FB: New England Small College Athletic Conference

[jmcozenlaw]

I hope that when all of these professors and students, who had such passion and participated in "die-in's" and other forms of protest return to school from break.........they are equally appalled and moved by the cold blooded assassination of two police officers and decide to protest against police assassination.

Something tells me they won't

...........and where is Al Sharpton and the other opportunistic, camera hounds, railing against assassinating police officers??

...........where are all of the idiots who were turning over cars and burning down buildings??

They didn't get their marching orders from their owners!!

Liberals, elitists..................blech

[banfan]

BRAVO BOWDOIN!

The Ultimate gesture......

Let's TRY and be simply thankful and lose the strident egos and cynicism.

[frank uible]

How did we get from NESCAC football to police related politics?

[banfan]

We need a hall monitor.  Frank you can volunteer or be assigned, up to you. 

[frank uible]

Season's greetings to all!

[amh63]

Some bits of info and comments that maybe Football related.
Saw that Colby has hired a new AD...appears to be a fine addition...an associate AD from Harvard.  Completely missed the fact that Colby was looking for an AD!   Just like the fact that Bowdoin's official school color is WHITE!.....no Black at all. 
Also caught the ED numbers posted briefly on the Amherst and Williams websites.  Struck by the large numbers!  For Williams, the number was over 400...leaving few spaces for regular decisions.  Amherst number was around 300...unusually high based on past numbers/ percentage of class size.  Went to verifiy the values but no longer posted.  My first thoughts on the matter...Amherst's new Admission Dean has set her signature mark; Williams has loaded up its teams, especially the football team
Unfortunately, unlike the MBB board, there has been little info on football recruits available historically.  Have to await the Fall.

[polbear73]

Bowdoin's official color is indeed white while black is the only approved "secondary" color.  The color is to recognize Bowdoin's history in arctic exploration through graduates Peary and MacMillan.  As the tradition in college football is for the home team to wear their "color(s)", I suppose technically Bowdoin should be wearing white at home, therefore requiring the visitors to wear their colors for games played at Whittier.  I doubt that has ever occurred, at least in modern times. 

[nescac1]

Looks like the impressive pipeline at QB for Middlebury is not drying up anytime soon.   From Nothing but Nescac:

Former UNLV QB and VT native Jared Lebowitz is coming home. The redshirt freshman will be in Middlebury for the spring semester. 

Any word on other ED recruits in NESCAC?  Williams needs a lot, but is particularly needy at RB, after the two guys who got almost every carry graduated and with a very thin depth chart of returning tailbacks.  With two capable, experienced QBs and a bunch of talented receivers returning, but big questions virtually everywhere else, the only hope for Williams to improve next year, in my view, is to get a lot more creative, open up the offense and turn to a Midd style fast-paced high-volume passing attack.  They don't have the talent either running the ball or stopping the run to win by playing predictable, low-risk football.   

[amh63]

Nescac1...never could get much info wrt to EDs for football, etc......prior to FALL...like in MBB.
Guess you are hoping for an Oregon-like team for Williams...fast pace, etc!

[Trin9-0]

Don't ask how but I stumbled across these GREAT vintage NESCAC logos. Thought if anyone would appreciate them it'd be this crowd. Not sure how the Amherst folks will feel about Lord Jeffrey donning a Williams colored jacket but you have to love his smug face and outstretched pinky finger... SO Amherst!



This Bowdoin Polar Bear does little to intimidate... much like their football squad. Zing!


The albino ass:


The Bobbies:

[Nescacman]

Bowdoin Coaching Update...

Our sources tells us the finalists for the HC job are Chris Rourke who is at Dartmouth (and former OC at Hartford State) and JB Wells who is HC at Endicott. Dan Gritti, HC at Rhodes, is also in the mix. Rourke and Wells are apparently very interested. Rourke is the morning line favorite. Words of wisdom for Mr. Rourke...be careful what you wish for (and don't recruit "Tattoo"...couldn't help myself).

[AmherstStudent05]

Don't ask how but I stumbled across these GREAT vintage NESCAC logos. Thought if anyone would appreciate them it'd be this crowd. Not sure how the Amherst folks will feel about Lord Jeffrey donning a Williams colored jacket but you have to love his smug face and outstretched pinky finger... SO Amherst!



This Bowdoin Polar Bear does little to intimidate... much like their football squad. Zing!


The albino ass:


The Bobbies:

Awesome find, Trin8-0!

[PolarCat]

Coach Rorke's (note spelling) bio from the Dartmouth website follows.  Interesting that he is a New England native, has NESCAC experience, and a HC job on his resume.  With the recruiting cycle what it is, he probably has some HS junior prospects that he was looking at for DI Dartmouth that could give him a good recruiting crop for the class of 2020.  And with QB experience as both a player and a coach, he could have an immediate impact on the Polar Bears' Achilles Heel:

Dartmouth welcomed back an alumnus to the Big Green coaching staff in 2011 with the hiring of Chris Rorke, who is in his fourth season as the quarterbacks coach and passing-game coordinator.

