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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 15:14:21 GMT -5
A very sad chapter in HC sports history - really a shame Bill did not accept the fact that he was falling short of expectations and just take the 600 career wins and move on to another job - very poor judgement all around It would be nice if BG could restore his reputation & get back into the game in some capacity. He is at least 64 years old (graduated Clark in 1981)...I don't see him getting a job again at his advanced age.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 15:10:18 GMT -5
1) When the Athletic uses your photo, do you get compensated or does Dartmouth own the rights to the photo? 2) "kept him out of the 2018 FCS playoffs" I don't blame the writer for not understanding or remembering that the Ivy FCS tournament policy is a weird outlier. It is that unexpected of a policy because it goes against normal self interest. 3) Wonderful portrait of a remarkable coach. I hope he can resume a role at Dartmouth. 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.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 15:04:12 GMT -5
You think Chesney isn't going to be up for jobs after the 2023 season??? Chesney told me just last week that, while he loves HC, his main motivation for staying is that he simply enjoys beating the stuffings out of UNH too much to leave. Good for him talking trash about a program that has played 32 playoff games to Holy Cross measly eight with two wins in the HISTORY of their program. The coaching tree at UNH is so much better than it has ever been at HC too.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 10:47:17 GMT -5
Article from The Athletic today
Over the years, it became a running joke for Archie Manning. A staffer would ask the patriarch of the first family of quarterbacks, “What would happen if Buddy couldn’t attend the camp one year?”
Without missing a beat, Manning would quip: “The camp is over!”
Last weekend down in the bayous of Thibodaux, La., the best college quarterbacks in the country convened at Nicholls State University to mentor more than 1,400 young quarterbacks and receivers at the Manning Passing Academy. The camp is an institution, a rite of passage for counselors and campers alike. But while Archie, Peyton, Eli and Cooper Manning are the faces of the camp, one of its driving forces has been a fearless, larger than life Dartmouth head coach from Pembroke, Mass., named Buddy Teevens. Each year, he selects the event’s 90 or so coaches, coordinates schedules and assigns the drills that keep this 27-year machine running.
And the reality of having the MPA without him caused some panic.
“It’s not funny now,” Manning says.
Campers roamed the field this month in shirts reading “BT STRONG” after Teevens, 66, was critically injured in a bicycle accident the evening of March 16 on state road A1A in St. Augustine, Fla.
Teevens suffered spinal cord injuries and his right leg was amputated after he was struck by a Ford F150. Teevens’ bike was not illuminated, according to the state highway patrol’s preliminary report, and he was not at a crosswalk nor wearing a helmet. Dartmouth assistant Sammy McCorkle will serve as interim head coach for the 2023 season as Teevens’ rehabilitation continues.
And suddenly so many are reeling from the horrific injury to one of the most important presences in football you may not know. Teevens is the coach who stared down the conventional football world at Dartmouth, his alma mater, and eliminated tackling at practice to make football safer. He was the first to hire women to his full-time staff. He swims and cycles – he biked across the entire country a few years back. He played an NCAA hockey Frozen Four straight from quarterbacking in the Blue-Gray Football Classic. He made weight on the freshman high school team by putting a 5-pound weight in his jockstrap. The former head coach at Maine, Tulane and Stanford helped launch the MPA and won 117 games along the way, too.
And now this Energizer Bunny of a human is fighting for his future.
“Not many people have contributed more to the game than Buddy,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, also a friend of Teevens, tells The Athletic. “It’s unique in that he’s had so many touch points into the future of the game as well as the past.”
Goodell thinks of Buddy and Kirsten Teevens like family. His twin daughters attended Dartmouth, and anytime they needed anything, Kirsten was there for them, dating back to the girls’ first day on campus. It was an emotional one for both Goodell and his wife, Jane, as each drove a car with a daughter for the drop-off day.
“My wife was crying so hard that she had to pull over, and guess who pulls up next to her but Kirsten,” Goodell says. “We were literally 50 feet from their house by chance. And she just said, ‘Oh, please come in, please come in.’”
After Teevens’ accident, Goodell was able to reciprocate that generosity in a sense. In May, when Goodell attended his daughters’ graduation, he also scheduled time to visit with the Dartmouth football team. He suspected those young men, much like he was, were reeling without Teevens.
