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Post by alum on Dec 7, 2022 10:27:45 GMT -5
Judge is back! Now all we need is to get a 3B, SS, 2B, LF, and C that can hit! What the heck happened here? I think that Judge is a good guy and an amazing talent and I think that the good people of the Bay Area deserved to see him play 80 plus times per year.
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Post by alum on Dec 6, 2022 14:03:27 GMT -5
NDSU Sac St (Based upon the parts of their games I watched last weekend, I think that both of these teams are a bit overrated) Mont St Holy Cross (gotta believe)
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UNH
Dec 3, 2022 23:17:49 GMT -5
Post by alum on Dec 3, 2022 23:17:49 GMT -5
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Post by alum on Dec 3, 2022 20:50:30 GMT -5
Depending on the aircraft size the flight could land in Brookings. Likely would need to be Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls is 50 miles/an hour drive straight up the Interstate. Welcome back, jackedforlife!
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Post by alum on Dec 3, 2022 18:28:09 GMT -5
Walked around Prior this morning before game. It is an amazing space.
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CCSU
Dec 3, 2022 17:52:19 GMT -5
Post by alum on Dec 3, 2022 17:52:19 GMT -5
Dry and warm finally, I think I’ll watch playoff football for a while instead of punishing myself with this team. Being a front runner I will switch it HC is doing well
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Post by alum on Dec 3, 2022 6:15:27 GMT -5
Colgate needs an AD? I know about a guy. He sells insurance, but…….😁
(Need to lighten the mood here.)
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Post by alum on Dec 3, 2022 5:36:30 GMT -5
1. US wins 1-1 after regulation and OT. US converts all of its penalties and a Netherlands player hits the last one over the crossbar 2. HC relatively easily, 34-20 (both teams miss extra points. HC ball security is a big factor 3. Men lose to CCSU by 9 4. Women beat NU by 3
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Post by alum on Dec 2, 2022 16:43:43 GMT -5
I think that we have to recognize that Kit cannot fire the head coach of what has been traditionally our most important sport, who is among the top five or so highest paid employees, and who has a year and a half of salary owed without the "express written consent" of VR and, while he has the authority to do it, VR isn't going to authorize it without first running it by the Chair of the Board of Trustees. If what you said is accurate, it's too bad the BOT weren't consulted on some other very important matters hoops related. I certainly don't want the Trustees picking coaches, or allotting scholarships, or scheduling games. What a nightmare that would be. Besides, an AD can find lots of people happy to serve on a search or advisory committee. He doesn't need help from the Trustees at that point. On the other hand, firing a guy is a lonely job. He needs to have someone to consult. I don't think that the group ought to get any bigger than the two people I suggested and the consultation with Dr. Boucher is really just a matter of respect given the financial cost. I'm not worried about bad publicity on this one.
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RJ
Dec 2, 2022 16:01:57 GMT -5
Post by alum on Dec 2, 2022 16:01:57 GMT -5
I love this talk. Makes a lot of sense. That said, the first step is Kit stepping up and calling Brett into his office for a "We've decided to go in a different direction" chat.That can't happen soon enough. I always will root for the purple to win but a loss to CCSU Saturday night might be the final straw. I think that we have to recognize that Kit cannot fire the head coach of what has been traditionally our most important sport, who is among the top five or so highest paid employees, and who has a year and a half of salary owed without the "express written consent" of VR and, while he has the authority to do it, VR isn't going to authorize it without first running it by the Chair of the Board of Trustees.
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Post by alum on Dec 2, 2022 13:26:53 GMT -5
Any ideas re: a place on campus to watch the soccer game before heading to Fitton? Does Hogan have decent-sized TVs downstairs? I emailed Chris Herrion. He says the group play was shown in Crossroads in Hogan. He assumes it will be shown there but was not certain. This forecast is making me think about staying home.
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Hire…….
Dec 1, 2022 14:42:45 GMT -5
Post by alum on Dec 1, 2022 14:42:45 GMT -5
...if they were any good, they'd have already been hired. And then couldn’t the same he said about your guy Kosminski as it relates to getting a D1 job? “If he were a D1 head coach, he’d already have been hired.” I can’t stress enough how important it is for ADKH to throw out any type of disqualifying factor (even criminal record if Pitino is interested again ), and find the right guy for the job, regardless of where he’s coming from. Remember the guys around here who disqualified Mark Daigneault because they didn’t like his title on the staff at Florida? Impossible to be more wrong than that crew. BTW, since you brought him up, maybe he is part of the solution. He is now in year three of the rebuild in OKC. The good news for him his squad is on pace to win ten more games than last year. The bad news is that would still leave them last in the division. Maybe the owner decides to offload him in February and he will be ready to come on board once the network cancels the BN Show.
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Post by alum on Dec 1, 2022 11:11:58 GMT -5
Game notes are up. Oliver listed as playing.
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Post by alum on Dec 1, 2022 6:49:01 GMT -5
I still plan on going to games when my eyes allow me to....I guess I'm just like a wildabeest that just instinctively follows the herd across a river infested with crocodiles. Best simile of the year, Animal Reference Division.
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Post by alum on Dec 1, 2022 6:47:41 GMT -5
“My kids are not mature, they need to grow up, and I can’t find anyone that’s competitive.” Ya, real class act. 19-69 I’m not happy either and want BN gone today, but it would be fair to point out that his next sentence was that he had to do better as well.
