East Region Fan Poll

[Pat Coleman]

Not so sure about this.  Hopkins has blown out the teams they are supposed to blowout and had a close game against the best team in the CC. 

.... and lost to Susquehanna.

[Bobcats47]

The hate for frostburg is strong in here

[Swish3]

Personally, I don't hate Frostburg...their coach has turned them into a very good program, who made a hell of a run last year...hope they can do it again.

Now, some of your comments, on the other hand, may have contributed to any negative posts regarding FSU.... 

[Oline89]

The hate for frostburg is strong in here

Hate? nah, but you are leaving the pack....new home:  http://www.d2messageboard.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1

[MRMIKESMITH]

The hate for frostburg is strong in here

Hate? nah, but you are leaving the pack....new home:  http://www.d2messageboard.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1

Ha, that's funny. I didn't even know there was a message board. It looks very similar to...

[Ice Bear]

dlip anticipates a tough game between Frostburg and Hopkins. Of course he'll be pulling for Frostburg to advance. Also, he is a bit skeptical on just how good Brockport is this year. Obviously they are a very good team but dlip is asking himself if they are on that elite tier. He thinks not, but is hopeful. ****ing East needs, at the very least, B-Port to make the semi's and show well...or else it's the same old ****.

[wesleydad]

The hate for frostburg is strong in here

Dont hate them.  Just do not think they are as good as they were last year.  I would let you know if I hate them.

[MRMIKESMITH]

dlip anticipates a tough game between Frostburg and Hopkins. Of course he'll be pulling for Frostburg to advance. Also, he is a bit skeptical on just how good Brockport is this year. Obviously they are a very good team but dlip is asking himself if they are on that elite tier. He thinks not, but is hopeful. ****ing East needs, at the very least, B-Port to make the semi's and show well...or else it's the same old ****.

I just hate when some 2nd, 3rd/ or 4th best teams from some of the other conferences talk as if they would easily come to the East and win, not realizing they would most likely face the same result against the UWW and Mount teams...smh.

[Ice Bear]

dlip anticipates a tough game between Frostburg and Hopkins. Of course he'll be pulling for Frostburg to advance. Also, he is a bit skeptical on just how good Brockport is this year. Obviously they are a very good team but dlip is asking himself if they are on that elite tier. He thinks not, but is hopeful. ****ing East needs, at the very least, B-Port to make the semi's and show well...or else it's the same old ****.

I just hate when some 2nd, 3rd/ or 4th best teams from some of the other conferences talk as if they would easily come to the East and win, not realizing they would most likely face the same result against the UWW and Mount teams...smh.

dlip believes the East, as a whole is just as strong as the other regions. He used to get super ****ing pissed when posters from other regions would **** hammer the East. When it comes to quality of football we have teams in all the tiers just like everyone else. We just ALWAYS lack that top tier team and until we have it, which dlip believes we still don't, that stipulation will stick.

[Caz Bombers]

I don't know what to tell you guys anymore, but it's just not true. We ARE the weakest, significantly so. Our best teams can't beat the best elsewhere. Our 2nd level can't beat their 2nd level. Our middlin' teams can't beat much of anybody. Our crap is by far the crappiest.

Forget the Purple Powers and the Johnnies, which of that Bethel/JCU/North Central/HSU/Witt/UW-2nd Best group wouldn't, on a neutral field, slap the f*** out of every East team besides Brockport and Frostburg (put your hand down Del Val) and beat those two at least fairly convincingly.

Prove me wrong on the field, fam. All recent history says we suck. Only your hopes and dreams and feelings say otherwise.

[MRMIKESMITH]

I don't know what to tell you guys anymore, but it's just not true. We ARE the weakest, significantly so. Our best teams can't beat the best elsewhere. Our 2nd level can't beat their 2nd level. Our middlin' teams can't beat much of anybody. Our crap is by far the crappiest.

Forget the Purple Powers and the Johnnies, which of that Bethel/JCU/North Central/HSU/Witt/UW-2nd Best group wouldn't, on a neutral field, slap the f*** out of every East team besides Brockport and Frostburg (put your hand down Del Val) and beat those two at least fairly convincingly.

Prove me wrong on the field, fam. All recent history says we suck. Only your hopes and dreams and feelings say otherwise.

Caz,

It's not playoff participants, we know that when the playoffs come to, we only have 3 or 4 teams that can compete nationally. There are plenty of non-playoff teams that would hold there own as well nationally (maybe not win stagg), but hold their own. I know that Wesley has played JCU close and St. John Fisher some year's ago won there, Wesley went toe to toe with North Central one year and won, Hobart and Frostburg beat Witt. Can't speak in terms of HSU, due to their location and facing MHB. UW has dominated the region, but I know my Gulls were just as competitive a while back against them. All I am saying is that they look at the bracket and immediately assume that no team in the ER can play football, we should have no bids, our top team should be ranked no higher than 15...

[Ice Bear]

I don't know what to tell you guys anymore, but it's just not true. We ARE the weakest, significantly so. Our best teams can't beat the best elsewhere. Our 2nd level can't beat their 2nd level. Our middlin' teams can't beat much of anybody. Our crap is by far the crappiest.

Forget the Purple Powers and the Johnnies, which of that Bethel/JCU/North Central/HSU/Witt/UW-2nd Best group wouldn't, on a neutral field, slap the f*** out of every East team besides Brockport and Frostburg (put your hand down Del Val) and beat those two at least fairly convincingly.

Prove me wrong on the field, fam. All recent history says we suck. Only your hopes and dreams and feelings say otherwise.

This may be a bit overboard, but to be truly honest, it may be closer to the truth than many of us would like to admit. It certainly sits in line with dlip's statement about the top tier and really dlip may have overstepped in regards to the second tier of teams. We just have to start doing more in the playoffs when our region faces teams from other regions. Honestly, it was like the second coming of christ last year when Brockport made the semi's. We were all biting our finger nails sitting on the edge of our seats and stood proud after a 24-0 defeat. dlip is slowly becoming a believer, yes even contradicting some of his earlier post (that may have been based more on feelings than fact), that we are indeed the weakest region.

Of course we have some strong teams and three/four pretty strong leagues but overall, when it counts, we really haven't done a whole lot to disprove what others have said about us. Like Mach says, it's not personal, it's football and he's ****ing right. dlip guesses in the end, if our region really isn't the weakest, it shouldn't be so hard to prove that it's not right?

[Bobcats47]

Just curious. Other then Brockport and Frostburg, how many other schools in the playoffs are public schools.

[D3viewer]

Just curious. Other then Brockport and Frostburg, how many other schools in the playoffs are public schools.

Just 2 others as far as I know, UW-Whitewater, and Framingham St. Oddly enough, 3 of the 4 are in the "Brockport" bracket.

[HScoach]

On the subject of regional strength, here's my historical outsider view of the East:  very solid but lacking an elite team.

Top to bottom the West is the best.  Very strong at the top with the WIAC and MIAC champs with very good depth below them.   Second is North due to the historic depth of the CCIW plus being home to The Machine.  The South is typically top heavy with MHB and a bunch of pretty good.   To me the East is probably better than the South from 2 thru 8 but lacks a flag bearer like MHB.  The last would have Rowan in the 90's but that's a LONG time ago.

Slay me if you'd like,  but that's my 2 unsolicited cents.