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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 19, 2023 19:23:10 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 19, 2023 14:21:55 GMT -5
Refilling the trench.
Beginning to install the underlayment on the roof of the second residence hall. Weather turning foul, so I will abandon my sidewalk superintendentcy for the day.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 19, 2023 14:12:04 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 19, 2023 12:05:31 GMT -5
How much does HC lose in athletics? PP must know. PP doesn't know. PP's guess is that generated revenue covers between 15 and 20 percent of the total cost of HC athletics The rest is subsidized by the college (i.e., parents paying the child's cost of attendance). BC, even though it has conference and media broadcast revenues far exceeding anything HC receives from such sources, probably loses as much as HC, possibly more.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 19, 2023 9:50:37 GMT -5
The ditch digging seems to have ceased at a point midway between the two residence halls. Framing for the roof going up at the new Jesuit residence.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 19, 2023 9:47:25 GMT -5
St. Thomas University has 10,000 students, its endowment per student is anout a fifth of Holy Cross'. It has about $350 million in long-term debt. The new venue is very nice, but the seating capacity appears to be dictated by ice hockey, The venue will seat 4,000 for ice hockey, 5,000 for hoops. Total cost of $175 million Lee Anderson has an interesting life story. He is also a generous benefactor of USMA, from which he graduated. At age 83, his very generous philanthropy may be coming to an end. horatioalger.org/members/member-detail/lee-r-anderson-sr
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 18, 2023 13:12:45 GMT -5
My revised guess is that it is conduit for telecommunications lines to the new residences, and these lines are running from Hogan, and not down City View.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 18, 2023 12:42:15 GMT -5
Harvard compiled in 2020 the number of MoH recipients by institution. Harvard had 18. US Military Academy at West Point with 83 and the US Naval Academy at Annapolis with 73. Eleven of Harvard's eighteen recipients received their MoH for valor prior to WWI. Of Harvard's 18 MoH, four were received for valor in WWII or subsequent wars. Two of the four were received by descendants of famous people in American life: the grandson of JP Morgan, for service in French Morocco, and President Theodore Roosevelt's son for his actions on D-Day. Of Princeton's nine, three are for WWII or subsequent wars. (Two for Korea, one for Tarawa.) The citation for Lt. Col Page, Princeton /26 is three pages long. Summarized IMO, Scholarships in the names of the three HC MoH recipients would be a great idea. The citation for JPMorgan's grandson. The Allied forces had landed in Morocco on November 8th. IMO, the criteria in the early days of WWII were more generous as to the extent of valor needed to receive the MoH. So HC's three, all received for actions in WWII or subsequent wars, are basically the equal of the total number of awards received by Harvard and Princeton graduates after 1941. ============= For Dartmouth, I can find only one recipient, not three. That recipient served in the Civil War.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 17, 2023 14:59:30 GMT -5
Phreek, you're falling down on the job. They are digging a trench at the extreme lower left corner of the "Jo" webcam. There is some piping that looks to small in diameter for water. Running parallel and just off the access road. Gas? Electric? Cable? Framing for the roof on the second Town House almost done. It appears to be for conduit pipe. My guess is that it will be for a flashing yellow light for a new crosswalk from the City View stairs to Hogan, The Jo, Wheeler, and the Hoval.,
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 16, 2023 19:28:55 GMT -5
Harvard compiled in 2020 the number of MoH recipients by institution.
Harvard had 18.
US Military Academy at West Point with 83 and the US Naval Academy at Annapolis with 73.
Eleven of Harvard's eighteen recipients received their MoH for valor prior to WWI.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 10, 2023 8:52:28 GMT -5
HC should be ranked top five, 2023 pre-season poll.
Incarnate Word and Sacramento State will drop because their head coaches left. So SDSU, NDSU, Montana State?, HC? #5?
Fordham was ranked #16, so the PL did well in the final poll. (UNH ranked #15.)
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 8, 2023 11:21:20 GMT -5
Just got the answer to my own question from a extremely reliable source: Harvard game will be at Polar Park. Last WooSox regular season home game is Sept 17th. That's a short turnaround. --------------- Triple AAA championship playoffs are set for Las Vegas at the end of September
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 8, 2023 11:11:03 GMT -5
I'm guessing that Glazy Susan was not the $25K baseball sponsor nor likely Silver Fox. Any chance the WooSox were the sponsors? A possibility. Also, Madison Properties? I suspect the outfield fences will be plastered with advertising. Create another Green Monster in left field, with advertising on the side facing the interstate. Or an advertising videoboard!