“He’s one of the best people I know,” Goodell says.
Goodell and Teevens first crossed paths more than a decade ago because of Teevens’ curiosity regarding some of the NFL’s health and safety policies. Over the course of his career, Teevens has tried to improve football. “I love football,” Teevens told Congress during a hearing on concussions in youth sports in 2016. “But I love my players more.”
“He saw that in order for the game to survive and be successful that they needed to to really address that safety issue,” says Delaware Gov. John Carney, Teevens’ teammate at Dartmouth in the 1970s.
Teevens was the first college football coach to eliminate live tackling from practices, believing it a key step to addressing concerns of head trauma and other injuries in a sport known for its violent collisions. Instead, Buddy opted to rely on the Mobile Virtual Player (MVP), a remote-controlled tackling dummy — a concept he baked up alongside former classmate John Currier in the spring of 2011. The robot could teach proper tackling technique without adding to the wear and tear that football players traditionally endure. The practice — which his peer coaches initially told him would cost him his job — has become more widespread at both the collegiate and professional level.
“I just don’t think many people had the imagination and guts to do that,” Harvard football coach and lifelong friend Tim Murphy says.
Cornerback Vernon Harris, a two-time first-team All-Ivy League selection who became the first Dartmouth player to start 40 games, played for Teevens from 2012-2015. Harris, who eventually played for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, says he initially was skeptical of the strategy. But at practice, he and his teammates worked on their form, position and timing just as they always had — they just stopped before bringing their teammate all the way down to the ground.
“We harped on it and worked on so many drills that by the time we got into games, it was just like second nature,” Harris says. “And because we weren’t beating each other up on the football field, we were definitely a lot fresher than most teams toward the end of the season.”
In 2015, Harris helped Dartmouth win its first Ivy League title in 19 years. In the past seven seasons, the Big Green have finished first or second in the conference five times. As Harris puts it, “The proof is in the pudding.”
Teevens also has been a trailblazer in hiring, opening doors for female football coaches. In 2018, Teevens hired Callie Brownson to be an offensive quality control coach — the first known full-time female football coach at the Division I level. He met her at the Manning Passing Academy, and she made such an impression on his Dartmouth players during preseason camp they asked him to hire her. She’s now the Cleveland Browns’ assistant receivers coach.
Jennifer King, whom Teevens hired as an offensive assistant in 2019, is now the Washington Commanders’ assistant running backs coach, the first Black female full-time assistant coach in NFL history. Teevens has worked to identify and develop quality candidates and takes part in the NFL Women’s Careers in Football Forum at the scouting combine each year in Indianapolis.
“I love that he just says, ‘This is the right thing to do, and we’re gonna do it,’” Dartmouth athletic director Mike Harrity says. “He exemplifies what college athletics can be at its best … and people will tell you that he’s one of the best educators that this campus has ever seen. His classroom just happens to be the football field.”
Those close to Teevens see his impact every day, but Goodell wanted to make sure the world saw it, too. In the leadup to the 2023 NFL Draft, he insisted that he’d deliver a message to Teevens and Kirsten and everyone else who loved them. Moments before he put the Chicago Bears on the clock with the No. 1 pick, Goodell stood at the podium and delivered a nationally televised message to the man he considers family.
“His impact both on college football and the NFL has been enormous,” Goodell said. “He has been a leader in making our game safer through breakthrough innovations. He is a pioneer in hiring female coaches, two of whom are currently coaching in the NFL.
“I know Buddy and his wife, Kirsten, are watching the draft tonight, and we send our love and best wishes to both of them. Thank you, Coach. Thank you for all you do for the game of football. We look forward to seeing you back at Dartmouth.”
In the late ‘70s, Teevens was a dual-sport athlete at Dartmouth, jumping from football in the fall to ice hockey in the winter. He quarterbacked and then turned himself into an enforcer. It was grueling, physically, but a challenge that suited Teevens and, Carney notes with a dash of irony, did not necessarily suggest that Teevens would go on to become a coach who voluntarily limits physical contact. “What you have is a quarterback with a hockey player’s mentality,” says Jeff Hawkins, an associate athletic director at Oregon and friend of Teevens.
Fearless is the key word, Carney said. Fearless in the way Teevens faced down football norms, or fearless in the way he and Murphy got into constant trouble in school, going off ski jumps in a sled or sticking a chewed-up orange jelly bean inside of a frog and asking the teacher what it was. These were, of course, Teevens’ ideas.
