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Post by FU73 on Apr 7, 2023 8:10:31 GMT -5
 The Bobcats are headed back to the national championship game. The Quinnipiac University Men's Ice Hockey program (33-4-3) defeated Michigan, 5-2, in the semifinal round of the 2023 Frozen Four on Thursday, April 6 in Tampa, FL. With the win, the Bobcats advance to their third-ever national championship game (2013, 2016, 2023). Quinnipiac is now 3-0 all-time in the semifinal round of the Frozen Four. Quinnipiac will now advance to the national championship game to take on Minnesota. Puck drop is slated for 8:00 PM ET on Saturday, April 8 at Amalie Arena. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2.Quinnipiac Men's Hockey averaged 2,968 fans at home in Hamden, CT. |
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Post by Stagophile on Apr 7, 2023 9:34:27 GMT -5
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Post by ctghostman on Apr 7, 2023 11:59:28 GMT -5
Leadership matters and creates buzz. Huge droppoff in their vision after Leahy retired |
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Post by Stagophile on Apr 7, 2023 12:20:33 GMT -5
True. However, I believe Nemec is being a great steward by modernizing facilities and expanding the breadth and quality of the academic programs and professors.
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Post by FU73 on Apr 7, 2023 12:40:32 GMT -5
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Post by Stagophile on Apr 7, 2023 13:22:27 GMT -5
The management of the endowment has not been a bright spot. Do we even have a Chief Investment Officer?
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Post by stagthomas on Apr 7, 2023 17:14:07 GMT -5
Hockey just doesn’t have the reach but kudos to them for building a real, national program. I’m surprised about the admissions standards. Glad we are in such a better position academically, there’s no comparison. As for the endowment, I’ve noticed they’ve leapfrogged over us. Is it predominantly because of the larger student population and the fact that they have a law school? Seems like we should be doing a lot better in this area given the financial prowess of our alumni.
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Post by townie67 on Apr 8, 2023 23:24:38 GMT -5
Quinnipiac beats Minnesota 3-2 with a goal 10 seconds into overtime to win NCCA championship.
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Post by ctghostman on Apr 9, 2023 7:29:09 GMT -5
Hockey just doesn’t have the reach but kudos to them for building a real, national program. I’m surprised about the admissions standards. Glad we are in such a better position academically, there’s no comparison. As for the endowment, I’ve noticed they’ve leapfrogged over us. Is it predominantly because of the larger student population and the fact that they have a law school? Seems like we should be doing a lot better in this area given the financial prowess of our alumni. It’s my understanding that QU has used debt to fund things and has aggressively invested its endowment. FU has been very (too) conservative on both fronts. The law school was bought from the University of Bridgeport. We bought their engineering school. We gave up on hockey and football and “went for it”’ with lacrosse. |
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Post by irishstag on Jun 9, 2023 23:43:18 GMT -5
I think Q deserves enormous credit for buying the UB law school and then starting its own medical school from scratch. That law school should have been Fairfield's. I remember the late Prof CF Donnarumma saying it had started as an independent law school, and in the 1960s sought to affiliate itself with a university, and Fairfield was its preferred choice. We declined. Then when UB imploded with its purchase by the Unification Church in the 1990s, I heard it again sought an affiliation with Fairfield, and we again declined. That was our last chance to have a law school and put ourselves in the same league as BC, ND, Fordham, Villanova and Georgetown, all D1 Catholic schools with law schools. The absence of vision in that decision is characteristic of Fairfield's tepid, rudderless leadership over the years. MAAC membership for 40 years, a losing tradition for MBB, one hideous eyesore of a building after another also show the complacency and the general embrace of mediocrity (see purchase of BEI), not to mention the relentless increase in enrollment which has killed our selectivity and positions us poorly as we face the demographic cliff coming in 2025. Taking on law and medical schools was darned impressive, showed a lot of vision and institutional confidence on Q's part. So does the commitment to having men's and women's hockey programs. Given the schools Fairfield likes to think of as its peers, we should have those too. Q has been eating our lunch for years and no one in administration or BOT for past 30 years seems to have noticed or cared. I hate to be so negative but I think a lot of us feel Fairfield could be so much more at this point had there been leadership with vision, or a plan to move forward. I was a tour guide for the admissions office while a student, and we were told that our peer schools were BC, HC, PC and VU. That's really not the case anymore because 2, maybe 3 of them have used their athletic programs to bootstrap themselves to positions where they are no longer our peers, while we have been static for generations.
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Post by FU73 on Jun 10, 2023 6:23:31 GMT -5
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Post by stags74 on Jun 10, 2023 8:41:03 GMT -5
I agree that the FF administration seems to be conservative and does not have the aggressive vision that other schools have. However , at the same time the picture being painted of the university is not really balanced either .
The architecture I agree is disjointed. However the buildings are far from hideous as mentioned. I am still impressed with how beautiful the campus really is every time I arrive on campus.
