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Post by rickii on Aug 8, 2017 9:28:31 GMT -5
breezy -
How many of our 110+ offers are with defense kids ? Of our 6 verbals thus far how many for defense ?
Thanks.
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Post by rickii on Aug 3, 2017 15:49:13 GMT -5
Since DEFENSE has been our primary problem, I hope we'll soon hear something positive on that front.
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Post by rickii on Aug 2, 2017 15:25:44 GMT -5
You have to pay them no matter where you kid attends school (or even if you have no kids), so that is a very different point. If you send your children to the public school, there is no additional cost (in effect "free") and you will have to pay your taxes even if your kids attend a private school. Exactly. Parents who elect to send their child to Bergen Catholic pay both tuition at BC plus their local taxes....I'd say that's a sacrifice....not an advantage for the privates.
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Post by rickii on Aug 2, 2017 14:22:13 GMT -5
The North Jersey public schools had one excuse; "you recruit." Every kid at the school is essentially recruited. The public schools have a huge advantage .....it's FREE.It's like Harvard whining that we give scholarships when their budget is twice ours for football. Much like the best response to Patriots haters; "Ya hate us 'cause ya ain't us." What about local school taxes ?
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Post by rickii on Aug 2, 2017 9:52:27 GMT -5
137 -
By chance do you know the compensation #'s for all the PL football Head Coaches ? If Gilmore is making about $240,000, I'd like to know where he ranks....thanks.
Unfortunately the only readily available source is the list of each college's most highly compensated employees on Form 990. Bucknell's Joe Susan shows up on the July 2015 form with total compensation of $220,000. But coaches from colleges with large graduate schools with highly paid people (Lehigh, Fordham, Georgetown) will never make the cut. However, that is not the case with Colgate and Lafayette - who don't have grad schools - but their coaches didn't make the list, meaning they were making less than $230k. That would apply to their long-time coaches, Dick Biddle and Frank Tavani. While I have no source, I doubt anyone in the PL makes much more than Gilmore. Perhaps Andy Coen got more if he received a large bonus - but Lehigh typically hasn't been a big payer. Thanks.
Now, maybe you have it handy, where does Gilmore stand versus his PL peers in W/L in league play only ?
( this is where that College Football Data Warehouse site came in handy )
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Post by rickii on Aug 1, 2017 19:22:45 GMT -5
Images for July are up. www.goholycross.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=33100&ATCLID=210993205The photo for the indoor practice facility is looking at the SE corner. Equipment in place in sports performance. Wood flooring for Blaney court on site, and being acclimated. The Blaney photo looks toward hoops coaches office suite on the second floor. I'm invisioning a big illuminated purple block HC logo on that white exterior NFH wall
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Post by rickii on Aug 1, 2017 14:49:19 GMT -5
HC paid 2 coaches in the same season - and more than TG makes - when NP launched MB. Yes, a lot more than TG makes. In FCMB's last year, he got total compensation of about $420,000. TG at that time was receiving about $240k, including benefits, value of pension contribution, etc. I doubt if he is making a lot more than that now. 137 -
By chance do you know the compensation #'s for all the PL football Head Coaches ? If Gilmore is making about $240,000, I'd like to know where he ranks....thanks.
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Post by rickii on Jul 27, 2017 14:09:03 GMT -5
Sometimes reality creeps up on you and slaps you in the face. Reconfigure Fitton Field for Lacrosse and any other field sport. A highly selective Liberal Arts college with 1,500 men is nuts to pursue a Div I schedule including some FBS teams. The money could be so much better spent. Bite the bullet. Stop living in the past. The gnashing of teeth will be brutal, but we must stop being delusional. I presume you'd advise Colgate to do the same, yes ?
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Post by rickii on Jul 27, 2017 11:35:20 GMT -5
Wow....just wow.
Cripes, Hoyas have 2 reps and we have just the 1 rep !
I'm guessing ( really ? ) we'll be picked to be the caboose.
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Post by rickii on Jul 26, 2017 11:59:27 GMT -5
This year's football and basketball results will be a good indicator one way or the other. Mate has been here awhile. Positive results should be on the way. Totally disagree.
First basketball - I'm sure the majority here knew/suspected as far back as a year ago that 17-18 was going to be a rough go. I hate the word 'rebuilding' but this season we'll lack leadership, experience and physical balance.
Second football - Pine has chosen to give Gilmore more rope than he has in other coaching evaluations. Gilmore MUST show dramatic improvement on several fronts to produce a clear winner ( minimum 7 wins ! ) this season.
