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Post by tgo on Jan 5, 2022 21:49:47 GMT -5
Terrible policy and decision making are still terrible whether they are clear and up front in their reasoning or not.
Not trying to start a fight Rusky but at first blush, your comment reminds me of a battered wife who was happy that she didn't get hit tonight, only yelled at. Admittedly hyperbolic but the fact that GU never gives any info about any decisions shouldn't give them a pass on how they have willfully destroyed the lives of current Hoyas. I read that article by Dr. Makary and listened to an interview with him, he uses GU as the poster child for what is wrong with university covid policies both times.
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Post by tgo on Nov 21, 2021 0:39:57 GMT -5
Is Newbury Park the greatest HS XC team of all time and are we recruiting from this school? Their 7th runner went 15:09 in the California Southern Section Finals today - hope they let him back on the team bus after embarrassing his teammates by making them wait for him at the finish line for so long Results Link
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Post by tgo on Oct 1, 2021 12:49:11 GMT -5
I bought tickets in section 130 which is mid court across from the benches. Section is assigned but seats within that section are general admission - that is unusual. Haven't seen that since student section as an undergrad.
There is a courtside section on the seating chart but they are not available. There are other sections that are not available either.
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Post by tgo on Sept 14, 2021 14:17:33 GMT -5
Emailed them yesterday, and got a response that there was some issue preventing the sale. They didn’t say when they expected it would be fixed. I got a similar reply today, thanks. I've been a member of the Hoya Hoop Club since 1980. I never received any email from it about the Wooden Classic. Do you live in So-Cal? I assume they only sent this to people who were within driving distance.
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Post by tgo on Sept 13, 2021 10:24:08 GMT -5
I got an email some time around Sept 8th from the Hoop Club with a survey link. Survey asked if I was going to the Wooden games, how many tickets I was probably going to purchase and a couple other questions. There was a link to buy tickets and it said they would be going on sale at 8am on the 13th. It is now 8:20 and tickets are still not available. The official site espnevents.com/wooden-legacy/tickets/ also says they will go on sale today but no link or time mentioned. Anyone know what is going on and whether or not we should buy tickets from the official site or if we should get them direct from the HHC if we are members/donors?
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Post by tgo on Sept 10, 2021 19:56:29 GMT -5
Damn. Met him at the BET a handful of times. Enjoyed talking hoops with him. Tough loss for the Hoya family.
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Post by tgo on Sept 7, 2021 1:00:06 GMT -5
I think virtual learning is much safer (and 0% transmission) vs in person mitigation efforts for unvaccinated. already some kids who have gone to school have died or are on ventilators. It isn't safer for the kids who are victims of child abuse It isn't safer for the kids who don't attend even the farce that passes for school when it is virtual because they become the person in charge of child care for their younger sibling(s) It isn't safer for the kids who commit suicide It isn't safer for the kids who don't get to escape the building where their dad beats their mom, or where substance abuse is the norm by other household members It isn't safer for the kids who don't get diagnosed with the many possible illnesses that will kill them. It isn't safer for the mental well being of anyone. It isn't safer for the future society when we will have a large part of the population who spent their formative years locked away in their bedroom in front of a screen Children account for fewer than one-quarter of 1% of all COVID-19 deaths with some states reporting ZERO deaths. Kids die of all sorts of things, they are far more likely to die because they go into a car than they are because they caught COVID, so let's get our priorities in order and first make it illegal for kids to be driven to or from school (or ever get in a car no matter where they are going) before we start closing schools over COVID. Education is incredibly important and human interaction is crucial not just to child development but to the mental well being of humans of all ages. We have already done so much harm to school age children in the past two years and much of it didn't have to occur, I can not fathom inflicting more. Please, stop advocating for destroying the lives of an entire generation of youth.
