Not to side track but holey shit Loyola !
Elite 8 now.
There are tons of news stories explaining what Loyola is.
Quote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...1e4_story.html
Take a tour of Loyola Chicago, which wasn’t a sports school until last week
By Chuck Culpepper March 21 at 4:56 PM
CHICAGO — Yes, but what exactly is this Loyola University Chicago?
Is it small? (Not really. It has 16,673 students.)
Is it urban-grimy? (No, it’s urban-gorgeous, with a rectangular West Quad and, just in case you didn’t fancy that quad, an egg-shaped East Quad.)
Where is it? (It’s umpteen stops up the “L” red line from downtown, north enough that you start to think about Northwestern even if you disembark before reaching Northwestern which, like many places, has one fewer men’s basketball national title than Loyola.)
Is it near Lake Michigan? (Yes, it backs right up to that beast, which snarled on Tuesday, when some wind gusts felt merely frigid, where others felt just plainly rude, where others felt barbarously, sadistically, ruthlessly, inhumanely, vilely disgusting.)
Has it any recent sports glory? (Yes, the men’s volleyball team won back-to-back national titles in 2014 and 2015.)
Why is the sudden presence of this LUC in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament so charming?
(How much time do you have?)
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The national media has to call it Loyola of Chicago. To me it was always just Loyola, a conservative Jesuit campus right on the lake just a few miles south from Northwestern university.
Not its not small, no its not in the hood.
Yes they have their own medical hospitals and med school pipelines.
Loyola bought huge Adverts on TV tonight.
This will not only benefit the basketball program that I could care less about.
But the University is shining on a national stage right now.
BTW my step daughter is attending Loyola pre med, even though they do not have an official pre med major, to get into medicine as a doctor.
She got pretty much a half ride, scholarship of 22K per year for 4 years guaranteed as long as she makes the GPA requirements.
I am positive she will. Took all honor courses, has an ACT of 31, 35 in science. We wanted to send her to NW but we never got an acceptance.
GD Northwestern must be awesomely hard to get into.
In two years
I will have 4 children under my care in collage at the same time. Two of mine are my biological and two are my GF's.
Right not I am only supporting one her oldest. I got three more to go in rapid succession. My kids will be 16 next year and they already are looking at NW and U of Chicago, and many other top programs. My twins are also elite college prep educated and not just nerds, they play multi sports too right now.
To me this is the meaning of life. Giving the best I can to give my blood the best education they can receive, and pass on that incredible bnk genes.
We need all of the scholarships we can get. I need my snowbird house someday.