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Post by alum on Jan 17, 2024 9:55:37 GMT -5
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jan 17, 2024 9:56:14 GMT -5
Big news. Do they go internal?
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Wayne
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Post by Wayne on Jan 17, 2024 10:06:48 GMT -5
Incredible career. Would have been nice if he beat Yale in his finale to win the league outright in his final season. I wonder if the sad death of Coach Teevens had any influence on this decision. Longtime DC Scott Larkee bleeds Crimson and would seem to be the logical heir apparent unless they go external.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jan 17, 2024 10:08:35 GMT -5
Joel Lamb always seem to have his name circulate for PL and Ivy job openings. Maybe he's always had his eyes set on the Harvard job and there's a handoff in place?
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jan 17, 2024 10:21:38 GMT -5
I wonder if Coach Murphy has faced HC more times than any other coach?? Did bc have any 25 or 30 year coaches decades ago? Maybe someone from Dartmouth?
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jan 17, 2024 10:29:37 GMT -5
I wonder if Coach Murphy has faced HC more times than any other coach?? Did bc have any 25 or 30 year coaches decades ago? Maybe someone from Dartmouth? Murphy has to hold this record by a wide margin. Dick Biddle maybe second?
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Post by timholycross on Jan 17, 2024 10:38:16 GMT -5
Given I have a lot more respect for Harvard's offense versus their defense, I'd go with Lamb or the OC. Plus I'd be happy for his family; met his parents a couple times, nice people.
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Post by mm67 on Jan 17, 2024 10:40:31 GMT -5
Wouldn't it be great if HC had a long term successful head coach similar to Coach Murphy? No more coaching carousel for HC? Harvard Coaching Chair is duly noted. How well does HC stack up against other PL schools in length of service?There is something to be said for stability.
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Post by gks on Jan 17, 2024 10:46:52 GMT -5
Coached 30 years in obscurity with talent that could have been challenged on a national level. Recruiting at Harvard is like shooting fish in a barrel.
My lasting memory of Murphy is fear and what could have been.
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Post by timholycross on Jan 17, 2024 11:01:40 GMT -5
I wonder if Coach Murphy has faced HC more times than any other coach?? Did bc have any 25 or 30 year coaches decades ago? Maybe someone from Dartmouth? Murphy has to hold this record by a wide margin. Dick Biddle maybe second? Joe Restic coached there from 1971-1993; 23 years, even if a couple years were skipped, he's got to be second. Buddy Teevens coached Dartmouth 22 years (two different tenures there), the last two years he was there there was no game; maybe one or two others there was no game as well. Biddle 18 years. Bob Blackman, 15 years. No one at BC more than 10 years.
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Post by timholycross on Jan 17, 2024 11:04:20 GMT -5
Wouldn't it be great if HC had a long term successful head coach similar to Coach Murphy? No more coaching carousel for HC? Harvard Coaching Chair is duly noted. How well does HC stack up against other PL schools in length of service?There is something to be said for stability. Then pay the man, whoever that is, more than what's being paid now. Murphy got a pay raise when he left Cincinnati; I'm sure that's not the case now; but I'm sure Cincinnati 30 years ago paid more than Holy Cross.
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Wayne
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Post by Wayne on Jan 17, 2024 11:20:56 GMT -5
Three coaches for Harvard since 1957. Pretty impressive. Pittsburgh Steelers of college football.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jan 17, 2024 11:38:20 GMT -5
Murphy has to hold this record by a wide margin. Dick Biddle maybe second? Joe Restic coached there from 1971-1993; 23 years, even if a couple years were skipped, he's got to be second. Buddy Teevens coached Dartmouth 22 years (two different tenures there), the last two years he was there there was no game; maybe one or two others there was no game as well. Biddle 18 years. Bob Blackman, 15 years. No one at BC more than 10 years. Restic coached against HC 17 times while at Harvard, so it's Biddle by one game.
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Post by mm67 on Jan 17, 2024 11:48:02 GMT -5
Dr. Eddie? Will HC fans be able to overlook some failed seasons to keep an otherwise successful head coach? Or, will the demands for winning add so much pressure so as to make the coach's position untenable? Are we patient? TBT I have not been patient.
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Post by sader1970 on Jan 17, 2024 11:48:14 GMT -5
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Post by hcpride on Jan 17, 2024 12:27:04 GMT -5
Wouldn't it be great if HC had a long term successful head coach similar to Coach Murphy? No more coaching carousel for HC? Harvard Coaching Chair is duly noted. How well does HC stack up against other PL schools in length of service?There is something to be said for stability. Then pay the man, whoever that is, more than what's being paid now. Murphy got a pay raise when he left Cincinnati; I'm sure that's not the case now; but I'm sure Cincinnati 30 years ago paid more than Holy Cross. He took a pay cut after an uneven (17-37-1) tenure at Cincinnatti: www.nytimes.com/1993/12/07/sports/sports-people-college-football-harvard-hires-murphy.htmlHis final tally W-L as a head coach is 232-134-1. While he never went to the FCS playoffs and his OOC scheduling wasn't particularly challenging, he certainly did very well in the Ivy League and against PL opponents. Schools like Harvard and Villanova are pretty fortunate to have had very stable head coach situations (2 in the last 40 years) as of late.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jan 17, 2024 13:11:49 GMT -5
Was the win over us at Polar Park Murphy's biggest non-Ivy win at Harvard?
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Post by rgs318 on Jan 17, 2024 13:17:50 GMT -5
Probably. It was certainly a high point on which to end his coaching career against HC.
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Post by gks on Jan 17, 2024 14:39:20 GMT -5
Then pay the man, whoever that is, more than what's being paid now. Murphy got a pay raise when he left Cincinnati; I'm sure that's not the case now; but I'm sure Cincinnati 30 years ago paid more than Holy Cross. He took a pay cut after an uneven (17-37-1) tenure at Cincinnatti: www.nytimes.com/1993/12/07/sports/sports-people-college-football-harvard-hires-murphy.htmlHis final tally W-L as a head coach is 232-134-1. While he never went to the FCS playoffs and his OOC scheduling wasn't particularly challenging, he certainly did very well in the Ivy League and against PL opponents. Schools like Harvard and Villanova are pretty fortunate to have had very stable head coach situations (2 in the last 40 years) as of late. This is the polite way to say it stunk.
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Post by rgs318 on Jan 17, 2024 14:52:14 GMT -5
Well, with HC on there I would not use that particular word.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 17, 2024 16:19:05 GMT -5
I wonder if the death of Buddy Teevens, his very good friend starting with high school, was a factor. I could readily see Teeven's' wife telling Murphy, ' Go out and smell the roses'.
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 17, 2024 19:40:07 GMT -5
Wouldn't it be great if HC had a long term successful head coach similar to Coach Murphy? No more coaching carousel for HC? Harvard Coaching Chair is duly noted. How well does HC stack up against other PL schools in length of service?There is something to be said for stability. Then pay the man, whoever that is, more than what's being paid now. Murphy got a pay raise when he left Cincinnati; I'm sure that's not the case now; but I'm sure Cincinnati 30 years ago paid more than Holy Cross. I thought the story was he took a pay cut when he left Cincinatti. Maybe it's just that he went to a lower subdivision that I'm rem red
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