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Post by DiMarz on Sept 19, 2023 17:31:41 GMT -5
13,909.
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Post by cruskater31 on Sept 19, 2023 18:25:52 GMT -5
Supposed to be in the 60s and cloudy - no rain predicted until Sunday. (hopefully) That forecast is beginning to trend downward. just saw that on weather.com The local 6 o'clock news still had the afternoon as cloudy with rain moving in at night.
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Post by hc87 on Sept 19, 2023 18:34:54 GMT -5
Hope I'm wrong, but I don't see this as being a bang-out Homecoming....a little too close to the BC game, Polar Pahhk game next week, at Army down the road etc....just saying, there are a fair amount of attractive games this season, people may not have circled this one as a "go-to game."
That being said, I think we'll have a decent crowd: 14,478.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Sept 19, 2023 18:44:27 GMT -5
Wasn’t long ago we’d think a “decent” crowd of 14,500 would be entirely out of reach.
Don’t even get me going about Harvard at Polar again.
Fact that there are likely 6,000 - 8,000 people who’d otherwise have gone to this game at Fitton but not can’t really grinds my gears.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 19, 2023 18:48:18 GMT -5
Let's win nine out of eleven league championships.
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Post by sittingbull on Sept 19, 2023 19:10:18 GMT -5
Good luck and hope you have a good game.
Just curious how it works up there. If you go on your ticket site, it looks like half the stadium seats aren’t even available to purchase - and the sale able seats on both sidelines are significant. If you look today, it doesn’t look like even 5,000 seats are sold. Do you get that large of a walk up crowd for these games?
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Sept 19, 2023 19:40:07 GMT -5
Maybe a lot of General Admission tix are sold but don't show up on the seat map?
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Post by cruskater31 on Sept 19, 2023 19:40:50 GMT -5
Good luck and hope you have a good game. Just curious how it works up there. If you go on your ticket site, it looks like half the stadium seats aren’t even available to purchase - and the sale able seats on both sidelines are significant. If you look today, it doesn’t look like even 5,000 seats are sold. Do you get that large of a walk up crowd for these games? OK, just double checked our ticket website to make sure I somewhat knew what I was talking about. The "select your own seat" option works only foe the reserved sections on the sidelines. The seats in the corners, endzone, and ends of the sideline are GA and you can't select a section since I think you just sitting anywhere (reserved is shaded black and GA is white on the seating chart). We do have a fair amount of season ticket holders but we do get some walk ups and late purchasing alums and locals for homecoming, family weekend, and other promoted games. The GA tickets are also distributed to the local schools. I bet the reason some sections appear unavailable is because they are general admission. Good to see you back on the board. Hope you can make it to Fitton!
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Post by cruskater31 on Sept 19, 2023 20:19:52 GMT -5
Nice Stone article in the NEFJ with great quotes from Ches, especially about our youthful D. nefootballjournal.com/sluka-dobbs-pick-up-weekly-patriot-league-honors-as-crusaders-prep-for-1st-league-game/It was back to business as usual for Holy Cross last weekend. The No. 6 Crusaders went on the road and beat the defending Ivy League champs Yale with relative ease after a slow start. With the BC heart break behind them, Holy cross demonstrated why they’ve been able to win four straight Patriot League titles. Resolve and an ability to turn the page as quick as anyone. Matt Sluka accounted for six touchdowns in the win and won the league’s Offensive Player of the Week Award. Meanwhile, the top dog on defense Jacob Dobbs took home Defensive Player of the Week honors. Dobbs had an absurd 17 tackles (12 solo) as well as two forced fumbles. “I think last weekend, our guys did a really good job…that’s always a tough place to play,” head coach Bob Chesney said during his weekly press conference o Tuesday. “Our history with them is not in favor of us, our recent history is, but our overall history is not. I think our games just came out and played really hard and executed at an extremely high level. I thought the plan Coach Kennedy and the offensive staff put together was phenomenal and I think the execution was at a very, very high level. “Defensively, again, we keep talking about it, but we’ve just got to start a little faster. I think each week we’ve gotten better. Obviously, our second half play is much better, it’s just the initial part…the sticking and moving, that first round like a boxer in the rung, we’re not ready to throw our overhand right or our uppercut just yet and we’re feeling things out. We’ve just got to attack a little more and I think we’ll be able to do