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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 5, 2023 17:36:04 GMT -5
In his first four years as coach, RW coached the team to winning the PL championship in years two, three, and four.
In the next six years as head coach, there was one PL championship, in 2006-07. The team was runner-up in three other years.
His OOC W-L percentage was .560
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 5, 2023 16:11:28 GMT -5
Based on the declared construction value in building permits, the cost of the new Jesuit residence is $7+ million. This does not include architect fees, excavation costs (no fee-applicable permit needed), and the purchase cost of the land. This is an 8,000 square foot building, so the math per square foot is straightforward. ------------------------
Getting back to the $1 billion estimate,
Cost of converting Alumni, Carlin, and Wheeler to another use.
Cost of renovating Loyola, which is nearly 60 years old. I daresay the new Jesuit residence is probably costing more than Loyola did in 1963-64.
Cost of new residence halls to replace Alumni, Carlin, and Wheeler.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 5, 2023 15:42:39 GMT -5
Mr. PP: Is there a typo on the ticket sales line? Basketball generates less revenue from ticket sales than Wrestling? I knew wrestling was popular in Pennsylvania, but I didn’t know it is more popular than basketball. No typo. I was quite surprised to see hoops ticket revenue so low. I know Bucknell posters here have said that with respect to football attendance at Bison games, PSU was the elephant in the room, because the locals all followed PSU football. Maybe Bucknell basketball has a larger fanbase in that area of the country than does PSU hoops. ---------------------------------------- With some further research today, it is now obvious that wrestling is BIG! ^^^ Match against Iowa earlier this year. Not an empty seat to be seen. .
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 5, 2023 13:09:00 GMT -5
The third parcel is 129B Kendig., and that was sold to Holy Cross last year by Madison Kendig. Of the four parcels at the center of the legal dispute between Madison Kendig and HIGCO, Madison Kendig bought 15 Clay and 28 Boyden. Holy Cross bought 97-99 Kendig. The blurb below from the T&G indicates also HC bought 119 Kendig. I am not a subscriber to the T&G so I cannot access the real estate transfers page, to corroborate the snippet below from Google search. I believe the $1,200,000 is the price paid for both 119, and 97-99 Kendig. Jan 8, 2023 — $346,500, 119 Chestnut St, Massachusetts Comm Of, to 119 Chestnut ... $1,200,000, 119 Kendig St, Higco LLC, to College Of The Holy Cross.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 5, 2023 9:32:19 GMT -5
Is the Giants' website as slow as HC's? Nothing there about Chris Smith. Nothing on HC's website either. Smith's twitter profile still indicates he is at HC., and HC still lists him as a coach.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 5, 2023 9:18:22 GMT -5
They've added more seats, about 200+, in a new Fan Deck beyond left-center field. The developer who owns that parcel, or proximate to it, has deferred constructing a proposed lab building on the parcel --until he has a tenant lined up. He can then build to suit, rather than build speculatively. The deferral also means that the city will experience a delay in recouping some its financing costs for Polar Park. Same developer who is the co-owner of the new Jesuit residence. A former member of the BoT was the head of Skanska, a major, global construction firm. Skanska builds speculatively, and has the financial wherewithal to do so. HC hired Skanska as a construction consultant for Prior and Luth. We co-own the new Jesuit Residence? Really? Why did we decide to that arrangement for the first time in 180 years? Yes, really. Several years ago, the owner of Madison Properties, who builds around Polar Park, bought a single, vacant parcel of property on Kendig St., that abutted HC-owned property on City View. A year plus ago, he bought two adjacent parcels on Kendig, also vacant property. Three parcels in total. The new Jesuit residence is being built on these three parcels. opencorporates.com/companies/us_ma/001454012www.wbjournal.com/article/2020-power-50-denis-p-dowdleI was told by a recent graduate who retains an association with HC that his son is a student, and students were speculating Madison Properties would build a new HC residence hall next to Polar Park. The new Jesuit residence building permit history reveals building permits issued alternatively to Madison Kendig Holdings or Holy Cross. The total value of the permits issued to date is over $7 million. Holy Cross recently bought these two properties on College St. www.zillow.com/homedetails/97-College-St-Worcester-MA-01610/56747907_zpid/www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/ma/worcester/99-college-st/pid_49212425/HC has said these will be used for transitional faculty housing. 