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#1
What are some of the NY powerhouses? I remember St. Anthonys on Long Island, Stephinac, Iona prep in Westchester. Who are the upstate NY powerhouses?
#2
Northern NJ has 3 high school powerhouses within 5 miles of each other, talk about concentration of talent....that doesn't include St. Peter's prep or the south Jersey schools.....as a matter of fact NY teams just started to play(competitively) in the past few years, prior to that not even close
#3
Wow, back online....that was quite a wait.
Belated Happy New Year everyone ;D
#4
Quote from: BantChamps on December 12, 2023, 11:01:53 AM
Quote from: BigKat on December 12, 2023, 10:28:34 AM
Ha, let's say he was best at his position-and agreat weapon to have. Fetter and Berluti were the two best players in the league regardless of who makes what post season team.

Tufts OL who made 2nd team All American was surprising. Freeman was strides ahead of him. Not to discredit it, as he is a good player. Just curious as to what the entry is to the All American team.

Tufts Olineman - Cepalia

All NESCAC First team ('22 & '23)
D3football.com First team All Region ('22 & '23)
New England Football Writers' All New England Team ('23)
D3 All-American ('22 & '23) - First player in Tufts program history to accomplish twice

Fun fact he was Tommy DeVito's Left Tackle at Don Bosco Prep

"Freeman was strides ahead of him".....you would think so at 6'5" and 295lbs against the same NESCAC competition.
At 6'2" and 265lbs "that Tufts OL" must have better technique (gave up 1 sack in '22 & zero in '23).
Similar NESCAC awards, but that's it. National recognition....New England Region recognition(D2 & D3) about 4000 players.....So not that surprising
#5
Quote from: lumbercat on December 11, 2023, 07:40:09 PM
I'll second that!
N1 extremely knowledgable on the NESCAC and his knowledge applies to Football and Basketball.
No greater authority on NESCAC sports.

I'll 3rd it!!
#6
Quote from: Charlie on November 19, 2023, 09:02:42 AM
Quote from: Nescacman on November 19, 2023, 12:01:02 AM
Congratulations to the true (and only deserving) 2023 NESCAC Football Champions, your Middlebury Panthers. Great season (minus one week) and amazing job by first year HCOF Mandigo and the Middlebury student-athletes.

As the saying goes..."to be the champion, you have to beat the champion".

So Nescacman why is the IVy League who have three co champions this year Harvard , Yale , Dartmouth. This is also after Yale beat Harvard yesterday and still get a share of championship. Perhaps now the Ivy League will make a change in this insane set up and NESCAC will follow. Maybe extra game playoff or something this is ridiculous.

Yale could be winless and beating Harvard IS the championship. Harvard is co-champs, but you could tell they "lost" on Saturday.
That happened to my son his freshman year, Tony Reno was with Yale for a few years and there were rumblings he was on a short leash. My son's freshman team lost 70 - something to Harvard, but the Varsity team avenged that loss the next day. Harvard was kind of the "Trinity" of that league, but after that Yale win, the changing of the guard started. Reno is an excellent recruiter and you can see it by what they've done the past 6yrs (4 national championships). In 2019 Yale beat Harvard in the (protest) game, with that win they shared the championship with Dartmouth, who beat Yale earlier in the year. Dartmouth lost to Brown that year (ie Trinity vs U Bates), so it kind of "evened things out"
#7
Quote from: MammothDad on November 12, 2023, 06:42:14 PM
I'll leave a school name out of this but I did meet an athlete who "front doored" a school in the NESCAC who has a great football  program and he/she said ALL of the athletes at the school look down on the FB players for not being close to the academic standards of the rest of the student body.

I would agree with statement of "looking down" (aka jealous), but that would be mostly non-student athletes. I also had a son play in the Ivy league and it was the same way. Wearing anything with "Football" was frowned upon, hell I could barely find a t-shirt or hat with "football" on it(mostly NESCAC items). Most of their friends were "student athletes", so with the football team and other sports, that left them with hundreds of friends/acquaintances, so the jealous students can go scratch.

I think it's great that schools require more than just "good grades". Playing a sport or any other extra curricular activity definitely adds to the overall "student", whether time management, interacting/collaborating with other students/teammates, etc....I've seen it with my boys. For example up at the field at 5am, then work out in the weight room and breakfast with the teammates all before 9 am.

Any intelligent person can study every waking hour and get A's/4.0s, but is that person a "complete student" at graduation?

Here is something I find funny, my "big, bad football playing" son is the "green dot rep" (or something like that). What that means if there is a party for example and a female doesn't feel comfortable or is being harassed, my son is the go to person. Why is that? Is it because he's the "Big bad football playing" student? He was brought up to be that person.....but the hypocrisy is ridiculous.

With all that said, congrats to all the parents who had a senior or 5th year son "graduate" from football this season. This has been going on for us since 6 years old......I don't know what my wife and I are going to do next Fall.....it's been quite a ride!
#8
Hats off to Hamilton! Played a tough game and kept it close. The 0-5 Amherst game from last year was on my mind.....
#9
"easy win for the jumbos">>>>>that's what they said last year before the 0-5 Amherst game

<knocking on wood>

Jinx is off
#10
Quote from: Charlie on October 23, 2023, 01:05:48 PM
Quote from: Hawk196 on October 23, 2023, 11:12:49 AM
Quote from: Charlie on October 23, 2023, 10:09:16 AM

OL -loosing Freeman will hurt this team best OL in NESCAC by far


Are you saying Williams has the best Oline in the NESCAC?

