FB: Middle Atlantic Conference

[wesleydad]

to all delval fans, i will be the first to say that i am surprized that delval is not in the top 25.  if i count correctly, they are 34th.  beating the 3rd ranked team and only receiving 16 pts is confusing to me.  i guess we will see as the season goes on.

salisbury will run first and throw later, much later, so i am not sure if the defense that was played this week will work.  i believe that delval has the athletes to defend the option, but will have to cut the yards per carry down to defeat salisbury.  again, force some turnovers and limit their chances, and the results can be the same as this week.

good luck.

any word on widener?

[PBR...]

to all delval fans, i will be the first to say that i am surprized that delval is not in the top 25.  if i count correctly, they are 34th.  beating the 3rd ranked team and only receiving 16 pts is confusing to me.  i guess we will see as the season goes on.

salisbury will run first and throw later, much later, so i am not sure if the defense that was played this week will work.  i believe that delval has the athletes to defend the option, but will have to cut the yards per carry down to defeat salisbury.  again, force some turnovers and limit their chances, and the results can be the same as this week.

good luck.

any word on widener?

widener was picked to win the mac again. they return a number of players from last year and coaching staff is very good. they will give wesley a big challenge. wesley pbr would imagine is going to come in w/ a little bit of a chip on their shoulders and something to prove and wesley is very good at home. so good luck against widener it should be a great game.

[Pat Coleman]

to all delval fans, i will be the first to say that i am surprized that delval is not in the top 25.  if i count correctly, they are 34th.  beating the 3rd ranked team and only receiving 16 pts is confusing to me. 

Wesleydad,

Delaware Valley has played more than one game this season.

[KingSting999]

The bye week comes at a great time for the Aggies. They are beat up pretty well after knocking heads with those big kids from Wesley. Have not heard for sure but I imagine that Coach Clements will take it easy on the boys this week and come up with a game plan that will hopefully control the option offense of Salisbury.

Couple of things to note. Every day that passes is another day closer to getting back Greg Rissinger on the D-Line. It's been tough on him watching being a Senior Captain on the team. Here's hoping he can get healthy soon.

Last years Salisbury games score doesn't really give a good indication of how the game was played. In the second quarter holding a 14 - 7 lead the Aggies were on the Salisbury 1 yard line and fumbled the ball while going in for a score. Four plays later Salisbury scored to tie the game and the air just seemed to go out of the Aggies after that. Hopefully with a extra week's rest they will respond well to the challenge that Salisbury represents.

[KingSting999]

Pat,

I was under the impression that the first game the Aggies played against Iona would not have any nearing on the DIII polls since it wasn'y against a DIII team.
Am I wrong about that?

[Pat Coleman]

Our voters evaluate each and every game, at least in some respect, especially games against non-scholarship competition such as Iona.

Delaware Valley 2008 doesn't look a whole lot different than Delaware Valley 2007 -- in fact, with the home-field advantage reversed in the Wesley game it hardly seems different at all.

Sep. 1      1:00 PM      at Iona      L, 14-12     
Sep. 8    1:00 PM    at Wesley •    L, 24-21    

Sep. 6      1:00 PM      Iona      L, 27-19     
Sep. 13    1:00 PM    Wesley •    W, 25-22    

[PA_wesleyfan]

Pat,

I was under the impression that the first game the Aggies played against Iona would not have any nearing on the DIII polls since it wasn'y against a DIII team.
Am I wrong about that?

Kingsting999

Those games(non regiona) don't count for quality pts. used to pick teams for the tourny at the end of the year

[wesleydad]

pat, i was aware of that and realize it was a lose.  i still think the point total is a little low after beating the #3 team.

[PBR...]

Our voters evaluate each and every game, at least in some respect, especially games against non-scholarship competition such as Iona.

Delaware Valley 2008 doesn't look a whole lot different than Delaware Valley 2007 -- in fact, with the home-field advantage reversed in the Wesley game it hardly seems different at all.

Sep. 1      1:00 PM      at Iona      L, 14-12     
Sep. 8    1:00 PM    at Wesley •    L, 24-21    

Sep. 6      1:00 PM      Iona      L, 27-19     
Sep. 13    1:00 PM    Wesley •    W, 25-22    

understood pat, just thought maybe playing within a touchdown of a div I-AA school and defeating the #3 school would of garnered a bit more votes

[Pat Coleman]

Well, if Iona were a scholarship program, that would have helped them. But instead it's like playing any other D-III team to most voters.

[pg04]

Our voters evaluate each and every game, at least in some respect, especially games against non-scholarship competition such as Iona.

Delaware Valley 2008 doesn't look a whole lot different than Delaware Valley 2007 -- in fact, with the home-field advantage reversed in the Wesley game it hardly seems different at all.

Sep. 1      1:00 PM      at Iona      L, 14-12     
Sep. 8    1:00 PM    at Wesley •    L, 24-21    

Sep. 6      1:00 PM      Iona      L, 27-19     
Sep. 13    1:00 PM    Wesley •    W, 25-22    

understood pat, just thought maybe playing within a touchdown of a div I-AA school and defeating the #3 school would of garnered a bit more votes

Del Val is garnering some respect, even a #1 vote in the East Region Fan poll! 

[FearTheRam]

I don't have a problem with the ranking, after all it's only week 2 and if DelVal continues to win games that will take care of itself. Besides, perhaps there's a question as to Wesley's ranking as it was preseason, and no one knows how good they really are since they've only played one game...besides, those rankings are not important, it's all about keeping on winning games.

[PA_wesleyfan]

To any Widener fans. It's race weekend in Dover so you may want to give yourselves a little more time for travel.

[formerwu]

One more reason to stay out of Dover 

[PBR...]

me thinks widener better tighten up the chin strap as wesley is looking to deliver a beatdown this week...lets go widener represent the mac proud!