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Post by td128 on May 12, 2020 5:46:12 GMT -5
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Post by td128 on May 11, 2020 13:52:57 GMT -5
Additionally, I think it is fabulous that people disagree with Mikovits, Kennedy, or anybody else. A healthy exchange of varied opinions is good for our society. Even better when done so after reading and listening so as to offer truly informed and opposing thoughts and ideas. The fact that the MSM would much prefer to drown the voices of individuals such as Kennedy and Mikovits and/or anybody else and deny them the ability to speak strikes me as problematic. I guess that is why I don't have much respect for the MSM and am far more interested in pursuing elsewhere original and informed constructive commentary across the entire spectrum.
Information is everything.
IHS
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Post by td128 on May 8, 2020 13:35:35 GMT -5
Here are a few more logs on the fire: In the absence of genuine competition in the U.S. prescription drug market, monopolies are yielding reckless pricing schemes and prohibitively expensive drugs for Americans (and people around the world) who need them. In 2015, for example, U.S. Senators Wyden and Grassley found after an 18-month bipartisan investigation that the notorious $84,000 price tag for the hepatitis C drug made by Gilead was based on “a pricing and marketing strategy designed to maximize revenue with little concern for access or affordability.”
Gilead’s subsequent hepatitis C drug Harvoni® was introduced to the market at a still higher cost of $94,500. Who benefits when drugs are priced so high? Not the 85 percent of Americans with hepatitis C who are still not able to afford treatment.www.cnbc.com/2018/06/25/high-drug-prices-caused-by-us-patent-system.htmlI am not inclined to take things on face value regardless of how often an individual is praised or promoted and/or where he went to school.
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Post by td128 on May 8, 2020 13:27:18 GMT -5
I wrote a book titled In Bed with Wall Street which exposed how the financial regulators protected the industry, that being Wall Street, instead of upholding their mandate to protect the public. We all recall what happened in 2008.
Eban's book is titled Bottle of Lies but very easily could have been titled In Bed with Big Pharma as she lays out the FDA. What happens as a result? All sorts of bad practices with much of that transpiring in the manufacturing sites for these pharma companies in India and China.
You do not need me to tell you that we have had massive problems in the supply chain of meds coming to our country from those Asian nations.
As regulators (FDA et al) are in bed with the companies, who's really getting screwed? You got it. The public.
WHO is positioned to score huge $$ with the vaccine for Covid-19? Well, interesting that the regulatory and oversight agencies are promoting Gilead. How convenient.
Don't take my word for it. Read the book Bottle of Lies and you will have a much stronger understanding of what is really going on here.
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Post by td128 on May 8, 2020 6:02:12 GMT -5
cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/15-16380/15-16380-2017-07-07.pdf?ts=1499447082"Gilead never acknowledged or notified the FDA about the bad test results or the contamination and adulteration problems. Despite being aware of manufacturing problems with Synthetics China, Gilead allegedly released 77 lots of FTC produced by Synthetics China to its contract manufacturers before the FDA approval of the Synthetics China facility. Relators allege that the drug products made with FTC affecting the quality and purity of the drug and produced at a different, uninspected manufacturing site are not FDA-approved. And, according to relators, had the FDA been aware of these issues, it would not have approved the use of the Synthetics China manufacturing facility."Follow the money . . .
Remember my sharing the video of Katherine Eban, author of the book, Bottle of Lies, regarding the extensive fraud in the supply chain from India and China? I'll help you out. Here it is again: Here is a link to the book, Bottle of Lies: www.amazon.com/Bottle-Lies-Inside-Story-Generic/dp/0062338781Eban details in spades the massive frauds in the production and distribution of adulterated meds that went on at Ranbaxy Labs based in Delhi , India specifically and throughout the Indian pharma industry at large. Ultimately Ranbaxy pled guilty to 7 felonies and paid a $500mm fine on May 13, 2013. (serious students may want to look into the major bombshell news that was conveniently released at a press conference on the prior Friday, May 10, 2013) Whose drugs was Ranbaxy licensing? Gilead Sciences going back to 2006 : www.keionline.org/20730 and then again in 2011: www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/announcements/others/article2220998.eceWho is supposed to be involved in the oversight of this manufacturing process? The FDA . . . With which agencies does the FDA work closely? Follow the money . . . These items really only scratch the surface. If you are interested in these topics I cannot recommend highly enough Ms. Eban's book.
