FB: Middle Atlantic Conference

[labart96]

That is the same guy. He played and graduated from Rochester in 1994 and also coached at Delaware prior to the Citadel.

I thought so too.  Glad to see him in a HC role.  He's a good guy and hopefully he does a great job at WU.

[bill]

I agree that Ike is a great hire for Widener. He is a fantastic coach; I was lucky enough to coach with him at Lehigh. I wish him nothing but the best....This is a guy on the way up...

[zlovesid]

King's held a press conference to introduce Jeff Knarr as its new head coach. The press conference archive can be viewed any time at: mms://streaming.kings.edu/FootballHeadCoach

[PBR...]

good luck the dvc wrestlers as dvc hosts the midwest regionals this weekend. Hope many do well and move onto nationals. Pbr will try and make it down to see some of the matches saturday.

[PBR...]

congrats to the dvc wrestling team sending 7 wrestlers to the ncaa championships and having 6 individual region champions and winning their 4th consecutive regional crown. well done by all now its time to go bring home the national championship in wrestling

[LANES]

Anyone offering any early predictions or recruiting feedback for the MAC?

[kate]

Del Val's schedule is up - it looks very strong.

[PBR...]

Del Val's schedule is up - it looks very strong.

saw it...very much like it! very tough OOC opponents. In fact that is kind of what concerns me...the selection committee has shown over and over that they give no heavier weighting to a tough schedule. They strictly look almost at records only. They have shown they would rather you beat up on cream puffs and pump up your record rather than play tough OOC teams and get rewarded for it. Even if you were to lose a close game to someone outside of your conference on the road it is held against you.

[gordonmann]

Del Val had a really hard time filling its third open date. Wesley and W&J (via the PAC-MAC challenge) were already set but it was hard to find a taker that was nearby to play.  Muhlenberg is a nice addition.

[PBR...]

Del Val had a really hard time filling its third open date. Wesley and W&J (via the PAC-MAC challenge) were already set but it was hard to find a taker that was nearby to play.  Muhlenberg is a nice addition.

get your voice ready gordon! ready to go already...think dvc is going to be strong this year with many returning starters.

[D3FBFan55]

Congrats to Mike Isgro for being honered by the NFF and NCAA last night at Villanova.  Apparently he is a great student as well as a great athlete.  Do any of you close to the DVC program know if he plans to stay in the area and what his future plans are?

[PBR...]

Congrats to Mike Isgro for being honered by the NFF and NCAA last night at Villanova.  Apparently he is a great student as well as a great athlete.  Do any of you close to the DVC program know if he plans to stay in the area and what his future plans are?

Not sure what his plans are this point....he is from nj if memory serves me correctly (absecon or somewhere near there i believe). So his family i guess is local but not sure what his plans are, some when they graduate want to go see the world. Many people i graduated w/ from dvc are all over the world and spread across the u.s.a.

[D3FBFan55]

With M.Isgro graduating, will Del Val still have a formidable team?  I know they had a lot of talent, I am just not sure how many of them graduated.  Are they still the class of the MAC?

Also Albright was good last year as well.  Did they lose all their good players to graduation, or will they have sustained success?

Lets get some football talk going, this topic has been dead for a while.

[PBR...]

With M.Isgro graduating, will Del Val still have a formidable team?  I know they had a lot of talent, I am just not sure how many of them graduated.  Are they still the class of the MAC?

Also Albright was good last year as well.  Did they lose all their good players to graduation, or will they have sustained success?

Lets get some football talk going, this topic has been dead for a while.

Well here is a link for you for some info on DVC's team this year. They have 18 returning starters. Granted a key graduation was Isgro but his backup Mark Hatty played very well when Isgro was injured last year. DVC is should be listed as 1 of the top teams in the MAC if not the top team. Now is when imho when teams make leaps and bounds. The off season workouts is what paves the road for victories in september.

http://athletics.delval.edu/news/2010/6/7/FB_10preseason_all-americans.aspx?path=football

[gordonmann]

I think the Sporting News' analysis is dead on.  Hatty's ability to replace Isgro at quarterback is the key.  I expect Cook to carry the ball and the offensive burden more in early games.  The defense should be fine, though they'll miss Squitierre in the secondary.

Albright lost star quarterback Tanner Kelly quarterback and his favorite target Nate Romig.  It also lost the talented backup QB Patrick Subers.  It'll be interesting to see who plays quarterback next.  I think Kelly was recruited by E.J. Sandusky who also coached gunslinger Jon Port.  A couple years ago Marzka told me he wanted to run the ball more, so maybe they'll have a different kind of QB.

Del Val's preseason ranking is too high, but I'd put them and Leb Val as the favorites in some order.