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Post by eb59 on Sept 18, 2010 11:46:36 GMT -5
7 - 7 end of first quarter, sounds like Yale had a defensive score and we responded with a TD pass to tie it up.
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Post by eb59 on Sept 11, 2010 20:08:53 GMT -5
Scott Darby - extremely impressive! Our O looks very good, Huge Win!
Congrats to the Hoyas!!!!
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Post by eb59 on Sept 11, 2010 18:28:27 GMT -5
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Post by eb59 on Aug 5, 2010 12:12:54 GMT -5
Embarrassing....so completely embarrassing!!! These types of comments about the MSF and the GU FB Program make me sick to my stomach and the worst part of it is that they are true!
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Post by eb59 on Jan 27, 2010 22:27:10 GMT -5
Bucknell hires Rutgers’ Susan as head coach Bucknell hired Joe Susan to take over as head football coach, luring back a former Bison assistant to lead a program coming off three straight losing seasons.
Athletic director John Hardt cited Susan’s 30-plus years in coaching and familiarity with the Patriot League school in announcing the hiring Wednesday.
Susan spent the last nine seasons as an assistant at Rutgers, most recently coaching tight ends and serving as recruiting coordinator under head coach Greg Schiano.
Susan, 54, was an assistant at Bucknell from 1981-90. While there, Susan recruited Schiano, who played football for three years at Bucknell.
Susan also had coaching stops at Princeton and Memphis, but Susan’s only year as a head coach came in 2000 when he led FCS school Davidson to a 10-0 record. He takes over at Bucknell for Tim Landis, who left last month to take an assistant coaching job at San Jose State.
Bucknell finished 4-7 last season, and the school hasn’t had a winning record since going 6-5 in 2006.
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Post by eb59 on Dec 16, 2009 11:41:01 GMT -5
Does anyone know how close their stadium is to the actual campus?
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Post by eb59 on Nov 12, 2009 0:05:22 GMT -5
According to the site, the The Club President is Jim Lenihan, jklenihan@gmail.com.
Also, it suggests that if you are interested in helping the football program through the Gridiron Club, please contact Paul Muite in Hoyas Unlimited at 202-687-0487, or via e-mail at pm275@georgetown.edu.
Jim or Paul - Do you ever read this board?
Can we have a physical meeting of the GIRON CLUB? Can we talk to the coaching staff directly? What is the deal, is this a purely fundraising driven organization or does it attempt in anyway to be involved in the direction of the program?
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Post by eb59 on Nov 11, 2009 20:44:43 GMT -5
98Hoya - I started this thread with the intent to provide proative suggestions, starting with the only true link that we have betweeen Football Parents, Alumni and Supports and the AD / School which is the GridIron Club. I have asked what they do and how we can make them do more as nothing will get done until people meet with people face to face and goals / actions are mutually agreed upon....it is my opinion that this has not happened in the last 10+ years! "Ok, so maybe we need to start being more involved and making actual demands of the GridIron Club as members. I can honestly say that I have not done anything with regard to them other than receiving the occasional email update or donation request. Can the active members of this chat board and parents take the bull by the horns and start demanding regular meetings with the GridIron Club leadership to develop a plan and approach to extracting the needed commitments from the university? I for one would absolutely commit to making a trip up to DC on say a quarterly basis to sit down with GridIron Club leadership and hold their feet to the fire in terms of the progress that they are able to make with the AD and University. If I began seeing progress, they might start seeing money from me - kinda a pay for performance plan which also alows me to have more of a direct voice into the direction of the program." In addition to this, the GridIron Club needs to start scheduling community meetings on a quarterly basis that involve members of the Coaching Staff, AD and Administration. It is total BS that people want us to donate, but will not take a public meeting or be held accountable for plans that the money will be used towards! Perhaps this has never been broached by the GIron Club and the school and if it has not, which would be surprising? Can we get something like this set-up ASAP, like immediatley following the last game? Again, I will book my flight and commit to being there for this and all other meetings if it means that I get to look someone in the face that has some actual tie to the direction of the progam and ask, "WTF? ?" Thoughts?
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Post by eb59 on Nov 10, 2009 19:05:29 GMT -5
Does the GridIron Club ever have physical meetings for it's members? If not, why?
Do they have meeitngs with the AD? Are the minutes of these meetings published? If not, why?
Why does everything seem to be done in private - no one is going to buy into anything until there is transparancy!
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Post by eb59 on Nov 10, 2009 11:49:25 GMT -5
The stadium can be used for much more than just football and lax games, with its very central location on campus it should be the focal point for a lot of student oriented activities (Concerts, Intramural Sports, Maybe even graduation; although, I think it would be tough to justify moving this off Healy Lawn, etc).
