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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 9, 2023 16:14:26 GMT -5
A former Holy Cross Head Coach returned to campus without acrimony or threaten litigation and showed a fist bumped with a smile to his successor on the field that he spent 14 seasons. He picked himself up, and continued with his career. Even today, I believe FHC TG bleeds Purple, and would not take any actions to show the institution in a negative situation. Photo courtesy of the Class Correspondent of the Class of 1970, Sader1970.. I am pretty sure Chesney and FHCTG have worked together at camps, recruiting events, and so on so that they are at least friendly. Chesney has been in New England as a coach since 2010.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 9, 2023 16:12:30 GMT -5
Football 44 checking in on the hockey board. As a graduate of a great high school hockey program, Malden Catholic. As a guy who has some interest in Holy Cross hockey, would I be wrong in saying that coach Riga is quietly knocking it out of the park recruiting wise. Seems to be aggressively going after talent. I can only use what he did at Quinnipiac as an example. Agree. These coaches we have picked up from New England Schools like Chesney, Magarity and Riga know the landscape and HC can have a better feel for them before hiring also. Those are three sports that are fully funded with no asterisks. Women's Hockey has only been ramping up scholarships and jumped from D-3 to the strongest league HC competes in. Maybe that team has a chance to turn around, too. Men's Lacrosse might be in the conversation for a stronger league top to bottom than Women's Hockey East.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 9, 2023 16:10:54 GMT -5
Why is the student paper reporting this first over all the national outlets??? Just interesting ESPN, The Athletic, the Chicago papers were not on this story before the student paper?
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 7, 2023 12:21:27 GMT -5
When I click that link, the first thing I see is: 2022: Appeared and started in all 17 games for the Hounds... You had to click another link to find the misinformation you reported. But, good work digging until you found something you could report to us, even if what you found was wrong. I just go to career stats always since they usually are right...
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 7, 2023 11:37:04 GMT -5
Walsh started every game her first two years. Her stats were much better her first year. Two possibilities: she got much worse in her second year or the defense around her got much worse in her second year. The latter is obviously more likely as players rarely get dramatically worse between freshman and sophomore year in college. It’s certainly possible but I’ll guess the team around her wasn’t as good her second year. And none of this means anything re: how good or not she’ll be at HC. As always, I’ll trust the coaches who have actually seen her play over the photog (mis)reading box scores. In typing this, I recognize I am setting myself up for the typical “I worked an Assumption/WPI scrimmage two years ago and she gave up a really soft goal” post. I didn't misread the stats...they are just listed wrong on her career page at Assumption when you click on career stats assumptiongreyhounds.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster/julia-walsh/7421
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 7, 2023 11:34:36 GMT -5
Brown randomly put out a press release remembering a Brown victory over Holy Cross in 2014. Looks like it was an interesting day in Providence based on the weather. The full game I think is here
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 6, 2023 18:38:01 GMT -5
At 644-1183 for a .352 winning percentage, UNH ranks #467 among 490 teams who have played D-1 basketball. Note, however, that things have been looking up with the Wildcats at .500 or higher each of the past four seasons. And they dismissed the coach after that run.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 6, 2023 18:31:58 GMT -5
We have three recent grads using their covid year to play another season Jayce Lambert to Bentley (D2), Cameron Magalotti to Lenoir-Rhyne (D2) and Thomas McIntire TBA (he's our best prospect to he'll find a team soon) Bentley and Lenoir-Rhyne (D-2 National Champion) might be better than HC right now.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 6, 2023 13:46:41 GMT -5
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 5, 2023 17:08:25 GMT -5
One NCAA appearance in 21 years (in seasons they were eligible and the coach wasn't Chesney) if you want to play that game. The more relevant game (given it's 2023 and not 1995) is 32-11 and four playoff appearances over the past four seasons. Not sure why what happened when HC was non-scholarship with Pete Vaas as the head coach would have any bearing on today's college football landscape. Seems like it is the coach not the school that has the winning formula...🤣