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Post by td128 on May 6, 2020 6:09:55 GMT -5
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Post by td128 on Apr 23, 2020 6:01:50 GMT -5
I would like to think most here know how much pride and pleasure I derive from the 90-Wide. Not a week goes by in which I do not have some sort of meaningful interaction with a mentee, past or present, or a mentor. The relationships emanating from this program are truly special. As I have often said and with absolutely no sense of hyperbole, the greatest beneficiary of the 90-Wide is yours truly. I would not trade the friendships I have developed with Crusaders from 18 to 80+ years of age connected to the 90-Wide for anything.
My posting the news that launched this thread last September really emanated from a conversation I had had with Coach Kennedy at the Varsity Club HoF dinner last May and then subsequent discussions that were had with Coach Evans and Coach Nelson in early to mid-September. We were 'all in'.
I am an eternal optimist on the potential of the 90-Wide to positively impact and transform all our current and future Crusader student-athletes. We have more than sufficient proof of concept of this over now more than a 10-year time period. Some of the initial beneficiaries have already indicated to me a desire on their part to make sure that the 90-Wide continues when my gas tank begins to run low. This is very gratifying. Coach Chesney and staff have embraced the 90-Wide in a fashion that I might have only dreamed about. This is also very gratifying. Coach Chesney 'gets it.'
As a frame of additional reference for this current topic and question, the launch of what was then the Holy Cross Gridiron Leadership Council (now the Friends of Crusader Football) including the 90-Wide as a cornerstone program was initially proposed in spring 2008.
We did not receive the green light by the HC administration until fall 2009. We were informed that they needed "to study it." Believing deeply in what we were proposing, we were not going away.
So back to the question, "did this ever get off the ground", at this juncture and going forward I think that question is best directed to ADMB.
If/when given the green light, we remain "all in."
LET'S WIN!!
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Post by td128 on Apr 20, 2020 16:48:28 GMT -5
ICYMI . . . Northern Illinois Bowl Games
2004 Silicon Valley Football Classic 2006 Poinsettia Bowl 2008 Independence Bowl 2009 International Bowl 2010 Humanitarian Bowl 2011 GoDaddy.com Bowl 2012 Orange Bowl (lost to Florida State 31-10) 2013 Poinsettia Bowl 2014 Boca Raton Bowl 2015 Poinsettia Bowl 2017 Quick Lane Bowl 2018 Boca Raton Bowl
Northern Illinois Players in the NFL since 2000 2001 Ryan Diem Indianapolis Colts T Justin McCareins Tennessee Titans WR 2002 Darrell Hill Tennessee Titans WR 2004 Michael Turner San Diego Chargers RB 2007 Garrett Wolfe Chicago Bears RB Doug Free Dallas Cowboys T 2009 Larry English San Diego Chargers DE 2012 Chandler Harnish Indianapolis Colts QB 2014 Jimmie Ward San Francisco 49ers DB Ken Bishop Dallas Cowboys DT 2015 Da'Ron Brown Kansas City Chiefs WR 2017 Kenny Golladay Detroit Lions WR 2019 Max Scharping Houston Texans T Sutton Smith Pittsburgh Steelers DE
I think this is a FABULOUS addition to the schedule. With Buffalo on the schedule in a few years and now Northern Illinois, I hope we continue to add even more games against the MAC in the future as well. Great for local alumni in/around the midwest and great for attracting top level talent from this geographic region to the Cross. Think having Miami of Ohio on the schedule might help attract some more of that top talent from those great Cincinnati schools like Elder, Saint X, Moeller? You think?
Major props to ADMB and I assume CBC in making this happen.
LET'S WIN!!
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Post by td128 on Apr 12, 2020 17:35:35 GMT -5
Saw this on LinkedIn.
Things that make you go hmmm. Interesting timing and delivery. I wish him all the best in his future pursuits.
Timothy Jarry Chief Investment Officer at College of the Holy Cross
6h • 6 hours ago
After more than 16 years at Holy Cross, I decided to step down as Chief Investment Officer of the College. I will forever be grateful for all of the wonderful relationships I formed during my tenure with my HC colleagues, Investment Committee members, investment partners, endowment and foundation peers, and most importantly, my Investment Office team. Thank you to everyone who was part of the journey!
