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Subject: Crimson Football Author: Bengal [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 15:24:53 04/12/24 Fri With the dust presumably settled, I wanted to raise a question regarding Aurich's hiring: What impact, if any, will it have on Harvard's administrative support for football? I defer to those more knowledgeable about H athletics. Of course Aurich will be closely scrutinized. But, the AD might feel a greater need to go an extra mile in providing the kind of support an AD can to this program than she might have felt if she picked an-house favorite. I have no idea where/how she stands in the H firmanent, but she gets evaluated too and if Aurich fails there is a greater chance of blowback on her than if she had made a much more popular choice available to her. What can -- or will -- she do to support Aurich? Main possibilities, I would think, for example, might include more resources for whatever he says he needs to do for his recruiting; more of the kinds of support personnel that we never discuss on this board like quality control assistants and others that lighten a HC's burden. Higher salaries for some in the program? Admissions are more specifically regulated in football among Ivy sports, but even then there is leeway as no admissions office needs to admit a kid merely because he falls within a band. Is she able, or willing, to urge a bit more leniency at least at the outset of his tenure? I don't know whether any of this is going through her head, but ADs do have some ability to help a program. Perhaps this question is not relevant to the doings at H, but....it is spring football season so I raise it in that spirit. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Crimson Football Author: Harvard Crimson Rule! [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:08:02 04/12/24 Fri The AD won't be authorizing any more resources to Coach Aurich than provided to Tim Murphy.

[> Subject: Wouldn't doing all that be... Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:40:29 04/12/24 Fri ... a tactic admission that the AD made a bad hire?

[> [> Subject: Re: Wouldn't doing all that be... Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:52:58 04/12/24 Fri No. It might be admission she wants to do everything she can to help him succeed. HCR: thanks for your reply.

[> Subject: Penn Basketball Author: Recent Blue [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:36:32 04/19/24 Fri I think the rest of the League has less to fear about Harvard boosting its football team than what Penn may do to bolster its flailing men's basketball team, and probably the women too. Believing for decades that it had a lock on supremacy in men's Ivy League basketball, can you imagine what steps Penn will take to rebound from where they sit now? I know the issue goes back a long time, but after admitting Jaden Hodge in football a few years after Yale cut him loose over his academics, I don't believe there is any level they won't stoop to regain their mojo.

[> [> Subject: Re: Penn Basketball Author: Fear the Quaker [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 06:44:19 04/22/24 Mon Yes, the University of Pennsylvania only cares about winning at all costs. LOL. There is no chance that Yale looked the other way, or possibly, young man was just not ready. The only place he can have his second chance is at a non-IVY League school-your bias is not hidden. And your pent-up jealousy over Penn's history of success in basketball is quite funny. Enjoy your hate filled day.

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Penn Basketball Author: Fear the Quaker [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:41:22 04/22/24 Mon Recent Blue, Quakers will stop at nothing to keep you down. :)

[> [> Subject: The truth stings Author: Recent Blue [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:11:44 04/26/24 Fri But yes, some overstated language on my end. Stoop to levels other Ivies won't would have been better wording. Yale did not look the other way, it cut him loose as I said over his academics and never admitted him. He is on Penn's list of admitted recruits. Did they yank his admission after admitting him? Jealousy over Penn's history of basketball success, now who is being funny? Might have been accurate if you put ancient in front of history. No hate, the truth just stings you.