Quote from: nescac1 on February 28, 2025, 10:58:11 AMJust to expound, I think I'd take a team comprised of dudes from the past three years over any three-year stretch in NESCAC history.  1994-1996 might be competitive, a lot of nasty players in that era especially from some loaded Trinity and Williams teams, but the league wasn't nearly as deep back then and I think no era could stack up with a team comprised of stars from the past three years. 

QB: Spencer Fetter - not the best overall NESCAC QB ever, but the most statistically efficient (or close to it) and one of the best downfield throwers, which will take advantage of the unstoppable receiving core loaded with deep downfield speed, and he's throwing behind a loaded OL so he can stick in the pocket and just air it out.  If you want more of a dual-threat guy, Berluti is a high-level back-up. 

TB: Ryan Lynskey backed by Joel Nicholas or Tyler Dinapoli.  Not the top runners in NESCAC history (yet, Lynskey might be on the list before he's done) but a power backfield to pound teams into submission behind a massive, physical offensive line to set up the deep pass.  None of these guys are gonna get you in trouble with negative yardage.  We also need those big backs out there as blockers since we going with exclusively one-back sets. 

OL: Thomas Perry and then pick four of Anthony Casillo, Tim Forth, John Freeman, Patrick Donovan-Jenkins, Travis Cepalia.  Here is where it starts getting dominant, Perry is probably the best NESCAC OL ever to do it and the rest of those dudes were all-American level players or close to it. 

TE/HB/FB: Our weakest position.  Let's go with Brendan King backed by Thomas Walsh as another big target, but most of the time we are going with a spread offense to maximize all that WR talent.  We can also use Kenary as our short-yardage FB. 

WR: Jaden Richardson, Phil Lutz, Chase Wilson, Logan Tomlinson, Donovan Wood, Sean Clapp - load up with 3-4 receiver sets and rotate that group in and out.  Five guys who ended up in D1 plus Clapp who surely could have.
 There has never been, and likely will never again be, a group of receivers in NESCAC like that.  DeVante Reid was pretty darn good but doesn't make the cut. 

ATH: David Estevez - just for a fun wrinkle in short-yardage situations, good luck stopping him behind that offensive line. 

DL: Nick Helbig and Tomas Kenary are two of the best DL ever in NESCAC, those two side-by-side would be impossible to block.  Koy Price can wreak havoc as an edge rusher (could also play him at LB).  And then take your pick out of Ian Devine, Dave Filian, and Ed Iuteri to fill out the unit. 

LB: Ben Carbeau, Julian Young, Tony Hooks, Brian Cassagrande - that unit lacks the historic NESCAC superstar power of the DL, but those guys are rock solid, very physical tackling machines.  We won't need them to blitz much with that DL so they can just clean everything up at the second level.

DB: Ty Richardson, Wesley Abraham, Rocco Stola, Luke Harmon, Danny Banks, Aidan Kennedy - Richardson and Banks will stick the top opposing receivers, Harmon at strong safety and Kennedy at free safety backed by Muldoon will be a nightmare free to roam the field, and Stola and Abraham as overqualified nickle/dime dbs. Ty Jemison only played two years but is also in the mix as yet another D1 transfer. 

K: Matthew Jumes, a multi-year all-American, backed by Ivan Shuran, also an all-American.  These guys almost never missed especially in the clutch. 

P: Tighe Hoey, ho-hum, yet another all-American

RS: Aundre Smith, Nolan O'Brien and Mario Fischetti - speed and explosiveness throughout the return unit.  Fischetti can also be used judiciously as a third-down back, he was when 100 percent the most potent weapon out of the backfield in recent years, and O'Brien as a slot receiver just for a different look in the receiving core (although Lutz as a slot guy would be unstoppable).

This breakdown almost brought a tear to my eye. Id probably have to agree with the talent level in the last three years certainly being off the charts for the league. Great work Neacac1!

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Quote from: GroundandPound on February 07, 2025, 09:52:23 AMhttps://www.ctinsider.com/gametimect/football/article/donte-kelly-football-maloney-choate-wesleyan-20151264.php

I follow CT high school football pretty closely and this is a great get by Wes. He'll be a star.

Next Chase Wilson/Logan Tomlinson/Michael Breuler...we hope.

NM

I wouldn't call him the next any of those guys given he's 5'9 and will surely play in the slot while all the others you named are 6'1 and above and played wide out. Could certainly be a future weapon in the league but most definitely has to be used differently than the three names you mentioned.

Quote from: TheBoyfromBrunswick on January 30, 2025, 03:12:18 PMWesleyan continues to be a Division 1 factory. In the last 4 Years:

Justin Johnson OL '22 (William and Mary)
Nick Helbig DT '23 (Wake Forest)
Logan Tomlinson WR '23 (New Hampshire)
Wesley Abraham CB '25 (Furman)
Chase Wilson WR '25 (New Hampshire)
Will Aaronson OL '25 (Marist)

Is there any other school in the league who have had more division 1 transfers? what a run Dicenzo's cardinals have been on!

