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Post by timholycross on Jan 28, 2023 19:54:41 GMT -5
Wagner's got Navy, Kent State and Rutgers...plus FCS OOC's against Fordham (opener) and Columbia.
Navy, right now, goes from an opener w/Notre Dame in Dublin; to hosting Wagner two weeks later.
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 29, 2023 0:16:48 GMT -5
Wagner's got Navy, Kent State and Rutgers...plus FCS OOC's against Fordham (opener) and Columbia. Navy, right now, goes from an opener w/Notre Dame in Dublin; to hosting Wagner two weeks later. Two weeks? Is Navy taking a boat back? HC's two FBS games are better, imo. I like that Wagner scheduled three local teams, Fordham, Columbia and Rutgers as OOC opponents. Keeping local interest in college football alive is positive.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jan 29, 2023 9:27:39 GMT -5
Navy-ND may be a "Week 0" game, as opposed to Week 1 (LDW). Hence the week off.
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Post by cruskater31 on Jan 31, 2023 12:27:21 GMT -5
Wagner's got Navy, Kent State and Rutgers...plus FCS OOC's against Fordham (opener) and Columbia. Navy, right now, goes from an opener w/Notre Dame in Dublin; to hosting Wagner two weeks later. With the interest in HC football currently growing, I wonder how an HC game in Ireland would draw these days. Imagine HC-BC or HC-Fordham from Aviva Stadium. I understand the Gaelic Grounds were a bit underwhelming last time out!
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Post by Ignutz on Jan 31, 2023 13:23:24 GMT -5
Wagner's got Navy, Kent State and Rutgers...plus FCS OOC's against Fordham (opener) and Columbia. Navy, right now, goes from an opener w/Notre Dame in Dublin; to hosting Wagner two weeks later. With the interest in HC football currently growing, I wonder how an HC game in Ireland would draw these days. Imagine HC-BC or HC-Fordham from Aviva Stadium. I understand the Gaelic Grounds were a bit underwhelming last time out! I'm in.
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Post by efg72 on Jan 31, 2023 13:27:44 GMT -5
A Holy Cross- Georgetown conference game in Ireland might make sense for the schools and the League. At this point, I think the PL would want the HC-Fordham game on one of the campuses
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Post by sader1970 on Jan 31, 2023 14:56:36 GMT -5
Nah. Why on a campus when you could have another Holy Cross "home game" on a baseball field in the Bronx?
I got it! Let's have a future Fordham "home game" at Polar Park!
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 2, 2023 17:24:08 GMT -5
Nah. Why on a campus when you could have another Holy Cross "home game" on a baseball field in the Bronx? I got it! Let's have a future Fordham "home game" at Polar Park! We can't afford to drop from over 17K to 9500 in attendance but a Fordham home game vs HC at Fenway Park would be fair play.
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Post by timholycross on Feb 2, 2023 18:48:04 GMT -5
The Gaelic Grounds' turf was like quicksand- kept a clearly slower Fordham team in the ballgame that day. In general, beware of playing football on what's never used as a football field.
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Post by sader1970 on Feb 2, 2023 18:49:01 GMT -5
You might have missed me on the turn. The 9,500 in Polar Park, that Fordham would have to pay for being the "home" team is more than they can fit into their real home field in the Bronx. The benefit, the reverse of which we had at Yankee Stadium, is that we would be playing in Fitton the year before and the year after - 3 games consecutively in Worcester with Fitton sandwiching the Polar Park game. Oh, unlike most here, I have no interest in Fenway Park. Polar Park is bad enough but playing in a baseball park in Boston does absolutely nothing for me. Yeah, it's partially the aftereffects of being a New Yorker. I can barely stand going to Alumni Stadium for the BC games. Oh, you'll laugh at this. Two of my Classmates when we were up for the Volunteer meetings on campus saw that we are playing BC in the fall (they obviously don't pay close attention to my Class emails) and seriously asked me if the game was going to be at Fitton. I had to explain the concept of FCS vs. FBS and pay games to them and that the only extremely unlikely chance of a BC team ever coming to Fitton is if we win the FCS national championship AND we pay them.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Feb 2, 2023 20:03:16 GMT -5
FBS games by Patriot school per FBSchedules.com
Bucknell 2023: at James Madison 2024: at Navy 2025: at Air Force
Colgate 2023: at Syracuse 2024: at Akron 2027: at Colorado
Fordham 2023: at Buffalo 2024: at Bowling Green St. 2025: at Boston College 2028: at Hawaii
Georgetown: None
Holy Cross 2023: at Boston College, at Army 2024: at Syracuse 2025: at Northern Illinois 2026: at Miami OH 2029: at San Jose St.
