Offense looked good also.  scored quickly on first set of downs.  Scored often after that but didn't keep track.

Congratulations to Case for a great run.  Next year with the joint agreement with the NCAC will bring new competitors to the UAA teams.  It should make for an interesting year for all the teams!!!!

Congratulations to Case Western.  Good luck in playoffs.  I think you will surprise some teams in the playoffs just like CMU did last year. 

Congratulations to the Spartans.  they played a great game and deserved the win.  I put the loss squarely on the shoulders of the coaches.  With a minute and 36 seconds left, did they try to win with their two minute drill.  no didn't use it.  didn't use their time outs. Why change quarterbacks if you aren't going to change play calling??  how many plays did they run?? not that many.  not as many as the wing T with bright ( and we know they are bright since they got accepted at CMU) players can learn and execute.  Yea  mistakes were made in execution but when the fans sitting in the stands can call the next play, you know darn well the defense for the other team can too!!!!!  How do you think it makes the players feel when the coaches didn't have enough faith in their offense to try to win the game in regulation play.  yea they might have lost--but at least they lost trying to win the game.

Well I have to agree with that post.  The fact is neither side is playing as well as it should.  last year, cmu defense gave up only 8.4 point per game in the regular season vs. 17.5 this year.  that is a big difference.  cmu offense in the regular season averaged 28.7 pts per game and this year the average is only 21.  The wing T offense does not lend itself to big plays.  when the offense has the ball and is moving well, it can eat up 10 minutes or more of the clock.  this means that an average of 20 something points is all that can be expected therefor unfortunately it falls to the defense to keep the score low.  CMU offense had the ball 28 minutes versus CMU defense being on the field for 31 minutes so there was no reason for the defense to be that much more tired in the Randolph Macon game than the offense.  CMU actually had one more first down than RM but offense wasn't able to capitalize and our defense didn't do as good a job stopping their offense.  CMU's problems unfortunately are not all facemyer or the offense.  Some of it is certainly playcalling and not using all the weapons as you pointed out in a previous post but it is certainly not just the quarterback or the offense.

CWRU -- congrats to the spartans and I am glad to see their great season.   until all the UAA teams start to have these kind of starts and seasons the UAA will not get  much respect.  Sorry can't wish your team good luck this week as my heart and soul belong to cmu but hope you win out after this.

It was kind of ironic this weekend.  Sitting in front of me in the bleachers was a high school student invited by Lachner.  During the half time, a former CMU player specifically came and found him to tell him about his experiences at CMU.  he talked to the kid for the entire half. 

I can only speak from an experience of one but my son was heavily recruited by all the top nerdy schools including the Ivys.  it pretty much followed the pattern described above.  he was recruited in the summer and encouraged to apply.  once accepted, he was invited for a visit.  He ended up obviously at CMU but it was obvious from the questions asked early on by Lackner, he had a real good idea what candidates had to look like academically on paper to be accepted by his institution and it was those hs football players who he recruited.  When these coaches called they were interested in the same football stats D1 schools were but also as importantly SAT scores and GPA and how many AP classes was he taking.  For D3 coaches, they have to balance good athletics and good academics with no money to put on the table.  it makes their recruiting position very difficult.  And, all D3 schools are not equal.  The pool is smaller for a Case or CMU or MIT because it is harder to get in those schools than some of the other D3 school.  Makes you admire all the boys playing D3 even more when you remember they are doing it strictly for the love of the game.   It certainly would be easier for everyone of these boys just to take their classes.

I have to agree with everything said about last week's CMU vs GCC game but i for one am very interested in seeing what GCC does the rest of the season.  They held Dickinson (a playoff team) to 17 points.  that same team went on to play Hobart and score 30 pts. in that game.  They also did a great job holding CMU in check.  All of which says that CMU Hobart should be a very interesting matchup and Grove City may hold some surprises for others on their schedule.  It is definitely not the same team we have played the last couple of years.

Tartan fans weren't happy with the calls that is for sure.  There appeared to be a lot of homer calls in that game. 

I was at the Rochester game today and CMU was much stronger than the score indicates.  The defense looked great including your brother BDTartan and so did the offense.  The second string offense drove almost to the endzone against their first string defense and then the CMU coach let the clock run out without punching it in.  Obviously they still have some things to work on but for the first game of the season, it certainly was a great start.

thank you and yes i am a cmu fan.  i certainly should have mentioned sivek and gimson along with kolby whitman who may not have the numbers of the other two but has been a regular producer.

I agree with Bdtartan questions about CMU will be answered early.  They are returning a seasoned quarterback and most of the OL.