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Whose offense is worse, the Lord Jeffs or our Giants?
Whose offense is worse, the Lord Jeffs or our Giants?
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Show posts MenuQuote from: lumbercat on November 12, 2023, 08:18:11 PM
Good point Bucket
Trinity is a great, dominant team and when they get the lead they'll kill you - but in close games they play a little out of character
but that seldom happens because they are too good to be in close games in this conference.
If you kill everyone on your schedule for years, when you do get into that infrequent close game, like Middlebury this year, it's unfamiliar territory. Kind of like fighting the big kid in the neighborhood, he's bigger and tougher but he's not used to taking that random punch.
it's a different dynamic to play 9 games and dominate 7 or 8 of them, EVERY YEAR......a territory most teams don't know and will never experience.
Sometimes I wonder if there is ever any debate in Hartford that the Bantams have outgrown the NESCAC and should move on to a conference where they can compete for national recognition but actually have a reasonable chance of losing every week.......or maybe it's more fun always being the big kid on the block.
At the end of the day congratulations to the Trinity program for their standard of excellence and another NESCAC title barring something crazy next weekend.
Quote from: ephoops on October 24, 2023, 10:00:28 PMQuote from: nescac1 on October 17, 2023, 08:35:38 PM
AmherstStudent05, I wish I could remember Williams' 2003 non-league schedule as well as you do, but I have no idea, and alas, the Sports Info archives don't go back that far, which is a shame!
https://web.archive.org/web/20041225112352/http://www.d3hoops.com/school_info.php?school=Williams&team=m&year=2003
Above is the link to Williams 2003 schedule. I believe Hamilton (coached by Tobin Anderson) was ranked that season in addition to Amherst. The Ephs beat Hamilton twice that season (once in the regular season and again in the NCAA tournament Sweet 16 game -- both games were at home). In 2003, Hamilton was in the Liberty League, not the NESCAC.
Quote from: SpringSt7 on October 18, 2023, 07:36:13 AM
Personally I find nescacman's Wesleyan bias a stark and quite frankly, disgusting, contrast to the rest of the unbiased and truly neutral posters on this board.
Quote from: SpringSt7 on October 17, 2023, 06:57:59 PM
Just because we could use some hoops talk - the Amherst strength of schedule (or lack thereof) was a total moot point in the Hixon era given their consistent postseason success. They loaded up on creampuffs but they won the NESCAC every other year, won multiple national championships, and competed deep into March just about every year. He could do whatever he wanted and clearly whatever he was doing worked.
Sears does not get that benefit of the doubt, it should be a new conversation with him. To me, getting some confidence built up with a young and unproven group seems like a good strategy. The cynic in me says it's a coach under pressure trying to inflate his W-L.
Quote from: lumbercat on November 01, 2022, 06:44:02 PM
Midhoops-
No issues here. I was responding a little tongue in cheek to the LOL comment on Waterville which I thought came from Bucket but maybe I misread the heading. Seemed a little uppity and ironically made me think of the late Russ Reilly and his reaction to similar snobbish responses which often
seemed to emanate from Amherst during his great tenure at Middlebury. Love to hear him rant about Amherst snobbery and how much he loved to beat them. Fun memory of a great guy-Bobcat and Panther.