FB: Conference of New England

[Findtheball]

 a job well done.

Look how far we have come NLNG 


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Now thats what I'm talking about dlip. just a little +K . one back at ya.






CB23 not worried at all !! It's going to be a great game jn the rain, wear your golashes. where is your mask? wear your mask too!

[63Center]

OK, NLNG I'm back since you ask about me.  Thanks for the love.  Here are my picks for this week:

Framingham 21 MME 17 - O just think Framingham is a better team

EC 30 WNEC 27 - This should be a good game, but I give it to the Gulls at home and they are going to be looking for blood after last week's embarassment

Nichols 27 UMD 35 - UMD will put it all together at home this week and show that they are better than they have been playing.

SRU 42 MIT 7  - SRU is playing good ball

Fitchburg 30 MMA 10

BSC 21 Westfield 14 - This could be a good game

USCGA 28  Worcester St.  21 - I look for the Cadets to get things going

GAME OF THE WEEK AND MAYBE YEAR FOR THE NEFC:

PSU 21 Curry 18  - This will dictate the conference champs.

[FootFan]

MME 34 Framingham 14 - Framingham done

WNEC 31 EC 27 - Pretty even

Nichols 31 UMD 7 - UMD just bad

SRU 42 MIT 10  - St. Onge legit

Fitchburg 45 MMA 10 -  Mass Maritime done

Westfield 21 BSC 0 - Best D in the division will win

CGA 31  Worcester St.  14 - Too much Karr

PSU 28 Curry 14  - PSU new sherrif in town

[Findtheball]

OK, NLNG I'm back since you ask about me.  Thanks for the love.  Here are my picks for this week:

Framingham 21 MME 17 - O just think Framingham is a better team

EC 30 WNEC 27 - This should be a good game, but I give it to the Gulls at home and they are going to be looking for blood after last week's embarassment

Nichols 27 UMD 35 - UMD will put it all together at home this week and show that they are better than they have been playing.

SRU 42 MIT 7  - SRU is playing good ball

Fitchburg 30 MMA 10

BSC 21 Westfield 14 - This could be a good game

USCGA 28  Worcester St.  21 - I look for the Cadets to get things going

GAME OF THE WEEK AND MAYBE YEAR FOR THE NEFC:

PSU 21 Curry 18  - This will dictate the conference champs.

Welcome back 63 + K for you

Here's my picks
MME over Framingham  24-21   ..MME controls the clock..Framingham looking better than ever though.

EC  over WNEC  31-24 should be a good game.

UMD over Nichols 21-17 UMD needs this bad !!

SRU over MIT 41-38 their prayers have been answered

FSC over MMA 27 -7 then again this could get ugly

BSC over Westfield 21-20 good game too

Worcester over USCGA 24-21



                             THE GAME TO BE AT!!!!!!
PSU over Curry 33-24 you can't miss this one

Good luck to all, welcome back 63 center

[Boxer7806]

Looks like some of the praise you guys gave Framingham came back to bite them in the butt as they were down 43-0 at one point. Maine established themselves as the top dog in the Bogan with the win and Bridgewater's loss to Westfield. Maine is 6-1 and I do not think they are going to be beat the rest of the year

Curry takes out Plymouth and looks to be the Boyd champ. As of right now it seems like Maine will make the championship game again and Curry will return.

Congrats to WNEC beating Endicott, they have shown more fight this year then anyone would have expected.

Final thought is how bout Mass Maritime. They lose Sherr but continue to fight and beat the heck out of Fitchburg. Their losses are only by a handful of points and they might be the youngest team in the conference. I think they play Framingham next week and I think they beat them as Framingham is on a 4 game losing streak. That will set up a game against Bridgewater St which could be the first time they have an actual shot at winning the Cranberry Bowl. If sherr comes back healthy next year for Mass, I strongly believe they have a shot at the Bogan.

