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Post by JRGNYR on Dec 7, 2021 17:19:42 GMT -5
Had a gramdson who was accepted at both HC and Villanova. He just graduated from Villanova and was very happy with his experience and education ( got a good starting job this summer) Granddaughter was undergratuate a Villanova, has transferred to Holy Cross. She is an athlete and is very happy with her decision although she thinks the academics are harder at Holy Cross. Just sayin........ I may have previously shared the story of a classmate who came to HC as a Pre-Med football player, but blew out his knee early on, and never played a down. After his first month or two at UVA Medical School, he thought, "Really? This is all you got?" He was shocked at how much easier the workload was compared to the undergrad Pre-Med program at HC. Oh yeah, he graduated #1 in his UVA Med School class. I felt similarly when I got to grad school for my M.S., although to be fair it was a state school and a different approach. I have no issues with the education I received at either stop. When I started my MBA at Lehigh (unfinished, got sidetracked early by Hurricane Sandy and life and lost all momentum), that provided about as comparable an experience as I had to my first semester at HC. Total whirlwind and a feeling that I was getting my a** handed to me (which I was).
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Post by JRGNYR on Dec 6, 2021 7:59:24 GMT -5
Immensely proud of the team. There hasn't been a 3-year period of this level of success in a generation's time. Very hopeful for the future.
A lot has been discussed about league rules re: redshirting, the scholarship caps, etc. Another piece is the roster cap. If you add three equivalencies to max out at 63 and allow an increase in the size of the roster, you can do wonders to your depth. The way the rules are structured now, you're artificially inflating the impacts to your roster that injuries to key players impart. Personally, I'd love to see the reshirting piece eliminated as well, but I think you could keep that in place so long as you remove the other two inhibitors. The entire league would benefit from a competitive standpoint and you wouldn't have to sacrifice any level of academic prestige to do it. At the end of the day, it would be a question of athlete health and safety.
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Post by JRGNYR on Nov 22, 2021 11:24:59 GMT -5
Spoke with Ryan Schmidt HC ticketing guy when i ordered my tickets and he says they are looking at moving time of UNH BB game which he is personally hoping for since “I can’t be two places at once” but the two decision makers are Nelson and the UNH head coach. He thinks the determining factor is what UNH travel plans are for after the game (i.e. going back to UNH, traveling elsewhere to next game, etc.) Looks like UNH is off until the following Saturday, so their travel plans hopefully aren't an impediment.
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Post by JRGNYR on Nov 20, 2021 15:51:42 GMT -5
Monmouth trailing 42-10 in the 4th. URI down 27-10 at the half.
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Post by JRGNYR on Nov 13, 2021 18:45:18 GMT -5
IIRC, there was serious talk of HC hosting a playoff game after beating Lafayette at home for the title in 09. That team then laid an egg at Bucknell the following week and was rewarded (punished?) with a road game at Villanova instead.
In short, beat Bucknell and worry about the playoffs after.
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Lehigh
Oct 27, 2021 15:11:51 GMT -5
Post by JRGNYR on Oct 27, 2021 15:11:51 GMT -5
Huh?? Where do you see that the Bucknell game is in Worcester this year? ooops- but my point remains. If 2020 was "just schedule games to get them in", then 2021 should have been, league-wise, 2020 and then we go on from there. Conferences discussed this very item across all sports. Some pushed 2020 to 2021, others skipped 2020 and moved right to 2021. Once again, leagues don't arbitrarily make decisions about these types of things - they're usually presented to campus admins - sometimes SWAs, sometimes ADs, sometimes others, sometimes a combination of all of the above, depending on governance structure of that particular league - and they set the direction. There's obviously nuances depending on what conference you're talking about, but in most cases a decision like this is being looked at and ultimately decided by ADs.
