See article at Harvard coach thrown out causes controversy (http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/articles/2010/04/20/squash_coachs_ouster_has_caused_a_racket_at_harvard/)
Is Winning that important ?
Quote from: profudgeSee article at Harvard coach thrown out causes controversy (http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/articles/2010/04/20/squash_coachs_ouster_has_caused_a_racket_at_harvard/)
Is Winning that important ?
I discovered this article this afternoon in my office's copy of the Globe. It was on page 1 of the sports section (below the fold). It's an interesting read. At least to me, since I live 1 mile from #1 Trinity and got my MS at #4 (and better than Harvard in squash!) Rochester, two schools that were singled out in the article as "how can we let schools like these best Hahvahd in squash!!?" Of all the humiliation.
QuoteAlumni who have publicly criticized Bajwa generally have blamed him for the decline of Harvard's men's team. Though Bajwa helped West capture the individual championship last season, his men's team ranked fifth nationally behind Trinity, Yale, Princeton, and Rochester.
To many longtime Crimson racqueteers, seeing the Harvard men supplanted as the nation's dominant team by a non-Ivy institution like Trinity has been all but humiliating. Trinity has captured the last 12 national titles, after the Harvard men won 14 of the previous 16 championships. Even worse for some Harvard squash loyalists was the Crimson men finishing behind Rochester, a school the Cambridge racquet elite once considered a walkover.
"When we're losing to colleges that didn't even have squash teams that long ago, it's understandable that people would think, 'We used to be No. 1. Why are we No. 5? What's going on with this program?' '' Kaplan said.
Even the online comments to the story are amusing:
QuoteThe National Championship? Shouldn't that be the "international" championship? When was the last time Trinity had a domestically born or trained player on it's "playing" roster?
Unnecessary "quotes" aside, doesn't this sound familiar from Crimson boosters?
Damn immigrants, coming into our country, taking our squash championships...
Must be the off season. I am reading an article about a squash coach. ::popcorn::
BTW, the videos on the right hand side of the page include a press conference with the new BC basketball coach.
Quote from: Lauren '06Damn immigrants, coming into our country, taking our squash championships...
Dey tuk er jerbs!
The Trinity roster (http://athletics.trincoll.edu/sports/msquash/2009-10/roster) does look like something from a bad house party movie. "When 5 guys from Greenwich, CT meet 5 guys from Pakistan, ANYTHING can happen!"
All they're missing is Long Duc Dong.
So, hire him. We have an international student population.::rock::
Quote from: TrotskyThe Trinity roster (http://athletics.trincoll.edu/sports/msquash/2009-10/roster) does look like something from a bad house party movie. "When 5 guys from Greenwich, CT meet 5 guys from Pakistan, ANYTHING can happen!"
All they're missing is Long Duc Dong.
LOL. So does anyone under the age of 30 get the last reference?
As an alum of Camp Trin-Trin (1991, did well enough there that Cornell accepted me for grad school), it is pretty amazing what the squash team has done. I do recall being shown the squash courts on a campus tour, but didn't see a match. When I was on campus, it was the men's hockey team (which played its home games at Kingswood-Oxford prep school) that was very good.
I am quite shocked (though I shouldn't be, it is SUCKS after all) by some of the comments in that article. I haven't been following the admission trends at Trinity but when I was there, they weren't *that* lax. I knew several people that were IVY league material that wanted the small campus/class size that Trinity and the other "little ivies" offered.
Quote from: RitaQuote from: TrotskyThe Trinity roster (http://athletics.trincoll.edu/sports/msquash/2009-10/roster) does look like something from a bad house party movie. "When 5 guys from Greenwich, CT meet 5 guys from Pakistan, ANYTHING can happen!"
All they're missing is Long Duc Dong.
LOL. So does anyone under the age of 30 get the last reference?
"No more yanky my wanky. The Donger need food!"
Then again, I'm not under 30.
Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Quote from: RitaQuote from: TrotskyThe Trinity roster (http://athletics.trincoll.edu/sports/msquash/2009-10/roster) does look like something from a bad house party movie. "When 5 guys from Greenwich, CT meet 5 guys from Pakistan, ANYTHING can happen!"
All they're missing is Long Duc Dong.
LOL. So does anyone under the age of 30 get the last reference?
"No more yanky my wanky. The Donger need food!"
Then again, I'm not under 30.
Anyone under 30 with basic cable has seen those movies way more than they care to. And then Molly Ringwald went on to ruin "The Stand".
Quote from: French RageQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Quote from: RitaQuote from: TrotskyThe Trinity roster (http://athletics.trincoll.edu/sports/msquash/2009-10/roster) does look like something from a bad house party movie. "When 5 guys from Greenwich, CT meet 5 guys from Pakistan, ANYTHING can happen!"
All they're missing is Long Duc Dong.
LOL. So does anyone under the age of 30 get the last reference?
"No more yanky my wanky. The Donger need food!"
Then again, I'm not under 30.
Anyone under 30 with basic cable has seen those movies way more than they care to. And then Molly Ringwald went on to ruin "The Stand".
