FB: Conference of New England

[masher]

hey 1st time poster here...big fan of the web site....it's nice to have an area to talk about D3 student athletes who sometimes don't get the recongnition they deserve....

[SullyMustGo]

And Fitchburgh is not gonna lose this week because guess who they are playing.  I'd like to see soem guesses on here on how many points Fitchburgh is going to score this week.

[masher]

well from what i heard framingham played westfield pretty tough, well atleast there defense did. i've seen two framingham games and they have a good defense that are just on the field  way too much. The sad thing is it looks like they got a couple of skill guys who can play on offense, they just don't have any way of getting the ball. I'm not sure if it's the play calling or the QB's...or maybe both. all things considered i see a 44 to 14 rout by fitchburg.

[SullyMustGo]

Masher, you must have been to the games when they played MIT or Mass Maritime. Check out the scores when they play decent opponents.... I do have to say their defense is way better than their non existant offense, but no way can you say that hey have a good defense.

[retired coach]

i think it is pretty funny their is no action on the curry  ec game. Currys defence showed what a champion is made of they fought both ec very good offence and a crew of officals who were deterned to see ec win. An earlier poster said would have won if it was not for a holding call. Holding should have been called on every outside run or pass. They had to call that one it was out in the open ec offensive line was way overmatched by currys d-line. ec offence had no answer for #56 and #52 but hold them. curry will now be able to rest up and get ready to defend their title for a 3peat.   

[waggle09]

Framingham State is improving. I witness the Westfield game: FSC runs out of the gun the entire time the QB is just ok. and he has a couple decent receivers. He will occassionaly put the ball in the hands of tail back but mostly pass oriented.. Westfield's defense was to tough...FSC defense is ok but Westfields offense is one of the poorest in the league. they average about 10 pts. per game... Other than the new turf at FSC the facilities at the field are atrocious..

[SullyMustGo]

Is Framingham any better than they were the past few years or did some teams in the division just get worse? I will answer this for you. Last year Fram scored an avgerage of 8.2 points per game, this year 8.9 points.  No real improvement there, and they havn't played Fitchburgh or Maine yet. They running game last year netted a total of 287 yards as a TEAM for the ENTIRE season. I was shocked when I read that. Never thught it could be that bad. This year they have a little over 300 yards for the season. A little better, but horrible. Now for passing. Framingham, supposably a passing team is worse than last year. They average 128 yards passing a game this year compared to 148 a game last year......Now for the Defense. Fram's run defense last year was 274 yards given up per game, this year 273 and they still havn't played Fitchburgh and Maine like I said.
Now for the big one, total yeards given up. Last year Framingham averaged 430.1 yards against. This year a wopping 456 yards against. Now can you say they are improving? Go check the stats yourself if you doubt me, Framingham is last in every category except pass defense, because no one has to pass against them and pass offense because they are always behind and have to throw the ball. Numbers don't lie.

[63Center]

I want to comment on the EC-Curry game.  I don't see how anyone can state that the Curry defense shut down EC when EC rushed for 257 yards and Curry only rushed for 72.  Looks more like EC shut down the Curry running game.  Also, holding can be called on every play in every game at any level if the officials are so inclined.  I don't dispute the holding call at the end of the game and I don't dispute that there were holding calls missed, but they were missed both ways.  There were several times when you could see an EC defended jersey pulled out by the offensive player just to prevent the EC defender from sacking the Curry QB.  Officials calls always depend on which side you are for.  As far as EC getting the breaks, I don't think so.  The defending Champ always gets the benefit of the calls especially when it is their homecoming.

I think both teams played a hard fought contest and nothing should be taken away from that.  Congrats to Curry for another Boyd championship and I am glad that it came down to two teams fighting it out on the field rather than being decided by other games.

[retired coach]

i think the curry defence  giving up only 9 points is shutting down the ec offince. you can give up 300 yards rushing but 0 points its still a shutout.
the holding reference was in response to a earler post  that if it wasn't for the call a the end of the game ec would have been celerbrating  instead of curry. i agree that holding could be called on almost any play.

[rogershastogo]

Framingham needs help we all know that. No numbers and the lack of speed to name a few things, but ripping the players is just wrong.

These guys play hard and many have heart, unlike some of you who write on here. It is easy to write and be critical. I bet many of you never played the game.

The D is better and the O is too, but the play calling is just plain BAD! I have seen better play calling in youth leagues. Next year is going to be better and I hope the school hires someone who can run an offense.

In closing I will say that this team has some good key players, on both sides of the ball. Remember they are very young.

[galvin20]

I'd like to reply to some messages posted at the begining of the season which were about how Curry gets their kids and how Curry has a great academic reputation.  The only academic reputaion I have heard of at Curry is "if you cant get into college, go to Curry". That is how they get their kids.  I have plenty of friends who go there and none of them got into any other schools.  I'm not taking anything away from their play on the field.  They have unbelievable coaching and real athletic kids.  But take a look at the league.  Who is usually on top? Teams with very low acceptance standards like Curry. Who is usually on the bottom? the teams with the highest acceptance standards, take MIT for example.  Im not saying Curry doesn't offer a good education. I am saying pretty much anyone can get into the school, its common knowledge.  Take Salve Regina, they used to smoke d2 teams and go undefeated without a problem when the school had minimal acceptance standards for males as it recently became a coed school.  Now that the acceptance standards are one of the highest in the conference and they had a recent freshmen class of 7 players.  That makes it a lot tougher to compete with a school who lets anyone in and has 100 kids on the team.  I tip my hat to MIT and other schools who have to face the adversity of higher acceptance standards. 

[Jonny Utah]

galvin hate to tell ya buddy but salve aint that hard to get into either.  you need about a 900 to get into salve and about a 1500 to get into mit....big difference there.

[SullyMustGo]

Rogershastogo....I love the name man. If Sully is staying anohter year or two he could atleast get a new o-coordinater. Rogers does need to be replaced. In no way was I knockng the players personally. I was just defending my statement that the team hasn't improved. I'm not even sure if you meant me, but if you did I wasn't making fun of the players. I know how hard the team works in spite of sully and rogers.

[masher]

i think i'm going to check out the framingahm fitchburg game just too see what happens...i'm going to pay close attention to the play calling and the talent they have on the field.......i think we should give credit to curry's defense for slowing down EC's offense. Both of those teams are very well coached and have great athletes on both sides of the ball, either would be deserving to play in the conference tittle game

[retired coach]

so galvin what are you saying good football players arn't to smart or smart kids don't make good football players