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[dlippiel]

Anyone know the names and positions of the Ithaca starters who sat yesterday?

[theoriginalupstate]

Anyone know the names and positions of the Ithaca starters who sat yesterday?

If you go back a couple of pages there's a link to the Ithacan story about it...

[labart96]

Anyone know the names and positions of the Ithaca starters who sat yesterday?

If you go back a couple of pages there's a link to the Ithacan story about it...

You can also tune into In The HuddLLe tonight as the Ithaca reporter who broke the story will be one of our featured guests....7:30 Pm ET www.inthehuddLLe.com

[Bombers798891]

i would llike to know more about the UC game....Is UC good or Becker that bad?

only good teams beat other teams 78-19

Eh. Becker's probably one of the worst teams in D-III (4-42 in four plus seasons). They lost five games last year by 50+ points. And actually, I'm not really a fan of how they went about their game plan.

In the 4th quarter, up 58-13, with just over twelve minutes to go, Utica began with a first and 25, and threw the ball on four consecutive plays to go up 65-13. On their next drive, they threw three more times to go up 71-13.  Yeah, they probably would have done just as well running the ball, but really? Throwing when up by 52?

Then, on their final drive, which started with 2:18 to go, they ran twice for a TD. Technically, they couldn't have run the clock out by taking a knee, but they probably could have run it down to about 10 seconds by doing so.

IDK, it just bugs me to look at the box score of a 78-19 game and see the winning team pass the ball more often than they run.

[wickfan]

Compared to the last few years, I'll take an average defense.

hawks
with all due respect- your d is average at best.
sorry- but the game im watching is pretty aweful.
your qb seems ok- has good feet.
casimano is a decent back too

[wickfan]

Not saying their defense played great...but 143 yards passing on 45 attempts is not getting lit up.

I saw a little of the Hartwick game on TV.  If their secondary is getting lit up by Morrisville, they could be in for a long season.  The commentator said that the Morrisville QB is a converted WR from last year.  Morrisville couldn't recruit a QB  anywhere??!!

[theoriginalupstate]

Compared to the last few years, I'll take an average defense.

hawks
with all due respect- your d is average at best.
sorry- but the game im watching is pretty aweful.
your qb seems ok- has good feet.
casimano is a decent back too

Being average vs Morrisville is not a good thing...

[wickfan]

Compared to the last few years, I'll take an average defense.

hawks
with all due respect- your d is average at best.
sorry- but the game im watching is pretty aweful.
your qb seems ok- has good feet.
casimano is a decent back too

Being average vs Morrisville is not a good thing...

Didn't say they were average against Morrisville. 240 total yards is pretty good....I know it's Morrisville.  My point is, they may be an average defense this in hopefully versus horrible in the past.

[fisheralum91]

wickfan- having your secondary torched on some key plays by a mooville converted qb----that would have me less than happy....

[fisheralum91]

wickfan---sources that i have--and some have said them here- said that after the Fisher scrimmage against Mooville led them to believe that Wick should have beaten them by 40.....

[sjfcards]

wickfan---sources that i have--and some have said them here- said that after the Fisher scrimmage against Mooville led them to believe that Wick should have beaten them by 40.....

I can appreciate that a win is a win, but if you would have told me Mo'ville would have stayed with Hartwick I would not have believed it. I think Hartwick will be better than they were against Mo'ville, but they need to improve from this weekend.

A great weekend for the E8. It is nice to have some SatERdays to talk about again.

[SJFF82]

i would llike to know more about the UC game....Is UC good or Becker that bad?

only good teams beat other teams 78-19

IDK, it just bugs me to look at the box score of a 78-19 game and see the winning team pass the ball more often than they run.

Check the SJF box score...I was wondering aloud throughout the second half why we kept chucking the ball around like we were down 14...

[Frank Rossi]

In an effort to be fully transparent about some of our behind-the-scenes matters surrounding our "In the HuddLLe" show (http://inthehuddlle.com), I just wanted to update something that TGP stated on the LLPP earlier in the week concerning our invitation to Ithaca's Coach Mike Welch to appear on the show tonight (7:30pm - 9:00pm EDT).  

Early in the week, we invited Coach Welch to join us live in order to discuss Ithaca's game against SLU and their upcoming game with Union since it gave us the unique ability to get insight from a coach outside the LL during this out-of-conference portion of the season.  We acknowledged that we were aware of the seven player suspensions and stated that we would not grill him concerning the nature of the infractions; we stated that we would only ask what the availability of the players would be in the Union game (to the extent he would know tonight), and we offered him to state any personal support or confidence he had in the players affected.

The initial request was respectfully refused the next night, as Coach Welch apparently had another media commitment.  At this point, we offered a pre-recorded interview (offer made on Wednesday) -- this request was refused at 10:30pm Saturday night.

We are saddened by our inability to get Coach Welch on the show in our efforts to broaden "In the HuddLLe" beyond just the LL (based on many of your requests) when we have reasonable chances to do so.  We will be attempting to secure Coach Vosburgh of SJF soon when his team is bookended by LL matchups -- we'll provide ample warning to you if he does accept our invitation.  

In anticipation of the ultimate refusal by Coach Welch, we scheduled Brian Delaney of the Ithaca Journal and Andrew Santillo of the Troy Record, beat reporters for the Ithaca Bombers and Union Dutchmen for their respective newspapers.  They will preview the Union/Ithaca game for us based on their first-hand accounts of the teams to this point, including Brian's analysis of the SLU/Ithaca game.  Also, Brian will explain the genesis of his story that broke the news of the Ithaca suspensions and the fallout the suspensions may have caused in Ithaca's flat start yesterday against SLU.  And Andrew will help us preview the RPI/Endicott game.

If you have any questions you would like us to ask Brian and/or Andrew, feel free to post them here in the E8PP or the LLPP -- or drop me a private message.  You can also leave questions in our chatroom during the live broadcast.

Thank you for your support of "In the HuddLLe," as we continue to try to meet the requests of you, our listeners.

[sjfcards]

i would llike to know more about the UC game....Is UC good or Becker that bad?

only good teams beat other teams 78-19

IDK, it just bugs me to look at the box score of a 78-19 game and see the winning team pass the ball more often than they run.

Check the SJF box score...I was wondering aloud throughout the second half why we kept chucking the ball around like we were down 14...

Fisher needs to run their offense, and that includes throwing the ball all over the place. I don't think throwing the ball when you are up by a bunch is a good thing, I hate running up the score, but teams need to develop their younger players. Same with Utica and everyone else. 70 some points is excessive, and Fisher should have ran the ball a lot more later in the game, but I can see how it happens.

Teams should take out their first (and second string), but if your reserves are able to move the ball with efficiency against another team, it is tough to tell them not to.

[Bombers798891]

i would llike to know more about the UC game....Is UC good or Becker that bad?

only good teams beat other teams 78-19

IDK, it just bugs me to look at the box score of a 78-19 game and see the winning team pass the ball more often than they run.

Check the SJF box score...I was wondering aloud throughout the second half why we kept chucking the ball around like we were down 14...

I guess some of it is just that, well, it's Utica. They've been on the receiving end of some blowouts, and I can't recall any team doing something like that to them, at least to that extent. Blaise is a good guy, but I can't help but wonder if maybe, he wanted to catch some eyes with that score. I'm sure Utica's improved, but what do we learn in a 78-19 game we can't learn in a 64-19 game?

Sometimes people say "You got to work out the kinks in an offense." but I'm not sure going against a team as defensively inept as Becker can really help that much when you get into tougher games