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Post by td128 on Apr 12, 2020 5:56:09 GMT -5
Prior to the coronation, I welcome sharing the following under the Jesuit mantel of 'pursuing the truth': 1. Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (December 2010): www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2010/12/Global-Health-Leaders-Launch-Decade-of-Vaccines-CollaborationOur fellow alumnus is on the GF Leadership Council for this initiative. 2. Robert Kennedy writes just this past week: Gates’ Globalist Vaccine Agenda: A Win-Win for Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination: childrenshealthdefense.org/news/government-corruption/gates-globalist-vaccine-agenda-a-win-win-for-pharma-and-mandatory-vaccination/3. Kennedy is no fan of Gates or his efforts to vaccinate the world : "Gates himself said at TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) talk, “Now if we do a great job on new vaccines,” the world population could be reduced. A month earlier he had pledged $10 billion to the World Health Organization (WHO) for that purpose.
In 2014, the WHO was accused of sterilizing millions of women in Kenya, through deception, and the evidence was found in the vaccines used. The WHO admitted that it had been working on that project for more than 10 years. Similar charges have been brought against the WHO in countries such as Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines.
Gates is also accused of controlling international organizations such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI), and the international health organization PATH, in addition to using their money to advance their projects and silencing those who reject mass vaccinations." . . . thebl.com/us-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-answers-bill-gates-on-the-dangers-of-a-mandatory-ccp-virus-vaccine.html4. Brief 3-minute video message from 2018 message from Robert Kennedy: I would love to hear from Dr. Fauci on these practices and the fallout from them. "first do no harm"
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Post by td128 on Apr 10, 2020 8:47:34 GMT -5
In the midst of the daily Coronavirus Task Force pressers including Dr. Birx and Dr Fauci, I might only hope that they include doctors and esteemed professionals well schooled and trained in the field of mental health with special focus on childhood health and well-being. What are the costs associated with the diminution if not total elimination of the social services that provide the badly needed support system for these members of our society? I would guesstimate that these costs are astronomical and increasing each and everyday while we hear regularly from our fellow alumnus that we need to keep all of our current practices in place. I don't buy it. I am not denying the very real costs and impact of this virus BUT WHY OH WHY are the real needs of other members of our society forced to pay this price when many areas of this nation are minimally impacted by the virus. www.google.com/search?q=The+Coronavirus+Could+Cause+a+Child+Abuse+Epidemic&oq=The+Coronavirus+Could+Cause+a+Child+Abuse+Epidemic+&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.22943j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8"first do no harm . . . "
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Post by td128 on Apr 5, 2020 9:25:36 GMT -5
Some Random Thoughts upon Reviewing the Data from this site: www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/We are told that we should expect a dip in the virus during the summer months because of higher temps. Ok, but then what about this? Total Death Count Brazil #13 at 445 deaths; Average temperature between Jan-March of 80 degrees Ecuador #20 at 172 deaths; Average temperature between Jan-March of 70-72 degrees Given the fact that those two South American nations are in the Top 20 as far as Total Deaths, what about these nations that are in very close proximity and with similar weather and average temps? Peru #31 with 73 deaths Argentina #44 with 43 deaths Colombia #47 with 32 deaths Bolivia #72 with 10 deaths Venezuela #81 with 7 deaths Moving a little bit northward, let's take a closer look at some of the Central American nations again with average temps this time of year of mid to high 70s into low 80s. Dominican Republic #30 with 77 deaths Panama #40 with 46 deaths (a business colleague informs me that there is extensive travel between mainland China and Panama) Mexico with average temps in the low 60s in the early months of the year has had 79 deaths ranking it at #27 A little closer to the origination of this virus, let's look at the nations in and around Asia and southeast Asia As a benchmark, China is reporting 3329 deaths (nobody believes this but that is the report) Average temps in Wuhan in Dec-January-February are approximately mid-40s) South Korea: 859 miles from Wuhan and average temps of hi 20s has reported 183 deaths #19 Japan: 1430 miles from Wuhan and average temps in low 20s has reported 77 deaths #29 Ok . . . . so does anybody else find this interesting? Taiwan: 627 miles from Wuhan with average temps in low 60s has reported 5 deaths #61 