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Post by WCHC Sports on Dec 1, 2023 13:40:49 GMT -5
Take him with a high 3rd round pick ?? Maybe Belichick can apply his love of Rutgers players to HC. Got a strong family connection. Pats suck. I hope he goes to the Chiefs or Cowboys.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Dec 1, 2023 11:49:01 GMT -5
How many games did the team did last year? I think as stated above, it's as much about the Xs and Os as it is his acceptance of the current college football landscape. Loyalty is not important. Dollars are important. Perform and stay, make money and even better. If you don't put good performance on tape, you'll be replaced with somebody-- anyone-- across the country, that can come in and start playing in a heartbeat.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Dec 1, 2023 9:08:25 GMT -5
Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 30, 2023 14:29:55 GMT -5
I'm not saying that Holy Cross administration did anything to the detriment of basketball in order to make the football program successful. I'm not giving them that much credit I'm just saying that it seems that we can't have both succeeding at the same time. Whether it's just bad dumb luck or something else, I cannot say.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 30, 2023 11:33:04 GMT -5
Losing at home isn't "sustainable" for a basketball program. "Look at what they did to my boy!..." Nobody is showing up because we're not winning in front of our fans. To be fair, the team hasn't discriminated over the last 15 years-- they're not really winning anywhere.
We sold our basketball souls for our football program. We just stay getting trounced.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 21, 2023 11:57:18 GMT -5
Is Sluka 100% done at HC?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 20, 2023 8:55:01 GMT -5
The PL didn't have us fumble at BC, turn in zero offense at Army... the only thing the PL had us do this year was lose to the PL opponent that it was virtually necessary to beat. HC has been relevant in football for five years out of basically the last 25. The second there's even an inkling of respectability, we have to drop all the PL dead weight and run. Are any of the schools that are in these brackets similar to our school in size, reputation, history, academic profile? You think the bleachers of Fitton Field will be filled when Furman comes to town? Or ever again?
I want to win. The PL is not the problem. I say this ad nauseam in the basketball forum: if we won every single game by 40, it would be time to leave. We don't. Plain and simple. It's not our peers. It's us.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 15, 2023 9:45:39 GMT -5
Did SHU take 25 free throws on the road? That's pretty damn high, and a 2.5x discrepancy against the home team. I wonder if attacking just isn't our game-- usually you'll put the ball on the floor if shots aren't falling. If we're shooting near 40% + it's not as urgent, but few teams are going to win with that big of a charity stripe discrepancy.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 15, 2023 9:43:13 GMT -5
Are those who were so worried about Batch feeling any better? Didn't see him play, and the team lost. If you feel better then I won't have a nit to pick.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 13, 2023 13:45:53 GMT -5
If you say so. Nobody's career is made or lost by a single game... but this was his audition for me, and he wasn't getting the part if I were the director.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 13, 2023 12:17:24 GMT -5
I kind of hate to call out an individual player, but Batch didn't belong in that game. I'm not sure what he did last year (and the team was terrible last year so does it really matter?), Not a commentary about his play Saturday, but answering the question about last year, he is the team's leading returning scorer from last year I could be the leading scorer in a lot of hypothetical situations... they wouldn't be ones we'd ever want to see a team you're rooting for be in. If we've got nothing better for crunch time minutes, yikes.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 13, 2023 10:21:37 GMT -5
Watched the whole game. My first game seeing a "live" HC game (I watched on TV) in at least two years, besides reading religiously here and checking the stats. Some things that stood out:
Turnovers were in some cases a case of guys misreading cuts, or breaks behind defenders, and not being on the same page. Some were ill-advised passes. Nevertheless, the team never looked scrambled, or back on their heels. They answered every run by the Hoyas, and didn't let the game go to blowout status like would happen for at least the past ten years prior.
HC boxed out very well and was aggressive on the glass on both ends. Not sure I watched many games where I was satisfied with that effort in an HC game in two decades.
I kind of hate to call out an individual player, but Batch didn't belong in that game. I'm not sure what he did last year (and the team was terrible last year so does it really matter?), but he was a boy among men in this game. Each time he touched the ball, he bounce-step dribbled five times away from the defense towards half court and picked up his dribble. He contributed zero, save for perhaps passing defense, and then had one of the biggest brain farts on a basketball court this side of a Fab Five timeout.
If I am going to do likewise in a positive sense, Octave was not going to lose the game. He didn't even break a sweat. An ice cold killer who wouldn't be denied.
The team played very tough in the paint despite being undersized. They took hits and got to the line. They got their hands on rebounds and loose balls. The dished out some heat too around the bucket. They defended that territory with gusto, playing the right way on defense and down low.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 13, 2023 10:08:13 GMT -5
Good game, almost eked it out at a well-attended, and easily-viewed (on TV) game against an FBS opponent. Still, almost doesn't count. It doesn't change much for the playoffs, where we'll assuredly need to win the PL somehow to get in. It also proves the point that there will be times where you have to throw to win. Sluka running like 40 times isn't always the recipe for victory.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 13, 2023 10:06:27 GMT -5
Not a Lions fan, but they are a very entertaining team to watch and their coach has them believing in themselves. If they can stay healthy the rest of the way, they will be a dangerous team in the playoffs. I like their coach because he's tough, played LB in the NFL and still looks the part. He's one who will replace a player if he doesn't produce, need more of that! Campbell played TE, but still, a tough dude.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 9, 2023 16:53:26 GMT -5
Austin Powers taught me Mama Cass died of a ham sandwich.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 6, 2023 9:10:37 GMT -5
8 - 3 x 3 = -1 Not sure you took math at Holy Cross
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 3, 2023 12:17:48 GMT -5
OK, very early, but I will start posting opponent lineups and stats next week after a game oir two. Massey has Siena as favored by 10 (74-64) and gives them an 82% chance for the win. We have 4/5 starters back, they have none and only won by 7 last year. And they are favored? This is not Kentucky which reloads every year This says more about the apparent lack of faith in HC than it does a skeptical view (or optimistic view) of the abilities of Siena. Only we can prove people wrong by bucking a five year trend.
