FB: Middle Atlantic Conference

[wone3]

bman - You may be the only person who can answer this question (maybe Warren Thompson as well).

Not including Stevenson and Miser given that they are newer programs...........has Albright, King's, Wilkes ever had any regular posters on the board?

I think of Widener (you), LebVal (Warren), Lycoming (Simba and another guy from the not-too-distant-past who seems to have disappeared), and FDU (Bill) but I'm not sure that I've ever seen a post from an Albright, King's and Wilkes fan. I love the site and these boards. I guess in the year 2015, there are too many other things to do

Stevenson's absence is the most surprising and probably indicative of how this part of the internet has evolved.

In one sense you'd expect the Mustangs to have several posters on here. They have a vibrant athletic program, fantastic facilities and lot of personnel involved with gameday from the players' families to the band to the broadcast crew. They have top-notch online coverage of games -- seriously their video coverage is ESPN level --  and that should translate to an extremely web-savvy audience. But, other than Dave McHugh, no one associated with the program posts on this message board. And Dave, like me, is an inside part of these websites.

I am going to say that I have a bit of inside for Stevenson; because my kid is going there as a Freshman in the band's color guard, so I plan on going to most of the home games the next 4 years. I do think a lot of why not many are here is because the school doesn't push or say much about the page or the boards here. I think they are more worried about developing the programs to do well and become established contenders every year. I mean last year was their most successful footballwise (coming into this year) and they played and won an ECAC bowl game. I really only know about here because I'm a Lyco alum from the early 90's and I always wanted to keep track to see how the guys were playing and to watch the playoff scores.

[Pat Coleman]

There was a very consistent Lyco poster (pre-Simba) who only disappeared in the last year or two. he was very informative and entertaining. I forget his handle.

jmcozenlaw...

That would be my good friend Lyco80....He retired June 2014 with a nice ceremony on Normandy Beach...The Captain is enjoying retirement from the Military and I'm sure he may surprise us some day again with his whit and humor...

And pre-Simba would be a long time ago since I go back to the start of the old board in the late 90's as Pat and others will confirm...

Simba

Simba, the board has us as just starters.................bman, Kate, Gordon and Warren are the All-Americans on the MAC Board. I demand a recount 

Too many of Simba's posts were before we moved to the new board in 2005. The "new" board is a decade old!

[bman]

There was a very consistent Lyco poster (pre-Simba) who only disappeared in the last year or two. he was very informative and entertaining. I forget his handle.

jmcozenlaw...

That would be my good friend Lyco80....He retired June 2014 with a nice ceremony on Normandy Beach...The Captain is enjoying retirement from the Military and I'm sure he may surprise us some day again with his whit and humor...

And pre-Simba would be a long time ago since I go back to the start of the old board in the late 90's as Pat and others will confirm...

Simba

Simba, the board has us as just starters.................bman, Kate, Gordon and Warren are the All-Americans on the MAC Board. I demand a recount 

To be fair, I am only all-region....like Simba, I lost a lot of posts on the old board years ago!

wone3  please stay (even after your 4 years with Stevenson)! 

[bill]

There was a very consistent Lyco poster (pre-Simba) who only disappeared in the last year or two. he was very informative and entertaining. I forget his handle.

jmcozenlaw...

That would be my good friend Lyco80....He retired June 2014 with a nice ceremony on Normandy Beach...The Captain is enjoying retirement from the Military and I'm sure he may surprise us some day again with his whit and humor...

And pre-Simba would be a long time ago since I go back to the start of the old board in the late 90's as Pat and others will confirm...

Simba

Simba, the board has us as just starters.................bman, Kate, Gordon and Warren are the All-Americans on the MAC Board. I demand a recount 

Too many of Simba's posts were before we moved to the new board in 2005. The "new" board is a decade old!

Count me in that group too. I easily had several hundred posts on the old board!! We can't grandfather them in, huh?

[PBR...]

Uggh.

FDU has now given up almost 900 yards rushing in its last two games ...I wonder what the game plan will be going forward?

Showing how long I have been on here but here goes ... Never remember any Kings posters... There were 2 Wilkes posters but I don't remember their handles off hand without going way back and looking(believe 1 of them was a former player for them). Been a few albright posters here through the years none consistent. Big win for DVU and now the clash of the titans in 2 weeks with Albright. That game should be excellent.

[bman]

Uggh.