Vietnam: 1204 miles from Wuhan and average temps in high 50s has reported 0 deaths . . . Laos: 1044 miles from Wuhan and average temps in low 70s has reported 0 deaths . . Thailand: 1319 miles from Wuhan (Vietnam and Laos are between Wuhan and Thailand) and with average tems in low 70s has reported 23 deaths ranked #55 Cambodia: 1379 miles from Wuhan and with temps in low 80s has reported 0 deaths Myanmar: 1282 miles from Wuhan and with average temps in low 60s has reported 1 death ranking it #138 Hong Kong: a mere 571 miles from Wuhan and average temps in mid 60s has reported 4 deaths ranking it #97 Ok, let's move even further south into SE Asia where we see the following: Indonesia: 2167 miles from Wuhan with average temps in low 80s has reported 198 deaths ranking it at #18 Philippines: 1313 miles from Wuhan and average temps in high 70s has reported 152 deaths ranking it #22 Malaysia: 1991 miles from Wuhan and with average temps in high 70s has reported 61 deaths ranking it at #37 All of which makes this data from Singapore jump out: Singapore: 2133 miles from Wuhan and average temps in low 80s has reported 6 deaths ranking it at #84 Lots of stuff within this data that strikes me as making little sense given the disparity in reported deaths from countries in close proximity to one another. I think the idea that this virus is correlated with temperature is also not reliable. I think one can make a case that there is meaningful correlation with death count and economic standing in the world with many/most but certainly not all of the Top 20 nations by Death Count to be considered first world nations. The disparity in reported deaths between Taiwan and its closest neighbors jumps off the page at me as well. Might Taiwan and Hong Kong as well be using the same Reporting Service as the PRC? Who knows but perhaps. The Singapore data relative to its closest neighbors also strikes me as wildly inconsistent and far beyond anything easily explainable. 6 total deaths in Singapore while the Philippines has 152 and Indonesia has 198? Really?? When some things do not make sense in what should be a situation with a meaningful degree of randomness involved, I begin to ask serious questions as to what am I missing and why. The factor that strikes me as most correlated is the economic. Perhaps that might explain the quick 'run for the money' (as in $2.5 TRILLION) being made by the UN and World Health Organization: unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2315Speaking of money, also very interesting that the World Bank (then led by former Dartmouth College pres Jin Kim) issued $500mm in new types of Catastrophe Bonds in July 2017 to mature in July 2020 that pay handsome rates of interest (Libor +6.5% to Libor +11%) if and only if there is no global pandemic relating to 6 types of viruses . . . including coronavirus. If a pandemic relating to one of these virus is declared, then the bonds are worthless: www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/06/28/world-bank-launches-first-ever-pandemic-bonds-to-support-500-million-pandemic-emergency-financing-facilityFollow the money . . .
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Post by td128 on Apr 2, 2020 21:27:30 GMT -5
The White House's model? You may care to read that a little closer. The model on which our fellow alumnus projected 100-200k deaths is the model put out by IMHE. See more here: www.washington.edu/news/2017/01/25/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-boosts-vital-work-of-the-uws-institute-for-health-metrics-and-evaluation/Who is the money behind the IMHE model? Bill Gates. Not a fan of Gates at all. With the actual data nowhere close to Gates' model, interesting that the UN rushes out a request for a mere $2.5 trillion for a new UN/WHO Global Fund for Coronavirus: unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2315That fund would be 8x the UN's annual budget. Looks like a massive money grab by the globalists led by the crooked Dr. Tedros Adhanom chair of the World Health Organization who chaired the board of the Geneva-based and WHO-affiliated Global Fund when it was rife with fraud back in 2009-2011: www.huffpost.com/entry/how-did-the-global-fund-f_b_5651161" It’s worth noting that the effort to extract the correspondence between the State Department and the Global Fund has been herculean. The Government Accountability Project (GAP) requested the documents in April 2013 through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The FOIA office at State projected that they would be released over one year later, in June 2014. When June 2014 rolled around, the FOIA officer wrote to say that the search for relevant documents would not be completed until December 2014."I have the letter that the Government Accountability Project ultimately wrote regarding this interaction between the State Department and the Global Fund. What was the conclusion? That the State Department's engagement with the WHO-affiliated Global Fund was "tantamount to fraud." These are the same people (Gates et al) and same organizations (UN, WHO, Global Fund) now looking to get $2.5 trillion in funding. I'm throwing the yellow flag.
