Wayne
Climbing Mt. St. James
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Post by Wayne on Sept 5, 2024 5:56:12 GMT -5
Kudos to Bill Coen for completing a full schedule of all D1 programs. Five games at Matthews.
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Post by Tom on Sept 5, 2024 7:27:55 GMT -5
I see that UMass is playing UMass-Boston. Crazy that even flagship state universities in the A-10 (nee MAC) are now forced to schedule D3 opponents. UMass does have six D1 home games, a 7th down I-91 in Springfield, and only two true road games, so probably wasn't necessary. I generally don't like playing D-III's. I really don't like playing D-III's if HC is paying them 5 figures to come to Hart. That being said, I don't have a problem with UMass playing UMass-Boston or a UMass-Dartmouth. That's doing a favor for a member of the UMass family. I didn't have a problem when HC played Nichols a few years ago. RJ Evans was an assistant at Nichols and I saw it as HC doing a favor for a member of the family. I can understand the concept of helping out a brother
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Post by rf1 on Sept 5, 2024 7:59:54 GMT -5
Outside of Big East Royalty, UConn, Villanova with some in/out temporary teams the Big East seems to be in decline. Most of the lower level teams are a mere afterthought. And none more so than Georgetown. Maybe it's time for the Hoyas to ditch their big time illusions and join the PL. TBT there is little interest in the Hoyas in DC. GTown is a high academic university and would best compete w/other high academic schools.The PL or IL in all sports would be a perfect landing spot. G-Town in the BE was from a different time in a different space a long, long time ago. It is time for the Hoyas to move on. In a sign of how things have changed for the Hoyas, they are playing two OOC games versus Lehigh and Wagner at their tiny McDonough Gym on campus rather than the big arena downtown.
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 5, 2024 8:50:39 GMT -5
All in prep for their basketball move to the PL.
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Post by nhteamer on Sept 5, 2024 9:24:49 GMT -5
Our schedule stinks
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 5, 2024 12:12:51 GMT -5
All in prep for their basketball move to the PL. Dream All Sports Patriot League, with service academy football included: Georgetown Fordham Army Navy Villanova Richmond W&M Colgate Bucknell Lehigh Lafayette Holy Cross
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 5, 2024 12:16:15 GMT -5
Outside of Big East Royalty, UConn, Villanova with some in/out temporary teams the Big East seems to be in decline. Most of the lower level teams are a mere afterthought. And none more so than Georgetown. Maybe it's time for the Hoyas to ditch their big time illusions and join the PL. TBT there is little interest in the Hoyas in DC. GTown is a high academic university and would best compete w/other high academic schools.The PL or IL in all sports would be a perfect landing spot. G-Town in the BE was from a different time in a different space a long, long time ago. It is time for the Hoyas to move on. In a sign of how things have changed for the Hoyas, they are playing two OOC games versus Lehigh and Wagner at their tiny McDonough Gym on campus rather than the big arena downtown. They usually play at least 1 a year at McDonough, don't they? I remember watching a Georgetown-Old Dominion game at sold out McDonough maybe 15 years ago. And this was when ODU basketball was still a big deal in the region. Of course, it's also possible that prior games could've been moved there due to conflicts with the Wizards or Caps. Reminds me -- one pretty cool college environment was seeing Holy Cross-Fairfield at the old Fairfield on campus barn. Was a HC Club of CT event before the game too, probably around 2012.
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Post by Ignutz on Sept 5, 2024 12:19:41 GMT -5
All in prep for their basketball move to the PL. Dream All Sports Patriot League, with service academy football included: Georgetown Fordham Army Navy Villanova Richmond W&M Colgate Bucknell Lehigh Lafayette Holy Cross Sign it up!
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Post by gks on Sept 5, 2024 13:20:18 GMT -5
Somewhere on this message board, somebody didn't like the fact that the team prefers New England style road games vs longer trips for non-guarantee games because the expense of hotels. The thought was it was pretty rinky-dink attitude for a D-I program. Anyhow, even as cheap as I am, I now wonder about the concern for a hotel in NYC, IF they can hand out $30K to a couple of D-III schools disclaimer - even taking bfoley82's stat at face value about $15K being the going rate in New England for a D-III game, that does not automatically mean that HC is paying the going rate If this is an actual concern.....you need to get out of the D1 athletics business immediately.
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Post by Tom on Sept 5, 2024 13:20:42 GMT -5
In a sign of how things have changed for the Hoyas, they are playing two OOC games versus Lehigh and Wagner at their tiny McDonough Gym on campus rather than the big arena downtown. They usually play at least 1 a year at McDonough, don't they? I remember watching a Georgetown-Old Dominion game at sold out McDonough maybe 15 years ago. And this was when ODU basketball was still a big deal in the region. Of course, it's also possible that prior games could've been moved there due to conflicts with the Wizards or Caps. Reminds me -- one pretty cool college environment was seeing Holy Cross-Fairfield at the old Fairfield on campus barn. Was a HC Club of CT event before the game too, probably around 2012. I was at that game. Sold out and I had no ticket. Wound up getting in with a Fairfield student ID
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 5, 2024 14:08:48 GMT -5
All in prep for their basketball move to the PL. Dream All Sports Patriot League, with service academy football included: Georgetown Fordham Army Navy Villanova Richmond W&M Colgate Bucknell Lehigh Lafayette Holy Cross LIFO, last in first out. The Johnny come late schools, American, BU and Loyola are all left on the chopping block?
