A TRAP OF ADNP'S OWN MAKING
It's amazing that posters on this board haven't come around to see the glaring mess that ADNP has created. Joe points out the simple probability.
"we've regressed to the point where the fastest we can expect to rebuild in order to compete with Lehigh, Colgate, and Fordham is 4 or 5 years. As for the many strong OOC teams we have coming up, God help us. The guys who are out on that field tonight getting humiliated deserve much more. "
Was the creation of these phenomenal future schedules and retention of HCTG "brilliant" ( in any way other than a short-lived publicity "stunt" to pump the unwashed ) given the trajectory that the program was on in the years during and after ADNP assumed control ? Prudent ? Smart ? ADNP, as the wunderkind AD with broad skills beyond marketing was able to "size up" the potential competition ? The wunderkind was able to professionally assess where the H.C. Program was at and/or likely to be ? And believe me, ADNP really put the pressure on HCTG, and ADNP personally put a huge effort into recruiting with all of the skill that he could summon. Prudent ? Smart ?
2010 6-5
2011 6-5
2012 2-9
...............SCHOLLY ERA.......................
2013 3-9
2014 4-8
2015 6-5
2016 4-7
I think ADNP is damned if he does make a change ( can't afford a staff that can reliably deliver .500 results with these schedules ) and damned if he doesn't make a change ( he created the schedules that he should have known were unrealistic reaches. ) Are we witnessing the seeds of his own self-destruction ?
Look at these future schedules and consider the 2016 126-36 gap to Colgate-Fordham-Lehigh that H.C. is carrying into these future years. ( Isn't the recruiting divide implicit in these numbers ? )
www.goholycross.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=33100&ATCLID=2110548992017 HOLY CROSS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Date Opponent Location
Aug. 31 at Connecticut Rentschler Field, East Hartford, Conn.
Sept. 9 at Bucknell * Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium, Lewisburg, Pa.
Sept. 16 New Hampshire Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Sept. 23 at Dartmouth Memorial Field, Hanover, N.H.
Sept. 30 Lafayette * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 7 Monmouth Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 14 at Yale Yale Bowl, New Haven, Conn.
Oct. 21 Colgate * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 28 Georgetown * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Nov. 4 at Fordham * Jack Coffey Field, Bronx, N.Y.
Nov. 11 at Lehigh * Goodman Stadium, Bethlehem, Pa.
2018 HOLY CROSS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Date Opponent Location
Sept. 1 at Colgate * Andy Kerr Stadium, Hamilton, N.Y.
Sept. 8 at Boston College Alumni Stadium, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Sept. 15 Yale Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Sept. 22 Dartmouth Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Sept. 29 Bucknell * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 6 at New Hampshire Wildcat Stadium, Durham, N.H.
Oct. 13 at Harvard Harvard Stadium, Cambridge, Mass.
Oct. 27 Lehigh * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Nov. 3 at Lafayette * Fisher Stadium, Easton, Pa.
Nov. 10 Fordham * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Nov. 17 at Georgetown * Cooper Field, Washington, D.C.
2019 HOLY CROSS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Date Opponent Location
Aug. 31 at Syracuse Carrier Dome, Syracuse, N.Y.
Sept. 7 at Navy Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, Md.
Sept. 21 at Yale Yale Bowl, New Haven, Conn.
Sept. 28 New Hampshire Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 5 at Bucknell * Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium, Lewisburg, Pa.
Oct. 12 at Brown Brown Stadium, Providence, R.I.
Oct. 19 Harvard Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 26 Colgate * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Nov. 2 at Lehigh * Goodman Stadium, Bethlehem, Pa.
Nov. 9 Lafayette * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Nov. 16 at Fordham * Jack Coffey Field, Bronx, N.Y.
Nov. 23 Georgetown * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
2020 HOLY CROSS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Date Opponent Location
Sept. 5 at Boston College Alumni Stadium, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Sept. 19 Yale Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Sept. 26 at Central Connecticut Arute Field, New Britain, Conn.
Oct. 3 at Harvard Harvard Stadium, Cambridge, Mass.
Oct. 10 Brown Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 17 at Georgetown * Cooper Field, Washington, D.C.
Oct. 24 at Colgate * Andy Kerr Stadium, Hamilton, N.Y.
Oct. 31 Lehigh * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Nov. 7 at Lafayette * Fisher Stadium, Easton, Pa.
Nov. 14 Fordham * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Nov. 21 Bucknell * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
2021 HOLY CROSS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Date Opponent Location
Sept. 2 at Connecticut Rentschler Field, East Hartford, Conn.
Sept. 11 Central Connecticut Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Sept. 18 at Yale Yale Bowl, New Haven, Conn.
Sept. 25 at Monmouth Kessler Field, West Long Branch, N.J.
Oct. 2 Harvard Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 16 Georgetown * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 23 Colgate * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 30 at Lehigh * Goodman Stadium, Bethlehem, Pa.
Nov. 6 Lafayette * Fitton Field, Worcester, Mass.
Nov. 13 at Fordham * Jack Coffey Field, Bronx, N.Y.
Nov. 20 at Bucknell * Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium, Lewisburg, Pa.