99 College will need some work. More recently, HC bought 97 Kendig, which abuts 99 College St. www.telegram.com/story/lifestyle/real-estate/2023/01/08/worcester-county-real-estate-transfers-sunday-jan-8/69767508007/www.zillow.com/homedetails/97-Kendig-St-Worcester-MA-01610/56747915_zpid/This property was previously owned by HIGCO LLC 97 Kendig and three other properties, 119 Kendig, 28 Boyden, and 15 Clay St. were the subject of a suit filed in Worcester Superior Court by Madison Kendig against HIGCO LLC, the owner of all four properties, alleging breach. www.masscourts.org/eservices/search.page.3?x=tF0Xmi4gYUanoxo5hqB9kgThe case was settled in December, and I believe all four properties were sold in Jan or Feb to either Holy Cross of Madison Kendig. Takes a while for the published property transfer records to catch up, particularly in what amounts to a private sale. ----------------------- As to why? HC probably did not want to use the land it owns on the south side of Kendig St., which has two houses on it. Probably saving the land for parking or future athletic facilities.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 4, 2023 18:17:10 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 4, 2023 17:49:14 GMT -5
Marcus Blossom, on his arrival, explicitly stated that he considered men's basketball to be THE #1 sport at HC, with football being #1a. Marcus was a basketball guy, anyway. --------------------------------------------------------- From the Title IX reports for 2003-2004, ranked total spending on men's basketball, Patriot League.
Holy Cross $1,264,000 American 1,251,000 Lafayette 938,000 Colgate 869,000 Bucknell 839,000 Lehigh 680,000 No data for USMA and USNA. Boston University and Loyola were not members. Both these schools spent about 25 percent lass than Holy Cross.
The big differences between the member schools in 2003-04 mostly reflects how quickly each school ramped up the return of scollies. Basketball scollies were re-introduced with the freshman class entering in the fall of 1998. 2003-04 would be HC's sixth year with scollies.
By 2008-2009, HC's spending ($1,549,000) was second, behind AU ($1,627,000) Bucknell ($1,481,000) was third,, Lafayette ($1,300,000) had risen to fourth. RW leaves in June 2009, his record in the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons was 33-28.
HC women's basketball is still ranked #1 in PL spending in 2008-09. HC spent about $100,000 more than AU, and about $400,000 more than Bucknell.
If you care to place an * on RW's record of success because HC had a significant scollie advantage for most of his tenure, then the last truly successful HC men's hoops coach was GB, and he left 30 years ago.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 4, 2023 16:32:11 GMT -5
They've added more seats, about 200+, in a new Fan Deck beyond left-center field. The developer who owns that parcel, or proximate to it, has deferred constructing a proposed lab building on the parcel --until he has a tenant lined up. He can then build to suit, rather than build speculatively. The deferral also means that the city will experience a delay in recouping some its financing costs for Polar Park.
Same developer who is the co-owner of the new Jesuit residence.
A former member of the BoT was the head of Skanska, a major, global construction firm. Skanska builds speculatively, and has the financial wherewithal to do so. HC hired Skanska as a construction consultant for Prior and Luth.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 4, 2023 13:11:40 GMT -5
Oliver is one, Vaganek is two.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 4, 2023 11:23:38 GMT -5
I don't think the following is true, but I've sometimes wondered if Crossports is perceived by some as a group of mostly older, cranky, over sensitive, nit-picking alums whose unremitting scrutiny of HC sports is not representative of alums as a whole. I like KH--a lot-- so I don't think he would have this mindset. I would opine that yes it is perceived that way by some for sure. The original board was basketball centric, with football a distant second in interest. That board was begun during the RW era, and IIRC, it sprung up about the same time that HC (and the PL) restored scollies for basketball, and HC led the pack in ramping up (which helped RW's recruiting). If there was a de novo board created last year, it very likely would be football-centric.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 4, 2023 11:02:23 GMT -5
Below is an excerpt from Xmassader's post supra.
Following the 2006-07 season, HC men's hoops has had one season where the team won 20 or more games, that was under Milan Brown in 2013-14, and 15 seasons with less than 20 wins. That's 15 of 16 seasons, spanning five coaches.
