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Post by reformation on Oct 30, 2010 12:08:40 GMT -5
Agree with Nevada, very good perf by women--and they can definitely still improve. Very solid performances by emily ineld(as expected), emily jones and madeline chambers
Very disappointing perf for men--probably their lowest finish ever--combination of injuries, poor recruiting have taken their toll--they have another chance to redeem themselves at the NCAA regionals.
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Post by reformation on Oct 30, 2010 11:36:19 GMT -5
Women come in second to Villanova--beat syracuse easily:
TEAM SCORES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. 26 Villanova (20:53.9 104:29.1) ======================================== 1 1 Sheila Reid JR 20:31.9 2 2 Amanda Marino SR 20:35.2 3 5 Ali Smith SR 20:55.4 4 7 Bogdana Mimic JR 21:05.8 5 11 Emily Lipari FR 21:20.8 6 ( 27) Callie Hogan JR 22:02.1 7 ( 31) Sarah Morrison JR 22:10.9
2. 42 Georgetown (21:07.8 105:39.0) ======================================== 1 3 Emily Infeld JR 20:42.7 2 6 Emily Jones SO 20:56.8 3 8 Madeline Chambers FR 21:10.3 4 12 Kirsten Kasper SO 21:23.1 5 13 Katie McCafferty JR 21:26.1 6 ( 15) Renee Tomlin GS 21:32.9 7 ( 20) Joanna Stevens FR 21:40.5
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Post by reformation on Oct 30, 2010 8:48:05 GMT -5
Lawsuit sure to follow. . . \\ Big Lawsuit definitely seems justified in this case
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Post by reformation on Oct 16, 2010 12:25:12 GMT -5
Big run from Emily Jones--Emily Infeld faded a bit, probably cautious because of her injury--I suspect stanford won by a narrow margin. I think we would have won with a fully fit emily Infeld. Decent runs by Tomlin, Chambers + Kasper--slightly below expectations for stevens + Mccafferty. Teams ranking will drop a bit after the race, still certainly a good shot at top 10 for nationals, maybe top 5 if Infeld returns to form + continued marginal improvements from the 3, 4, 5 runners--huge step up in class from Emily Jones will help
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Post by reformation on Oct 9, 2010 15:10:22 GMT -5
A few practical( I think) thoughts about the website and the academic program.
Re: the website, why don't we check out other schools websites and incorporate some of the features that others have that we lack--it seems like this should be an ongoing process rather than some big project which never gets done.
Re: the academic program--the real or perceived lack of rigor in Gtwn's undergrad programs(depending on your viewpoint) does affect all students, not just those applying for phd's. Don't kid yourselves that MBA/law schools etc don't haircut Gtwn GPA's vs a lot of other top schools-and also take a serious look at the courses/programs that the students actually take--its not just a sciences thing either, it definitely affects students looking at grad work in social sciences too.
Addressing the undergrad academic rigor has been very difficult for the univ-they recognize the problem and assign good people to spearhead efforts to address it but very little seems to get done.(This is not a unique problem for Gtwn: Duke & Stanford B school have gone though similar exercises--there is even a Harvard business school case on revising the Stanford B school curriculum)
One big picture thing that I think Gtwn is missing in this regard is the need to create additional signature academic programs rather than focusing on adding some watered down stats or science requirement--changing a few classes won't do much to address the issue. A few programs that come to mind that would be interesting as models are Northwestern's Integrated math/Social Science program and Integrated Science program + Harvard's History/Literature Program(its not just a math/ science thing.)
I terms of getting things done on this issue, I think the Gtwn Pres simply has to make it a priority-the faculty/students are more than capable of responding. Also, Gtwn shouldn't shy away from adopting best practices from its peers--all good organizations do, its is not a sign of weakness.
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Post by reformation on Oct 1, 2010 14:31:23 GMT -5
Women win easily, big runs for Emily Infeld(winner), Madeline Chambers,(Fr) Kirsten Kasper(Soph), Emily Jones 4th. Decent improvement for Katie McCafferty and opener for frosh Joanna Stevens. Did not appear that Rachel Schneider ran. women definitely solidify their top 10 ranking.
Men definitely had some nice runs by Taye/Lumbar + improvement by Anyan, still seems to be even money proposition re making the NCAA--if they race very well at the regionals they should do it, if they are not at the the top of their game they probably fall short.
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Post by reformation on Sept 15, 2010 19:27:53 GMT -5
Hoyawatcher, thanks for the detailed analysis--my brother was a pro beach player so I have some interest and a tiny amt of knowledge re the sport.
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Post by reformation on Sept 15, 2010 13:07:43 GMT -5
Didn't the volleyball team play a more challenging schedule in yhe past? Btw, is 12 the NCAA scholarship max for the sport-if so 9 is pretty close to the max--I'd think we'd aim higher re scheduling etc.
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Post by reformation on Sept 12, 2010 9:01:55 GMT -5
Dominant performance by the women. Probably would have gone 1-4 if Stevens + Infeld ran.
Henner's remarks about the men bear little resemblance to their actual performance(unless his expectations were unbelievably low-which they may be given injuries and the big loss of talent from last year. I would have thought that the top frosh recruit would have gone a lot faster, though he might be building slowly as a redshirt--he had finished his hs career incredibly strongly.
It seems like the men will need a couple of very big recruiting years if they are going to have a shot at being a top 10 team again.
