FB: Presidents' Athletic Conference

[Jeremybozz]

BC vs Thiel should be a great game. I am looking forward to it.

[OldPhart]

OAC pick 'em board has Thiel as a 14.5 point dog against BC.  Today's poll also appears to  make the 'Cats out as "dogs" in round 2. 

[badbadman]

Good game and atmosphere yesterday by the Thiel team and fans.  Wish we gave you a better game, but our inability to generate offense caught up with us.  Chambers was actually covered on two of his three TD's, but he is so athletic he took the ball away and scored anyway - very impressive.  He's got some set of wheels - fastest D3 player I have seen.  I thought Theils rushing yardage was more the result of Hess finishing his runs than the Theil O line play.  Their defense, although very small, is also very quick and got the job done against JHU.  BC will present more a challenge in that respect.  This may be the first game the BC will struggle with the team speed of their opponent (Thiel may be faster).   

Good luck against the Eagles.     

[Outsider14]

is there anything online about thiel's stadium? i'm curious and can't find anything. i do know that bridgewater will travel well this weekend and was wondering how thiel would cope w/ that...

[OldPhart]

Good game and atmosphere yesterday by the Thiel team and fans.  Wish we gave you a better game, but our inability to generate offense caught up with us.  Chambers was actually covered on two of his three TD's, but he is so athletic he took the ball away and scored anyway - very impressive.  He's got some set of wheels - fastest D3 player I have seen.  I thought Theils rushing yardage was more the result of Hess finishing his runs than the Theil O line play.  Their defense, although very small, is also very quick and got the job done against JHU.  BC will present more a challenge in that respect.  This may be the first game the BC will struggle with the team speed of their opponent (Thiel may be faster).   

Good luck against the Eagles.     

Hop's D did a great job early with tipping Satterfield's passes - made the passing game much more exciting than I cared for at points.  With respect to Chambers - yup he IS good.  It didn't hurt that he is 6'1" and Hop's corners are 5'9". 

What puzzled me was that Hopkins didn't seem to have any sense of urgency in the second half.   There were times when I thought that JHU was doing a better job of running out the clock than Thiel did.  Does JHU just lack a "hurry up" game

[PittTBCW]

is there anything online about thiel's stadium? i'm curious and can't find anything. i do know that bridgewater will travel well this weekend and was wondering how thiel would cope w/ that...

If you go to the website at theil.... www.thiel.edu you can find information. They brought in bleachers this week in the far endzone for people to sit in. There is also alot of standing room.

Hope it helps

Should be a good one this weekend....hard to think Thiel is a two TD underdog at home in the second round of the playoffs but everyone has doubted them all year so I guess its really not a surprise!


GO Tomcats!!!

[Pat Coleman]

I alerted the powers-that-be at Thiel yesterday that they should expect a large traveling contingency from Bridgewater. I estimated 500 as a ballpark, not knowing how the holiday weekend would affect things, but mentioned that it could be as many as 1,500.

It's a fine stadium. Most of it would have to be standing room but there's a natural bowl that might seat a few people (though the bowl is steep).

[Llamaguy]

I alerted the powers-that-be at Thiel yesterday that they should expect a large traveling contingency from Bridgewater. I estimated 500 as a ballpark, not knowing how the holiday weekend would affect things, but mentioned that it could be as many as 1,500.

It's a fine stadium. Most of it would have to be standing room but there's a natural bowl that might seat a few people (though the bowl is steep).

Thanks for the info Pat. If they get the snow that is forcast for Thursday & Friday I will have to bring my sled for that steep bowl! LOL. Could be Lycoming 2003 all over.

[Pat Coleman]

Let's hope that's in weather only.

[Llamaguy]

Let's hope that's in weather only.

Yeah good point. That was one of the most emotional games I ever attended. Lost a good one that week. That was an ice bowl if I have ever seen one. 

[Cleveland Cartel]

Bob,

Great point I was just about to say that myself, and there were 4 turnovers if you count Edwards 4 pics total.  Great D by BC, but WJ is not a cake walk in fact any team whose in the playoffs at this point can never be taken lightly or be considered a "cake walk".  There might be easier matchups but definetly not a cake walk. 

That should strike a nerve with everyone in this board.  You want to talk about cake walk maybe you should substitute Hiram for WJ, but definetly not the Presidents. 

[Cleveland Cartel]

Pitt,

Tell everyone who sat in Row A seat 1 2 3 4 for us too while your at it!!!!

[PittTBCW]

Pitt,

Tell everyone who sat in Row A seat 1 2 3 4 for us too while your at it!!!!

I don't know what you mean???

[Bwana]

is there anything online about thiel's stadium? i'm curious and can't find anything. i do know that bridgewater will travel well this weekend and was wondering how thiel would cope w/ that...

If you go to the website at theil.... www.thiel.edu you can find information. They brought in bleachers this week in the far endzone for people to sit in. There is also alot of standing room.

Hope it helps

Should be a good one this weekend....hard to think Thiel is a two TD underdog at home in the second round of the playoffs but everyone has doubted them all year so I guess its really not a surprise!


GO Tomcats!!!

The Born-Power ratings (used in the ODCA pick-em contest) has Thiel by 1 over BC, which is a reasonable call (although I would have put Thiel up by a couple or three more).  HSCoach in the OAC picks based on his gut feeling, and I think anyone who has looked at the two teams would agree that a 14.5 spread either way in the BC-Thiel game is over the top.

[spliskin]

Point-spreads deal more with "perception" of 2 teams' strength than "reality". They are always set to ballance the money to both sides (in this case I guess they ballance the picks). Look at the poll on the front page and you will see that (at the time of this writing) 30% of respondents picked Thiel as the higher seed with the toughest game this weekend......this shows that the perception of respondents is that Thiel is the underdog (and they may be correct). I'm sure the fact that BC has had numerous post-season appearances (seven, I believe), while this is Thiel's first trip has a lot to do with it.

I may be wrong, but I think this will be a h*ll of a game and be decided late in the 4th quarter, if not overtime.....and as TC faithful know, the T-Cats like thier chances in OT.