Fordham University

[WarriorFan]

My son wants to go to Fordham.  I know very little about it except that it's Jesuit.  He's accepted to their Chemistry program.  Anyone have kids / friends / or any alumni who can give some advice about it?    It's not a school he's visited, and I've never been there either.  Hope scoop can round up some good advice!

[MU82]

Tell him to go there for 3 years, get his degree, and then be a graduate transfer to Marquette.

If it's good enough for Chartouny, it should be good enough for L'il chicos!

Just havin' some fun. I don't know nuthin' about no stinkin' Fordham.

[GGGG]

My son wants to go to Fordham.  I know very little about it except that it's Jesuit.  He's accepted to their Chemistry program.  Anyone have kids / friends / or any alumni who can give some advice about it?    It's not a school he's visited, and I've never been there either.  Hope scoop can round up some good advice!

I don't what advice I can give other than I have a friend whose daughter went there and absolutely loved it.  Still lives there.

[rocket surgeon]

Tell him to go there for 3 years, get his degree, and then be a graduate transfer to Marquette.

If it's good enough for Chartouny, it should be good enough for L'il chicos!

Just havin' some fun. I don't know nuthin' about no stinkin' Fordham.

nice try 82 but "lil chicos" is already enrolled and nearing the end of his freshman year at a school that shall not be named of course.  and he's NOT transferring anywhere.  in other words warrior fan AIN'T chicos and you can take that to the bank. 

   damn though!  ya gotta admit that chicos was good for the ratings- so much for opposition research though,eh...na?

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

WarriorFan = Not Chicos

WarriorDad = the presumed Chicos

C'mon Mike, do you really think Chicos would value anyone's opinion over his own?

[WarriorFan]

Definitely Not Chicos.  Started as WarriorFan, Always WarriorFan.

[StillAWarrior]

I know very little about it...

Doesn’t sound like Chicos to me.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

My cousin went there among others that I know and it's popular with Connecticut high school students.  (My daughter is not interested because it is too close to home.)

The campus is consolidated with no roads through it.  I believe there is a wall/fence around the entire campus.  It's physically located next to the very pretty New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo.  It has it's own Metro North train station. 
The real Little Italy in NYC on Arthur Avenue radiates out from the Fordham Campus.
The Fordham football stadium overlooks the Botanical Garden. 
I saw Marquette play Fordham at Fordham way back in the early 90's.  Glad to see the Rose Hill Gym vastly improved since then.

[GooooMarquette]

Wish I could tell you about the school...but I can provide some colorful history of the MU-Fordham rivalry back in the day. From "Al McGuire's Wit, Wisdom and Warriors" on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/AlMcGuiresWarriors/posts/1168707543241727:0

On today's date in 1975, upset by Fordham Coach Hal Wissel's public condemnation of his 9th ranked Warriors' schedule, Al let his thoroughbreds run wild in Madison Square Garden, destroying the Fordham Rams 101-64 on their home court, but not before Al let Wissel have it on the sidelines.

Al had actually tried to lend Wissel and his program a hand by flying to New York two days early, despite a nasty cold and a touch of the flu, to help hype what Al had been told were slow pre-game ticket sales.

Al gave some headline-grabbing press conferences, as only Al could do, but Wissel, perhaps jealous of Al’s headlines in the New York papers, called his own presser the next day and proclaimed that Al’s teams perennially played a patsy schedule.

Wissel told the assembled press that if Al’s 18-3 Warriors had played Fordham’s recent string of four tough opponents, they too would have lost all four games.

“That,” Lloyd Walton would smile later, “was the worst thing that man could have done.”
“Nothing, opposing coaches found out over the years, set Al off quicker than a public affront,” sportswriter Roger Jaynes once wrote, “real or otherwise.”

Indeed.

Marquette had a modest lead of 41-28 at the half as Walton scored 16 of his game-high 22 points, but after intermission, Al’s Warriors put the pedal to the metal and the merciless rout was on, with Marquette leading at one point by 47 points.

The Fordham fans showed their displeasure at Al's obvious overkill, hurling dead fish and apples onto the court and stopping play for approximately five minutes as attendants cleaned up the floor.

Al finally pulled his first string, but not until they had thoroughly humiliated Wissel's Rams.
With 8:00 minutes left in the game and the crowd hissing, Al finally stood up from his chair, hands on his hips, and glared at Wissel, who refused to engage Al’s withering stare, sitting frozen in his chair as he stared blankly at the floor, obviously simmering inside.

“Hey!” Al yelled. “What’s that about that patsy schedule we play?” Al moved a few steps closer, then gestured to the scoreboard above. “So much for a soft schedule! Come on, pal! Tell us about your schedule! Welcome to the big time, jerk!”

