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Post by gks on Feb 26, 2024 19:04:52 GMT -5
UMass football desperately needed a home. All the other sports were the price. A-10 is not what it was. At worst MAC hoops is a lateral move.
Too bad UConn football couldn't join with.
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Post by gks on Feb 26, 2024 7:57:02 GMT -5
Instead of looking at this from saving time and money, explore ways to do things the right way by investing another three to five million dollars. We can't keep trying to do things by being cheap. Cost conscious is important but should not be the driver when considering individual or team growth and development opportunities. For example, there are rumblings that coaches from our major sports don't have a budget that allows them to attend the NCAA meetings/convention for their sport. If true you can fill in the blanks,If this is true this is an utter embarrassment.
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Post by gks on Feb 22, 2024 7:17:32 GMT -5
Harvard in 82 knocked HC out of the playoffs; it was only an 8 or 12-team field at the time. That and losing a heartbreaker to Colgate which was supposed to be on TV but was preempted by a MLB playoff game because the baseball game had a long rain delay. And they indirectly ruined '83 as well. 10-10 tie which wasn't particularly damaging; but Gill Fenerty hurt his shoulder in the first quarter and pretty much was done for the season. The Johnnies ruined this past season also. Sluka, Coker, Dobbs and Chesney all get a chance to rep Holy Cross in one last post season if Harvard doesn't beat us at Polar. But we should drop the Ivies because they are too weak. No one has ever said they are weak. Quite the opposite. HYP could compete at the FBS level very easily. They have more equivalencies than Alabama and Michigan. You want to compete nationally....you have to schedule smartly. You want to compete for the fur coat and 50s MG title....play every Ivy you can.
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Post by gks on Feb 21, 2024 14:53:14 GMT -5
No Harvard on future schedules is a step in the right direction.
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Post by gks on Feb 21, 2024 8:45:56 GMT -5
If your community in Massachusetts is home to a lower-level hotel you're more than likely hosting migrant families in your school system. Shrewsbury, Northborough, Westborough, Sturbridge, Auburn all have kids in their districts.
Brockton's problem is much greater than this. If kids don't want to go to class and better themselves get them away from the kids that do.
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Post by gks on Feb 19, 2024 11:23:04 GMT -5
Think it's about time we return to the policy of tough love.
We've coddled enough.
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Post by gks on Feb 16, 2024 13:55:34 GMT -5
There will soon not be any more Holy Cross events or gatherings of Crusader fans before or after games at this nearby restaurant establishment. It recently announced on its web site that it will be closing February 24th after a forty-six year run. While it had been expected that the site of the restaurant would become the new Auburn Fire HQ, it had previously been thought the business was scouting out new locations. That no longer appears to be the case. www.chucks.com/Just worry about your beloved Pawtucket. Looks like their spending all that saved money from PawSox well.... www.wpri.com/news/local-news/blackstone-valley/future-of-pawtucket-city-hall-to-be-discussed-wednesday-night/
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Post by gks on Feb 14, 2024 19:08:37 GMT -5
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Post by gks on Feb 13, 2024 16:25:00 GMT -5
Not sure if it’s true but the city has allowed North to take in all the best basketball talent across the city, even if they fall within the Doherty, South or Burncoat districts. If that is the case, North will be dominant for years to come. The city is not as geographic as it used to be. Certain high schools have core strengths and you get yourself across the city if that's what you're looking for. For example, if you want a focus on music/theater you would go to Burncoat no matter where you live Always easy for a player to find an 'aunt' or other relative living in a certain school's quadrant....
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Post by gks on Feb 13, 2024 12:54:47 GMT -5
Equivalencies/counters are by academic year, not semester. A fifth-year senior is on a full ride. That's one of the school's equivalencies for that year. He graduates in December. The school can't reallocate his scholarship in the Spring semester unless they had fewer than 63 equivalencies in the fall. So if someone where to leave school after say the first semester their sophomore year that financial aid equivalency can't be reallocated? That makes no sense. However we are talking NCAA.
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Post by gks on Feb 13, 2024 8:35:42 GMT -5
Not sure I understand your question but HC had plenty of '5th years' the last few years and we are are undergraduate - only. To the extent that is significant. Most of our opponents (PL and OOC had them too). Not sure what you mean by 'worth it'. I think the cost is the same as no '5th years' or just '5th years' for medical redshirts. Since there is a limit on schollies. I guess you could say the last few years were a more level playing field for us. Given our success the last few years I imagine our AD wants to retain the expanded '5th-year' option. I think HC is advocating for a solution that allows for a 9th semester, not necessarily a fifth year. I could be wrong. Time will tell. Biggest no-brainer in the history of Earth.
