Quote from: donho on December 04, 2010, 09:22:08 PM
Bad refs in the ODAC!!!!  No way!!

hahaha. you at least made me laugh.  Im sure i will feel better tomorrow.

Quote from: donho on December 04, 2010, 08:55:55 PM
435, don't think it was the A game but it got the Jackets a much needed W .

Thanks to the refs.  it was really bad.  Everyone could see it.  Kirby was not happy after this one.  i am going to turn my Computer off now because i am so mad.  We will even this up.  Just like last year when we knocked them off their horse early on.  we will get it when it matters. 

Quote from: 2RMCFans on December 04, 2010, 08:54:11 PM
Final score from EMU:   R-MC 73 over EMU 68

Jackets pick up the big road win with tough defense and much better ball control.  EMU closed a 13 point deficit in the 2nd half to 2 pts.  It was a nail biter tonight.

GREAT JOB JACKETS!!! 

Okay better ball control i will agree, but the big road win?  you can thank the refs.  that game was horrible.  How do you call a tripping foul on the royals, and then the VERY NEXT PLAY todd phillips is tripped in the open court (it was so obvious) and no call.  The game was awful all around.  just about all of our starters had two fouls, and alot of them barely touched the player, and then no call back the other way.  Way to go refs.  i dont see us having a problem next time if there is some fair officiating.  If anybody was at the game, i do not see how they could refute that the refs were making terrible calls against EMU all game.  We still would have won had we hit our free throws, but it sucks when the refs leave such a bad taste in your mouth from the game. 

Getting geared up for the Royals Game.  You better be bringing your A-Game Macon.  this should be a huge crowd.  Go Royals!!!

Wasn't this the same scenario as last year.  i still remember the game when Macon walked into EMU as the number 1 team in the nation and they walked out with a very bad loss.  hopefully saturday will be no different than that game.  only we are the higher ranked team, and hopefully we will get it together.  we have not played up to our potential yet this year.  if we click i dont see how we can lose.  our bench is so deep this year, and the recruitment of R.J. is so big.  GO ROYALS!!!

Quote from: donho on December 02, 2010, 06:01:28 PM
 IMHO a two point win comes down to 2 things, LEADERSHIP AND GUTS!!!!!  Last night VWC had 'em R-MC did not!
 I said last year I dislike early season rankings. Last two games for the Jackets show why. Alot of early hype and nothing to show for it.  

I definitely agree with you.  I talked with Eli Crawford the other day and he said, "we are not going to sneak up on anybody this year." Emu is ranked #3 in the nation and we still have to play ball.  no one is going to roll over and let us have it.  in fact teams are going to want to be the ones to ruin our season.  it doesn't matter that we have all our starters back.  should be a good year, and we are prepping for the yellow jackets.  looks like VWC is the ones to beat but they only beat Macon by 2.  it should be a good game Saturday nonetheless.

also on the officiating, i think it has been poor reffing last year and thus far this season all around.  i played basketball down at Prince Edward county in high school and i think the reffing in the ODAC is worse than i remember back in high school not to long ago.

and i am not convinced of the number comparison, because of the SOS.  it is true that you would score more points and defensively give up more points; however switch with one of the top four in the ODAC and we would have done the same if not more.  just saying.

Quote from: PointSpecial on March 15, 2010, 10:53:52 PM
Ya know, the whole argument of "Williams would have had more losses if they played in the ODAC" might be true... but it might not be true either.

Let's take a look at the final four teams in terms of S.O.S.

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well looking at the final four teams SOS isnt even the argument.  considering that you are leaving out two very tough opponents in EMU and VW.  maybe even arguably hampden-sydney.  so i dont think your argument is convincing at all. 

Quote from: 2RMCFans on March 15, 2010, 12:50:37 PM

Quote from: nescac1 on March 15, 2010, 09:01:44 AM
But Williams certainly has the talent to beat Guilford and I am confident they would have challenged them for the ODAC title had they played in that league this year. 