that as we move forward here. Just a young group and it takes a lot to get them going on defense, which is part of the deal, but I love the way they respond in the second half, it’s been just great. We have to start faster and if we can continue to execute at a high level on offense, I like our chances.” Chesney went into further detail about why he believes it’s taken a while in these first few games for the offense and defense to click on all cylinders at the same time. “I think what typically happens, whoever we play, it is going to be their best, right?” he said. “We’re going to get their best. It’s not going to be like, ‘hey, maybe they’re looking past you or something,’ that’s not ever going to happen. You’re going to get their best, period. Every single kid on that field is going to give you their best. Honestly, the real challenge is, when you watch film and a kid makes a mistake here or there or doesn’t look like he’s playing overly inspired football, I tell our guys ‘find his highlights. Find his greatest plays he made in college, but then go back to his high school and find the greatest plays he’s ever made on high school film, because that’s what you’re going to get for 60 minutes. They are going to give you everything they’ve got for 60 minutes’ “So, I think withstanding that initial surge from these teams is what we have to do. There’s a lot of offense, there’s a lot of scheme, there’s a lot of things that happen really early and they’re all changeups. They’re changeups in things they saw on film and they’re in attack mode. We have to withstand some of that on defense and I think that’s just the nature of the beast. On offense, we’re in attack mode and we’ve had success. I don’t think we’re starting slow on offense, but I do think defensively it’s a bit slower than we’d like. It’s just withstanding that initial punch from teams that are veterans in nature. Merrimack, a veteran group. You look at BC, obviously an ACC group with a veteran offensive line and running backs and receiving core. Then, you get to Yale, the whole entire team was back. You have to withstand that as young guys first before you can start to attack. That’s where we’re seeing some of the slower start, just feeling it out and figuring it out what it is.” As for the intensity level Dobbs is bringing to the table this season – which showed often against Yale – it’s been ratcheted up to a whole new level. “He has a little bit more on his plate because of those young guys. He’s got a little bit more as far as getting on the same page. He has a little bit more as far as communication. He has a little bit more as far as in-play and to the whistle, getting guys moving in the right direction and it’s misdirection plays…there’s a lot he personally has to do and then there’s a lot he has to communicate prior to the play, during the play and then right after the play,” Chesney explained. “He’s the one with the experience out there, not a lot of those other guys in the box with him. So, to be productive as he is and be wearing as many hats as he is and having to communicate as much as he does lets you know how good of a player he is.” Now that a strange yet productive first three weeks of the season is over, Holy Cross can set its sight on the first goal it has every year: the Patriot League title. The four-time defending champs began league play when Colgate visits Fitton Field on Saturday afternoon. “I think for them (Colgate) ultimately, it all kind of rolls through that quarterback,” added Chesney. “Mike Brescia is a great quarterback. He’s a big, big football player. He is like, Sluka and might be a little bigger. He gets downhill and is physical and he doesn’t back down really, to anybody. So, that’s the one thing that kind of stands out. Their one receiver (Treyvhon Saunders) No. 9 has started to catch fire here a little bit and he’s very good and they find him different, creative ways to get him the ball. They’ll do all the different schematic things that present problems for a defense. They live in all of those. They have a lot of stuff…there’s a lot of stuff they’re doing in there that kind of presents problems each and every week for every team. They’re doing everything. That’s a challenge. “They’ve also been together forever. So, Stan’s the head coach now only for three years, but he’s been there for 17 years and his defensive coordinator’s been there for six, his offensive coordinator’s been there for 10. These are guys that have been together for a long time. Their communication, their resiliency together, their ability to motivate and move the group is pretty evident when you put on that film.”
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Post by efg72 on Sept 19, 2023 20:29:28 GMT -5
Don't forget to include kids and families from WPS in your attendance numbers
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Post by hc80 on Sept 20, 2023 5:54:25 GMT -5
With respect to the Holy Cross Stadium note.... for many years on Route 20 in Worcester, there was a directional sign to turn right for Holy Cross Stadum....not sure if it is still there or not...It was the back way to get to McKeon Road....
