Re: And If We Don't Get In? -- CROSSPORTS: Holy Cross Crusaders Sports Message Board

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

Sunday, May 10, 11:11:33pm [ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, [8], 9, 10 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 13:51:00 07/13/04 Tue
Author: sader1970
Subject: Re: And If We Don't Get In?
In reply to: HChockeyalum 's message, "Re: And If We Don't Get In?" on 11:00:45 07/13/04 Tue

Not sure where HChockeyalum got the quote from Fr. McFarland and recognizing that the statement is quoted in a vaccuum, I don't read the comment as anything other than full support for trying to get HC into the ECAC. He's drawing a POSITIVE distinction between trying get HC hockey into the ECAC where we will be competing with other high quality academic institutions and can do so without sacrificing out academic reputation vs. going Big East in basketball/other sports and might very well have to tinker with our admission standards. Now, you can argue whether or not we'll all go to hell if we could ever get into the Big East, but the good father seems to be saying we can "have" our athletic cake and "eat" our academics too with the ECAC hockey.

And, by the way, I don't think our "academic principles" are the same as any other non-Catholic college whether or not they are Ivy League schools. If by that you mean that it is harder to get into an Ivy League school than HC, I agree with you.

I'll repeat what I've said often, Fr. McFarland is a strong supporter of HC hockey and I believe he'd do anything and everything legally and ethically to get HC into the ECAC. But he would not do anything that would be in conflict with the mission of Holy Cross.

Because HC has not put out for media consumption what they are willing and unwilling to do to gain admission to the ECAC, there seems to be a presumption that HC administrators don't truly care and that we therefore have no chance of making the cut despite the fact that we are now among the final two candidates. To me, that's a very good sign. Heck, the ECAC might end up taking both of the final two.

Regardless, IMO too many of you seem to be throwing in the towel a bit prematurely.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]