In his first year back on campus, Rorke worked with veteran quarterback Connor Kempe as the senior finished his career third on the Dartmouth charts with 4,499 passing yards. Rorke installed a possession-oriented passing scheme, which allowed the Big Green to throw fewer interceptions than any team in the Ivy League. He did even better work in 2012 as Dartmouth featured two quarterbacks with little to no experience, yet combined to rank 20th in the nation in pass efficiency and 33rd in passing offense as freshman Dalyn Williams was selected as the Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Last year, Williams had three games with at least 340 total yards and threw for 1,773 yards, placing him among Dartmouth's top 10 in career passing yardage at the end of his sophomore campaign.

A New England native and 1989 graduate of Dartmouth, Rorke played his senior year with the Big Green under the direction of Coach Teevens, who had been hired before the 1987 campaign. After serving as a graduate assistant coach at Georgia Tech for two years — the second of which saw the Yellow Jackets earn a share of the national championship — he was hired by Teevens as the receivers coach. Rorke spent three years on the staff, helping the program win Ivy League titles in 1991 and '92.

Most recently, Rorke was the offensive coordinator at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., since 2006, helping the Bantams to a 34-6 record during his five years. The 2008 squad broke numerous Trinity and NESCAC passing records, including yards in a season (2,206) and a game (470) en route to a NESCAC championship. In 2010, the Bantams were 7-1 and led the conference in rushing yards per game.

Rorke also spent three years as the offensive coordinator at Lehigh before plying his trade at Trinity, helping the Mountain Hawks earn a share of the 2004 Patriot League title. In his initial campaign in Bethlehem, Pa., he coached a quarterback who finished eighth in pass efficiency at the FCS level. The following year Lehigh grabbed a share of the title, and his offense led the league in scoring, passing and total offense that year and the next.

Before his stint at Lehigh, Rorke served as the head coach at Plymouth State from 1999-2002, leading the Panthers to an ECAC Northeast championship in his inaugural year and a share of the Freedom Football Conference title in 2001. That 2001 team led the league in scoring, passing and total offense.

His first stop after departing Dartmouth came at Illinois Wesleyan where he acted as the offensive coordinator. In his first season with the Titans, they won the College Conference of Illinois Wisconsin (CCIW) championship, then again in his third year (1996) as Illinois Wesleyan advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals. In both 1996 and 1998, his offense led the CCIW in scoring and total offense.

A native of North Andover, Mass., Rorke started eight games at quarterback for the Big Green in 1987, throwing for 1,222 yards including 302 against Holy Cross, which was the third most in a Dartmouth game at the time.

Recruiting Area: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York

[PolarCat]

Coach Wells' resume is also impressive.  He's a Trinity grad and a former Trinity AC so he knows the 'CAC.  And as the guy who started the Endicott program, his record shows he really knows how to build a winning DIII program:

Resume

Head Coach at Endicott (2001-present, first varsity season in 2003)
70-43 (.619) overall record, 51-23 (.689) in-conference record at Endicott
Two NCAA Division III Tournament First Round appearances ('10, '13)
Two NEFC Championships ('10, '13)
2010 Gridiron Club of Greater Boston DII/III Coach of the Year
2010 New England Football Writers DII/III Coach of the Year
Coached two players (Taylor Allen '11, Kevin Eagan '11) who signed undrafted NFL contracts
Coached seven All-Americans
Coached 18 All-Region players including two Defensive Players of the Year and one Offensive Player of the Year
Coached 96 NEFC All-Conference players including three Defensive Players of the Year, two Offensive Players of the Year,  two Defensive Rookies of the Year, and two Offensive Rookies of the Year
Two Capital One Academic All-American Second Team student-athletes (Mike Lane '12, Mike Zupkofsky '12) and four Capital One Academic All-District First Team student-athletes (Mike Lane '12, Mike Zupkofsky '12, Mike Wheeler '13, Casey McDonnell '14)
206 student-athletes named Academic All-Conference

Assistant Head Coach, Offensive Coordinator, Quarterbacks Coach at Illinois-Wesleyan (1999-01)
Co-Offensive Coordinator, Offensive Line Coach at Trinity (Conn., 1998)
Quarterbacks Coach, Passing Game Coordinator at University of Chicago (1996-97)
Offensive Line Coach at Bates (1994-95)
Offensive Line Coach at Trinity (Conn., 1992-93)
Tight Ends Coach at Brown (1991)

Played at Trinity (Conn., 1998-91)
Bachelor of Arts, History from Trinity and Master of Education from Endicott '05
Three-year starter and letter winner at guard and center
Received Blanket Award in Athletics, 10 or more varsity letters in four years

[polbear73]

Don't ask how but I stumbled across these GREAT vintage NESCAC logos. Thought if anyone would appreciate them it'd be this crowd. Not sure how the Amherst folks will feel about Lord Jeffrey donning a Williams colored jacket but you have to love his smug face and outstretched pinky finger... SO Amherst!



This Bowdoin Polar Bear does little to intimidate... much like their football squad. Zing!


The albino ass:


The Bobbies:

Great find.  As ridiculous as this Bowdoin logo is, I prefer to the current one as it looks like an overstuffed chipmunk.