Later in life, Teevens turned into what close friends describe as a workout fanatic and avid cyclist. “Buddy is the best conditioned 60-year-old man in America,” Manning says. Part of the great tragedy of Teevens’ accident, they say, is that it occurred on a bike.
Because Teevens had all these plans to keep on living. On their 60th birthdays, Teevens and Murphy reunited on the edge of the Jones River Bridge in Kingston, Mass. They made this jump, a rite of passage in the town, together as 13-year-old boys. Six years ago, they made the jump again.
“Buddy is a natural leader,” Murphy says. “It’s that simple. I would have followed him anywhere, and I did, even if it wasn’t the wisest thing to do.”
Carney says Teevens lives his life with a kind-hearted independence, the type of teammate who served as the glue keeping everyone together. Now the head coach of his alma mater for nearly two decades, Teevens does the same — though he uses his voice more forcefully. He’s an elder statesman of the Ivy League, a leader of a group that describes itself as uniquely close and collegial. His peers credit him for cultivating that type of community.
His rivals, like Murphy and Princeton coach Bob Surace, can’t say a bad word about him. After the 2018 Dartmouth game against Princeton, a dramatic 14-9 loss that kept the Big Green out of the FCS playoffs, Teevens jumped off his team’s bus to grab Surace and say, “I’m so proud I coached in that game against you.”
“He always has the right words to say, the right thing to say, and makes the person across from him feel so special,” Surace says.
When former Dartmouth receiver Tim McManus felt a pull toward a career in medicine, the first person he told was Teevens. And, of course, Teevens knew exactly what to do.
“He introduced me to a friend of a friend who ended up being one of the heads of cardiology at Stanford, and that person told me to meet a guy who was from Minnesota, like me,” McManus says. “And he opened up a different world to me.”
McManus, now an orthopedic surgery resident, wasn’t the only one who benefitted from Teevens’ extensive Rolodex. He’s watched former teammates, years after their time at Dartmouth, call Teevens to pick his brain about a potential career change — and he’d always know the right introduction to make. Didn’t matter if it was law, politics or medicine, in New York City, Los Angeles or Minneapolis.
“His contact list, I think, could rival the pope or anyone in the White House,” McManus says.
Teevens knows the team’s bus drivers and brings them team gear. People know he cares, so they care, too.
“In the heart of the winter, if there were recruits coming in for visits,” Harris says, “he would wake up early in the morning — before we’d even have morning lifts — to dig out the logo of the field from the snow. There was nothing that was above him. And he wanted us to understand that as well.”
Just last season, with a rash of injuries to his football team, Teevens was faced with needing to burn redshirts for a few freshmen. He pulled each first-year player into a one-on-one meeting to reinforce that they could lose a year of eligibility and could jeopardize plans for getting a master’s degree paid for if they played in more than four games. He wanted each player to make an informed decision.
“I’ve never heard a head football coach speak like that,” says Harrity, the AD. “He let them decide without any guilt.”
Those conversations are not always easy or straightforward. McManus, for one, remembers the conversation they had after he suffered too many concussions during his final season. “He was pretty instrumental in terms of letting me let go of football,” McManus says.
Even though Teevens certainly has a knack for relationship-building, he’s intentional about it, too. He keeps up with pop culture so he can connect with his players – he went out of his way to meet Lizzo at the Super Bowl. Goodell found it funny, because Teevens is typically shy in settings like that. But Teevens grabbed Jane and asked for an introduction to the pop superstar.
By the time Goodell turned around, Teevens and Lizzo were smiling for a photo together. He chuckled.
(Brian Foley / Dartmouth Athletics) As for Dartmouth, McCorkle, who has coached with Teevens for 18 of his 23 seasons there, will lead the program, allowing Buddy to focus on his rehabilitation. Harrity made the decision along with Kirsten.
Though McCorkle is someone whom Teevens has been grooming to become a head coach, there’s a gaping hole where Teevens should be. Harrity feels the loss every day. So much so that he’s twice slid into Teevens’ office just to feel the coach’s energy.
