking) I believe that timhc meant Curran’s son, not Ches’ son When do you come up with a nickname for Curran ? LOL.....I need another cup of coffee....1st day of XMas break, still a little groggy....I didn't think Ray Bans had a kid that old yet. Everybody's different but how can a kid really want to go to Ball St ovah Holy Cross? It can be tricky having your kid on your team....not my child but I;ve coached a team that has had the head coach's kid on our hoop team a couple times....worked in one instance not so much in the other. As for Dan Curran's new moniker....lot of time to work on that, still in the honeymoon-phase. |
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