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Post by alum on Nov 30, 2022 20:49:06 GMT -5
Could be a really short bench for HC tonight, Cross out due to "illness" This illness thing has me nervous about the football game
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Harvard
Nov 30, 2022 20:07:43 GMT -5
Post by alum on Nov 30, 2022 20:07:43 GMT -5
Turned off. Watching an NCIS rerun
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Harvard
Nov 30, 2022 19:01:46 GMT -5
Post by alum on Nov 30, 2022 19:01:46 GMT -5
Gates is sick
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Post by alum on Nov 30, 2022 12:45:06 GMT -5
Pride—
I don’t disagree about boys in school. My observation of my five kids and their friends is that it happens in middle school and that for many kids, it lasts. I think one way to address it would be to do away with honors classes in the freshman year of high school. Let all the kids come in at the same place and let the high school teachers sort them out. I would do this, in part, by getting almost every kid through Algebra 1 in 8th grade.
I also don’t like the team concept in middle school where kids stay with a group and have all of the same teachers. It promotes group think among the faculty.
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Post by alum on Nov 30, 2022 11:35:38 GMT -5
South Dakota St William&Mary Weber St Sacramento St Incarnate Word Samford North Dakota St Holy Cross
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Post by alum on Nov 30, 2022 11:26:19 GMT -5
I figured we need the following 133 for men and another 133 for women to get us at the top three in any league for all sports- happy to share the breakdown Only variable is going for 63to 95 for football- 😱😱😱 How many additional students do we need to accept to pay for the annual scholarships?I am not sure that we can actually calculate it. What if the additional students we admit have substantial financial need and don't result in a "profit." If we added 50 full athletic scholarships at $75,000 per the cost is $3,750,000. A gift of $85 million to the endowment would subsidize that. Of course, because some of the recipients of those scholarships would otherwise require financial aid, the number is actually lower than that.
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Post by alum on Nov 30, 2022 11:16:40 GMT -5
I think we’re agreed that differing outcomes is NOT evidence of gender (or other) discrimination. It could be the pool of women enrolling at HC have/develop the skills/brains/numbers to dominate the most selective of the honor societies. (Actually, I’m not sure how this compares to Phi Beta Kappa at HC nowadays but I’m on a roll this AM.) As to this particular selection process for Alpha Sigma Nu, we don't have enough information about the pool of eligible students, the number of students from that group who applied, the records of each student etc to draw any conclusion one way or the other about any type of discrimination. Sometimes, however, statistics are quite helpful as indirect proof of both disparate treatment and disparate impact discrimination. Imagine a large public company is taken private by a wealthy, but somewhat eccentric, billionaire. He decides his company is bloated and that he wants to lay off 1000 of his 3000 engineers who are 49% men, 49% women, and 2% non binary persons. Assume for the sake of this exercise that length of service is not considered and that the groups each have an equivalent percentage of employees whose work is of A quality, B quality, and C quality. Assume also that the average male employee is 15 years older than the average female or non binary employee. After the process is completed, the company has laid off 800 men, 140 women, and all 60 non binary persons. This result suggests that the employer might be targeting older and/or male workers and non binary ones. The proof of the latter is stronger than the proof of the former but there is enough there to look further as to whether the employer was out to get certain classes of workers. On the other hand, the employer might have been acting in good faith but applied standards which unintentionally resulted in this result, .i.e. a disparate impact. As you can imagine there is quite a bit more to this discussion but there is nothing wrong with starting with what appears to be a skewed outcome to see if there is something wrong going on. As employers rarely write down or say out loud any more that they are engaged in illegal discrimination, properly developed statistics are an important tool in identifying discrimination. ( I am not suggesting that any eccentric billionaire currently in the news is engaging in illegal discrimination. While he may be getting himself in trouble related to some of his labor practices, I have seen no such allegation of this type of behavior.)
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Post by alum on Nov 30, 2022 9:19:37 GMT -5
OK, I didn't know I might be quizzed on this subject ( ) but my recollection was that I was told either by the honoree herself or her mother that the floor for admission was not top 15% but rather the top 4% academically. That it was a unique amount sticks in my brain. Now, since this is a Jesuit honor, is it possible that it is the top 4% over all Jesuit colleges and universities and because Holy Cross is such a prestigious school that the top 15% of Crusader students are within the top 4% of all Jesuit schools? For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Sigma_NuOf note, this doesn't clarify the 15% vs. 4% but does state: See here. Top 15% GPA eligible to apply. Max that can be accepted is 5 (or 4) % of class. www.holycross.edu/alpha-sigma-nu/fact-sheet
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Post by alum on Nov 30, 2022 8:17:36 GMT -5
I believe membership in this organziation is limited to students in the top 15% of the class who apply for membership and establish that in addition to great grades that they have also been involved in service to the community. A little work is required to become admitted and some students probably did not choose to pursue it. I am inclined to think that female students outnumber male students in the top 15% pool, because, as hcpride notes, we see that at other levels of education. I pulled up last year's commencement program and found that about one third of the summa grads were male and that about one third of the Honors program grads were male.
I noticed that one of the recipients was a woman from the rowing team who was reported as injured in the accident.
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Post by alum on Nov 29, 2022 9:45:57 GMT -5
Weather turning for Saturday 👎🏼 Yup Sounds like it could be rain all day. The game ought to be moved back to 11 am. It is being streamed, not shown on regular cable, so there ought to be no scheduling issues. Sat 03 55° /36° Rain 76% SW 18 mph Sat 03 | Day 55° 76% SW 18 mph Showers early, becoming a steady rain later in the day. High around 55F. Winds SW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 80%. Rainfall near a quarter of an inch. Humidity 72% UV Index 1 of 10 Sunrise 6:58 am Sunset 4:15 pm
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