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Post by gks on Jan 8, 2021 10:59:44 GMT -5
There are powers that be in the city of Worcester pushing hard to keep college kids out of the city in the spring semester. I'd be stunned if they actually play.
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Post by gks on Jan 5, 2021 11:02:18 GMT -5
The owner of the Providence Bruins also owns the New England Sports Center in Marlborough (the mentioned big multi rink facility). I think the place has 7 or 8 ice sheets. Very large, very busy facility.
Interesting to see where the team will practice.
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Post by gks on Jan 5, 2021 7:46:19 GMT -5
This BU thing is nothing more than a look at how smart we are policy.
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Post by gks on Jan 5, 2021 7:42:42 GMT -5
Stupid article.
Next.
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Post by gks on Jan 4, 2021 10:57:52 GMT -5
Every place on the Cape where I play tennis has been mandating masks for several weeks now. Not a big deal. You're comparing casual tennis with Division 1 College Basketball?
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Post by gks on Jan 4, 2021 10:52:01 GMT -5
Goodman has retweeted that BU only "mandates" the other team wear masks when playing at BU.
HC men will be maskless today.
Beyond ridiculous.
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Post by gks on Jan 3, 2021 13:28:41 GMT -5
It is time for the PL to either say yay or nay.
This indecision BS is not good for the league.
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Post by gks on Jan 3, 2021 13:19:15 GMT -5
The lack of acknowledging history like this in HC athletics is too bad.
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Post by gks on Dec 18, 2020 11:17:10 GMT -5
Will we see a Patriot League mass exodus of talent as a result of the COVID 19 indecision? Possibly. It is a big fear I'm sure. Not a good look when you're one of the few conferences not playing.
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Post by gks on Dec 14, 2020 12:54:27 GMT -5
Night Games.
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Post by gks on Dec 14, 2020 12:53:38 GMT -5
Sure they only scheduled Yale as a necessity but that's OK. Good game for CT and New England. Wish other Ivies weren't as afraid of scheduling up.
UConn should just schedule a home and home with UMass every year. Would help both out schedule wise.
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Post by gks on Nov 11, 2020 11:06:49 GMT -5
Brain droppings about my namesake. Probably more longwinded than my typical post - Tommy's passing was the top story on the 6:00 TV news out of Boston. In front of COVID. In front of presidential transition/challenges. In front of Boston first night's being cancelled. Covered in more detail during the sports segment. HC mentioned - Back in the mid 80's Red Auerbach held a charity basketball game for the Auerbach foundation. At one point Heinsohn had an assist. They stopped the game and gave him the ball commemorating his first career assist.- If you're a shooter and you're hot. you gotta keep sheep shooting. If you're a shooter and you're cold, you gotta keep shooting because you're gonna get hot. - Tommy wasn't always as energetic broadcasting as he has been recently. I think he notched things up after Johnny Most died. Back in the 80's he was also the lead color guy for CBS coverage of NBA games. (back in those days, it was a bigger deal than it is today because fledgling ESPN and TNT had very little NBA coverage). I thought he was actually a little anti-Celtic, overcompensating his Celtic pride. That all ended in the 1987 eastern conference finals when Robert Parish punched Bill Laimbeer in the head. Heinsohn was almost giddy about it and I think even said Laimbeer deserved it. If I recall correctly, Heinsohn wasn't back the next year. - I was in the Garden one Sunday afternoon back in 1986 when they announced Tom Heinsohn had been voted into the Hall of Fame. Heinsohn was courtside doing the game for CBS. The place went wild for quite a while. A friend watching at home said that after a few minute play by play guy Dick Stockton just gave up trying to pre-game and told Heinsohn the game would never get started unless he took a bow - which he did - On a personal note, I knew that my father did some work for the fledgling NBA coaches' association back in the 70's when Celtics coach Heinsohn was the president of the union. Fast forward many years and I happened to bump into Heinsohn and Ron Perry Sr a couple of weeks after my father's death. Mr Perry offered his condolences, Tommy asked who we were talking about. At hearing the name, Tommy was so nice about a guy he hadn't seen (to the best of my knowledge) in 30 years. He told me that my dad was critical in getting the coaches' union certified and that every NBA coach owed him a debt of gratitude. I can't tell you how cool that was right on the heels of his death - A cool guy who was an integral part of the Boston sports scene for my entire life Togo and Tommy would rip each other about who had the fewer career assists. Great stuff!
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Post by gks on Nov 11, 2020 11:02:39 GMT -5
The thing about SATs and ACTs is that while schools don't require them they will look at them if you send them. They are still a factor in admissions.
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Post by gks on Oct 29, 2020 12:34:59 GMT -5
The Whitinsville Christian School is just south of Worcester, AVB's high school, and they are also the Crusaders. Groton-Dunstable Regional High School in MA are the Crusaders as well.
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Post by gks on Oct 9, 2020 6:17:55 GMT -5
Wrong decision. Never care about the athletes. Cancel everything because you can't figure out a strategy. Its to much work for these Presidents and AD's who do nothing all day! They don't care, collecting a check either way! Could not agree more with this.
