As supporters of Fordham football, we should all be actively rooting for the growth and success of Georgetown football, our most played rival. All of our historical rivals have either given up football or are playing FBS. We need Georgetown to succeed. A competitive rivalry with Georgetown would provide us with something we lack right now -- a target game every year.
Fordham-Georgetown should be scheduled as the last game for both teams every year.
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Just your average kid from the Class of '58!
 Happy Birthday, Don. |
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Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium?
Help, please. All recommend this program to effectively advertise on the Internet, this is the best program! |
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on: November 20, 2009, 11:58:39 pm
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It's unfair to question his judgment. Over the next five to ten years, you will see him bringing the type of changes Sexton brought to NYU. We're definitely on the right track. Everything has increased across the board since he's taken over - SAT scores, endowment, alumni participation rate. Everything takes time and we only have so many resources. I think he's prioritizing very well with the resources he has. Our application is now up to 25,000. He's definitely doing something right. Fordham is much better academically (in terms of selectivity and quality of student body) today than it was before he took over. In due time, athletics will get there too. Once we are completed with this phase and more money starts coming in, we will eventually get a new sports arena. But obviously it'll take time (probably another 7-10 years). And I'm sure everyone knows about all the constructions that are going on and Fordham's $1.6 billion plan of Lincoln Center. Fordham will be transformed by the time my kids are ready to apply, haha. I think it fair to mention the improvements you cite started during Fr. O'Hare's term as President. Fr McShane was able to enter office with the school having momentum and the opportunity to build on it. I think we need more time to truly judge his ability to deliver on his ambitious promises. Until and unless he understands the benefits of atheltics and addresses our shortcomings I do not think he can ever be called a great President |
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on: November 20, 2009, 11:47:11 pm
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Sorry if I made any comments earlier that may have offended or disrespected you. Wow, so a lot of you are much older than my dad and have been following the program for more than twice as long as I have been on this earth. I'm past the point of being offended or disrespected, '08, and a lotta folks should get over that too.Truth be told, I helped Jimmy Naismith tack those peach baskets on the walls of that tired old gym back there in Springfield, Mass. The Rose Hill Gym wouldn't be built for years yet. Here's an old photo of Jimmy seekin' divine guidance as he invents da game of b - ball: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_iFfp72NwyPc/SS1-W5NpUnI/AAAAAAAAFJk/722tsEEXvjw/s640/Naismith.jpg Interesting guy, that Jimmy. He was an Army chaplin, a medical doctor, and, a college perfessor. I should keep my mouth shut more often in the future, since I obviously don't know anything compared to you guys. Much respect to you guys for sticking it out for that long and still supporting the program ! Whoa, ..... steady there, young grasshopper. Don't keep yer mouth shut. You've got lots to say (a failing of youth, I'm afraid), but, some of it's pretty good, ..... so say whutya gotta say ! |
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on: November 20, 2009, 11:45:33 pm
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I agree with your conclusion Rambacker, but do you really think there was even the slighest possibility that the Ram Sports Editor meant " Billy Mainor", when he said "Billy Packer". No, that's why this statement was part of my comment: Accuracy and the ability to dig for facts in a story that no else has found are what set the great journalists apart from the also-rans. This is what this young journalist must learn. |
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on: November 20, 2009, 11:40:44 pm
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While I agree that recruiting has changed and Facebook and similar programs make it easy for kids to communicate with each other, we came very close to losing Jio this season. If we succeed, we will get better players. If we continue to lose and the DW situation remains uncertain, we can expect getting kids for the most part who think they can play here right away or have few other D 1 options. Or we'll get kids that are recruited by Jared Grasso. Although Steve T. did a very nice job grabbing Brennen Melvin. That kid is a player. |
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The Fordham Forums / Fordham Men's Basketball / Re: Fordham Ball Boy video postgame review of Fordham's win
on: November 20, 2009, 11:34:39 pm
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Well done, Ball Boy. Thanks.
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The Fordham Forums / Fordham Men's Basketball / Re: Fordham Rams @ Hartford Hawks Official Game Thread for 11/21/09
on: November 20, 2009, 11:20:03 pm
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| Started by Ram 91 - Last post by Bronx Boy | ||
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How will WFUV handle the football and basketball games, both scheduled for this Saturday afternoon ? WFUV will broadcast the first hour of the GW game and then switch over, at 2 PM, to the basketball game, ..... LIVE, ... from Hartford, Connecticut ! |
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on: November 20, 2009, 10:29:00 pm
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| Started by JoltinJoe - Last post by UpstateRam | ||
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I don't know enough about the inner workings of this administration with regard to the other areas under its control, but I have found Fr. McShane to be generally unaware and under-appreciative of the role that a successful athletics program can have in developing the national image of a university. He seems to think that you get all of the other ducks in a row first, and then upgrade the athletics program afterward. It isn't a priority with him. He can't seem to see that a successful, well-run, high-profile athletics program can make many of the other tasks that he has before him easier. Wouldn't an athletic program along the lines of BC (or even Gonzaga or Xavier or Marquette in basketball) help to increase giving and alumni participation? Wouldn't it improve the quality of many students' experience of Fordham? A successful, well-run athletic program is not at odds with a quality educational program, it can actually enhance it and be a driving force in building the university overall. Case in point: back in the '30s and '40s, Notre Dame was a school that you went to if you couldn't get into Marquette or Loyola Chicago. Its academic program at that time was seen as decidedly below those two Jesuit Universities. It was a fall-back Catholic school in the midwest. Today, a high school student has little chance of getting into ND unless he or she is exceptional and a leader in high school. ND draws students nationally. They now have an excellent educational ranking, and that didn't (and probably wouldn't have) happened without the profile and tangible the school got through athletics. It's not the only way to achieve this status (see U. of Chicago, NYC, etc.) but for Fordham I think that athletics is the most underutilized potential asset the school has to achieve McShane's stated goals.
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