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Lehigh
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Post by JRGNYR on Oct 26, 2021 8:14:21 GMT -5
Your weekly dose of history between Holy Cross and Lehigh Holy Cross is 16-19-1 all time 9-9 all time on the road vs Lehigh. First meeting was a 3-3 tie in 1924. They did not play again until 1986. The 1991 game 43-42 was the best game in the series. NO. 3 HOLY CROSS OUTLASTS LEHIGH ENGINEERS COME UP SHORT IN 43-42 GAME www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1991-10-27-2830105-story.htmlMy favorite game vs Lehigh was 2018 in the down pouring rain 56-0. That '91 game is still etched in my mind as my dad took a 12-year-old me to Goodman Stadium for that classic. What a game.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 29, 2021 18:44:13 GMT -5
Duke football has been just as bad historically...but has been better the last ten years or so. Not quite--here's how the two teams compare in the futility competition since 1950 Team's W-L-T within its conference Decade= Duke Record vs Vandy Record
1950-59= 40-11-1 vs 24-31-7 1960-69= 38-22-2 vs 7-49-4 1970-79= 22-33-4 vs 7-52-1 1980-89= 26-40-1 vs 11-50-1 1990-99= 16-63-0 vs 13-65-0 2000-09= 7-73-0 vs 13-67-0 2010-19= 30-50-0 vs 22-58-0 2020-21= 1-9-0 vs 0-10-0
Total= 180-301-8 vs 96-382-13
About a .210 percentage for Vandy vs. .380 for Duke. Someone more mathematically inclined than I could probably come up with a numerical calculation that quantifies exactly how much more difficult the SEC is than the ACC. At the end of the day, it’s splitting hairs. Both programs fighting an uphill battle within their leagues, although Duke has more “upside” given where they play.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 29, 2021 18:34:33 GMT -5
3-way scrimmage at Fairfield that also includes Manhattan on Oct. 23. The women's fall schedules tend to be more robust because the men are allowed 17 games vs. outside competition through the entire academic year, while the women can have 17 dates in the spring and up to five in the fall. One small point. The men are allowed 17 "dates of competition" during the year. In the fall, they can play more than one game on a date, so in total they can end up with more than 17 games during the academic year. The fall games, of course, are really exhibitions/scrimmages and don't count for anything other than getting the team ready for February. You’re right, 17 “dates.”
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 29, 2021 15:12:56 GMT -5
Any news on our men's fall ball schedule ? - our site has the '22 women's roster but nothing for the men 3-way scrimmage at Fairfield that also includes Manhattan on Oct. 23. The women's fall schedules tend to be more robust because the men are allowed 17 games vs. outside competition through the entire academic year, while the women can have 17 dates in the spring and up to five in the fall.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 25, 2021 13:16:39 GMT -5
Throw the damn ball. I love it.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 18, 2021 18:48:45 GMT -5
Any day with a win over Yale (especially on the road) is a great day. Excellent win.
Monmouth is also going to be a hell of a test. Regardless how the remainder of non-con goes, HC will be incredibly tested going into the PL schedule.
IMO there are some tweaks that can be made that could be the difference between a good offense and a great offense.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 13, 2021 19:56:17 GMT -5
Game day staffing issues are prevalent all across college athletics right now. Even Power 5 departments, ones with resources to spend on game day staff, are experiencing issues. Low paying part time jobs aren't going to be easy to fill Correct.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 13, 2021 19:06:25 GMT -5
At least as it relates to #3, many athletic departments were in the process of moving away from printed materials before COVID. The pandemic may have accelerated that. Usually places will have placards with a QR code that you can scan with your phone and it'll bring up everything electronically on your smart phone.
