Top 25 rankings

[PA_wesleyfan]

not Florida,  just the way the elect people, hehehehe

[pg04]

I'm glad I wasn't here then....that would have made me mad...especially since I'm in THE VERY COUNTY that the biggest issues occured..

[PA_wesleyfan]

Chads for all. BPORT did they toss your vote?? I didn't know you were a SR citizen

[pg04]

No definitely not..I was actually a freshman in College then...hence I was not in florida to be part of such a disgrace

[BDTartan]

Hey now, let's not compare any of the polls and their voters to Florida.  Well maybe Hansen.

I see the problem with everyone voting and having 0 win teams in the top 25, but it would still be fun to see how everybody thought the teams stack up.  I don't think I would put CMU above 20 but they would definitely be in the top 25.

Also, I understand the guru's have seen more than we have, but sometimes that leads to them acting like the pet-owner holding the treat just out of the dog's reach just because he can.

[PA_wesleyfan]

Ok then!!! Back to football...

Pat
I really think that there is something wrong when a team is undefeated and gets no love. In reality there are only a few schools who can sustain the top ten ratings year after year and when a team does go undefeated even for one year I believe they should get  to see that they're hard work paid off.
  But as has been hashed and rehased the rankings are nil when CMU gets into the playoffs.

[BDTartan]

Boy oh boy, wouldn't there be a bunch of crow eating and scrambling for cover if CMU actually made a playoff run.

[pg04]

Wake me up when you beat Wesley. 

[PA_wesleyfan]

Boy oh boy, wouldn't there be a bunch of crow eating and scrambling for cover if CMU actually made a playoff run.

Wesley pulled some big ones off last year BD.  I think your team just has to be ready to go toe to toe. There won't be any sympathetic ears though if CMU gets they're doors blown off.

[BDTartan]

Hahaha, now see, this is what I am talking about.  I by no means have seen as many teams as the gurus but I am willing to bet that no more than 1/4 of the posters on D3 have ever seen CMU in action.  And I am being generous with that number.

I could care less really, because thats the way the cookie crumbles, but I will wake whoever needs woken if CMU pulls what everybody believes will be a miracle and wins a playoff game. 

I rather doubt I would be looking for sympathy on here or anywhere else.  Considering the UAA has had only one play-off representative(CMU, 1990, lost first round to Lycoming) for them to get in is an accomplishment to me.  If they get their doors blown off then so be it.  At least they got to play one more week when 200+ other teams were sitting at home thinking about next year.

[pg04]

I think 1/4 would be a gross exaggeration... Maybe 1/100 would be more like it. 

I agree, the first step to getting noticed is just getting into the playoffs...

[BDTartan]

Yes.  Thank you for agreeing with me on that subject at least.  And it would be a great first step considering that a very large and experienced nucleus will be returning for the Tartans in 2007.

The only thing they truly have to replace is the secondary next year.  Very young team where most of the starters either started last year as fresh. and soph. or got a lot of PT.

[pg04]

And maybe this season will help them schedule slightly tougher out of the conference?  It can only get easier when meeting unfamiliar teams in the playoffs (Such things happened with my School, Brockport, the first couple years they ever made it to the playoffs, they played Rowan, Springfield, two teams that would get on their schedule soon after). 

[Eh-You]

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[BDTartan]

I couldn't say really.  CMU likes having a couple PAC teams on their schedule.  Usually the weak ones, other than Thiel.  Here is what their future schedules look like.

2007
@ Rochester
Vs. Grove City
Open
Vs. Allegheny
Open
@ Randolph-Macon
Vs. Case Western
@ Chicago
Vs. Wash. U
@ Bethany
Open

2008
@ Ohio Wesleyan
@ Grove City
Open
Vs. Hiram
Vs. Kenyon
@ Allegheny
Open
Vs. Wittenberg
@ Wash. U
@ Case Western
Vs. Chicago

2009
Vs. Ohio Wesleyan
Vs. Grove City
Open
@ Hiram
@ Kenyon
Vs. Allegheny
Open
@ Wittenberg
Vs. Wash. U
Vs. Case Western
@ Chicago.

As you can see, they have two open dates next year and one open date each of the following years.  I can't really say if those schedules are better than their current schedule.  The gurus are better prepared to answer that than I am.