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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 5, 2019 12:05:32 GMT -5
"And I'm FREEEEEEEEEEEE......
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FREE-FALLL-INnnnnnnnnnnnnnn."
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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 4, 2019 13:16:07 GMT -5
I'm going to argue that one and dones have hurt the NBA more than the NCAA. I'll bite....how so ? Because the NBA would be adding players before their physical prime, without valuable coaching and development time in a "lower" league/state of competition, and before those players reached some higher level of emotional/financial/ethical/behavioral maturity.
Talent being equal, I'd argue that an NBA team would sacrifice a few years of having a 19 year old player available to get him when they are 22, stronger, better-prepared, and less of a liability off the court. They don't reach free agency as quickly, so the dollars doled out get them closer to that developed prime more affordably, and a player that is paid a big time free agency deal is even further into that prime and developed state.
I think the game is cleaner and better played when there aren't kids running around with NBA beasts. Players like Zion to me are few and far between, and he has not played in an actual NBA game to prove the hype is true as an outlier.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 4, 2019 8:21:45 GMT -5
No HC student pays to attend an HC home game that I'm aware of.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Aug 31, 2019 21:37:26 GMT -5
I couldn’t even read after the 7th page. So much hype for Chesney who has accomplished nothing. Wins would denote turning the program around. 0-1.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Aug 31, 2019 21:30:15 GMT -5
Titans make a not-insignificant trade to help clear a path for Raymond. This is a huge make. He did fight harder than anyone on offense and get results. Such a triumph after these years. Congratulations.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Aug 28, 2019 10:02:23 GMT -5
You'd have to dye him purple.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Aug 27, 2019 13:25:16 GMT -5
Even thirty years ago, players played as long as they could to keep getting paid. The exorbitant QB salaries are a thing of only the near-present day NFL. These guys can get one extension, play half of it, and still be set for life. I wonder how much the NFLPA union has insurance and pension and retirement planning and other options available to make departure even easier. The fans lose, the team loses, the league loses, but the individual made out like a bandit. He got out while he could and got paid and has his whole adult life ahead of him. Not everyone can be so lucky.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Aug 13, 2019 10:54:16 GMT -5
Welcome back, RJ.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Aug 6, 2019 9:03:42 GMT -5
For a seasonal motto, I won't wave my usual banner of political correctness and bending the knee to all comers. It's clear that this is not a motto truly rooted in tradition, despite the military association, and despite the factual inaccuracies of how the media and general public use the terms "clip" and "semi-automatic," it's very easily and clearly linked to mass shootings without much imagination. Good move on the part of smart sailors.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jul 29, 2019 13:03:36 GMT -5
/\ Not much of a memory left of that 1950-1980 period among active coaches (and I am sure the recruited kids would have to be told by their grandparents that we once got some national press). (Of course the Yanks still have superstars, etc that continue the winning tradition.) Ahh so you see with my Yankees reference, it's not enough to have done it once before, many times before, many decades ago... but you have to continue to invest, coach, develop, recruit, and win. It's a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately operation, college sports.
Laurels are just ugly head adornments for old Romans, and make bad things to rest on.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jul 29, 2019 9:03:41 GMT -5
Coaches voted None of the head coaches, except maybe O’Hanlon, remembers Certainly not any assistant To them history is mostly what they saw. Based on that we were fortunate to be second. The RW years helped the rank. Good point. And if the coaches think this way, imagine what prospective students/athletes will think.
Yogi Berra was an all-time great, but he's not helping the Yankees make the postseason now. Even if athletes remember or acknowledge the HC pedigree, it doesn't put the ball in the hoop in 2019.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jul 19, 2019 14:21:19 GMT -5
Bucknell has a greater basketball history and tradition than HC? They certainly do recently...
