FB: New England Small College Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

I'll leave the school's name out of it to protect the innocent, though it was not a perennial contender.

[Pat Coleman]

And it was within the past three years, sorry.

[Jonny Utah]

I know there was talk from some Middlebury people wanting to get Norwich on the schedule.  That would make too much sense for the nescac though.

[labart96]

I know there was talk from some Middlebury people wanting to get Norwich on the schedule.  That would make too much sense for the nescac though.

Sorry JU -

President Biff has ruled against any non-conference games.


"How dare a NESCAC member school schedule a non-conference game" - Biff Hudson Rockefeller, Middlebury Student Body President

[tmerton]

Frank,

I wasn't aware you felt this way. Oh wait, never mind. 

Now that made me laugh, Pat. 

[tmerton]

When I played 10+ years ago there was talk of playing a 9th game on the front end.  I seem to recall some pushback from the presidents about having football players on campus by themselves a week earlier than anyone else.   (Not that I think that makes any more sense than any of the other excuses).

They must want the soccer players to have the campus all to themselves (I believe the NESCAC soccer teams start their seasons a couple of weeks earlier than football - the weekend after Labor Day - which I suspect requires them to be on campus around mid-August).

[Pat Coleman]

Soccer doesn't start at the same time the rest of Division III does either.

[tmerton]

Soccer doesn't start at the same time the rest of Division III does either.

Conference play starts September 8.

http://www.nescac.com/2007-08/sports/soccer(m)/schedule.htm

That's still early enough to require players to be on campus earlier than Labor Day - maybe the 3rd week of August?

[Pat Coleman]

I remain blissfully ignorant of soccer reporting dates and preseason practice rules.

Williams starts what appears to be Orientation ("First Days") on Aug. 28.

[frank uible]

Here's an original idea! Let each college make its decision (whether or not financially driven) about its roster size and its number of games unilaterally without conspiratorially imposing (through the NCAA, its conference or otherwise) a similar decision on other colleges.

[Jonny Utah]

Here's an original idea! Let each college make its decision (whether or not financially driven) about its roster size and its number of games unilaterally without conspiratorially imposing (through the NCAA, its conference or otherwise) a similar decision on other colleges.

Frank lets get something straight here.

If they wanted to be independents, then they could be independents.  No one is stopping them.  But they agreed to join a league and abide by league rules.  I mean, they can't just join a league and say "I want to be in this league, but I don't want to follow league rules".

I mean by your thinking, if Williams wanted to offer scholorships, why isn't the NCAA letting them?  The answer is simple, because they wanted to be division 3.  And they CHOSE to be division 3.  Division 3 has rules. 

[frank uible]

Bad anti-student choices.

[Trin9-0]

They must want the soccer players to have the campus all to themselves (I believe the NESCAC soccer teams start their seasons a couple of weeks earlier than football - the weekend after Labor Day - which I suspect requires them to be on campus around mid-August).

When I was at Trinity all the fall sports teams reported on the same day. The game schedule for other sports (soccer, field hockey etc.) may begin earlier but the arrival date on campus was the same. Nothing against those sports but I don't think they require the same amount of schematic installation that football requires.

[tmerton]

They must want the soccer players to have the campus all to themselves (I believe the NESCAC soccer teams start their seasons a couple of weeks earlier than football - the weekend after Labor Day - which I suspect requires them to be on campus around mid-August).

When I was at Trinity all the fall sports teams reported on the same day. The game schedule for other sports (soccer, field hockey etc.) may begin earlier but the arrival date on campus was the same. Nothing against those sports but I don't think they require the same amount of schematic installation that football requires.

Football can start practice what - 3 weeks before the first game?  So would that mean you reported around Labor Day?  Was it earlier or the same time as the student body as a whole? 

[BTEXPRESS]

We spent a day at Bowdoin and all the coaches agreed that they would love to play a 9th game and it would probably take the place of the srimmage, however, no one was optimistic that it would happen anytime soon. The coaches did agree that many Nescac schools have lost many potential recruits over the years because of the eight game schedule.