Lafayette 2023: at Duke 2024: at Buffalo 2025: at Bowling Green St., at Army 2026: at Connecticut
Lehigh: Has not announced all future schedules
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 2, 2023 20:28:40 GMT -5
JMU might put up an 80-burger against Bucknell.
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 2, 2023 21:01:58 GMT -5
Laffy isn't afraid of the big boys. If Sluka is still with us for Syracuse, how many times will he be compared to another lacrosse player who played football in Syracuse?
Jim Brown junior year at Syracuse, 1955: 666 yds rushing, 5.2 yds per carry, 6 TDs.
Matt Sluka junior year at HC, 2022: 1406 yds rushing, 6.1 yds per carry, 11 TDs.
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Post by efg72 on Feb 2, 2023 21:10:35 GMT -5
If a tv game it will be used as part of a conversation, but unlike the great JB, MS is only playing football
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Post by hchoops on Feb 2, 2023 21:31:21 GMT -5
Jimmy Brown played 8 games that junior year and each of his 3 seasons. He also played hoops at Syracuse until he was kept out of the starting lineup since two blacks were already starting. In high school he had back to back 50 point games, the only player in Long Island history to do that.
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Post by HCFC45 on Mar 4, 2023 15:39:36 GMT -5
It's official.... Harvard is our opponent at Polar Park on Saturday September 30th... time TBD. Polar Park ticket will be part of the season ticket package.... See goholycross.com for the official announcement made yesterday....
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Post by hcpride on Mar 4, 2023 15:54:16 GMT -5
It's official.... Harvard is our opponent at Polar Park on Saturday September 30th... time TBD. Polar Park ticket will be part of the season ticket package.... See goholycross.com for the official announcement made yesterday.... Weather should be nice and the game should be competitive. And folks in Worcester have certainly heard of the opponent. Great chance for a sellout.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 4, 2023 16:32:11 GMT -5
They've added more seats, about 200+, in a new Fan Deck beyond left-center field. The developer who owns that parcel, or proximate to it, has deferred constructing a proposed lab building on the parcel --until he has a tenant lined up. He can then build to suit, rather than build speculatively. The deferral also means that the city will experience a delay in recouping some its financing costs for Polar Park.
Same developer who is the co-owner of the new Jesuit residence.
A former member of the BoT was the head of Skanska, a major, global construction firm. Skanska builds speculatively, and has the financial wherewithal to do so. HC hired Skanska as a construction consultant for Prior and Luth.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Mar 4, 2023 17:25:13 GMT -5
It's official.... Harvard is our opponent at Polar Park on Saturday September 30th... time TBD. Polar Park ticket will be part of the season ticket package.... See goholycross.com for the official announcement made yesterday.... Weather should be nice and the game should be competitive. And folks in Worcester have certainly heard of the opponent. Great chance for a sellout. Barring a Nor'easter, it will be a sellout.
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Post by HCFC45 on Mar 4, 2023 19:22:15 GMT -5
Sure to be a sellout.... out of curiosity, since the season ticket purchase includes the Polar Park game, how many season tickets holders do we have? PP only has something like 9,508 seats. Depending on how many season tickets there are, there may not be many tickets left for the general public....
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Post by hchoops on Mar 4, 2023 19:26:00 GMT -5
Unfortunate Harvard would have drawn 15-20,000 at Fitton.
