FB: Empire 8

[union89]

Is it safe to say the East Region is pretty much terrible this year?

Ithaca, Cortland, RPI, Union, Hobart.... is there anyone out ther excited about their team? (Besides the Utica's and U of R's of the world, who are excited to be competitive)

Not terrible. Just lots of parity. No dominating teams.

I have to disagree......this is not parity IMO.....this is a very bad year for the East.

[dewcrew88]

any of you guys watching the UC-Fisher game.. can you post on the updates board... want to keep up on the game, but can't listen to teh radio. thanks!

[pg04]

It's 14-10 Fisher at halftime.  Utica's TD came on a returned Fumble for TD.

[Bombers798891]

Is it safe to say the East Region is pretty much terrible this year?

Ithaca, Cortland, RPI, Union, Hobart.... is there anyone out ther excited about their team? (Besides the Utica's and U of R's of the world, who are excited to be competitive)

Not terrible. Just lots of parity. No dominating teams.

I have to disagree......this is not parity IMO.....this is a very bad year for the East.

It's not a question of "dominating" per se. Are any of these teams even very good? Do any of them strike you as a team that could make a deep run in the NCAA's? There's no week in, week out consistency from a lot of these teams.

[theoriginalupstate]

Another great effort by Freshman Christian Zemaitis tonight...

21 Carries, 120yds and 3 TDs...

I like Utica's offense, a nice mix of screens and misdirection.  They have some playmakers on the outside...

They are a power running game away from being a consistent threat in the E8...

[sjfcards]

A good win for Fisher. Utica is a good team and will cause a lot of teams fits in a year or two. I am happy Fisher was able to avoide the upset. Got it done, but I was impressed with UC.

[theoriginalupstate]

It's nice that Carlton is a senior and all but seriously Zemaitis needs to start and get at least 30 touches a game...

[sjfcards]

Yeah, they have to get that kid the ball. He is a stud. I was talking to someone who knows the IC coaching staff, and they were saying that he was better than Robby, and he is only a freshman.

[pumkinattack]

Sorry in that I'm a little loose after a great engineer win, but wanted to clarify.  I don't believe that SJF's ceiling has been elevated by the Bills.  They may have accelerated their progress from nothing to relevant bc of the Bills, but I don't think they alter SJF's ceiling.  As for Cortland, who's currently a regular in the mix for the playoffs, I don't believe the Jets changes thwir ceiling vis a vis IC.  In fact, I think Cortland people are smoking the kind stuff if they think the Jets will make thwm a better institution, but whatever makes you sleep better at night.  GO JACKETS!!!!!!

[theoriginalupstate]

Sorry in that I'm a little loose after a great engineer win, but wanted to clarify.  I don't believe that SJF's ceiling has been elevated by the Bills.  They may have accelerated their progress from nothing to relevant bc of the Bills, but I don't think they alter SJF's ceiling.  As for Cortland, who's currently a regular in the mix for the playoffs, I don't believe the Jets changes thwir ceiling vis a vis IC.  In fact, I think Cortland people are smoking the kind stuff if they think the Jets will make thwm a better institution, but whatever makes you sleep better at night.  GO JACKETS!!!!!!

I can tell you this, if the Bills are not holding camp at SJF they are not where they are as a program today...

[superman57]

agreed upstate... The Bills not only accelerated the football program... but I would go as far as to say that the Bills saved SJFC as a school

[sjfcards]

They should rename the mascot to the St. John Fisher Buffalo Bills.

[pumkinattack]

Whoa, when did I post last night?  Some guy named Blantons hijacked my computer (or blackberry, not sure which). 

I don't know SJF's internal situation, endowment etc., but when I played in the late 90's and Bart was a little better than .500 SJF was generally a win, but a tough out and I always thought they were capable of being better (usually had good size but generally wasn't very disciplined and I'll leave it at that).  In 99 we won 16-0, but that was a really tough game.  In 96 we lost to SJF.  So I don't see SJF's improvement as related to exogenous events, but more organic improvement.  That's coming from an outside perspective from that period of time for what it's worth.  That being said, I really don't think it changes much for Cortland.   

[fisheralum91]

saved the school super--cmon
that is way extreme.
was there a point that i dont know about that they were going to board up the college?

[FisherAlum05]

What are our chances against Alfred next weekend?  I keep up with Fisher, but don't know much about Alfred this year.  Any thoughts or predictions?