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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 13, 2020 15:48:32 GMT -5
Hinch and Astros GM first suspended by Commissioner Manfred, then fired by their owner. Full commissioner ruling on Cora not yet out (given this was just the outcome for the Astros in particular), but expected to be harsher given A) Red Sox second violation after B) the initial violation promised worse punishment for future offenses and C) Cora's involvement on a repeated basis.
BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 3, 2020 14:35:04 GMT -5
While I like the rebounding efforts as much as anyone, I'd like to see us have a game where we end with more points than the other teams, whether they out rebound, out shoot, or out free throw us.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Dec 30, 2019 14:10:07 GMT -5
WCHC - Hey, wait a minute. I'm an old guy and neither I nor my old guy classmates have ever said the stuff you accuse retirees of sayin'. Maybe you were referring to the younger old guys or the older young guys. Whatever. You get my message. Putting the fun stuff aside, I do agree with the substance of your post. Thanks for adding to the never ending conversation. LoveHC Definitely the older young guys... or was it the younger old guys? I can't keep up. Older than me
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Post by WCHC Sports on Dec 30, 2019 11:22:47 GMT -5
If conference affiliation was a hindrance, the Patriots would never make the Super Bowl. Instead, they take the gift that they have in three inferior franchises being forced to play them multiple times a year, and parlay that into an automatic bid into the post season tournament. They separately leverage being a well-run, well-recruited, and well-coached franchise to massive regional popularity and championship wins at the highest level. A specialty of theirs is taking cast-aways or "your guys," and beating you with them once they are "our guys."
The "inferior franchises" comment above was said somewhat facetiously with regards to many posters' remarks about Holy Cross in the PL today, versus where the college was 50 years ago. Association with Colgate is no good? Academically, recently, they've been rated ahead of HC... and they kick our asses in football over the last decade for the most part. Association with Bucknell is no good? Academically, recently, they've been rated at par or maybe slightly ahead of HC... and they kick our asses in basketball over the last decade for the most part.
Get off your high horses. 50 years ago Holy Cross was a gem nationally for basketball and football and academics. 50 years ago Yugoslavia was a country and man just landed on the moon. Cell phones didn't exist. The internet didn't exist. The friggin' shot clock wasn't used in basketball. It's a different world.
If the PL is such a dump, then we should be the shiny diamond in the rough and muck. Many of the old-timers that perpetually complain about the PL remind me of the guy with no job, living in his mom's house, pimply faced and out of shape, complaining that the hot girls at the party are a bunch of losers because they don't want to give him their numbers. You're blaming too many people for your own problems (or rather, HC's specific and own problems), and are disparaging those who have been able to outpace you on some vague notion of pedigree mattering in the present date.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Dec 17, 2019 10:56:36 GMT -5
They tend to feast off of one another, don't they? The problem is that it took years if not decades to build up, and about ten years to rather quickly erode. It's kind of like a reputation for a politician-- steadily building over a lifetime of service, and even so, dubious at best... and one scandal brings it tumbling down.
It wasn't long ago that I was forced to sit up in the rafters at Hart as a freshman while they played Princeton. Now, I could basically walk out to the free throw line and take two of them (would probably constitute 33% of the total the team would take that night) and barely anybody would notice.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Dec 10, 2019 15:52:18 GMT -5
GR is Gerard Reedy, S.J. I had one interaction with him. I was in California for the holidays and my brother-in-law took me to an HC alumni club reception for Father Reedy at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco. Thank you to whichever generous alumnus or alumni/ae who sponsored it. I spoke to Father R. with some idea I can't remember and he basically laughed at me. I am sure he didn't purposely try to put me down, but I was left feeling: "No, you are a Priest, you are supposed to be kindly and supportive." Gerard Reedy, noted alum of Regis High School- NYC.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Dec 10, 2019 14:32:23 GMT -5
Woah, Sarasota sighting!
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Post by WCHC Sports on Dec 9, 2019 17:06:18 GMT -5
The horror: a Catholic bishop claiming he has religious authority to some degree over a Catholic college? You all may want (and I want too) Holy Cross to be an open forum of academic rigor, intellectual skepticism, and free speech. However, the Catholic Church, while charitable and helpful in many ways to many people, is never ambiguous in stating that it furthers Catholic teachings, Catholic viewpoints, and Catholic dogma. I see some surprise in earlier posts that Bishop McManus is out of touch to want those same views touted by the "Catholic" institution.
