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Post by gerry on Jun 26, 2018 14:57:50 GMT -5
The traditional Thanksgiving rivalry game has been Penn- Cornell. Living in Wilmington, Delaware, I've been to Franklin Field many times over the years and to Palmer Stadium/Princeton Stadium a fair amount as well. Trust me, the crowds and energy generated by the Princeton-Penn game in either venue far exceed what the Cornell game generates for Penn fans. By the bye, Princeton's last game is always against Dartmouth. I've been to a few of those at Princeton and, sitting on the visitors' side, I've regularly run into Dartmouth folks. When I mention I'm an HC grad, the conversations automatically turn to the HC-Dartmouth rivalry. (I had a similar experience with a Dartmouth grad while cruising up the Yangtze River some years ago.) Great fun all the way around. Ivy League changed up their end of season matchups. Only Harvard-Yale remains as the traditional season enders. The other matchups are now, and for the foreseeable future: Penn-Princeton, Cornell-Columbia, and Dartmouth-Brown instead of Penn-Cornell, Princeton-Dartmouth, and Columbia-Brown.
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Post by sader1970 on Jun 26, 2018 15:25:10 GMT -5
“AMÉN!”
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Post by rgs318 on Jun 26, 2018 15:47:03 GMT -5
JKH67, Final games 2018 season: Penn v. Princeton; Cornell v. Columbia. I do hope that HC can renew its f-ball series with its erstwhile New England rival, Dartmouth on an annual basis. Do I hear an Amen? Amen. I remember a few years back (not long ago) when some thought Dartmouth might drop HC because they could not compete. Many at Dartmouth spoke against that saying the HC football game was one that had to be kept.
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Post by hc87 on Jun 26, 2018 16:23:34 GMT -5
It's too bad UMass went FBS as they were a very good FCS rival in many ways (lot of crossovah friendships with many students/alums, good rivalry between Western and Central Mass., close enough for both fandoms to attend in good #'s etc)
Fordham is really the only school that ticks off most of the boxes (institutionally, geographically, historically, level of play) for a football rival now imo.
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Post by rgs318 on Jun 26, 2018 17:05:06 GMT -5
I agree on both schools. I wonder if UMass regrets the move to FBS?
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jun 26, 2018 18:56:03 GMT -5
I agree on both schools. I wonder if UMass regrets the move to FBS? Still early and they just recently finished renovating McQuirk but getting to the point where they should be worried. If there were more immediately obvious conference dominoes falling, there would be reason for them to remain patient. The next school to jump to a P5 SHOULD be UCONN. Were UConn to get into the ACC somehow, UMass would be in a position to replace them in the AAC.
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Post by steve81 on Jul 8, 2018 15:05:38 GMT -5
I agree on both schools. I wonder if UMass regrets the move to FBS? Not one bit and will post some details posted by Mike Traini of 247sports that I've quoted on the csnbbs alignment board, UMass Football Thread. We operated in the black last year by just over a 1/2 million. We'll see about 10 Million in McGuirk and Garber Field improvements with Marty Jacobson donating 5.58 Million to specifically pay for a IPF bubble for all sports and some giant Video boards at McGuirk. link starts on page 58Still wish we could play again in football and we kind of match, us scheduling FCS teams through 2021 and yourselves FBS teams through 2021.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 8, 2018 16:48:26 GMT -5
UMass was 126 of 129 1A squads in reported attendance last yr, and much less than when they were a legit T25 1AA playing schools fans cared to see in the CAA.
W/o a conference affiliation to create rivalries, and only stiffs that no one cares to see willing to come to McGuirk, attendance will never get better until they can beat a "name" school, with or without new video boards.
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Post by steve81 on Jul 8, 2018 21:03:06 GMT -5
UMass was 126 of 129 1A squads in reported attendance last yr, and much less than when they were a legit T25 1AA playing schools fans cared to see in the CAA. W/o a conference affiliation to create rivalries, and only stiffs that no one cares to see willing to come to McGuirk, attendance will never get better until they can beat a "name" school, with or without new video boards. That is not the issue, it's winning. We started out 0-6 and had never had more than a few wins in the prior FBS seasons. In the second half of the the season, we did go 4-2 winning in double overtime to a good App State team and winning at BYU, given they were really down last year. Winning will cure all ills. Notice the Fenway game was against an old New England, CAA rival Maine and the attendance was basically the season average. Despite both Football and Basketball being in the dog house, we still saw a lot of positives. So will post some of the quotes as I said earlier but left out, since this is the HC board. Quote from Mike Traini article on 247 sports and the slight rebound in ticket sales is probably mostly to do with hockey, which bottoming out a few years ago and the new coach is very, very good. The hockey program has started winning and made the Hockey East play-offs for the first time in a long, long time. The first round was on campus and we beat Vermont 2 out of 3 games. Attendance was 15.5k for the three game series. If you visit the Mullins for the HC game, we installed these last year for a little over a million.
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Post by rickii on Jul 9, 2018 9:26:31 GMT -5
Steve -
Thanks for the info....
Always liked Mullins better than BC's Conte or UConn's place.
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Post by steve81 on Jul 9, 2018 10:19:28 GMT -5
Thanks, hoping for a home and home, possibility packaged with a Football game to see all the changes at the Hart.
Should add, plan on a little more time getting into the Mullins do to metal detectors and need to empty pockets.
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Post by rickii on Jul 9, 2018 10:29:12 GMT -5
SOP....as it should be at venues
BTW, Umass marching band was big-time good way before the football move !
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Post by steve81 on Jul 9, 2018 15:43:39 GMT -5
SOP....as it should be at venues BTW, Umass marching band was big-time good way before the football move ! Very kind, but we would never been invited to march for the Rose Bowl Parade.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jul 16, 2018 8:40:22 GMT -5
Steve - Thanks for the info.... Always liked Mullins better than BC's Conte or UConn's place. Mullins is awesome. It's like a mini-TD Garden. Too bad like Holy Cross, UMASS of late has been a "basketball school" that sucks at basketball. Basketball at both schools frequently gets outdrawn now by hockey even though neither of us have done much of anything of note in that sport either for our respective levels.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jul 16, 2018 8:43:51 GMT -5
Did not realize UMASS beat BYU last year (on the road I assume?). Don't care how down BYU might be, that's the kind of name brand win that can energize a fan base.
I remember in 2010 when you guys took Michigan to the wire when the Wolverines had the lightning fast QB who didn't tie his shoes. Robsinon?
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 17, 2018 2:03:55 GMT -5
Did not realize UMASS beat BYU last year (on the road I assume?). Don't care how down BYU might be, that's the kind of name brand win that can energize a fan base. I remember in 2010 when you guys took Michigan to the wire when the Wolverines had the lightning fast QB who didn't tie his shoes. Robsinon? BYU comes to Foxboro this year to play UMass
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Post by steve81 on Jul 25, 2018 19:10:01 GMT -5
It's the only game without a kick-off time. All other games announce to be at 3:30 PM. All home games will be broadcast live on Eleven Sports Network. Additional information on a New England-based regional sports network home for all UMass football coverage will be announced ahead of the season. umassathletics.com/news/2018/7/24/massachusetts-football-announces-2018-mcguirk-alumni-stadium-game-kickoff-times.aspx?path=footballStill hoping after this year we'll have a home and home in BB with football game some years out. Think the carrot for the home and home is the football game. This is my personal opinion. If you want it, you'll need to push HC Athletics.
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