FB: Conference of New England

[InTheMix]

On the topic of NEFC teams playing outside of the conference:

I am glad to see that teams are starting to branch out.  A couple of years ago the NEFC was the joke of D III football.  MOST teams would stay in their comfort zones and play teams that they could beat.  Endicott played out of conference games from the start against teams like WPI, RPI, and Hartwick.  It helped them at the time, but as we can all see they've dropped off.

Maybe with the power teams (Curry, Plymouth State) playing OOC games the NEFC can get to another level.

[pumkinattack]

That's been the idea all along.  You guys just haven't been listening. 

[defenseiskey]

Curry Scrimmaged Bentley a few years back and did well against them. I know it is only a scrimmage but it gives some type of outlook on what may happen. Both sides have lost key players that need their shoes filled. Especially with Curry losing it's QB and primary WR on O and some players on D. Be an interesting start to the season for Curry and many other NEFC teams. They will hang in I'm sure to make the games a dooze

[AUPepBand]

Pep believes AU will find a formidable opponent in UMass-Dartmouth come 12 noon Saturday, Sept. 5. According to their website, the Corsairs had 21 seniors play their 2008 finale against Curry, a 40-20 loss. Their coach says they have some "big shoes to fill" including a couple of linebackers and a defensive lineman, and their QB, RB and WR on offense. Nevertheless, UMass-Dartmouth has a winning tradition, going 122-84 over its 21 seasons of football. And the Saxons will be making a L O N G trip to coastal Massachusetts.

On Saxon Warriors!!

Any Dartmouth fans on the boards? What's a Corsair?

[lewdogg11]

Pep believes AU will find a formidable opponent in UMass-Dartmouth come 12 noon Saturday, Sept. 5. According to their website, the Corsairs had 21 seniors play their 2008 finale against Curry, a 40-20 loss. Their coach says they have some "big shoes to fill" including a couple of linebackers and a defensive lineman, and their QB, RB and WR on offense. Nevertheless, UMass-Dartmouth has a winning tradition, going 122-84 over its 21 seasons of football. And the Saxons will be making a L O N G trip to coastal Massachusetts.

On Saxon Warriors!!

Any Dartmouth fans on the boards? What's a Corsair?

It's one of those flowers you get the chick for the prom.

[Jonny Utah]

Pep believes AU will find a formidable opponent in UMass-Dartmouth come 12 noon Saturday, Sept. 5. According to their website, the Corsairs had 21 seniors play their 2008 finale against Curry, a 40-20 loss. Their coach says they have some "big shoes to fill" including a couple of linebackers and a defensive lineman, and their QB, RB and WR on offense. Nevertheless, UMass-Dartmouth has a winning tradition, going 122-84 over its 21 seasons of football. And the Saxons will be making a L O N G trip to coastal Massachusetts.

On Saxon Warriors!!

Any Dartmouth fans on the boards? What's a Corsair?

It's one of those flowers you get the chick for the prom.

Wrong LD, its one of these....



They were invented in Dartmouth.

[Knightstalker]

Pep believes AU will find a formidable opponent in UMass-Dartmouth come 12 noon Saturday, Sept. 5. According to their website, the Corsairs had 21 seniors play their 2008 finale against Curry, a 40-20 loss. Their coach says they have some "big shoes to fill" including a couple of linebackers and a defensive lineman, and their QB, RB and WR on offense. Nevertheless, UMass-Dartmouth has a winning tradition, going 122-84 over its 21 seasons of football. And the Saxons will be making a L O N G trip to coastal Massachusetts.

On Saxon Warriors!!

Any Dartmouth fans on the boards? What's a Corsair?

It's one of those flowers you get the chick for the prom.

Wrong LD, its one of these....



They were invented in Dartmouth.

This is a corsair.

[PBR...]

Pep believes AU will find a formidable opponent in UMass-Dartmouth come 12 noon Saturday, Sept. 5. According to their website, the Corsairs had 21 seniors play their 2008 finale against Curry, a 40-20 loss. Their coach says they have some "big shoes to fill" including a couple of linebackers and a defensive lineman, and their QB, RB and WR on offense. Nevertheless, UMass-Dartmouth has a winning tradition, going 122-84 over its 21 seasons of football. And the Saxons will be making a L O N G trip to coastal Massachusetts.

On Saxon Warriors!!

Any Dartmouth fans on the boards? What's a Corsair?

  ...sorry this is a corvair

[Jonny Utah]

Pep believes AU will find a formidable opponent in UMass-Dartmouth come 12 noon Saturday, Sept. 5. According to their website, the Corsairs had 21 seniors play their 2008 finale against Curry, a 40-20 loss. Their coach says they have some "big shoes to fill" including a couple of linebackers and a defensive lineman, and their QB, RB and WR on offense. Nevertheless, UMass-Dartmouth has a winning tradition, going 122-84 over its 21 seasons of football. And the Saxons will be making a L O N G trip to coastal Massachusetts.

On Saxon Warriors!!

Any Dartmouth fans on the boards? What's a Corsair?

Pep if you do end up staying over, I would look into Newport, RI.  Its about 45 minutes away but its a fantastic city and area.  It might be out of season too so you might pay $150 a night in a place that might go for $500 a night during the summer....

EDIT: just realized thats labor day weekend, forget it.  But Newport is still fantastic if you want to stay near there or want to pay the big bucks to stay in the city. 

[AUPepBand]

Pep if you do end up staying over, I would look into Newport, RI.  Its about 45 minutes away but its a fantastic city and area.  It might be out of season too so you might pay $150 a night in a place that might go for $500 a night during the summer....

