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Post by hc87 on Mar 25, 2017 18:37:12 GMT -5
Two fellow Jesuit basketball programs that we were bettah than in 1980....but we weren't in the entertainment biz.....and look we were we are now both academically and athletically. As an orange headed man in DC would tweet: Sad!
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Post by jkh67 on Mar 25, 2017 19:43:42 GMT -5
Agreed when it comes to basketball. Academics are another story entirely.
Interestingly, I once heard from someone who claimed to be knowledgeable that Fr. McFarland (who had spent several years in a senior academic position at Gonzaga before becoming HC's president) had once said that Gonzaga had sold out to the athletic department and that he would not let that happen at HC. For what it's worth.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 25, 2017 19:52:50 GMT -5
Zags are first Jesuit school to be in final 4 since ?
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Mar 25, 2017 19:59:05 GMT -5
Zags are first Jesuit school to be in final 4 since ? G-town in 2007
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Post by hchoops on Mar 25, 2017 20:03:58 GMT -5
Zags are first Jesuit school to be in final 4 since ? G-town in 2007 Correct tougher question who was the Jesuit team before Gtown ?
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Post by hcnation on Mar 25, 2017 20:14:49 GMT -5
I know Loyola-Chicago in early sixties. But must be one after that.
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Post by CHC8485 on Mar 25, 2017 20:17:04 GMT -5
Marquette 2003
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Post by hchoops on Mar 25, 2017 20:18:29 GMT -5
Correct and HC could have prevented it
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 25, 2017 20:26:46 GMT -5
Correct and HC could have prevented it ...if it were not for a bad goaltending call
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Post by hchoops on Mar 25, 2017 20:30:51 GMT -5
Correct and HC could have prevented it ...if it were not for a bad goaltending call And Travis effin Diener
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Post by hcnation on Mar 25, 2017 20:41:01 GMT -5
Hoops, has UNC Tar Heels been to more Final Fours compared to all Jesuit teams?
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Post by hchoops on Mar 25, 2017 20:51:51 GMT -5
Close UNC-19 Other than Gtown,(5), San Fran (3), Marquette (3), Loyola-Chi,(1) and HC(2), St.Joe's (1-vacated--point shaving), now Zags, Santa Clara (1), Seattle (1). , I can think of no other
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Post by cmo on Mar 25, 2017 21:25:59 GMT -5
With Gonzaga's win, BC moves into 2nd as team with most NCAA tourney wins without a final 4.
Xavier continues to be first.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 26, 2017 12:05:21 GMT -5
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Post by cmo on Mar 29, 2017 15:45:24 GMT -5
How Basketball Helped Gonzaga University Flourish es.pn/2nADS2k"The small, Catholic, private and enrollment-reliant school welcomed a bottoming-out freshman class of 550 students, continuing a dismal trend of shrinking enrollment that saw the school’s undergraduate population dip from 4,176 in 1990 to 2,791 just eight years later."
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Post by sarasota on Mar 29, 2017 18:22:02 GMT -5
Re Gonzaga: "In the fall, the school broke ground on a new basketball practice facility that also will house a Hall of Fame, and in the spring a new performing arts center will begin to take form." Hmmmm. Sounds familiar.
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Post by nhteamer on Mar 30, 2017 7:54:43 GMT -5
oh, but those that continue to deny what sports did for 'zaga, Villanova, BC, etc., etc. still hold to their flat earth theory.
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Post by rickii on Mar 30, 2017 11:17:41 GMT -5
Agreed when it comes to basketball. Academics are another story entirely. Interestingly, I once heard from someone who claimed to be knowledgeable that Fr. McFarland (who had spent several years in a senior academic position at Gonzaga before becoming HC's president) had once said that Gonzaga had sold out to the athletic department and that he would not let that happen at HC. For what it's worth. What position(s) did McFarland hold at Gonzaga ? Were they sorry to see him leave ? From afar, his tenure at HC seemed rather bland. Mostly thought he was over his head a bit. The school just appeared to drift along. Just my opinion.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 30, 2017 11:38:51 GMT -5
Agreed when it comes to basketball. Academics are another story entirely. Interestingly, I once heard from someone who claimed to be knowledgeable that Fr. McFarland (who had spent several years in a senior academic position at Gonzaga before becoming HC's president) had once said that Gonzaga had sold out to the athletic department and that he would not let that happen at HC. For what it's worth. What position(s) did McFarland hold at Gonzaga ? Were they sorry to see him leave ? From afar, his tenure at HC seemed rather bland. Mostly thought he was over his head a bit. The school just appeared to drift along. Just my opinion. Fr. Mac has to be given at least some credit for the Luth and NFH, and the Joyce Contemplative Center.
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Post by rickii on Mar 30, 2017 11:41:50 GMT -5
How Basketball Helped Gonzaga University Flourish es.pn/2nADS2k"The small, Catholic, private and enrollment-reliant school welcomed a bottoming-out freshman class of 550 students, continuing a dismal trend of shrinking enrollment that saw the school’s undergraduate population dip from 4,176 in 1990 to 2,791 just eight years later." That is quite an interesting article to say the least !
Using me as 1 small example, prior to a couple years ago I had heard of Gonzaga but was unsure of where it was located....guessing it was somewhere around San Francisco. Now I know where it is and via this article, now aware of it's history.
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Post by Tom on Mar 30, 2017 12:04:18 GMT -5
What position(s) did McFarland hold at Gonzaga ? Were they sorry to see him leave ? From afar, his tenure at HC seemed rather bland. Mostly thought he was over his head a bit. The school just appeared to drift along. Just my opinion. Fr. Mac has to be given at least some credit for the Luth and NFH, and the Joyce Contemplative Center. How about Smith Labs, Smith Hall, Figge Hall, and Williams Hall Also not sure if Stein Hall predated him or if he was responsible for that too. There was a lot of construction during his tenure
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 30, 2017 15:32:40 GMT -5
Agreed when it comes to basketball. Academics are another story entirely. Interestingly, I once heard from someone who claimed to be knowledgeable that Fr. McFarland (who had spent several years in a senior academic position at Gonzaga before becoming HC's president) had once said that Gonzaga had sold out to the athletic department and that he would not let that happen at HC. For what it's worth. What position(s) did McFarland hold at Gonzaga ? Were they sorry to see him leave ? From afar, his tenure at HC seemed rather bland. Mostly thought he was over his head a bit. The school just appeared to drift along. Just my opinion. Father McFarland was the Dean of Students, as I recall. Also, a professor of computer science.
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Post by CHC8485 on Mar 30, 2017 16:59:44 GMT -5
Fr. Mac has to be given at least some credit for the Luth and NFH, and the Joyce Contemplative Center. How about Smith Labs, Smith Hall, Figge Hall, and Williams Hall Also not sure if Stein Hall predated him or if he was responsible for that too. There was a lot of construction during his tenure Stein predates Fr, McFarland. It may have been the last building constructed under Fr. Brooks as I think it opened in 1989 and I don't recall any other buildings opening until Williams in 2003.
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Post by rickii on Mar 31, 2017 9:50:49 GMT -5
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Post by ncaam on Mar 31, 2017 9:54:28 GMT -5
We don't wanna be like them.
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