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Post by tgo on Jul 11, 2021 17:01:28 GMT -5
Apparently we are in the final 5 schools for Kenneth Lofton Jr (Would be sophomore next year) from LA Tech, 275lb 6’7” F just won gold at FIBA u19 world championship with team USA avg 12pts and 7.5 rebs in c-USA, doesn’t shoot any 3s (think of that what you will) and they finished 3rd in the NIT this year The list is from an old tweet... thanks for pointing that out, i then can assume the re-tweet was to show that other big schools should have been on lofton when Kirby had identified his potential
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Post by tgo on Jul 11, 2021 16:34:54 GMT -5
Apparently we are in the final 5 schools for Kenneth Lofton Jr (Would be sophomore next year) from LA Tech, 275lb 6’7” F just won gold at FIBA u19 world championship with team USA avg 12pts and 7.5 rebs in c-USA, doesn’t shoot any 3s (think of that what you will) and they finished 3rd in the NIT this year Odd list right? What do people make of that? Why is there no program even close to our level on the list? A. Are we the only top level program that sees his potential and/or that built a relationship with him? Seems unlikely, unless we were recruiting in him for a while in HS and picked up where we left off. B. Does he not really want the bright lights of being in a major conference? Or C. Is he a project and we are just plugging a spot in the roster? I didn't think we would be looking for anyone to fill a spot and be a good practice player at this point so hoping it isn't option C Sounds like he was great at the U19 championship www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/kenneth-lofton-jr-usa-mvp/1ru13yozf9nl11p2b5zlu7lo8w
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Post by tgo on Jul 3, 2021 18:59:48 GMT -5
Hopefully, the extra caution leads to all of the students being able to have a much more "normal" year this year. I feel awfully for kids at every level that have missed out on so much during the pandemic.
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Post by tgo on Jun 13, 2021 18:00:31 GMT -5
Awesome list, nice to have some people to root for. Would love to go to the trials, maybe next time around.
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Post by tgo on May 20, 2021 7:34:18 GMT -5
Any chance Austin Freeman becomes the new DeMatha coach?
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Post by tgo on May 19, 2021 9:49:30 GMT -5
If Terrell was still getting his masters this last year, I wonder if he had any presence in the locker room or in practice. Great dude for Dante to learn from. I think I read that people who finished their degree in 2020 were invited to return this year which could be why he is on campus taking photos.
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Post by tgo on May 18, 2021 19:04:55 GMT -5
Young man is a BEAST! Damn I hope he becomes a Hoya.
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Post by tgo on May 4, 2021 20:01:13 GMT -5
Crystal Balls ... lol. In the laughably silly world of grown men predicting the whims of large and athletic children who happen to very good at playing basketball "Crystal Balls" has got to be the silliest thing going. What do I need to do in order to join the Crystal Ball society so I can make predictions that morons will start quoting as if they mean anything? Do i just post it on twitter with a crystal ball emoji? When I figure it out, I am posting one for Northwestern with a confidence level of i
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Post by tgo on May 3, 2021 14:59:14 GMT -5
Which weekend is homecoming? is that always the 2nd or 3rd weekend in October or something like or does it move around?
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Post by tgo on Mar 30, 2021 15:50:14 GMT -5
I agree he is not an accomplished 3 point shooter at this point, but I will say that once he starting getting more minutes in the middle of the year, Syracuse starting winning more. I think early on he got very limited minutes behind Girard, but once he started playing more minutes the Syracuse defense seemed much better and they scored more in transition. He is definitely a guy you could have on the floor with Dante, because he has really good length. Hope the staff shows interests and pursues him. There is no surer sign that the transfer explosion is ruining the college game than Hoya fans wanting to recruit Syracuse players. The man made his bed in upstate NY. Let's not have him bring his fleas here. Once you start letting them in...can hatred really be forever anymore? First we got cuse guy on our bench, and look what happens? Charges filed against players and mass transfers. You would think we would have learned our lesson that you can't dance with Lucifer and not smell like sulfur.
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Post by tgo on Mar 16, 2021 11:49:55 GMT -5
This is not possible. In order to catch covid from touching something, a sick person would need to sneeze/cough on a surface and someone else would need to touch it immediately and then put that hand straight into their mouth our eye. Scientists have been clear about this since May when the CDC updated their guidance on fomite transmission. Cleaning & disinfecting is theater to make people feel better but actually does nothing. I was thinking more about ambient air recirculation issues, such as restaurants and the like, which have proven problematic. I see, slightly different issue. As I understand it, that is mainly an issue for people sharing the same space since the droplets the virus travels on can not stay airborne long nor can the virus live for very long on those droplets so while circulation is an issue when you and I sit at different tables at the same time in a poorly ventilated indoor restaurant, it is only an issue because we are in that space together allowing one of us to spread to the other in that short window. It also allows for sustained contact which again, can't happen if I left an hour before you arrived.