Regarding the NIL? Can confirm: with the right configuration, the Challenger was among the most-fun cars I've ever had.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 2, 2023 8:14:19 GMT -5
Tough to pick a team to root for (as always for this fan). The Rangers were a pretty strong Yankee playoff rival during their Ron Washington-led days... but the Arizona Diamondbacks still have THE most un-American World Series win in history, breaking my heart further in 2001. As a Yankee fan, the 2001 run would've been by far the most awesome win of that whole run had they been able to close out Game 7. Crazy stat -- after throwing the wet ball into center field on the bunt (it briefly rained in between innings), Mo committed exactly ONE more error over the remaining 12 years of his career. That damn rain shower in the desert + Brosius not looking to throw to 1st for the DP on the next bunt. Oh well. Statistically, the DBacks owned that World Series. Before the fateful last inning, Buck and McCarver were comparing a potential Yankee win to the 1960 Yanks-Pirates series where the Yankees dominated in every category but Bucs managed to win the close games to take 4 of 7 on Maz walkoff. 96, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, and a 2003 appearance would have been perhaps the best run EVER, and very unlikely to be topped. As it stands now, it's already pretty unassailable. But yes, that '01 four-peat after 9/11 would have been off-the-charts satisfying.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 1, 2023 14:44:50 GMT -5
I'd like to continue the trend of recruiting or developing rapidly the PL ROY, or 1st team all-rookie team members... but I'd like to buck the trend and actually RETAIN THOSE PLAYERS from transferring. It's only through that building will we have a team that can compete consistently. I'd also like to see a team that can shoot the basketball into the hoop, which in my estimation is the actual fundamental skill that would result in anybody receiving a scholarship to play the sport.
I'm a skeptic, I'm hurt, I'm jaded. 11 wins is the feeling I get.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Nov 1, 2023 8:28:28 GMT -5
The Lions traded for Donovan Peoples-Jones, one of the better home/road split receivers from 2022. I don't know that he's been on the radar much this season, but the Browns QB situation is unstable at best. He's not a punt returner, but obviously could take reps away from Raymond on offense. Could just be depth with the departure of Reynolds too, but ya never know.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Oct 31, 2023 12:00:08 GMT -5
The problem from another angle: let's say that HC does make the NCAAs or even the NIT. The inclusion of the "mediocre" monster teams like the 16-19 Ohio State rather than a conference winner that may be closer to HC in talent, means the chances for Cinderellas to upset teams and advanced is diminished. If every team is a power conference team, then even their mid/low members likely have more-stacked teams than Cinderellas.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Oct 25, 2023 15:07:12 GMT -5
Tough to pick a team to root for (as always for this fan). The Rangers were a pretty strong Yankee playoff rival during their Ron Washington-led days... but the Arizona Diamondbacks still have THE most un-American World Series win in history, breaking my heart further in 2001.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Oct 25, 2023 15:06:02 GMT -5
Two wildcard teams square off in the World Series. Neither one was the highest seed wild card for their league. The NLCS also had two wildcards. Tough post season for the teams that excelled in the regular season Great point. When you have more Wild Card teams than division winners, the chances are higher that a Wild Card team will advance!
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Post by WCHC Sports on Oct 25, 2023 10:49:39 GMT -5
Physically, he looks like a Create-A-Player from a video game. He has arms like a gibbon, can shoot and dribble. Just a physically strange and unusual proposition to go up against at either end of the floor with the combined skillset.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Oct 25, 2023 10:37:40 GMT -5
I was housed in sub-free living freshman year by accident-- my last name was too long for the HC housing system software so I apparently dropped off the list for housing. Only when I called HC a week before school started to say I didn't hear about where I was going to live, or who my roommate was, did HC realize the mistake. At that point, it was either go into a forced triple (three people in a two person dorm), or sub-free housing. I opted for the latter. The floor was full of freshman members on the football team and men's basketball team, and a smattering of other randos. Mulledy sub-free housing largely kept our floor quiet in freshman year, but I broke the vow a few times to go party elsewhere. Our floor was rarely trashed and in pretty good shape. It also meant regular patrols of RAs and pretty strict enforcement on most weekend nights.
There's also a rumor that a certain cohort's four-year run of mythical Christmas parties began at sub-free freshman year. The entire floor and many close friends populated one dorm room all dressed in their Christmas best--ties required. A keg may have found its way up to the fourth floor in a garbage can via the elevator (not for public use). Santa also paid a visit, a tradition that repeated each subsequent December. Santa also brought a friend dressed in a Santa costume, except she allegedly may have worked for a company called "Balloons," which did not sell balloons. Allegedly. Maybe.
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