Preseason award predictions?
Berlutti and Kenary seem like obvious favorites. Any freshman to look out for?
Berlutti and Kenary seem like obvious favorites. Any freshman to look out for?
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Back2BackBantam on December 02, 2023, 03:07:38 AMQuote from: TheFlock on December 01, 2023, 11:25:25 PM
Excellent points by G&P, but then you also have to take into account how many teams left their starters in and scored on the Trinity Defense's 3rd string and First Years. In fact the Co-OPOTY was racking up his stats against 3rd stringers. I'd be curious if anyone knows how many TD's were given up by Trinity in this unbalanced manner. I also saw a post that Trinity is the only team in College Football (all levels) to give up 0 rushing TD's the whole season. We all must admit that this is pretty impressive.
I can say with some confidence that 33 of the 115 points allowed by Trinity this year were allowed once the starter was pulled (another 6 were on a blocked punt), which would bring that total of 115 down to 76 points total, divided by the 9 games would be 8.4 ppg allowed by Trinity's starting rotation. Obviously, the same math can be done for Middlebury's defense to a somewhat lesser extent.
However, I would like to argue G&P's conclusion of Middlebury having the better defense in other ways. First off, the Trinity defense allowed nearly 100 less yards per game than the Pant's, and sported a 36% RZ Def compared to Middlebury's 53%. Trinity also allowed merely 2.3 yards per carry on the ground compared to Midd's 3.3, and as stated, 0 total rushing TDs on the year. As for G&P's ToP argument, I wish there were a stat for number of 3 & out's produced by a defense. I think that would be a manor factor in that statistic.
Another interesting stat is that Midd opponents had the most penalties called against them in the league, compared to Trin having the second least opponent penalties. Similarly, Trin was called for the second most in the league whereas Midd was called for the 3rd least. Now, some say this is discipline or skill based, others may call it luck or just simply NESCAC refereeing. I simply just found it to be an interesting stat, especially that of the penalties against.
Either way, I think it would be very nitpicky and would require a whole lot of explaining and reasoning to argue that Midd has the best defense in the conference this year, especially when nearly every single defensive stat would say otherwise.
Quote from: Charlie on November 21, 2023, 04:02:30 PMQuote from: NE Football Fan on November 21, 2023, 02:07:03 PM
Coaching staff of the year? Could it be Bowdoin? Does Tufts deserve recognition or does the loss to Hamilton do them in?.... Any rumors around HC changes? The one I know of that is swirling is HCOF Jeff Devaney as a top candidate for Columbia.
Colby Coach is going to step down after medical procedure and Trinity HC Devanney not going anywhere.
I would have given Bowdoin Coach a vote but the only team they really beat this year that they were not picked to was the inept Williams squad. Other than that they beat whom they were suppose to beat.
The only other Coach worthy of this would be HC Mandigo but hard time picking this because he lost against a weak Wesleyan team and should have lost against a weak Williams squad. In addition if Trinity made the right call would have lost against them. But still have to give him his props for a great season in his first year. He would be only other candidate.
i still think that Trinity broke about every statistical record this year and HCOY should be Devanney but if not Him HC Mindigo from Middlebury