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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 18, 2024 11:13:21 GMT -5
Donaghy is the worst of the worst. An official paid to be impartial, an employee of the league directly, whose decisions directly can shape the outcome of games... a player TRYING to lose can't guarantee it as much as a ref can.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 16, 2024 9:36:59 GMT -5
While at HC, I was a major NY sports fan in the heart of enemy territory. Even so, I was spoiled because I had Don Orsillo and the Rem Dog on SOX games, and Mike Gorman and Tommy Heinsohn for Celtics games. Great mix of exceptional play-by-play skills and chops, with the supremely entertaining insights and quirks of the color guys. My personal fandom aside, made me really love watching the games.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 15, 2024 9:03:38 GMT -5
FBS =/= FCS is horrible. IF they did it for basketball, it would be 10x worse. How are you viewing FCS? I prefer HC's opponents, post-season opportunities and budget over the UMass opponents, budget and post-season opportunities in the MAC they sold their soul (leaving A-10 BB) to get. How could Holy Cross spend what UMass, UConn and BC, our three FBS neighbors spend on FB every year? They can't. I know why they did it. But what it did was establish a separate-but-not-equal setup for football, where there are champions, and there are champions and there are also winners of the Tostitos Doritos Fritos Dos Toros Taco Bell Locos Tacos Bowl.
Hockey = National Champion Basketball = National Champion
Football = Well, we have some champions and some winners and some are the "real" big time leagues and some are pocket leagues and some....
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 12, 2024 13:40:15 GMT -5
FBS =/= FCS is horrible. IF they did it for basketball, it would be 10x worse.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 12, 2024 12:25:17 GMT -5
I seem to recall the car chase breaking into a sporting event I was watching (NBA finals?) and being annoyed This was before the days of TV shows like CSI and NCIS making the average person aware of DNA testing. Back then most people were not familiar with that technique and all that evidence could look more like science fiction than science 94 NBA Finals, New York Knicks.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 8, 2024 13:52:23 GMT -5
Was always partial to the Boulevard Diner. So much so that Brenda came to our commencement!
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 5, 2024 13:11:19 GMT -5
Heard it before I felt it-- it was pretty eerie as it got louder. Then the house vibrated for maybe 20-30 seconds? All good otherwise in lower Westchester.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 3, 2024 11:21:56 GMT -5
Bob Hyland played freshman basketball at BC in ā63-ā64. HC played them twice, splitting the pair. Bob set one heck of a screen. Next time I see him, probably in the Fall, I'll be sure to remind him. Thanks. MM Tell him I miss the Sports Page after softball games.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 2, 2024 8:46:10 GMT -5
Heard Women's Final Four tickets going for a higher price than tickets for the Men's Final Four. Is that true? Great to see the improvement & growth in the women's game. Will it translate to the WNBA? No it will not.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 29, 2024 9:29:58 GMT -5
I think you're missing nextmanup's inference that the Patriot League, and even HC football's success in the PL, does not make Holy Cross relevant "nationally." I'd argue that it's pretty much the case outside of the niche world of NCAA D1 AA/FCS fandom, and the northeast more-broadly. The national recognition is far and away of FBS programs. Holy Cross as an institution (studies and academic focus, available courses, undergrad-exclusive, size, geographical attendance demographics) does not match up to really any major FBS football school. That's just a fact.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 28, 2024 8:20:10 GMT -5
My daughters will learn to be a plumber and an electrician. They'll have a contracting business and be tasked to build the next dorm for all the lunatics that can actually afford to pay for college in 12 years.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 26, 2024 8:52:43 GMT -5
You seem to omit a big difference. Most students pay to attend a school and have the right to stop if they wish. Many athletes are being paid (whether or not it is a scholarship worth hundreds of thousands of dollars or NIL money that can be even more). Don't they owe something more than the average student? So should a regular student on an full academic scholarship not be able to transfer from a school if he or she is unhappy? They should. But "unhappiness" is only a minor driver, if it is a driver at all, for the student athlete to transfer. They're mercenaries that are chasing the highest bidder, whether it is a better academic/athletic opportunity or not.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 25, 2024 9:10:28 GMT -5
My take on watching the game:
- HC played their strategy early and it worked. The same strategy saw stars when the Crusaders were tired and getting diced by some really good Iowa ball movement in the second half. - HC missed a lot of free throws and layups when Iowa's two big runs occurred. The gaps grew when HC couldn't find the bottom of the net. - #15 had a bunch of turnovers when she saw the floor. Lots of giveaways. Tough game. - HC rebounding in the second half on the defensive end, whether it was position or just some tired legs, wasn't as successful. - It's a bit ridiculous to play the #1 seed in their home gym in an NCAA tournament. Neutral site-- even if closer to that team than the lower seed-- would be much more fair. - The refs were impacted by that fact, at least in the first half it seemed. HC didn't bang as much inside later in the game. - HC was still not intimidated and although the talent gap showed itself, the team stood toe-to-toe with a true #1 and it didn't look like they didn't belong on the same floor.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 22, 2024 7:33:52 GMT -5
I can do dropshipping for nearly any item (clothing, trinket, swag) for my measly podcast with tens of listeners, and my own custom logo, and HC can't figure out how to do this for their own sports gear?
