Logitano {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Most BC inning ever. 2 HBP, 4 BBs and an E6 to go down 4 to 0 without giving up a hit. Hafley can't believe it!
My ten year old started last night in his first playoff game. He walked 3 and HBP’d two other batters, but also logged 8Ks in 5 innings of work before hitting the mandatory pitch limit. I’d say that our pitching tonight was reminiscent of Littlest Dick’s performance, except my kid only gave up 2 runs over five innings and got the win (7-2). BC Baseball is a useless waste of resources. Scrap it and put the money, along with the $7 million in seed money Greasy Gene turned down, into men’s lax.
There have been discussions with Blake James about bringing back men's lax.
Just a reminder when we did have it we were awful at it.
We were terrible, but we gave no scholarships, didn't recruit--even locally, and the whole enterprise was treated like a glorified club team. Duchie and my good friend, Pretty Boy, was a middie for two years. He went from being buried at the bottom of the roster at Zoo Mass (he was not a scholarship player there) to being a first line middie at BC. He wasn't invited on to the team. It was an open tryout for everyone each year because, as I said, it was basically a club team. The coach, if I recall correctly his name was Ed, had a full time job as well.
Now, if the rumor is correct that Greasy Gene was offered $7 million in seed money to start the program back up and he went back and said "I need $14 million" and they promptly offered him that money before he admitted he couldn't do it, then there should be zero problem. The scholie limit for lacrosse is currently 12.6, about $1.5 million a year total cost, and the highest paid college lacrosse coaches--Danowksi, Trinity, Nick Myers, Kevin Corrigan--all make between $350 and $450k. Gary Gait is rumored to make $700k, although that figure comes from any angry letter written by Syracuse's swimming coach after the school recently killed the program. In any case, Corrigan and Kanowski's salaries were fully funded by endowments of $3 million made by alumni donors and di minimus contributions from the general athletic funds of Notre Dame and Duke (less than $75K per year). Each of those coaches clear an additional $150K per year off summer camp deals.
You put $4million in an endowment for a head coach salary and the other $10 million in an endowment towards scholarships and the program is as well funded as any program in the country. Go hire an elite coach and let him build the program.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 2:13 pm
