FB: Empire 8

[Sir Spiedie]

Here's a question for the  E8 group, and something I am curious about. How much of a time investment for players is DIII football in the E8, both during  and off season. I have been surprised how much it is at the high school level. Also, do players generally live together? Unofficial athletic dorms? Unofficial training tables? Are there, as I would suspect, significant differences from school to school?

[superman57]

at fisher the players don't live together....but there are only 3 and a half male freshman floors so there are only so many places for the freshman to live....from what I've seen like anything it is a time investment...but not much different from High School except it might be easier than high school because we don't go to school for as long and have longer nights...

[Senor RedTackle]

at fisher the players don't live together....but there are only 3 and a half male freshman floors so there are only so many places for the freshman to live....from what I've seen like anything it is a time investment...but not much different from High School except it might be easier than high school because we don't go to school for as long and have longer nights...

Boy..I wish I had those conditions. At RPI it was, for me at least, a big time investment. I was a lineman and came in weaker then those who had formal HS weight programs. I would say it was a year round job...in the summer, you're lifting full time and running along w/ position & agility drills you're given to work on. In the season, you are still lifting regularly, you have the practices & games, meetings, study halls, etc. Throw in class and workstudy or any type of job a student may have to get some scratch and this becomes a regimine. Even after the season but while school is in session, there was regular lifting, rehab (if needed), class/work, unofficial "meetings" or "practices" or anything thing else that the NCAA wouldn't be too fond of. I would same gameday was the one welcome day where it was fun and you felt like it was easier than the practice and lifting regimine because you finally have a chance to hit someone else.

At RPI, freshman were pretty much required to live in dorms. After that, it's either off campus apartments or the greek life. RPI has alot of frat's so you'll either find the FB players in one of those (there's one particular frat who tends to get a high skew of athletes) or rooming together at slum Troy slum hole.

[theoriginalupstate]

at fisher the players don't live together....but there are only 3 and a half male freshman floors so there are only so many places for the freshman to live....from what I've seen like anything it is a time investment...but not much different from High School except it might be easier than high school because we don't go to school for as long and have longer nights...

Boy..I wish I had those conditions. At RPI it was, for me at least, a big time investment. I was a lineman and came in weaker then those who had formal HS weight programs. I would say it was a year round job...in the summer, you're lifting full time and running along w/ position & agility drills you're given to work on. In the season, you are still lifting regularly, you have the practices & games, meetings, study halls, etc. Throw in class and workstudy or any type of job a student may have to get some scratch and this becomes a regimine. Even after the season but while school is in session, there was regular lifting, rehab (if needed), class/work, unofficial "meetings" or "practices" or anything thing else that the NCAA wouldn't be too fond of. I would same gameday was the one welcome day where it was fun and you felt like it was easier than the practice and lifting regimine because you finally have a chance to hit someone else.

At RPI, freshman were pretty much required to live in dorms. After that, it's either off campus apartments or the greek life. RPI has alot of frat's so you'll either find the FB players in one of those (there's one particular frat who tends to get a high skew of athletes) or rooming together at slum Troy slum hole.

RT it is a huge investment, im not sure if Superman even played at SJF.  Its the same deal at SJF as it was for you at RPI.  During the season its classes, weights, film, treatment at the trainers during the day and meetings, practice, classwork in the afternoon/evening.  In the offseason its classes, weights, film.  its a huge difference from HS to college.

[superman57]

I did not play...but was friends with a lot of the players and while it is a lot of work...for me it still seemed like they had just as much free time as the rest of us...

[Jonny Utah]

You guys had to go to class?  Man, at Ithaca all we had to do was go to practice, lift, eat, get a massage by the female toppless massage club, party to about 2, and just make sure you got up in the morning  time where you had to get another massage.....

[theoriginalupstate]

You guys had to go to class?  Man, at Ithaca all we had to do was go to practice, lift, eat, get a massage by the female toppless massage club, party to about 2, and just make sure you got up in the morning  time where you had to get another massage.....

Some people with real majors did, I however was a Sociology major so during the day, instead of the classroom I could be found in the trainers room or in the coaches office watching film.  I probably missed at least half of my classes at SJF and still had over a 3.0. 

[Sir Spiedie]

How long are the on field practices during the season?

[Sir Spiedie]

Oh, and I almost forgot.....Did anyone in NY State  have a White Christmas?  Perhaps Canton or Massena? Winters up there have become a mockery of what I remembered them being!

[boobyhasgameyo]

What's up E8 Nation? Just checking in to say hey......Well I am out

[Senor RedTackle]

How long are the on field practices during the season?

when i was at RPI, we would have "pre practice" at 4:15pm....this was 15min of positional stuff prior to the official 4:30pm start. We actually did real stuff, at thud speed, in pre-prac. It was another 15 min of abuse.

Anyway, real practice at RPI in the early 90's was from 4:30pm until 6:45pm on Tue-Thur. Mon. for us involved the film review from Sat's game and then a ton of conditioning. The current week's stuff didn't occur until Tue am. Each position had meetings to get the game plan for that week, etc. The Fri prac was a no-pad walkthrough. For the OL at RPI, the Tue meeting was at 7:30am.....for a college kid, that was an ungodly, torture time to have a meeting. When RT was an established starter, he'd go to the meeting at 7:30am then fall asleep on the suede couch in the coach's office until his 11am class. I look back and laugh at that now..I can't sleep past 7am anyway.

[pg04]

The end of this Minnesota Texas Tech Bowl game is amazing... TT was down 38-7 and have come back to force overtime... unbelieveable!

[AUPepBand]

How long are the on field practices during the season?

While AUPepBand has never played, he's attended in-season practice sessions that, at Alfred are probably two hours. From Pep's observation, Coach Murray runs a nicely organized practice in which everyone's always busy. He throws in an occasional hand-picked matchup to add some fun. Murray's in his element running his practices.

[Sir Spiedie]

Hey AUPep, is Alfred in Spiedie Country?

[fisheralum91]

Ill chime in on the time investment thing.
My roommate was a football player and I played soccer-
It was a big time commitment on both our parts- he more so with film and longer travel- but the time managment part was a huge deal in getting good grades...

did someone say speidie?