Empire 8

[Caz Bombers]

Oswego beat RIT 74-63.  Tim Bacon led the Tigers with 25 and 14 and Scott Young had 17 pts and 8 boards.

[dewcrew88]

lol ok its me but f*#k you're sneaky

Dude, what did you expect? This is the E8Nation's Chairman! He knows what he's doing!

[dewcrew88]

I think it was wrong for Utica to big-time the ECAC's. It's one thing for Hamilton to do it; at least they have some tradition. Maybe Utica didn't want the embarrassment of playing in a tournament they weren't going to win. They did, after all, lose four of their last five games.

I agree with CAZ... (2 posts after GB15s.) I dont think Utica "big-timed" the ECACs... they probably decided they weren't going to play in them for the sheer fact that when apps were due, they would have been definitely in;the NCAA tournament. When they failed to make the tournament, you cant double back to get a bid because they are already handed out in advance.

Also, I know this rule works for football because I did part of my ATR East column on it this year, but don't teams who accept ECAC bids have to pay a lot of money for those games? To my knowledge, away teams have to pay to travel, lodging, meals, all the expenses that an NCAA tournament team gets to have on Myles Brand and the rest of the "No Continuity Anytime Association's" dime.

Even hosts rack up a good amount of costs for facility use, concessions (if any) and a good amount of non-monetary costs, including time to prepare and things like that.

Maybe I'm off base and wrong, and I hope someone could tell me differently what is right, but something tells me in this situation, Utica didn't "big-time" the ECACs, James Spartano and the rest of the Athletics Department may have decided that it would cost too much money with not enough reward for anyone..

[Pat Coleman]

Many schools turn down the ECACs. Sometimes it's left up to a vote of the seniors -- other places it's simply institutional policy to not participate.

[Maximuh]

I think it was wrong for Utica to big-time the ECAC's. It's one thing for Hamilton to do it; at least they have some tradition. Maybe Utica didn't want the embarrassment of playing in a tournament they weren't going to win. They did, after all, lose four of their last five games.

I agree with CAZ... (2 posts after GB15s.) I dont think Utica "big-timed" the ECACs... they probably decided they weren't going to play in them for the sheer fact that when apps were due, they would have been definitely in;the NCAA tournament. When they failed to make the tournament, you cant double back to get a bid because they are already handed out in advance.

Also, I know this rule works for football because I did part of my ATR East column on it this year, but don't teams who accept ECAC bids have to pay a lot of money for those games? To my knowledge, away teams have to pay to travel, lodging, meals, all the expenses that an NCAA tournament team gets to have on Myles Brand and the rest of the "No Continuity Anytime Association's" dime.

Even hosts rack up a good amount of costs for facility use, concessions (if any) and a good amount of non-monetary costs, including time to prepare and things like that.

Maybe I'm off base and wrong, and I hope someone could tell me differently what is right, but something tells me in this situation, Utica didn't "big-time" the ECACs, James Spartano and the rest of the Athletics Department may have decided that it would cost too much money with not enough reward for anyone..

Capital might have been problem, but the womens team just last night held an ECAC game. Also last year they were involved in a game. From where I look at the situation I see a team that might have not believed they could have won the ECAC's. Maybe not going to them could remove them from the entire situation of not having the possibility of losing another game.

Thats my $.02

[JQV]

lol ok its me but f*#k you're sneaky

We got pretty good at it during football season since we had a ton of players posting in E8Nation.

All hail Nick Gatto

[bamm]

RIT finishes the season the same way they started... shooting poorly from the free throw line.  13-28 last night.  They outrebounded Oswego 51 to 38.  Nice to see Bacon finish his career with a great game, 25 pts (11-16), 14 boards. 

Gethers should take over the Alpha Dog roll on the offensive end next season for the Tigers.  Zeinfeld, Whitwood, and Roy all return.  Freshman Scott Young had 17 against the Lakers last night, he's 6'6" with a lot of range.  Should be another year they can contend.

[AUPepBand]

On a related matter, I never understood why everyone said they felt more comfortable shooting on "their rims."  Playing on the road never bothered the Chairman.

It appears you are a rare bird, Jose.....players who say they enjoyed the McLane Center antics of the  Saxon Sillies in general, and the Dancing Cow in particular, are few and far between.

U G L Y, you don't have an alibi,
You're UGLY, you're UGLY...
M A M A, that is why you look that way,
Your Mama, your Mama!

[AUPepBand]

We got pretty good at it during football season since we had a ton of players posting in E8Nation.

All hail Nick Gatto

All hail the "legendary" exited AU poster Nick Gatto......ever-lovin' Saterday!

[JQV]

On a related matter, I never understood why everyone said they felt more comfortable shooting on "their rims."  Playing on the road never bothered the Chairman.

It appears you are a rare bird, Jose.....players who say they enjoyed the McLane Center antics of the  Saxon Sillies in general, and the Dancing Cow in particular, are few and far between.

U G L Y, you don't have an alibi,
You're UGLY, you're UGLY...
M A M A, that is why you look that way,
Your Mama, your Mama!

By far the best gym in the conference in my days.  Sure Fisher has loyal fans or whatever but those guys at Alfred were fricking hilarious.

[fisheralum91]

I honestly never went to the AU gym....Had to deal with the brady bunch backyard turf though.....Sweet lord that stuff was bad!  My knees hurt just thinking about it!

[JQV]

I honestly never went to the AU gym....Had to deal with the brady bunch backyard turf though.....Sweet lord that stuff was bad!  My knees hurt just thinking about it!

They had these four guys that heckled the visiting team.  Not the nasty heckling so much as hilarious stuff that you couldn't help but laugh at.  The funniest one wore a cow suit to all the games.  Good stuff.

[fisheralum91]

Nice.
Every time we went to AU it was a monsoon- so the fans were a non issue.

[John McGraw]

For our new posters and relatives of St. John Fisher players.

It's spelled Plattsburgh, with an "h," not Plattsburg.

[fisheralum91]

Ouch- that one hurt- but very funny!