[Findtheball]

Plymouth didn't look good on Saturday. many missed tackles in the backfield (wrap up ), 3 int's ,& penalties. Curry really didn't look all that great either ,but a win is a win .
Plymouth still stingy up the middle. I think offiating could of been better ,but you can't leave it up to them. Now they have to win out to have a bid. I still believe,(now this is just my opinion) Plymouth is still the better team.

                                              Nuff Said
     
                                               N L N G   

[Boxer7806]

NLNG,

I hope your not talking about an NCAA bid, because they do not have a shot at that. Maybe an ECAC bid, but that will be the closest thing Plymouth will be to a bid.

You can not say Plymouth is the better team when your QB, of an option team throws 3 INTs. Either the run was shut down, or you were getting beat up pretty good on the scoreboard. Either way it suggests that Curry was the superior team.

Endicott is probaly saying thier better then Plymouth ST after blowing a huge lead, and they are 3-5. Point is if you lose to a team by 2 TD's, your most likely not the better team.

[vttanker]

I follow Maine and at first it looked like Framingham was going to make it a decent game, but after a few series Maine just took it to them.  Of course I want to see Maine win out, but next week is Coast Guard and they always seem to give them trouble.  But overall, it's hard to know from week to week who is going to win.  Lot of surprises each week.

Got to see Mass Maritime play against Maine and I agree this could be a team to watch out for.  Offense executes very well.  Cranberry Bowl could go either way the way Mass Maritime is playing.  Bridgewater State is so good one week and then goes flat the next. 

If Westfield State had a little more offense they could have probably won it this year

Looks like some of the praise you guys gave Framingham came back to bite them in the butt as they were down 43-0 at one point. Maine established themselves as the top dog in the Bogan with the win and Bridgewater's loss to Westfield. Maine is 6-1 and I do not think they are going to be beat the rest of the year

Curry takes out Plymouth and looks to be the Boyd champ. As of right now it seems like Maine will make the championship game again and Curry will return.

Congrats to WNEC beating Endicott, they have shown more fight this year then anyone would have expected.

Final thought is how bout Mass Maritime. They lose Sherr but continue to fight and beat the heck out of Fitchburg. Their losses are only by a handful of points and they might be the youngest team in the conference. I think they play Framingham next week and I think they beat them as Framingham is on a 4 game losing streak. That will set up a game against Bridgewater St which could be the first time they have an actual shot at winning the Cranberry Bowl. If sherr comes back healthy next year for Mass, I strongly believe they have a shot at the Bogan.

[PantherPr1de]

Plymouth didn't look good on Saturday. many missed tackles in the backfield (wrap up ), 3 int's ,& penalties. Curry really didn't look all that great either ,but a win is a win .
Plymouth still stingy up the middle. I think offiating could of been better ,but you can't leave it up to them. Now they have to win out to have a bid. I still believe,(now this is just my opinion) Plymouth is still the better team.

                                              Nuff Said
     
                                               N L N G   

NLNG, I was at the game this past weekend as well and maybe saw things a little different than you.  Curry looked like the better team in all facets of the game.  They ate us up with no contain on their QB.  He was able to dance around the whole game and break for 1st downs and the TD at will it seemed.  Plymouth did stuff their RB, but they beat us on pretty much every play that started as a pass.  That scrambling 50 yd TD pass to their TE just before the half was a killer, but not the biggest problem I saw with that game.

I have all the support in the world for the Panther program, but what the hell was Castonia thinking in the late 2nd half of that game?  We needed 3 scores at the end of the game with 5+ minutes remaining in the 3rd quarter.  We ran the ball 95% of the time and chewed up 10 minutes of clock on 1 scoring drive.  He was calling plays as if we were up and trying to burn the clock out.  By the time we got the ball back their was 5 minutes left in the game and we needed 2 TDs.  Not until that point did he go with more than a double TE and 1 WR set.  It made no sense to me.

This is not an excuse, it is reality on why we lost.  Curry came out hit harder and made the plays.  My hats off to them. 