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Post by td128 on Apr 2, 2020 15:14:14 GMT -5
"The data is projections only, there are no updates for actuals, or to reflect actuals. This section of the model is worthless."
Thank you.
I'll put this on the burner on low simmer.
Cui bono?
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Post by td128 on Apr 2, 2020 13:09:12 GMT -5
I state the following with all due respect but I like looking at data and doing comparative analysis. Some of that 'pursuit of the truth' influence taught in lower Carlin way back when. .
FWIW . . . the latest model rolled out just a week ago projected that there would currently be 50k hospitalizations in NYS and 10k in ICU.
Those figures are currently at 13k hospitalizations and 3k in ICU.
So they are off by an order of magnitude. of 300-400%.
This was the new model that was rolled out just last Thursday.
Hmm. . so either that social distancing is working miracles or the model isn't close or perhaps some sort of combo of the two.
Oh, also, people are being discharged from NYS hospitals at an equal to greater rate than those being admitted currently.
I wonder what the models look like for Projected Unemployment Claims?
The actual number of claims last week was 3.3mm and 6.6mm this morning.
Hmmm. . .
Oh, by the way. as of two hours ago, that large naval hospital docked in NYC has seen 3 patients.
I am not minimizing the impact nor the dangers related to this virus but who in the country is playing devil's advocate currently and questioning Bill Gates' sponsored and funded model.
In large measure, I think there is much here of which Orson Welles would be proud.
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Post by td128 on Mar 22, 2020 16:06:22 GMT -5
With all due respect to Fr. McShane, if this quote is any sort of indication as to his judge of character, I am not impressed: “The Society of Jesus lost a great man today,” said Fr. Joseph McShane, SJ, president of Fordham. “I could say many things about Fr. Reedy—that he was a pioneer in Jesuit higher education, that he was a distinguished scholar, that he was a gifted teacher—all true. But he was also a gentleman through and through, a warm and generous mentor, and a friend. We will all miss him greatly.”www.jesuitseast.org/news-detail?tn=news-20160317023217&method=draftReedy was a fraud. His departure from HC had nothing to do with health related issues. I have shared with this board before that I blew the whistle on Reedy. In fact, I shared that statement with GR himself. In light of the fact that a meaningful period of time his passed and that GR has now passed on, I do not feel a need any compunction in stating this. I do not feel anything is to be gained by going into specifics on GR, but the cover that the priesthood provides its own is central to the major problems within the church over many decades.
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Post by td128 on Mar 22, 2020 11:33:37 GMT -5
Ok, good. Thanks for the clarification. I guessed that those who might write opinion pieces even may actually care to know a little bit about what might go on or went on. I guess clearly not.
Not that Forde or perhaps those who follow him care but I welcome sharing with you and others then that his opinions regarding Iona officials are for lack of a better term, "clueless".
My last comment on this topic will be that even those who formerly led our board indicated their belief in the concept and power of redemption and the fact that HC officials should at least have a conversation with RP.
Have a nice day, gentlemen.
Godspeed.
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Post by td128 on Mar 22, 2020 11:14:59 GMT -5
The writer opines on the topic of the NCAA penalties and/or sanctions that might yet be handed down. A phone call to Carey or perhaps the AD at Iona on that topic asking for comment strikes me as basic journalism. Not having done so, the writer strikes me as being as more concerned with a personal agenda than anything else.
I was not aware that Forde was in Louisville for a number of years. That fact along with the tenor of this commentary indicates to me that Forde and Pitino and perhaps the Louisville AD Tom Jurich may have had a sour relationship. Would seem logical that that past relationship is coloring Forde's opinion directed squarely at Iona officials. We see this so called style of journalism in many segments of our society today.
Oh well.
