FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Frank Rossi]

B) didn't appear to schedule any out-of-conference cupcakes; and C) SJF had a little more leeway in scheduling in a 7-team league, making their ability to schedule a little more realistic than MUC's ability in a larger conference.

Frank,

I would only criticize one thing in this post.  Unfortunately for Mount Union (and I am a Mount Union fan), their one non-conference opponent turned out to be a cupcake this year.  How many wins did Averett end up with this year?  None.  But, they had been an above .500 team when the agreement was reached for the schools to play each other.  I still like my plan about the OAC bringing in two more teams, splitting into divisions, and having a championship game to determine the AQ.   

jaypeter

An oh-fer Averett team is still better than a three-win Mt. Ida, though, would be my guess.  I don't penalize in the cupcake category if a team actually attempts to schedule a tough team, only to see that team have an unusually bad year.  As I said, though, it's tough to put that scheduling in perspective with Fisher's scheduling with very few cross-region games to use for comparisons.

As for the two-division conference idea, there would be a lot of objections to it for a couple reasons.  First, there would still be one automatic bid for a greater number of teams.  Second, it probably would not increase the number of Pool C teams in that conference year over year.  Thus, you might end up curtailing the expected playoff-access ratio by employing that idea.  There would need to be certain guarantees of potentially a second guaranteed slot just to make it palatable for all teams involved -- otherwise, there's not much equity in creating superconferences -- even the NEFC is disbanding soon.

[superman57]

we didn't plat Mt. Ida this year, our biggest cupcake was Kings, and they were not bad team when the series started, now they suck, but we are replacing them with this really bad team from Ohio,  I think the call them selves the Purple Raidahs

[Frank Rossi]

we didn't plat Mt. Ida this year, our biggest cupcake was Kings, and they were not bad team when the series started, now they suck, but we are replacing them with this really bad team from Ohio,  I think the call them selves the Purple Raidahs

LoL...I wasn't saying SJF played a cupcake - I was just measuring Averett and using Mt. Ida as an attempt at a comparison.

[jaypeter]

I wasn't really being completely serious with that thought.  The only advantage I would see, and it's not worth doing it, would be that Mount would then have more open slots to schedule non-conference games.  But, then the problem becomes finding enough teams willing to play Mount Union...not always an easy task.  Just look at UMHB and Trinity down in Texas.  That would be such a logical choice with the two schools just a couple hours from each other and a simple drive along I-35.  But, the general take there (and a few Tigers fans have said so as well) is that Trinity would rather schedule a team out of region that they feel they could beat, or at least hang close with as oppossed to to scheduling UMHB who would likely win the vast majority of the games and would hurt them more when it comes to playoff selection criteria.  No, I don't really think a superconference is the way to go.

jaypeter

[Toph]

All in good fun...but you're thinking of Rocky and it was a walker.

Oh c'mon, isn't talking about Rocky getting old yet?   

Hey, hey, hey.  I respect the hell out of a guy who can throw 300 yards with 3 touchdowns and still make it home in time for Matlock.

[Ajwassup]

Assuming we get by SJF (and i know its never a given), but who would been a better matchup for MUC in the semi's, Bethel or Central?

[Frank Rossi]

Assuming we get by SJF (and i know its never a given), but who would been a better matchup for MUC in the semi's, Bethel or Central?

Keeping in tradition with new AT&T commercials, we're going to actually change those teams into BethTral and see if the best of each can take down MUC, should SJF fail to do so.

[HScoach]

All in good fun...but you're thinking of Rocky and it was a walker.

Oh c'mon, isn't talking about Rocky getting old yet?   

NO.

[seventiesraider]

I sincerely hope that nothing happens to keep Brennan Fortune of SJF from playing in the Aztec Bowl next Saturday. 8)

[purpled]

Anyone know if Morring is playing tomorrow?

RUN NATE RUN!!

[Tags]

Purpled- Will you be there tomorrow?

[SJFF82]

Ric on dailley dose says:

Just speaking on experience, to beat Mount typically you don?t outscore them,



HUH???

[SJFF82]

Ric also points out...


If St. John Fisher tries to outscore Mount they will not win.


Thanks for the insight Ric....this just in from Alliance...MUC is sooooooooo good that if you outscore them....you still lose

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

I think he was meaning it is not a high scoring shoot out.  More of a ball control, capitalize on any MTU mistakes and score ends up being close and under 30 for each team.

If you try to run/pass it up and down the field a la "Fast Break" style, MTU usually has too much firepower and too many Quick Score possibilities that an opponent won't win a game like that.

[SJFF82]

I think he was meaning it is not a high scoring shoot out.  More of a ball control, capitalize on any MTU mistakes and score ends up being close and under 30 for each team.

If you try to run/pass it up and down the field a la "Fast Break" style, MTU usually has too much firepower and too many Quick Score possibilities that an opponent won't win a game like that.

yeh, i know...it is just funny...hah hah...ah nevermind