just saw the AA's.  Don't think just amherst got shafted but the entire nescac.  how are there 3 babson players as AA, but 2 nescac reps?

Vesteguard from Williams? think he's a good player but surprised he is an AA.  Good to see O'neil get it, thought he had a good year

as far as voting, amherst had 5 guys on all-nescac teams including nescac POY (noon), and 4 guys all-region. if anything I thought they got plenty of votes and might have even be over-represented until the AA's. if there was an anti-amherst vote, it would have showed up in all-nescac, not AA. give the coaches more credit than that.

how about cahill and bishop? first team AA's last year and nothing this year.  seems like the process is messed up.

nesoccr....youre totally correct. Newport, Messiah, SLU all dominate and lose and there are posts about how unfair soccer is.  a nescac team dominates and loses and the there are three paragraph posts about how bad the nescac is.

My brother was at game, said EConn took a bunch of cheap shots and really played ugly.  Apparently. Kaplan got knocked out of game on a dirty play off the ball when it was 4-1.  There was a scrum and pushing/shoving, etc.  Will be tough for Amherst to replace him if he's out for the year (which it sounded like).

Also said Alexi Lalas was there. Not sure why. 

Here are my score predictions:

Wesleyan 2, Misercorida 1
Trinity 4, St Joe's 0
Amherst 3, Husson 1

(as a sidenote, I really am not an amherst fan, but they have won me over this season to some degree.  haven't seen a team play as hard as them in a while. saw them come back in last mins at williams and then in both games last weekend. gotta give credit to them....have made NCAAs 5 or 6 times in a row now.  Wasnt the case when I was in league.)

a lot of good coaches in the league.

lerner definitely all-league worthy.

look for all three nescacs to get out of weekend.

sAw all three games this past weekend.

macnee more than deserving,

lerner led team in assists and was Amherst best player in NESCAC final weekend.

I'd have made Wheeler COY for tying for reg season championship with same guys as last year. 

Other obersvations:

NO hamilton player on either team.  The only team not represented.

As many Conn College players as Williams players.  Sure that hasn't happened before. 

Hahaha...ok.  Easiest region. 

Williams should be in.

Amherst got hosed. 

Who is on the decision making committee? I bet not the Amherst or Williams coaches...

Williams over Midd 3-0-----Williams hitting stride at perfect time for playoff run.
Wes and Trinity tie 1-1-----Both teams playing great.
Conn over Amherst 2-0-----Conn beats Amherst regularly. An easy pick, not even an upset.
Tufts over Bowdoin 1-0-----Defensive battle.
Colby and Bates tie 0-0-----Another defensive battle.

What happened on that Hamilton-Midd prediction?  Liberty League isn't anywhere close to the NESCAC. 9-3-3 could turn into 3-9-3.

i told you all Williams wouldn't lose at home.

Been watching Williams-Amherst for years...believe me, Williams wins this one with plenty of room to spare.  Amherst is a borderline first tier/second tier team.  This isn't 2010 and like Middlebury and Bowdoin they are going to need a year to reload.

I will buy what you are selling on Trinity if they find a way to get a win and a tie against Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury or Wesleyan.

By the way, who is this Liberty league guy that is touting Hamilton? When's the last time that The LL had a Final Four team? Didn't the NESCAC have one in each of the last four years? Talk about not playing anyone...take a look at St. lawrence's schedule.  They could go the whole year an not play one other NCAA tournament caliber team other than Hobart (and don't give me Rochester).

The way I see it, there are four tiers of teams this year:

Tier 1: Wesleyan, Williams,
Tier 2: Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury
Tier 3: Trinity, Tufts, Conn, Colby
Tier 4: Hamilton, Bates

I see the first tier as the early favorites.  The second tier are two teams that are dangerous enough to make a late season push and potentially win the championship.  Tier 3 can certainly upset anyone on any given day but haven't shown the consistency to get into the next tier.  There is a clear tier 4. 

Wesleyan looks to have the clearest path to the #1 seed.  I think Williams will beat Amherst this weekend and will end up in the #2 spot.  Williams is Williams and they have beaten Amherst for around twenty straight years, it's dumb to expect anything different (especially on their home field).  User Kushiana is the best player in the NESCAC this year and they have had some major injuries of late.  I think they run the table for the rest of the season. 

Really, really like Trinity in Tier 3 but they have some pretty crazy results.  They tied the Ephs but lost to Westfield State.  Mayernick might be the second best player in the league and I think he ends up leading the league in goals.