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Post by td128 on Mar 22, 2020 9:55:54 GMT -5
hoops had posted a link to this Sports Illustrated article in the poll thread. www.si.com/college/2020/03/14/rick-pitino-iona-ncaa-scandalNo one commented on it. If what is reported in SI is factual and prescient, TPTB at Iona, including the AD, have a lot more than egg on their face. If this had been written about HC, I would be embarrassed to say I was an alumnus. One might think that a reporter writing a piece like that might reach out to the individuals involved such as the president of Iona, Seamus Carey, for comment, wouldn't you think? If Carey chose not to respond, the writer can state as much and his writing gains further credibility. If not, then I would think it deserving of a lower grade. I recall in Statistics class the concept of analysis requiring what was defined as a measure of being "robust." I learned similar concepts and practices from some of my great English and Philosophy profs at the Cross as well, especially those whom I held in highest regard. So the question begs, does this writer meet those standards of measurement?
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Post by td128 on Mar 22, 2020 7:07:28 GMT -5
I am never surprised as to the things that transpire and are accomplished in the presence of real leadership. Regrettably so, I am equally not surprised as to what transpires in the absence of the same.
Time and time and time again.
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Post by td128 on Mar 19, 2020 19:47:48 GMT -5
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Post by td128 on Mar 16, 2020 11:53:43 GMT -5
Presumably Jay is Jack Twyman's son? Yes. Jay is Jack's son. I was not aware but Jack Twyman was very close with a teammate Maurice Stokes. That relationship led to the Twyman-Stokes Award: www.espn.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/59493/the-story-behind-the-twyman-stokes-award:Maurice Stokes was paralyzed by a hard fall at a time when there were no safety nets for NBA players.
Earlier today the NBA announced the creation of the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award in honor Jack Twyman and Maurice Stokes. The league couldn't have picked a better duo to illustrate the extent and power of being a good teammate.
Stokes was a burly, fast and exciting power forward with the Rochester and Cincinnati Royals back in the mid-1950s. In his brief three-year career, Stokes made the All-Star and All-NBA second teams in each season. In 1956, Stokes ranked in the top 10 in points per game, rebounds per game and assists per game. That kind of all-around excellence easily earned him the rookie of the year award and left contemporaries, like former Celtics broadcaster Johnny Most, awestruck:
His quickness, passing ability, and court awareness were just unbelievable. When I first saw Magic Johnson play, it brought back memories of Maurice. You have to understand that Stokes was 6-foot-7 and weighed 240 pounds. He could handle the ball like a point guard and rebound like a center.
Stokes' career was cut short, however, due to a terrible fall he suffered against the Minneapolis Lakers in the spring of 1958. Landing on his head, Stokes was knocked out and slowly drifted back into consciousness. In today's world, such a frightening spill would have a player carted off the floor, but back in the 50s Stokes was practically given a pat on the butt and sent back into the game.
Just days later, Stokes suffered a series of seizures while aboard an airplane to Cincinnati to face the Detroit Pistons in a playoff game. The ordeal left Stokes permanently paralyzed.
The Royals were obscenely quick to remove Maurice and his $20,000 salary from their payroll. There was no pension or medical plan for NBA players back then, which left Stokes and his family unable to endure medical bills that would approach $100,000 a year. Facing financial peril, Stokes was saved by his Royals teammate Jack Twyman. The hot-shot small forward filled a void few would, and he did so for the duration of Maurice's life.
Twyman became his teammate's legal guardian and undertook all kinds of fundraising efforts to round up the money and save Maurice. A benefit game of NBA All-Stars was played annually in New York to raise funds. Twyman, who worked for an insurance company during offseasons, successfully sued under Ohio law to have workman’s compensation awarded to Stokes.
The never-ending assists from Twyman helped keep Stokes alive until 1970. In 2004, Stokes was inducted to the Naismith Hall of Fame. Twyman had the honor of inducting his old friend but, as always, the humble Twyman insisted the honor was all his to have cared for such a class individual as Stokes.
The award the NBA is naming in their honor will acknowledge the bond they shared, but it also doesn't quite measure up to what Twyman did. He wasn't just a good teammate who rallied and cheered on his fellow Royals. He continuously saved the life of another person for 12 straight years. That's a hard act for any Twyman-Stokes Award winner to follow.
Fortunately, with the benefits players receive today -- protections not afforded to Stokes during his short tenure in the league -- it's one they won't have to.
