FB: Conference of New England

[bignefcfan15]

Nichols over framingham
Bridgewater over UMD
WPI over Worcester
RPI over endicott
MIT over MA Maritime
Mount Ida over Plymouth
Mass Maritime over Salve
Kings Point over Coast Guard
ME Maritime over Becker

Game of the week:
   Curry defeats FSC easily by 20 at home where FSC can't win.

[D3 Fan]

The day is finsihed and the scores are in....
Nichols 31 over Framingham 12
WPI 40 over WSC 20
RPI 27 over EC 7
Mt. Ida 19 over PSC 14
WNEC 31 over WSC 3  wow......
UMD 15 over BSC 7.......

Anyone have anything on the Curry vs FSC, Salve vs. NY, MIT vs Ma M?

[sickofBS]

Curry 21- Fitchburg 0

[bignefcfan15]

My bad, my perdiction was off by one point on the curry vs. fsc game. FSC, no offense at all, close game till 10 or so left in the forth.

[InTheMix]

does anyone have any idea why Endicott hasn't been playing their 3 best running backs?

[d3fanoffootball]

Someone must wake up the FSC coaching. Those boys could be in for a long season.  Close game, till the Deffense died.

[AptosDad]

Someone must wake up the FSC coaching. Those boys could be in for a long season.  Close game, till the Deffense died.

Someone must wake up the (insert the name of your losing school here: "___'') coaching. Those boys could be in for a long season. 

I'll take a crack at it........WAKE UP!!!
I know nothing about FSC, but I know that in order to not embarrass my family name, I should just lower my expectations.  It's only D3, right? True, I'm just a fan, and I hate to complain, but I wish things like scoring points in a 0-0 game, play selection (maybe kick a field goal from the 8 instead of going for it on 4th and 7), and clock management (3:40 left in the half too much time to think about it, and then run out of time?) looked more important.  Is there a "D3football Coaching for Dummies" book? Such game mistakes/(different perspective?) are one thing, but to hear team morale was low the night before their opening game, and then learn the same guy has been there 28 years, I just couldn't help but get the feeling the guy doesn't know what else to do with his time. "For the love of the game" is being severely tested by a small group of young men who deserve better. 
OK, that's enough ranting.....good luck to all.

[waggle09]

Aptos dad,
There are a lot of very good athletes and football players in the NEFC. But get ready you will be  dumbfounded at some of the things you will witness over the next 8 weeks. There are some very good programs and some very bad programs.
Good luck and have fun.....

[AptosDad]

Waggs,
Thanks for the reassuring words.......except you should have added 'don't forget to take your Prozac'.  I know it's best to accept things as they are, hope for good luck and try to have fun.  Luckily enough I won't be witness to any more games, with the possible exception of the season finale, but since 'Sullymustgo' seems content to have gotten his message across, I don't hear anything along the lines of typical booster club complaining.  With a conference ranked last in all of D3, and a few programs that include some good players but can't compete against the lowest rung of college football, shouldn't there be an occasional stirring of the pot?  What else is there for a disappointed dad to do?

[NCAAFootball67]

Just a thought, whats the word on mass maritime in the league, I mean they were in page 2 espn (article strictly making fun of MIT) and on sundays d3football.com poll on the what the readers thought the biggest surprise of the week are.  We all talked, myself including about mit turning it around this year, and they have 9 starters back on an offense that got shut out, any thoughts?

[waggle09]

AptosDad,

What your starting to see in the NEFC are the private schools with the fulltime coaching staff  that are becoming the better and more competetive teams to play out of conference..It drives me crazy but only a couple of teams play teams outside of conference. For instance many look at endicott at 0-2 and think their not good but they played 2 New York teams that are far much better than any team in the NEFC .
Endicott may run the table from here on out.
.

[Jonny Utah]

What you need in the NEFC mass state schools  are coaches that have masters degrees in PHys ed. and teach at the schools.  That way you can be full time and part time at the same time.  All those schools have education departments and I would say are great early opportunities to start someones coaching career.  I think the main problem is that those schools dont fire coaches that dont produce which probably should change. 

[waggle09]

Johnny Utah, Your right on..That's what Bridgewater State did in hiring their head coach who is also the full time strength and conditioning  coach at the school.

[63Center]

I agree with Johhny Utah.  At EC, all the Full Time head Coaches also work at  FT jobs at the school.  The Head FB Coach is also works FT in Admissions.  Of course positions like Admissions and Strength and Conditioning like at BSC are great for coaches because they have an opportunity to interact with the players more.  If it wasn't for the automatic NCAA bid, I am sure that the private schools would be running from the NEFC as fast as they could.  They have nothing to gain by playing the weaker teams.

[63Center]

Ok, last week I was 7-4 in my NEFC picks.  Let's see if I can do a little better this week as inter-league play picks up.

WSC over Nichols
BSC over Salve
Curry over Westfield
UMD over Fitchburg
EC over MAM
WNEC over MEM
USCGA over PSC
MIT over Framingham

Let's see some picks from all the rest of you NEFC fans