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Post by nhteamer on Dec 5, 2023 9:23:39 GMT -5
I wonder if any thought has been given to an entirely insulated Ivy League / Patriot League schedule. What I mean is that the conference schedules are 100% PL and IL schools. It seems to me that we often complain when a Bryant or Merrimack wind up on our schedule so why not replace them with the likes of Dartmouth, Princeton, etc. If you look at the IL schedules, I'd say they'd all be fine with replacing their out of conference games with PL teams. You think our non-Ivy out of conference games are bad? We would be seriously complaining about some of the teams on their schedules. Maybe the IL would agree to just one more game at the end of the season to determine the PL/IL champ. Could be a nerdy bowl game of sorts. My reasoning here is that I don't see all this conference realignment stuff impacting the IL at all. They will continue to do exactly what they want, but it may impact their future schedules. We aren't as protected. Maybe the two conferences should have a conversation. This may be a ridiculous thought, but I'm just trying to think out of the box. any thought? ANY THOUGHT? This was the exact plan all along with JEB: this was the vision! I'd be embarrassed about repeating it again if not for this post. Derek Bok seduced JEB. JEB believed him. Derek Bok lied. We commited athletic suicide. Left at the altar Sad TRUE
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 22, 2023 15:15:07 GMT -5
He merely helped focus and attempted a better placement for what had long been HC's priorities. YOU MEAN CASTRATING ATHLETICS?
Did you know Fr. Brooks? YES I DID
Did you ever have any one-on-one conversations with him? YES I DID
You certainly show little knowledge & limited understanding of him or his position. MAYBE IT'S YOU THAT HAS A LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF HIS POSITION
I suggest you try to be a bit more careful, less superficial in your analysis and statements about Brooks. I SUGGEST THAT YOU TRY TO BE A LITTLE LESS SANCTIMONIOUS. HERE'S SOMETHING LESS SUPERFICIAL AND DEEP: BROOKS WAS 100% WRONG ABOUT THE ROLE ATHLETICS HAVE IN PROMOTING AN INSTITUTION.
Possibly a more athletically oriented athletics-first university such as UMass, Villanova or others would be more to your liking. Stay well. IT HAS BEEN AWFUL FOR 'NOVA. MEMBERS OF MY CLASS AND I'LL BET MOST OF YOUR CLASSMATES DID NOT EVEN BOTHER TO APPLY THERE. NOW MANY HC STUDENTS WERE REJECTED BY VILLANOVA. YEAH, IT'S BEEN AWFUL.
THE TRUTH DOES HURT, DOESN'T IT?
Happy Thanksgiving
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 22, 2023 14:09:07 GMT -5
Unless...BC still found a way to go bowling with the HC loss. Which means it would be coming down to the Miami game. I think I heard Hafley has multiple years still remaining so chances are the great reckoning was/is going to be after next season regardless. I'm thinking that if they lost to us they wouldn't be able to recover. As special a win for us that would have been, it would have been an equally debilitating loss to them. The local media would have eaten it up and Hafley would have been toast as I'm assuming the team would have given up on the rest of the season. ........................that's a damn shame then
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 22, 2023 13:57:27 GMT -5
They are bowl eligible now
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 22, 2023 12:23:23 GMT -5
I was at BC and Army
We travel VERY WELL.
My 2 cents for the ideal schedule 6 PL games 1 FBS $ game 1 Sevice Academy include Air Force (Nate Pine might help here) and play Navy and Army any time they want! 2 Ivy: Yes, we want to be associate with those schools 1 Northeast land grant university 1 Go nuts: play in Texas , or California
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 22, 2023 11:38:25 GMT -5
Great post Jack: thanks
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 17, 2023 9:24:47 GMT -5
Declan
PL ROY
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 17, 2023 9:21:12 GMT -5
Wow...someone got PAID to take that photo from the Telegram. SMDH Fans riveted to the action..
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 11, 2023 8:37:00 GMT -5
At West Point
Absolutely gorgeous day
This is the best game on our schedule
We need to BEG Navy and Army to play us.
It’s too good
Now let’s win.
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 8, 2023 9:01:12 GMT -5
It's the Harvard loss that's the killer.