I wasn't there and I have no inside knowledge so I really have no idea what happened and if that's what they're doing, but I know a lot of departments have made that transition with at least some sports. At Rentschler there was a QR code on every seat. I like that a lot. Great idea.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 13, 2021 19:00:03 GMT -5
Game day staffing issues are prevalent all across college athletics right now. Even Power 5 departments, ones with resources to spend on game day staff, are experiencing issues.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 13, 2021 15:07:16 GMT -5
At least as it relates to #3, many athletic departments were in the process of moving away from printed materials before COVID. The pandemic may have accelerated that. Usually places will have placards with a QR code that you can scan with your phone and it'll bring up everything electronically on your smart phone. I wasn't there and I have no inside knowledge so I really have no idea what happened and if that's what they're doing, but I know a lot of departments have made that transition with at least some sports. Thanks...but I'm much too much of a Luddite to do that.... We'll send someone to collect your old flip phone. Get with the times, man
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 13, 2021 13:55:16 GMT -5
My game-day experience wasn't that bad. Let's face it, Fitton is a great place to watch a game given its sightlines but it has nevah really been "fan friendly' in terms of seating comfort, rest rooms (for decades, troughs), concessions (Polar Cola, a cigar and a pretzel ) etc etc It's a great venue in that it's on campus, parking is somewhat ample nearby, the prices of game-day and parking tickets are exceedingly competitive versus most college/pro venues and so on. Things that do need to be improved for Harvard: 1. PA sound 2. Bettah/more effective use of the videoboard. 3. Making gameday programs or even line-up sheets/pamphlets available 4. Probably a better explanation/lay-out of how the beer/wine ticket system works...was behind a lot of people in line who didn't know you had to buy a ticket-bracelet before purchasing At least as it relates to #3, many athletic departments were in the process of moving away from printed materials before COVID. The pandemic may have accelerated that. Usually places will have placards with a QR code that you can scan with your phone and it'll bring up everything electronically on your smart phone. I wasn't there and I have no inside knowledge so I really have no idea what happened and if that's what they're doing, but I know a lot of departments have made that transition with at least some sports.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 8, 2021 8:33:58 GMT -5
Just because nothing has been announced doesn't mean that some kind of a transition isn't happening behind the scenes. Wheels started moving on that the minute it was clear what was happening. MB isn't going to leave on 9/24 and then on 9/27 the rest of the department looks at each other and asks, "Now what?" They're past that regardless of what has or hasn't been announced publicly.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 8, 2021 8:15:15 GMT -5
Next up at Iona, which is 0-3 including an OT loss at Navy. Looks like the Gaels are down after their conference title in '19.
Bigger non-con tests are coming up at BC, at Northeastern, home for Harvard and at Brown.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 8, 2021 8:10:13 GMT -5
MB's last day is 9/24, so I don't think an interim will be officially named until his departure.
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Post by JRGNYR on Sept 4, 2021 20:32:46 GMT -5
It’s nice to get an FBS win again, finally. 4th FBS win since ‘82 and by my count the first FBS win over someone not named Army (86, 87, 02). Hope the rest of this season plays out better than the rest of the 02 season, which went downhill quickly if I remember right.
No letdowns next week. Merrimack will want to do the same thing to HC that HC just did to UConn.
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Post by JRGNYR on Aug 30, 2021 10:20:51 GMT -5
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Post by JRGNYR on Feb 10, 2021 14:33:22 GMT -5
From www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/bcnews/campus-community/announcements/vince-rougeau-named-holy-cross-president.html. "Although I am taking on a new role at a new institution, I am not going very far away and I will be leading a college that shares the same Jesuit heritage that guides and animates us at BC Law: formative education of the whole person, a commitment to ethical and personal discernment, and passion for service to others, particularly those least fortunate.” Emphasis mine. He's pretty much summed up Holy Cross in this statement, has he not?
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Post by JRGNYR on Feb 10, 2021 13:07:00 GMT -5
One would think Mr. Rougeau subscribes to the mission, vision and values of the College, otherwise he wouldn't have been attracted to the job. Likewise, the Board wouldn't have interest in him if they thought his own mission, vision and values didn't align with those of the College.
Maybe it's the lens through which I'm looking at this, but in my opinion if he succeeds in expanding the Holy Cross brand in ways that sustains HC's growth as an institution of higher learning for the next 50 years, and perhaps thaws the ever-present push/pull that exists between academics and athletics (and, hopefully, gets everybody on the same page that you can achieve honest to goodness athletic success without selling your soul), then he will have hit a home run and I couldn't possibly care any less what faith he subscribes to.
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Post by JRGNYR on Feb 10, 2021 12:17:48 GMT -5
Not intended as a pot-shot at this comment but this sounds a lot like the reason people give for not going to Holy Cross football and basketball games. Too many other distractions or higher priority things going on. No offense taken (and I know none was intended). But it's true. I wish I had 3 hours to dedicate to anything remotely recreational these days.
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