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jul 11, 2019 14:55:10 GMT -5
Also unfortunate if they decide to transfer, but I'm not terribly hung up on the loss in minutes. Time to get comfortable with the fact that we will stink next year whether they are here or not. Not to discredit the contributions of any players, or to speak about my personal feelings about them/their performances-- but did we not stink last year with them too?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jul 5, 2019 8:49:42 GMT -5
Given the adversity the program has faced over the past 10 years, the construction of the current roster, and the landscape of the PL competition, what do you consider to be a "successful" 2019-2020 season?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jul 5, 2019 8:47:14 GMT -5
The name on the front of the jersey takes precedent over any coach or league. HC has been around nearly 200 years, and God willing, will be around another 200 years, with hundreds of players and (hopefully many fewer) coaches involved with the program. While the changing of the guard allows the opportunity for players to explore different opportunities, I somewhat ignorantly posit A) that there isn't a better opportunity out there, and B) I view it as an excuse to let the school down on a commitment each party made to one another.
I try to put myself in the men's shoes and think if I would do the same and find it hard to empathize.
Regarding the new coach's challenge for the players that remain, I say that they rally around each other. "Those of us in the room choose to be here, and those of us outside the room chose not to be. Screw them, it's us against the world," sort of thing... And then go out and win a whole bunch of games.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jul 3, 2019 9:25:39 GMT -5
“14 old farts”...very classy opinion about posters on Crossports. I admire the goal you state, but clearly not the way you state it. I was being nice and keeping you off of the list, otherwise it'd be 15 old farts! I kid of course.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jul 3, 2019 8:51:50 GMT -5
"My questions center around the fact that... not only does he have no ties to HC (certainly not a deal breaker), he's seemingly got no ties to New England or the Northeast, or to the PL or an academic-centric institution, or to Blossom. I'm not knocking the guy at all... if he can coach, that's all I care about. I just wonder how he bubbled to the top of the pool here."
Ray, this says it all. Although our recent coaches had no "ties" to HC, I still don't want someone whose talents are ties to New England, the northeast, or to the PL. Familiarity with their limitations and benefits can be helpful, but we need to mix things up. We need to recruit nationally, maybe even internationally. We need to expand the profile of the team, of the program, and certainly of the school. We need to find diamonds in the rough, competing against scores of other programs big and small, for those players. As such, we have to cover more ground, dig more holes, and pan more water.
Like you said, if this gentleman can coach, and can do those things, then good. I don't care that somebody played in some MA high school that fourteen old farts still pay attention to. I want a winning program at HC, full of good, upstanding young men, wherever they come from.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jul 2, 2019 8:43:48 GMT -5
I wish for the best for all good young men, including Mr. Green here.
With that said... was Coach Carmody really the reason that players came to HC? More than the education, the scholarship, the atmosphere, the people, the history, the view, really anything else? This wasn't exactly like following Coach K or Tom Izzo wherever they would go.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jun 11, 2019 15:58:58 GMT -5
Why does best "College's" have an apostrophe? That's a typo. Probably should correct on a public-facing item...
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jun 11, 2019 12:36:49 GMT -5
Just returned from Holy Cross after a whirlwind coast to coast three days. The experience exceeded my expectations! Every moment was special, and we had a great return of our classmates to the hill. Special highlights for me were the teaching session on Friday morning about what it means to be Roman Catholic today, featuring my classmates John Baldwin, SJ and Jim Donahue, President of St Marys College in Moraga, CA, along with HC Professor of Religious studies Mary Doyle Roche. The discussion was outstanding, frank, bold and inspiring. Professor Roche is great. I took a few of her classes.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jun 6, 2019 12:02:41 GMT -5
<------ Another Regis alum. Not an MLB player.
Congrats!
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jun 4, 2019 8:48:43 GMT -5
Apparently, we're not above changing everything we say, everything we write, every picture we print, every label on our jobs, so long as there can be even the confusion of, or the impression of any impropriety or offense.