"I never said Marquette unnatural carnal knowledgeing plays a patsy schedule," Wissel fumed later. "I told some reporter that we had lost four games in a row to tough teams, and that if Marquette had played the same teams, they would have four losses. The reporter blew the story out of proportion. Then Âl McGuire has to blow the story even more out of proportion, just to make sure that he gets his name in every paper coast to coast. That's the way he is. Well. I'm not that way."

(Wissel was actually quoted in the newspapers as saying that Marquette "doesn't play the tough teams we do. They never play a tough schedule, and Al McGuire would be the first to admit that.")
Al later looked back on the incident with amusement.

"I think Wissel is probably right about me making it a bigger story than it was," he said. "He's a nice guy and a very intelligent guy. But sometimes it's hard for a coach who's been losing to talk about a coach who's been winning. I think I understand his feelings."

Give ‘em hell, Al!

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Wish I could tell you about the school...but I can provide some colorful history of the MU-Fordham rivalry back in the day. From "Al McGuire's Wit, Wisdom and Warriors" on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/AlMcGuiresWarriors/posts/1168707543241727:0

On today's date in 1975, upset by Fordham Coach Hal Wissel's public condemnation of his 9th ranked Warriors' schedule, Al let his thoroughbreds run wild in Madison Square Garden, destroying the Fordham Rams 101-64 on their home court, but not before Al let Wissel have it on the sidelines.

Al had actually tried to lend Wissel and his program a hand by flying to New York two days early, despite a nasty cold and a touch of the flu, to help hype what Al had been told were slow pre-game ticket sales.

Al gave some headline-grabbing press conferences, as only Al could do, but Wissel, perhaps jealous of Al’s headlines in the New York papers, called his own presser the next day and proclaimed that Al’s teams perennially played a patsy schedule.

Wissel told the assembled press that if Al’s 18-3 Warriors had played Fordham’s recent string of four tough opponents, they too would have lost all four games.

“That,” Lloyd Walton would smile later, “was the worst thing that man could have done.”
“Nothing, opposing coaches found out over the years, set Al off quicker than a public affront,” sportswriter Roger Jaynes once wrote, “real or otherwise.”

Indeed.

Marquette had a modest lead of 41-28 at the half as Walton scored 16 of his game-high 22 points, but after intermission, Al’s Warriors put the pedal to the metal and the merciless rout was on, with Marquette leading at one point by 47 points.

The Fordham fans showed their displeasure at Al's obvious overkill, hurling dead fish and apples onto the court and stopping play for approximately five minutes as attendants cleaned up the floor.

Al finally pulled his first string, but not until they had thoroughly humiliated Wissel's Rams.
With 8:00 minutes left in the game and the crowd hissing, Al finally stood up from his chair, hands on his hips, and glared at Wissel, who refused to engage Al’s withering stare, sitting frozen in his chair as he stared blankly at the floor, obviously simmering inside.

“Hey!” Al yelled. “What’s that about that patsy schedule we play?” Al moved a few steps closer, then gestured to the scoreboard above. “So much for a soft schedule! Come on, pal! Tell us about your schedule! Welcome to the big time, jerk!”

"I never said Marquette unnatural carnal knowledgeing plays a patsy schedule," Wissel fumed later. "I told some reporter that we had lost four games in a row to tough teams, and that if Marquette had played the same teams, they would have four losses. The reporter blew the story out of proportion. Then Âl McGuire has to blow the story even more out of proportion, just to make sure that he gets his name in every paper coast to coast. That's the way he is. Well. I'm not that way."

(Wissel was actually quoted in the newspapers as saying that Marquette "doesn't play the tough teams we do. They never play a tough schedule, and Al McGuire would be the first to admit that.")
Al later looked back on the incident with amusement.

"I think Wissel is probably right about me making it a bigger story than it was," he said. "He's a nice guy and a very intelligent guy. But sometimes it's hard for a coach who's been losing to talk about a coach who's been winning. I think I understand his feelings."

Give ‘em hell, Al!

ALScoop would have been wild back in the day.

[MU82]

Definitely Not Chicos.  Started as WarriorFan, Always WarriorFan.

Crap.

Being erroneously called "chicos" ... man, I can't think of a worse insult for a fellow Scooper.

A billion, zillion, gajillion apologies. It won't happen again.

As for Fordham, I still don't know anything about it, but I hope your daughter loves it there if that's where she chooses to go.

