FB: Empire 8

[theoriginalupstate]

Since  SJF didnt put up a season preview, here's a clip from the SJF/Kings game preview from the Kings website.

The Cardinals enter the season ranked 24th nationally in Division III according to Street & Smith Magazine. Fisher finished the 2005 season with an 8-3 record, including a 26-22 loss to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the ECAC Northwest Bowl. The Cardinals defeated King's 42-7 in both team's season opener on September 3, 2005.

In 2004, St. John Fisher won the Empire Eight Conference and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III National Playoffs where the Cardinals fell 26-20 to MAC champion Delaware Valley.

A year ago, St. John Fisher averaged 463.4 yards of total offense per-game, including a balance of 228.0 on the ground and 235.4 yards through the air.

St. John Fisher returns five starters on offense and seven on defense. The Cardinals are led by their dynamic one-two rushing combination of senior tailback Mark Robinson (5-11, 215) and junior tailback James Reile (5-10, 180).

After earning All-American honors as a sophomore, Robinson was a consensus Preseason All-American First-Team selection last year after rushing for 2,194 yards and scoring 25 touchdowns in 2004, but comes off an injury-plagued 2005 campaign. He enters the season as a second-team D3Football.com Pre-Season Al-American. The senior tailback rushed for 441 yards and scored eight touchdowns through the first three games, but missed most of the second half of the season with a separated shoulder. He later returned to finish the season with 659 rushing yards in six games, while scoring 10 touchdowns. Robinson added 13 catches for 111 yards and two scores. For his career, Robinson ranks second at Fisher in career rushing yards (3,270), career points (246) and career touchdowns (41).

Reile, a triple-threat runner-receiver-return specialist, would take over after Robinson was injured and was equally outstanding, posting 1,285 yards with 17 rushing touchdowns while averaging 6.1 yards per-carry. An excellent receiver out of the backfield, Reile added 26 catches for 244 yards and two more touchdowns. He also chipped in with 14 kickoff returns for a 28.3 yard average.

The Cardinals also return senior quarterback Nick Suchya (5-11, 200) who completed 194-of-288 passes for 2,248 yards with 24 touchdowns and just six interceptions. Like King's, St. John Fisher graduated its entire group of wide receivers and tight ends. Junior Sean Nowicki (6-0, 185) is the top returning wide receiver after making 15 catches for 161 yards a year ago.

The offensive line returns three starters in senior center Michael Sefcik (6-2, 280), junior guard Corey Hogan (6-0, 285), and junior tackle Brennan Fortune (6-3, 285). Junior tackle Mike Weimer (6-3, 305) and senior guard Ralph Drake (6-3, 300) join the starters to give the Cardinals a massive offensive line that averages 6-2, 291-pounds per-player.

Defensively in 2005, St. John Fisher allowed 298.1 yards of total offense per-game, including 145.5 on the ground and 152.6 passing yards. The unit will be led by senior linebacker Gene Lang (5-11, 200) who was named as 2006 Pre-Season All-American by D3Football.com as a second-team selection. Lang, who was also named to the Street & Smith's College Football Division III Pre-Season All-American Defensive First Team and the Lindy's Division III Pre-Season All-America Defensive Second Team, finished the 2005 season ranked first in the Empire 8 Conference in solo tackles (65) and total tackles (143).

The senior inside linebacker also tallied seven sacks, two fumble recoveries, one interception and one forced fumble, while his 13.0 tackles per game ranked ninth in NCAA Division III. His 143 total tackles in 2005 rank second on Fisher's single-season record list. Lang was named to the D3football.com All-America Defensive Second Team and the Football Gazette Defensive Third-Team last fall. He was also selected to the East Region First-Team and the Empire 8 Conference First-Team, and was an ECAC Northwest Honorable Mention selection.

Sophomore safety Micha Norton (5-11, 180) returns after posting 68 tackles with three interceptions. Junior cornerback Scott Miranto (5-10, 170) added 47 tackles with two interceptions while junior safety Steve Stepnick (6-0, 185) contributed 45 tackles with four interceptions. Three defensive line starters are also back. Senior tackle Greg Pyszczynski (6-0, 265) had 32 tackles with two sacks and five tackles for loss. Senior end Matt Maggio (6-0, 230) added 23 tackles while junior tackle Matt Mahoney (6-4, 290) chipped in with 16 tackles.

