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Date Posted: 09:18:14am 11/30/05 Wed,
Author: Stagophile
Subject: Re: Fordham & LaSalle-off the sMAAC Board
In reply to: StinkyCheese 's message, "Fordham & LaSalle-off the sMAAC Board" on 08:48:03am 11/30/05 Wed,

Great post! It is interesting sometimes to read the posts of older Fordham alumni discussing the good ole days of Fordham basketball. I read a couple recently discussing how they missed the local rivalries (particularly Manhattan) and how every game was an event with alot of emotion. But, after the games students and players who knew each other from high school and the neighborhoods would get together and throw back a couple of beers. The younger alumni have no concept of this and quickly turn their noses up to playing the athletically and academically "lowly" likes of Manhattan and Iona. God forbid they play a school whose average SAT is below a 1200. (perhaps they should look at the average SAT score of LaSalle, Duquense and SBU). It is a shame what Fordham and LaSalle has become. I doubt they will return to the MAAC, but, if they had remained in the MAAC they certainly would have been the top teams in the MAAC and would have been dancing in March on consistent basis.

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[> [> Re: Fordham & LaSalle-off the sMAAC Board -- StinkyCheese, 12:31:52pm 11/30/05 Wed, [1]

No doubt about it, Fordham & Manhattan was always billed as "The Battle of Da Bronx" and the teams have played nearly 100 times in the past 100 years (the series is fairly equal too). Having grown up equi-distant to both schools (its even possible to walk to both, if you had a few hours), our neighborhood had kids that attended both schools. Play stickball in the AM, curse each other out at the games, and sit on the stoops at night singing doo-wops.

But Fordham is really twice the size of most MAAC schools in enrollment and really could have "moved-up" if their incompetent Administration really knew what they were getting into by just "switching" Conferences. They never invested in what it would take to compete. Since the surrounding neighborhood is the pits (forget Arthur Avenue, its 6 square blocks of tourists), they need much more than just A-10 status and "National" atmosphere to recruit kids. What's good about being in the A-10 to a possible recruit when no one attends the games and the team averages 20 losses a season? Hey, even the MAAC has TV contracts locally in NY Metro. Gonzalez in Riverdale, plus Saint John's cleans their clock constantly with local talent.

Maybe one day, someone will clean house in the Sports Administration area and get them back on track.

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