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Quote from: nescac1 on October 08, 2024, 01:20:03 PMSpeaking of Fischetti:

https://d3football.com/awards/tow/2024/week5

How old is this kid? He's been at Williams for what seems an eternity. My son did a 5th year and I believe he was at Williams my son's freshman year

Took 30 seconds to determine this is his 4th and final year at Williams.

Thanks for saving me 30 seconds

Quote from: nescac1 on October 08, 2024, 01:20:03 PMSpeaking of Fischetti:

https://d3football.com/awards/tow/2024/week5

How old is this kid? He's been at Williams for what seems an eternity. My son did a 5th year and I believe he was at Williams my son's freshman year

Quote from: GroundandPound on September 05, 2024, 01:17:31 PMI would put Trinity, Middlebury, Wesleyan and Tufts as all "Battling for the Championship"
There should be some great games this fall. 

I'm a bit worried about Tufts. Their o-line is thin compared to prior years. Now full discloser, my Son was a starter for almost 4/5 yrs (freshman yr he started a few games and then covid ). He gave up 1 sack(he considered it "questionable"...lol) his 5th yr and zero sacks his senior yr....with other seniors on the line graduating, that is a big loss. I don't know if it was mentioned, but one of the brothers tore his acl last year, so I hope he is 100% for the season.

Quote from: LochNescac on June 19, 2024, 11:57:39 PMI guess nobody gives a rat's patootie about night games...slow week on the board...come on guys.

At Tufts I like them.....brings out more students
I wasn't crazy about the DJ/music between plays, but people were dancing and having a good time

36% acceptance rate (not terrible...Fordham, Lafayette, etc...), but when the other teams have acceptance that are more than half that and don't rely on SAT scores it says alot. Not a bad school or program, but the Maine schools can really only recruit from the Boston area(closest metro area). Where as Trinity is 2 hrs from the NY/NJ area and about the same to Boston. The Maine schools were interested in my Son, but no way was I driving 5 - 6 hours every weekend to watch a game.
I know I'm sure to get push back on my opinion, but it is my opinion and the facts are the facts

and back to the Lonestar12 show

Quote from: LoneStar12 on April 20, 2024, 07:15:56 PMPrediction: Tufts rushing is 2nd to none.

Reece will break an all-time rushing record and  will lead the league in rushing yards and touchdowns once again.

From your lips to God's ears......but with the Oline.....

What are some of the NY powerhouses? I remember St. Anthonys on Long Island, Stephinac, Iona prep in Westchester. Who are the upstate NY powerhouses?

Northern NJ has 3 high school powerhouses within 5 miles of each other, talk about concentration of talent....that doesn't include St. Peter's prep or the south Jersey schools.....as a matter of fact NY teams just started to play(competitively) in the past few years, prior to that not even close

Wow, back online....that was quite a wait.
Belated Happy New Year everyone

Quote from: BantChamps on December 12, 2023, 11:01:53 AM

Quote from: BigKat on December 12, 2023, 10:28:34 AM
Ha, let's say he was best at his position-and agreat weapon to have. Fetter and Berluti were the two best players in the league regardless of who makes what post season team.

Tufts OL who made 2nd team All American was surprising. Freeman was strides ahead of him. Not to discredit it, as he is a good player. Just curious as to what the entry is to the All American team.

Tufts Olineman - Cepalia

All NESCAC First team ('22 & '23)
D3football.com First team All Region ('22 & '23)
New England Football Writers' All New England Team ('23)
D3 All-American ('22 & '23) - First player in Tufts program history to accomplish twice

Fun fact he was Tommy DeVito's Left Tackle at Don Bosco Prep

"Freeman was strides ahead of him".....you would think so at 6'5" and 295lbs against the same NESCAC competition.
At 6'2" and 265lbs "that Tufts OL" must have better technique (gave up 1 sack in '22 & zero in '23).
Similar NESCAC awards, but that's it. National recognition....New England Region recognition(D2 & D3) about 4000 players.....So not that surprising

Quote from: lumbercat on December 11, 2023, 07:40:09 PM
I'll second that!
N1 extremely knowledgable on the NESCAC and his knowledge applies to Football and Basketball.
No greater authority on NESCAC sports.

I'll 3rd it!!

Quote from: Charlie on November 19, 2023, 09:02:42 AM

Quote from: Nescacman on November 19, 2023, 12:01:02 AM
Congratulations to the true (and only deserving) 2023 NESCAC Football Champions, your Middlebury Panthers. Great season (minus one week) and amazing job by first year HCOF Mandigo and the Middlebury student-athletes.

As the saying goes..."to be the champion, you have to beat the champion".

So Nescacman why is the IVy League who have three co champions this year Harvard , Yale , Dartmouth. This is also after Yale beat Harvard yesterday and still get a share of championship. Perhaps now the Ivy League will make a change in this insane set up and NESCAC will follow. Maybe extra game playoff or something this is ridiculous.

Yale could be winless and beating Harvard IS the championship. Harvard is co-champs, but you could tell they "lost" on Saturday.
That happened to my son his freshman year, Tony Reno was with Yale for a few years and there were rumblings he was on a short leash. My son's freshman team lost 70 - something to Harvard, but the Varsity team avenged that loss the next day. Harvard was kind of the "Trinity" of that league, but after that Yale win, the changing of the guard started. Reno is an excellent recruiter and you can see it by what they've done the past 6yrs (4 national championships). In 2019 Yale beat Harvard in the (protest) game, with that win they shared the championship with Dartmouth, who beat Yale earlier in the year. Dartmouth lost to Brown that year (ie Trinity vs U Bates), so it kind of "evened things out"

Quote from: MammothDad on November 12, 2023, 06:42:14 PM
I'll leave a school name out of this but I did meet an athlete who "front doored" a school in the NESCAC who has a great football  program and he/she said ALL of the athletes at the school look down on the FB players for not being close to the academic standards of the rest of the student body.

I would agree with statement of "looking down" (aka jealous), but that would be mostly non-student athletes. I also had a son play in the Ivy league and it was the same way. Wearing anything with "Football" was frowned upon, hell I could barely find a t-shirt or hat with "football" on it(mostly NESCAC items). Most of their friends were "student athletes", so with the football team and other sports, that left them with hundreds of friends/acquaintances, so the jealous students can go scratch.

I think it's great that schools require more than just "good grades". Playing a sport or any other extra curricular activity definitely adds to the overall "student", whether time management, interacting/collaborating with other students/teammates, etc....I've seen it with my boys. For example up at the field at 5am, then work out in the weight room and breakfast with the teammates all before 9 am.

Any intelligent person can study every waking hour and get A's/4.0s, but is that person a "complete student" at graduation?

Here is something I find funny, my "big, bad football playing" son is the "green dot rep" (or something like that). What that means if there is a party for example and a female doesn't feel comfortable or is being harassed, my son is the go to person. Why is that? Is it because he's the "Big bad football playing" student? He was brought up to be that person.....but the hypocrisy is ridiculous.

With all that said, congrats to all the parents who had a senior or 5th year son "graduate" from football this season. This has been going on for us since 6 years old......I don't know what my wife and I are going to do next Fall.....it's been quite a ride!

Hats off to Hamilton! Played a tough game and kept it close. The 0-5 Amherst game from last year was on my mind.....

"easy win for the jumbos">>>>>that's what they said last year before the 0-5 Amherst game

<knocking on wood>

Jinx is off