Atlantic Central Football Conference/Independents

[Raider 68]

the rankings are a joke.  hampden sydney is nowhere near the top team in the south.  wesley at 3, hardin simmons at 8.  it is a shame that if things dont work themselves out, wesley will not get the 1 seed they deserve.  good weather for the game is nice, but i am sure the wind will be blowing in salisbury, just not as bad a wesley.  i will try to fing you ski.  go wolverines.

Wesleydad,

Agree, Hopefully they will be realistic in the next few weeks!

[SU Backer]

Some of us are still here! ....I have only seen my Gulls one time this year,(Huntinddon) and I liked what I saw. I think they are better at some key positions, especially QB, than last year's team. While the offense has put up some gaudy numbers against some opponents, it is the defense that seems to be better overall. They are pretty tough with a couple of good young linebackers and DBs, and a nice d-line. I have not seen Wesley this year, but judging by what they have done I feel that SU faces a uphill battle Saturday. However, I do feel that this is their best shot at beating WC since (I think '07) team that lost 20-13. As always, may all the players come out healthy and GO GULLS!

[SU Backer]

DAMN!....

[wesleydad]

just returned from salisbury.  first thing to get out of the way, that may have been the worst officiated game i have seen in a long time.  somehow it didnt have much to do with the outcome, except the horible block in the back call on the wesley td.  after the first 2 salisbury drives the d totally shut them down.  great effort.  on the other side of the ball.  work to be done.  Sottilaire did not have a good game, but i think the play calling had a lot to do with it.  11 - 30, with at least 7 passes attempted longer than 30 yards.  salisbury's d backs were at least 10 yards off the line of scrimmage and wesley never attempted to establish the short pass before throwing it deep.  tough to run by a guy with a 10 yard head start.  There were also 3 or 4 drops.  a sure td on a fumble return gets stripped at the goal line and turns into a touch back, another fumble that wesley failed to recover after 2 players tried to pick it up and run with it and you can see how the game went.  just a really sloppy game.  wesley got the win, but it wasnt pretty.  special props go out to the salisbury qb who took a beating all game but kept getting up.  bye week and then kean, time to get things fixed for the playoffs.

[Teamski]

Wow, what a game.  I agree with the officiating.  That touchback was clearly a TD from the camera platform.  The officials were well behind the play.

Wesley's day went like this play:

The defense solved SU's option and really started to get into the backfield by the second quarter.  This resulted in several fumbles on the pitchout.  This play was one of those.  Anyways, the running back fumbles the ball and two Wolverines go after it.  This was around SU's 20 or so.  After screwing around with the ball, there is a scrum that forms.  At the end of the clearing of the scrum, a flag is thrown.  SU gets the ball, Wesley gets the personal foul.  Instead of Wesley's ball at the 15, it is SU's ball at about the 30 with a new set of downs.  ARGGHHH!!!!!!  

The second time around, the running back loses the ball and Marcus Wilson grabs it on the run, gets tackled at the goaline and fumbles the ball into the endzone.  Touchback, although he was clearly over the line.  ARRGGH!!!!

Brandon Wright was hurt in the first half and his return in the fourth really got the offense going again.

-Ski

[Teamski]

Hats off to the Wolverine defence today.  They really did a job on SU's quarterback, including the hardest hit I have seen this year.  He got pulverized on a run in the first half.  The hit completely reversed his direction and shot him what seemed almost 5 yards in the opposite direction.  Amazing.

Once again, Wesley got a guts check and made it through alive.  

-Ski

[Teamski]

I was just reading the recap.  You talk about an adjustment on Defense:

"Salisbury piled up 124 rushing yards in the opening quarter, the Wolverines surrendered just 40 more yards on 36 carries in the final 45 minutes - an average of just over one yard per carry."

That's pretty good!

-Ski

[Hawks88]

Possibly the best played game of the year by Huntingdon today. Couldn't be prouder of this team the way they have come through the 4 game losing streak and QB issues and kept working to get back on track. Seems like the whole team was playing with a different energy than earlier in the season. Neal Posey did an excellent job at QB in his third start tying a school record with 6 TD passes. Hopefully we can get by LaGrange to finish at 6-4 and end on a positive streak.

Go Hawks!!

[wesleydad]

ski, just didnt make sense to me.  trying to throw the ball down the field when their d backs were bailing on almost every play.  the drops really looked bad today, several may have gone for good gains.  i figured the wind would have had some effect on the play calling also.  it was blowing pretty good at times which i am sure you know from your perch atop the press box.  it was nice to see the d adjust and make plays.  they may see a similar offense if they play umhb.  hoping to see a clean game against kean in 2 weeks.

[PA_wesleyfan]

  Maybe some of those hard headed recievers weren't running their hitches!!! You figure that  Norwood 49 run into the that total and Wesley again shut down Salisbury's option...

With the case Western loss and a game with Wash U .Next week Salisbury should still be on the B bid talks. Wesley and SUNY Maritime

[wesleydad]

pawesley, i did not see many hitches being run at all.  there was one occasion where kraut turned in, toward the coverage, but sottilaire read it correctly and threw outside with the ball landing 5 yards away from kraut with no one else within 10 yards of it, would have been an easy pitch and catch if they were on the same page.  this game reminded of the offense from a couple of years ago with jason and beavers.  3rd and 5 or 6 and the routes are 20 yards down the field.  i agree that the receivers dont always do what it looks like they should.  the first interception was more the receiver not going to and fighting for the ball then a bad throw, at least that was the consensus of the people around me.  but we were not surprised as it was not in the end zone for a td, but in the middle of the field.  most receivers run what they are told especially with how the o coord deals with ones that dont, so i have to think that the plays were designed that way.  must have been something they saw on film, but there was no adjustment once it was obvious what salisbury was doing.

[beenhit2hard]

The first interception was also thown into a strong crossfield wind that brought the ball back in some and caused it to float a little. I thought it was a strange call into that wind.

[thewaterboy]

Well. Defense was great. Offense sounded okay on their scoring drives, I cant really comment on that because I was not there. Just seemed like an off day, no real flow on the offensive side of the ball, which happens, from the bye week, but the bad news is that we got another coming up. Then Kean the week after. Hopefully Wesley can sharpen up some more before Kean and the playoffs.

[wesleydad]

glad to see wesley jump to 5 in sos, that should give them a chance to jump either umhb or hs in the region rankings.  there is no doubt in my mind that they should be a 1 in the south.

[@d3jason]

Hampden-Sydney should get a pretty good boost in SOS if they can beat Washington & Lee and Randolph-Macon the next two weeks. Could be very interesting when it comes down to that number one seed.