A little banter is fun, sure we don't want anyone to have their feelings hurt and criticizing student athletes for their play on the field is not a practice I would subscribe to but in the words of the now infamous Mike Grundy, coach at Oklahoma State "I AM A MAN,  I'M 40, YOU WANT TO PICK ON A KID, NO PICK ON ME, I'M A MAN"  As crazy as he sounded in his rant he is right, coaches at any level go into the position knowing they are going to get criticized for whatever their team does and maybe in D-III it doesn't seem right because there are no sports talk radio stations talking about the Mules chances to run the table and win the Centennial or the bonehead calls made by one coach or another but there are still fans out there who have a beef and want to be heard.  So if someone unleashes a rant about coaches and the direction of a program so be it, just let the players out of it.

Muph, welcome back, I believe when you say Coach Alt emailed you back no hard feelings I believe it, he is a MAN and knew going in the job was not going to be easy.  He was on that staff before becoming the head coach and saw the direction the school was forcing the program down and thought he could do something to turn it around.

As for the person who asked about the glory days of JC Football, you would have to go back to the 1960's and 1970's to find glory days.  During the 80's, 90's, and into this decade glory has equaled 5 and 6 win seasons.   

BT you make a good observation that no team should go through a season without a win and rarely does it happen.  Even in Juniata's recently beleaguered football era post K.P.B (for those who played for the man know who I am talking about) the team has always pulled out at least one game, except for 2005 which was a very, very sad year.  In 2004 a 1-9 Juniata pulled off a very unexpected win against traditional MAC power Lycoming and even last year JC pulled off 2 relatively unexpected wins.  Looking at the rest of schedule for JC it would look improbable that they would pull one off but Dickinson and Hopkins may want to be on upset alert in the next two weeks because fate has to step in at some point and stop the madness and Dickinson will be coming off a big game with the Mules, win or loss they might have a little bit of a let down heading into a big game the following week with Ursinus.

You all will have to give Splik a pass, he has occasionally been know to have sudden outbursts of emotions around topics close to his heart. 

As for Centennial teams in the playoffs I can only see one team getting in based on the Centennial's history in the playoffs.  The only exception I see is either a one loss Dickinson or Ursinus winning the conference and the Mules holding on with one loss.  But if the Mules run the table and win out both Dickinson and Ursinus will have 2 losses and will be out of contention for a Playoff spot.  Both Dickinson and Ursinus would be very strong candidates for ECAC games if they do not make the playoffs.

I understand what you are talking about Splik, I do not see are great deal of banter on this board toward or against one institution or another. 

Unfortunately I have not been able to take in any Centennial Conference games this year because I am about 500 miles from the nearest school so I keep with the teams thanks to some great work by all of the schools in the league offering web audio of the games, its not the best be until they develop ESPN 8 "the OCHO" to start covering D-III regular season football it is what I have to work with.

As for the JC-Moravian game I would wish for one of those great OT games, I played in two of the more bizarre games in the series, the one game where JC scored 35 unanswered points in 19 minutes to win and then the goal post game where the Hounds receiver ran straight into the goal posts attempting to make a catch.  I do not think a game like either of those is in the cards this weekend.

Hello All, First time poster to this board, however I have followed both this board and MAC conference board for what seems like years.  I am an alum of the newest member to the Centennial Conference.

My first post goes to Spilk and Murphy, both also JC alums, I am surprised neither of your mentioned the significance of last Saturday's game against Gettysburg.  That was the first matchup between former JC head coach and now G-Burg O-Coordinator Kevin Burke and his old employer since their less than graceful split a few years back.  I have to say I am glad to see Coach Burke is doing well at G-Burg and chalk up round one to his offense and Bullets who put one on JC in a big way with over 300 yards on the ground.  I would have to think somewhere in his office he had that date circled for sometime.