Not to put too fine a point on it, and in no way selling Williams short, they'd have had to go through EMU, VWC and, ahem, R-MC to have gotten the right to challenge Guilford... not to mention the teams in the middle of the ODAC like H-SC and W & L ---who slayed a few dragons this season, too.

i think the top six in the ODAC made our conference so strong.  I dont think any other conferences had the strength we had this year.  The awesome season from the Royals added to the conference a whole lot. 

i also think the success of us up here in Harrisonburg can give alot of hope to teams like Emory and Henry in the years to come.  If Kirby can turn a program around from nothing i think alot of other programs can learn from what happened this year.

Quote from: nescac1 on March 14, 2010, 01:09:35 PM
Hmmm if ODAC fans are going to unite, I may have to try to form an alliance with the Stevens Point fans ... not that it would matter much, I have a feeling we are going to be seriously outnumbered on Friday.  A lot of the Ephs do not have ties to the mid-Atlantic region, so I hope there is a decent turn-out of family members, but I can't imagine many students will be able to get to the game on time given that Friday there are classes in session, and it's a ten hour trip.  Oh well, those that are there will just have to cheer louder!

Looking forward to Williams vs. Guilford.  The teams seem like a great match-up on paper.  Our center duo is fantastic, but for the first time all year, they'll be playing someone better than them.  Whittington vs. Sanborn, when Troy is in, should be particularly intriguing ... Troy is MUCH shorter and smaller (6'5, at most) but is incredibly quick with very long arms and insane hops which help him deals with bigger guys.  Still, he's never faced anyone (at least not in college) like Sanborn.  Meanwhile, as good as your point guard and small forward are, they will face a similar challenge vs. Wang and Schultz, who are both all-American caliber players and certainly the two best individual players on the Ephs.  Of course, if the three (and I'm counting Whittington and Geoghegan as one combined star since they split time) stars even each other out, it could well come down to role players, who don't get enough acclaim at times for the Ephs, and I imagine for Guilford as well.  Each team even has a precocious frosh guard off the bench (Robertson and Pittman) who have the look of future stars. 

If any ODAC folks have any recommendations for good places to eat, drink, etc. in the area, I'd love to hear them!  Hope the Ephs can pull it out on Friday and maybe even have a chance for redemption of their own on Saturday vs. RMC. 

have you watched any of the ODAC teams this year other than the one loss to the only ODAC team you played? i would say we have four teams that could give you guys alot of trouble.  (Randy Mac, Guilford, EMU, and Virginia Wesleyan) 

If you were in the ODAC i GUARANTEE you would have lost more games.  Go ODAC!  Beat the brakes off of Williams.

Furthermore i would like to congratulate Guilford on the win, and everyone here in Harrisonburg is glad for such an amazing season from our Runnin Royals!  Great Season guys, and congrats to Kirby Dean.  We appreciate all your hard work.

This video is a clip of us knocking off Randolph-macon earlier in the season when they were number one.  i dont think there is much better out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQqLEon8Ko&NR=1

to the post on EMU possibly having alternative means for showing games other than Penn-Atlantic.   i dont think so.  all the e-mails i receive as a student says that the game will be aired via Penn-Atlantic.  i am not aware of any videos of the team playing games.

yeah i agree with you Hasanova.  I want to see a good game friday because if we win friday i will have to miss the game saturday.  But thanks for Penn-Atlantic.  i wont miss a game but i have to get home.

yeah. just three bucks for a student ticket.  i picked up mine this morning when they went on sale.  hope to see everyone at the game.

Yeah i agree with you brooks the only common team they have faced this year is Emory and Henry.  when centre played them they won 80 to 70.  when we played them, we won 101 to 69.  i know we cant base our predictions on this, but i feel like we here at EMU have a chance for a run at the championship this year and i dont think centre will be much of a speed bump for us to cruise over.  but we shall see friday night.  hope to see you all here.