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Post by jflare on Feb 9, 2017 15:54:21 GMT -5
The losses to Maine,and Lafayette were inexcusable. Win those two and our perception of the season might be a little different at 14-12 versus 12-14. It does not take much to tip the scale to improving versus not improving season to season. Those were missed opportunities for sure.
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Post by jflare on Feb 9, 2017 15:45:16 GMT -5
Bucknell Navy Army Lehigh Loyola
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Post by jflare on Feb 8, 2017 21:16:46 GMT -5
Very bad loss. School deserves much better from the program. At least an effort please
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Post by jflare on Feb 7, 2017 19:38:29 GMT -5
Holy Cross Navy Colgate Lehigh American
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Post by jflare on Feb 6, 2017 22:12:18 GMT -5
Wednesday another "right the ship and forget the last one game" We have had a ton of them this year and won most of them. Let's do it again and see what happens against Lehigh.......
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Post by jflare on Feb 3, 2017 21:32:43 GMT -5
94 you are hilarious !!
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Post by jflare on Feb 3, 2017 8:10:45 GMT -5
We need to complete the sweep and get another two points tonight !! No let down. Just win
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Post by jflare on Feb 2, 2017 20:46:25 GMT -5
Keep the good Karma going 92 You rock !!!
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Post by jflare on Feb 2, 2017 20:15:15 GMT -5
Colgate Lehigh Loyola Bucknell Boston University
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Post by jflare on Feb 1, 2017 21:26:00 GMT -5
Hey .... I like the Jets !!
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Post by jflare on Jan 31, 2017 18:00:50 GMT -5
Important game for us. Badly need to win this game.
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Post by jflare on Jan 30, 2017 21:58:12 GMT -5
Bucknell Boston University Lafayette Lehigh Holy Cross
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Post by jflare on Jan 30, 2017 8:27:58 GMT -5
Sota ....
Athletic administrators change, college administrators change ( Like the President !! ) the Board of Directors change and hence by definition the direction of the college changes over time in many ways including our athletic emphasis. This ebb and flow over time brings various periods of success and mediocrity. We should not change to a division 2 or 3 program just because our teams have not been successful. Stay the course and work at getting better within the framework that we have been using for 125 years.
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Post by jflare on Jan 30, 2017 8:15:27 GMT -5
jflare- Wishful thinking. Head-in-the-sand. You offer no reason to support the likelihood of your dream coming true. Also, my allusion to men making only half of HC's student population wasn't based on the fact you can still populate teams. It is based on the fact that with all-men you get the jock atmosphere that was so prevalent in the mid-60's. I think we ignore the effects of half the students being women. It's about today's culture on the campus. P.S. I think today's gender diverse culture at HC may be a better thing than its jock past. In my day on Wheeler III, no telephones, no cars, no TVs, no carpets and ABSOLUTELY NO GIRLS, the maid who used to make up our beds every day (very plain looking woman) started to look pretty good after a while. Most of us were crypto altar boys from Catholic all-boys high schools. Yes, we were pathetic. We didn't know how to handle booze and, for sure, we didn't know how to handle GIRLS. P.S.s. I met my future wife at The Cattle Call. I'm guessing it doesn't exist today at HC (no need for it), but for sure if it did it wouldn't be called that! Absolutely correct for this Beaven II alum. Cattle Calls in the Field House. Drinking 'Gansett from the Purple Packy in the train yards on cold Friday nights. What could have been better? Lots actually...as I found out when I moved down the Mass Pike to Cambridge in the fall of 1967. Admitting women changed the dynamics on the Hill forever. A better academic student body for sure. But also the end of the social environment (or lack thereof) that helped drive HC athletics in the past. My confreres and I would go to every Fitton Field home game in the mid-60s...and go with enthusiasm. Why? Because there was nothing else going on and nary a girl in sight. The times they have changed, no!?!
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Post by jflare on Jan 29, 2017 17:55:57 GMT -5
Gotta love Franny Mac .... one day he will have a total meltdown. It will happen !!
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Post by jflare on Jan 29, 2017 17:25:05 GMT -5
Looks like we may be in for a play in home game if we lose to Colgate on Wednesday. Great
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Post by jflare on Jan 29, 2017 12:20:44 GMT -5
We have been playing football, basketball and baseball at this level for over 120 years. Throughout that century plus of time there have many many prolonged periods of various types of successes and failures. Don't be caught up in the limited time frames of those successes and failures. We and the Administrators must take a view that extends throughout the history of the College as well as the next 50 to 100 years into the future. It is within that historical framework of what our athletics has meant to our identity that must guide us forward. It would be foolish and quite short sighted to believe that in the next 50 to 100 years, if we stay the course, we will not once again have periods of substantial athletic success at the level of Division 1. The College will be around long after all of us are gone so view the present situation not as an absolute but rather one of the more disappointing periods in a much longer historical athletic perspective that will for sure change.