Beyond this, it is currently a very prominant eye sore in the middle of campus that makes the school look cheap - a small stadium (10k seating) permant structure it would be in my personal opinion be a huge upgrade to the beautification of the campus and can be used for so much more than just gamedays!
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Post by eb59 on Nov 10, 2009 11:18:31 GMT -5
Ok, so maybe we need to start being more involved and making actual demands of the GridIron Club as members. I can honestly say that I have not done anything with regard to them other than receiving the occasional email update or donation request. Can the active members of this chat board and parents take the bull by the horns and start demanding regular meetings with the GridIron Club leadership to develop a plan and approach to extracting the needed commitments from the university? I for one would absolutely commit to making a trip up to DC on say a quarterly basis to sit down with GridIron Club leadership and hold their feet to the finre in terms of the progress that they are able to make with the AD and University. If I began seeing progress, they might start seeing money from me - kinda a pay for performance plan which also alows me to have more of a direct voice into the direciton of the program.
Thoughts?
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Post by eb59 on Nov 9, 2009 22:32:30 GMT -5
For years now, I have read and participated in the circular discussions regarding what it is going to take to make this program successful. In my personal opinion, they are:
1) Completion of the MSF (No Stadium, No Recruits – recruiting worked in the MAAC era b/c no competitors had real facilities. Everyone in the Patriot, Ivy’s and better conferences we now play have 10k + facilities)
1.1. Possibly more embarrassing than our record this season and this is a true story - While I was watching one of the home games on CCA TV, my wife stopped to ask in all honesty “if we were playing someone at a high school stadium”? The school cannot possibly be as poor as it seems, I constantly drive by other much smaller, less prominent and far less expensive D-IAA and D-II institutions that have 100x the facilities!!!
1.2. There will NEVER be large Student participation and support as long as we play in a facility that is cheaper and more temporary than most of the High School facilities that most of our student body watched games at during their 4 years in HS. A new stadium would most definitely increase if the student body thought that the program were a permanent fixture of the school. No Stadium = No Importance = No Respect
1.3. If you build it, they will come – regardless of wins and losses (although wins will help significantly)! There will not be tailgates and attendance and a “Game-Day Atmosphere” at Gtown until there is a respectable stadium to build all of these things around. Personally, I do not see an issue with having metal bleachers on some form of tier’ed concrete foundation – as long as it seats @ 10k people total and houses a respectable press box and some form of a modern day scoreboard in one of the end zones. I don’t think that we should waste the time or money building a stadium that seats 5k. Regardless of the nice expensive pillars that may surround it, the stadium will still feel like a HS field and will never support the respect that ANY college program deserves.
2. New Head Coach & Staff – Immediate Change Needed!!!
2.1. I think enough has been said on this topic recently and I agree with almost all that has been said!!!!
3. Bigger & More Strategic Recruits – Why are we always the smaller team???
3.1. Why recruit 7 or so QB’s when it was obvious that we were undersized in comparison to almost every other team in the conference? This issue is directly linked to the Coaching Staff and as important as their horrific play calling, but has not been called out as much lately so I thought that I would mention it!
4. Fundraising & Program Funding – This will not increase until the Alumni see some increased support and “skin in the game” from the University!
4.1. Many people jumped to contribute when the initial ask was made to help fund the “The New MSF”, but these people were burned and have never seen the fruits of their financial sacrifice. The school burned a number of bridges with some of the most generous donors from the Fball and Lax teams in what I consider to be a unintended “bait & switch” of a fundraising effort. They may not have had the outward intention of doing this, but that is exactly what has happened. They collected money and quite a good amount in the first year of the campaign to fund the promise of a beautiful stadium – this is never been delivered upon and the plans continue to dwindle in scope and size. I will not contribute a large amount in the future until I know and have some form of guarantee on how the money will be used!
This gets me back to the original point of this diatribe, which is that we can continue for another 10 years to have these circular and quite honestly meaningless discussions - but nothing will change until there is some form of a public vision, plan, roadmap and commitment from the school and athletic dept for how it plans to handle all of the above items and other topics such as conference, schedule, scholarships, etc.
I think that it should be the primary responsibility of the GridIron Club as the physical embodiment of the Parents, Alumni and Students that are interested in the future of the football program at Gtown to demand this from the university. Back to point #4, the GridIron Club will not be successful in fundraising until the roadmap is clear and the commitment from the school and AD have been made publicly.
The stagnancy of this program has never been acceptable, but things are clearly getting worse and I just don’t know how much more anyone can take!!! Honestly, Gtown is a great University and it needs to take some pride and responsibly in itself and either support / fund this program in the way that it deserves as a D-IAA football program or just cancel it completely! As much as it personally hurts me to say that, being the laughing stock of the 250 D-I programs in the country is ridiculous for the past, present and future players and more importantly the school itself.
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Post by eb59 on Oct 31, 2009 17:52:14 GMT -5
Please share the feed, I would love to watch the game!
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