Rivalry games are unpredictable; maybe Lehigh beats Lafayette
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Post by nhteamer on Nov 1, 2023 8:23:37 GMT -5
Ryan will be PL ROY
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Post by nhteamer on Oct 31, 2023 10:49:01 GMT -5
WOW Sports matter in attracting 17 and 18 year olds? ("got a lot of coverage in the newspapers and garnered my interest.") Interesting: didn't know that.
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Post by nhteamer on Oct 19, 2023 9:18:16 GMT -5
As posted on another thread
We need a few WHALES.
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Post by nhteamer on Oct 19, 2023 9:16:57 GMT -5
HC needs a few WHALES.
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Post by nhteamer on Oct 12, 2023 9:44:50 GMT -5
Chat with a BC '84
"We were a nothing commuter school and then Flutie: he changed everything. We are now a national university with a reputation 10x better than before."
Yes, Fr Brooks and Bob Cousy and the rest of you who deny the power of athletics for school EXPOSURE (which if your product is good -ours is GREAT- leads to better students and increased academic reputation) are/were very foolish
The evidence is stark and undeniable.
BC (most of us didn't bother to apply to CHCC!) Villanova (I was told "we dreamt about being close to HC") Providence (not in the same zip code as HC: and now we compete with them for students) ND and Georgetown (their taillights are getting farther away)
To deny that athletics propelled these institutions is impossible!
Yes, yes naive and foolish in the extreme
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Post by nhteamer on Oct 11, 2023 9:58:05 GMT -5
my avatar is all that i need to say about an opinion held for 40 years
JEB; perhaps holy, but a naive fool
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 26, 2023 9:44:27 GMT -5
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 23, 2023 15:42:35 GMT -5
I’ll play Sluka should NOT see the field again today
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 21, 2023 10:21:07 GMT -5
Have fun guys
I LOVE Holy Cross
But we don't move the needle in ANY way anymore. We are invisible.
Fr Brooks made sure of that.
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 19, 2023 13:52:59 GMT -5
Remember the play when Sluka's helmut came off and it looked like he needed to take a play off?
That was a huge third or fourth down.. In the future in that situation, I'd like a backup with SOME experience.
I have no love lost for Yale but their behavior toward us in '17 was exemplary
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 19, 2023 13:50:12 GMT -5
First and goal with that score (42-17) and time left, I think you put the subs in, but by no means do you not try to score. You should correct your post. 42-17, not 31-17. Big difference. thanks Done
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 19, 2023 11:27:12 GMT -5
Many might think this question doesn't deserve a thread and, if so, it will die quickly.
I'm not smart enough to create a Crossports poll. But, if so, it would ask "should the first team offense have taken the field deep in Yale territory up 42-17 with 4:50 to play?"
As for me...... a resounding no!
I speak with members of our best Duffner teams and they tell me that there were many 4th quarters when, up substantially, they were done for the day.
In 2017 our team had quit on Gilmore. The second half of the Fordham game was an abomination. Every observer of the subsequent Yale game admits that Yale could have named the score (80 points if they desired)
Ther took mercy on us and won 31-0.
So, six years later, Sluka throws to Coker for that last touchdown?. I don't like it at all: we owed them one.
Moreover, don't our subs need some snaps? Don't they deserve some snaps?
Of course they do. Moreover, that sub is one injury to a starter away from our needing him.
Bring it.
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 14, 2023 8:58:36 GMT -5
"He's holding a grudge against the HC administration, though he didn't use that term. "
SO AM I
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 14, 2023 8:38:03 GMT -5
just so you know, you HC sycophants look small and petty with your insults to Foley. Does objective information (as the poll above) trigger you? Thanks for your posts foley. Purple colored glasses frequently obscure the truth. Foley's mission in life, for reasons known only to himself and his therapist, is to disparage all things HC. He's welcome to leave Crossports any time. As long as he stays and posts his mostly fatuous comments he can expect some responses. posting a preseason poll is disparagement.? What a joke. Crossports should be challenging. It is so often a purple circle jerk.
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 14, 2023 7:34:42 GMT -5
just so you know, you HC sycophants look small and petty with your insults to Foley.
Does objective information (as the poll above) trigger you?
Thanks for your posts foley.
Purple colored glasses frequently obscure the truth.
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