RusskyHoya
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 14, 2022 19:10:29 GMT -5
UMFK is not even NAIA, it’s in something called the USCAA, something I had not heard of until five minutes ago: / Other USCAA schools include various campuses in the Penn State system, for-profit colleges like Atlantis in Miami, and… the Culinary Institute of America? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_USCAA_institutionsAh, you're right! They left NAIA after the 2010-11 academic year.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 13, 2022 20:15:42 GMT -5
And now for something totally different...
The Hoyas, you may recall, used their conference bye matchday to play Bowling Green, a program from the ever-feisty MAC that has made two consecutive NCAA tournaments. UConn, for their part, chose to use their bye day to play.... UMFK.
Now, you may be asking: what is UMFK? Don't worry, I didn't know either - and I know a whole lot of schools. It is the University of Maine at Fort Kent, an NAIA program whose other games this year include the University of New Brunswick, back-to-back games against the Bryant & Stratton College campuses at Syracuse and Rochester, and a road game at Mercer County Community College of West Windsor Township, NJ. This is a program that literally does not have recaps of their games... or, per their website, any assistant coaches.
All that, and the final score was only 2-1...and UMFK led at the half! What in the world has happened to the UConn soccer program.
Even more bizarrely, UConn isn't the only D-I program on the UMFK schedule. The Bengals thrashed St. Francis (PA) by a score of 5-1. And It's not like SFPA is a complete doormat - they're 4-5-2!
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 13, 2022 18:07:31 GMT -5
LMFAO
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 13, 2022 18:02:10 GMT -5
Likely to be more impactful though. Also, and not for nothing, presumably SUNO isn't running a nationwide chain of modern-day sweatshops. I think you are referring to the Southern University System in Baton Rouge, not Southern University-New Orleans, a school of just 2,300 students with recent accreditation problems.--AdminYes, sorry, good catch on that - I often conflated them in my mind, but the relationship is with Southern University and A&M College of Baton Rouge.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 13, 2022 18:00:41 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 13, 2022 17:37:43 GMT -5
Well, it's not 7-0, but a road win is a road win. And 10 shutouts in a row is pretty impressive. Preserving that streak required a PK save from Cara Martin today.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 12, 2022 21:56:24 GMT -5
Big 1-0 win over Providence. Aidan Rocha PK. Now on to Nova for 3 road points. I'll be there! Hoping the boys can put one (or more) in the net before, say, the 80th minute. Still too much nail-biting time for such an offensively talented team.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 9, 2022 22:18:54 GMT -5
"The plan aims to promote “interconnected campus systems that together promote environmental, academic, social, and fiscal vitality” through the restructuring and construction of old and new spaces." Sounds like that came straight from the PR office. I guess "more square footage" isn't as popular. That said, why doesn't someone cut to the chase and raze Reiss? There's a lot more "interconnected campus systems" possible on that footprint which could support offices, classes or, and I'll go on a limb here, the kind of home for the SFS which is constrained in what is now a 40 year old ICC. Jamming another ill-fitted building on a tiny chunk of land still doesn't address Reiss' age and deferred maintenance. A new building at Reiss combined with a gutting of the ICC opens a lot more more doors than simply a Regents annex. Hah, you wish the Georgetown PR office was that good. That's clearly from one of the contracted firms (or, who knows, maybe from hoyatables ) As for Reiss... given its extremely central location, any construction there would have to be very carefully planned and executed. The biggest challenge with razing Reiss is that full teardowns are very environmentally unfriendly. Not impossible, of course, even on Georgetown's campus - see Kober-Cogan, for example. But there would have to be a huge benefit to just the cost. Taking the usable space of Reiss - to say nothing of ICC - offline would create a major space crunch, so the "ill-fitted building on a tiny chunk of land" is a necessary precondition for being able to absorb some of that demand and make a fundamental transformation of Reiss (teardown, internal gutting and retrofitting, expansion, etc.) feasible.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 9, 2022 17:34:45 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 8, 2022 20:59:54 GMT -5
I'm sure there are Hoyas out there who can watch this without tears coming to their eyes... but I am not one of them
Also, it should go without saying, but: David Strathairn is an American treasure. Whatever laurels and stars exist in our cupboard of plaudits for actors, he deserves all of them and more. We owe him a great debt that he has committed himself so deeply to this role.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 8, 2022 15:35:05 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 8, 2022 10:42:35 GMT -5
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the PL:
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 8, 2022 9:54:05 GMT -5
Nice bling
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 7, 2022 17:51:51 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 7, 2022 11:05:54 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 6, 2022 17:51:25 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 4, 2022 18:29:48 GMT -5
#18 in the coaches poll
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 4, 2022 18:23:30 GMT -5
RETVRN
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 2, 2022 18:23:28 GMT -5
Thank you very much. Love your analysis and I hope others benefit from it. With HIPAA it is a bit difficult, but I would be surprised to see Tippins this year, but that would be an added plus. Time for healing plus time to get back in shape wears heavy on that possibility. I am very taken with Cara Martin's play and I think her starting those games early and then being benched to watch Allie is most beneficial for her this year and in coming years. She has a fun, aggressive nature to her goal keeping that I personally loved but one could see it could lead to problems with counter attacks and also positioning with her out of goal so much. For her to see the trade offs from the sidelines will only be a plus for her future play. I was wondering also if you perceived that Dave was going to a more pressing offense than in past years. It sure seems to me that we are giving nothing up and challenging everything in the oppositions half. I suspect it's the attributes of the personnel he has that allows him this luxury. Regardless, it is fun to watch while we seem not to be getting burned with legit breakaway counters, witnessed by the clean sheets. Thank you for responding. I think that's right on the high press - maybe less so the case against the power conference teams like UVA and Penn State, but it does feel like there's greater willingness to press the issue and disrupt teams who like to take their time playing out of the back. You risk tiring your offensive players out if you do that, but when you have some trusted subs available, it becomes a more viable approach. I tried looking for it today, but DePaul seemed determined to get the ball upfield as quickly as possible. It seemed more likely a 'lifting the siege' tactic to get it out of their own final third than any sort of deliberate offensive philosophy, though. Biggest takeaway from the DePaul match for me was how much Leas was roaming upfield. It'll be interesting to see if that's a permanent addition to the arsenal or just something that was deployed to try to crack DePaul's turtling defense.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Oct 2, 2022 14:56:30 GMT -5
After knocking at the door endlessly and surviving one DePaul free header on a counter that mercifully went over the bar, Julia Leas heads the 10th Hoyas corner kick of the match home for the sole goal of the contest. Sets up a potentially decisive showdown with Xavier on Thursday for Big East supremacy.
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