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Post by hc811215 on Sept 28, 2017 7:55:28 GMT -5
My hope is that this year's HC Bball team is like this year's Yankees with a lot of positive surprises from a very young squad. I know most on the board are Bosox fans and might think such a hope as almost blasphemous; however, as a Yankee fan, this year has been the most fun in years as a big group of very young players are out there bringing youth, athleticism, and enthusiasm to the field while having fun and doing far better than predicted. That's my hope for this year's team
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 27, 2017 17:37:41 GMT -5
RW will not be seriously considered. He's too old, too close to RP, and simply doesn't have the resume for a school like that.
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 26, 2017 14:23:55 GMT -5
I'm sure Pitino knew nothing about this. It was just one of those darn assistants who he has no control over and barely knows.
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 25, 2017 14:12:10 GMT -5
Cornell
Harvard
Monmouth
Yale
Wagner
HC
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 19, 2017 8:14:40 GMT -5
UPenn
Columbia
Furman
Fordham Sacred Heart
Princeton
HC
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 11, 2017 11:55:45 GMT -5
Yale
GTown
Fordham
Villanova
William&Mary Buffalo
Holy Cross
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 7, 2017 12:27:27 GMT -5
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 6, 2017 14:58:27 GMT -5
That is strange that no one applied. In our small Westchester County community of 13,000 people, we have 4 kids in the HC freshman class, 3 from our public high school and 1 from Fordham prep. I am assuming more than these 4 applied. Last year we had no one attend. This leads me to believe that it is hard to judge by one year, but having 4 high schools in Arlington County with no one applying does not look promising at all. I don't think HC has the name in northern VA that it has in New York and New England.
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 6, 2017 7:33:17 GMT -5
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 5, 2017 8:18:43 GMT -5
Fordham
Monmouth
Richmond
Sacred Heart
Georgetown
Holy Cross
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Post by hc811215 on Aug 31, 2017 15:32:19 GMT -5
Very first topic in a significant new venture and what is the topic.....The Irish American Experience. I guess they wanted to go with A Sure Thing . I wonder who is in charge of HC's IDENTITY these days. Whoever it is is about 50 years behind the times and is completely myopic. I would agree that at first blush this might not be the topic you would look for in terms of attracting new people and branding the college as moving beyond its New England Irish Catholic roots. However, this is a program only offered to alumni and parents so it may generate a lot of interest. Perhaps more significantly, Professor O'Donnell is perhaps the most dynamic of our professors and this is one of his areas of expertise, so anything he teaches is likely to be an excellent choice. If you haven't listened so far, his podcast "In the Past Lane" is well worth a listen.
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Post by hc811215 on Aug 30, 2017 13:07:31 GMT -5
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Post by hc811215 on Aug 30, 2017 12:17:41 GMT -5
UConn 42 HC 14
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Post by hc811215 on Aug 30, 2017 11:54:36 GMT -5
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Post by hc811215 on Aug 28, 2017 16:35:59 GMT -5
Average attendance last year less than 27,000 at UConn. I would put our game at between 20,000 and 25,000 (I'll use 22,000 as my official guess) as it is pre-labor day and can't be of much interest to UConn fan base.
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Post by hc811215 on Aug 23, 2017 12:48:33 GMT -5
Cal Poly UConn Army Villanova
Monmouth Bucknell
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Post by hc811215 on Aug 14, 2017 15:08:57 GMT -5
Terrible schedule for those travelling up to HC from any distance. I can't figure why we have so few home Saturday games. We play 6 times on Saturdays, only twice at home and 4 on the road.
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Post by hc811215 on Jun 16, 2017 14:39:10 GMT -5
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Post by hc811215 on May 26, 2017 14:53:50 GMT -5
hc81, thanks for the research. I particularly agree with this point: "We [HC] are more geographically and ethnically diverse today than we were back then" But the larger question that some of continue to raise is how does HC currently compare with other institutions? A particular, and grating, case in point is that school in Chestnut Hill. Class of 1981 Boston College11,336 applications / 2,205 enrolled Average SAT 496 V / 538 M Residence of enrolling freshmenMA 1,140 NY 254 CT 243 NJ 177 RI 69 FL 10 CA 4 ______________________________ Class of 2020 at Boston College28956 applications / 2359 enrolled SATs 25-75 range V 620-720 M 640-740 Residence of enrolling freshmenMA 513 NY 325 NJ 242 CA 173 CT 145 FL 90 RI 45 If there is no more than a modest difference between HC's classes of 1981 and 2020, there's one helluva difference between those two classes at BC. While BC is a real anomaly in that it has increased its national profile and academic competitiveness more significantly since the 1970s than almost any other university in the US, the point of my research was to point out that the good old days weren't all that good compared to our current classes. The class of 1991, entering in the fall of 1987 with all of our Gordie Lockbaum still had far fewer applications than this year's entering class had. There were only 4579 applications for the 635 entrants in the fall of '87. and the average SAT scores of the newly admitted class was a combined 1186 (573 verbal and 613 math). 54.4% of the class was in the top 10% of their HS class. I think our current students would stack up very well against students past and they continue to make us proud to be alums. I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement, just that I think some tend to inflate where we were and denigrate where we are.
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Post by hc811215 on May 24, 2017 18:31:14 GMT -5
For comparison sake, I decided to see if I could find the stats on the admitted class of 1981 (perhaps the finest class ever to graduate from HC ). The September 9, 1977 Crusader reported the following about the entering class. 640 students entered in the fall of 1977. 1400 students were accepted out of 3714 applicants. We accepted just under 38% of the applicants and yielded 46% of the accepted students. I do not know, but would imagine, that yields generally were higher then because applicants typically applied to only a handful of schools. 90% of the class was from New England or Mid-Atlantic states. 47% of the freshman class was from Massachusetts, 18% was from other states in New England, and another 25% were from the mid-atlantic. We only had students from 23 states and DC and two foreign countries (Germany and Switzerland -- I know one of them was really from Waterbury CT but his dad was transferred to Switzerland for two years). It was reported that the class had 33 minority students, 22 blacks (up 60% from prior year), 5 "orientals" and 6 Latinos. 59.7% graduated in top 10% of high school class, up 9% from previous class. We are more geographically and ethnically diverse today than we were back then and appear to be just as selective. We should stop beating ourselves up.
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Post by hc811215 on Apr 5, 2017 11:33:34 GMT -5
Is the fact that GU uses grey as a team color really related to the Confederacy, or just an accident? When was it selected? When my daughter looked at GTown we were told on the tour that the Grey/Blue colors were for both sides of the Civil War. Thank goodness she turned them down (not for that reason) and went to HC.
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Post by hc811215 on Mar 29, 2017 14:27:48 GMT -5
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Post by hc811215 on Mar 3, 2017 10:09:50 GMT -5
These young men represented HC well during their four years and I am sure will continue to do so in the future. They are true student athletes who gave their all for HC.
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Post by hc811215 on Mar 1, 2017 9:26:03 GMT -5
BU LU HOLY CROSS BUCK
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Post by hc811215 on Feb 27, 2017 17:14:25 GMT -5
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