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 5, 2023 13:34:00 GMT -5
It's summer. Still time to re-enroll at HC. Or to enroll at Penn State ;-)
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 5, 2023 13:32:45 GMT -5
Outside of the Chesney run lately, Holy Cross has ONE NCAA football appearance in the last 39 years. I’m assuming you know that HC and its PL / Colonial comrades did not participate in the playoffs from the mid 1980s to 1996. HC would have had participated in the playoffs at least six times during this stretch, won a bunch of games, and likely have an NCAA Championship or two. Context is important. No one would argue that there have been lean stretches (1993 - 2004, 2012-17). One NCAA appearance in 21 years (in seasons they were eligible and the coach wasn't Chesney) if you want to play that game.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 4, 2023 18:17:12 GMT -5
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 4, 2023 18:01:48 GMT -5
You opened the door, allow me to walk through it. No elite small college can compete at the FBS level. There are four FBS schools with fewer than 5,000 students, the three service academies and Tulsa. Tulsa is hardly an elite school. They accept 60 percent of their applicants. And they're hardly an American Conference football power. There is a handful more with enrollments of less than 10,000. If we went FBS, we'd have to add 22 full rides for football. But we'd also have to add 22 for women. How do we justify increasing our athletics budget for scholarships alone by $3,000,000? Not to mention the $5,000,000 entry fee and the other costs of upgrading our program. Look at the suggested conference schools. Our other sports would get embarrassed. For example, our WBB would be playing UConn, Villanova, and Syracuse six times a year. They'd lose those six games by 250. That's just plain nuts. We're where we belong. Let's not forget that not that long ago our FB was bad. Be careful what you wish for. What goes around comes around. The day we decide to go FBS is the day I stop contributing half of my annual donation to athletics and put all of it into academics. Outside of the Chesney run lately, Holy Cross has ONE NCAA football appearance in the last 39 years.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 3, 2023 21:33:43 GMT -5
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 3, 2023 16:19:41 GMT -5
Like so much of college sports the baseball salaries for the good coaches in the Power 5 conferences are increasing at a rapid pace - BC is in a power conference but they’re private and likely was not willing to pay what PSU is paying Gambino Penn State's 'profit' from football was $54 million in 2021-22. BC's 'profit' was $10 million. Penn State's total football revenue exceeded the total spending by BC for ALL sports, by about $12 million. Penn State baseball has great facilities BUT has been a graveyard for wins. They have one NCAA appearance since 1976 in 2000. They have two seasons with a winning record since 2012.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 3, 2023 16:03:00 GMT -5
Scott Loiseau (SNHU and former Holy Cross assistant) should be the guy. Mike Glavine of Northeastern and Josh McDonald of UConn will be competitors. Maybe Mudd will transfer closer to home now and head to HC. Jayson King of Dayton and formerly of Franklin Pierce would be another good choice. I doubt Glavine leaves his alma mater Northeastern to move across town to a gig where money is an issue.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 3, 2023 10:07:14 GMT -5
Gambino was named the Penn State coach today
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 1, 2023 21:50:38 GMT -5
1) UMass never actually took away her scholarship 2) I would say that the coaches commitment to a 50 percent scholarship as a junior and senior was non binding. 3) UMass Field Hockey has played in four final fours. They last made the Elite Eight in 2013. UMass has an all-time winning percentage of .625 in Field Hockey while Holy Cross FB is at .549. The last time UMass had a sub .500 record was 2011. 2) It might have become binding when Emma bought and paid for those last two years at 50% by reducing her first two years scholarship amounts. Because of Emma's assertiveness, UMass didn't take away her scholarship but by mutual agreement they have already taken some of her first year scholarship in exchange for increased scholarship junior and senior year. Thus Emma has purchased her junior and senior aid in an agreement in writing initiated by UMass. Game, set, match. It appears Bamford wisely realized Emma had bested the coach and met his responsibility when approached by Emma - not of his own initiative as I read the two articles. I only have the two articles to go on but my grades based on that would be: Emma: hero Coach: sleazy AD: looking the other way until confronted Regarding the strength of UMass FH compared to HC FB. Coach Weinberg was hired in 2016 but hasn't sniffed the NCAA tournament yet despite the program having max scholarships while HC FB has gone to the NCAA tournament four seasons in a row despite having three fewer scholarships than the subdivision maximum. It appears UMass FH has regressed under her. Or St. Joe's is pretty good? St. Joe's even beat an ACC school in the 2022 NCAA tournament before losing to the national champion and consensus greatest field hockey player in history who was immediately named the UNC head coach after her career ended. And with less scholarships in Field Hockey, they are more valuable now then they were pre-transfer portal so you can get someone better in the portal with that scholarship money. In football, with that 51st scholarship you can carry that player and not have a major problem but field hockey you can't be carrying someone that can't play at this level as easy.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 1, 2023 18:15:29 GMT -5
Apparently it violates the NCAA regulation that money can only taken away for poor academics or bad conduct, not for poor athletic performance. I wasn't aware of that reg (although had been curious how it works) but the articles reference it. 1) Where the heck is UMass Compliance and the NCAA? Bob Hoehler, an excellent investigative reporter should be all over them and Bamford. 2) Did the coach make an error negotiating a back loaded four year financial agreement in writing? Did that convert a one year renewable scholarship into a four year contract? Emma fulfilled her end by accepting the reduced 10% and then coach tried to walk away from her responsibilities under the deal. 3) HC FB is much closer to a national title than UMass FH, has a roster several times larger and partial scholarships at HC are worth more money than the same percentage scholarship at UMass. But we haven't heard of any shenanigans like this from our main partial scholarship sport of football. Hats off to Chesney, Kit, Vince, Holy Cross Athletic Compliance, etc. 1) UMass never actually took away her scholarship 2) I would say that the coaches commitment to a 50 percent scholarship as a junior and senior was non binding. 3) UMass Field Hockey has played in four final fours. They last made the Elite Eight in 2013. UMass has an all-time winning percentage of .625 in Field Hockey while Holy Cross FB is at .549. The last time UMass had a sub .500 record was 2011.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 23:54:09 GMT -5
AD Ryan Bamford backs the coach over his UMass student athlete. That's after he had heard coach on an audio tape contradict her written request to restructure the scholarship to 10-10-50-50. And he knows coach violated the NCAA regulation prohibiting her doing what she did. Scary. At least Bamford has earned one distinction. The U.S. Patent Office has granted him a patent on 1-11 football seasons. Isn't this similar to Deion telling everyone at Colorado to transfer?
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 23:03:39 GMT -5
UMass Baseball might have less money than HC. But tuition is much less for in-state students. That's what I was thinking. As in that Umass field hockey article, UMass Baseball has a fraction of a single scholarship (.93 percent) of the 11.7 scholarships allowed for the season by the NCAA.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 21:26:02 GMT -5
Salem State men's hockey is currently open and the previous coach made 104k a year. I found that very high. Even though he was there for 40 years that not just for coaching hockey and you know it. It lists him as Intercollegiate Coordinator and a staff assistant. It is a little misleading to say he got that much to coach a hockey team. It is still a lot
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 20:33:39 GMT -5
I didn't share the article because my photo was in it. I just know you guys have been following Buddy's story all offseason. Dartmouth pays for my services for the day and that photo was taken when Dartmouth beat UNH a few years ago. I didn't inquire as a dig, I was impressed to see your photo in a national publication and am curious how different industries work. The other photo is from Getty and they only get paid per usage of the images and it is only a cut.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 15:15:43 GMT -5
At the HS/community college/low D-3 level they may not be as judgemental and might see the opportunity to get more basketball kmowledge and experience than their budget ordinarily could hire. As an assistant at a lower level he could offer being able to give more time than the typical part timer who has to have a day job to make coaching work. Salem State men's hockey is currently open and the previous coach made 104k a year. I found that very high.
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