If I had a high enough resolution image, it wouldn't necessarily be embroidered (but it could be if I did the homework for it), but you could get it on hoodies, sweatshirts, etc.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 20, 2024 10:37:34 GMT -5
Some other, very complicated, "throwback" ideas:
- Recruit people that can shoot the basketball into the basketball hoop when playing the game of basketball and receiving a basketball scholarship. - Recruit tall players because tall people that are skilled at basketball are needed in certain capacities to excel at playing basketball. - Recruit people that can shoot and score free throws because that happens in basketball and putting the ball in the hoop in basketball is good. Scoring more points than the other team that is playing basketball is how you win basketball games. - Stop wearing BLACK FREAKIN UNIFORMS.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 8, 2024 12:15:12 GMT -5
Gone, if you delete yours with the quotes, it'll all be from the public record.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 8, 2024 10:46:03 GMT -5
KY asked "how about Kevin Hamilton," and I thought to answer the point. I respect your status in this arena, so I am happy to 86 it if you deem it to be so far out of bounds. I thought this far along, it wouldn't be an issue.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 1, 2024 9:13:46 GMT -5
I love you all. I will "Dislike' any post that mentions the word "patience," unless the context includes words like: "I have run out of..."
We've been trashola for fourteen, fifteen years maybe. I am not patient. Anything worth doing is worth doing well, not half-assed. I long thought (wanted) basketball to be prioritized, hockey to be prioritized, and step back from nearly everything else. It was the easiest to win, the fastest, and the closest, at the highest levels. No sub-divisions. No conference changes needed.
Now, the trickling water of the terrible state of HC basketball has weathered away the rock that is my stubbornness. I feel like we have to go all in for football, wherever that environment is (and that can be a Fool's Errand with a new coach/Chesney's departure, graduation of key players, and the rise of the NIL Nonsenseā¢-- football may never be the same again). Maybe hockey as well. Everything else harms our ability to be a leader.
We don't aspire to be "education for everyone" in the classroom; we aim to be elite. We aim to be elite in fundraising and alumni engagement. We aim to be elite in community service, participation in the greater good, growing fantastic young people into accomplishing adults. Why do we then want athletics to be some roll-the-ball-out Mickey Mouse operation where everyone can have a nice time, get some sweat in, and slap hands after the game? Like the USA sending amateur basketball players to get crushed by Russian cheaters, when we can try to get the DREAM TEAM to stomp the world's asses... HC know what it means to "DO" something and not half-ass it.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 28, 2024 13:18:39 GMT -5
Old business adage: never do for free anything you're good at.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 20, 2024 10:29:42 GMT -5
No liberal, democrat, or leftist can disagree with DEI, or the many debates on gender, etc.? That is my major gripe. Every major topic of discussion in modern society is immediately aligned to a set of wider stereotypes, because it is assumed that agreeing with one means you have to agree with all the others that are traditionally assigned to Red or Blue. To Right or Left. To Republican or Democrat. It hinders any progress because we're trapped to debate the entire landscape instead of making any incremental progress on any one item. Either side must concede the world to compromise. Thus, compromise has not, and will not happen.
I appreciate your policing otherwise for the civility of the board.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 20, 2024 9:17:25 GMT -5
Dissenting views are not necessarily political. My less-sage take on the current political and social climate is that conforming fads are apolitically and deemed full-freight to be morally right, where skepticism and counterpoints are automatically bucketed into the "right," bigotry, or oppression. Dangerous.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 14, 2024 13:58:21 GMT -5
What sport?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 6, 2024 10:41:33 GMT -5
Wow, I think he nailed it. Can he also get major corporations to share this viewpoint as well, particularly by abandoning the irrelevant, "Cause of the Month," "National Whatever Day," and "Make My Irrelevant Logo Match Your Color Scheme Season?"
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 5, 2024 16:31:17 GMT -5
Does Worcester knowing who Holy Cross is-- or Holy Cross' audience knowing how important Worcester is to HC-- improve anything? Does putting the Commonwealth on center court improve our marketing or candidates in Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Miami, Denver, New York, or anywhere else? I think it's a little weird. I have no connection to Worcester with warm feelings other than maybe the kind proprietors of the Boulevard Diner.
I don't think of Holy Cross as a Massachusetts institution as much as I do like, Harvard, or Fenway Park. Columbia or NYU is a bit of an NY institution. Maybe Notre Dame in South Bend. Alabama to Tuscaloosa... not sure we have, want, or need such synonymy.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 5, 2024 10:38:52 GMT -5
Oh my gosh Coach Cullen reference...
My grade/range always understood it as the Regis Owls was the official name and mascot, but an Owl was kind of lame, so Raiders got worked in there for both "cool factor" and alliterative purposes.
I am rarely, if ever, "scared," on the subway, but it's been much more dicey in recent years than any time that I've taken the subway. Since the Great Resignation, as well as Mayor Adams' time in office, I used to walk Park Ave and not wander 2 blocks without seeing a cop (not just a traffic officer). Now, I can go weeks without seeing police. Getting on the subway at essentially any stop outside of Grand Central and the train is just pulling in? People rushing to not be late? It's like an Olympic hurdles event. Out of 13 people, I was the only one that paid the fair (and I CAN jump the thing, so don't say I'm just too out of shape nowadays).
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