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Post by hcgrad94 on Mar 4, 2023 20:44:14 GMT -5
They've added more seats, about 200+, in a new Fan Deck beyond left-center field. The developer who owns that parcel, or proximate to it, has deferred constructing a proposed lab building on the parcel --until he has a tenant lined up. He can then build to suit, rather than build speculatively. The deferral also means that the city will experience a delay in recouping some its financing costs for Polar Park. Same developer who is the co-owner of the new Jesuit residence. A former member of the BoT was the head of Skanska, a major, global construction firm. Skanska builds speculatively, and has the financial wherewithal to do so. HC hired Skanska as a construction consultant for Prior and Luth. We co-own the new Jesuit Residence? Really? Why did we decide to that arrangement for the first time in 180 years?
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Post by hcpride on Mar 5, 2023 6:12:04 GMT -5
Sure to be a sellout.... out of curiosity, since the season ticket purchase includes the Polar Park game, how many season tickets holders do we have? PP only has something like 9,508 seats. Depending on how many season tickets there are, there may not be many tickets left for the general public.... We had 13.5 last year for Yale (with the very important caveats that it was Homecoming and the September weather was a beautiful 70 degrees and sunny) we should see a sellout for Harvard at Polar Park. HC fans (99% of the attendees) will see this as a very watchable and competitive game well worth attending.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 5, 2023 9:18:22 GMT -5
They've added more seats, about 200+, in a new Fan Deck beyond left-center field. The developer who owns that parcel, or proximate to it, has deferred constructing a proposed lab building on the parcel --until he has a tenant lined up. He can then build to suit, rather than build speculatively. The deferral also means that the city will experience a delay in recouping some its financing costs for Polar Park. Same developer who is the co-owner of the new Jesuit residence. A former member of the BoT was the head of Skanska, a major, global construction firm. Skanska builds speculatively, and has the financial wherewithal to do so. HC hired Skanska as a construction consultant for Prior and Luth. We co-own the new Jesuit Residence? Really? Why did we decide to that arrangement for the first time in 180 years? Yes, really. Several years ago, the owner of Madison Properties, who builds around Polar Park, bought a single, vacant parcel of property on Kendig St., that abutted HC-owned property on City View. A year plus ago, he bought two adjacent parcels on Kendig, also vacant property. Three parcels in total. The new Jesuit residence is being built on these three parcels. opencorporates.com/companies/us_ma/001454012www.wbjournal.com/article/2020-power-50-denis-p-dowdleI was told by a recent graduate who retains an association with HC that his son is a student, and students were speculating Madison Properties would build a new HC residence hall next to Polar Park. The new Jesuit residence building permit history reveals building permits issued alternatively to Madison Kendig Holdings or Holy Cross. The total value of the permits issued to date is over $7 million. Holy Cross recently bought these two properties on College St. www.zillow.com/homedetails/97-College-St-Worcester-MA-01610/56747907_zpid/www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/ma/worcester/99-college-st/pid_49212425/HC has said these will be used for transitional faculty housing. 99 College will need some work. More recently, HC bought 97 Kendig, which abuts 99 College St. www.telegram.com/story/lifestyle/real-estate/2023/01/08/worcester-county-real-estate-transfers-sunday-jan-8/69767508007/www.zillow.com/homedetails/97-Kendig-St-Worcester-MA-01610/56747915_zpid/This property was previously owned by HIGCO LLC 97 Kendig and three other properties, 119 Kendig, 28 Boyden, and 15 Clay St. were the subject of a suit filed in Worcester Superior Court by Madison Kendig against HIGCO LLC, the owner of all four properties, alleging breach. www.masscourts.org/eservices/search.page.3?x=tF0Xmi4gYUanoxo5hqB9kgThe case was settled in December, and I believe all four properties were sold in Jan or Feb to either Holy Cross of Madison Kendig. Takes a while for the published property transfer records to catch up, particularly in what amounts to a private sale. ----------------------- As to why? HC probably did not want to use the land it owns on the south side of Kendig St., which has two houses on it. Probably saving the land for parking or future athletic facilities.
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Post by CHC8485 on Mar 5, 2023 11:02:45 GMT -5
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