It has been a long time since I have gotten my blood pumping for a game like I did at that opening coin flip.  Both teams were fired up and it was an electric atmosphere on a typical New England fall day.  It was was D3 football is all about....I felt the passion of both teams and their fans.

Did anyone noticed that their seemed to be more Plymouth fans than Curry fans at that game?  Very nice ball field they have their as well.

Plymouth will score an ECAC bid vs. an E8 team and Curry will earn that NCAA bid.

[Boxer7806]

PantherPride,

That all depends on the E8 race at this point. Plymouth could actually be the odd team out depending if teams accept nominations. Alfred and Springfield are leaders in the E8 and face very tough schedules down the stretch. If Springfield loses another game they will lose out on a Pool C bid on the playoffs. Even if Springfield runs the table they might not get that bid. This means Fisher, Ithaca,  will all be up for ECAC bids at least, and with a loss as will Springfield. Add to this  pool the champion of the ECFC conference and you now have 4 teams from these two conferences vying for 4 ECAC bids. Normally the loser of the NEFC championship game gets the first invitation to an ECAC game, which now leaves 5 teams ahead of Plymouth for an ECAC bid.

Lets play the most possible scenario, Alfred wins the E8 gets the auto, Springfield loses to SJF or Ithaca in thier final two games and Norwich wins the ECFC and Curry beats Maine in the championship the bids in my mind would go

1. Springfield (7-2) E8
2. Maine (8-2) (Bogan Champ / Loser NEFC CG)
3. Norwich (7-3) Winnner of ECFC
4. SJF (6-4) E8
5. Ithaca (7-3) E8
6. Plymouth (8-2)

So Plymouth's best hope is for Springfield / Alfred to win out and get two teams from the E8 and then hope that the Springfield defeats of Ithaca and SJF will prople them over one of those two schools for a bid. Or Ithaca or SJF decide to pass up the invitations.

[63Center]

I listened to part of the Curry-PSU game on the radio and it sure souinded like Curry was the better team.  I would say that Curry will end up with another NEFC championship and the automatic NCAA bid.  It would be nce if they could win another NCAA game.

I am trying to figure out what is going on with EC.  The were up against PSU and lost and they were up against WNEC and lost.  It looks like they aren't playing a full 60 minutes of FB. 

I also can't figure out BSC.  They look great one game and then terrible the next.  Maybe its the competition.

SRU is looking good this year. 

[jkelly24]

hey nlng!!
amazing... the sharks circling under the water, just waiting to rip plymouth apart, finally got the chance with their loss to curry.        never a positive comment before the past weekend. 

anyway, i am not familiar with the "at large vote" process. How does this work?

CB23

[union89]

hey nlng!!
amazing... the sharks circling under the water, just waiting to rip plymouth apart, finally got the chance with their loss to curry.        never a positive comment before the past weekend. 

anyway, i am not familiar with the "at large vote" process. How does this work?

CB23

Dude,
You lose a lot of respect with everyone when you make the comment, "Plymouth St. may have lost, but they are still the better team."

Very minor league....I am surprised he didn't get hammered worse for making the statement and you for defending what he said.

[lewdogg11]

hey nlng!!
amazing... the sharks circling under the water, just waiting to rip plymouth apart, finally got the chance with their loss to curry.        never a positive comment before the past weekend. 

anyway, i am not familiar with the "at large vote" process. How does this work?

CB23

Dude,
You lose a lot of respect with everyone when you make the comment, "Plymouth St. may have lost, but they are still the better team."

Very minor league....I am surprised he didn't get hammered worse for making the statement and you for defending what he said.

Leave him alone U89...I can answer the at large bid question though....It goes like this...

Don't worry about it...You don't qualify.

[Findtheball]

 Don't you just love the LewDogg ! I said it was my opinion no yours not his but  MYor MINE thats all ! We were in the backfield so many times and we let th QB get away . You didn't see that Pather pride or were you drinking your coffee at that time Last years Curry team was a better team than this one. Curry came out on top this year . Boxer hopefully we get your team for ECAC that would be ok with me.



                                      nuff said