NewToNescac and IslandTime- Strong support is not the best you can get. A "slot" is the best you can get, below that the "tip" and way low down is strong support. Ask the head coaches if they have used up their finite number of slots (14 at some NESCAC school)  in the ED round. Usually a tip plus some other desirable characteristic ( legacy status etc.) will result in admittance.

Clearly I do not know how to work the quotes on this board!

@NothingButNESCAC thanks for another great season preview! Let me echo the sentiment that you guys should "go pro" at some venue like ESPN and the hope that you are grooming replacements.
A quick question- is the Patricia you mentioned on the Midd team any relation to the former Amherst Assistant Coach and present Patriots defensive coordinator? It is an unusual surname.

Quote from: NothingButNESCAC on September 01, 2015, 09:15:34 AM
Joe and I won't post too often on here because you know, we have our own place to write about this stuff, but we did want to post the link to our first article about football this fall. http://nothingbutnescac.com/2015/09/01/welcome-to-2015/.

@NothingButNESCAC thanks for another great season preview! Let me echo the sentiment that you guys should "go pro" at some venue like ESPN and the hope that you are grooming replacements.
A quick question- is the Patricia you mentioned on the Midd team any relation to the former Amherst Assistant Coach and present Patriots defensive coordinator? It is an unusual surname.

Onto another NESCAC athletics topic. Heard this on the radio: http://www.wbur.org/2015/08/11/coaches-salaries-liberal-arts-colleges
The most interesting/concerning aspect of this report is summarized in this chart: https://infogram.io/p/a6d774b6eb5547f11e6292075d9e38ae.png

The questions raised by this piece to me are (along with my answers-would love to see other posters' questions/answers):
1) Is assistant coach pay in the NESCAC an issue? Yes, the pay is too low
2) If an issue, what can/should be done? Possibly this is a clarion call to AD's around the 'CAC to lobby for improved pay for their assistant coaches. How about if one is donating to your chosen 'CAC school earmark the donation for assistant coach salaries?

Thanks for the observations on the Tufts QB position. I view this as another step towards overall league strength! As my son enters his senior year (boy have four years gone fast!), the overall strength of the league looks like more teams are, if not competitive, on their way to being so compared to four years ago!

Looks like a new QB candidate at Tufts: http://www.vnews.com/sports/18094877-95/local-roundup-cox-fifth-at-nationals-dartmouth-qb-transfers 
Any thoughts on the effects of a transfer QB

The Boston Herald (Dan Ventura) always does a nice job including DI and DIII schools when noting where area seniors are headed:
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/high_school/high_school_insider/2015/02/national_letter_of_intent_day_where_the_student

@nescac1 - There is a difference between a TIP and a SLOT. The terms are not interchangeable in the NESCAC. You need to be bringing something additional to the table if you are a TIP. The 14 SLOTS by themselves come with a virtual lock down on admission.

The NESCAC football coaches get 14 "slots" . How many tips they get depend on a number of things (legacy/URM status are the big ones) and thus the successful tips could and probably do vary from school to school. So for example, if you have an alumni kid with GPA/standardized test scores in a reasonable range but not outstanding, that kid gets a tip from the coaches combined with the legacy status that pushes him over the hurdle in many (most?) cases. What coaches tell the "tips" about roster slots I do not know, my son had a slot. 

Boston.com article extensively quoting Coach Mills of Amherst as well as referencing Coach Faulstick (Amherst). Sounds like they can both recognize young coaching talent:
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/2015/01/30/patriots-defensive-coordinator-matt-patricia-star-the-making/a301PdyADueaLsByvSt7rO/story.html

A nice way to settle the Amherst-Williams (who has the most) admissions flexibility debate: Look at the All-Academic NESCAC rosters. Amherst and Williams both led the NESCAC  (20 team members from each team). Congratulations well deserved all around.

Best of luck to Justin Ciero as he completes his college years!

Banfan- You did refer to a hit and then described your perception of the response. This line of commentary on yesterday's games started with a reference  (mine) to a head to head hit. Thus I  continued the discussion in that vein.

Ban Fan- Was the hit you refer to a head to head hit? If so immediate ejection/suspension of the player who committed the hit. If not a head to head hit, then it gets a bit harder to make a hard and fast rule, like late hit, head to head hit. Also, in the last three years an incredible amount of peer reviewed research on head hits has been published in respected medical journals and published in the lay man's media. We are now much wiser as a population than even just three years ago.

Just saw the replay of Trinity's Spencer Donohue doing a head to head hit against Amherst's Gene Garay.  Donohue should be ejected and suspended for the remainder of the season.  The officials should be reprimanded for not immediately suspending the player who committed the illegal hit.