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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 25, 2024 9:10:28 GMT -5
My take on watching the game:
- HC played their strategy early and it worked. The same strategy saw stars when the Crusaders were tired and getting diced by some really good Iowa ball movement in the second half. - HC missed a lot of free throws and layups when Iowa's two big runs occurred. The gaps grew when HC couldn't find the bottom of the net. - #15 had a bunch of turnovers when she saw the floor. Lots of giveaways. Tough game. - HC rebounding in the second half on the defensive end, whether it was position or just some tired legs, wasn't as successful. - It's a bit ridiculous to play the #1 seed in their home gym in an NCAA tournament. Neutral site-- even if closer to that team than the lower seed-- would be much more fair. - The refs were impacted by that fact, at least in the first half it seemed. HC didn't bang as much inside later in the game. - HC was still not intimidated and although the talent gap showed itself, the team stood toe-to-toe with a true #1 and it didn't look like they didn't belong on the same floor.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 22, 2024 7:33:52 GMT -5
I can do dropshipping for nearly any item (clothing, trinket, swag) for my measly podcast with tens of listeners, and my own custom logo, and HC can't figure out how to do this for their own sports gear?
If I had a high enough resolution image, it wouldn't necessarily be embroidered (but it could be if I did the homework for it), but you could get it on hoodies, sweatshirts, etc.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 20, 2024 10:37:34 GMT -5
Some other, very complicated, "throwback" ideas:
- Recruit people that can shoot the basketball into the basketball hoop when playing the game of basketball and receiving a basketball scholarship. - Recruit tall players because tall people that are skilled at basketball are needed in certain capacities to excel at playing basketball. - Recruit people that can shoot and score free throws because that happens in basketball and putting the ball in the hoop in basketball is good. Scoring more points than the other team that is playing basketball is how you win basketball games. - Stop wearing BLACK FREAKIN UNIFORMS.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 8, 2024 12:15:12 GMT -5
Gone, if you delete yours with the quotes, it'll all be from the public record.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 8, 2024 10:46:03 GMT -5
KY asked "how about Kevin Hamilton," and I thought to answer the point. I respect your status in this arena, so I am happy to 86 it if you deem it to be so far out of bounds. I thought this far along, it wouldn't be an issue.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 1, 2024 9:13:46 GMT -5
I love you all. I will "Dislike' any post that mentions the word "patience," unless the context includes words like: "I have run out of..."
We've been trashola for fourteen, fifteen years maybe. I am not patient. Anything worth doing is worth doing well, not half-assed. I long thought (wanted) basketball to be prioritized, hockey to be prioritized, and step back from nearly everything else. It was the easiest to win, the fastest, and the closest, at the highest levels. No sub-divisions. No conference changes needed.
Now, the trickling water of the terrible state of HC basketball has weathered away the rock that is my stubbornness. I feel like we have to go all in for football, wherever that environment is (and that can be a Fool's Errand with a new coach/Chesney's departure, graduation of key players, and the rise of the NIL Nonsense™-- football may never be the same again). Maybe hockey as well. Everything else harms our ability to be a leader.
We don't aspire to be "education for everyone" in the classroom; we aim to be elite. We aim to be elite in fundraising and alumni engagement. We aim to be elite in community service, participation in the greater good, growing fantastic young people into accomplishing adults. Why do we then want athletics to be some roll-the-ball-out Mickey Mouse operation where everyone can have a nice time, get some sweat in, and slap hands after the game? Like the USA sending amateur basketball players to get crushed by Russian cheaters, when we can try to get the DREAM TEAM to stomp the world's asses... HC know what it means to "DO" something and not half-ass it.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 28, 2024 13:18:39 GMT -5
Old business adage: never do for free anything you're good at.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 20, 2024 10:29:42 GMT -5
No liberal, democrat, or leftist can disagree with DEI, or the many debates on gender, etc.? That is my major gripe. Every major topic of discussion in modern society is immediately aligned to a set of wider stereotypes, because it is assumed that agreeing with one means you have to agree with all the others that are traditionally assigned to Red or Blue. To Right or Left. To Republican or Democrat. It hinders any progress because we're trapped to debate the entire landscape instead of making any incremental progress on any one item. Either side must concede the world to compromise. Thus, compromise has not, and will not happen.