[rocket surgeon]

That wissel Guy-not too bright.  Usually it’s a player(s) providing the bulletin board schmit talk.  He should have known better to mess with a new yawka as such and big al nonetheless

[WarriorDad]

Tell him to go there for 3 years, get his degree, and then be a graduate transfer to Marquette.

If it's good enough for Chartouny, it should be good enough for L'il chicos!

Just havin' some fun. I don't know nuthin' about no stinkin' Fordham.

I thought I was a Chicos?  Or Billy Hoyle was?  Warrior Fan?  or the two or three others.  Someone please explain what it means!!!!!!!!!!   

[GGGG]

I thought I was a Chicos?  Or Billy Hoyle was?  Warrior Fan?  or the two or three others.  Someone please explain what it means!!!!!!!!!!   

What's ironic is that Chicos got all hot and bothered when I called him a liar.  Yet he has no qualms about repeatedly lying about his identity.

Just remember that.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Marquette had a modest lead of 41-28 at the half as Walton scored 16 of his game-high 22 points, but after intermission, Al’s Warriors put the pedal to the metal and the merciless rout was on, with Marquette leading at one point by 47 points.

The Fordham fans showed their displeasure at Al's obvious overkill, hurling dead fish and apples onto the court and stopping play for approximately five minutes as attendants cleaned up the floor.

Al finally pulled his first string, but not until they had thoroughly humiliated Wissel's Rams.
With 8:00 minutes left in the game and the crowd hissing, Al finally stood up from his chair, hands on his hips, and glared at Wissel, who refused to engage Al’s withering stare, sitting frozen in his chair as he stared blankly at the floor, obviously simmering inside.

“Hey!” Al yelled. “What’s that about that patsy schedule we play?” Al moved a few steps closer, then gestured to the scoreboard above. “So much for a soft schedule! Come on, pal! Tell us about your schedule! Welcome to the big time, jerk!”

"I never said Marquette unnatural carnal knowledgeing plays a patsy schedule," Wissel fumed later. "I told some reporter that we had lost four games in a row to tough teams, and that if Marquette had played the same teams, they would have four losses. The reporter blew the story out of proportion. Then Âl McGuire has to blow the story even more out of proportion, just to make sure that he gets his name in every paper coast to coast. That's the way he is. Well. I'm not that way."

(Wissel was actually quoted in the newspapers as saying that Marquette "doesn't play the tough teams we do. They never play a tough schedule, and Al McGuire would be the first to admit that.")
Al later looked back on the incident with amusement.

"I think Wissel is probably right about me making it a bigger story than it was," he said. "He's a nice guy and a very intelligent guy. But sometimes it's hard for a coach who's been losing to talk about a coach who's been winning. I think I understand his feelings."

Give ‘em hell, Al![/i]

Dead...fishes?  They sell those at the game?

[Dr. Blackheart]

Fordham gave us Digger Phelps. 

Heard they have an excellent advertising and marketing school.

[rocket surgeon]

What's ironic is that Chicos got all hot and bothered when I called him a liar.  Yet he has no qualms about repeatedly lying about his identity.

Just remember that.

Because he wasn’t lying...I’d get hot and bothered as well when I’m accused of something I didn’t do.  I know the story-he had nothing to lie about

[MU82]

I thought I was a Chicos?  Or Billy Hoyle was?  Warrior Fan?  or the two or three others.  Someone please explain what it means!!!!!!!!!!   

There you go, Banny McBannerson, another screen name for you:

a Chicos

[Benny B]

There you go, Banny McBannerson, another screen name for you:

a Chicos

What?!?


Oh.   You said Banny.  Thought for a minute you were making fun of my Irish heritage.

[Babybluejeans]

I thought I was a Chicos?  Or Billy Hoyle was?  Warrior Fan?  or the two or three others.  Someone please explain what it means!!!!!!!!!!   

“What’s a Chicos?” will now enter the Scoop meme pantheon. I love it. Thanks Cheeks.

[WarriorDad]

“What’s a Chicos?” will now enter the Scoop meme pantheon. I love it. Thanks Cheeks.

Can you explain why five or six people are called this?

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Can you explain why five or six people are called this?

Modern psychology can't explain it either.

[rocket surgeon]

Can you explain why five or six people are called this?

what happens when everyone wants to be a "hall monitor" with an obsession.  wack-a-chicos anyone?

 

[GGGG]

Because he wasn’t lying...I’d get hot and bothered as well when I’m accused of something I didn’t do.  I know the story-he had nothing to lie about

The fact that you haven't figured him out says way more about you than anything else. 

[TSmith34, Inc.]

what happens when everyone wants to be a "hall monitor" with an obsession.  wack-a-chicos anyone?

 

Much like Ners, it's everyone else's fault.