The only one virtually close to Wesleyan I believe is Tufts with Phil Lutz, the Richardson brothers and Josh Meriwether who plays at Tennessee State. Shout-out to both the coaching staffs at those schools for the development of those great players.

Quote from: Charlie on January 29, 2025, 02:02:05 PMI heard rumors that the NCAA could potentially allow players 5 years of athletic eligibility across all sports. This is under serious consideration and could be implemented in under a year. Does anyone know how this would affect the NESCAC landscape if at all ?

If anything I think it means many more NESCAC grad transfers up to the division 1 level in the near future considering only a handful of NESCAC schools actually have grad programs to support a given athletes 5th year.

Take a look at the link below with Midd OL Thomas Perry absolutely putting in work at the shrine bowl vs an SEC dlineman. Putting on for the NESCAC!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFWGGvGyw2N/?img_index=1&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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Quote from: The truth 101 on September 08, 2024, 02:42:45 PMCongrats to Tufts alum Jaden Richardson for grabbing his first catch as a USC Trojan yesterday. These grad transfers are certainly putting on for the conference!

yeah up 41-0 in scrub time with the 3's. wonderful LT and Lutz contributing as starters their squads.

Let's not act like USC isn't in a complete different category when it comes to college football. If they played either Delaware or UNH they might win by 100. Not to mention the fact that their receiver room itself probably would all start at any FCS school.

Congrats to Tufts alum Jaden Richardson for grabbing his first catch as a USC Trojan yesterday. These grad transfers are certainly putting on for the conference!

Quote from: westcoastnescac on August 22, 2024, 04:06:55 PMCorrect me if im wrong but i believe timmons, harmon and donatio

Timmins plays corner, played safety early in his career then made the transition to corner.

Quote from: NESCACFball24/7 on June 20, 2024, 04:34:12 PMDonovan Wood back off his commitment to Marist and will now be walking on at USC it seems

For all of you who think wood is better than Richardson here is a clear picture. Richardson on scholarship wood is not. Case closed.

Quote from: Scoops on June 14, 2024, 12:56:13 PMI understand it's not a unit award. But clearly the kid isn't making an impact if his unit is getting shelled on a regular basis. Sure, he has a lot of interceptions, but that means offenses are throwing at him in a secondary full of fish. The numbers look good on paper, but the eye test doesn't match from the games I watched.

I would heavily agree with this point. Often times even in a bad secondary offenses will simply just throw away from the good corner or avoid him when possible. It seemed like he got targeted just as much as anyone else in the quite frankly subpar secondary and although he may have some picks his showings against some of the top receivers last year were less than admirable. Don't mean to drag the kid obviously a talented player looking forward to see how he builds on his game next year.

All this talk about Tufts and Trinity not enough about the ACTUAL NESCAC champs Middlebury throughout this off-season.

THERE WILL BE A RECKONING AMHERST FOOTBALL WILL GO 8-1. With a 50-0 loss to Trinity of course

I know each team is only supposed to have 10 coach led spring practices and saw that Amherst posted on Twitter today was their first day. I know around the league other teams started weeks ago. Was just wondering if anyone knows why the mammoths chose to start spring ball so late.

Quote from: lumbercat on March 07, 2024, 12:23:17 PMPretty shortsighted to slight any recruit from NY because NY is not a strong Football state.
Many good NESCAC and Ivy players have come from NY over the years.

There are 15-20 New York kids on the Syracuse roster. While they may or may not be dominant players in the ACC I would think most or all would be very good NESCAC players at a minimum despite being from the Empire Sate.

No reason Johansen won't be a very good player at Williams regardless of where he is from. He was  recruited and sought after by many of the NESCACS and also had strong Patriot and IVY interest. He made an early decision in the recruiting cycle to commit to Williams which evidently was his target school.

Well yeah every college including especially at the FBS level recruits heavily within their own state because kids are more likely to want to stay close to home. Syracuse also hasn't won anything football wise with that talent pool. Not only that but their new head coach is brining in transfers from all over because he knows he can't win with the current roster so not a great example. I will say that I don't think the state a kid comes from should put a cap on their talent/ ability and this kid at Williams could be great but I do think the sheer volume of "great" players come from a select few states at higher levels New York not usually included.

Quote from: NESCACFball24/7 on February 20, 2024, 03:04:57 PMBy that standard Tomlinson should have had similarly interest to richardson. Tomlinson was bigger and had better stats. The same goes for clapp this year. I don't understand your point at all.

I simply compared wood to Richardson which is an easy case to assess. As for the other two clapp isn't even in the portal so I don't understand why you bring him up... One of my points was clearly blocking which Richardson did at a much better clip than Tomlinson. Other than that I will say there is no reason Tomlinson shouldn't have had similar success offer wise. He clearly fits right in as a top reciever at UNH and looked great last year.