University Athletic Association

[BDTartan]

Well, considering that the PK job is being handled by a Fr. leads me to believe that that will be an ongoing competition throughout the season.

Yes, I heard that the D became a nucleus and played well, because I was a bit worried after their scrimmage but it sounded like they worked all the bugs out over the last week of camp.

Thanks plaidfanatic.........I heard through the grapevine that the Rochester players were calling my brother some choice names about his long hair and ponytail.  And if I know my bro, that's all he needs is a little incentive.  My dad told me that he smacked the QB a good one on a hurry shortly after some name calling. 

I wish I could have been there, but oh well, I'll be there for GCC this Saturday.

[ADL70]

Last year CMU hit about 75% on PATs.  A JR kicked off v Roch and most were under 50 yards.

CWRU has a FR PK and Whalen did the punting, although nearly all were from inside the 50 so that might have been for pooch punts and to raise the possibility of a fake.  Two punts were downed inside the 5.    A FR attempted the last punt and it was a bad snap that resulted in a safety.  Looks like Calderone will concentrate on D this year.  Not sure of the wisdom of exposing Whalen to injury.

CWRU's O was balanced at about 200 yds each rushing and passing.

WUStL's QB had a good game 40-27-1-2tds 276 yds.  So we can't count them out.

[TartanFann]

Hopefully the kicking situation will work itself out this week.

CMU has to focus on Grove City, as well as work out a few more items this week, as Sept 15 is a big game against Hobart.  This will be a big measuring stick for the remainder of the season.

[BDTartan]

I agree with TartanFann......if CMU can concentrate on the next two weeks and pull out W's it will springboard their momentum towards another playoff run.  It didn't sound like they had too many things to shore up.  Hobart should be a real test but I think there is enough experience on this team to focus and get the job done.

cwru70, let's not forget that the NCAA moved the kickoff back to the 30.

[ADL70]

I thought the stats software would have been revised to reflect that  change (as they were for the CWRU-Oberlin game), but I went back and checked and the CMU-UR stats were computed as if the kick were from the 35.

Grove City played Dickinson (CC champ-managed 21 pts v Wesley) pretty evenly.  They seem improved over the team CMU played early last year.

[BDTartan]

Yeah, well CMU's site isn't as expanded as last year's.  It got a facelift, but there are no photos and I don't know if there will be in the future.  I believe the father of a player who graduated last year took a good amount of photos.

I am sure GCC is improved.  I think they had a relatively young team last year.  In fact, my brother played on the same team as one of their RB's in our local All-Star game a couple years ago.  Last year's score was 28-0 but it was a good ball game where CMU got a break out of the gate when GCC jumped a play action.  Then later on CMU had a huge goal line stand.  So I think it will be a good game, but I think being at Gesling is going to give CMU an edge.

[Wizardman]

I'm going to make sure I keep a sharp eye on CMU this season, see how far they can go.

Not sure why the UAA doesn't get any love around here, it's a fun conference.

[TartanFann]

I'm going to make sure I keep a sharp eye on CMU this season, see how far they can go.

Not sure why the UAA doesn't get any love around here, it's a fun conference.

If there were more members, I think the conference would be looked at differently.

[Pat Coleman]

It would certainly have more fans to draw from.

[BDTartan]

I believe we discussed some of that last year.  Rochester still competes in the UAA, just not in football.  NYU, Emory, and Brandeis also compete in UAA sports but either don't have a football team or don't participate.  I believe somebody brought up the fact that all of the schools in the UAA are Universities geared towards research.  That may or may not be a sticking point for any schools wanting to join.  I think the UAA did a good job with the NCAC scheduling agreement.  Although it won't bring an AQ or even go as far as to strengthen the schedule a whole heap,  it does bring some stability because the four teams in the UAA who do participate in football have had some pretty different schedules if you look at the last couple years.  In the past they have all scheduled different opponents from different regions.  I only think that playing similar teams from a similar conference will make UAA play tougher and more competitive.  I said last year that maybe an NCAC school may want to join the UAA, although few thought that would happen, you never know what may come from this agreement.  Especially if CMU and WUStL stay on the rise and CWRU comes around like the rumblings we've been talking about on here.  Maybe in the future the UAA will get an AQ........maybe not.

Wing-T on Wing-T this weekend at Gesling.  I believe MacLeod would be sitting there with a smile on his face ready for some FB Whams and Rocket Sweeps.  I think it will be a good game, but its at Gesling and I suspect there will be a larger crowd there than in years' past regular season games so the boys are gonna have some support.  I say 27-14 CMU in another fine day for the running game.  I don't see them looking ahead to Hobart since its at home so the D will make some big plays.(I only say that because there are just too many seniors on the O side to get caught up looking ahead.  There are a few freshman and new guys getting some time on D that that may happen too.)  All in all, I hope its a hard fought game and everyone comes out healthy.  Good luck to the rest of the UAA this weekend as all of the teams are in action.

GO TARTANS!

[Schwami]

Good CMU read in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07248/814651-134.stm

[ADL70]

It would certainly have more fans to draw from.

I'd setle for getting some talk from WUStL and Chi!

[ADL70]

GCC runs a little different version of the wing-t than CMU.  They threw 45 passes last week!!!

[BDTartan]

Yeah, I kind of got that feeling tonight after speaking with my brother.  I took it as if the D didn't have the greatest practice today because some things were changed up just for GCC.  That's how I understood it.  So hopefully they pull it together for Saturday.

[TartanFann]

GCC was 35 carries for 62 yards in the run dept, which may have dictated the extra throwing of the ball.