FF seems to be able to increase the number of applications , increase class sizes , while raising admission requirements bucking the national trend. This may changed in 2025 as u have mentioned.
The financial basis of the school is solid. The track record of Financial contributions by the community and by the alumni base are increasing. That is a indicator that tells me that at least some people think the school is doing something correctly.
The athletic programs are alive and well. Particularly on the womens side where there have been several championships in various sports . On the mens side soccer and baseball are solid programs. However, the mens marquee programs of hoop and lax have continually under achieved and that is not acceptable.
Perhaps I am being over optimistic . As an alum who is active with FF I realize there have been mistakes made by the administration that are short sighted. However, at the same I think the school is in very good shape thanks to the administration and I am proud to be alum.
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Post by paulie74 on Jun 10, 2023 10:26:23 GMT -5
I agree that the FF administration seems to be conservative and does not have the aggressive vision that other schools have. However , at the same time the picture being painted of the university is not really balanced either . The architecture I agree is disjointed. However the buildings are far from hideous as mentioned. I am still impressed with how beautiful the campus really is every time I arrive on campus. FF seems to be able to increase the number of applications , increase class sizes , while raising admission requirements bucking the national trend. This may changed in 2025 as u have mentioned. The financial basis of the school is solid. The track record of Financial contributions by the community and by the alumni base are increasing. That is a indicator that tells me that at least some people think the school is doing something correctly. The athletic programs are alive and well. Particularly on the womens side where there have been several championships in various sports . On the mens side soccer and baseball are solid programs. However, the mens marquee programs of hoop and lax have continually under achieved and that is not acceptable. Perhaps I am being over optimistic . As an alum who is active with FF I realize there have been mistakes made by the administration that are short sighted. However, at the same I think the school is in very good shape thanks to the administration and I am proud to be alum. I generally agree. When you stack us up versus peer schools FU is doing exceptionally well. The harsh criticism usually posted by the same handful of folks on this board seems a bit extreme to me. There is always room for improvement. We did make mistakes and demonstrate a lack of vision. However, the University is thriving. IMO, as I look forward to following and attending FU athletics, to me that is not what defines a great university. Just look at the stats. Importantly, enrollment is at an all time high, the acceptance rate is at an all time low, and FU is financially sound which a large percentage of small private universities cannot claim. Do I wish we had a hockey program, a law school, a med school etc., sure. But where we have focused, business, nursing, engineering, we are fully thriving and respected. I do feel we need a major improvement in PR and overall Communications. This is one area I believe has been lacking for years. Kudos to QU as their vision has paid off. SHU are masters at PR, but FU still towers over these schools in the quality the education, ranking by the experts, selectivity, and happiness of the student population. It’s not just sports, although it can be a wonderful promotion tool. But take the very expensive cost of a hockey or football program and channel those resources into other Academic and promotional areas, do you get the same or greater return? That’s a study in which I would have great interest. |
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Post by claver on Jun 10, 2023 15:15:32 GMT -5
The harsh criticism usually posted by the same handful of folks on this board seems a bit extreme to me. There is always room for improvement. We did make mistakes and demonstrate a lack of vision. Very good post. I thought I'd chip in with a few points. You have to put things into perspective when it comes to alumni criticism. When I applied to FU in the 1980's, Fairfield had a reputation as the next "big" thing, ie. the next Boston college. That soon our academic rep & admissions would be identical to Holy Cross & Georgetown. College counselors at all the local high schools told their students to apply here, that we were about to breakout nationally. Well, it obviously didn't happen, and although FU is finally starting to generate some serious momentum in 2023, it took almost 40 years to do it. 40 YEARS!!!!! And a lot of older alums I know are mad about it. I mean REALLY mad. They mostly blame Fr. Kelly, who they say squandered many opportunities to move FU into the big leagues academically. And as far as campus architecture goes, while I don't hate the new buildings (except the Nursing School addition which looks like a 1950's factory in East Germany from the side), the school needs to pick one style and just stick with it. I personally think all campus buildings should have followed Bellarmine Hall's blueprint for a real Ivy League style appearance, but that ship has sailed. |
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Post by irishstag on Jun 11, 2023 13:09:52 GMT -5
Claver I think you make an excellent point. The administration recently stated that the acceptance rate for the class admitted this year was an all time low at 44%. But if I remember correctly it was 42% for my class and 44% for one of the 2 classes behind mine, which created a buzz at that time (1980s) that Fairfield was an up and coming school. Terms like "best kept secret" were often associated with us. So I think there is frustration that the school hasn't blossomed the way many of us anticipated it would. I have been following this forum for a while now and have great respect for my fellow alumni who care deeply about Fairfield. Yes, my criticism is harsh, because I think it is needed to break the overwhelming complacency which has been locked in place for so long. The presidency, the BOT and the alumni publications are a mutual admiration society. There is no evidence of differing thoughts on Fairfield's future course (shared publically at least), or dissenting alumni opinions, that one sees in the alumni publications of some other universities, which I think speaks to a certain institutional immaturity.
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