Nichols got smoked by Curry, and they finish with MIT, WNEC and EC, anybody think they will go winless. They were in the hunt a few years ago, but have gotten progressively worse since 2000. It looks like the Curry/Endicott game next week will decide the Boyd. I got to go with experience and pick Curry. Anyone have any thoughts on either topic

What's up with the Nichols College Bison, 0-3 seems like a far cry from the team that played for the NEFC Championship in 2000 and 2001. I don't now what there doing over there, but it isn't working.

I am pulling for Fitchburg versus BSC they can really pound it in there with the run, but I gotta go with waggle the Bogan is good this year and I wouldn't be supprised as the teams work through eachother the division comes down to the wire.

Picks for the week

UMD 17 at Curry 21
Framingham 9 at Bridgewater 42
EC 21 at WNEC 14
Fitchburg 21 at Westfield 28
Worcester 24 at MIT 10
Nichols 10 at Salve 7

I don't care how many points you get beat by if its 1 or 101, Framingham's record since 1999 is 9-49 they only have won nine of their games for the last six years. I don't care who the coach is, what the gym or the field look like a good student athlete is not going to go to a school that has always been so consistently terrible.

Hola Guys, first post of the year, I've been busy. But I wanted to throw in my two cents. First off, I went to and played for Nichols College (who stink right now) and their academic programs for Business were top notch. They posted 95% of my graduating class w/ jobs paying an average of 42K after graduation. The school is easy to get in to because they want to try to grow beyond the 800 or so students they see. They have spent some coin down there in Bison land and built a new field and a new gym, rivaling anything in the NEFC (I have not seen the new field, but that's what they say).

Additionally the NEFC all comes down to recruiting, even more than the coaches ability. If the coach can sell the school he can get more talented players and then succeed. Gametimeplayer mentioned Salve, and to go back in time to when they were good they had a coach by the name of Tim Cohen who really got the job done with recruiting and was an excellent coach. He moved to High School in RI and won two or three D1 State titles and has made the playoffs every year. Salve had a great coach for a while and made some headway.

Were in the NEFC folks, good athletes are not just going to show up on your doorstep and play. A lot of good New England athletes go to D2, D1AA and D1 schools either join the team and never touch the field or give up football entirely because a lot of students think that D3 football is crap, and it isn't. To attract better players coaches need to do a better job of selling the schools as a great alternative to going to URI or UCONN having some fun and playing four years of competitive football. Once they do that they will bolster support for the league and change the perception of the NEFC until that happens we will always be a weak conference.

Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to cath up