Basketball "Tip Off " Event

Can someone ask support staff when season tickets will be sent?

Thank you.

Any reports ?

Around 60 people...good night by all. No real nuggets to report. Coach was there along with Bo, Joe Octave, Batch, and Caleb. Coach has the right mentality for HC. He does a great job selling the school and knows what type of student athlete to recruit. He is a great fit for Holy Cross...

Bad angle then, as it appeared  to be as many or more than at the football Kickoff. 

Didn’t care for where they set up the speakers, essentially in the dark against the wall, and the mics were mostly ineffective. DP solved that by not even using the mic, walking forward and booming his talk. 

DPs opening talk was essentially what was covered in that video interview posted earlier. 

He spoke with a small group afterwards and covered scheduling (don’t expect any big name teams coming to Worcester anytime soon). Very high on the extension of 90-wide coming to basketball program and a real help in recruiting. I believe in his larger talk he said something like we have to focus on progress, not results (i.e. winning) in the beginning. 

He first introduced his assistants and like in the video, talked about his desire to get RJ to stay and the picture from the Telegram of RJ dropping 30 on Bucknell his freshman year. Very complimentary of Kit and Nick Smith.

Probably a Lot more in the back of my brain but depend on others. 

I will reiterate that Dave is about as far from his predecessor as anyone could be.

One poster told DP regarding his progress vs. results that the Crusader faithful support him and we know “Rome was not built in a day” and we’ll be patient. He seemed to appreciate hearing that.

He made a general reference to the recruits, but no names mentioned. He also mentioned during our little side convo that in addition to the 90 Wide, recruits seem to look at the facilities very favorably.

To be honest, I preferred the old process for these get togethers, where the coaches spoke, and then the audience let loose with questions. Here, Kevin G (no offense to him) controlled things and asked his own questions. Kevin did not ask the audience if they had any questions for Coach Magarity, and so it seemed a little awkward when he asked us if we had any questions for CDP. Not sure if anyone actually asked a question; I was wondering if the presence of the players made people feel a little uncomfortable about asking specific questions. The women players did seem a little more at ease with things then the guys did. At any rate, it was a very good crowd. Very hard not to root for CDP to succeed; it's too bad we couldn't have gotten him when he first left George Mason. Kit made a point to say how different (and positive) a vibe he felt this year (he said it more than once).

Signing period for hoop players runs for one week. 11-8 to 11-15.