Carmody is a veteran proven winner while Gilmore is not.
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Post by rickii on Jul 20, 2017 10:39:16 GMT -5
always sat on the Visitors side at Fitton. best sun for tanning, best view of HC sideline. Was usually warmer too, if there was sun, and also shielded somewhat from the NW wind. Speaking of warmth, pretty dang hot and humid this week. Is there any A/C yet within the LAC ? If not, gotta be like an oven particularly in several enclosed areas for those workers. PP any idea where the main generator room is located ?
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Post by rickii on Jul 19, 2017 12:08:07 GMT -5
AIR, at HC after frosh year, we were allowed to take 1 course per semester as a 'pass-fail' grade with full credit(s). Came in handy when you had a real tough elective ( or a reputed tough grading prof ) where anything above a C+ was unlikely. Didn't hurt your current or trailing GPA and still got the required credits.
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Post by rickii on Jul 19, 2017 11:50:37 GMT -5
Through no fault of pp, I get lost on east-west-north-south references per LAC reports or updates. Only thing I'm sure of is the open endzone at Fitton is due west. The setting sun on Fall Saturdays is a viewing killer for fans in the closed endzone....or used to be when we had decent crowds.
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Post by rickii on Jul 19, 2017 11:33:14 GMT -5
haze is referencing HC's schedule not Dartmouth's....when he sees this he'll correct the date to the 29th.
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Post by rickii on Jul 19, 2017 11:20:54 GMT -5
In our favor is Edsal is the opposing coach....he's already run afoul in his second go-round in Storrs. But be advised if UConn begins to pull away, he'll have no qualms about running up the score.
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Post by rickii on Jul 18, 2017 18:30:57 GMT -5
With Edsal and Gilmore coaching this could be wild game....something like UConn 47 HC 27 with lots of turnovers.
Doesn't UConn have a good veteran RB ?
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Post by rickii on Jul 18, 2017 11:39:29 GMT -5
Help me out here as I am getting confused. I assumed NFH was shorthand for "New Fieldhouse" (i.e. the Quonset hut replacement, which I didn't think they started doing anything on). But in the context you describe, it sounds like the Luth Athletic Complex ("field turf") a/k/a "LAC." The Luth Athletic Complex includes the NFh, the Hart Center (court and rink), the Blaney Court. I do not know whether the NFH will also be specifically named after the Luths, The NFH is Crossports vernacular to distinguish it from the OFH. The OFH will soon be history, and probably named something like the Student Recreation Center (SRC). Or maybe they'll name the SRC after Fr. Hart, and sell naming rights to the Hart court. I'm sure, for example, if a Mr. Generous Donor funded the expansion of the rink, it would be re-named the G. Donor Rink at the LAC. The field turf field is the indoor field that is the principal feature of the NFH. As best I can tell, naming rights for practically any space at the LAC can be bought. Naming rights do need to be sorted out. I suppose we may learn next March whether new strength and conditioning is also named for the Smiths, or, as the original strength and conditioning space was funded by the Smiths, their name will be retained for that particular space. Thus, the LAC would have the Park Smith Football Coaches Suite. Klar? . . Wait, did I miss something along the way here ? I understood previously, and the rendering seems to confirm, that the OFH/Quonset Hut was to be internally refurbished with a new modern entrance on the end facing Hogan. Now the plan is to demolish it and build a new facility ?
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Post by rickii on Jul 18, 2017 11:07:19 GMT -5
Here's an interesting rumor....
HC discussing hosting a promotional 'welcome' for the Railers during halftime of the Monmouth football game at Fitton in return for the Railers mutual cooperation on HE scheduling at the DCU.
Sounds like an initial olive branch effort toward prospective initiatives that would follow to promote hockey at the DCU.
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Post by rickii on Jul 13, 2017 14:24:36 GMT -5
Maybe, but better than no game in the metro area, as in the last few seasons. I understand the desire by Carmody/Pine to water down this year's OOC sked due to the team being perceived as weak. They get a 1 year pass on that. But the timing unfortunately stinks. Alums in metro NYC may not yet have forgotten the debacle in Yankee Stadium just a few months ago and a follow-up to that with a hoops game at Fairleigh Dickinson isn't a great idea to regenerate general enthusiasm for HC's marquee sports. And IMO, a date like this does zilch for recruiting the type of kids we need in New Jersey.
The @njit game attendance was a whopping 882 or such....yuk.
