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Post by bfoley82 on May 21, 2020 22:17:13 GMT -5
Usually the school would honor those commitments so the schollie savings are gradual - I am sure they try and find other schools for those athletes as soon as possible (Furman's announcement included a commitment to honor their schollies, even for incoming frosh) Most kids will transfer anyways to a new school anyways just because they don't want to stay at their current school without their sport.
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Post by bfoley82 on May 21, 2020 22:19:35 GMT -5
PP: Do you know the dimensions of the field inside the track at Middlebury? Is it the size of a regulation Football field? Considering that each trust for the roof cost $2million dollars, what would have been the additional cost to replicate the Middlebury design? At one time there was a discussion of an indoor track facility that would be shared by several colleges in Worcester. Has that now been placed on the back burner or eliminated? The track at Middlebury is a 200 meter track. A track around a regulation football field is 400 meters. to fit a 400 meter track inside Luth would require at least four more trusses and a wider field. I am not aware of any indoor football practice facility that has a 400 meter track as part of the package You probably could have done it Univ of Michigan. But it would not have been a competitive track., not enough space for lanes. Not many schools build an indoor facility with an eighty yard field either....
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 22, 2020 6:30:56 GMT -5
Luth is 100 yards, 90 yards and one end zone. Why do you need two end zones on an indoor practice field? I think it more important to have height, Glick (Michigan) is 85 feet.
AFAIK, only football and the band practice on Michigan's indoor field, and special provision was made to jack up the temperature in December / January so the team could practice for a bowl played in a warmer clime. I don't believe Glick is air conditioned.
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Post by alum on May 22, 2020 8:28:31 GMT -5
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Post by purplehaze on May 22, 2020 16:28:01 GMT -5
The MAC in the news again (in our heyday of the 80's HC's teams stayed off-campus the night before games but that hasn't been the case for 25 yrs or so)
From SI: Last week, the Mid-American Conference passed a resolution that asked their schools not to house their football teams in hotels the night before home football games. You may not even know that that's what teams do because you figure out the hotels are only for the road games. But now a lot of teams, almost everyone, has their football teams stay in a hotel the night before a home game in order to increase their focus, eliminate distractions, and keep them under control.
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Post by HC92 on May 22, 2020 16:59:38 GMT -5
Football team definitely stayed in hotels during my HC years. Don’t know when it ended.
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Post by hcpride on May 22, 2020 16:59:43 GMT -5
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Post by HC92 on May 22, 2020 17:13:13 GMT -5
I also learned about 15 years ago that NFL teams stay in hotels before home games when i was visiting Baltimore and the Ravens were in the house.
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Post by Crucis#1 on May 22, 2020 18:35:23 GMT -5
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Post by bfoley82 on May 22, 2020 19:49:47 GMT -5
I also learned about 15 years ago that NFL teams stay in hotels before home games when i was visiting Baltimore and the Ravens were in the house. The Patriots used to stay in the Milford Sheraton when I was growing up...that was 35 years ago
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Post by HC92 on May 22, 2020 20:04:39 GMT -5
Ugh. Wish him well. Anecdotally, seems like hospitals, at least here in CT, are being more aggressive with both the plasma and the Remdesivir earlier in cases with some success. I think you’re much better off being hospitalized with Covid today than a month ago. I wonder if that’s supported by the data around survival rates of those hospitalized.
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Post by hcpride on May 26, 2020 6:55:42 GMT -5
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Post by nycrusader2010 on May 26, 2020 7:15:44 GMT -5
The MAC in the news again (in our heyday of the 80's HC's teams stayed off-campus the night before games but that hasn't been the case for 25 yrs or so) From SI: Last week, the Mid-American Conference passed a resolution that asked their schools not to house their football teams in hotels the night before home football games. You may not even know that that's what teams do because you figure out the hotels are only for the road games. But now a lot of teams, almost everyone, has their football teams stay in a hotel the night before a home game in order to increase their focus, eliminate distractions, and keep them under control. I think this is pretty par for the course at the P5 level -- housing the team in hotels before home games. Probably the majority of FBS as well minus the service academies, who as you might imagine, lack those distractions.
