FB: New Jersey Athletic Conference

[Jonny Utah]

Rowan is always good for one big letdown every year.  It seems like one of their losses every year is to a team that they should beat by 28, and the games that you might think will be close, Rowan puts up 50 on them

And Cortland is the other way around the years they are crappy.  They usually end up upsetting a higher ranked team, including Ithaca.

[dpadavona]

RU Fan-

Like I said earlier this week, the Cortland defense is making people look worse than they are.  Brockport fans asked the same questions a week ago that TCNJ fans are asking now.  Whether Cortland has the offense to hang with Rowan or not remains to be seen.  I look at Rowan as being a bonafide Top 10 team, and Cortland as being somewhere between 25 and 40, looking to move up.

[dpadavona]

Bomber-

I cannot think of anyone Rowan should have beaten by 28 that they ended up losing to recently.  They lost to a D2 and D1-AA team last year, and to the top two teams in the NJAC the season prior.  In 2002 they were undefeated before losing to Brockport in the NCAA's.

[cstater]

its about time the defensive boys at c-state get some credit!! everybody's always saying the other team played bad and blah blah blah..... how bout for once the cortland defense is excellent and brings their game every week?? they shake up other teams offenses and that's been shown the past two weeks... give them some cradit, they deserve it!!

[gordonmann]

You mean like putting Haas was on our Team of the Week?   

[Pat Coleman]

And putting his photo on the front page?

[empire8fan]

damn NY state school juice heads....they're never happy and are always itchin to start a fight!

[cstater]

pat and gordan

your the only two all week that's given them credit. on the front page (first time for a cortland kid in ..... long time) and Haas on the team.... yet people still post that its the offenses that didnt show up!

[John McGraw]

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. The season's still young yet and we're only into the third week. As the season rolls on I think you'll see more people start to recognize how good the Cortland defense truly is. This weekend will be another test against Kean. AJ Roque is one of the best quarterbacks in the conference aside from Mike Orihel. If Cortland can contain him and not let him ring up the gaudy numbers he did last year (throwing for school record 298yds), you'll win some more people over. And if not, so what? I'd rather have people underestimating the Cortland defense and then getting vastly surprised.

And keep in mind there's 231 Division III college football teams. How many of them can say that they've had the front page top story photo on their player with the school name very prevelant on the jersey?

[RU Fan]

Cstater

Sop your crying.  Re-read my post.  I acknowledged Haas and Monpetet.  What do you want?  Maybe Pat will rename the site....Cortland D.Com.

DPad

I agree that a defense can make an offense look bad......and Cortland did a pretty good job at TCNJ.  However, if you were at the game, you would have seen that it was hard to say that the TCNJ offense looked good... regardless of what the defense was doing.  Like I said, aside from a couple of players, the NJ O didn't have a clue (as someone posted last week). 

Putting it all into perspective, I'm not knocking the Cortland's O or D. They are a quality program.  I stated my opinion that the O looked sluggish and that the TCNJ O was even worse. 

BBomber

You sound like the old Johny Utah........did you change your name?  Who has RU lost to, in recent memory, that they should have beaten by 28?     Anyone for sour grapes?

[4merprof]

RU Fan,

The one game that sticks out in my head as one of the ugliest losses in prof history was the Jersey City game under Gus Ornstein.  I believe that was in '98.  Rowan should have easily beaten them by at least 28, but someone forgot to tell Ornstein that Rowan was wearing the brown jersey's.  He threw like four int's and fumbled twice.

[RU Fan]

4mer

He may have thrown 4 ints and fumbled twice but man did he have great feet.   

I think he was the slowest athlete I have ever seen in person.

[Jonny Utah]

I guess I dont mean recently there dan.  Over the last 15 years I guess I should have said. 

the sconn game might have been different if it was played at the end of the year I dont think they were better than rowan.  (not to say rowan was 28 points better though either)

cortland in 2001 might be an example of a team they should have beaten by 28.

[dpadavona]

DPad

I agree that a defense can make an offense look bad......and Cortland did a pretty good job at TCNJ.  However, if you were at the game, you would have seen that it was hard to say that the TCNJ offense looked good...

What do you mean IF I was at the game?  Didn't you see my ultra cool pictures on my website?    

Let me know if you are coming up to the stadium in October.  We can all meet up before the game. 

DP

[dpadavona]

I guess I dont mean recently there dan.  Over the last 15 years I guess I should have said. 

the sconn game might have been different if it was played at the end of the year I dont think they were better than rowan.  (not to say rowan was 28 points better though either)

cortland in 2001 might be an example of a team they should have beaten by 28.

I don't know - that's tough to say.  Don't forget the Cortaca game was darn close that year too. 

I was at the 2001 Cortland-Rowan game.  Cortland found a huge mismatch in the game between their receiver and the Rowan DB.  They just picked the kid apart the entire game and there wasn't anything Rowan could do about it.  The WR was Brian Babst, one of the best receivers I have ever seen at Cortland.  He had 14 catches for 219 yards, and 3 touchdowns.  Plus, he had Tutwiler throwing to him.

BTW are you the artist formerly known as Johnny Utah?