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Post by rickii on Jul 13, 2017 12:25:53 GMT -5
I doubt that Fordham, St. John's or Seton Hall want to face HC, esp with the Princeton offense, a special prep. St. Peter's or Hofstra, maybe. I believe that since we are playing Iona their next season, we wanted.a Metro NY game this year. I do not count Sacred Heart. With our personnel I really don't think anyone above us worries that much about the Princeton offense. Regretably, I suspect playing HC isn't the attraction it once was. I pray I live long enough when playing @njit and @fdu are buried in the archives under the heading Dark Ages.
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Post by rickii on Jul 13, 2017 11:34:30 GMT -5
On the surface it looks kind of weak, but aside from FDU, SHU, and Manhattan last year's Pomeroy rankings of the other opponents are not bad: Albany - 129 Harvard - 112 Iona - 117 UNH - 182 That's a pretty solid home OOC slate. La Salle - 140 Manhattan - 287 Towson - 116 And Manhattan should be much better in 2017-18. FDU - 267 UMass - 157 URI - 34 SHU - 301 Siena - 170 FDU and SHU add little to nothing to the schedule. FDU is clearly for the metro NY alums maybe the only team we could get I for one am pleased Fordham, St. Johns, Seton Hall, Hofstra maybe even St. Peters would be for metro NY alums....but AT FAIRLEIGH DICKERSON
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Post by rickii on Jul 13, 2017 8:47:35 GMT -5
I will be the first to admit that I am biased against freshmen. No matter what the hype, I have low expectations. No matter how good the high school or prep school, it's not D-I ball. Two years ago, I was pleasantly surprised by Zignoski and ecstatic with Charles. That does not mean I think these guys will be stiffs. Look at Pat Benzan who had a big sophomore year after a fairly unremarkable freshman year Based on that frame of reference, sure we might get a kid to score 10 a game, especially if pressed into big minutes. According to Worcester Gray, having two guys do it (or combine for 20) has happened three times in the last 25 years - and one of those duos were scholarship kids in a non scholarship league. Not the best odds to be hanging the hopes of the season on. With such a green team, things should get better as the season progresses, but I'm not seeing a lot of OOC games where HC will be favored I believe that it may be too narrow to limit the thinking to only two freshmen when there is a chance, possibly good chance, that three, four or even more freshmen will receive big minutes, shots and thus hopefully points. There is no precedent for an HC team to bring in 6 freshmen when only 3 returning players gave us significant minutes. You're a much better evaluator of talent than I am so I'm looking for some guidance from you on the frosh versus the returnees behind Benzan and Charles....
By 'big minutes' from let's say 4 frosh are you guessing these pups are better overall than Floyd, LeSann and Zigorski ? To me 'big minutes' means 10+ per game minimum....consistently. If we assume/anticipate that Charles and Benzan will consistently get 20+ per game, that seems to give us a 'core' 6 per game with Floyd, LeSann and Zigorski in reserve/as needed bench players.
I'm assuming you agree that Perkins is a wild card in this 'plan'. It would be HUGE if he can make it back as a productive asset in a top 6 or 7 role.
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Post by rickii on Jul 12, 2017 13:37:50 GMT -5
And Carmody is counting on that. Not sure which one(s) he thinks are going to be the second coming of Karl Charles but my money is on Butler. Carmody doesn't really have a choice.
Charles and Benzan should start....that's a returning 17 ppg !! Beyond those 2 - as I see it - it's open try-outs amoung Floyd, LeSann, Zignorski and the rookies.
That's 6'6", 5"11" then 6"7", 6"4", 6"2" followed by the frosh.
Lastly, we have 1 wild card....a kid who hasn't played for a year in Perkins at 6'4".
As good as Carmody is he's got a man's work ahead of him finding someone who can score and anyone who can rebound.
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Post by rickii on Jul 12, 2017 13:03:21 GMT -5
The team has players who are: 6'10" 6' 9" 6' 8" 6' 7" 6' 6" HC lost players who were: 6"11" 6' 7" 6' 6" 6' 2" 6' 0" 5'10" How has the team become "undersized?" From a more pessimistic viewpoint, Jehyve is the only guy on the team who is taller than 6'6" and has played double digit minutes in his college career And Jehyve returns at a whopping 2.3 ppg....
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Post by rickii on Jul 12, 2017 11:03:48 GMT -5
The team has players who are: 6'10" 6' 9" 6' 8" 6' 7" 6' 6"HC lost players who were: 6"11" 6' 7" 6' 6" 6' 2" 6' 0" 5'10" How has the team become "undersized?" The 6'7" kid might play....the 6'6" kid starts.
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