FB: Conference of New England

[Boxer7806]

Its not about the travel, Maine has to sleep overnight for most games, but I will take it for what it is worth and if they play MHB then they do and wish them the best of luck. Your right about the Hobart playing MUC comparison. I would just like to see the conference do well. I know the OOC doesn't point for Maine to get any preferential treatment in anyway. If Curry had beat Maine, then they would have been playing most likely Montclair in what would of been a good game. Their would have been no chance for them playing MHB. That is why I think it sucks Maine has to play MHB in these current projections.

This got all out of hand anyways and I was just posting with agreement that I think it sucks for Maine and MHB because MHB gets screwed playing MUC in the second round if things shake out the way they do. I just wish Lew would send me a box of tissues now. How bout it?

I'm on my way...Be there in 16-18 hours.

If you fly it will be much faster, more like 3-4 hours.

[lewdogg11]

Its not about the travel, Maine has to sleep overnight for most games, but I will take it for what it is worth and if they play MHB then they do and wish them the best of luck. Your right about the Hobart playing MUC comparison. I would just like to see the conference do well. I know the OOC doesn't point for Maine to get any preferential treatment in anyway. If Curry had beat Maine, then they would have been playing most likely Montclair in what would of been a good game. Their would have been no chance for them playing MHB. That is why I think it sucks Maine has to play MHB in these current projections.

This got all out of hand anyways and I was just posting with agreement that I think it sucks for Maine and MHB because MHB gets screwed playing MUC in the second round if things shake out the way they do. I just wish Lew would send me a box of tissues now. How bout it?

I'm on my way...Be there in 16-18 hours.

If you fly it will be much faster, more like 3-4 hours.

Goodness that would be miserable!  :-)

[dlippiel]

Both make decent points here. Terd Dogg is spot on regarding that flying to a game would be ****ing awesome for any D3 football player. There is no question, even if Maine has to go down to Texas, that those kids would be ****ing ecstatic and pumped as hell to play some NCAA tourney ball in a state like Texas. On the other hand of course Maine matches up better with Montclair, **** they would match up better against any East Region team this year than against MHB. So dlip can understand Boxers possible dismay over his league rep heading down to Texas. Honestly, for each of the Eastern teams that will represent our region in the tourney this is a great opportunity for them. The players deserve this chance and worked very ****ing hard for it. For us East region fans, to be honest, we really have no realistic hopes regarding one of our teams making any noise in the next few weeks!

[lewdogg11]

And after all the bitching, you're going to Montclair anyway.

[Boxer7806]

Maybe they heard me bitching all the way from here. Lets hope they get beat by 5 TD's so you can crying about how the NEFC sucks so bad.

[lewdogg11]

Maybe they heard me bitching all the way from here. Lets hope they get beat by 5 TD's so you can crying about how the NEFC sucks so bad.

It's not my fault the league sucks dude.  Don't take it out on me. 

[Boxer7806]

Maybe they heard me bitching all the way from here. Lets hope they get beat by 5 TD's so you can crying about how the NEFC sucks so bad.

It's not my fault the league sucks dude.  Don't take it out on me. 

I didn't take anything out on you. But you do bash the conference all the time saying how bad it sucks, but truth is, the conference is taking steps every year to be better.

I know our OOC record was terrible, but only Curry was a winning team that stepped out and tried to play anyone. I think we need are other top teams to do so. We need Maine to play Husson. We need Plymouth to drop St. A's and play a team from New York, whether it a SUNY school or an E8 team. Bridgewater to step up and play a team from the NJAC, like Rowan which they did two years ago. It is tough to gain credibility with teams such as 1-9 Worcester, 0-10 Umass Dartmouth, 4-6 Endicott, 4-6 Salve, 4-5 CGA representing our conference as the only schools. If all teams played at least one OOC game, it would make the world of difference, and we could base the conference against other better if all our top teams played at least one game outside the conference.

