Eastern Collegiate Football Conference

[skratch29]

My picks,

Sep. 4   
        Becker      Fitchburg St.             42-6 Fitchburg
   Mount Ida      Mass.-Dartmouth.        21-14 Mass-Dartmouth

Sep. 5   
        Norwich      Rensselaer                     28-14 rip
   Maine Maritime      Maritime (N.Y.).   21-14 suny maritime
   Alfred      Husson                35-24 Alfred
   Castleton      Plymouth St.        42-14 castleton
   Gallaudet      Shenandoah.               35-14 Shenandoah

Hopefully the ecfc can pull out a couple more then I'm guessing but we will have to wait and see. Can't wait for all these game.

[lewdogg11]

My picks,

Sep. 4   
        Becker      Fitchburg St.             42-6 Fitchburg
   Mount Ida      Mass.-Dartmouth.        21-14 Mass-Dartmouth

Sep. 5   
        Norwich      Rensselaer                     28-14 rip
   Maine Maritime      Maritime (N.Y.).   21-14 suny maritime
   Alfred      Husson                35-24 Alfred
   Castleton      Plymouth St.        42-14 castleton
   Gallaudet      Shenandoah.               35-14 Shenandoah

Hopefully the ecfc can pull out a couple more then I'm guessing but we will have to wait and see. Can't wait for all these game.

Solid formatting.

[pg04]

My picks,

Sep. 4   
        Becker      Fitchburg St.             42-6 Fitchburg
   Mount Ida      Mass.-Dartmouth.        21-14 Mass-Dartmouth

Sep. 5   
        Norwich      Rensselaer                     28-14 rip
   Maine Maritime      Maritime (N.Y.).   21-14 suny maritime
   Alfred      Husson                35-24 Alfred
   Castleton      Plymouth St.        42-14 castleton
   Gallaudet      Shenandoah.               35-14 Shenandoah

Hopefully the ecfc can pull out a couple more then I'm guessing but we will have to wait and see. Can't wait for all these game.

Solid formatting.

After all these years I still really enjoy your posts. 

[NED3Guy]

Wow.

I was way off on all my guesses about this weeks action.

I don't know what's the bigger surprise: the Ida UMD score or SUNY attempting over 20 passes?

Hopefully the teams in this league find themselves in the upcoming weeks and we have a bit more of an understanding of who reach team will be come league play.

[d3fan142511]

7-1 with my picks this week however totally off with a couple of them.

Anna Maria vs Coast Guard- Game was over at Half time. Anna Maria Struggled to move the ball and stopping coast guard in the 1st half.

What happened to Mt. Ida and Norwich - Wow. 41-6? Ida's offense could not move the ball at all. Norwich did not even show up vs RPI.

Becker was up at Fitchburg at half then Fitchburg poured it on in the 2h.

SUNY destroyed Maine.

Shen destroyed Gall

Surpirsed by the Score of the Castleton game. I would have expected more points from there offense against usually a weak Plymouth secondary

Husson gave Alfred everything it could handle and I think right now are the clear favorites to win the league.

Week 1 Power Rankings: Teams 5-7 are all interchangeable. Moving Becker up because they had the first half lead against Fitchburg.

1. Husson- Clear Favorites
2. Castleton- Took Care of Business against Plymouth
3. SUNY- Beat up on Maine..Now going for the Maritime Sweep
4. Norwich - No Show vs a solid but not great RPI team
5. Becker- Great First half for Becker - Moving up because of no shows of bottom three
6. Ida- No Show for UMD- Need to bounce back vs Plymouth.
7. Galludet- Could not get the Offense rolling
8. Anna Maria- Different Year - Same old Anna Maria

[d3fan142511]

SUNY Maritime at Mass Maritime- SUNY Sweeps and starts the season off 2-0- SUNY 24-21

Husson at Alfred State- Husson 31-14

Nichols at Anna Maria- Nichols 24-6

Plymouth at Mount Ida- Plymouth 14-10

St. Lawrence at Norwich- St. Lawrence 35-10

MIT at Becker- MIT 35-10

[NED3Guy]

Can't disagree with your rankings or outlook for this weekend....though I think Mt. Ida get the W vs Plymouth.

We may not have any idea what type of team Norwich is after they finish up their non-league slate. RPI, SLU, WPI is by far the hardest non-league schedule of any ECFC team.

If memory serves me (and I pulled up their archive to make sure it serves me correctly) Norwich started 0-3 in both years they went on to win the ECFC.

[AUPepBand]

My picks,

Sep. 4   
        Becker      Fitchburg St.             42-6 Fitchburg
   Mount Ida      Mass.-Dartmouth.        21-14 Mass-Dartmouth

Sep. 5   
        Norwich      Rensselaer                     28-14 rip
   Maine Maritime      Maritime (N.Y.).   21-14 suny maritime
   Alfred      Husson                35-24 Alfred
   Castleton      Plymouth St.        42-14 castleton
   Gallaudet      Shenandoah.               35-14 Shenandoah

Hopefully the ecfc can pull out a couple more then I'm guessing but we will have to wait and see. Can't wait for all these game.

Solid formatting.

After all these years I still really enjoy your posts. 

If it ain't hanging out dripping with sarcasm, LewDogg's tongue is planted ever so firmly in his cheek. +K for long-time posters with pizazz.

