FB: Empire 8

[fisheralum91]

Talk about a difficult scenario.
First- Lets hope that this is the year that Fisher doesnt have one of their traditional yearly let down games.
Second-If SU gets by Wesley- it would seem that a 9-1 team with a good OOC win and a strong E8 record would be the best for Fisher.
The sticky part is that IC has to keep pace until they play SU.
All good conversation tho.

Have I mentioned that i hate bye weeks?

[dlippiel]

Brief write up of the Union/Utica game on www.dlipthedutchman.blogspot.com

[fisheralum91]

Nice article Dlip!
+k!

[Bombers798891]

Wesley is playing the College of Faith this season. There's a few College of Faiths out there, and I know Wesley aggressively schedules non-DIII schools, so is this the team that had like, -90 yards vs. Tusculum recently? Because if so...well, that's going to be an ugly game

Yes, it is the same College of Faith. That game will be in the 70s to in the 0-10s.

IDK if it will even be that close. I read an article about the Tusculum game, and it doesn't even look like Tusculum had to do anything. Frequent long snaps over the punter's head led to three safeties and two other drives starting inside the five-yard line. Second half played with 8-minute quarters. Tusculum's D-II, yes, but they're a lousy D-II...last year's team went 4-7,

I know 9-game schedules are frowned upon, and as an independent, it's got to be near-impossible to find late-season opponents when teams are in conference play, especially because Wesley is awesome and will probably beat them.

But an online-only religious school? How does Wesley benefit from this type of game?

[dlippiel]

Dlip doesn't think they benefit from it at all. Especially if a starter were to get hurt during the early part of the game before the second and third team guys come in. Dlip bets they really have a tough time scheduling.

[D3viewer]

In case anyone is interested, the Cortland-Brockport game is on Live tomorrow at 12 PM on Time Warner Cable sports network.
Last week they carried the Buff St- Cortland game.
Expect some showers transitioning into rain during the game, which could muddle Cortland's pass dominant offense they showed last week. Almost 500 yards passing and under 2 yards a carry in the rushing game. Wet balls are not QB friendly. We'll see how it turns out. Could keep the crowd numbers down as well.

[Bombers798891]

In case anyone is interested, the Cortland-Brockport game is on Live tomorrow at 12 PM on Time Warner Cable sports network.
Last week they carried the Buff St- Cortland game.
Expect some showers transitioning into rain during the game, which could muddle Cortland's pass dominant offense they showed last week. Almost 500 yards passing and under 2 yards a carry in the rushing game. Wet balls are not QB friendly. We'll see how it turns out. Could keep the crowd numbers down as well.

Yeah, but that includes the 30 yards they lost on their last two "carries" of the game. Taking that and the sack yardage out, the number goes up to about 3 yards a carry.

[ExTartanPlayer]

Wesley is playing the College of Faith this season. There's a few College of Faiths out there, and I know Wesley aggressively schedules non-DIII schools, so is this the team that had like, -90 yards vs. Tusculum recently? Because if so...well, that's going to be an ugly game

Yes, it is the same College of Faith. That game will be in the 70s to in the 0-10s.

IDK if it will even be that close. I read an article about the Tusculum game, and it doesn't even look like Tusculum had to do anything. Frequent long snaps over the punter's head led to three safeties and two other drives starting inside the five-yard line. Second half played with 8-minute quarters. Tusculum's D-II, yes, but they're a lousy D-II...last year's team went 4-7,

I know 9-game schedules are frowned upon, and as an independent, it's got to be near-impossible to find late-season opponents when teams are in conference play, especially because Wesley is awesome and will probably beat them.

But an online-only religious school? How does Wesley benefit from this type of game?

I also read about the Tusculum game (and then went through the play by play because I couldn't figure out how a team could have -100 rushing yards until I saw all the bad-punt-snaps (I think 5 in all) that went for -25 yards each.

What I don't get is how a school like that even has a team. How do they practice? Who's their coach?

I don't think Wesley's starters really benefit. I think, as previously noted, they just have an impossible time scheduling and have to take some games to keep the players from getting bored (they play their last D3 game in early October). Any game where the guys have to put on their uniforms, turn on the lights, etc at least keeps them out of trouble. Plus, they can use it as a de facto JV game once they get out to a 21-28 point lead.

[dlippiel]

Nice article Dlip!
+k!

Thanks f91! It's looking like 2014 may be quite the year for your Cardinals. As always Dlip will be rooting for them!

[D3viewer]

Cortland coach cost C State the game again. Maybe time for Mc Neil to step down. Cortland ball 4th and goal at Brockport's 1 yard line . Down by 3 ..no timeouts. Coaches have no idea what to do..clock ticks down and down and down..hastily sends FG team on (with about 5 ticking seconds left)..no one on C St knows what they are doing..they snap the ball to the qb ..they get charged w false start...game over.
No chance for a tying FG....and no play run with the offense either for the win. Both FG and offensive players were on the field (at the same time) when the ball was just snapped.

[sjfcards]

Wow ...  Cortland botches the end of another game today and loses as a result. Gets the ball to the 1.5 yard line with 33 seconds left and fails to get a play off. All they needed was a field goal to tie.

By all rights C-State should be 2-0, but they are finding new and innovative ways to lose games so far this year. This is not an inexperienced coaching staff, so what is going on?

[pg04]

Wow ...  Cortland botches the end of another game today and loses as a result. Gets the ball to the 1.5 yard line with 33 seconds left and fails to get a play off. All they needed was a field goal to tie.

By all rights C-State should be 2-0, but they are finding new and innovative ways to lose games so far this year. This is not an inexperienced coaching staff, so what is going on?

I couldn't really believe what I was seeing honestly. It was third and goal from the 2. They should have had a plan for what happened on 4th and goal, especially with so much time.

[bports]

Brockport  really should have won this game by about 14-17 pts. They killed Cortland in every statistic but could not finish and had a ton of penalties. Some of those penalties were very fishy to say the least !!

[pg04]

Brockport  really should have won this game by about 14-17 pts. They killed Cortland in every statistic but could not finish and had a ton of penalties. Some of those penalties were very fishy to say the least !!

Would have been 9 for sure if their kicker made the 2 under 30 yard field goals. Just glad he squeezed in the final one!

[@d3jason]

You lose your job for that at a higher division.