East Region Playoff Discussion

[tecmobowler]

Curry is from the NEFC which has never won a playoff game, and has been historically terrible.

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On the front page of this site, Pat tries to give some sort of explanation to the rationale behind the picks.... meaning that it went beyond numbers.....and to making just a decision based on feeling.

So their gut feel tells them that Cortland shouldn't be in... Not buying that. That's a terrible decision.

[pg04]

No, but St. John's is a perennial playoff team and former National Champion...

[Tags]

Curry is from the NEFC which has never won a playoff game, and has been historically terrible.

Thanks Tecmo - sounds like SC will be advancing then

But then again in the playoffs you never know.

[maxpower]

Time for the "who Max Power is rooting for" line:

Washington & Lee at Wilkes

Don't know much about either team, but I like good teams to win when they deserve it.

Hobart at Rowan

Hobart may not deserve to be in over Cortland, but I hate hate hate hate Rowan.

Union at St. John Fisher

Sorry guys, i just hate Fisher. Most of the fans I encountered (as well as some of the players) at that game where just a-holes, plain and simple. Hate Union too, but teams that beat my team.... I just want them to go down. No offense to FA91, Booby, Tags, Superman, or anyone else on here that I like.

Curry at Springfield

If I'm going to root for an E8 team, this is going to be it. Still get annoyed that such a one-dimensional team can be so good, but if SC's one loss on the way to a championship is IC, I'll feel pretty good about that.

[superman57]

I think on a neutral field Union might win, but if the two teams are so even I think Fisher Squeaks it out do to the home crowd

[tecmobowler]

Unless Union plays with 13 guys on defense, they won't be able to stop Fisher's running game.

[cstate19]

heres a thought..........IC screws cortland over again with their loss to fisher

[maxpower]

Unless Union plays with 13 guys on defense, they won't be able to stop Fisher's running game.

And if they do play with 13 guys?

[WUMAC]

Way to blow off Wilkes on the selection show, then again can you blame pat considering his history at Wilkes with basketball..... When it comes down to it, Wilkes has the advantage with its crowd and it will be in rare form this weekend. Its been 13 yrs since the last Home playoff game, and it wont be the last! I been saying it all year...


....BELIEVE....

[Tags]

Way to blow off Wilkes on the selection show, then again can you blame pat considering his history at Wilkes with basketball..... When it comes down to it, Wilkes has the advantage with its crowd and it will be in rare form this weekend. Its been 13 yrs since the last Home playoff game, and it wont be the last! I been saying it all year...


....BELIEVE....

What??? ... Nobody got featured really. They noted that they took the #1 seed, etc...

[Pat Coleman]

What did we talk about, maybe seven of the 32 teams plus a couple that were left out? You guys got footage of Wilkes -- most people don't complain.

[maxpower]

Just as my final little defense of IC and the ECACs....

Ithaca has never turned down an ECAC bid it has been offered, but it has (as it did this year) withdrawn its name from consideration before the deadline. This is not the same as Rowan, who has a school-policy of not participating, which was the whole reason this was brought up in the first place. ECACs cost a lot of money for schools to participate in, so for that reason I can see why IC did, and for the reasons Tecmo mentioned. I'm still disappointed that IC's season is really over. Of course, since Huntingdon doesn't count for our regional record, a 6-3 team might not even get a bid.

But the main point is that Ithaca does NOT "look down" on the ECAC's. That's an unfair accusation. In the last 10-15 years or so we've played in SIX ECAC games, one of which I worked at. I think Tecmo's reasoning, about Cortaca being our last hurrah, probably had a lot to do with the decision, along with financial reasons. (In the NCAAs, the NCAA finances everything. In the ECACs, the participating schools finance everything.)

Sorry for any statements I made earlier that might have been misleading.

[Tags]

What did we talk about, maybe seven of the 32 teams plus a couple that were left out? You guys got footage of Wilkes -- most people don't complain.

Exactly. -- Was a good show Pat. It was just good enough seeing DIII on an ESPN show.

[superman57]

what does everybody think