Assumption University

You know, I think this is great for the viewers, so I'm gonna read some names here.

You got Norwich, you got Delaware Valley, you got Kings, you got Johns Hopkins, special teams, DC, then Salve Regina, Assumption, Holy Cross [laughs], James Madison.

So before I ask the question, this is interesting, I have two thoughts.

Number one, I think Cignetti's given these ...

Think of Bob Chesney's road, starting in 2010 when he became a head coach.

He's the head coach at Salve Regina, Assumption, Holy Cross, James Madison, and then just past year got the job at UCLA and has them ranked 12th in the country and undefeated.

I mean-

One of the best rushing teams in college football

Where were you teaching there?

At Assumption University.

Oh.

Catholic university.

His first head coaching job was a place called Salve Regina, which is Division III football.

Then he coached at Assumption, which is Division II football.

Then he coached at Holy Cross, which is FCS, Division I football.

Stepping it on up.

I think this was the only executive order that any Democrat in Massachusetts has ever agreed to.

And somehow when I drove onto the campus of little old Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts and saw our flag hanging at half-mast for a week in Dolly Parton's honor-

Hmm

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[crowd cheering] The one ball, two strike pitch is fouled back on the screen.

[crowd cheering] Cletus Boyer, alumnus of the University of Michigan and Assumption College in Windsor, Ontario, a well-learned ballplayer.

[crowd cheering] Curve just outside, two and two.

One out, nobody on.

Dr. Robert Worsham, or Bob to everyone who knows him, received his PhD in psychobiology and operant learning from Rutgers University.

He served on the full-time faculty of Ramapo College of New Jersey for five years and spent 15 years as an adjunct adjunct faculty member teaching applied behaviour analysis in Assumption College's Masters in Education program.

He's worked as a behaviour analyst with the Connecticut Department of Developmental Services at the Judge Rotenberg Center and for the EastCon Autism Project.

He was a licensed psychologist who specialised in precision teaching and standard acceleration charting as a framework for curriculum design and progress tracking.

Who were other people that you made contact with through precision teaching

at that time? Well, one of the things that happened after...

My association with Ogden is that at the time I was teaching a course in behavior analysis at Assumption College to teachers in a master's program who had to take a course in behavior analysis.

I incorporated a third of the course to be precision teaching and charting.

I like guys who have done it at multiple stops.

And in his case, every level you can think of, right, going back to NAIA, going back to Assumption College, everywhere he goes, they win.

So that was a really good hire by UCLA.

You know, right now they are scoring 50 points.

I think that's the other part of it.

The fact that this staff is, you know, and I think because they were working at, a lot of them were working at a lower level for so long, right? Whether it's James Madison, Holy Cross, Assumption College, right? You kind of had to be genuine with recruits because, you know, you didn't have your pick of the litter.

So this was really, this is pretty much the only way this staff has known how to approach recruiting, right? And I think that, like I mentioned before, I think that's what's resonating a lot with these kids right

now.