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Post by eb59 on Oct 13, 2021 10:43:43 GMT -5
I thought and may be way off, but don't schools like Stanford, Rice & Duke require a Higher Standard even for their football players, as compared to the rest of FBS. Regardless, the above concern can be totally and easily managed by the schools themselves...but I get the Ivy concern of a all out Arms Race for Titles and standards being dropped...the old slippery slope argument.
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Post by eb59 on Oct 7, 2021 16:15:16 GMT -5
Golden Hoya...to be clear, your opinion is that the Non-Scholarship partial relief (Grant & Aide) from Gtown and the Ivy League does not create added negative financial issues for the kids and their families as opposed to another athlete @ a D1 - Full Ride (Tuition, Books, Meals) + other benefits like I think now a even a stipend potentially?
Not to mention, other important considerations for the kids to consider like IS a non-scholarship player available to the transfer portal and the new NIL stuff???
Regardless, you mention the 2 x of 9 schools in the list that everyone under $200k goes for free...but that is far from the minimum and a Partial at any of these schools still ends up being significant due to their starting price tags of > $50k per year tuition fees. I don't think your argument holds much water...sorry
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Post by eb59 on Oct 2, 2021 14:20:10 GMT -5
All,
Just thinking out loud and not trying to start a big thing about Title 9 or anything like that...but in the Modern Age of Focused Attempts to Help All Minorities; especially with Higher Education opportunities.
It's odd to me that basically, the only Non-Scholarship D-1 Football Programs left are the ones from the most academically elite schools in the FCS, with extremely liberal staffs and in most cases the largest endowments of any universities in the country (Not Gtown). Despite all of this, they seem to be actively fighting against the idea of providing 63 Full-Scholarships to their Football teams which have to have a High Minority Ratio by comparison to the overall student body at any of the above schools.
Seems to me like the University Boards for these Elite Universities should be actively reaching out to the Athletic Departments suggesting that before the world wakes up and realizes what some (not me) might argue as a real racial injustice that is happening. Perhaps, if nothing but from a PR perspective - maybe they should really start considering putting in motion full 63 scholarships for all the football programs in the elite....stop fighting it and embrace it as an oppy to really / really help all of the Non-Scholarship Kids in these otherwise D-1 schools.
Thoughts?
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Post by eb59 on Jun 22, 2020 17:13:16 GMT -5
Anyone know what happened to the old bleachers? I would assume that they ended up in the trash, but from my perspective...it seems that they could have been recycled and moved over without too much effort to become the Visitor stands.
This would have been in my opinion a reasonably cheap method for providing actually a pretty nice and yet temporary (movable) option for the next 5-10 years until all of the other stuff discussed above gets finalized and completed.
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Post by eb59 on May 8, 2020 11:25:50 GMT -5
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Post by eb59 on May 20, 2019 10:15:20 GMT -5
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Post by eb59 on May 1, 2019 13:23:23 GMT -5
Seeing the steel in the pic of the new stadium reminded me of the steel in the Twin Towers for some reason, would be cool if somehow they could incorporate actual steel plaques from the Towers on 9/11 into the concrete at both 35 yard lines to really enshrine Joey into the stadium forever...also, maybe since he was a Defensive Capt - the team can have a new tradition about the 35 yard line being a sacred place and they should fight teams to the keep them from EVER passing the 35 yard line - to do so is a letdown to the Tradition and they (Hoyas D) should be Editeded for ever allowing it to happen!
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Post by eb59 on Mar 18, 2019 13:43:31 GMT -5
Last Shot from Mid-March: Attachments:
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Post by eb59 on Mar 18, 2019 13:42:46 GMT -5
From Mid-March Timeframe:
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Post by eb59 on Dec 31, 2018 14:59:04 GMT -5
Thanks Russky and I look forward to DFW's retort to item 2!
Personally, I am actually quite happy with what I hope to be just Phase 1 of the Football Stadium (Cooper Field). With the state of the current attendance and scheduling we are good for a few years and it is at least in the design pics quite a massive improvement over the MSF.
Not just for sports either, I expect that the new stadium actually would be an awesome environment for all kinds of new events that have not been held on campus previously (Concerts, Improved Graduation Venue, DMV High School Playoffs for FB / Lax / Others, the possibilities are actually endless if the school takes the initiative to market the venue) and it would be awesome if in say 2-3 years it really has become the Heartbeat / Center of Campus jewel that it could be and a place that students flow to almost by habit - including on Game Day Saturday's)!
However, in what I call typical Gtown fashion we are finally getting a small "College Level Venue" yes - but we are only getting 1/2 of a real "College Level Venue" and it will most certainly feel that way when you sit and look across the pitch at a chainlink fence and dorm building. Despite how sweet it might feel walking into the stadium, seeing a ticket office, concession facilities and even bathrooms - amazing! It will be short lived in my personal opinion when you look into a vacuum of incompletion across the way and the past 20 years of disappointment with an institution that just never seems to care or do things right will come flooding back as you get the sensation of, "This Could Be Amazing - IF"....
Instead of a really special place that could be amazing, I fear it's going to feel incomplete and like a decent "High School Venue" - unless of course we continue to pray for some massive donation to fund a Phase 2 - Visitor Side complex equal to the Home side in quality if not quantity.