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 5, 2024 14:27:06 GMT -5
So we kiss BU goodbye without ever getting a sniff of the Turnpike Trophy. They, I assume keep the silver plated cup. What if the new PL offers us an associate membership in FB only due to our perennial tenth place finish in the President's Trophy standings? Where would we go, NEC or MAAC? I think HC Athletics are improving but I don't see Holy Cross in a strong position in any league shake-ups. I like Stonehill but I don't want to join a league with them. Fortunately, the PL is not about dropping any full members. It's like Hotel California.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 5, 2024 14:51:22 GMT -5
Dream All Sports Patriot League, with service academy football included: Georgetown Fordham Army Navy Villanova Richmond W&M Colgate Bucknell Lehigh Lafayette Holy Cross LIFO, last in first out. The Johnny come late schools, American, BU and Loyola are all left on the chopping block? Nah, let 'em stay. Forgot about those guys.
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Post by Tom on Sept 5, 2024 15:05:35 GMT -5
LIFO, last in first out. The Johnny come late schools, American, BU and Loyola are all left on the chopping block? Nah, let 'em stay. Forgot about those guys. If I'm in a one bid league, I'd rather be in a 10 team league than a 15 team league
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 5, 2024 15:08:11 GMT -5
Nah, let 'em stay. Forgot about those guys. If I'm in a one bid league, I'd rather be in a 10 team league than a 15 team league Won't be a one bid league with Villanova, Richmond and Georgetown. This is obviously satire and for fun. But I think I'd rather be in a 15 team league with Villanova, Georgetown, Richmond and Fordham than the current 10 team PL.
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Post by bigfan on Sept 5, 2024 15:26:51 GMT -5
Army & Navy will never join the Patriot League for football. They need to play a national schedule and also schedule the Air Force academy every year.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 5, 2024 15:28:43 GMT -5
If I'm in a one bid league, I'd rather be in a 10 team league than a 15 team league Won't be a one bid league with Villanova, Richmond and Georgetown. This is obviously satire and for fun. But I think I'd rather be in a 15 team league with Villanova, Georgetown, Richmond and Fordham than the current 10 team PL. I realize it's in good fun and aspirational. It would be great if HC could play in strong, nationally competitive Eastern conferences in BB and hockey and do what has to be done to compete in them, continue to be nationally competitive in FCS or whatever high FCS and G-5 might morph into and have a regional outlet for competing against similar sized schools in the mostly non-scholarship sports with a chance to win titles and go to NCAA tournaments in those sports in an FCS type, "wink, wink it's D-1" subdivision. Any new arrangements are theoretically possible in the coming years.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 5, 2024 15:31:27 GMT -5
LIFO, last in first out. The Johnny come late schools, American, BU and Loyola are all left on the chopping block? Nah, let 'em stay. Forgot about those guys. Those guys are forgettable like old rivals BC and PC aren't. Such is life.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 5, 2024 18:44:45 GMT -5
Army & Navy will never join the Patriot League for football. They need to play a national schedule and also schedule the Air Force academy every year. Correct. This is satire. We're having fun on a message board bc is what's we do.
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Post by timholycross on Sept 6, 2024 7:09:24 GMT -5
In a sign of how things have changed for the Hoyas, they are playing two OOC games versus Lehigh and Wagner at their tiny McDonough Gym on campus rather than the big arena downtown. They usually play at least 1 a year at McDonough, don't they? I remember watching a Georgetown-Old Dominion game at sold out McDonough maybe 15 years ago. And this was when ODU basketball was still a big deal in the region. Of course, it's also possible that prior games could've been moved there due to conflicts with the Wizards or Caps. Reminds me -- one pretty cool college environment was seeing Holy Cross-Fairfield at the old Fairfield on campus barn. Was a HC Club of CT event before the game too, probably around 2012. Hated that place; reminded me of what the HC fieldhouse would have looked like if they had put bleachers in it. And to the best of my recollection, HC usually played terribly there.
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Post by princetoncrusader on Sept 11, 2024 20:11:49 GMT -5
Princeton's non-conf home schedule includes two attractive opponents--Akron and Loyala-Chicago--but also two obscure D3 teams. The Tigers are also playing Rutgers at the PruCenter in Newark.
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 12, 2024 17:07:06 GMT -5
Ordered my season tickets. Gonna be a great season!😊 💜✝️
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