To other earlier posters who subscribe to the more pragmatic approach to the faith, or the simplest of Jesus' teachings, I offer you the two thousand years of rules, writing, scholarly review, regulations, restrictions, taxes, fees, abuse, corruption of a human/man-run enterprise rather than the thirty-three some-odd years of God on earth helping other people.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Dec 4, 2019 12:58:54 GMT -5
"https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmaccariello/"
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 25, 2019 16:54:54 GMT -5
We're in the FCS, so we need to win the FCS. That should be the goal. I'd rather compete where the "real" champions are crowned, but that is another galaxy compared to where we are. So, we should continue to strive to win where we operate before we talk about higher aspirations.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 12, 2019 12:03:58 GMT -5
I never played college ball, so I can appreciate some former players' opinions on this. As a player, and as the son of a coach who yelled at basically everyone (umps, refs, teammates included), I know the difference between a coach yelling "to me," and yelling "at me." Some college coaches make it a point to walk out into the middle of the field or the court, publicly berate a player, and bark them back to the bench. I think there is a fine line-- and this is a skill- to rip a player a new one for the purposes of accountability, teaching, and setting the expectations for the whole team, versus trying to embarrass them or make yourself feel like a bigger person.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 12, 2019 11:38:49 GMT -5
All well and good. The Yankees brass knows better than me, and that's why we both do what we do respectively. I'm not mad/angry, and not rooting against Mr. Blake. His success means the team's success, means my happiness. But I think it's not unreasonable for me to be somewhat underwhelmed by the hire. He's not being hired to be the guru in the same way he had performed with the Indians. The dugout is a new world. Let's hope he takes the challenge to task.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 12, 2019 11:00:49 GMT -5
Why be skeptical of someone that has never played as a pro, never coached as a pro, going to the premiere franchise in the MLB? Someone my age who's highest on-field rank was as a high school coach? I don't know, I can't think of any reasons...
Sarcasm aside, if this was a hire for Holy Cross that didn't have the requisite experience, I would say skepticism is not only fair, but due. Nevertheless, for both Yankee and HC pride, I am rooting for him no matter what.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 12, 2019 9:27:29 GMT -5
Cone is actually extremely well versed in the analytics and is a big fan. He's a SABRmetrician, appreciates and understands WAR, talks spin rates, exit velo, all the terms. That, coupled with his appreciation of the old-school guile (dropping arm angles, changing delivery timings to the plate from the stretch), and going out and getting blitzed after games with the boys, I think would have made him the perfect mix of old and new, a player who has been there and done that, a champion-- someone who won when they were physically in their prime and won when they were physically limited. Alas, we get what we get. Now time for a Crusader to step up and prove their mettle.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 11, 2019 10:47:17 GMT -5
As a Yankee fan I am somewhat disappointed that they brought in David Cone for any number of reasons, but may not have been with serious considerations to make him the pitching coach. Great for HC, but as a Yankee fan and a pragmatist, a guy that will cut his teeth at this level with the Yankees... not normally a learn-on-the-job caliber franchise.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 8, 2019 11:34:22 GMT -5
thanks-- was under men's BB and generically labeled so off my radar!
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 8, 2019 9:57:35 GMT -5
HC tweeted yesterday or perhaps the day before that they were selling gear online in a partnership with adidas. There was only a few days left to buy before that store/partnership/avenue was terminated. The store would ship gear in maybe 5 to 6 weeks, and there was no guarantee anything would arrive by Christmas.
