-Good luck to concannon. Like connor reed and many many many others, record books won't show the heart and guile he played with.
-My statement was pretty clear, and the dms are for that. This forum is an oasis of distraction from the nonsense outside of it. If you're the daughter of a police officer reading some of that stuff, what are you thinking the school says and like w the alumni admissions stuff they can say diversity all they want but the bulk of the recruiting efforts are still going to the top 50 n/east private schools 100 or so other private schools (neumman in new orleans/harvard westlake etc) and the kids of foreign ceos instead of insert urban high school in birmingham alabama.
-nice column by quint. Mild shock the $200 gloves or whatever comment got by editors considering how much of ils $ comes from apparel. From the outside as someone who wasn't a great athlete growing up and whose parents had enough but weren't ceo's, when I see the $ some of these articles talk about parents throwing down I just sort of raise an eyebrow at it. $50 pair of cletes for baseball every spring, $40 new baseball pants every other year, the jersey/hat from the $60 rec league fee and a mitt I changed every 6 years got me through 8-9 baseball seasons. I get the kids like these sports, there's value in an easier admission to a Hopkins or whatever, but that's a lot of $$. I have seen the belichik foundation $$$ in action very very very well spent in inner cities but I also saw kids having to practice on parking lots because there's no fields. Baseball has had a misreble time trying to grow in inner cities going back to finding out in the mid 90s a guy named marvin freeman was the only black starting pitcher in the game at the time. The limiting factor for baseball in inner cities and lacrosse is that there are limited scholarships, and the pro game is not generational wealth generating.
-To the diversity angle, school should take a hard look at making Kyle Harrison special assistant to Daniels. You really can't get a better ambassador/public face for the university especially right now. He'd be a huge hit w/alumni, when the school goes out to do things in the community he's got a rich local story. Make it a part time job, but it's better than laura the georgetown law educated dean or those diversity deans from the midwest they hired last week who don't know the community.
-I think the introductions were a subtle way of locking down the kids. Put them on social media/roster, harder for a 18 year old to walk away. I think 15 years ago they used to put out something on the website announcing the 9-10 kids arriving that fall.
https://hopkinssports.com/news/2003/4/2 ... Class.aspx