I don't think that really gets to the heart of the issue, though. Molly Ringwald acted exactly like Molly Ringwald should've been expected to act: the same as she did in every other thing she'd ever been in. If that wasn't what they wanted, then the casting director ruined "The Stand."
(Other actors in this category: Danny Trejo, R. Lee Ermey, Jason Mewes.)
Quote from: RitaQuote from: TrotskyThe Trinity roster (http://athletics.trincoll.edu/sports/msquash/2009-10/roster) does look like something from a bad house party movie. "When 5 guys from Greenwich, CT meet 5 guys from Pakistan, ANYTHING can happen!"
All they're missing is Long Duc Dong.
LOL. So does anyone under the age of 30 get the last reference?
As an alum of Camp Trin-Trin (1991, did well enough there that Cornell accepted me for grad school), it is pretty amazing what the squash team has done. I do recall being shown the squash courts on a campus tour, but didn't see a match. When I was on campus, it was the men's hockey team (which played its home games at Kingswood-Oxford prep school) that was very good.
I am quite shocked (though I shouldn't be, it is SUCKS after all) by some of the comments in that article. I haven't been following the admission trends at Trinity but when I was there, they weren't *that* lax. I knew several people that were IVY league material that wanted the small campus/class size that Trinity and the other "little ivies" offered.
My sister graduated from Camp Trin-Trin in '07 and worked in the admissions office while there. They are not need blind and very much care about legacies so they will take students who can pay full price/legacy students over a more academically qualified student who might need financial aid. The standards were getting more and more lax over her time there - it definitely doesn't have the feel of a baby ivy anymore.
Quote from: French RageAnd then Molly Ringwald went on to ruin "The Stand".
Thou shalt not speak ill of Molly Ringwald. And the thing that ruined The Stand was the last 300 pages. But this is not the literature thread. Just lay off cute redheads.
Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: French RageAnd then Molly Ringwald went on to ruin "The Stand".
Thou shalt not speak ill of Molly Ringwald. And the thing that ruined The Stand was the last 300 pages. But this is not the literature thread. Just lay off cute redheads.
Who said anything about
cute redheads? We were talking about Molly Ringwald.
Quote from: Josh '99Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: French RageAnd then Molly Ringwald went on to ruin "The Stand".
Thou shalt not speak ill of Molly Ringwald. And the thing that ruined The Stand was the last 300 pages. But this is not the literature thread. Just lay off cute redheads.
Who said anything about cute redheads? We were talking about Molly Ringwald.
We'll have a truce. I won't criticize the plasticine, insectoid stick figures of today if you don't criticize the natural, radiant women of yesteryear.
Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: Josh '99Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: French RageAnd then Molly Ringwald went on to ruin "The Stand".
Thou shalt not speak ill of Molly Ringwald. And the thing that ruined The Stand was the last 300 pages. But this is not the literature thread. Just lay off cute redheads.
Who said anything about cute redheads? We were talking about Molly Ringwald.
We'll have a truce. I won't criticize the plasticine, insectoid stick figures of today if you don't criticize the natural, radiant women of yesteryear.
I'm sure you two can find common ground. Christina Hendricks?
Quote from: jtwcornell91Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: Josh '99Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: French RageAnd then Molly Ringwald went on to ruin "The Stand".
Thou shalt not speak ill of Molly Ringwald. And the thing that ruined The Stand was the last 300 pages. But this is not the literature thread. Just lay off cute redheads.
Who said anything about cute redheads? We were talking about Molly Ringwald.
We'll have a truce. I won't criticize the plasticine, insectoid stick figures of today if you don't criticize the natural, radiant women of yesteryear.
I'm sure you two can find common ground. Christina Hendricks?
Can't argue with Christina Hendricks.
And I don't have any problem with the natural, radiant women of yesteryear, I just happen to think Molly Ringwald is funny-looking. Even in her proto-goth makeup, Ally Sheedy was still the cute one in The Breakfast Club.
Quote from: Josh '99Can't argue with Christina Hendricks.
And I don't have any problem with the natural, radiant women of yesteryear, I just happen to think Molly Ringwald is funny-looking. Even in her proto-goth makeup, Ally Sheedy was still the cute one in The Breakfast Club.
Yes, we have found common ground. However, Molly Ringwald was the cute girl in Breakfast Club. Ally Sheedy was the seductive girl in Breakfast Club, albeit only before her ill-advised makeover.
Of course, now they all look about 12 years old, so its moot.
Quote from: TrotskyQuote from: Josh '99Can't argue with Christina Hendricks.
And I don't have any problem with the natural, radiant women of yesteryear, I just happen to think Molly Ringwald is funny-looking. Even in her proto-goth makeup, Ally Sheedy was still the cute one in The Breakfast Club.
Yes, we have found common ground. However, Molly Ringwald was the cute girl in Breakfast Club. Ally Sheedy was the seductive girl in Breakfast Club, albeit only before her ill-advised makeover.
Of course, now they all look about 12 years old, so its moot.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.::cheer::