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Post by jflare on Jan 29, 2017 11:58:56 GMT -5
identity crisis? Yes, as regards sports. Not sure, as regards academics. It's a fool's errand to think we can let the tail (sports) wag the dog (the school) as has been the case since the 1930's. Why? Because the college sports world is utterly different than it has been in the past, a world where our sports programs are not comfortable for many reasons--and it's getting more uncomfortable every year. We have a shot at becoming something unique: the academics of a Williams + Catholic + Jesuit + location in the middle of academic-rich New England + excellent athletic facilities + Div II or Div III sports conference(s). No more tail wagging the dog. We are a tiny academy on a hill in Worcester, MA with half the male population we used to have. I don't often agree with you but your points here would be difficult to ignore. The college sports world has changed and perhaps we would be better off acknowledging that fact. If we are at Williams/Amherst level academically, why not athletically as well? We are struggling in a very low level D1 league why not drop down to our academic peers? When I go to the Hart Center or watch a game on TV or over the internet I am always struck at the difference in the level of current student interest as opposed to when I was at the Cross. I believe my class was either the last or second to last class to be all male which probably has some influence on student attendance but it is clearly more than that which has changed. Lack of enthusiasm breeds further lack of enthusiasm.
I am a season ticketholder for Siena and I see that probably 85% of the crowd are not students. They played Iona on Friday night here in Albany before a crowd of 5,600 but Iona got off to a quick lead and took the energy out of the house. They have made the town and gown connection because in my generation the school was largely a day hop school whose graduates largely stayed in the area. The Cross simply doesn't have those demographics which is why playing at the Centrum isn't going to work. By way of example, in the mid 80s through mid 90s Albany had a CBA franchise, the Patroons, which initially did very well when it packed a 2500 seat capacity armory every game. It then moved in the early 90s to the new 17,000 seat downtown arena and the 3 to 4000 person crowds simply got lost in a sea of empty seats resulting in a lack of enthusiasm in the building and ultimately, the demise of the franchise (but not before Phil Jackson coached them to a couple of league titles).
If we are, in the words of my new found mentor Sarasota, going to let the tail wag the dog then exit the PL and pursue the MAAC (the A10 being a pipe dream as Fordham found out). However, I concede that such a change would hurt the academic profile of the college and frankly, the academic profile is more important. You must be either fish or fowl and we seem to be in no man's land. I don't think dropping down to the Williams/Amherst level of hoop is going to affect student enthusiasm, alumni enthusiasm perhaps, but not student. There is an old saying, "winning covers a multitude of sins" so I suspect the alumni of my generation will grant absolution to the heresy of dropping down after a successful season or two. As to the alumni of the PL generation, I am not sure they will notice a difference. I also believe the geography of the NESCAC would be more favorable.
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Post by jflare on Jan 29, 2017 8:37:24 GMT -5
We go down 6-0 in the first period and we can't even respond with one or two goals the rest of the way....... Very disappointing. I would think we could have responded better to the first period debacle. Maybe even gotten a little pissed off !! Might have taken a bit of the sting out of the first period if we had done so and helped for AIC games next Thursday and Friday which at this point are really absolute must wins for us to stay relevant in the league.
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Post by jflare on Jan 28, 2017 20:12:29 GMT -5
Hardly anyone cares....ask your friends, family and neighbors....a basketball game against Colgate? About as irrelevant as it comes.... Just sayin'.....we simply have to get out of this league for basketball. Nothing new on my pahht, I know, but it's not helping the school or the program....didn't we hire Nate Pine to figure this out? I understand your view here completely but it's all we got right here and now today .... Sad but true.... Go Cross beat Colgate
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Post by jflare on Jan 28, 2017 20:09:00 GMT -5
Good thing we won last night. This is embarrassing tonight. Can we hold them under 10 ??
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Post by jflare on Jan 28, 2017 19:57:50 GMT -5
So the Colgate game on Wednesday at home becomes another game similar to the Lafayette and American games at home. A win is badly needed in order to stay moderately relative in the league and stop the bleeding. We will see what happens.
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Post by jflare on Jan 27, 2017 21:57:47 GMT -5
Great win. Lets get tomorrow's game as well !!!
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Post by jflare on Jan 27, 2017 20:25:29 GMT -5
We need two wins this weekend. Let's get this first one.....
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Post by jflare on Jan 26, 2017 13:20:29 GMT -5
Lehigh Colgate Navy Loyola Bucknell
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