Thursday, June 30, 2005
NEIL FINGLETON: GIVE IT UP
Now, part of me wants to be mean here and yell at Neil Fingleton and talk about how he is never going to make the NBA. But the nice, touchy feely liberal part of me feels bad for the guy. I mean, he was a HS All-American, and now he is stuck playing 8 ABA games a year. I mean, that's a step below the NBDL any European league that isn't Luxembourg.
In other news, the PL is apparently doing a "rivalry series" this year, with LU-LC, USNA-USMA, BU-CU, and HC-AU. BU-CU sucks, but the rest of these are very interesting. Here's why AU-HC has the potential to be a very good rivalry:
1) The championship games AU lost to HC 2 years in a row didn't endear the Cross to anyone at AU. AU has run a "Beat Holy Cross" promotion the last couple of years for HC's game at AU, further evidence of that.
2) These teams have played some of the more intense games over the last 4 years in the league. Lots of last second heroics, etc. so it makes sense.
3) If BU becomes HC's "rival", then AU is paired with Colgate, which makes absolutely no sense. At least BU and CU have been playing each other for a long long time.
4) Most importantly, there are no two schools or cities that are more different than AU/DC and HC/Worcester. AU is a university with nationally renowed graduate programs and a law school. HC is nationally renowed for its focus on undergraduate education without the distraction of graduate students. AU is in a big city and the hub of government in the western world, HC is basically in Boston lite (to put it nicely). AU is about 300% more diverse than HC. AU is also probably about 300% more liberal than HC. AU has gays, jews, arabs, international students, and is 65% women. HC has predominately white Catholic students. AU has double the students HC does.
There's a cultural and political divide between the people that attend HC and those that attend AU, probably more so than any other two schools in the league. And that makes for a good rivalry. I'm looking forward to seeing the league do a better job promoting it. @ 10:26 AM
Now, part of me wants to be mean here and yell at Neil Fingleton and talk about how he is never going to make the NBA. But the nice, touchy feely liberal part of me feels bad for the guy. I mean, he was a HS All-American, and now he is stuck playing 8 ABA games a year. I mean, that's a step below the NBDL any European league that isn't Luxembourg.
In other news, the PL is apparently doing a "rivalry series" this year, with LU-LC, USNA-USMA, BU-CU, and HC-AU. BU-CU sucks, but the rest of these are very interesting. Here's why AU-HC has the potential to be a very good rivalry:
1) The championship games AU lost to HC 2 years in a row didn't endear the Cross to anyone at AU. AU has run a "Beat Holy Cross" promotion the last couple of years for HC's game at AU, further evidence of that.
2) These teams have played some of the more intense games over the last 4 years in the league. Lots of last second heroics, etc. so it makes sense.
3) If BU becomes HC's "rival", then AU is paired with Colgate, which makes absolutely no sense. At least BU and CU have been playing each other for a long long time.
4) Most importantly, there are no two schools or cities that are more different than AU/DC and HC/Worcester. AU is a university with nationally renowed graduate programs and a law school. HC is nationally renowed for its focus on undergraduate education without the distraction of graduate students. AU is in a big city and the hub of government in the western world, HC is basically in Boston lite (to put it nicely). AU is about 300% more diverse than HC. AU is also probably about 300% more liberal than HC. AU has gays, jews, arabs, international students, and is 65% women. HC has predominately white Catholic students. AU has double the students HC does.
There's a cultural and political divide between the people that attend HC and those that attend AU, probably more so than any other two schools in the league. And that makes for a good rivalry. I'm looking forward to seeing the league do a better job promoting it. @ 10:26 AM