“I’ve gone over late at night, like 8 or 9, when no one’s in the football offices, and I cry,” Harrity says. “I cry and I think about him. I’ve actually written him some notes that I haven’t given him yet. But he just means the world to me, and … just … we’ve missed him so much.”
Murphy was with Teevens 24 hours before the accident, as their families celebrated St. Patrick’s Day together in Naples, Fla. Then Murphy got the call from Teevens’ daughter, Lindsey, and he hopped in the car to drive 320 miles to Jacksonville without stopping. It didn’t feel right to see somebody so full of life in that condition. “No matter how intangibly tough and gritty you are,” Murphy says, “it’s something that is really challenging.”
But then the people close to him remember who they’re talking about. This is one person who isn’t scared of the road ahead.
“I’ll tell you right now, Buddy Teevens is gonna come back from this,” Hawkins says. “And he’ll be able to compete again. You watch. You can’t hold Buddy Teevens back.”
(Illustration: Samuel Richardson / The Athletic; photo: Andy Lewis / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 10:43:17 GMT -5
Note that the four private schools in the patriot league who play baseball all have almost no scholarships. The biggest problem is that army and navy have an almost unlimited budget, and they also bring in more than 15 recruits a year for the sport. It also doesn’t hurt that if a player gets drafted by the MLB, then they can skip most of their service requirement. If the kids want to commit to the armed forces, then I have no issue with whatever advantage that gains them-- certainly in the college years. I didn't think being drafted was an automatic skip... I thought you have to ask for deferred service, or get special congressional authorization or something. The rules seem to change yearly or even monthly it seems...
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 30, 2023 10:41:15 GMT -5
My main goal of this writing is to explain my side of my mental health journey and how this entire process and field hockey program has detrimentally ruined myself along with many other aspects in my life. I am writing this to also spread awareness to not only the UMass field hockey staff, but also other coaches to be aware of this. I hope other coaches and Barb Weinberg can look out for the mental damage she can do to her athletes, especially as it has had myself contemplating going on with life. I am also writing this to create closure for myself and my mental stability so I can move forward with making this very negative experience, a positive outcome for myself, as I spread awareness of this issue, to ensure it does not happen again. I want to spread awareness to you guys and potential future UMass athletes that this can happen. Even if you are on a binded scholarship with athletics. I want UMass field hockey to understand that even though you may be breaking promises made to get athletes to commit to your school, I am not backing down. This is not where my journey ends. I am asking Barb and other coaches who decide to go this route of dismissing an athlete from their team, to give the athlete some sort of warning or to at least tell the family what is happening, so they are not blindsided by this. Especially when it comes to the financial part. When Barb manipulated my father into thinking we were rearranging my scholarship for her team, when in fact you would use the 10% against us when cutting me from my team. Barb told my father the day before I signed my binding contract that she would be re-arranging my scholarship. She did this due to “making room for other athletes to have scholarships.” She promised me, in writing, 10% scholarship my first two years, and then 50% scholarship the last two years of my college career. In the meeting when she cut me, she then told me I would only be getting 10% my four years at UMass. After all of my fight and research into my scholarship and the NCAA rules, I did ultimately get the money I was promised. This was after Barb thought I could be so far as manipulated into thinking I was only getting 10%. If I did lose that fight, I would be in community college right now. She frightened my family into thinking we would be in a huge financial scare. When I was cut, I never got a reason. All I got was “we are re-evaluating the roster and you will not be on it.” But instead of telling the victim, me, she told some teammates that she would be turning it up a notch and that I couldn’t hang with that. Barb Weinberg told other people the reason for my cut. Not me. I did not fail a class in the University, make a violation of the athletic department and team rules, violate of the NCAA and or University of Massachusetts drug testing program, and so on, instead I got kicked off the team because of my performance after four months of being on the team as a freshman. Barb, not only your actions, but your words have hurt me. When you told me I was out of shape, and not at D1 level, I did not fulfill my eating habits. I thought I needed to look like the other girls on the team that were exceeding a higher level than me in your eyes. This lead me down a worlwin of a restricted eating disorder. Your words hurt the most when I was called in for weekly meetings just to get put down on for the hard work, I was putting in. I was called in for 6 weekly meetings. When I received these text messages, to be called into a meeting, my whole day would be ruined. I would never know what to think as I was having extra running sessions and putting in so much hard work. As I left every meeting, I was knocked down another level emotionally. Other student athletes are scared as to what will happen to them next. Some have seen it firsthand as to what has happened to me. As I was getting knocked down every meeting, I was also being isolated from the team more by Coach Weinberg. I had to sleep