HJS {l Wrote}:We may be regressing, but there is now way we slipped all the way behind Villanova (with all due respect to the alleged claims of a daughter of a friend of an anonymous message board poster).
Anecdotally, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo was on the radio recently BLASTING BC and Holy Cross for waitlisting his daughter (and rejected from USC). She got into Wake and had money from her safety school... (wait for it) Villanova. His daughter wanted to reapply to BC with a new essay and her most recent grades and he said, "Over my dead body!" So, she is going to Wake.
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Onyx Blackman {l Wrote}:My cousin got into BC and IUPUI and got waitlisted at Northeastern Night School. He's not even considering BC right now.
HJS {l Wrote}:BC, Wake and Villanova... and the kid is looking at each based on athletics as a factor??? Well, then BC is a no-brainer because (a) Nova is only has one sport and (b) Wake is about the only Power 5 school we are superior to in BB and FB.
This is such a dumb conversation. Isn’t it enough that we are frustrated with Leahy because he has no intention of ever giving athletics the support (financial and otherwise) every other ACC program gets? Why do folks feel the need to manufacture further outrage by creating fictional scenarios? Everything being the worst thing ever to happen ever is just such an exhausting trope that it muddles the valid arguments.
BostonCollege1 {l Wrote}:HJS {l Wrote}:BC, Wake and Villanova... and the kid is looking at each based on athletics as a factor??? Well, then BC is a no-brainer because (a) Nova is only has one sport and (b) Wake is about the only Power 5 school we are superior to in BB and FB.
This is such a dumb conversation. Isn’t it enough that we are frustrated with Leahy because he has no intention of ever giving athletics the support (financial and otherwise) every other ACC program gets? Why do folks feel the need to manufacture further outrage by creating fictional scenarios? Everything being the worst thing ever to happen ever is just such an exhausting trope that it muddles the valid arguments.
I'm not creating a fictional scenario, and never said everything is the worst thing ever. The kid is also looking at honors programs at some state schools. Athletics is not the primary factor, but one of them. It's definitely given Villanova more recognition - the number of applications they received jumped 22% after they won the national championship. No different than the Flutie factor. My points are: A. Sports do matter (at least a little) to teenagers, who are the primary audience for universities; and 2. BC, like a number of non-Ivy schools costing over $70k/year, is perceived by many to not be providing a great value for the cost.
Tell me that no one who's on this board didn't consider athletics at least a little when looking at schools as a 17 year old (besides TRE, who hates sports).
Onyx Blackman {l Wrote}:My cousin got into BC and IUPUI and got waitlisted at Northeastern Night School.
innocentbystander {l Wrote}:Onyx Blackman {l Wrote}:My cousin got into BC and IUPUI and got waitlisted at Northeastern Night School.
I'm on the selection committee. Don't worry he's in. I fast tracked him.
Onyx Blackman {l Wrote}:Thanks, IB. This is a dream come true for him. He wants to major in VCR repair and Northeastern's program is second to none.
HJS {l Wrote}:Marriage of convenience alert! Cronin (who seemed overly anxious to leave his alma mater) found someone to pay the buyout, but that is only after UCLA put up a Chris-Davis-like streak of strikeouts.
claver2010 {l Wrote}:is st. johns a better job than asu for hurley?
outside of getting back east i don't see it
2001Eagle {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:is st. johns a better job than asu for hurley?
outside of getting back east i don't see it
Needed to get away from no space
Bender {l Wrote}:I don't understand why anyone would hire Gene's consulting group given the way he destroyed BC sports before he left.
He did apparently help Cooley get a new contract at Providence by giving him the interview which is nice because Cooley seems like a good guy but just seeing that Gene was in hired to head the search and then watching Jeff Goodman pump up Gene on twitter made my blood boil.
HJS on Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:55 am {l Wrote}:Emergency list of candidates who would talk the job on a moment's notice that are better than Jim Christian:
Tim O'Shea
Bill Coen
Al Skinner
Joe Jones
Pat Skerry
Walter McCarty
Mark Schmidt
Consider this list in lieu of my annual donation (which means I deserve Tower Builder status for the next 6 years).
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