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[Pat Coleman]

That's why I said consensus and not unanimous, oddly enough.

[redswarm81]

"There isn't a team in [the East] bracket who would lose a game to anyone on Curry's schedule."

Except for Hartwick, right?

Edit:  Wow, I actually posted this before I read the following two paragraphs in the column.  I see that Keith said the same thing, I also see that Pat qualified his answer.

[K-Mack]

Great ATN again K-Mack

I do have one thing that I either didn't understand or you have wrong.  The Wartburg game was not OT this year it was only a 3 seconds from being OT Last year was the OT game.

Yep, my bad, so much stuff I remember off the top of my head that I really should check before printing. Just had that detail wrong.

Also, for anyone who cares, due to some behind-the-scenes reasons, apparently Pat had to finish one of my thoughts for me in the South ... I made some updates to that section and elsewhere in ATN.

Usually that'd discouraged, but you all know you were gonna re-read it anyway.

(meant to post this way earlier this evening)

[dlippiel]

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"There isn't a team in [the East] bracket who would lose a game to anyone on Curry's schedule."



This should be true! I cannot figure out how Hartwick lost that game to WNEC. Maybe having Utica drop 70 on them helped.

[K-Mack]

Has anybody seen these lines posted for D3 games?

Not sure who Dan Mesday is, someone who posts here under a different name or has some other kind of D3 connection, or a Vegas handicapper wannabe putting out odds on everything he can analyze. I really just stumbled upon them and thought I'd share, no judgement one way or the other.

[old ends]

Castleton is adding football. Read the article on D3football. After living about 1 hour from Castleton VT, this one caught me off gaurd. Never Thought I would see a New England College add a sport.  Someone, or a group of people must of put a very special package together for this to happen.

If the winds are blowing the right way the air can get very cold off Lake Bomoseen. Lake effect from Lake Ontario sometimes makes it over the Adirondacks and can put it down.  One of the reasons I left.

Great town and they will support the team.

[frank uible]

Will the University of Vermont and St. Michael's College bring back football? If so, an interesting Vermont Conference, including Norwich and Middlebury, could be formed.

[jmccloskey]

Will the University of Vermont and St. Michael's College bring back football? If so, an interesting Vermont Conference, including Norwich and Middlebury, could be formed.

The North Atlantic Conference (NAC) has apparently decided to sponsor football starting in 2009.  Castleton will be one of seven colleges...Becker, Castleton State, Husson, Norwich, Mount Ida, SUNY Maritime, and...wait for it....Gallaudet.

First, someone needs to remind the NAC that, at present, FOUR of your seven members in any sport have to be core members to get an automatic in that sport, the NAC will have three in football.  WHY Gallaudet, out of Washington, DC, has decided to join a conference just to play football against teams mainly from Vermont and Maine, is anyone's guess.   

Gallaudet might be competitive in the conference, but the road trips would be something else.

[frank uible]

But the fall foliage will be unsurpassed!

[Ralph Turner]

Will the University of Vermont and St. Michael's College bring back football? If so, an interesting Vermont Conference, including Norwich and Middlebury, could be formed.

The North Atlantic Conference (NAC) has apparently decided to sponsor football starting in 2009.  Castleton will be one of seven colleges...Becker, Castleton State, Husson, Norwich, Mount Ida, SUNY Maritime, and...wait for it....Gallaudet.

First, someone needs to remind the NAC that, at present, FOUR of your seven members in any sport have to be core members to get an automatic in that sport, the NAC will have three in football.  WHY Gallaudet, out of Washington, DC, has decided to join a conference just to play football against teams mainly from Vermont and Maine, is anyone's guess.   

Gallaudet might be competitive in the conference, but the road trips would be something else.

Maine Maritime is a football-playing member of the NAC, but currently plays in the NEFC Bogan. They can give their notice and move;  the NAC would get the football AQ after 2 years.

[Warren Thompson]

The University of Vermont is a D1 venue. If football returns it will compete in that division.

[frank uible]

If football would return to UVM, it would have to be be DI (unless UVM changed its NCAA divisional status) and consequently would be subject to DI football requirements but could play some or all DIII and other non- DI football opponents - as I understand it.

[frank uible]

I take part of that back - if UVM were DI in football, at least one half of its football games would be required to be against DI opponents.

[Warren Thompson]

In football, Vermont could go the D1AAA (i.e., D1AA non-scholarship) route. Given that they are fairly competitive in all other D1 sports (and highly competitive in D1 ice hockey), I don't see them moving up to D3 competition.

[Ralph Turner]

In football, Vermont could go the D1AAA (i.e., D1AA non-scholarship) route. Given that they are fairly competitive in all other D1 sports (and highly competitive in D1 ice hockey), I don't see them moving up to D3 competition.

But do we really think that Middlebury would play them?

We grouse about the NESCAC every season.