I appreciate your policing otherwise for the civility of the board.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 20, 2024 9:17:25 GMT -5
Dissenting views are not necessarily political. My less-sage take on the current political and social climate is that conforming fads are apolitically and deemed full-freight to be morally right, where skepticism and counterpoints are automatically bucketed into the "right," bigotry, or oppression. Dangerous.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 14, 2024 13:58:21 GMT -5
What sport?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 6, 2024 10:41:33 GMT -5
Wow, I think he nailed it. Can he also get major corporations to share this viewpoint as well, particularly by abandoning the irrelevant, "Cause of the Month," "National Whatever Day," and "Make My Irrelevant Logo Match Your Color Scheme Season?"
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 5, 2024 16:31:17 GMT -5
Does Worcester knowing who Holy Cross is-- or Holy Cross' audience knowing how important Worcester is to HC-- improve anything? Does putting the Commonwealth on center court improve our marketing or candidates in Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Miami, Denver, New York, or anywhere else? I think it's a little weird. I have no connection to Worcester with warm feelings other than maybe the kind proprietors of the Boulevard Diner.
I don't think of Holy Cross as a Massachusetts institution as much as I do like, Harvard, or Fenway Park. Columbia or NYU is a bit of an NY institution. Maybe Notre Dame in South Bend. Alabama to Tuscaloosa... not sure we have, want, or need such synonymy.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 5, 2024 10:38:52 GMT -5
Oh my gosh Coach Cullen reference...
My grade/range always understood it as the Regis Owls was the official name and mascot, but an Owl was kind of lame, so Raiders got worked in there for both "cool factor" and alliterative purposes.
I am rarely, if ever, "scared," on the subway, but it's been much more dicey in recent years than any time that I've taken the subway. Since the Great Resignation, as well as Mayor Adams' time in office, I used to walk Park Ave and not wander 2 blocks without seeing a cop (not just a traffic officer). Now, I can go weeks without seeing police. Getting on the subway at essentially any stop outside of Grand Central and the train is just pulling in? People rushing to not be late? It's like an Olympic hurdles event. Out of 13 people, I was the only one that paid the fair (and I CAN jump the thing, so don't say I'm just too out of shape nowadays).
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 2, 2024 14:28:46 GMT -5
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 2, 2024 12:14:48 GMT -5
It WOULD be very cool, Ignutz. However, there is a directly correlated proportion of "coolness" to "offensive," so if you put a big knight on horseback with a lance, somebody who can't find the Hart Center on a map would complain to the HC administration that they're a bunch of bigoted racists because a newspaper published somewhere by a bunch of ignorant window lickers ALSO uses a Crusader. Instead, we can probably do a watermark on the court of the peace sign, a rainbow flag, or a W2, since liberals like taxes to pay for everything so much! /endrant
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 1, 2024 12:53:21 GMT -5
I was a lower Westchester attendee 2000-2004. There was always a good 10-12 kids on the express bus from White Plains through Yonkers headed downtown towards Regis, Loyola, and a few for Marymount. Farthest Regis students in my day came from Stamford, Katonah... plenty from Staten Island, Brooklyn, and even a few from Jersey.
Although, I did have two classmates in my homeroom in Freshman and Sophomore years that laughed when they heard I woke up at 6am to get to school on time. One, who lived on 85th Street, still managed to race the homeroom bell all disheveled, and had a car drive him the two blocks each day. His dad was an "entrepeneur" much older than the average father. (Me, at 13: "What the #$@&^*! is an entrepreneur?") Another lived in a brownstone next to the museum on 5th, with actual Picassos and other French artists' works in the place. His mom was a professional art curator. An easy walk to school. What a range of demographics...
To give you an idea about the commuter nature of the student body, years before my enrollment, the jacket and tie combination for students was removed in favor of a "business casual" look. Young nerdy kids on mass transit in a suit and a blazer was a "rob me" sign across MTA. Only one mugging I'm aware of during morning commute in my four years (a basketball player, actually, so no little scrawny Regis stereotype).