Alum, you should edit your last post because I could, however unlikely, perceive your "pick your battles" comment to SoV to be condescending, and thus, offensive. From now on, rather than quoted idiomatic expressions, you should PM a poster like SoV and explain to him how you want to encourage him to feel his best, and not fight an uphill battle in the arena of the offended, and save him from any public embarrassment. After that, I will delete this post so that any perceived offense in my message to you can be stricken from the record. I will then drive to your house with a guitar and a pitcher of lemonade and sing "Kumbaya." However, if I am not welcome at your house, then I am sorry to impose, sorry I trespassed on your property, and sorry to have disturbed you while you take a nap... I should not have assumed that you would be awake. Clearly, my insensitivity to the needs of some folks to sleep in the middle of the day due to a disability...er... "able-bodied condition" that requires a little more shut-eye demonstrates just what an awful person I am. And I am sorry I offended any other awful persons with that association.
Seriously... these guys BUY a team from an individual or group, as an individual or part of a group. In most cases, they are not the founder, they are not elected to an executive position or board chair. In nearly all cases that I am aware of (Packers social ploy aside) these are not publicly traded companies/securities. They may SELL the team. It denotes from a commercial and common sense standpoint a sort of ownership of the asset (certainly not necessarily the people it employs). I buy a car. It doesn't matter who built it, who helped me finance it, who services it, what gas I use... I have the title. I own the car. I am the owner. I am not the Executive Vice President of my 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee, or the Senior Chief Executive of Automobile Operations of my 1972 Corvette.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jun 3, 2019 15:48:35 GMT -5
This quote is a good reason why: "Last year's national quarterfinalist has been the only Patriot program with a winning record in each of the last two seasons..."
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 28, 2019 15:44:21 GMT -5
Coke > Pepsi 1000000000000000x. Powerade was the (God-awful) trade off to be a Coke school when I attended, but was so worth it. If we've gone "fully Pepsi," I'm glad I graduated. Chalk one more up to the "Good ole days," finally glad I get to say something like "BACK WHEN I WAS A STUDENT," and you guys talk about Jack the Shot, NCAA titles, pre-PL, classes in black and white, etc.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 20, 2019 11:42:26 GMT -5
The Big East doesn't even exist anymore. How many times must we go through this? I'm not sure I was even alive when this decision was made. Let's say HC jumped ship, and lasted until now. Would they be on the same level as Syracuse and Georgetown and some of these other programs where the spend was cited to be 3-4x larger than our budget? What conference would we have joined then? The ACC, the "New Big East" American conference or whatever it's called? Would we be right back in the A-10 or PL counterpart? Revisionist history is frustrating, and all it serves to accomplish on its most successful day is prove the un-provable right. Revisionist history is frustrating, yes, but PP's and other's facts and figures are fascinating to me. With his latest BE 26 year attendance figures I learned something and it confirmed my sense that Providence and RI have a multi-generational cultural connection to Friar basketball that is different than the relationship Worcester has with HC basketball presently, but that we can strive to recreate from the Kaftan through Jack "the shot" era and then briefly again during the Potter-Vicens-Perry era. I learned that the connection shown by the large attendance is not dependent upon winning in the BE. What it is dependent on is more subjective but interesting to discuss as Holy Cross specifically strives to becomes "Worcester's Team" as stated in billboards and videos during the BB season and by Coach Chesney in recent statements. We can't revise history but it's fascinating to learn about it and there is no tuition fee to learn from and be fascinated by all of the research done for us by contributors to this board. No, I get it, and I'm not critiquing your curiosity. It's just interminably maddening to hear folks harp on the fact that we should have joined, we should have joined, we should have joined. Napoleon shouldn't have invaded Russia. Hitler shouldn't have invaded Russia. Iraq didn't have nukes. And on and on and on. We can't make sound decisions regarding the current MBB program, capitalizing on hockey success, trying quick wins with HC men's lax, or women's field hockey, let alone (prior to AD Blossom, best of luck to him) make sound decisions for the ENTIRE HC athletics department. Focus on the here and now and getting that squared away. Worried about a misstep from 30 years ago like that's been the sole reason why we can't do anything right. My grandfather tripped over his own two feet 60 years ago and I struck out six times last week and it's his fault.
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