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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2024 17:29:35 GMT -5
CAA statement on Richmond's departure.
"Below is a statement from CAA Football Commissioner Joe D’Antonio on the University of Richmond’s decision to depart the conference at the conclusion of the 2024 season.
“This morning, I was informed of the University of Richmond’s decision to depart the CAA Football conference at the conclusion of the 2024 season. The CAA has long been regarded as one of the premier conferences in FCS football, having sent at least three teams to the playoffs in 16 of the past 18 years. A CAA team has advanced to the semifinals of the playoffs 10 times in the last 11 seasons, and even more impressively, seven different conference schools have reached the semifinals over that 11-year period. CAA Football is committed to competing at the highest level and continuing that success. CAA Football will continue to make decisions that move the conference forward by creating both a competitive and sustainable model.”
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2024 17:18:58 GMT -5
One post so far on a Villanova board.
"Wow another "old guard" CAA school flying the coop. First JMU, then Delaware and now the Spiders. Will the Cats stick it out with new schools like Monmouth, Hampton, Campbell and North Carolina A&T that they have absolutely nothing in common with or be the next to jump???"
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2024 17:12:08 GMT -5
I read that 2025 is also a 12 game FCS schedule. If true, that will ease the schedule adjustments.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2024 16:58:22 GMT -5
In 2022-23, Richmond spent $7,322,000 on football. In the PL, Fordham spent the most: $8,505K. (Fordham an BostU are high across all sports most likely due to cost-of-living in their immediate area.) Colgate $8,189K (High travel costs, i.e., Stanford) Lafayette $7,773K HC $7,593K (HC had high operating expenses because of the trip to SDSU Bucknell and Lehigh trail. Georgetown is $3.0 million, no fin aid included. Villanova, $7,560K NCAA picks up the tab for the SDSU trip. Yes, but the expense is booked as an HC expense; the NCAA reimbursement is booked as revenue. At least, that was the way it was done when I looked at vVillanova when they made deep runs. (And still lost money.)
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2024 16:55:21 GMT -5
Richmond CDS for the enrolling class of 2027
71 percent with a verbal score of between 700-800, 86 percent with a math sore between 700 and 800.
For comparison, Colgate for the class of 2026 was 72 percent on the 700-800 verbal score, 76 percent on the 700-800 math score.
HC, class of 2027 was 38 percent for the verbal, 30 percent for the math. Richmond has no problem with meeting the AI.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2024 16:30:06 GMT -5
The APR is very important to TPTB. Thus, the AI will stay, IMO Why is this so important? Do they not trust their member schools? The AI helps some schools and absolutely dooms others. It does not help the league as a whole. Because the AI is for all sports. At GU, the AI only applies for football. And at GU, the APR for men's hoops is so low the school is at the point of being sanctioned. If memory serves, GU in 2021-22, was ranked 15th from the bottom in all of Division I when it came to the APR. Rougeau is pushing for HC to be ranked in the Top 25 of the US&WR. He has to push greater selectivity in admissions to get there.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2024 16:23:12 GMT -5
Phreek- would your investigative skills enable us to learn what Richmond spends on football to compare to HC and other PL teams? In 2022-23, Richmond spent $7,322,000 on football. In the PL, Fordham spent the most: $8,505K. (Fordham an BostU are high across all sports most likely due to cost-of-living in their immediate area.) Colgate $8,189K (High travel costs, i.e., Stanford) Lafayette $7,773K HC $7,593K (HC had high operating expenses because of the trip to SDSU Bucknell and Lehigh trail. Georgetown is $3.0 million, no fin aid included. Villanova, $7,560K
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2024 16:01:22 GMT -5
The APR is very important to TPTB. Thus, the AI will stay, IMO
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2024 15:54:29 GMT -5
Is the AI going by the wayside? Richmond is ranked higher than Holy cross in the USN&WR National LAC rankings rankings. Richmond is also quite rich, endowment dollars per student are 3x that of HC. Also richer than GU on the same measure. So the endowment per student pecking order for PL football schools: Richmond Colgate Lafayette Holy Cross Bucknell Lehigh Georgetown Fordham
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2024 10:40:02 GMT -5
In 2022-23, HC spent $700,000 on men's lacrosse. Next lowest in spending was Bucknell which spent $350,000 more. All the other schools (AU doesn't field a men's lacrosse team; USNA / USMA excluded) averaged $1.0 million more in spending than Holy Cross. The $1 million more equates to these schools funding lax scollies up to the 12.6 NCAA scollie cap.
