FB: New England Small College Athletic Conference

[lumbercat]

Im totally missing that one BigKat. What are you getting from the 2022 rosters that tells you who is returning for a fifth year?

[Johnny Eph]

Since Football really is not my prime sport of knowledge regarding strategy, schemes, concepts, tactics, etc (besides watching what I used to on TV) could someone recommend a good book for this? Preferably not a beginners book as I am reading George Darlington's College Football 101 and while the former U Nebraska Assistant's book is ok it is not well organized and seems a little dated. He was an assistant under Osborne and the book came out like 30 years ago. I understand formations and positions etc but more of a coaching book but one that is easy to read to begin with and then I can challenge myself. I plan on being fully prepared for 2023.

[lumbercat]

Jonny Eph

One of the best Football Books I've read is "Football Genius". Based on Michael Lombardi's 35 year scouting and player personnel career. He worked closely with 3 great coaches/ Football minds- Al Davis, Bill Walsh and Bill Bellichick. He makes some great observations on the way they coached and ran their organizations.
Maybe a little more advanced than you are looking for but the book goes a long way in terms of characterizing the coaching and football management qualities of these 3 legends and some others.

[LochNescac]

Im totally missing that one BigKat. What are you getting from the 2022 rosters that tells you who is returning for a fifth year?

I'll second that motion....

Help us out BigKat..??

[SpringSt7]

Anyone who has played 4 seasons has no more eligiblity. The only question marks should be the players who played their freshmen years in 2019. So if you see players whose stats list seasons from '19, '21, and '22 and are academic seniors, those would be your question marks. Theoretically the juniors who have played in '21 and '22 will also be question marks but that will be a conversation for next season.

Using the Williams example, John Freeman was a freshman in 2019 so he has played 3 seasons but his academic status is up in the air. Dan Vaughn played in '18, '19, '21, and '22. His career is over.

[LochNescac]

Anyone who has played 4 seasons has no more eligiblity. The only question marks should be the players who played their freshmen years in 2019. So if you see players whose stats list seasons from '19, '21, and '22 and are academic seniors, those would be your question marks. Theoretically the juniors who have played in '21 and '22 will also be question marks but that will be a conversation for next season.

Using the Williams example, John Freeman was a freshman in 2019 so he has played 3 seasons but his academic status is up in the air. Dan Vaughn played in '18, '19, '21, and '22. His career is over.

I was told there would be no math involved....

[lumbercat]

Big Kat-Spring St

It's a simple exercise to identify players on 2022 rosters who have the option of returning for an additional football season.
Thats pretty easy and I think we all get it. I inferred from Big Kat's post that he was saying he could tell from '22 rosters which class of '23 guys are opting to come back.

[Johnny Eph]

Jonny Eph

One of the best Football Books I've read is "Football Genius". Based on Michael Lombardi's 35 year scouting and player personnel career. He worked closely with 3 great coaches/ Football minds- Al Davis, Bill Walsh and Bill Bellichick. He makes some great observations on the way they coached and ran their organizations.
Maybe a little more advanced than you are looking for but the book goes a long way in terms of characterizing the coaching and football management qualities of these 3 legends and some others.

Thanks...I got 3 other ideas , not sure if u have read any of these.....

1.  The Football Coaching Bible.
2.  Offensive / Defensive Football Systems.
3.  Blood Sweat and Chalk.

When I was watching the Williams at Trinity game it took me 20 minutes just to dissect a blocked extra point in the 2Q.

1. Trying to see why Trinity overloaded the weak side of the line against Williams' lefty kicker.

2. Why Williams lined up in the formation they were in, with what seemed like a guy on each end of the line turned and faced each sideline blocking no one. Kind of like a mini box to protect the kicker..

3. #77 John Freeman ended up isolated and blocking thin air as Trinity blasted right thru the Williams line and blocked the Xtra point. It was not his fault but my point is this Sport is intensely intricate as everyone on the field has to be watched on tape to see what happened on each and every play. Time consuming would be an understatement. Getting a base of knowledge I think would help me save a little time. We will see but thanks for ur book idea

[JumboJerry]

Hello D3boards, Jumbo Jerry here again. I hope you all are enjoying your offseason.

I certainly am not.

Recently, news of the PGA Tour receiving a large investment from the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund has dominated headlines.
This has caused backlash against proud Trinity alumnus Jay Monahan. So you may ask: "Jumbo Jerry, how does this relate to the New England Small College Athletic Conference?" Well here's my concern: with upwards of $2 billion being invested into the PGA Tour, Jay Monahan is expected to receive a sizable compensation package and make out like a bandit. One would assume that Jay gives back to his alma mater and that this money would likely be put to use to fund the football team, as Trinity is not likely to invest this into education. This would mean Trinity College is being directly funded by the Saudi Arabian government. As a fan concerned with integrity, I simply can not allow this to be swept under the rug.

I am calling on all members of the division 3 boards to take a stand against the Saudi Arabian funding of Trinity College.

Please share with all other fans of the NESCAC so that we can maintain the integrity of our league.

Thank you all and cannot wait for the season to start.

-Jumbo Jerry

[LochNescac]

Grabbing my popcorn & a front row seat for this.....

[Pat Coleman]

Not sure why we need that kind of pot-stirring, JJ.

[GroundandPound]

https://twitter.com/thecfbnetwork
The College Football Network published a list of the top 20 OTs and top 20 OGs in D 3 for this coming season.  Unfortunately, it looks like they did not even consider any NESCAC players.

[NESCACFball24/7]

https://twitter.com/thecfbnetwork
The College Football Network published a list of the top 20 OTs and top 20 OGs in D 3 for this coming season.  Unfortunately, it looks like they did not even consider any NESCAC players.

To be completely fair it is hard to rank players from a league when you have nothing to compare them to since they only play each other

[BigKat]

This a college student in his basement so let's not get to wound up. He probably isn't aware of some of the very good OL guys returning for 5th years. I would imagine you see some Nescac skill and specialist guys on his upcoming positional lists.

The "they only play each other" isn't a great argument. Talent is talent and production is production regardless of whom you're playing league vs non league games.

[Pat Coleman]

Talent is talent and production is production regardless of whom you're playing league vs non league games.

Production is production against an opponent. Who's the opponent and how good are they against the rest of Division III?