“If you asked me what I’m going to be doing May 12, 2004, I’ll know what I’m doing,” Skrosky said. “That kind of permeates through to the rest of the team.”
Together, it all breathes new life into a program desperate for a new start and gives a second chance to players who had come to not only expect, but even accept defeat.
“He’s an aggressive guy and he’s willing to take a chance,” Weaver said. “It says to the players we’re not trying to keep games close, we’re not trying to lose by a little bit. We’re trying to win.”
And that’s something no one on the Upper West Side of Manhattan has been able to say for a long while.
—Staff writer Timothy J. McGinn can be reached at mcginn@fas.harvard.edu.
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