FB: New England Small College Athletic Conference

[bant551]

Apparently even Marcus Vick works harder than the Trinity kids.

[Col. Partridge]

I am confused about Trinity being in the bottom four as well. I know Trinity lost to Williams and all to break their streak, but a team who has won 34 of their last 35 is difficult to put in the bottom four of the conference.

I still think the surprise of the year is Middlebury. I saw them winning three games this season and that is it. I am very impressed with how Tiger Lyon has matured, and the play of the Panther defense. The fact that Coach Ritter stretched out the Bates defense and threw downfield really gives them an added edge.

Be honest...tell me you didn't crack up the first time you said "Tiger Lyon" on the air!

[fells]

Be honest...tell me you didn't crack up the first time you said "Tiger Lyon" on the air!
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Nah, it flows well and is easy to pronounce.

[Trin9-0]

Capt. Great quote at the bottom of your posts. PCU is a great movie and based on the NESCAC (both writers went to Wes Tech).

Another great exchange between the Jock and Womanist:


Jock: You girls want a brew-dog?

Womanist: We're not interested in your PENIS!

[Col. Partridge]

I picked the quote becuase I lived the life of Jock #1 at Wes for four years.  That was my life

P.S.  There is no "man" in womynist...

[TUrighty14]

I've always had to urge whenever I step on the Wesleyan campus to just find a large group of hyper liberal looking students and start throwing meat at them...just to see what happens.

[formerbant10]

My first game at Wes...there was a girl with blue hair handcuffed to a fence protesting something....might've been the consumption of red meat.

[Ephs]

My first game at Wes...there was a girl with blue hair handcuffed to a fence protesting something....might've been the consumption of red meat.

...or the comsumption of weslayan by trinity. when's the last time they beat you guys?

[Col. Partridge]

In football: 2000.  More recent than the Cards' last win over Williams.

I think Former played basketball(?).  Not sure when the last time that happened was.

[TUrighty14]

In my personal opinion, there isn't a single spectacle in any NESCAC school like the "Boogie" Club of Wesleyan. My freshmen year we were in the middle of a double header with the cards and a group of 10-20 kids without any footwear ran behind the backstop, placed a boombox on the ground, released some new-age/techno song, and started dancing wildly for nearly 3 minutes. I'm talking random body gyrations, worse than Elaine Benes.

Our pitcher had to step off the mound, clearly fazed by what he was looking directly into. The umpires just shooked their heads as if they were thinking "Frigging Wesleyan." Even Tufts coach John Casey couldnt look away. It was my first trip to Middletown, and I don't think I'll ever forget it.

[Col. Partridge]

That's good stuff.  I think the Boogie Club was after my time.

To this day, if I run into a former Lord Jeff football player, he will bring up the time in the mid-90s when a co-ed group of streakers stormed the Homecoming playing field (leaping over the chain link fence) and tried to make off with the game ball.  They may or may not have been the same group that streaked my graduation.

I realize Wes has an institutional handicap when it comes to athletic prowess, but is one Little Three title every 37 years or so too much to ask?

[bant551]

I do recall Wesleyan wiping the floor with Trinity two times during my college career.  It was one of the years that they actually had a very talented receiver to go after the 60 balls they throw every game.  I don't remember his/their names... but I think it sounded like "Domesticles".

[Col. Partridge]

There was a record-settiong running back whose name rhymed with Domesticles...he may have caught some passes, but he wasn't the primary receiver.  The guy I'm thinking of may have had a younger brother who played receiver later on, though.

I'm thinking the Cards win over Bowdoin this week then lose the last 2 games vs. Williams and Trinity (always a tough end to a season).   Their defense seems to be much improved this year...if they could get some big lineman and establish a running game they would not be half bad.  Big offensive lineman are probably the type least like to want to attend a school like Wesleyan, but they have turned around the lacrosse and soccer teams in recent years and there is no reason the same couldn't happen in football.

[Trin9-0]

As much as I love picking on Wes Tech they are not alone in the weirdo department. My freshaman year we were playing at Hamilton and the members of their student-body who were holding the chains were dressed as furry woodland creatures (a squirrel, a bunny and a chipmunk I believe). It was not a one-time occurance either. Watching film of them the week prior I noticed that the chain-gang were all dressed in Santa Claus costumes. Nothing better to do in Clinton, NY I suppose.

Bant, you're probably thinking of Todd Themistocles who played WR for the Cards. And Capt. his brother Tom was the record setting running back for Wes in the mid to late '90s. The last Wes win over Trin in 2000 was QB Brennan Carney's freshman year. Carney was not only throwing to Themistocles, but also Matt Percival and Pat Moffett. The O-line and recieving talent has dropped of significantly after that group left.

It also didn't help that '00 NESCAC Freshman of the year Wes RB Young Douglas was arrested the summer of '01 for robbing a GAP with a starter's pistol.

[bant551]

Thats right!  Those WRs were pretty nasty, especially together.

That game in 2000 made me cringe.  It was 2 days after Priore made us run all those punishment sprints to wrap up Thursday practice (last week of practice of the year, in recognition of a pathetic performance in our previous game).  Then Wes U came out and just laid the smack down on us.  Good times.  But that also made a bunch of kids quit, which I think was the point.

The atmosphere after the Wesleyan loss was kind of depressing!