The endowment should provide HC with an additional $7.7 million in revenue in 2024-25 than it did in 2022-23. So perhaps sscollie monies for men's lacrosse will flow.
IMO, the 'problem' is that HC funds 36 full scollies for men's and women's ice hockey, and this level of spending perturbs the number of scholarships awarded in all other sports other than football, M/W basketball.
It is possible that HC awards need-based financial aid to lacrosse, and like the Ivies and GU in football, such fin aid is not recorded on the tally sheet as athletically-related fin aid.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 11, 2024 7:30:18 GMT -5
With all of the craziness in college football, I wonder if Congress might consider exempting college football from Title IX requirements. Not happening. Men are slowly disappearing from four year colleges. A December 2023 Pew Research Center note highlights the emergence of gender disparity in a subset of the post-secondary universe, the four-year institutions. “Most of the decline is due to fewer young men pursuing college. About 1 million fewer young men are in college but only 0.2 million fewer young women. As a result, men make up 44% of young college students today, down from 47% in 2011, according to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data. “This shift is driven entirely by the falling share of men who are students at four-year colleges. Today, men represent only 42% of students ages 18 to 24 at four-year schools, down from 47% in 2011.“At two-year colleges, which are largely community colleges, the drop in enrollment has been similar for men and women, so the gender balance has not changed much. Men represent 49% of students ages 18 to 24, up slightly from 48% in 2011.”
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 9, 2024 6:11:18 GMT -5
For reasons not explained, Northeastern didn't make the list. Northeastern had 98,000 applicants, and a 6.8 percent acceptance rate. In 2023, MU had a 50 percent yield rate. Also, NYU didn't make the list. Acceptance rate of 9.4 percent, and yield of 54 percent. And Tufts should have made the list, with nearly 7,000 undergraduates, so above the arbitrary cutoff of 4,00 Forbes itself is now owned by an investment group headquartered in Hong Kong, with the name of integrated Whale. It was just to get clicks. Apparently, it succeeded. That said, Northeastern's gaming of the admissions process is not a sign of greatness. www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/And Georgetown's gaming of the endowment. In 2021, Georgetown announced a major and worthwhile initiative toward sustainability. www.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-advances-commitment-to-sustainability-through-new-partnership-aimed-at-reducing-energy-consumption/What the announcement didn't say was that the concessionaire providing utilities to the university gave (loaned) $800 million to GU for the privilege of providing energy to the University. GU plugged the $800 million into the endowment, which is why GU's endowment, long a laggard, outperformed every (?) other major endowment in 2021. The facts were revealed on the last page of the audited financial statement. Such a deal!!
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 7, 2024 14:01:04 GMT -5
I can 100% guarantee everyone that a sports specific gift was never used for another sport in years past! (At least prior to 2015). Who knows what Pine did. Nothing he did/would do would not surprise me. Pine had a Title IX concern. I was told he would take monies from the general CAF and give them to a women's sport that had received little/no donor money, and the parallel men's sport had received a generous donation amount.. NP would be acutely sensitive to Title IX issues as the softball team succeeded with their Title IX complaint, and HC entered into a consent decree with the Department of Education to remedy the unequal treatment. (NP had inherited the issue.)
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 6, 2024 7:31:33 GMT -5
Google alerts sent me this press release from Oregon State athletics. osubeavers.com/news/2024/5/4/mens-rowing-beavs-beat-holy-cross-for-massive-resume-winThis was at the IRAs, the national rowing championships. Holy Cross was ranked #20. Oregon State was ranked #22. Times for the three races. Saturday vs. Holy Cross Varsity 8 Oregon State - 5:37.0 Holy Cross - 5:40.9 2V8 Oregon State - 5:50.8 Holy Cross - 5:51.2 3V8 Holy Cross - 5:56.6 Oregon State - 5:58.1
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 3, 2024 15:20:54 GMT -5
I'll not bring up demographics -- which are heavily weighted against New England -- but I will raise a point that pipelines of future students and future student-athletes are not created in a year or even a bunch of years.
Referencing BC as a case in point, for BC"s class of 2027, 19.7 percent are from MA, 13.3 percent are from CA, FL, and TX, and 9 percent are from the five other New England states. This is a school that 40 years ago had so many students from Boston that they were aggregated by neighborhood, how many from Southie, how many from Dorchester, how many from West Roxbury, how many from Charlestown, etc. It took decades for BC to change the geographic alignments.