Junior linebackers Steve Flagler (5-11, 205) and Bill Fox (5-10, 210) enter their first season as starters but have ample experience as both players saw action in all 11 games in 2005. Flagler posted 38 tackles while Fox made 27 stops on the year.

[maninyellowhat]

Wow, miss a couple days and I'm pages behind.

Tecmo, am I correct in assuming that with XMI no longer in business, that I should just be looking on ICTV online for a broadcast tomorrow?

[AUPepBand]

That's great news for you pepband

(though I still think you should make the trip east and hang out with us)

I'd love to watch the Bombers and the 'Bama Boys BUT AUPepBand has scheduled a BAND CAMP tomorrow... looks like we'll have some newbies in the band. First order of business is their learning the fight song. If it's not raining, we may even go down to Merrill and practice in the stands during the scrimmage. (Band room overlooks Merrill Field...Miller Performing Arts Center clings to the hill, hanging over the stadium).

AUPepBand's got a fund-raiser in the works that might be fun. More on that later.

JOSEQVIPER:
Both Brockport and Alfred get started next week (Sept. 9); no bye week on their schedules. Never liked bye weeks, myself. Waste of a good Saterday.

ON SAXON WARRIORS!!

[tecmobowler]

Twas the night before the opener
and all you could hear
was tecmobowlers tummy
filled with PBR beer.

The night was quite cheap
for it was on george's bill.
Even though we rarely saw him,
getting his nicotine fill.

And we openly chatted
how we wished yellowhat was here
as we raised our free cans
of cold tasty beer

So tommorow begins
a new football year
and may it be
a victorious year!



Yeah thats right ladies, I rhymed year with year.

Final prediction:

Bombers-68
Huntingdon-2

(Bombers take a knee in the endzone to end it)

GOOOOO Bombers!!!!

[tecmobowler]

Oh, I almost forogt...

I hate you Ernesto!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[AUPepBand]

techmobowler, poet laureate of the First Down Club?

[maninyellowhat]

Found the video broadcast for the game:

http://www.stretchinternet.com/ithaca/video.html

Looks like a gorgeous day today.  All I can see are raindrops on the camera lens.  No cancellations anywhere in upstate yet, are there?

[ptomback]

has anyone been able to get that website to work for the ithaca game???

[maninyellowhat]

It's working for me.  It's just the ICTV broadcast, but when they're not on the air, it's just a steady picture of the lake.  I'm guessing the pregame will start in about 5 minutes.

[floridabomber]

has anyone been able to get that website to work for the ithaca game???

Hit the following site: http://www.stretchinternet.com/ithaca/video.html

Be sure to down load the latest version of Quicktime.

I am view the webcast right now. They are showing the dismal rainy weather.

[ptomback]

i downloaded quicktime and now it just goes to this page with all these commands, helppppp!!! it's almost kickoff

[maninyellowhat]

Copy and paste what commands you're getting from the page

[floridabomber]

i downloaded quicktime and now it just goes to this page with all these commands, helppppp!!! it's almost kickoff

I wish I could help you more. Make sure that your operating system is either Windows 2000 or XP. Good luck!!

[ptomback]

Here they are

head>
<title>Bombers Live!</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<body onload="window.resizeTo(350, 330);">
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td align="center" valign="middle><object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
  width="300" height="200"
  codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
        <param name="src" value="http://www.stretchinternet.com/ithaca/ITHACAivelink.mov" />
        <param name="autohref" value="true" />
        <param name="controller" value="false" />
        <param name="href" value="rtsp://stream.stretchinternet.com/ithaca.sdp" />
        <param name="target" value="quicktimeplayer" />
        <embed src="http://www.stretchinternet.com/ithaca/ITHACAlivelink.mov"
  type="image/x-quicktime" width="300" height="200"
  autohref="true" controller="false"
  href="rtsp://stream.stretchinternet.com/ithaca.sdp" target="quicktimeplayer">
      </embed> </object></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p></p>


</body>
</html>

[maninyellowhat]

http://www.stretchinternet.com/ithaca/ITHACAlivelink.mov

Try this link.  If quicktime is installed correctly, it should take you right to the broadcast.


The field looks a lot better than I figured.