Finally, I will leave 3 somewhat related items of curiosity for me:
1) Do you think that there will be small / box type seating on the new Press Box level - with catering / booze, this could be a $$$ maker.
2) Does anyone have any idea how much it might cost to Rent Audi Stadium for a game? If it seats 18k, how many seats might we have to sell on a Saturday in the future to at least break even renting it out? This would need to be against a team with a much bigger football name / draw than Harvard to be feasible - but why the hell not!
3) Scheduling - DFW I'd like your thoughts on WHY we don't get more creative with the Start Times for our games? If we played on Thursday / Friday night like most of the MAC teams do for TV time, we would not be competing for students who want to stay in their dorms and watch I-A football all day over heading down to watch Gtown vs Whoever - over Bama & Ohio State! Beyond that, I think night games are way more fun / exciting to students and I would imagine that this alone even on Saturday nights would draw better than 11am or 2pm on Saturday.
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Post by eb59 on Dec 24, 2018 17:59:09 GMT -5
"I play a strategy consultant during the day, so I find strategic incoherence and/or opacity to be especially agitating coming from an institution like Georgetown" @ Russky - In your professional opinion, Is it possible that Gtown has a strategy which is to be cheap, very / Very cheap? ? Oh an in addition to this, they generally seem terrified of the area Zoning / HoA committees...which pretty much every other school would ignore. I'm really proud of the team this season, I expect they will get better slowly over time with increased recruiting of kids from TX, GA, OH & CA. However, I wish the school would recognize that with a more support from Healy I think we could in short order be an annual contender in Patriot and competitive against some of the teams being discussed here (Excluding the Current Black Knights). An annual and almost conscious Lack of Institutional Support is in my opinion the continuing death knell of the program.
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Post by eb59 on Dec 20, 2018 17:09:32 GMT -5
This made me think of other possible teams that make-up possible "Dream" schools to include on the schedule any given year:
Long Term Goal - Someday aspire to play teams like Army, Navy, ECU, Etc. 1 x per year, but we are not there yet!
1 x Per Season - "Big Name" East Coast FCS Reach Teams:
- NOVA - Rhodie - W&M - Delaware - New Hamps - Richmond (If they will have us again)
Other Non-Conference Each Year:
- Butler - Ivy's - Howard
Conference Schedule:
- Patriot League
Very Occasional Scheduling:
- Pioneer League - VMI - Citadel - SWAC Teams (They are traditionally not very good and would likely love to play Gtown)
Thoughts?
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Post by eb59 on Dec 20, 2018 15:59:42 GMT -5
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Post by eb59 on Oct 8, 2018 11:29:00 GMT -5
AWESOME!!!
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Post by eb59 on Oct 8, 2018 11:20:32 GMT -5
Do you think it will look better with them filling the back of the endzone with a Grassy Slope as I think is the Plan currently... OR Do you think it would look better if they built that up a bit with fill and then moved the Temp Bleachers from the Visitor Side to the back endzone?
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Post by eb59 on Oct 3, 2018 15:44:24 GMT -5
Cooper Field Pics from Sept 26 & OCt 1: Attachments:
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Post by eb59 on Oct 1, 2018 11:23:02 GMT -5
Alumni and Former Lettermen will NOT throw money down a secrete well....vision and communication by the Admin are a MAJOR issue!
If Pres and AD gave us, raise $1m in 2019 and it will go specifically towards X, Y & Z in 2019 - 2020....with a vision of A, B, C in years to come.
Then in 2020, they with the same clarity asked for $1.2m towards.....it really might happen, but the constant lack of vision and communication in addition to the you've already burned me once by many involved in the initial raising of funds for the MSF 15 years ago.
Hard to overcome without a HUGE change in the Admin in terms of Vision and Communication - IMHO!
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Post by eb59 on Sept 29, 2018 20:29:54 GMT -5
Im not talking try the Option on occasion, I'm talking full commitment to it like Army, Navy run...OK and TX did back in the day!
When PoD did we run a full on Triple Option offense?
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Post by eb59 on Sept 29, 2018 16:51:32 GMT -5
Honest Question Here: Does Gtown Practice and Watch Film, Etc as much as the Other Patriot / Ivy teams?
I assume YES, at least I would hope that we actually practice just as much as Alabama or anyone else in FCS / FBS - b/c it NCAA controlled....
I don't know - I'm just trying to figure out if its really that we have lesser quality athletes than the schools that we play, b/c from a Size perspective we seem to match up much more equally than we did in say the early 2000's when playing Patriot / Ivy teams.
FYI - I watched the first half today and just have maybe two suggestions for the Offense and I'm not trying to make this a joke:
1) Scrap the Balanced Approach that HAS NOT WORKED for 20 years - Recruit and Implement something unique like the Academies (Triple Option)
2) Scrap the Balanced Approach that HAS NOT WORKED for 20 years - Recruit and Implement something aggressive like The Air Raid offense (throw 95%)
I mean why not at this point, what has been done year after year isn't working!!!!
For those not aware - the Triple Option was created for smaller / quicker offensive linemen, using pulls / traps to offset their being undersized.
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Post by eb59 on Sept 29, 2018 16:25:36 GMT -5
What from above do you disagree with PoD?
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