East Region Playoff Discussion

[pg04]

6 teams from the East got in and 2 are from the NEFC?? WTF!!  At least MUC gets to beat up on team from a different region first.  

[union89]

KMack's school gets to 'enjoy' the MUC experience.

[BomberJeff]

That jumped out at me too pg04: an east-region matchup that features no east teams.  Interesting decision (and one that I can live with).

I'm really suprised at the decision with Curry.  I thought not going into the conference championship game would have raised a red flag, but apparently not.

[Yanks 99]

RPI, Wick, or Montclair should have made it over Curry...a team that didn't even make its own conference championship game...

How does Randolph Macon get moved to the East?  Two teams out of region moved to the East?  Bad form overall...the East is the weakest bracket by a long shot...

[JT]

Two NEFC teams is bogus.

[gobombers15]

RPI, Wick, or Montclair should have made it over Curry...a team that didn't even make its own conference championship game...

How does Randolph Macon get moved to the East?  Two teams out of region moved to the East?  Bad form overall...the East is the weakest bracket by a long shot...

How should Hartwick have made it over Curry? Please explain that to me beyond "they didn't make their own conference championship game." They had a better record than Hartwick and didn't lose to a 3-win team. I'd love to agree with you Yanks, but I think you're wrong there. Rowan and Montclair have the beefs with Curry's inclusion.

[mel]

Well Curry's only loss was to Plymouth at 10-1.  I guess them beating the E8 2007 champ last year in Hartwick was a decider for the NCAA.

Last year I thought that 3 from the E8 was over the top.

Remember Curry is in an 18 team league.  
So by those standards the Ithaca loss to STJ Fish would have knocked them out of the E8 championship.
And in fact IC is pretty good.

[Frank Rossi]

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[Yanks 99]

RPI, Wick, or Montclair should have made it over Curry...a team that didn't even make its own conference championship game...

How does Randolph Macon get moved to the East?  Two teams out of region moved to the East?  Bad form overall...the East is the weakest bracket by a long shot...

How should Hartwick have made it over Curry? Please explain that to me beyond "they didn't make their own conference championship game." They had a better record than Hartwick and didn't lose to a 3-win team. I'd love to agree with you Yanks, but I think you're wrong there. Rowan and Montclair have the beefs with Curry's inclusion.

I just think two teams from a weak conference is bogus...that is all.  I think the second place team in a strong conference should get in...in this case Wick, RPI, Montclair, or Rowan...especially with moving over a team from the South to the East...

[union89]

Two NEFC teams is bogus.

#6 Plymouth
#7 Curry
#8 Rudolph Macon

Those last 2 bids seem to have been WIDE open......teams didn't take care of business down the stretch and left the door open for something like this to happen....I have a feeling we are going to see more monkey's with cell phones and kickball's posted by JU in 2 weeks!!!

[pumkinattack]

I guess we'll find out later, but I think RM got moved in because the East was challenging this year and RM was one of the weaker Pool A's in a very deep south, so why not send them to Mt Union (ala NCAA Basketball 1-64).

[Senor RedTackle]

Perhaps it is weak but the reality is that no one took care of business.

[union89]

I guess we'll find out later, but I think RM got moved in because the East was challenging this year and RM was one of the weaker Pool A's in a very deep south, so why not send them to Mt Union (ala NCAA Basketball 1-64).

Agreed......

[JT]

Two NEFC teams is bogus.

#6 Plymouth
#7 Curry
#8 Rudolph Macon

Those last 2 bids seem to have been WIDE open......teams didn't take care of business down the stretch and left the door open for something like this to happen....I have a feeling we are going to see more monkey's with cell phones and kickball's posted by JU in 2 weeks!!!

I figured that one NJAC team was going to falter.  Both Montclair and Cortland have that in their DNA.  I wasn't expecting both to f*ck up.

[Frank Rossi]

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