EDIT: just realized thats labor day weekend, forget it.  But Newport is still fantastic if you want to stay near there or want to pay the big bucks to stay in the city. 

Pep is very much familiar with Newport, RI. In fact, Pep had purchased back in November 2008 a Wyndham Vacation sales pitch for Newport, RI that amounted to $89 for three nights and four days. So, Pep called this very morning to see whether he could schedule it for that weekend, seeing that Newport is not far from New Bedford, MA. Seems that Wyndham has closed their Newport, RI Welcome Center and, therefore, could not book Pep there. So, instead, Pep is getting his $89 refunded. That ruins Pep's plan. (Pep is notorious for traveling on the cheap and has been known to sleep in his bandwagon and pay $9 for a shower at a truck stop rather than dish out $100 for a room.)

To make a long story even longer, Pep, in his library position, researched the inventor of the universal joint (Clarence Spicer) who had attended Alfred Academy in the 1890s, for the Dana Corporation headquartered in Toledo, OH. Charles Dana partnered with Spicer soon after Spicer had established the Spicer Manufacturing Co. in 1904 to produce U-joints for the auto industry. Dana eventually took over Spicer's business, allowing Spicer to focus more on his inventive abilities. Anyway, Pep was invited by the Dana Corporation to do a presentation on Spicer at the company's Centennial Celebration in Toledo back in 2004. There, Pep met Charlie Dana, grandson of Spicer's partner, who happens to hail from Newport, RI where he owns the Newport Shipyard! Pep has visited and lunched with Charlie at his shipyard....later to discover an AU student from Newport, RI who is good friends with Charlie's sons and whose father previously owned the shipyard!!

Now Pep had long ago visited The Breakers and some of the other mansions out on Bellevue Ave. (also home of Salve Regina) and was interested to learn that all of that was at one time farm property. Seems that Pep's acquaintance resides in the original farmhouse on the corner of Bellevue Avenue. Ha!

Many of Alfred's settlers--the Seventh Day Baptists--hailed from Westerly, RI and, in fact, the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America was the one established at Newport, RI. The original church building is part of the Newport Historical Museum.

Mrs. Pep grew up in Ashaway, RI near Westerly...another reason Pep is familiar with the Ocean State. Pep's favorite beach is at "The Dunes," right near Misquamicut State Beach.

Pep is thinking he'll contact his AU student friend to see if he'd like a weekend trip back home....and whether he'd host the band for a night. Ha ha! Travel on the cheap...it's how Pep rolls.

Stay tuned....and maybe you'll hear, as Paul Harvey (may he R.I.P.) would say, "the rest of the story."

[dlippiel]

On the topic of NEFC teams playing outside of the conference:

I am glad to see that teams are starting to branch out.  A couple of years ago the NEFC was the joke of D III football.  MOST teams would stay in their comfort zones and play teams that they could beat.  Endicott played out of conference games from the start against teams like WPI, RPI, and Hartwick.  It helped them at the time, but as we can all see they've dropped off.

Maybe with the power teams (Curry, Plymouth State) playing OOC games the NEFC can get to another level.

dlippiel feels that Curry has moved on to that next level and has earned a certain amount of respect on an East region level. dlippiel can tell you this, the next NCAA game Curry plays they will definitely be taken seriously by all. Plymoth St still has a way to go but made strides last season. As far as the rest of the NEFC is concerned, the conference needs a few more OOC wins and/or NCAA wins by other teams to go to that next level. dlippiel will say one thing...

LET'S GO ENDICOTT!

[stimulator]

Damn dlippiel...

spreading your pro-Dutchmen sentiments across multiple boards....

I think that daughter of yours will grow up to be an engineer.. any ideas on where she might matriculate? 

[pumkinattack]

Georgia Tech??

[Jonny Utah]

On the topic of NEFC teams playing outside of the conference:

I am glad to see that teams are starting to branch out.  A couple of years ago the NEFC was the joke of D III football.  MOST teams would stay in their comfort zones and play teams that they could beat.  Endicott played out of conference games from the start against teams like WPI, RPI, and Hartwick.  It helped them at the time, but as we can all see they've dropped off.

Maybe with the power teams (Curry, Plymouth State) playing OOC games the NEFC can get to another level.

dlippiel feels that Curry has moved on to that next level and has earned a certain amount of respect on an East region level. dlippiel can tell you this, the next NCAA game Curry plays they will definitely be taken seriously by all. Plymoth St still has a way to go but made strides last season. As far as the rest of the NEFC is concerned, the conference needs a few more OOC wins and/or NCAA wins by other teams to go to that next level. dlippiel will say one thing...

LET'S GO ENDICOTT!

Dlipp, dont get carried away.

They beat an Ithaca team without its starting QB and RB and then got smoked by an average Cortland team by 4 TDs......Lets settle down with the respect card.

[nefan]

One of the former Chancellors of UMass Dartmouth Back before it was Southeastern Mass University (SMU) was a former Corsair pilot and named the schools sports teams after his love for his favorite plane. During the Vietnam conflict, the school kept the name and reverted to its "pirate" incarnation. It has been a "pirate" ever since. There was talk before the new logo was introduced of going to a unisex Corsair Ship but that was shot down by the student athletes. Believe me; Alfred will know what a Corsair is by the end of game. UMass Dartmouth has a lot to replace but they have enough to go around and give Alfred a game and in my viewpoint some new earned respect from an out of conference opponent. If Alfred is not careful a "loss" will make the bus ride seem a lot longer.