One can go back further, and Raynor never won 20 or more games in five seasons. And RW, the one coach who did have success, showed zero loyalty to HC, even after DR gave him two hats to boost his compensation. What assurance can KH and Chair Flaherty give the BoT that the coach who succeeds BN will end the streak, explain why will he succeed, and how many years do they give him to do so? Otherwise, HC is back on the carousel in 3 or 4 years, without fixing the underlying issues, whatever they may be.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 4, 2023 9:56:13 GMT -5
The Jocam has not worked since late last week. The problem is not the camera, or the feed from the Holy Cross end. The problem is at the company that supplies the webcam feeds to the Internet. They have been alerted. It is back on. Yes. HC IT reported that the host site was not re-booting the cam when the stream was interrupted. While the cam is back on, they were, at the time of the report, still working on resolving a software issue.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 4, 2023 9:48:15 GMT -5
HC reported that for the class entering fall of 2022, 2021,38 athletes received athletic grant awards that were not based on need. The average sum of all such awards was $40,860. These athletes would be across all M/W sports. The similar number for Colgate for the class entering in the fall of 2022 2021was 78, with an average award of $39,400. Georgetown, which awards only need-based aid for football, awarded 105 members of the class entering the fall of 2022 2021athletic grant awards with an average value of $23,724. And no M'W ice hockey at GU, a sport capped at 19 scollies each. Do you see HC adding more scholarships for Title IX purposes? (FWIW, Georgetown has had a men's ice hockey team since 1938, but without facilities it morphed into a club program. A women's club team began in 2021.) www.georgetownhockey.com/historyI'll obliquely answer your first question by responding with a question. 'Do I think that Holy Cross is gaming the system to reduce the prospective Title IX impact of scollie aid for males compared to females?' My answer is 'yes'. HC is in a bind, but less of a bind than if Georgetown were to award merit scollies for football. Three schools: male scollie aid / female scollie aid / male percentage of U/G population / male percentage of total Title IX reported scollie aidColgate $8,139K / $6584K / 45% / 55% HCross $6,607K / $5092K / 45% / 56% G'town $3,691K / $2,438K / 44% / 60% Georgetown reports $0 in athletic aid for football, as does the IL for all sports. The only difference in sports between HC and Colgate is 'Gate does not play baseball or women's golf. in the 2020-21 Title IX report, HC stated it spent $6,607,000 in athletic-related aid for male athletes. HC also said in that year, scollies for football were at the max PL cap of 60, and hoops and ice hockey were at the NCAA caps of 13 and 19. Total of 92 scollies. 92 scollies x average cost of $70,000 a scollie is $6,440,000. If the numbers are to be believed, HC spent $167,000 on athletic aid for participants in all other men's sports. (The $70,000 cost of a full scollie in 2020-2021 was my rounded estimate. Pre-COVID cost of attendance was $72,200, including books. And room and board cost can vary. The 2021-22 Title IX report will be post-COVID, and should provide a more accurate picture of fin aid spending.) It appears that HC may be selectively backing out need-based aid awards from the athletic aid amount. Georgetown reported it spent $6,130,000 for athletic aid for all men's and women's sports. Football would be $0 aid. I think this number needs to be checked in the 2021-2022 Title IX report, because a COVID-related adjustment seems to have been made. For example, Boston University, with ice hockey, reported $10,611,000 in athletic aid for women. Holy Cross spends $5.5 million less than Boston Univ in athletic aid for women, $3.2 million less than Bucknell, $3.8 million less than Quinnipiac (BU and Quinnipiac play women's ice hockey. Bucknell competes in women's water polo.)
