FB: Middle Atlantic Conference

[captpuck]

It was Albright 24,  U. Of Toronto 21.   

[captpuck]

Thanks for the greetings Lane.  Got to agree with you on the froggies. There just a different people.
Toronto's a nice place. And if your into coffee and donut shops your in heaven. Hoping to catch most of the Albright games.  Must have been great time to travel to France. Did a lot of traveling with one of my kids, he played travel hockey all over the country. I'd be in a bigger house if I had all the money we spent.
Aug 12th starts practice.   Talk to soon

[Pat Coleman]

Good point about the hockey. Reminded me of a post a friend of mine wrote on their blog:

http://inside-outblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-is-sports-scholarship-worth.html

[Simba]

With Coach Clark's first recruiting class announced, a new era begins....

http://www.lycoming.edu:80/athletics/Football/2008/incoming_class.htm

[captpuck]

 Do all the schools in the Conf usually announce there incoming recruits?

[jb]

most MAC schools release the names of in-coming freshmen

[bman]

Simba

You are about 15 Philly Catholic league recruits away from winning the MAC 

[jb]

I understand that the philly area has serve lyco well in years past...my only question which i sorta pose to "G" a few years ago..."why doesn't Lyco have a bigger presence in the Mid-Penn Conference.  There's plenty of talent there...and it's a very competitive league. 

But yet there are only a few kids from that league that play for lyco.  Coach Clark tap that unused resource only 90 minutes to the south along with philly area kids.

just an observation and not meant as any critisism

[bman]

jb

I totally agree with the assessment...and theres lots of talent left going directly east and west as well...

[captpuck]

What's the word on this D3 football preview?  Worth getting? How does it run?,
weekly, bi-weekly , monthly, during the season                Thanks

[Pat Coleman]

It's a preseason annual, in the Street & Smith's/Lindy's style but solely online, so we can get you the latest information possible. (Printing it would mean we'd be putting it to press already, so you'd be getting less than updated info.)

[Ralph Turner]

What's the word on this D3 football preview?  Worth getting? How does it run?,
weekly, bi-weekly , monthly, during the season                Thanks

Buy it!  It's worth it.  Pat Coleman let me construct a method as to how to use his KICKOFF rankings for the ASC Pick'em's contest that we run.  (In the contest, we also track how bornpowerindex and lazindex, two index ranking services that follow D-III, perform.)

Using that construction, this is how KICKOFF has performed.

In 2005, KICKOFF finished 12th out of about 32 players.
In 2006, 2nd out of about 29 players.
In 2007, KICKOFF came in tied for 6th out of 26 players.

Pat is virtually making his weekly pick'ems in August for games occurring in November!

[Iron07]

How many recruits is Albright bringing?Heard over 90 is that possible

[Pat Coleman]

Always possible. Such is the state of Division III -- there's no national roster size limit (though some conferences limit teams to 100 or 75) and a good team is likely to draw as long as the school wants the enrollment.

[captpuck]

  According to the 07 Albright  roster, They lost 7 seniors.  Know they have at least 20 kids
coming in from New Jersey. And these kids are not all from south, southern NJ. Should be
interesting. Coach Marzka turned the program around in his first yr. Now he had a whole
year to really start changing things the way he and his staff wants