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 31, 2024 9:24:11 GMT -5
Wouldn't good students, seemingly the definition for admission into Yale, get mostly As? That's one argument. By extension that should mean that students at Centerville Community College never get above a C..... Good point. I guess I'm thinking something along the lines of: all bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs. Every student at Yale is a good student, but not every good student goes to Yale.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 31, 2024 8:43:18 GMT -5
Wouldn't good students, seemingly the definition for admission into Yale, get mostly As?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 31, 2024 8:42:08 GMT -5
You need to be baptized. The intention is that you're not converting to the faith at 11 years old trying to get into the school.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 29, 2024 10:28:47 GMT -5
Only the most capable, intelligent, generous, funny, talented, and good-looking folks go there, so that I am sure, must help.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 29, 2024 10:10:27 GMT -5
Don't get discouraged We will get much better in the next year or two...Keep the faith I don't want to be a Mets fan: "wait 'til next year." I fkkin HATE that mentality. Get. Better. Now.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 29, 2024 9:59:00 GMT -5
Only on Crossports A thread that discusses both a player's competing for a starting job and his prospects for the Heisman! I mean, I'm biased because I started the former's idea with my post.... but I'd put $100 on him not playing at all before I put $100 on him winning a freakin' Heisman trophy.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 25, 2024 10:19:50 GMT -5
Is he going to start, or even play?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 25, 2024 9:46:35 GMT -5
I totally forgot to tune into this game last night. I don't think I've ever been more checked out from the MBB program, and that's saying something given that I managed to pay attention to most of the last 2 seasons under Nelson. I believe we are headed in the right direction, as long as the portal merry-go-round we've dealt with lately comes to a stop under Paulsen. I think it largely will. This will likely also be the first season that I attend zero games, home or away. My wife is due in 4 weeks (more likely 3 weeks) so I'm officially in stay-put mode. We thought about going up this past Saturday since she's a Loyola alum, and my 4 y.o. daughter has been asking to go to a basketball game. But we ended up doing some work on the house instead. Tempted to take my daughter out to Lafayette for the Wednesday night game but would have to gamble on her ability to get quality sleep in the car since it's a school night. Unlikely. Saturday 2/10 against American probably cutting it too close, we'll see. Like Guile taunts after beating the snot out of somebody: "Go home and be a family man."
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 25, 2024 9:10:27 GMT -5
For Bonds (or for any other player) it’s interesting to me to look at the “similarity scores” that suggest what player is he most similar to through each age. Bonds ended up being most similar to Willie Mays, then Henry Aaron, then Babe Ruth. Did his career start out being similar to those all-time greats through his early seasons? Here’s the similar players for Bonds Thru age 22= Tom Brunansk Thru age 23= Jay Bruce Thru age 24= Jason Hayward All good players but not hofers. His production exploded at age 25. Yes we know that not all players careers have the same trajectory , but it really looks suspicious to me. Did he start the steroids at age 25 season? Compare to Hank Aaron- from ages 21 thru 27 his similarity score had Miguel Cabrera, a certain first ballot HOFer, as most similar each year Ortiz didn't play enough-- wasn't good enough yet, I guess-- to qualify for any meaningful comparisons on Baseball Reference for his age 21, 22, and 23 seasons. Here are the players he best compares with over time: 24 = Casey Kotchman
25 = Mo Vaughn
26 = Nick Johnson 27 = Adam Laroche 28 = Tony Clark
Nobody to really break the bank for.
29 = Justin Morneau
30 = Mo Vaughn
31 = Carlos Delgado
32 = Jason Giambi
Oh, okay, that's a pretty solid jump at the top of his bell curve. And Giambi was on the sauce, too. Surely his numbers should start to taper off?
Ages 33 - 36 = Mark Teixeira (and Ortiz's stats would outpace Mark, even though he put up excellent numbers as a switch-hitter).
Age 37 = Carlos Delgado, again
Ages 38 - 40 = FRANK FREAKIN THOMAS ARE YOU KIDDING ME
So Ortiz's career was not an arc, but basically an arrow shot up and to the right. Even though his damn feet didn't work at the end of his career. So let's not BS each other. He's got more sauce in him than on my veal parm on Sundays. And I still think he's a Hall of Famer despite not being able to run, throw, or catch.
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