There is a #1 in D3 (240+ teams)......that is Tufts (1 sack given up all year)...Berlutti has a clean pocket almost always and if he's not picking you apart in the air, he will get you with his legs

This is the reason I would love to see the NESCAC have at least a two game or one game playoff. one plays four and two plays three. Then a final game. I think it would really add something to NSCAC if you do not want playoffs. Some type of playoff format.

Tufts has had one bad game against Trinity and I think that is as much as Trinity played exceptionally well and Tufts was not ready. I beleive that if they played now would be different game. However that is predicated on Tufts beating Middlebury. I am glad that this happened though perhaps now the NESCAC governing board will come up with a solution and by that adding a playoff game even if its an internal league playoff game.

With no playoffs (probably never happening) one thing that can change is the schedule...mix it up. Tufts vs Trinity, first game every year.......I'd love to see this midseason Tufts team play Trinity now
#11
Quote from: Charlie on October 23, 2023, 10:09:16 AM

OL -loosing Freeman will hurt this team best OL in NESCAC by far


Are you saying Williams has the best Oline in the NESCAC?

There is a #1 in D3 (240+ teams)......that is Tufts (1 sack given up all year)...Berlutti has a clean pocket almost always and if he's not picking you apart in the air, he will get you with his legs
#12
Quote from: Charlie on October 19, 2023, 06:01:30 PM
Tufts had a good turnout for the night game about time.

The atmosphere is pretty incredible during the night games. I think the DJ/music keeps fans/students engaged (not crazy about music between plays...I'm a Boomer ;D ). Its definitely an upgrade compared to previous years
#13
Quote from: Charlie on October 11, 2023, 12:14:34 PM
Quote from: Hawk196 on October 11, 2023, 11:32:47 AM
Quote from: Charlie on October 10, 2023, 10:52:29 AM
Tufts Special teams

I give props to Tufts in there win against Bowdoin. Very sloppy night in the rain. I do find it comical that HC Civetti constantly tries ways to cost his team points. In fourth quarter in an obvious 4th and long Punt situation he takes out the punter who was having a great night punting in the weather. He puts QB Berluti in shotgun. Bowdoin knew that he was not going for the first down instead Tufts tried to have him punt and Berluti succesfully executed a 1 yard Punt. It seems like every year HC Civetti finds some type of head scratching special teams blunder. Although did not cost Tufts points one has to wonder.

you know I was going to take out the good play comment but didn't..... What I was pointing out was that the kick was good, but the bounce is what made it a 1 yd punt.

If you're asking for the back up long snapper, why wouldn't you use Berluti. There's more moving parts with the punt team. If they have a back up long snapper....there's a reason he's the back up

Berluti can't control the bounce of the ball. Good kick/play, but it bounced back to make it a one yard punt.....now the Bowdoin ST, every punt was nail biter

How can you say good play when everyone in the stadium knew he was not going for it on a 4 th and long. The Tufts punter was fine all night long whey take this insane risk.

HC Civetti special teams blunders goes goes back to 2022 When he called a fake field goal Tufts was called for illegal motion then tried the same back to back play. This Coach always seems to have Special team blunders. First game of season against Trinity we all know that Trinity was favored. However how many times is long snapper going to launch it over Punters head. You cannot give a team like Trinity posessions deep in your own end. Do you not have a back up Long Snapper.

Just seems baffling that specal teams is a comedy show.
#14
Quote from: Charlie on October 10, 2023, 10:52:29 AM
Tufts Special teams

I give props to Tufts in there win against Bowdoin. Very sloppy night in the rain. I do find it comical that HC Civetti constantly tries ways to cost his team points. In fourth quarter in an obvious 4th and long Punt situation he takes out the punter who was having a great night punting in the weather. He puts QB Berluti in shotgun. Bowdoin knew that he was not going for the first down instead Tufts tried to have him punt and Berluti succesfully executed a 1 yard Punt. It seems like every year HC Civetti finds some type of head scratching special teams blunder. Although did not cost Tufts points one has to wonder.

Berluti can't control the bounce of the ball. Good kick/play, but it bounced back to make it a one yard punt.....now the Bowdoin ST, every punt was nail biter
#15
Quote from: D3FLETCH on October 08, 2023, 11:12:52 AM
Quote from: lumbercat on October 07, 2023, 09:15:59 PM
Watched Bowdoin Tufts game. Tufts dominated the the game but I couldn't believe how Bowdoin left Boel in the game in passing mode when was it raining like hell and Bowdoin had no chance of winning. Tufts was just teeing off on Boel. Didn't think the kid was gonna to get up. No way a coach should leave a kid in the game they cant win and continue to try and throw the ball in those circumstances when his QB is getting lit up. Boel should have been on the bench. He's not a big kid, he will be sore in the morning but hope they didn't get him hurt.

2 score game with 5 minutes left. Time to pull Boel?

Maybe the team in the 1st half....Bowdoin was done in the 4th quarter....at that point Boel was getting hammered (OL tired??)....here comes #7 for Bowdoin, good chance its a run