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Post by gks on Oct 8, 2020 12:41:05 GMT -5
NESCAC just canceled winter season.
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Roster
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Post by gks on Oct 8, 2020 11:47:16 GMT -5
Well, hello Marcus Blossom ! As I understand there's only about 25 pct of our team able to work out together (driving to campus from their homes) - isn't there a way to get more players on campus (living like the basketball and hockey teams) ? This does not look like we are taking our football team and coaches' commitment seriously. There's still a month or more of outdoor weather to safely practice - assuming indoors is off the table for the foreseeable future. Why only football? Why not baseball? When is the PL going to decide there will be a spring football season? Why would you bring players back to campus before that decision? In any event, HC will be back on campus on/about January 1, with the start of the new January term. That will afford the football team at least two whole months of practice before any game in March. Saw baseball players working out when I drove by the other day.
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Post by gks on Oct 7, 2020 11:09:49 GMT -5
I'm just going off the numbers above and what I've seen of the Worcester colleges. Schools, after some initial issues, are doing a great job IMO. Numbers show that this age group rarely is hospitalized.
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Post by gks on Oct 7, 2020 8:21:23 GMT -5
Colleges that wanted to have done an overall great job as have the students. There are always going to be ding-dongs.
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Post by gks on Sept 25, 2020 12:59:22 GMT -5
We absolutely need to play football in 20-21 Agreed. If PL takes year off an every other 1-AA conference plays it's a bad look. Risk of players transferring out grows. There is no reason not to play.
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Post by gks on Sept 24, 2020 12:59:39 GMT -5
May not be as easy as it sounds, Bucknell kids complaining about not enough food during the day Never said it was easy and yes I know a kid at Bucknell and have heard the same. At least they're trying....
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Post by gks on Sept 24, 2020 8:29:04 GMT -5
If Clark and WPI in Worcester figured it out......Holy Cross should have been able to. Did you go to Holy Cross? I ask that pointedly because if you did, you are familiar with dining arrangements at the college. And based on that familiarity, when the Board of Health prohibits indoor dining at Holy Cross, what would be your plan for providing meals for 2400 resident students, and where would students eat these meals? If you didn't go to HC, then you need not answer. No I did not but I have been on the campus hundreds of times and am familiar with the dining set up. There are ways to do it. Grab and go. Limit numbers at a time. Set up tents. IMO HC didn't want to do the work.
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Post by gks on Sept 23, 2020 9:01:04 GMT -5
I assume other schools face similar challenges but many have found ways to stay open. Is the HC campus uniquely poorly positioned for a Covid plan or have other schools just found a better job finding workable solutions? The college's plan was guided by two alums, one is the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the other is the head of global infectious diseases at Tufts Medical Center. And, of course, there is always Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci is far too busy to be writing a college's re-opening plan, but the college has hinted there was contact with him, at least with respect to the general approach. Let's be clear. The college was put in the position of the media potentially asking Fauci, its most prominent graduate at the moment, of his assessment of HC's plan if that plan turned out to have epidemiological shortcomings. HC had to be like Caesar's wife. Fauci has consistently stressed the need for frequent testing and contact tracing. BC's testing was sporadic and its contact tracing so inadequate that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has intervened, and taken over the latter. How embarrassing. Providence College secured the banner headline in the Boston Globe today because of the outbreak there. The bathroom and dining hall issues, in part, revolve around poor ventilation and air circulation. The possibility of contagion in a bathroom shared by 40 students is high, and most epidemiologists would posit that it is unacceptably high. To reduce that risk, one has to test frequently. HC tested over 800 students and staff on Monday and Tuesday. One positive staff test from those tested yesterday, for a total of three. The last student positives were a week ago, for a total of 13 student positives. Of the student positives to date, most were detected in the initial round of tests near the start of the semester. Staff are tested once a week if they potentially have contact with students. <<< The total of 13 students does not include the 21 positive cases from the off-campus party. The grand total of HC student cases is 33 over the past five weeks, nearly four percent of the HC students in Worcester. If Clark and WPI in Worcester figured it out......Holy Cross should have been able to.
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Post by gks on Sept 22, 2020 11:04:59 GMT -5
Scary but not unexpected. UMass relies on guarantee games more than most FBS with lack of conference. No Games = No Money. Same thing with school's regular budgets. If you keep kids at home that lack of room and board money is going to catch up eventually. What do you think the mark up on room and board is? I'm guessing a lot.
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Post by gks on Sept 22, 2020 8:43:28 GMT -5
The optics surrounding HC being, to my knowledge, the only college in the Worcester area that does not have an open campus is already troubling. If they decide to extend this moratorium into the spring, which would likely include no spring athletics, I suspect the PR will not be very good. To this day, I don’t understand why freshmen and seniors were not permitted on campus this fall. It could have been done with proper planning and a real commitment to work through any potential problems. Clark University just announced yesterday with their latest round of testing zero positive cases. More than safe if students act responsibly. I agree....HC optics not good.
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