in the same room as a manager and another student athlete on away trips, totaling 5 nights all together. No one else on the team was chosen to get the short end of the stick. Everyone else got their own bed while I had to share a bed. Barb, when you handed me a hotline number after cutting me from the team, like a Walmart cashier giving a number to call if they had a bad experience, I did not hear from you again. Even though I dedicated 4 years to this team, and you promised to dedicate 4 years to myself. “I can see you as our starting center defenseman.” My entire life has been dedicated to sports, especially field hockey. What am I going to do now that my identity has been ripped away from a coach? Transferring was always an option. But why would I continue doing this sport when someone has ruined my trust with all people in athletics and ruined the one sport and hobby, I put my life into? I am emotionally fragile, I have lost my team, and I have lied in bed many days wondering if there is even a reason to get up. And this is because of UMass field hockey’s coaching staff. This is just a fraction to what I have been through with this athletic department. I am lucky I am here today. I am lucky I get to wake up every morning feeling empowered enough to keep spreading awareness of this awful experience I have gone through. I am now using UMass, like they used myself and my family. I am getting a degree here to become an amazing teacher who will have a positive impact on other’s lives, unlike this coaching staff that only has negative impacts. I have been mentally abused and drained to no end. My journey does not stop here. I am sharing my story and I am being heard. Never appeared in a game at UMass umassathletics.com/sports/field-hockey/roster/emma-peck/13983
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 29, 2023 19:22:52 GMT -5
Grooms is good and plus is a lefty which is always an adjustment I would say we adjusted to him just fine last year. 11/21 for 98 yards and 2 INT's. Oh that's right you don't watch the games. The last game I saw him he beat Princeton running for 152 yards on twenty carries and a TD. He was terrible throwing going 9-19 with a TD and an INT. The other game I did of him last season, he went 19-22 with a TD and INT with 122 yards passing with 96 rushing yards on 16 carries. Both of those games were after they played HC. The year before, I saw him go 20-29 with 2 TD's and 0 INT while rushing for 69 yards in another win. Yea, I don't watch the games, I just work.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 29, 2023 14:12:23 GMT -5
You think Chesney isn't going to be up for jobs after the 2023 season???
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 29, 2023 14:01:49 GMT -5
The Ivy forum linked to us here has a thread about Yale's 2023 team - Coach Reno said he has '22' 5th year seniors incl QB Nolan Grooms This will be a very tough game just one week after the emotional game at BC Grooms is good and plus is a lefty which is always an adjustment
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 29, 2023 13:56:19 GMT -5
To what writing of Brown-Jackson is Thomas referring if she recused herself here ? Perhaps SOV or someone could post that one also. She recused herself from the Harvard case...not the UNC one.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 29, 2023 13:02:20 GMT -5
I'd like to see PVR respond to SCJCT's take: Should be noted Brown Jackson recused herself from the Harvard case.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 29, 2023 12:58:18 GMT -5
He'll have opportunities elsewhere but they won't be necessary for him to receive an opportunity to play in the NFL. The main attraction would be the free year of graduate school over just another semester of undergraduate education and whatever he can accomplish in his free second semester of senior year if he comes back for a fifth year at HC. He could also play himself out of NFL contention as a one year rental somewhere else. DeMorat's path is instructional here. He could play himself out of NFL contention at HC also with a new head coach and system.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 29, 2023 11:13:26 GMT -5
Or he should transfer to another program at a higher level. I don't see that as likely. DeMorat didn't do that and now he is signed. A nine game starting QB over four years at Columbia ended up at Duke.... goduke.com/sports/football/roster/ty-lenhart/18557So please tell me that Sluka who is more accomplished won't have opportunities to play at the FBS level.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 29, 2023 10:50:40 GMT -5
Agree. An alternative 'use by date' could be the graduation of the last of the Covid 5th-years. Just after the 2024 season. (Sluka, BTW, has that option as part of that final covid cohort.) If Sluka is considered a candidate for the NFL draft after his senior season he will have to think hard about taking a leave of absence for second semester to maintain eligibility to return to HC for a fifth year. Or he should transfer to another program at a higher level.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 28, 2023 16:53:41 GMT -5
Mudd landed at BC. A bit surprising to see the jump to ACC, especially after an injury. Will be interested to see how he pans out. Second straight year a HC player ends up at BC
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 27, 2023 21:09:11 GMT -5
Maine doesn't have much autonomy with scheduling because no one wants to travel to Orono. Assumption this year has scheduled a game at Grand Valley State...got to wonder financials on that one too.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 26, 2023 20:53:40 GMT -5
FBS football takes a big bite out of the UMass Amherst athletic budget. Why do they stubbornly insist on losing gobs of money in FB year after year? These numbers go back to when they were FCS....
