East Region Playoff Discussion

[magicman]

Final now at Hobart as the Statesmen win 35-10. Somewhere the Rev. is smiling.

[Bartman]

Hobart grinds out a 35-10 Total Team win. This is the deepest and most balanced team in the history of the program. The line play was awesome on both sides of the ball. Go Elmhust,  home games are preferred

[pg04]

Salisbury does score, and get an onside kick, but still too late. I'm not watching any longer because the video wasn't working well for me, but lots of personal fouls and unsportsmanlike on both teams it seems. Widener has UMU to look forward to...

[magicman]

Salisbury finally gets one into the end zone but it's too little too late as Widener had opened up a 28-0 lead. Less than 2 minutes left to play.

[magicman]

Cortland game is also a final as Wesley wins it 56-6.

Salisbury also goes final as Widener wins it by that 28-7 final score.

[pg04]

Hobart will be traveling to Minnesota. The good news is that it's not Mary Hardin Baylor or Mount Union.

[wesleydad]

well didnt see that one coming.  thought widener could throw on salisbury and they did, but am stunned that the gulls could not run the ball.  widener must have made great adjustments for this game from what I saw against del val.  congrats to widener for what seems like a well played game.  congrats also to hobart, liked your team last year and seem to have improved this year.  good luck next week against st thomas.  lastly, that was not a very good football team that i saw today in dover.  i was baffled as to how they continually run a read option when the qb never runs the football.  sort of makes it easy for the defense to key on the running back.  just not a good game for the dragons from the outset.  2 east teams in the final 8, guess they are representing pretty well.  wish the south teams were not battling each other next week as i think both of them could win in the quarters.  should be a fun week.

[ECoastFootball]

It looks like the NEFC and MASCAC teams will be forced to schedule up, unless every NEFC team always has a bye week 3. The NEFC has 3 OOC games, and the MASCAC has two. Starting next year, the MASCAC will be in conference for the last week of NEFC ooc, so the NEFC will have to go elsewhere for games.

Here is the NEFC schedule for next year, some interesting OOC games:
http://www.newenglandfootballconference.com/seasons/2013/2013_NEFC_Schedule.pdf
9/7 Coast Guard at Merchant Marine (NY)
9/7 Springfield @ WNEU (I believe this is going to become an annual game)
9/7 Endicott @ Framingham
9/7 MIT @ Pomona-Pitzer (CA)
9/14 Salve @ Montclair St
9/21 Coast Guard @ Hampden Sydney
10/19 Salve @ Union

[gordonmann]

It may be NCAA policy that video needs to be free in the playoffs. Whereas regular season is left up to the discretion of the schools and/or conference.

Yes, that's correct.

[Bartman]

Congratulations to Wesley for a dominating performance today against a solid Cortland squad. Good luck next week against MHB , a neck-twister for sure.

[mattvsmith]

Final now at Hobart as the Statesmen win 35-10. Somewhere the Rev. is smiling.

Yes. Yes, indeed. Thank you, magic man.

[jdex]

Cortland became very, very predictable on offense late in the season. No imagination on that side of the ball. Defense carried the load into this weekend, and two quick turnovers put it at a huge disadvantage against a solid Wesley outfit. Still, quite the season for the RDragons! And congrats to East survivors, the Statesmen in particular.

[XREDDRAGON77]

I guess all the coins I tossed into the wishing well weren't enough to even keep the game remotely close!  Regardless, we ran the table after the week 1 loss, won the conference, beat Ithaca, and won a 1st round game.  Congrats on a great season.  All isn't lost.  I have 2 former HS players on the Widener roster in the secondary, and 1 stud  D-lineman playing for Bart.

[@d3jason]

Cortland became very, very predictable on offense late in the season. No imagination on that side of the ball. Defense carried the load into this weekend, and two quick turnovers put it at a huge disadvantage against a solid Wesley outfit. Still, quite the season for the RDragons! And congrats to East survivors, the Statesmen in particular.

I thought Cortland did what they had to do game plan-wise ----try to shorten the game. Yes, the two turnovers put them in the hole, but after that they controlled the ball well and time of possession for the rest of most of the first half. They tried to grind it out but they couldn't finish drives and had to settle for two field goals. When they tried to throw the ball down field later it was pretty ugly and the interceptions piled up. They don't have the players to challenge the Wolverines vertically so they tried to rely on their big O-line and converting on 3rd down. Wesley only had four possessions in the first half (one was a kneel down before halftime.) They had to shorten the game to have a chance. They just couldn't get a turnover or big play on special teams.

[Dr. Acula]

Hobart grinds out a 35-10 Total Team win. This is the deepest and most balanced team in the history of the program. The line play was awesome on both sides of the ball. Go Elmhust,  home games are preferred

Hey Bartman, remember when I said I liked Heidelberg's draw over on the OAC board?  Yeah, that was dumb.  Berg wasn't ready for Hobart this year.  Hobart was very impressive yesterday.  Good luck at UST.  That's a winnable game for you guys.