FB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

From following some of the H-SC players on Twitter, though, I'm not surprised that this sentiment existed on campus. Not that any of the players exhibited those kinds of extremes but some were pretty opinionated on the election.

By the way, jknezek, check the byline on the projections ...

[jknezek]

From following some of the H-SC players on Twitter, though, I'm not surprised that this sentiment existed on campus. Not that any of the players exhibited those kinds of extremes but some were pretty opinionated on the election.

By the way, jknezek, check the byline on the projections ...

Well I liked them when I thought they were Keith's projections, but now that I have to give the credit to Pat I'm going to say they look like a pile of uninformed, unjustified donkey dung...

Just kidding of course. My bad on the byline. Thanks for doing them. It's fun to see what the options may be.

[Pat Coleman]

If it makes you feel better, you can think of both of us as ODAC grads. I just don't want Keith to take any flack for something I wrote and conceived without his input, and playoff projections are a magnet for complaints.

[jknezek]

Nah. ODAC has nothing to do with it, I just didn't look before stamping a name on it. As a journalism grad (once upon a time) I know how much a byline matters and why.

I can understand why the projections are contentious, but they are just projections. It's way more fun to complain when the actual committee does it's job. I did a few projections last year that I posted for fun. Then the committee went in such a drastically different direction that I said I wouldn't do one this year.

I've held firm to that policy, although I have played with W&L's possibilities a few times. I think you guys have it right, they should be a 6 seed, but of course I'm hoping for better! I fear that they will be the fourth seed in a four team pod. In that case, I could see them getting shafted. Of course, with 2 losses, and the bad one to Bridgewater, it's hard to claim they really got shafted. That was a killer mistake.

[jknezek]

W&L taking care of business. 28-3 early in the third. Shenandoah has been making some killer turnover mistakes that took this from a nervy affair in the middle of the second quarter where the Generals looked a little tight to a cruise control effort.

[jknezek]

Generals up 42-17 midway through the 4th. Strange game for W&L. I think Coach Abell is determined to annoy whoever gets this game tape for the first round. 4 guys that I know of have taken snaps, none have been the injured backup qb. W&L has thrown for over 125 yards already. Very little option, mostly dive plays. Screen passes, down field passes, very few seniors on the field at any time and even early in the game there was little of W&L's key players.

As you would expect, it has been an uneven effort but Shenandoah has made so many mistakes, so many dumb penalties, that it hasn't mattered.

[HSCTiger74]

Congratulations to the Jackets and their fans on the big win today. Maybe someday Favret will figure out that the defense is as important as the offense and we'll be able to put up more of a fight.

[General123]

Could W&L get a home game now with both waynesburg and Huntingdon losing?

[jknezek]

Most likely not 2loss teams are a hard sell to host

[D-BAT]

LEXINGTON, Va. – Shenandoah University completed its initial ODAC football season with a 42-23 loss to league champion Washington and Lee Saturday afternoon.

W&L (8-2, 6-1) turned a 7-3 lead with 44 seconds remaining in the first half into a 21-3 bulge by scoring twice in a 17-second span against the Hornets (1-9, 0-7).

Sasha Vandalov, who had three touchdowns on the day, made it 14-3 on a 4-yard TD run at the 43-second mark.

And then disaster struck for Shenandoah.

On the first play from scrimmage following the kickoff, PJ Athey fumbled the handoff from quarterback Shawn Lloyd, giving the ball back to the Generals at the SU 13.

It took just one play for Washington & Lee quarterback Nick Lombardo to find tight end Alex Evans in the end zone for another score and a 21-3 lead as halftime approached.

This lead expanded out to 28-3 as Lloyd threw his second interception of the day on the initial drive of the third quarter and W&L used the short field to stick in a Brett Murray 4-yard TD run at the 13:04 mark.

Shenandoah finally stopped the bleeding with 6:08 to play in the third as the Hornets drove 48 yards in seven plays, capped by an Andrew Smith 1-yard run.

Following Vandalov's third TD, this one from 22 yards out, Smith ripped off an 82-yard run over right tackle for his second score of the contest.

The 82-yard TD run is the second longest TD run in school history, surpassed only by an 88-yard Carl Joseph run against Averett last season.

On the final play of the contest, Lloyd hit Qiydaar Murphy with a 9-yard TD pass to provide the final margin.

SU outgained W&L 408-353 and possessed the ball for 33:06.

Defensively, senior Jajuan Johnson had 10 solo tackles to give him 107 on the year. He breaks the mark of 101 set by Cory Giffing in 2010.

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[D3 Poster Man]

Congratulations to the Jackets and their fans on the big win today. Maybe someday Favret will figure out that the defense is as important as the offense and we'll be able to put up more of a fight.

Nice game for the Jackets, ball possession was the key, RMC keeps the ball for almost 45 minutes, unheard of.  3rd and 4th down conversions were important.  Game Ball goes to RMC O-line, dominates HSC D-line.

The HSC commentators kept calling Coach Arruza, Little Pedro.  Quite disrespectful and borderline racist!

Disrespectful? Maybe. Racist?  No.  His name is Pedro!  It's not like his name is Fred and they called him Pedro. That's his name!  I've never known the word "little" as a racist term. your comment borderlines as a little stupid

[2RMCFans]

No, here's stupid:  commentators calling a visiting coach anything but "Coach _______" or "Mr. _______".

As an object lesson, we could draw an obvious parallel using someone in leadership at your college but we are far too respectful to do so.

Great win Jackets!  Looks like the coaching was one of the keys to the win.  What a way to finish the season. 

GO JACKETS!!! 

[y_jack_lok]

Disrespectful? Maybe.

I would go with: Disrespectful? Definitely.

[HSCTiger74]

Disrespectful? Maybe.

I would go with: Disrespectful? Definitely.

I agree with you. But then I have always thought that our commentators were a bunch of goobers anyway.

[wesleydad]

jk, you have to be happy with the d3 bracket if it would happen.  trip to cortland is about as good as it could get for W&L.  it is going to be very interesting to see how the brackets shape up.  the south will be lucky to get 1 pool c bid if LA Coll gets in, i believe they should.