I can go online and get anything short of a tropical island delivered at my doorstep in 24 hours. What is this all about with HC? What happened to the bookstore?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Oct 15, 2019 9:49:24 GMT -5
I'll start with mine: Away Gyms Army (Crystl Arenal) -- just about every year since I graduated, highlighted by our PL semi upset win during our "five games in March" '16 run. Navy (Alumni Hall) -- January 2019, last second loss Lafayette (Kirby Sports Complex) -- conference opener in January 2008, a loss Lehigh (Stabler Arena) - Sat next to HC92 for the Patriot League Championship in 2016!! Harvard (Lavietes Pavillion) - Thanksgiving Week loss my junior year, 30 points for Jeremy Lin Syracuse (Carrier Dome) - lost 72-48 on Black Friday 2014 Fairfield (Harbor Yards) - saw a game at Harbor Yards on a weeknight 2013 or 2014-ish, don't even remember who won. Fairfield (Alumni Hall) - think we lost but don't remember again. Sell out crowd. Sacred Heart (Pitt Rec Center) - Saw us lose here once (and met Bobby V) and also get a win after blowing an 18-point lead in November or December 2012 Columbia (Levien Gym) - Blew 15-point halftime lead in a loss during 12-13 season UMASS (Mullins Center) - we lost in Amherst in early December 2008 American (Bender Arena) - saw us lost in the Patriot League Championship game in '09. SOV was there. 23 hour round trip on student fan bus Siena (Times Union Center) - saw us lose in overtime after Tim Clifford almost single-handedly erased an eight point deficit in final minute Neutral Sites TD Garden - lost to Harvard in the 13-14 opener. The following year MB got the W against a RANKED Harvard team. Mohegan Sun - We beat CCSU in the second game of a double-header highlighted by URI-Oklahoma State in the opener DCU Center - Attended games against Dayton (L), UMASS (L) and Boston College (W)
With your track record, please stay home
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Post by WCHC Sports on Oct 11, 2019 10:48:19 GMT -5
Run in the rain, and throw in the snow.
Poor weather will sap our offense of its quite limited attack. Our defense doesn't need the elements to compete favorably against Brown. I'd rather have clear skies and low/no wind to give our offense every single ounce of help it can get-- it needs it.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Oct 9, 2019 15:13:15 GMT -5
Will love it if the Rays can squeak past the Astros. I think it's a better match up for the Yankees obviously, and the Yanks should have more fans at the games in Tampa than they will at Yankee Stadium more than likely.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 24, 2019 12:35:59 GMT -5
Not half... but was it two? Three? Out of how many scholarship players? Again, the whole thing was swept under the rug. With regard to the Jets, that's what we are. When it's not bad performance, it's bad luck. When it's not bad luck, it's injuries. When it's not injuries, it's a bad coach. When it's not a bad coach it's... and on and on and on. We haven't been tops in our own division in a long time, and the last time we won a championship was fifty+ years ago. If our colors were green, you'd hear "J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS" chanted in the stands!
I have a bad taste in my mouth from the aforementioned player dismissal, as well as the overall performance of the team over the last few years. Nothing against the current players, but there's nothing on paper to get hyped up about. Obviously, will still root for the team, but let's see some real basketball played before the bandwagon gets loaded up.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 24, 2019 10:55:23 GMT -5
When half the players can get kicked off the team for reasons that we're not told about, then it's tough for me to invest interest and concentration one way. I think the coaching change is going to be a net positive if not for anything other than a fresh face and attitude. We (I think? I couldn't even keep up with the nonsense) lost two players to transferring, and our best player to graduation. What is left is a group of unproven, or potentially unwanted recruits who may or may not have what it takes. I think it could make a compelling story, us versus them, nobody believed in us cliched sports drama, but if the Ws don't outpace the Ls, then I will not even sniff the kool-aid let alone drink it.
Football I think has taught the die-hard purple fans best, most recently. So many folks jumped right onto the bandwagon simply because of a new coach who happen to succeed next door, but never on the same level. Hasn't succeeded yet.
So while I'm glad to coaching change happened, the person brought in isn't making me jump for joy. It's less of the addition of something great and exciting than the removal of something that was disappointing. We'll see if what we get is going to make us happy.
Feels like being a Jets fan. Picking coaches/GMs late in the process, having leftover players, injuries strike, and being projected in the lower half/quadrant of the division even when things were scheduled to go well. Three games in and feels like you're playing for next year.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 18, 2019 12:25:37 GMT -5
NY proposing their own bill in the state senate out of Brooklyn. I don't think these guys understand how much (or little) most programs make in real dollars for revenue. Particularly in NY. I'm looking at the NY amendment that proposes 15% of the total AD's revenue gets shared among all of the school's athletes.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 17, 2019 14:30:59 GMT -5
Two championships for a D1 sport is stupid to me personally, if not simply annoying. There is one champion who is the best. It's that way for the other D1 sports. Football should be no different. Alabama is 100x bigger a program than HC? Too bad. I think it's what makes the basketball tournament so compelling. It also makes the myriad "bowl" games like the Capital One Northeastern South Tostitos Bowl At FedEx Field brought to you by UPS so annoying too.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 5, 2019 12:36:49 GMT -5
I think we actually got 5 points for the dog.
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