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Post by td128 on Mar 16, 2020 8:42:29 GMT -5
In the spirit of full disclosure but not that it matters, I worked with Jay Twyman on Wall Street. nypost.com/2020/03/15/bond-with-first-recruit-shows-the-rick-pitino-iona-is-hoping-for/Bond with ‘first recruit’ shows the Rick Pitino Iona is hoping for By Mike Vaccaro March 15, 2020 | 9:16pm
Jay Twyman was a hotshot high school star at Cincinnati’s St. Xavier High School in the early spring of 1978, weighing his college options. One that appealed to him greatly was Syracuse, mostly because of the rapport he’d developed with the assistant coach who’d been recruiting him.
One day, right around April Fools’ Day, Twyman’s phone rang.
“Well,” the voice said, “I have good news and I have bad news. The bad news is, Syracuse is no longer recruiting you.”
Twyman let that sink in for a beat.
“The good news,” the guy on the other end of the phone, a fast-talking 26-year-old man with a voice landscaped by Long Island named Rick Pitino, “is that I just accepted the head coaching job at Boston University. And you’re the first guy I called.”
All these years later, Twyman laughs at that memory, mostly because all these years later Pitino still refers to him as “my first recruit.” The really funny part is, Twyman turned Pitino down. He had another offer, from South Carolina, where the legendary coach Frank McGuire was winding down his Hall of Fame career.
“I had a higher opinion of my skills than reality,” Twyman says.
The next summer, after playing only 10 games as a freshman, Twyman was weighing his options. He called the basketball office at BU. A familiar voice picked up on the first ring.
“I’ve been waiting for you to call,” Pitino said. “The scholarship is yours, if you want it.”
And thus did Jay Twyman see, firsthand, the opening chapters of what has become a most fascinating basketball tale, the Rick Pitino Story, a chronicle that includes two NCAA championships and 770 college wins, NBA pit stops in New York and Boston, a shingle at the sport’s Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. — and, lately, relentless ignominy.
Now, he has returned the grassiest of his grassroots, to a mid-major in Iona whose ambitions and place in the college basketball pantheon aren’t all that different from Boston University in 1978. He seeks, at 67, a proper conclusion to a one-time fairytale whose plotline sputtered horribly off track.
“All I can tell you is what it was like to play for him,” says Twyman, a successful Wall Street executive who lived for many years in Westchester County and now lives in Florida. “It was the most demanding, the most difficult, the most challenging and ultimately the single-most rewarding thing I ever could have done. And I’d do it all over again if I could. And most guys I know who played for him feel exactly the same way.”
Twyman recalled the first day of practice at BU when he and his teammates, knowing their new coach was a tad on the obsessive side, showed up five minutes early for 3 o’clock practice. Pitino threw them out of the gym, pointed them toward the track, told them to put in five miles for being five minutes late according to “My Time.”
Decades later, Pitino invited Twyman to his home in Miami for a round of golf. Around 5 in the morning Twyman awakened and heard a ruckus in the basement; it was Pitino, attacking the treadmill, his face a pulpy mess. Of course, there was only one thing Twyman could do.
“I joined him,” he says, laughing.
This is what Iona hopes it is hiring. Throughout all the bluster and all the blind ambition there was always an earnestness about Pitino, one built out of an insatiable work ethic that never left him. A few years ago, on an off-day at the NCAA Tournament in Albuquerque, Pitino relaxed with a couple of familiar writers and spoke about coaching.
“Honestly, at this point, what I dream of is coaching somewhere out of the way and doing it for the pure joy of the job again,” he said.
One of us called him on that: “You have more money than God. Why not quit now?”
He smiled that last thought away.
This is what he sells now, to Iona, to its fans, to future recruits. He talks like a man who knows Iona took a chance on him, and wants to honor that. But Iona took more than a flier on him, of course. Forget whatever looming penalties the NCAA has in store for Louisville, or for Pitino. Those are secular consequences.
Tim Cluess rewarded Iona's faith by being true to himself Iona was founded by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. We must presume the school takes that legacy seriously, and understands how the various tawdry dramas that sideswiped Pitino’s career will be weighed, and balanced against its Mission Statement.