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Post by reformation on Sept 10, 2010 20:27:58 GMT -5
IMHO.....ewing's dunk on jim master against Kentucky was the best dunk i have ever seen. It took place in the FF and was actually called a travel....nonetheless it gave us all the momentum we needed to take down Bowie, Turpin and the rest of the wildcats. Ewing took flight. Agree--best + most impt dunk in gtwn hist!
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Post by reformation on Aug 31, 2010 20:24:41 GMT -5
Women are kind of the opposite situation to the men--ranking probably is based more on past performance than current talent which would probably rank them with Princeton. Women , unlike the men have had great recruiting classes recently, but they have been more mid distance than xc focused, hopefully they can surprise to the upside by returning to a top 10 ncaa finish--
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Post by reformation on Aug 31, 2010 20:19:43 GMT -5
Seems like Gtwn's top ranking is based pretty much on past accomplishments--talent level across gtwn, princeton, villanova is pretty even with slight edge probably to princeton, which has had better recruiting classes than gtwn recently. As Nevada says, Gtwn is more of an unknown than a real clear favorite because we are relying a lot on potentially talented redshirts frosh + a true frosh. Hopefully the newcomers will come through for us--Dennin seems like the one runner that we have who shld be highly competitive nationally.
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Post by reformation on Aug 18, 2010 20:06:45 GMT -5
Great for the women! Hopefully they can get back to making a legit run at the natl title.
Unfortunately the men for the first time in many years did not have a top 20 recruiting class--it seems like our recent failures to make the tournament is starting to have an effect on the program's perception as an elite national title contender and thus hurting our recruiting. (whlie not incl gtwn, top 20 recruiting classes included Fairfield, Stony Brook, Army, Yale--not exactly natl title threats) Admittedly, many believe Gtwn with 5 top 100 recruits should have made the top 20 considering several of these top 20 programs only had 1 top 100 recruit. However it is a stunning and unfortunate turnaround from having top ranked classes a few years back.
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Post by reformation on Jul 24, 2010 22:56:14 GMT -5
Not too bad given our two obvious handicaps in this type of survey, i.e., no engineering school + very high relative percentage of women vs men in undergrad population.
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Post by reformation on Jul 24, 2010 7:54:22 GMT -5
East of the hospital is a parking lot between the hospital and Darnall--perhaps this is what they were referring to. If Medstar and Georgetown were thinking long term, both have to consider the option of moving/rebuilding the entire hospital off-campus, razing most of the buildings, and turning the land back to the main campus. No one is prepared to do that, however. Yes, this is discussing the parking lot between the Hospital and Darnall. There have also been discussions of developing the parking lot in front of St. Mary's, adjacent to Reservoir Road. As for relocating Med Center campus that has been discussed and there are multiple considerations related to such an effort, especially when discussing the relocation of clinical and emergency services. As a result, for relocation is unlikely however some shifting of resources could occur depending on the space and relationships that could be built within the District. One aspect regarding the Med Center that cannot be lost in the discussion is the fact the majority of research dollars are generated by its faculty and researchers. Biomedical research received $149 million in sponsored research funding in FY09. I guess one of the reasons for moving/upgrading the physical plant of the hospital is that it is substantially sub optimal facility to attract top researchers/clinicians etc which bring in the research dollars--my perception(which could be way off base) is that the hospital is very good for a few things and pretty mediocre at most. If we had an alternative space(and I'm sure thats a big if) it would seem to be a great thing for the univ overall to move the facailty and create the extra space for the main campus in addition to upgrading the hospital-med school. It would also be interesting to see what people think re: Gtwn's preeminent grad program , the law school, being way off campus is suboptimal or pretty irrelevant to the main campus. I suspect that the law school's location inhibits joint degree programs jd/mba + academic collaboration in law/econ from being really vibrant at Gtwn. Though I guess its hard to say whether thats really a location issue or just institutional laziness.
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Post by reformation on Jul 22, 2010 23:59:32 GMT -5
Final recruiting list published in GUHoyas:
For the men, two elite recruits + a lot of slightly below the radar + walk on type guys--Henner referenced the high number of development type recruits--hard to know whether this is a chg of recruiting strategy or program objectives for the men or if we were just not successful in landing more high elite male runners. In the gags era we carried a lot more guys, many of them ended up being very productive so maybe its intentional. On the other hand, the women landed a superb bunch of high elite runners with no real development type runners which would seem to indicate that the men just lost out for some of the elites--hard to say.
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Post by reformation on Jul 18, 2010 19:41:08 GMT -5
Interestingly, the CAG response says that Medstar wants to build a "new state of the art hospital" on campus south of the current hospital but that the university opposes it--can anyone shed any light on what medstar proposed and why Gtwn is opposing it--since I assume medstar would pay for it?
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Post by reformation on Jul 11, 2010 20:17:45 GMT -5
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Post by reformation on Jul 6, 2010 14:56:40 GMT -5
Hard to say this is good, bad, or indifferent without knowing the full details. If we gave DeGioia a raise in the form of some new deferred comp scheme, I'd have to question what he did to merit it--its not like we couldn't get someone more qualified or that he could actually get a better job elsewhere. On the other hand his comp increase could be an installment on a regularly scheduled long term comp package which would be legit. I'd gladly pay more to him for either improving his own performance or for someone else who could do a better job--running gtwn in a first class manner should merit a decent level of comp.--hard to say whther we're getting our money's worth with the existing arrangement.
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Post by reformation on Jun 26, 2010 20:02:37 GMT -5
Emily Jones I believe also makes the US JR team with a second in the 5k--[/quote I think that Emily is a few sec short of the 16:30 qualifying standard, not totally sure if she still has chance to get the standard
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