Shorter (D-II – GA): Per source, the school has parted ways with head coach Aaron Kelton. Shorter went 0-11 this season.

Co-champs is stupid,  going undefeated is really what any one of these higher level programs want to attain,  as they should.    A three way tie at 7-2 is a nice season,  and the rings will make some of the kids feel special.   Any real dude on a team,  or coach,  wants 9-0,  end of story.

Quote from: JEFFFAN on November 04, 2017, 09:42:32 PM

Quote from: lumbercat on November 04, 2017, 08:53:41 PM
I was wrong, didn't think the purple would win today.  Jeff got out coached and out prepared today by EJ Mills. Congratulations to a classy Amherst outfit. Mills is a magician- in a class with Ostendarp, Farley and Miller.

Run it up Jeff.

Dick Farley career winning percentage - 83.8%

EJ Mills winning percentage so far - 86.2%

    Darp 68 %
   
    Mills 76%

    Miller 77%

    Farley 86 %

Karma Hartford State Karma   The football gods of righteousness were with the Lord-mammoths today.  The Staters can rest on their drubbing of bad teams though if any consolation.

Quote from: Vandy74 on October 25, 2017, 06:43:51 PM

Quote from: Nescafe on October 25, 2017, 11:36:40 AM
Colby has a very predictable offense and puts its better players on defense,   they have a lack of speed and an very average QB.   So,  you change coaches,  or allow 3-5 kids who have 0 business being there in.  Whenever any one of the Maine teams has been successful,  its always revolved around having some 'dudes' on the team that can be true difference makers.    If I were the coach up there,  I would ask admissions for a restructuring of tips.   goalie,  center in basketball,  or QB.   You need to allow some very low tips.   It happens at institutions that are supposedly more difficult to get into other,  Colby should do the same.   

Nescafe........You don't understand how tips work.  No Nescac team has any "kids who have 0 business being there."  Tips are used by coaches on prospects who fall short of the normal academic requirements but show signs in other ways that once admitted they can do the work.  The tip is the only special treatment they receive.  Once in school they must live up to the same academic standards required of any other student.   Each coach knows that having had tip admitted athletes who do not live up to expectations will result in having more difficulty convincing admissions to accept tip requests in the future.  Tips are not a slick trick better used by some than others and coaches do not pull the strings.  Regardless of the admission requirement differences between them, every conference member school ranks well above the majority of DIII institutions nationwide.  Every one of their student athletes earn their diploma or they don't graduate.

Vandy -   We are speaking semantics here.     I speak no business,  in the sense that,  in almost all other terms,  the school would not admit these athletes based on their academic record.     Teams,  and ones with very high academic standards for admission use this method.    I do understand the tip system.    The bottom line is that admissions wants to know if their low academic tip will show up to class and put the effort in if they have a lower innate aptitude.    That they will put up with.   There are plenty kids with higher aptitudes that drink beer and play video games after the season.     A lower admitted tip really has 0 business being there from a pure academic stand point.   The school makes a choice that it would for various reasons,  low tips makes the institution better.  student support, alumni giving,  getting your name out there,  and being good to great in every facet of the institution.  Colby is currently getting a F in football.   Would that fly in their academic arena, no.     Institutionally,  excelling or attempting to excel in all areas,  should be part of its mission,  otherwise drop the sport.

Colby has a very predictable offense and puts its better players on defense,   they have a lack of speed and an very average QB.   So,  you change coaches,  or allow 3-5 kids who have 0 business being there in.  Whenever any one of the Maine teams has been successful,  its always revolved around having some 'dudes' on the team that can be true difference makers.    If I were the coach up there,  I would ask admissions for a restructuring of tips.   goalie,  center in basketball,  or QB.   You need to allow some very low tips.   It happens at institutions that are supposedly more difficult to get into other,  Colby should do the same.     

         Hartford State Mother -  The need to qualify any one of these institutions,  and saying one being smarter then another,  including your apparent need to qualify Trinity,  is a lame duck.     The gift of football,  is supposedly the great life lessons that it teaches,  none of which includes scoring with little time on the clock and up that much.   So,  cool,  JD is a good x and o coach,  with a winning  program,  and the kids will learn whatever life lessons he teaches,  which includes the good, bad, and ugly.  This was clearly a poor decision,  and the gift of humility by telling his players that  his emotions got the best of him.  This would have been a great lesson.   Maybe he is an alum of Trinity,  and thus,  wasn't taught these morals from his coach,  sounds cyclical.