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 20, 2023 7:12:15 GMT -5
Jake was really, really pumped before, during and after the Yale game. He's usually not as demonstrative as Matt (not saying he's an introvert, at all) but for these game, he definitively was. IMHO, he's as critical, maybe more so, on our defense as Matt is for our offense. He took lemons (his injury last season) and turned it into lemonade (he's like an assistant coach on the playing field). "Everything happens for a reason."
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Post by hc6774 on Sept 20, 2023 7:13:39 GMT -5
19,658 Big turnout and great fan support presume you mean tix sold.... about 85% of capacityFitton basically 3 seating areas.... home & visitors sides + end zone my guess 15k sold... 13k in the stands... expect a more accurate count than Merrimack game with its gate count technology problems
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Post by rgs318 on Sept 20, 2023 7:22:00 GMT -5
What is the over/under for fans who never leave the baseball field?
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Sept 20, 2023 7:25:17 GMT -5
With respect to the Holy Cross Stadium note.... for many years on Route 20 in Worcester, there was a directional sign to turn right for Holy Cross Stadum....not sure if it is still there or not...It was the back way to get to McKeon Road.... I know the one you are speaking of, as I have come over to Fitton at times on that road. I think there is a different sign now ("College of the Holy Cross"). Might be mistaken.
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 20, 2023 7:25:23 GMT -5
From a Classmate:
Ahhh, signs of the programs success!!
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Post by lou on Sept 20, 2023 7:29:18 GMT -5
What is the over/under for fans who never leave the baseball field? Expect this will change from the past...1. it's the President's Council crowd parked there now 2. the stories you heard from game 1 were the "white-out" students who were told to meet on the baseball field and many stayed, probably a one time occurrence
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Post by cruskater31 on Sept 20, 2023 7:48:19 GMT -5
Looks like every report from Weather.com to the local morning news has rain on Saturday afternoon. Only good thing appears that the rain will be heaviest in the SE part of Mass and not Worcester.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Sept 20, 2023 7:49:00 GMT -5
From a Classmate: Ahhh, signs of the programs success!! This makes me mad. Know your target audience. Set up one table that is cash only where one can walk up and buy tickets. Really irks me thinking that some folks who are 70+ and aren’t the most tech savvy would struggle attending a game solely because of this digital ticketing nonsense. Also, $30 for a ticket after the ridiculous fees? Come on.
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Post by cruskater31 on Sept 20, 2023 7:52:04 GMT -5
From a Classmate: Ahhh, signs of the programs success!! This makes me mad. Just checked online and I was able to find the seat map with a fair amount of availability in the "reserved" section of the HC website. It certainly is less than previous years but I had no issues checking it out.
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 20, 2023 7:54:46 GMT -5
Like in angry, or crazy? “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” IMHO, the best comedy movie of all time. (Yes, I know I am making a thread detour here but partially on purpose in order to calm our friend SOV down. 😊✝️💜
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 20, 2023 7:56:14 GMT -5
You probably aren’t 75 years old!😉😂
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Post by efg72 on Sept 20, 2023 8:05:02 GMT -5
Despite my plans to attend this game, some family obligations prevent me from being in Worcester this weekend. That means I have eight seats (2 sets of four ( Section 5, Row I, seats 13-16, and Row V, seats 11-14) plus one garage parking space left for anybody who would like to attend.
If this interests you, or you know of a family or two that would like to go to a game but the tickets are a difficult expense, just PM me, and I will send them your way.
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Post by efg72 on Sept 20, 2023 8:12:29 GMT -5
Like in angry, or crazy? “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” IMHO, the best comedy movie of all time. (Yes, I know I am making a thread detour here but partially on purpose in order to calm our friend SOV down. 😊✝️💜 Happy Birthday-- enjoy your special day!
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Post by lou on Sept 20, 2023 8:13:37 GMT -5
Had a really hard time placing an online order for a single ticket to this Saturday's game. Found the support@ticketsonsale.com website to be non-intuitive and difficult to use
He should try goholycross.com since that looks like an email address
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