Of course, the Christian Brothers’ motto is “Facere et docere” — “to do and to teach.” At his best, that has always been what their new basketball coach was all about. And there are a lot of guys like Jay Twyman, old players and old friends, who will back that up into eternity.
“He’s not a guy who stands behind you telling you where to go,” Twyman says. “He’s in front of you, showing you what to do. You can’t ask for a better leader in your life.”
That, too, is what Iona hopes it is hiring.
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Post by td128 on Mar 15, 2020 8:56:50 GMT -5
I think it would be a safe assumption that the hiring of Rick Pitino was ultimately made jointly by the Iona AD and the president, Seamus Carey.
Carey took the reins at Iona less than a year ago in mid-2019 and is the second lay individual to lead the college which was founded in 1940.
Interesting background, for those who care: (https://www.iona.edu/about/news-events/news/seamus-carey-a-leading-academic-named-as-iona-coll.aspx)
5/14/2019 NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – Seamus Carey, Ph.D., a national leader in higher education, who has been vocal on the relevance and importance of a liberal arts education, will become Iona College’s ninth president, beginning July 1, 2019, announced James P. Hynes, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Iona College. Carey will succeed Joseph E. Nyre, Ph.D., Iona’s first lay president, who has led the College since 2011, during a time of unprecedented growth.
Hynes said that Carey was selected from a large field of outstanding candidates on the strength of his tenure as president of Transylvania University, a highly regarded liberal arts college in Lexington, Ky., where, since 2014, he transformed the campus, successfully led the school’s commitment to diversity and inclusion efforts, and forged strong ties to the city’s civic and business communities. Carey also was an effective leader at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., where he served as dean of Arts and Sciences for four years. Prior to Sacred Heart, he was chairman of the philosophy department at Manhattan College where he taught for nine years. With each role, Carey has focused on ensuring students’ experiences incorporate studies of the liberal arts and make them career ready.
“Dr. Carey is the right person for the right time at Iona College,” Hynes said. “A highly regarded leader, philosopher, and academic, he has all the necessary skills and vision to build on Iona’s successes, and ensure its legacy among Catholic colleges.”
A Bronx native and first-generation college student, Carey earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Master of Arts from Fordham University, and a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College. He attended Harvard’s Management Development Program and the Executive Leadership Academy sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges. He published three books, which have focused on the intersection of philosophy, parenting, and family life; and is a contributor to Huffington Post.
“I am truly honored to join a community that understands the power of education and its ability to develop character, broaden horizons, and transform lives,” said Carey. “I couldn’t be more excited for this opportunity and look forward to being a proud Gael.”
Thomas Moretti, Ph.D., chair of the College’s Faculty Senate, said he was tremendously impressed by Carey’s background and philosophy. "Dr. Carey deeply values the liberal arts tradition," Moretti explained, "and he knows its goal for Iona faculty and students alike: to forge ahead together on the path of goodness, success, and civic purpose. We welcome his leadership, his acumen, and his vision, and we look forward to working with him."
In recent years, Iona College has undergone a great many changes, including the launch of the Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the development of a new core curriculum, the expansion of the campus footprint, including the addition of two new residence halls, record levels of fundraising, and an investment in health sciences programs such as Occupational Therapy and Communications Science Disorders. Currently, the College has two major construction projects in progress with renovations and modernizations of the LaPenta School of Business and Spellman Hall, and, this month, Iona announced the Hynes Athletics Center will also commence a transformational renovation over the summer.
“Dr. Carey has a reputation of believing in, and engaging with, students,” said Hannah McGowan, a college senior, and president of Iona’s Student Government Association. “He recognizes their individuality, and knows first-hand that education is about providing students with the tools and values to make a difference in the world.”
A devout Catholic, Carey is married to his wife, Noreen, whom he met in high school. He attended Mt. Saint Michael and she attended St. Barnabas, Catholic high schools in the Bronx. They have three children: Caitriona, a 2018 graduate of Hobart and William Smith College; Anna, a rising senior in the Honors College at the University of Kentucky; and James, who will be attending Gettysburg College in the fall.
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Post by td128 on Mar 14, 2020 18:39:23 GMT -5
I accept your apology and respect you for offering it. You are truly a great Crusader. Thank you. I certainly welcome meeting you and shaking your hand.
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