Curry shouldn't schedule Bentley and Plymouth play St. A's. They need to schedule another team from around the east. If all the teams played at least one team for a home and home outside the conference, it would help them tremendously.

[lewdogg11]

Maybe they heard me bitching all the way from here. Lets hope they get beat by 5 TD's so you can crying about how the NEFC sucks so bad.

It's not my fault the league sucks dude.  Don't take it out on me. 

I didn't take anything out on you. But you do bash the conference all the time saying how bad it sucks, but truth is, the conference is taking steps every year to be better.

I know our OOC record was terrible, but only Curry was a winning team that stepped out and tried to play anyone. I think we need are other top teams to do so. We need Maine to play Husson. We need Plymouth to drop St. A's and play a team from New York, whether it a SUNY school or an E8 team. Bridgewater to step up and play a team from the NJAC, like Rowan which they did two years ago. It is tough to gain credibility with teams such as 1-9 Worcester, 0-10 Umass Dartmouth, 4-6 Endicott, 4-6 Salve, 4-5 CGA representing our conference as the only schools. If all teams played at least one OOC game, it would make the world of difference, and we could base the conference against other better if all our top teams played at least one game outside the conference.

Curry shouldn't schedule Bentley and Plymouth play St. A's. They need to schedule another team from around the east. If all the teams played at least one team for a home and home outside the conference, it would help them tremendously.

Agreed.  Well said.  We have the same issues with RPI's OOC scheduling.  Some teams need to sack up in order to get better.

[Boxer7806]

I would like to see RPI play Plymouth St or say Bridgewater St. Teams that have established themselves with credibility in the conference. Every year its the same thing with Endicott, saying this is their year to break out, but year after year they fall apart. It is time for another team from the NEFC to play RPI.

[lewdogg11]

I would like to see RPI play Plymouth St or say Bridgewater St. Teams that have established themselves with credibility in the conference. Every year its the same thing with Endicott, saying this is their year to break out, but year after year they fall apart. It is time for another team from the NEFC to play RPI.

I can see that and wouldn't mind it, but i'd also like to see RPI schedule a Cortland/Ithaca/Alfred/Fisher etc.  Instead I think the big OOC game next year is against perennial doormat Lewis and Clark(OR)...Awesome.

[Boxer7806]

I'm not sure of any of the OOC games for the NEFC next year. I believe the only game that I know of is Curry vs Widener.

[pumkinattack]

I don't think it's in RPI's interest to add more NEFC games. 

RPI should be trying to have Ms Jackson make it rain on Carnegie Mellon (engineering complement) to pry them off Hobart's schedule.  A nice midlevel game against a solid program and excellent academic institution. 

[AUPepBand]

I don't think it's in RPI's interest to add more NEFC games. 

RPI should be trying to have Ms Jackson make it rain on Carnegie Mellon (engineering complement) to pry them off Hobart's schedule.  A nice midlevel game against a solid program and excellent academic institution. 

And, given that, perhaps Hobart could pick up Alfred again? At last word, the Saxons have only eight games scheduled for 2010. And the Statesmen have owned Alfred the last decade.

[pumkinattack]

You're too slow.  We picked up your E8 colleague SJF for the next two years, while keeping Dickinson and CMU.  Gotta have Murray start negotiating sooner. 

In a perfect world (for Bart fans such as myself), we'd have taken IC in instead of RIT and picked up Alfred while maintaining Dickinson and CMU (I could live without CMU, but I think there are a lot of benefits from such an excellent institution plus greater geographic diversity from recruiting and they're a solid program). 

[HailMary15]

I played in the nefc and regardless of what people think the league is gettng better. I graduated from MEM and would love to see them start playing a strnger ooc schedule. (husson would be a good local start)

I for one don't care about travel time or first round matchups but how are teams from TX in the east bracket? The result would be worse but I could understand if they were matched up with mount union in the first round since they are somewhere close to the east region