Here is my take on it.  I have seen Curry play this year and they are rather impressive.  Their O looks better than it has in years past.  On the other hand, the Curry D does not look as good as they have before.  I think they will have a tough time with that CG O.  But with an improved O on their side, I think Curry wins by 6.  35-29.  Good luck to both teams.

What went wrong gulls???

NLNG you probably (and should have) lost your karma when you made a comment on Curry being a one seed.  Are you familiar with the track record of the NEFC and how we compare with the rest of east, country, or world?  Until we beat some formidable opponents, be prepared for a 5-8 seed. 

Now for my picks:

Mass. Maritime  10  Framingham St.  21: Mass just doesn't have it   
Endicott 21  Mass.-Dartmouth    28: A closer one, but we can't pull it off 
Western New Eng. 15  Salve Regina  18: You should get bouns points if you can figure these two teams out   
Maine Maritime 21  Coast Guard  48: Maine is not good on the road.     
Fitchburg St. 41  Westfield St.  48: Everyone come on into the endzone   
MIT 12  Plymouth St.   43: PSC secures an ECAC bid?   
Worcester St. 31  Bridgewater St. 32: No idea who should win     
Curry 42  Nichols  21: Nichols is reminded how young they really are

First of all, I finally figured out that Fitchburg changed coaches, that explains the sudden drop off.  MY bad on the lack of knowledge.  Okay, off to my picks.

Western New Eng. 14   Endicott 15- a bad game of teams that should be good.     
Plymouth St. 21  Curry 28- I think this is a great game, edge to the home team     
Salve Regina 41  MIT 14- Salve seems to be on the way up     
Framingham St. 12  Maine Maritime 17- teams seem to have a tough time in Maine     
Nichols 21  Mass.-Dartmouth 31- Nichols is young and improving, but Harold runs wild     
Bridgewater St. 35   Westfield St.  14- how is the WSC coach still coaching?  THey have been bad for years.   
Mass. Maritime 35  Fitchburg St. 42- FSC gets win # 1?  Maybe...     
Coast Guard 41  Worcester St. 28- CG is on track now and contols that side.

Go gulls, good luck everyone else.

I think that the edge in the 'big game' goes to the home team.  I feel as if this will be a passing of torch type of game.  If PSU comes up with the victory it will be their conference to win for a few years to come.  If curry holds on, which i think they will, they will continue to dominate the conference until someone new comes into it. 

Nice article by Tom haley as well regarding the around the region.

Go Gulls

First of all, i think i was 7-1 last week just for the record.  Now on to this week.

Westfield St.  10  Framingham St.  28: Framingham is playing well (imagine that under the old coach)   
Mass.-Dartmouth  31  Salve Regina  7: Salve is getting better, but UMD is playing for a ECAC spot   
Nichols 17  Plymouth St.  28:  Nichols is young and improving, but PSC is home.   
Maine Maritime 21  Mass. Maritime 13: I wonder if they take a boat to this game?     
MIT  14  Western New Eng.  28: WNEC always seems like they should be better.   
Fitchburg St. 42  Worcester St.  49: FSC can score, but their D is awful.  I still don't know what happened to them.  They were great a few years ago.   
Bridgewater St. 51  Coast Guard   52: Neither team can stop the other, but CGA is home, so there is your 1 point.   
Endicott  10  Curry 28: Yes EC's QB is getting better, but Curry is home and playing well enough. 

Go Gulls!!

I have missed the last few, on vacation with the fam. I'll try to jump back in here and get EC some karma.

Curry 41   MIT 7 a late MIT touchdown is all they can muster.     
Framingham St.  17 Bridgewater St. 28 BSC seems to be on their game now     
Western New Eng. 12  Mass.-Dartmouth  28 UMD's rushing game should do well (as they do every week)     
Salve Regina 21  Nichols 20 THis one is a toss up.     
Worcester St.  12  Maine Maritime 21  WSC seems to always have trouble up there.     
Mass. Maritime 14  Westfield St.  21 No idea or data to support this     
Endicott 10  Plymouth St.  28- my gulls just don't have it this year.   
Fitchburg St. 31  Coast Guard 52 FSC's o is good, but their D is worse than coast guards.

Go Gulls!

That has to be one of the worst losses in Fitch recent history.  For the last 5 or so years they have been good, what happened?  Did a lot of people figure out the scemes?

Ouch, Center is correct, anyone can take it this year appearently.  I got to see EC and they looked like they should win, but TO's are the equalizer. 
Bridgewater, where have you gone?  Congrats to Salve.  How about UMD.  THey announced the halftime score at the MMA EC game, 41-7 or something like that.  Wow. 
I am not sure how the Maine Wnec game went becasue I think it was in Maine so we are still waiting for the man do deliver the game notes via horseback.
Its gonna be a weird one this year.

Come back gulls.

picks:

Salve Regina   at Bridgewater St.  : BSC in a cake walk, 28-7     
Mass. Maritime   at Endicott      : EC rebounds (yeah gulls) 21- 3
Curry   at Westfield St.   Curry brings WSC back down to its real level 35-10   
Western New Eng.   at Maine Maritime   Maine at home is a good pick, prob a great game though, ME 28- 24   
Worcester St.   at Nichols     Nichols pulls the upset- 10-7 
Mass.-Dartmouth   at Fitchburg St.      Neither of these teams plays D, FSC wins 42-38
Coast Guard   at Plymouth St.       CGA is the class of the league, 45-21
Framingham St.   at MIT  People are really going to this game? for the 5 people there, FSC 12 MIT 14

GO Gulls

Maine Maritime should leave the NEFC for the NAC.  The NEFC is a tired league that really has not put any effort into their athletics.  If you take a peek at what Husson has done in their short time playing football you can easily say they have a stronger commitment to the game than any NEFC school.  I would hope that other NAC teams would follow suit (certainly any new ones.)  If Maine left it would just mark the beginning of the end of the NEFC.

Pick Time, its nice to be back in the season.  Here is what I am guessing

Mass Maritime 28 Suny Mar. 14
Curry 35 Worc 14
WPI 41 UMD 7

Go Gulls! (next week)

So, does anyone know any early preseason news?  Just under 2 weeks away for some of the openers and the posting is slow.  Lets get some chatter here.  I know my Gulls with the addition of Coach Val will have an improved O (we can hope).  What else is there???

What s the news out of Dartmouth?  Anyone know anything?

Thats a shame about Bill Cav.  He was a real asset to the league and made Dartmouth a stable team on the top of our side of the league.  I hope he does well at Stang.  DOes thing mean that UMD is going full-time?  One would think.

Wow, this is really taking a while.  Seems as if there has to be a quicker way to hire someone.