[skratch29]

SUNY Maritime at Mass Maritime- Suny  30-21

Husson at Alfred State- Husson 34-10

Nichols at Anna Maria- Nichols 24-17

Plymouth at Mount Ida- Ida 17-10

St. Lawrence at Norwich- St. Lawrence 41-17

MIT at Becker- MIT 41-21

Plymouth vs mt. Ida and the maritime game are the most interesting to me. Should be able to get a good read on where each teams season is going from there.

[H.C.Mosely1895]

If memory serves me (and I pulled up their archive to make sure it serves me correctly) Norwich started 0-3 in both years they went on to win the ECFC.

Hope springs eternal.

As a Norwich fan, there is plenty to criticize after being outscored 65-0 in the first 6 quarters of the season. So, I will choose to focus on the positive(s): We seem to have a strong kick return squad. Lord knows they've had plenty of practice.

I wasn't able to watch much of last week's game at RPI due to a wedding, but the Cadets were dominated in the little bit I saw, and the final stats back that up. Currently, they trail St. Lawrence 28-0 at half. With the exception of one drive, we haven't been able to get anything going offensively. And while the defense has at times been able to penetrate the backfield, and has done an admirable job against the SLU running game, the secondary has continued to get shredded against the passing game (a weakness that was exploited last season by Castleton in the Sap Bucket game and Salve Regina in the bowl game).

So, overall, plenty of room for improvement all around. I'd like to remain optimistic for the ECFC schedule, and I will be, but Husson looks to be the clear cut favorite, and Castleton has been on a rapid rise since their 2013 controversy-filled season. And hell, currently Becker leads MIT 30-23 in the 3rd quarter. That indicates that nothing will come easy in league play.

I'm rather new to the D3 football world (I attended all the home games when I attended NU, but never paid attention to much outside of NU and the ECFC until recently), so I look forward to contributing to the board and learning from the many here who are much more wise in the sport than I am. So as I tune into the second half of the NU game and guzzle Magic Hat, cheers!

[d3fan142511]

Finished 4-2 this week...Record for year is 11-3.

The two games i missed i was totally wrong with the scores. MIT is going to really struggle this year and wow SUNY did not show up at all vs Mass Maritime. Those games have always been competitive.

Week 2 Power Rankings
1. Husson- Handled the little brother Alfred State
2. Castleton- Bye Week
3. SUNY Maritime- could put Becker here after the win but still ranking SUNY ahead based on recent history vs Becker
4. Becker- Very nice win against MIT. Lets see if they can keep it going or is MIT not who we thought.
5. Norwich- Very tough OCC will help this team come league play. i still think they are better then both Becker and Maritime.
6. Mount Ida- scoring 12 points in two games. Two fumbles inside ten going into score missed PT and 29 yard FG..Only so much the defense can do.
7. Galludet- Bye Week
8. Anna Maria- Another blow out loss

[d3fan142511]

SUNY at Merchant Marine- Merchant Marine 21-17

Becker at Nichols- Becker 31-17

Castleton at Salve- Salve 31-21

Springfield at Mount Ida- Springfield 42-10

Greensboro at Galludet- Gall 17-14

Norwich at WPI- WPI 24-14

Curry at Anna Maria- Curry 35-14

[NED3Guy]

Once again I can't really argue with that ranking of the ECFC teams. Though I think it should look like this:

Finished 4-2 this week...Record for year is 11-3.



Week 2 Power Rankings
1. Husson- Handled the little brother Alfred State










2. Castleton- Bye Week
3. SUNY Maritime- could put Becker here after the win but still ranking SUNY ahead based on recent history vs Becker
4. Becker- Very nice win against MIT. Lets see if they can keep it going or is MIT not who we thought.
5. Norwich- Very tough OCC will help this team come league play. i still think they are better then both Becker and Maritime.
6. Mount Ida- scoring 12 points in two games. Two fumbles inside ten going into score missed PT and 29 yard FG..Only so much the defense can do.
7. Galludet- Bye Week
8. Anna Maria- Another blow out loss

[NED3Guy]

Couple of nice non league wins tonight for ECFC teams. Becker over Nichols and SUNY over Merchant Marine.. Both games were 24-14.

Nice start to the weekend. Not sure I like any of the ECFC teams to win tomorrow, but time will tell.

[H.C.Mosely1895]

Couple of nice non league wins tonight for ECFC teams. Becker over Nichols and SUNY over Merchant Marine.. Both games were 24-14.

Nice start to the weekend. Not sure I like any of the ECFC teams to win tomorrow, but time will tell.

Pretty spot on. ECFC goes 0-5 yesterday, with none being particularly close.

With this conference it's hard to predict how the conference schedule is going to go, other than the fact that Husson is the clear favorite. The power rankings shouldn't change too much. Perhaps Maritime moves up to number 2, but I don't think anyone expected Castleton to beat Salve Regina. With the momentum that program has I expect them to contend during the conference schedule and to be better than Maritime. And perhaps it's just my bias optimism, but I also expect Norwich to have improved from their OOC schedule and contend. Yesterday they still struggled in areas but showed marked improvement and seem to have adapted their offense as they showed more willingness to pass the ball (40 attempts) with mixed results. Much of that has to do with the O line. Allowing 6 sacks and gaining just 1.9 yards per rush are signs of problems that could plague them in the conference schedule. Becker seems like an improved team, so that's not an automatic W for NU on homecoming weekend in two weeks. Overall, the league is showing more depth with the likes of Becker and Anna Maria showing modest but real improvement.