FB: New England Small College Athletic Conference

[NESCACfan]

I heard from a very knowledgable soruce that when Hamilton fired their coaches they did it with some fireworks.  Called the entire staff in to a room, told them they were all fired, and changed the locks on them while they were in the meeting.  What does this tell you about Hamilton?  Finally getting fed up with losing?

[baller85]

I would actually recommend Bates.  Although their record hasn't shown it, they are progressing.  Its only a matter of time before they have a season like colby and bowdoin did this year.  They play everyone but trinity close and thats all you can ask for is to be competitive in college.  The people are great there and the academics are as well.  Social life up there is great, better than any school I've been to.  It's not very liberal like you said.  Obviously theres some hippies like all the nescacs, but over 60% of the kids there are athletes so its a great environment.  Give the bobcats a look, plus they are making a bunch of changes to the campus.  Good things to come. 

[79GT]

Could anyone give a source for info on the Hamilton coaching situation?  I don't see anything posted on their website, or through d3football.com.

[cruiser]

http://www.athletesadvisor.com/articles/football/hamilton.htm

[chessdoc]

Stetson sounds like a great choice for hamilton. Anyone know anything about him or his plans. Will the school support him?? sounds like they have a plan from there web site.

[Jonny Utah]

Stetson is a good guy who turned around the Hartwick program from scratch to a team that almost made the playoffs in 5 years.  Hes got a lot of connections around the country and is a good recruiter....

[cruiser]

http://www.colby.edu/athletics/releases/archive_0506/fb12-23-05.shtml

congratulations to coach mestieri and the colby football program

[gordonmann]

Here's an interesting story on recruiting in the NESCAC and other liberal arts school conferences.  This sheds some light -- and perhaps dispells some myths -- on whether Trinity or other schools have recruiting advantages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/sports/ncaafootball/25sidebar.html

[Jonny Utah]

gordon, give me your nytimes password and email and Ill read that article.....


(actually I think Ive signed up like 5 different times to that site just to read some article each time.  Then I forget what the password is the next time I want to read one.)

[Pat Coleman]

Please respect a newspaper's copyright and not violate it by posting an entire article here. We ask them to respect us so it's only fair that it extend in the other direction as well.

[Jonny Utah]

Please respect a newspaper's copyright and not violate it by posting an entire article here. We ask them to respect us so it's only fair that it extend in the other direction as well.

You know more than me pat, but I would think the nytimes would be happy anytime someone is redirected to their site.

[Pat Coleman]

Absolutely, redirected. But someone else copied and pasted the entire story. I edited their post to delete most of the story. Then that person deleted his/her post.

[Ephs1991]

Dear Buzz,

You seem very (over) confident in your ability to just jump in and play anywhere.  Just like a number of high school heroes that we used to have at Williams and I'm sure everywhere else in the NESCAC.  Funny thing about those guys, most of them quit by the end of September, even though they always talked about being recruited somewhere else.

[former bear wr]

Yeah, EPhs beat me to it, but Buzz you make it seem like you are Reggie Bush or something coming out of high school. Are you going to announce your intentions on espn? And the fact that you called Dave Caputi a used car salesman or whatever just confirms that you are a jerk as you couldnt more more off base. In fact, it seems unlikely that you would even fit into a team in the league where the players are almost to a man great character guys.

[formerbant10]

It seems to me that all athletes coming out of high school highly underestimate the skill and talent level of Division III sports, and not just in football.

Former Bear, def agree w/ you about the character of the guys in the NESCAC.