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 16:39:13 GMT -5
Pennsylvania State University football / men's hoops / ice hockey / wrestling Revenue by source, 2021-2022 academic year, dollars in thousands
Ticket sales 40,650 / 624 / 1,841 / 1,098 Contributions 9,321 / 669 / 302 / 509 (boosters, athletic funds) Media Rights 33,990 / 5,998 NCAA Distribn 294 / 1,969 B10 Distributin 1,511 / 1,266 Bowl Revenue 7,273 <<< This is a conference distribution Concessions etc 7,924 / 19 / 138 <<<< includes parking, novelties, game programs Endowment 1,215 / 221 / 1,800 / 315 Bowl revenue 2,029 <<< ticket sales, reimbursement of expenses
Total Revenue by sport
Football $105,610 M hoops 10,914 (of which about 90 percent is from media rights and Conference / NCAA distributions) M ice hock 4,378 Wrestling 2,121 W ice hock 1,298 (followed by volleyball, and track and field) W hoops 888
Total revenue, all teams $139.3 million
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 15:32:23 GMT -5
It is not his choice. Buyouts of this magnitude are approved by the BoT, and they may not be much interested in hueing to the demands of a vociferous but penurious fan base. And a rather small one at that. If you are a significant donor to HC men's basketball, why not write to KH directly and ask him what can be done about improving men's hoops, and how might alums help in that regard? It strikes me that if Crossports posters are only today becoming aware there could be multi-years remaining on BN's contract, they are badly out of touch with what's happening in Luth. PP I don’t recall anywhere in posts over the last 1.5 yrs. where there was comment/speculation about HCBN having more than one year on his contract after this season. All of the discussion has been about whether he has a 4 or 5 year contract not 5 years with an additional 6th Covid year. In any case, if the 6 year contract is correct, I think it’s even more incumbent on ADKH to publicly announce the steps that he and HCBN intend to take over the next two years so that the program is not going to slide further in the NET rankings and/or irrelevance, particularly if TPTB don’t want to fund a substantial buyout. Marking time for one or two more years should not be the answer but, if it is his and TPTB’s answer, then at least they should fill us in. I hadn't heard about it either, until a poster said earlier today that head coaches' contracts were given an additional year because of COVID. There was no documentation associated with that statement. Worcestergray than began a whole thread about modifying BN contract to allow for an earlier exit if the team's performance was not satisfactory. And it was off to the races. There are many posters with a lot to say, yet little influence. Not one poster has suggested contacting the Chair of the Athletics Committee. Not one poster has yet indicated he knows the Chair as a classmate. I've yet to see a poster make a comment about the Chair's Twitter account, with its recent tweets about men's hoops at another New England school, ---which would suggest the Chair has more than a passing interest in college hoops. Otherwise, I agree with your key points.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 14:44:29 GMT -5
He never did. There is an Athletics Committee on the Board of Trustees. That committee oversees the athletic program. The Board of Trustees is a corporation, and runs the college. KH is an employee of the corporation, and not a member of the Board of Trustees. The current head of the athletics committee is an investment banker in Boston, and a HC graduate. I am certain the members of the BofT are very competent, accomplished and act in the best interest of the College. From my personal experience with several current and former BOT members, I whole heartly concur with that opinion. My point was to highlight the contrast in public perception. Credit was given to the AD and his staff for the successful extension of the FBall coach. Now, he is in a tough spot. He will face the blame for poor coaching decisions, including the retention of BN, which are not solely of his making. Perhaps that is part of the reason there has been such a high turnover at that position over the last several years. BN and other coaches know (or should know) that the AD is not the true decision maker, but apparently a facilitator of information to the decision makers at a higher level. If BN or others have access to those decision makers beyond a direct communication from the AD, the AD is undermined and hamstrung. I am not saying that this is in fact the case, but as an outside observer, the public perception is trending in that direction. IMO, the BoT has changed dramatically in recent times. For 160 years, the Jesuits called the shots. One can look at the BoT membership 40-50-60 years ago, and half the embers are living in Loyola or Ciampi. IMO, the Jesuits are now a token, almost symbolic presence. The transition to the present BoT began with Fr. McF. When he left, Boroughs was appointed and one of his early responsibilities was to change the College's agreement with the Society of Jesus to allow a non-Jesuit to be chosen as President. It was posted here with respect to the Big East, that the then AD and then the men's basketball coach were running a play without the knowledge or approval of Fr. Brooks. If true, little wonder they were cut off at the knees when Brooks found out. Those were the old days. IMO, and I have posted this before, KH takes a very dim view of the current state of men's basketball. And I am certain he has discussed his views with the chair of the Athletic Committee. And a first question of any chair of the Athletics Committee worth his salt would be to ask KH, 'how will your preferred choice of a new coach both resurrect the fortunes of men's basketball, AND be successful in the current morass that is Div I hoops? What if KH were to reply, 'to do that, the program will need $200,000 in NIL money annually.' What do you expect the retort of the Chair of the BoT will be to that? ------------------- The previous chair of the BoT Athletics Committee is a man of some wealth, if compensation packages are to be believed. One of his basic charges to ADMB was to prepare a strategic plan for athletics, with specific goals for improving facilities, and increasing both fin aid and coaches' compensation relative to other PL schools. (KH has stated a fin aid goal that builds from that.) As this strategic plan was being developed, Sasaki was tasked to prepare options for renovating / expanding the rink. (This previous chair played ice hockey at HC.) Perhaps not coincidentally, once the plan was done and reviewed by the BoT, MB left shortly thereafter.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 13:24:35 GMT -5