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 7, 2023 17:28:10 GMT -5
Grandison, 0 points in nine minutes of playing time in a Duke one point win.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 7, 2023 17:16:11 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 6, 2023 21:02:35 GMT -5
PP, This was posted above by Lou earlier perhaps it was blocked by a paywall I tried it now using a Microsoft Edge browser, and it is behind a paywall. I am a digital subscriber, and I need to trick the Times into believing I am a non-subscriber. Occasionally, I will use one of the ten 'free' articles a month that I can link to, and distribute the link via email or bulletin board so that non-subscribers to the NY Times don't run into the paywall.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 6, 2023 20:52:29 GMT -5
I heard they have one major sponsor so far, but that was before Christmas I suspect you are right. The rule in capital campaigns is you publicly announce the campaign dollar goal when you have already raised about half of that. HC's Office of Advancement would never recommend setting such high $ targets if there was not prior knowledge of potential and expected donors, who very likely are businesses,.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 6, 2023 15:40:58 GMT -5
It is not merely a matter of supporting, --- at the FCS level, its pretty axiomatic that the more $ you spend on a sport, the more money you lose on that sport. That also goes for the majority of FBS. Generated revenue streams are pretty much capped, because of stadium/arena size and lack of media rights and bowl games. The 'problem' for HC is that the public universities typically spend less on a sport than do private institutions, as the cost of attendance (on which scollie money is based) is much less. IIRC, cost of attendance at SDSU is around $17-18,000. so out-of-pocket expense for a football player on a half scollie at SDSU is about 1/4 or less ($9,000) than the out-of-pocket expense for a football player on a half scollie at HC ($40,000). ^^^ And which is why HC would likely have trouble competing in a conference where public universities predominate. Boston College probably loses as much money on its sports as Holy Cross does, even with BC's revenue from the conference and media rights. If the dollars come from us the school doesn't lose a penny If we want to win or as Scalia indirectly suggests give until it hurts or don't complain at the heavenly gates If donors keen on supporting athletics gifted HC with about $100 million in new endowment funds, the annual distribution of that restricted endowment $100 million would pay for the current $4+ million shortfall in the Olympic sports. But basically what you are calling for is akin to what Duke basketball alumni did in creating the Legacy Fund for men's hoops in Durham. IIRC, the minimum contribution was/is $1 million. That has endowed the cost of attendance of every scollie player, the team's managers, and now the assistant coaches, plus renovations and upgrades to Cameron indoor. (A new practice court??) Last I looked about a year ago, the endowment value of the Legacy Fund was $120 million. At a 4.5 percent annual distribution, that's about $5 million for men's hoops. 13 scollies @ $80,000 is a bit over $1 million, which is why the distribution is now used to pay other individuals, and for program operations. I believe there is a restriction that the Legacy Fund can not be used to pay for the head coach, as the fund was established during Coach K's tenure, and with his support. Coach K. has even contributed to the Fund. ------------------ BTW, Mr. U-Haul pere was an associate member of the HC BoT in 1972, which IIRC is the decade his sons matriculated. Pere died in 1999. The family's net worth in 2020 was just shy of 11 digits.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 6, 2023 8:33:08 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 6, 2023 7:40:00 GMT -5
An op ed in the NY Times in the form of a latter to Fauci from an AIDS activist, Peter Staley Reprinted in its entirety. I think it noteworthy that Fauci is retiring in the year that clinical trials of a vaccine against AIDS have begun, with the first favorable results reported last month. www.iavi.org/news-resources/press-releases/2022/scientists-reveal-encouraging-findings-in-first-in-human-clinical-trial-evaluating-hiv-vaccine-approachAnnouncement of the trials www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-launches-clinical-trial-three-mrna-hiv-vaccinesIMO, an AIDS vaccine was/is the Grail that Fauci has chased for several decades. As he has said, a vaccine against AIDS is a far greater technical/scientific challenge than a vaccine against COVID. From 2018, Caption from the NY Times Dr. Fauci meeting with ACT UP members at New York City’s L.G.B.T. Center in October 1989. From left, Peter Staley, Jay Funk, Mark Harrington, Simon Watney, Peggy Hamburg (the assistant director of NIAID), Anthony Fauci, Richard Elovich and Charlie Franchino. Credit. Tracey Litt www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/anthony-fauci-hiv-aids-act-up.html?algo=combo_als_clicks_decay_96_50_ranks&block=5&campaign_id=142&emc=edit_fory_20230104&fellback=false&imp_id=402390143&instance_id=81760&nl=for-you&nlid=10059472&pool=pool%2F459f4697-9859-45a3-b805-02773acebb03&rank=3®i_id=10059472&req_id=15136675&segment_id=121493&surface=for-you-email-rotating-guestessays&user_id=da580a4cd1e82ea0128214184976a2ac&variant=0_best_algo
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 5, 2023 19:05:46 GMT -5
It is not merely a matter of supporting, --- at the FCS level, its pretty axiomatic that the more $ you spend on a sport, the more money you lose on that sport. That also goes for the majority of FBS. Generated revenue streams are pretty much capped, because of stadium/arena size and lack of media rights and bowl games.
