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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 23, 2007 23:55:11 GMT -5
AvantGuard- Since you were so helpful on other matters I did a little digging on the Harvard basketball facilities issue. I also was curious myself.
In 1981 the men's and women's teams moved form Cambridge to the Briggs Athletic Center which had formerly been an indoor track and batting cages next to Harvard Stadium in Allston.
The facility was renamed in 1996 for Ray Lavietes a two-time letterman and athletic benefactor. The Lavietes Pavilion seats 2195, truly McDonough-esque
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 17, 2007 5:33:18 GMT -5
thanks, Avantguard- I'd forgotten about Floyd Lewis. I guess I remember james Brown because we all see him so often.
I seem to remember Harvard is facility-challenged as well. I recall they use to play on the third floor of a facility with stands on only one side. Has that changed?
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 14, 2007 9:25:38 GMT -5
This isn't the first time Harvard has assessed its lowly position in the hierarchy of college basketball and tried to do something about it.
In the 60's aided by the muscle of alumnus Sen Ted Kennedy Harvard successfully recruited DC schoolboy and national talent James Brown (now of CBS sports)of DeMatha(?) out from under the nose of Lefty Driesel at rising Maryland.
In 1973 (perhaps following the lead of another downtrodden basketball program further South) Harvard hired another Celtic alumnus Tom "Satch" Sanders who hung on until 1977.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 28, 2007 4:58:44 GMT -5
How long will Mt. George remain dormant?
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Post by 2ndRyan on Apr 5, 2007 5:33:14 GMT -5
When I was in school one of the rituals of my week was Grambling Football Highlights (the previous Sat. game) on channel 29
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Post by 2ndRyan on Feb 26, 2007 8:40:57 GMT -5
In '76 Indiana played Michigan, one of the relatively few times teams from the same conference have played for the title. '85 was another but I forget who was involved.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Feb 16, 2007 16:18:02 GMT -5
one of the teams the Hoyas beat in '71-72 (3-23) was Loyola of Maryland
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Post by 2ndRyan on Feb 4, 2007 14:06:09 GMT -5
Better hide your heart
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Post by 2ndRyan on Feb 1, 2007 10:17:45 GMT -5
You're right I can't find anything on Ole Miss.
The Fla violations you are referring to took place i think during the the tenure of Galen Hall who in perhaps one of football's bigger ironies ends up on the staff at Penn State one of the straighter arrows around.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jan 31, 2007 13:10:10 GMT -5
I don't know if the SEC is the strongest conference, but I've always believed they're the crookedest. I tried finding NCAA violations by conference and got nowhere.
I can't recall an SEC institution that hasn't been sanctioned except for poor Vanderbilt. The Commodores must feel like a nun in a whorehouse.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jan 14, 2007 10:22:36 GMT -5
I wonder if the success of fellow conference long-time football have-not Wake Forest has galvanized them.
I was at Virginia for business school in the late seventies when there were similar discussions about academic flexibility related to Virginia's then woeful football fortunes. Dick Bestwick was the coach then (pre George Welch). An entrance requirement of two years of a foreign language was the bete noire as to why the Wahoos couldn't get good players.
I expect the arrival of George Welch and the commitment to upgraded facilities had as much to do with their improved performance as anything else.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jan 14, 2007 8:14:53 GMT -5
the kids who played youth soccer in the '80's appeared to have moved on to the NFL not the MSL in terms of rooting interest. I too reflect on the Pele precedent and wonder why it will be different.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jan 14, 2007 7:55:51 GMT -5
Agree that in retrospect the punt call was key. I guess Reid believed that the odds of pulling out another fourth down conversion after the false start were less than that which his defense hadn't done all game-stop the Saints running attack.
Key statistic for me- time of possession. The Saints had the ball for ten more minutes. The Eagles in their December playoff run had relied on a steady ground attack, more passes than runs game plan, which kept a pretty fragile defense off the field. Wesbrooks scintillating run aside, there was no ground game for the Eagles today and the Eagles called 30 pass plays, 20 running plays.
After a bruising game last week the defense loooked worn down late . The guys flying around the field to start the game (Sheldon Brown's hit on Reggie Bush) were out of gas at crunch time.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Dec 17, 2006 21:31:44 GMT -5
Seriously- has there been a good pro out of Syracuse since Dave Bing? I guess you might give Danny Schayes a good citizenship pass, but Melo joins a long line of gutless underachievers with in Melo's case, a unique dash of criminal- punk tendencies. Apparently it's not ok to snitch, but perfectly ok to sucker punch and run.
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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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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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Post by 2ndRyan on Oct 28, 2004 11:51:34 GMT -5
The Israelites wandered in the Sinai for only 40 years. We had been in the wasteland for 86 years until Curt Schilling showed us the way to the Promised Land.
Unlike Moses, I hope he gets there with us. Good luck with that surgery!
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jul 10, 2006 13:17:15 GMT -5
I'd take issue with at least 2 of Bayless' points:
Baseball is a northern as well as southern game.
Holy Cross in '52, Minnestoa in '64! Give me a break. The best players consistently come from or gravitate to warm places and that has been true for at least the last 3 decades.
Americans (only) love big league baseball.
Although perhaps outside the scope of this article, I think there has been a great upsurge of interest in minor league baseball. In the Philadelphia area where I live there are now minor league teams in Camden, Trenton, Wilmington and Reading.
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Post by 2ndRyan on Jul 1, 2005 15:28:10 GMT -5
Harvard, Yale and I believe Princeton have physical presence in NYC. I believe all 3 are near Grand Central.
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Post by 2ndRyan on May 3, 2005 12:54:47 GMT -5
Just saw that Johns Hopkins named a new president of Johns Hopkins Medicine. I assume that encompasses the med school, research and the JH health system.
Would be illuminating know if they have largely avoided the problems Georgetown has encountered at its Medical Center.
An easy answer would appear to be that with their reputation they have been able to attract the research dollars but is there more to it? I note that Hopkins still has its own health sysyem (hospital?). How have they avoided the reimbursement issues that have injured a lot of teaching hospitals?
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