I personally don’t believe the school funded 70 schollies last year. I fully believe it was still the 60 they’ve always gone by. I don’t have full concrete info on this but it’s my belief there are 60 full equivalents on this current 106 man roster broken down player by player. For over a week, another poster and I contorted ourselves into pretzels in trying to understand how HC was rostering 106 for 2023 while still staying within an 85 cap for those receiving full/partial merit aid. We did not believe that 21 players on this football roster were paying full freight (@$75,000 a year), because that is what a strict adherence to the 85 cap means. (And our contortions were such we deserved a job in a circus.) For the recruits entering in the fall of 2023, it was posted here that 27-28 were receiving some aid, IIRC. If true, then, in this instance, BC and HC took advantage of the NCAA waiver of the 25 recruits per year receiving fin aid limit.. The waiver was put in place to allow schools to recover from the high number of transfer-outs, which were happening after recruiting was over. ------------------------------------------------ HC reported that for the class entering fall of 2022, 2021,38 athletes received athletic grant awards that were not based on need. The average sum of all such awards was $40,860. These athletes would be across all M/W sports. The similar number for Colgate for the class entering in the fall of 2022 2021was 78, with an average award of $39,400. Georgetown, which awards only need-based aid for football, awarded 105 members of the class entering the fall of 2022 2021athletic grant awards with an average value of $23,724. And no M'W ice hockey at GU, a sport capped at 19 scollies each. ^^^^ This is why I never was an auditor, because x is missing. 38 x $40,860 = $1,552,680. HC's total merit awards all classes, all sports in 2022-23 2021-22 was $9,254,000.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 11:21:57 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 11:02:25 GMT -5
He never did. There is an Athletics Committee on the Board of Trustees. That committee oversees the athletic program. The Board of Trustees is a corporation, and runs the college. KH is an employee of the corporation, and not a member of the Board of Trustees. The current head of the athletics committee is an investment banker in Boston, and a HC graduate. At many big time FBS schools, the football coach makes more than the AD....I believe this is true at even UMass. Tough to have an AD making a decision on a football coach who is making multiple times more than him. At many of the big FBS public schools, the athletic program is run by a corporation independent of the Board of Trustees. This is done because coaches and other athletic department employees receive more compensation than is allowed by state law for a state employee. The coaches are employees of the Association, and the BoT has no or little say in their hiring/firing. See, for example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida_Athletic_AssociationUniv of Florida Athletic Association even pays for the tutors so athletes stay academically eligible. When Harvard hired Amaker, his compensation package exceeded Harvard's rules for how much money a Harvard employee could be paid. Generous alums paid the difference, which was fine by Harvard. AFAIK, these alums are still paying the difference. His wife, who, IIRC, has a doctorate in psychology, is employed by a Harvard-affiliated hospital. Her affiliation, and salary, may have been a deal-breaker when several other schools were chasing Amaker.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 10:48:02 GMT -5
It is not his choice. Buyouts of this magnitude are approved by the BoT, and they may not be much interested in hueing to the demands of a vociferous but penurious fan base. And a rather small one at that. If you are a significant donor to HC men's basketball, why not write to KH directly and ask him what can be done about improving men's hoops, and how might alums help in that regard? It strikes me that if Crossports posters are only today becoming aware there could be multi-years remaining on BN's contract, they are badly out of touch with what's happening in Luth. While maybe it’s not technically his job on paper, the role of an AD that wants to win is to round up alumni support around key initiatives to do so. That includes fundraising for facilities, coaching salaries, contract buyouts, etc. Raising the money and momentum for a buyout from a prominent group of supporters essentially takes the decision out of the BOT’s hands. Who might these prominent and well-heeled group of supporters be? Any names. If you were to ask KH the names of such supporters for football, he could rattle oiff a few names. Possibly for men's ice hockey too, and a few other sports, excluding hoops, apparently.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 10:44:35 GMT -5
Interesting drama playing out. If BN is retained, looks like ADKH does not have full control of the athletics. If I were him, my agent would be in close contact. He never did. There is an Athletics Committee on the Board of Trustees. That committee oversees the athletic program. The Board of Trustees is a corporation, and runs the college. KH is an employee of the corporation, and not a member of the Board of Trustees. The current head of the athletics committee is an investment banker in Boston, and a HC graduate.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 10:35:38 GMT -5
In the PSU NCAA revenue and expense report ^^^, the football roster totaled 125, 85 of whom were full equivalencies, receiving athletic-related (merit) aid, plus two more full equivalencies but apparently not rostered; an additional(?) 30 rostered players were receiving Pell grants, and apparently 10 were paying full freight.