The 'problem' for HC is that the public universities typically spend less on a sport than do private institutions, as the cost of attendance (on which scollie money is based) is much less. IIRC, cost of attendance at SDSU is around $17-18,000. so out-of-pocket expense for a football player on a half scollie at SDSU is about 1/4 or less ($9,000) than the out-of-pocket expense for a football player on a half scollie at HC ($40,000). ^^^ And which is why HC would likely have trouble competing in a conference where public universities predominate.
Boston College probably loses as much money on its sports as Holy Cross does, even with BC's revenue from the conference and media rights.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 5, 2023 18:43:50 GMT -5
The scholarship goal for the 'Olympic sports' as enunciated by ADKH is to fund scollies to the average number of scollies funded by those PL schools competing in a sport; USMA and USNA are not included in the calculation.
By sport, sports ranked by PL average spending. Football, hoops, ice hockey, men's rowing excluded. Average expenses for Patriot League (PL) schools, excluding HC (Thousands of dollars)
Increase in HC spending $ needed simply to reach the PL League average (Thousands of dollars)
Men’s Lacrosse 1265 / 635 Women’s Soccer 1170 / 349 Women’s Lacrosse 1103 / 280 Softball 975 / 360 Field Hockey 964 / 120 Volleyball 887 / 250 Men’s Soccer 872 / 396 Women’s Track 772 / 172 Women’s Rowing 653 / 145 Baseball 608 / 270 Women’s Swimming 556 / 340 Men’s Track 542 / 58 Men’s Swimming 302 / 185 Women’s Golf 245 / 191 Women’s Tennis 240 / 185 Men’s Golf 171 / 106 Men’s Tennis 98 / 49
Approximately $4.1 million in additional spending to bring HC's Olympic sports up to the PL average.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 5, 2023 6:37:35 GMT -5
Framing for the first (and only true) floor of the Jesuit residence is rising. The new student residence hall closest to College St. is all framed in and buttoned up, allowing interior work to be done without worrying about the weather. The second of the City View St. residence halls is now up to the second floor, with the third floor and roof remaining. With the advent of spring, the contractor can begin installing the exterior cladding and brickwork. The mild winter to date in Worcester is a boon to the construction schedule, and it appears that all three new buildings will be ready for occupancy by summer's end. If the Jesuits can be moved by July, that would allow a month for converting Ciampi Hall into student residences, recognizing that further work in Ciampi might be done in the summer of 2024.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 5, 2023 6:04:46 GMT -5
Women's ice hockey is capped at 18 scollies. HC is funding 18 scollies. It is one of five sports that HC funds to NCAA scollie caps (football to the PL cap of 60, unless that PL cap has been relaxed because of the COVID fifth years). scholarshipstats.com/ncaalimits
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 4, 2023 18:27:03 GMT -5
Including softball in the same night saves money on rental of the facility. That is a minor thing to be worried about. I'm not "worried about it", I'm confused. Instead of having it at Hogan and not having to pay a facility rental fee, you're paying a fee, and splitting the revenue w/softball. What if baseball is 75% of attendees? For those who are new to this board, some years ago, very early in the tenure of former athletic director NP, the College entered into a Title IX voluntary agreement with the U.S. Federal Department of Education. This was in response to a Title IX investigation by the Office of Civil Rights in the Department. The investigation was initiated in response to credible claims by students on the softball team of the College's unequal treatment of women's softball compared to baseball. The College acknowledged the unequal treatment and took specific steps to remedy this. See:. www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/more/01112050-a.pdfSo understandably, there is likely some ongoing sensitivity on the part of the College of possible fresh perceptions that softball might again be receiving second class treatment
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