voltahoya
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Post by voltahoya on May 19, 2006 10:05:00 GMT -5
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Post by Frank Black on May 19, 2006 11:04:15 GMT -5
They are really are more loathsome than anybody.
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Filo
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Post by Filo on May 19, 2006 12:00:58 GMT -5
Looks like Skinner is the driving force on that decision. Just another #$@*!$&.
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 19, 2006 12:14:50 GMT -5
Yes, it's a cheap way out and while it is not condoned, it's not new.
As late as 1980, Georgetown had long standing series with Holy Cross, Fordham, and St. Joe's. None have been played since. We can argue the vagaries of scheduling Maryland or GW amidst the local issues, but can anyone say there was no room in the last, oh, 26 years, for any of these Jesuit schools?
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on May 19, 2006 12:17:58 GMT -5
Yes, it's a cheap way out and while it is not condoned, it's not new. As late as 1980, Georgetown had long standing series with Holy Cross, Fordham, and St. Joe's. None have been played since. We can argue the vagaries of scheduling Maryland or GW amidst the local issues, but can anyone say there was no room in the last, oh, 26 years, for any of these Jesuit schools? Impending meltdown by the_way against Jesuit schools in 5... 4... 3... 2.. 1.. |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2006 12:45:05 GMT -5
All I can say is this - my final grades are in, I've officially completed four years of dual degree grad school hell, I have no reason to ever be on that campus again (I'm skipping my graduation ceremonies)...
... TIME TO OFFICIALLY ROOT FOR THE METEOR!!!
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2006 13:20:40 GMT -5
All I can say is this - my final grades are in, I've officially completed four years of dual degree grad school hell, I have no reason to ever be on that campus again (I'm skipping my graduation ceremonies)... ... TIME TO OFFICIALLY ROOT FOR THE METEOR!!! That's it, Buff. Stick it to the man! Congrats. |
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aggypryd
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Post by aggypryd on May 19, 2006 14:23:44 GMT -5
This is just the way of the world...
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Joe Hoya
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Post by Joe Hoya on May 20, 2006 0:30:21 GMT -5
All I can say is this - my final grades are in, I've officially completed four years of dual degree grad school hell, I have no reason to ever be on that campus again (I'm skipping my graduation ceremonies)... ... TIME TO OFFICIALLY ROOT FOR THE METEOR!!! That's it, Buff. Stick it to the man! Congrats. "But sir, you ARE the man." "Yes." "So you're sticking it to yourself?" "Maybe." |
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Post by theEDGEfactor on May 20, 2006 5:44:32 GMT -5
just one less team we have to beat
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Joe Hoya
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Post by Joe Hoya on May 20, 2006 22:22:28 GMT -5
Again, I'll ask...is this "pro" or "college" sports?  |
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2ndRyan
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Post by 2ndRyan on May 21, 2006 9:50:01 GMT -5
BC continues to marginalize itself relative to its natural rivals.
I checked the ACC conference website to see how the Eagles were doing in spring sports vs. their new warm weather brothers and sisters. The results are sobering. Men's and women's tennis 0-11, Softball 6-15, Women's Lacrosse 1-4. Interestingly, in baseball the results weren't all that bad as teams from Maryland, Va. Tech and Duke fared little better.
As has been noted on this board elsewhere at other times, the Rapture will occur before the Eagles win an ACC football title.
There is one sport in which BC is a legitimate national power. That's ice hockey. Too bad they don't play much collegiate ice hockey Down Yonder.
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on May 21, 2006 9:56:53 GMT -5
MD, VT, Duke and BC aren't even in the ACC tourney for baseball,so if that's who you want to compare them to, go ahead.
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2ndRyan
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Post by 2ndRyan on May 21, 2006 11:57:52 GMT -5
I don't understand your reply TigerHoya. I expect those other ACC teams (VT, maryland, Duke) aren't in the baseball tourney because like the Big East, they don't invite everybody.
My minor point was unlike tennis, women's lacrosse and softball, they don't seem to be the absolute cellar dweller in baseball (without knowing much about BC baseball I expected they would be). Overall, however, I expect in the so-called minor sports they will not fare as well in the ACC as they did in the Big East.
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on May 21, 2006 14:43:02 GMT -5
2ndRyan,
They're the northernmost schools in the ACC for baseball so it's pretty logical, IMO (See Georgetown Sports board thread on baseball differences in the North and South.) BC has a crappy field and crappy infrastructure supporting their baseball program, but at least they didn't bulldoze an on campus field for a parking lot.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2006 15:00:45 GMT -5
... at least they didn't bulldoze an on campus field for a parking lot. Thank god in a few years that's gonna read "at least they didn't bulldoze an on campus field for a brand new business school HQ and science center." |
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 21, 2006 15:25:41 GMT -5
Thank god in a few years that's gonna read "at least they didn't bulldoze an on campus field for a brand new business school HQ and science center." It'll sound worse. Once again, no excuse for Georgetown's complete and utter lack of foresight in destroying green space for short-term thinking. I would like nothing better than for the as-yet-unnamed Business School and as-yet-unfunded Science Center to have been moved off campus if it meant cutting even more green space off the campus. And that's where the future is...off campus. Every major project from here on out will go off the Hilltop, thanks to 50 years of short-term planning. |
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on May 21, 2006 15:48:36 GMT -5
Just to be fair, BC is like Wrigley used to be - no lights for baseball but then again they get the Conference Tourney at Fenway in '09 and the paid attendance was in the pathetic 350 range for a weekend game with Clemson earlier this year.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2006 16:49:54 GMT -5
It'll sound worse. Once again, no excuse for Georgetown's complete and utter lack of foresight in destroying green space for short-term thinking. I would like nothing better than for the as-yet-unnamed Business School and as-yet-unfunded Science Center to have been moved off campus if it meant cutting even more green space off the campus. And that's where the future is...off campus. Every major project from here on out will go off the Hilltop, thanks to 50 years of short-term planning. I dunno, DFW. I'd generally agree... keep as much greenspace on campus as possible. But that baseball field wasn't exactly what I'd call greenspace. Technically it was open to the students and available for a little weekend horseplay I s'pose, but every time friends of mine and I would try to throw the ball around on the field (lax, baseball, football, whatever), we'd get yelled at, kicked off, told not to come back... usually by Albino Mullet Man. To us, it was for baseball team use and baseball team use only. So while it is lost "greenspace," I'm not too concerned with losing it as I would be the open space at Kehoe or the vairous lawns around campus. That, and the new lawns provided by the SW Quad where there once stood a parking lot off-set the loss of the ball field in my opinion. |
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TigerHoya
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Post by TigerHoya on May 21, 2006 16:53:19 GMT -5
I see it as a loss in the fact that the games are off-campus now. I'm guessing that hurts baseball more than it hurts basketball overall but someone who actually has been to a game at Bethesda could answer that better for me.
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