In general, a Pell Grant {federal$ up to $7395/yr} student is a full need student. So the additional merit/athletic aid from the school, to plus up a footballer's aid package, would need to make him a 1 full equivalent scholarship. However, the cost {90% @ HC?} to the school is less than a full scholarship equivalent. It appears some 'above the table' NIL deals could lower or disqualify Pell Grant eligibility. This suggests that the number of rostered players receiving any form of fin aid was 115, when need-based aid was factored in. The rule on equivalencies as discussed at length in years past on this forum was that nearly any type of fin aid, including need-based aid, made one a counter, and the number of counters in FCS and FBS was 85, with the total aid for the 85 FCS counters not exceeding 63 equivalencies. It would appear that applying the old rule, PSU had 1115 football counters on its roster in 2021-22. If I understand you correctly, an athlete receiving a full merit scollie would not be a full need student, and could not receive a Pell grant. Thus, those on an FBS or FCS roster receiving a full scollie would be ineligible, Those on an FBS or FCS roster and receiving no merit scollie would be eligible for a Pell, which must be supplemented by other need-based aid. For FCS and athletes on partial merit scollies, could they also receive a Pell and additional need-based aid so as to meet "full need"? This table in the PSU NCAA revenue and expense report was the first time I had seen such data displayed in one of these NCAA reports. I do not recall such data being in reports that I looked at several years ago, which were for pre-COVID years.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 10:11:40 GMT -5
The price of having these carpet bagger, career climber, young wiper snapper ADs who are more concerned with their next job than actually making HC successful. Hughes has an easy out right now saying his hands are tied on basketball vs stepping up to the plate and putting a firing + hiring decision under his name. Did he invest too much Fenwick capital into procuring his ridiculous AVP title? Dunno. It is not his choice. Buyouts of this magnitude are approved by the BoT, and they may not be much interested in hueing to the demands of a vociferous but penurious fan base. And a rather small one at that. If you are a significant donor to HC men's basketball, why not write to KH directly and ask him what can be done about improving men's hoops, and how might alums help in that regard? It strikes me that if Crossports posters are only today becoming aware there could be multi-years remaining on BN's contract, they are badly out of touch with what's happening in Luth.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2023 9:55:40 GMT -5
Wow--$1,000,000,000 seems like an awfully high number to me It does to me too. This may have included all the new construction since 2005, but even with that, $1 billion was way high, .... 1.) The estimate for reconstructing the Easy St dorms, probably including Brooks (nee Mulledy) plus new dorms for swing space and probably reducing bed density in the Easy St dorms was $325 million, I am quoting a former chair of the BoT, circa 2020-21, if memory serves. 2.) Additional academic buildings 3.) Renovated / new athletic facilities, e.g., rink, $20 million for new athletic fields on Top of the Hill; replacing Fitton. Plus,
4.) the estimate was for facility spending between 2021 and 2043. Which could mean a significant increase in enrollment post 2030. the College continues, as recently as January, to buy properties not contiguous to HC property that is already outside the campus fence, e.g., on Clay, Kendig, College, and Boyden.
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