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Post by gks on Feb 12, 2024 14:26:26 GMT -5
I fail to understand this obsession with roster size. What difference does it make if you have 100 on your roster or 120? Last time I looked you can only play eleven at a time. How about depth? Stockpiling due to injuries? The 90 player limit was utterly ridiculous. I can't believe people are questioning this.
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Post by gks on Feb 12, 2024 8:21:11 GMT -5
The Ivy League basically skirts NCAA rules. Zero roster limits with unlimited aid for players. I’ve said it before, but I know someone within the Yale football program. When we play the Ivies it is not a fair fight. Happy to see our recent success. Hope it continues. Too bad they bend the rules in their favor though. Don't say the truth too loud. Some here will be triggered to go into uber-Ivy defense mode.
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Post by gks on Feb 6, 2024 10:33:50 GMT -5
Ha...a team from the almighty Ivy League doing their best to bring down college sports.
They should have told the Dartmouth players no one cares and get back to playing hoops.
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Post by gks on Feb 1, 2024 8:21:21 GMT -5
Every AD worth their salt has a list they keep in his or her desk with names of coaches in case something like Hafley leaving BC occurs.
Sure Chesney was on BC's list. If it wasn't they're stupid.
Overwhelming majority would NEVER pass up an opportunity to triple their salary at the stage in their career that Chesney is in.
If BC wants Chesney bad enough they'll go after him.
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Post by gks on Jan 31, 2024 9:49:17 GMT -5
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Post by gks on Jan 26, 2024 10:55:53 GMT -5
What is taking HC so long to put an out a release on this? This is huge for HC and the PL. Take advantage of it !!!!!
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Post by gks on Jan 25, 2024 16:36:05 GMT -5
Interesting to ponder that BOTH ownership groups of the two baseball teams in Worcester decided to sell within 60 days of each other. Not really,
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Post by gks on Jan 24, 2024 10:18:25 GMT -5
The Telegram recently reported that the Creedons are selling the Bravehearts.
Time for your nap.
Someone will be sad to hear there is a local buyer lined up with plans to keep the team at Fitton.
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Post by gks on Jan 24, 2024 10:00:13 GMT -5
You cannot compare the Bravehearts with any of the other teams mentioned above. They are a college all star team. Lower level Cape League style. To the Creedon's credit they have run it like a minor league team and many who have no idea of baseball think they are a minor league organization.
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Post by gks on Jan 22, 2024 14:56:42 GMT -5
If I remember correctly many of these tragic incidents occurred during WPI's draconian COVID lockdowns.
Safe to say WPI did not handle it very well.
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Post by gks on Jan 17, 2024 14:39:20 GMT -5
Then pay the man, whoever that is, more than what's being paid now. Murphy got a pay raise when he left Cincinnati; I'm sure that's not the case now; but I'm sure Cincinnati 30 years ago paid more than Holy Cross. He took a pay cut after an uneven (17-37-1) tenure at Cincinnatti: www.nytimes.com/1993/12/07/sports/sports-people-college-football-harvard-hires-murphy.htmlHis final tally W-L as a head coach is 232-134-1. While he never went to the FCS playoffs and his OOC scheduling wasn't particularly challenging, he certainly did very well in the Ivy League and against PL opponents. Schools like Harvard and Villanova are pretty fortunate to have had very stable head coach situations (2 in the last 40 years) as of late. This is the polite way to say it stunk.
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Post by gks on Jan 17, 2024 10:46:52 GMT -5
Coached 30 years in obscurity with talent that could have been challenged on a national level. Recruiting at Harvard is like shooting fish in a barrel.
My lasting memory of Murphy is fear and what could have been.
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Post by gks on Jan 12, 2024 10:59:19 GMT -5
WPI generally draws more fans than Clark. The rematch at WPI will be higher, attendance wise. Clark has been running this high school tourney for years but it does not include any City schools which made sense years ago when Worcester schools were much larger and had much better teams. Reason city schools aren't allowed in the Clark Tournament isn't necessarily size, though there is a size restriction. When the tourney was started 80+ years ago only city schools were allowed/invited into state tournaments. Was set up by the towns as a post season option and they have held true to this throughout. Private schools not eligible either.
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Post by gks on Jan 12, 2024 9:53:35 GMT -5
Was not too long ago when this rivalry banged out the Harrington and Kneller on a regular basis and drew a large amount of locals.
College kids are lazy and boring.
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