FDU has now given up almost 900 yards rushing in its last two games ...I wonder what the game plan will be going forward?

Showing how long I have been on here but here goes ... Never remember any Kings posters... There were 2 Wilkes posters but I don't remember their handles off hand without going way back and looking(believe 1 of them was a former player for them). Been a few albright posters here through the years none consistent. Big win for DVU and now the clash of the titans in 2 weeks with Albright. That game should be excellent.

One Wilkes poster who pops in now and then is WUDLINE.  I thought for a while that he was a Widener poster, but he's definitely Wilkes....

[AO]

At least he was nice enough to use the corkscrew rather than the knife

[kate]

Let's keep it classy Albright/All MAC Teams!

[wone3]

That game ought to be interesting tho...I gotta pull for Albright and hope Stevenson can pull out homecoming/Widener and Wilkes to get the big showdown in early November. 

It would be nice to be talking about more than Del Valley,Widener or Lyco as the preseason likely candidate for the bid. Makes it a bit more interesting and helps conference SOS to have more successful teams

[bman]

At least he was nice enough to use the corkscrew rather than the knife

Reading is a tough town, but usually that's outside the school...

It's a shame, as that young man's life has just been made very difficult, and he'll learn very quickly, that whatever it was over, wasn't worth it...

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

I don't think you will see Lycoming recover from this collapse. There "era" is over. An argument can be made for their youth, but there isn't a lot of potential talent that comes with that youth. I am afraid it will be tough for them to get back on top. I see them finishing the season 4-6.

MAF

What "era" are you referencing? 

Lyco has won the MAC outright 1 time since 2000 and has tied for it 3 times in that span...
Not sure you'd call that an "era"...


What I will say is that Lyco is a team that you always comes to play, and is never an easy win, and is always well coached.
Given that the MAC is cyclical and that teams tend to win and lose in runs, I'm not so sure that I'd be definitively stating anything about Lyco (or any other MAC team)...
My (unsupported with any facts guess) is that Lyco has lost a bit of the stranglehold they used to have in recruiting the Philly Catholic League schools...which may coincide with DVUs success in the 2000's   
I'll leave others to opine on that...

An era of historical bias that has spilled over to now. They dominated the 90's and early 2000's. It's been a 3 team league all those years. As you see this year it is not just your typical 3 teams at the top. And I think that trend will continue and we will see this type of season more often than not. The stereotypical Lycoming, Del Val, and Widener battling for 1st is done IMO. Lycoming is just my example because of how things are going this year. Preseason top 25 because of their name not because of who they brought back and who they lost. They are now 1-4 overall and 1-3 in the MAC. You normally don't see a preseason top 25 team perform this way.

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

It's not a slam on any program it's just the way it is shaping up. You see it in multiple sports where the gap is closing nationwide. Those "powerhouse" teams are starting to be beaten. It happens.

[jmcozenlaw]

At least he was nice enough to use the corkscrew rather than the knife

Reading is a tough town, but usually that's outside the school...

It's a shame, as that young man's life has just been made very difficult, and he'll learn very quickly, that whatever it was over, wasn't worth it...

bman - You think Reading (Albright) and Chester (Widener) are tough towns? Wilkes-Barre is no walk in the park late at night and how about Doylestown? I saw not only a jaywalker in Doylestown last Saturday night but I also saw someone litter. It's time to pack up and move 

[Jonny Utah]

At least he was nice enough to use the corkscrew rather than the knife

Reading is a tough town, but usually that's outside the school...

It's a shame, as that young man's life has just been made very difficult, and he'll learn very quickly, that whatever it was over, wasn't worth it...

bman - You think Reading (Albright) and Chester (Widener) are tough towns? Wilkes-Barre is no walk in the park late at night and how about Doylestown? I saw not only a jaywalker in Doylestown last Saturday night but I also saw someone litter. It's time to pack up and move 

I was just thinking about that.  My family is from Bethlehem, and I went there every year as a kid till I was about 10.  My mother's family comes from a long line of coal miners, first from Wales, then they immigrated to Eastern, PA.  They lived in what seemed to me a normal every day North American neighborhood (near the Catholic High School/church If I remember correctly). 

Anyway, it looks like the kid who did the stabbing is from Bethlehem?

[Mid-Atlantic Fan]

http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/pennsylvania/pa-dangerous-places/

Enjoy!