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Post by tgo on Mar 16, 2021 0:30:24 GMT -5
Just wondering...did Duke and Virginia use the same locker room at Greensboro Coliseum? Perhaps locker room cleaning/disinfecting protocols are an issue here. This is not possible. In order to catch covid from touching something, a sick person would need to sneeze/cough on a surface and someone else would need to touch it immediately and then put that hand straight into their mouth our eye. Scientists have been clear about this since May when the CDC updated their guidance on fomite transmission. Cleaning & disinfecting is theater to make people feel better but actually does nothing.
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Post by tgo on Mar 11, 2021 9:52:50 GMT -5
I have been to 23 of these weekends, 96 (my sr year, watching from the second row beneath our basket as the fouls on Jerome went uncalled and the USUCK faithful went into their nauseating chants) and 06 (sitting next to Ralph Dalton who couldn't bear to watch the final buzzer and left when cuse took the lead with 8 seconds to play) stand out as particularly painful memories. Also 2001, which doesn't get mentioned often. It was the first time we had ever lost in the first game. I had high expectations, it felt like we were back after 3 years of playing in the NIT. I thought we were coming together - and they mostly played well until losing in the Sweet 16 so I was right and this game would be an embarrassing blip. It was one of those years where some friends were waiting until Friday to get in to town since they were sure we would still be playing. Then Seton Hall, who we had beaten twice that year, held the Hoyas to 40 points in a game where we were never close. Megafan & I left the garden after the afternoon session in a shocked daze. While it is human nature to spend more time mourning the losses than celebrating the victories, there have been some great moments: I always look forward to running in to the same people year after year at Cafe 31 and other places, people whose names I don't know, although many of them I know their Hoyatalk name. 96 after beating Nova in the semi's found myself at Niles - the bar on the ground floor of the hotel at 31st and 7th - and the entire place started chanting Let's Go Hoyas and it felt like being in the pit of a concert for a little while. 2000 when Cuse was the top seed and we beat them in the quarters, I was sitting right by the bench and could feel the excitement and joy from the players, I remember Scruggs in particular, I felt strangely close to the players in a way I hadn't since I had been a student myself and haven't since. Talking to people from other schools in random bars all over the city is always a joy, every school has good fans except for Cuse. Hard to find a good USUCK fan but I have. As an undergrad in 95, taking a big group of my friends who weren't from NYC to McSorely's after a game, one of my friends disappeared on a bathroom trip for a while, he comes back with a story that there were two Pitt fans by the bathroom, he asks if they are waiting, they see his hoya shirt and say "hoya fan?" - yes. Ok, then you need to chug a beer before you can use the bathroom. He obliges and this exchange repeats 1 or 2 more times and they let him pass and then talk hoops like best friends for a couple of minutes afterwards. 2010, the semi-final win over Marquette, the team was flat out dominant, seemed to firing on all cylinders and was a joy to watch for those three games. I also remember making friends with the students I sat with each day that year were a lot of fun too. I had to miss the finals vs WVU in person due to a death in my family - I got a call during the first half of the first game that my sister in law had heart attack and the funeral was on Saturday. Watched the finals after the wake in a hotel room with my brother. MEGAFAN, what year was it that, after our game, some USUCK fans were being rude and either misogynistic or racist (or both) to a fan of another school and you got kicked out for defending the young lady? 2003 maybe? I have a tradition that I have attempted to carry out every year, where I ask around in the student section until I can find a freshman, and then I buy them a beer to welcome them to their first BET. I should have known the force was unbalanced last year when I could only find 2 freshman and they both said no thank you to the offer of a free beer. I will have to give out at least two next year to make up for it. Can't wait to be back next year. Hoya Saxa!
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