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 26, 2023 20:16:46 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. Lowell is a better school to look at. UMass Amherst historically has one of the latest starts in D-1. They had their first game this season on March 4th. Last year, they started also on March 4th. They have been doing it for years. The Minutemen only have one full-time assistant coach and a part-timer. They also only spend 6,516 per participant and 228k for the entire team. UMass Lowell has two full-time assistants and a part-timer. They also spend 9,099 per participant and 345k for the entire team.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 26, 2023 17:18:12 GMT -5
Mudd will definitely have options. LHP who is at the Cape with all the other poaching assistants looking to bring to their school. The model is a mess, but can't blame Mudd for wanting to go to a better baseball program after seemingly having a poor experience at Holy Cross. This is just another indication of how far this baseball program has fallen. When you can't retain a kid from Shrewsbury, it's a tough look. You had a typo and misspelled "coaching" 🙂. In my experience HC can be not overly generous to middle class applicants, so the financial burden to attend HC might be substantial. If he could improve his baseball program and lessen the burden on his family by transferring it makes some sense. UMass comes to mind, but many schools could fit the bill. I don't know anything about the family finances other than the father's job and their town, so I don't want to label them. The portal was designed to give players more control of their college career, so it's working in this situation. UMass Baseball might have less money than HC.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 26, 2023 10:05:34 GMT -5
The best team money can buy (as in NLI money), just like their women's hoop team. Unfortunately for the Tigers, the pitcher they signed couldn't pitch last night.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 25, 2023 20:19:40 GMT -5
Not the same equivalent. Those people were not driving to see a team that turned its back on them and abandoned its area after some 50 years of loyalty.
You could argue Pawtucket turned it's back on the PawSox. BTW....you'll be disappointed to know there are plenty of RI fans coming to games. You could make the argument Worcester was taken advantage of by the Worcester Red Sox ownership.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 25, 2023 11:44:21 GMT -5
OK, this is not about Holy Cross and is only vaguely tangential to our discussion regarding the increased number of students at HC graduating with 'honors' and whether that is due to kids being smarter and harder working or grade inflation or some combination therein. A local Long Island public school this year named 15 valedictorians. Turns out they use unweighted grades to calculate (unweighted) GPAs for the purpose of determining valedictorian and 15 (!) kids had a perfect (4.0) unweighted average. For what it is worth, this public high school had 11 national merit semifinalists and 39 national merit commended students in its 315-member senior class. And a boatload will attend Ivies, MIT, Johns Hopkins, etc. So it is a VERY bright crew. How many will speak at graduation.? 15 (of course). 90 secs each. Thankfully (if you are attending the ceremony), they did not name a salutatorian. Newsday stumbles upon a very good question (and one that arose during our discussion of Holy Cross graduation honors): Does the growing number render the distinction, well, less distinctive? Probably a paywall but it's a lengthy discussion of weighted v unweighted, etc.: www.newsday.com/long-island/education/graduations/jericho-high-school-valedictorians-ex285xuaThey all followed the rules and should be honored....I don't see the problem here.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 24, 2023 10:45:17 GMT -5
I think it is rather late to be entering the portal, particularly if one is in search of even a part scollie. I think it was Charlie Baker who recently said that half the athletes who enter the portal never find a new home. LSU coach was talking about transfers from the podium on Thursday night after qualifying for the CWS Championship Series after beating Wake Forest. They signed an Alabama transfer yesterday too www.si.com/college/lsu/baseball/lsu-baseball-secures-sec-pitcher-from-transfer-portalSo, it isn't too late.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 23, 2023 17:42:49 GMT -5
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 23, 2023 15:08:05 GMT -5
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