IMO, it would be wise to build on the recruiting outreach to states like Fl, GA, TX, CA, because over the next 10-20 years that's where the under 18 population is holding its own, relatively speaking. (After 20 years, there likely will be an exodus from FL and TX as sea levels rise and other climate factors come into play.)
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 3, 2024 10:44:15 GMT -5
Nothing will happen at Clark. This is exam week. Residence halls close on May 8 at noon.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 3, 2024 10:33:46 GMT -5
Catholic school enrollment has dropped from 2,231,000 in 2007-08 to 1,693.000 in 2023-24 (almost 25 percent) Much of the decrease is disproportionately centered in the New England and Mideast regions (Catholic education association geographic terminology; U.S. is divided into six regions.). Enrollment is more stable or marginally increasing in other regions. A major emphasis in admissions for HC's class of 2028 was geographic outreach to schools in areas that HC had largely ignored in the past. This emphasis will continue. What does this have to do with football recruiting? I don't care if every recruit comes from the same high school as long as they can play. (1) It has to with football recruiting because -- as has been posited on Crossports again and again since the beginning of Crossports -- football and basketball are a way to build a national brand for Holy Cross. And a reason to have a national brand is to increase the number of applicants from outside of New England, new York, and New Jersey. (2) And perhaps one ought recruit where the talent is more abundant. End of 2023 composite Top 25 high school rankings. www.maxpreps.com/news/rYG3j65_MU6cE5gvlenPIA/high-school-football-rankings-mater-dei-finishes-no-1-in-media-composite-top-25.htmFour of the top six schools in the composite rankings are Catholic schools from CA, NV, and FL.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 3, 2024 8:37:53 GMT -5
In 2022-23, HC spent $1,043,000 on women's lacrosse. Excluding American which spent $842,000, average spending at the other six schools (USMA, USNA excluded) was $1,471,000 (Boston U spending overweights the average by about $50,000.) Roughly, this equates to HC averaging five fewer full scollies than the others. So AB's success this season is all the more impressive.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 3, 2024 7:59:24 GMT -5
First 21 offers by State: CALIFORNIA -- 1 MARYLAND -- 8 VIRGINIA -- 2 CONNECTICUT -- 3 ILLINOIS -- 1 (Committed to Miami (OH)) DELAWARE -- 1 MASSACHUSETTS -- 3 PENNSYLVANIA -- 1 NEW JERSEY -- 1 No known commitments except as noted. Interesting that there are no offers in Florida or Texas as yet, but I'm sure that many offers there will follow. There's no fixed timetable regarding offers to recruits in particular states that I've ever been able to see in the past. Catholic school enrollment has dropped from 2,231,000 in 2007-08 to 1,693.000 in 2023-24 (almost 25 percent) Much of the decrease is disproportionately centered in the New England and Mideast regions (Catholic education association geographic terminology; U.S. is divided into six regions.). Enrollment is more stable or marginally increasing in other regions. A major emphasis in admissions for HC's class of 2028 was geographic outreach to schools in areas that HC had largely ignored in the past. This emphasis will continue.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 3, 2024 7:16:06 GMT -5
There are a minuscule number of Jewish students matriculating. And a minuscule, if any, number of students with familial ties to Palestine / Middle East matriculating.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 2, 2024 19:59:48 GMT -5
The author also tossed all the schools in the University of California system. Even though in August 2023, the same author listed four universities in the University of California system in the Forbes Top 25 colleges list.N For reasons not explained, Northeastern didn't make the list. Northeastern had 98,000 applicants, and a 6.8 percent acceptance rate. In 2023, MU had a 50 percent yield rate.
Also, NYU didn't make the list. Acceptance rate of 9.4 percent, and yield of 54 percent.
And Tufts should have made the list, with nearly 7,000 undergraduates, so above the arbitrary cutoff of 4,00
Forbes itself is now owned by an investment group headquartered in Hong Kong, with the name of integrated Whale.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 1, 2024 16:02:57 GMT -5
This job opening is for a contractor to Holy Cross. It is not a Holy Cross job opening.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 1, 2024 8:44:38 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Apr 28, 2024 18:04:38 GMT -5
The HC press release:
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Apr 27, 2024 16:00:36 GMT -5
Supposedly at the end of 2022, HC and CU were basically dead even in endowment. They either found more benefactors (or the existing ones gave a bit more) or they invest better. Or maybe both. Endowment value Colgate / HC / differential 2019 949 / 786 / 163 2020 954 / 760 / 194 2021 1263 / 1043 / 220 2022 1147 / 993 / 154 2023 1202 / 1043 / 159 The 1043 twice is not a typo.
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