I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever; for me, it was that first fall term I spent at Hampden.
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Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
But Bird had a couple of factors working in his favor. First and foremost, he was a businessman with a businessman's head governing his restaurateur's heart. He knew exactly what he was getting into when he picked up this Hampden Avenue space -- formerly a buck-a-scoop Chinese buffet of no renown, but with good street visibility and a big parking lot -- and chose it over properties he'd been scouting in Boulder, L.A. and the Bay Area. I figured I could mitigate my chance of failure to 50 percent here, ... Seriously, I didn't go into this thinking I had an 80, 90 percent chance of success. I'm not deluded.
Whatever we tried to do defensively, they had a counter. We allowed them to penetrate and once they did, good things happened for them and bad things happened for us. Hampden punished us on the boards.
I am delighted but I don't think it will sink in that we have won the title until the last game of the season. Their minds have been on Hampden but it has been difficult to point a finger because it is a natural thing.
It doesn't get much better then scoring a hat-trick in the semi-final at Hampden Park. I'm delighted we're in the final and we've still got a lot to play for this season. To play the way we did today was exceptional and I'm really pleased for the fans who have backed us in great numbers this season.
We're hoping that the visioning will be the basis for the Hampden master plan for the next five years, which includes not only the issues but how to address them, where to find funds to implement solutions.
We have been waiting to get back to the regional finals for three years. Jordan Cook (6-10 Hampden Academy center) is a game changer and changes teams with his defense and is pretty smooth offensively as well.
If you look at the nucleus of the team there are maybe three or four of us left from 2004. The club has been through two terrible seasons. We stayed up by the skin of our teeth last season and this season have not done as well as maybe we thought we would. It is a transitional period and we are just looking to have a good day at Hampden and give the fans something different.