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Post by bfoley82 on May 28, 2020 12:50:02 GMT -5
Brown just cut 11 teams: men's and women’s fencing; men's and women’s golf; women’s skiing; men's and women’s squash; women’s equestrian; and men’s track, field and cross country (which are three varsity sports under federal Title IX rules governing access to opportunities in sports). www.brown.edu/news/2020-05-28/athletics-excellence
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Post by purplehaze on May 28, 2020 14:00:54 GMT -5
The attached article states that Brown won only 2.8 pct of Ivy titles in the last decade - the net reduction in sports will still result in 29 sponsored teams Since they have not been able to compete with their peers this looks like a good idea (and not related to the pandemic)
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 28, 2020 14:27:49 GMT -5
The varsity sports dropped are being moved to club status. Two club sailing teams will move to varsity status. And why sailing? An alumnus built a sailing pavilion, opened two years ago.
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Post by alum on May 28, 2020 15:37:51 GMT -5
I’m amazed to see an Ivy give up men’s track but if it has to happen, it’s okay it’s Brown. The Ivy track championship is called the Heps, short for Heptagonal. The original 7 schools were what are now the Ivies minus Brown. Brown joined later and Army and Navy joined making it a 10 team meet. The academies left when the PL was created.
So, now they go back to the original 1934 group.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on May 28, 2020 16:32:12 GMT -5
$3,800,000,000 endowment in 2019 and now cutting sports to save $$$?
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Post by rgs318 on May 28, 2020 16:58:57 GMT -5
It sounds like a "convenient" story. I am not sure I see a real "need" to make cuts.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 28, 2020 17:04:26 GMT -5
$3,800,000,000 endowment in 2019 and now cutting sports to save $$$? Not to save $$$. The monies from the sports being downgraded to club status will be re-allocated to the remaining varsity sports to increase their competitiveness. IMO, the greatest impact is that Brown loses slots where student-athletes with high AI scores are used to offset certain other sports where student athletes have lower AI scores. The average AI of all student athletes in the IL must be within one standard deviation of the school-wide AI.
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Post by purplehaze on May 29, 2020 8:44:06 GMT -5
Lafayette College financial forecast - from the president:
In a letter to staff she gives a hint of what's to come. Decline in enrollment of 10-20 percent, operating deficit of 20- 60 million, As a result there are across the board salary cuts for anyone making $37,000 or more, president takes 15 pct cut, VP 10 percent, some furloughs suspension of college contributions to retirement funds, reducing capital budgets, The compensation reductions and other savings she says will only save 9 million. So she says assuming a. 40 million dollar deficit there is much more to be done. Nothing said about cancelling sabbaticals, or increasing course instruction from 2 per semester to 3.
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Post by hcpride on May 29, 2020 9:17:09 GMT -5
/\ With 40 million Americans jobless claims in the last 10 weeks, there will be many long and short terms hits to American (mental and physical) health, institutions (including colleges), etc.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on May 29, 2020 9:19:45 GMT -5
That is a pretty dismal forecast. Decline in enrollment of 10-20 is astounding. Does the college project that overall (all colleges combined) college enrollment will decline by that much or that Lafayette will be more adversely affected than other schools?
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Post by purplehaze on May 29, 2020 15:15:36 GMT -5
looked at the actual statement from their president - I found this decision timing interesting: "We have laid out a decision timeline that calls for the release of a target scenario and plan for the fall semester in mid-June, with a final “go/no go” decision date of August 3 to confirm the viability of the proposed plan in light of the external circumstances we find ourselves in at that time."
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Post by hc87 on May 29, 2020 16:40:25 GMT -5
Rhode Island and the southern coast of Mass. are widely regarding as one of the very best places to sail (due to the prevailing winds) in the country....so I can understand Brown pushing that program...makes sense.
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