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#1
An update on D3boards.com / Re: An update on D3boards.com
February 21, 2024, 03:50:57 PM
I just found out that you're back, and I'm really glad to see it (although it will take me a while to get used to the new look). Congratulations and thanks for your hard work in resurrecting things.
#2
  While running errands today in Charlotte saw window decals for both Lynchburg College and Muhlenberg Dad.
#3
Quote from: Macon on December 07, 2023, 08:46:27 PM
Good luck to Coach Luvara. Hoping he has many successful 9-1 seasons.

   :)
#4
  Very nice write-up, and what sounds like a great hire. I'm especially happy that he was a defensive coordinator, as that seems to me to be an area that the Tigers could definitely improve on.
#5
Quote from: Jonny Utah on December 06, 2023, 02:51:12 PM
Quote from: MammothDad on December 06, 2023, 02:01:56 PM
Quote from: MapleBBQChicken on December 05, 2023, 07:50:45 PM

MammothDad – While I've agreed with a lot of what you've had to say over the past few weeks, I don't agree here. I think the notion that because we are at elite academic schools we need to shut football down in early November is illogical. If we can successfully balance football, academics, and non-football extracurriculars until then, there's no reason we can't do it the whole semester. Every other NESCAC sport is allowed to play in the NCAA tournament. And it's not like there aren't high-academic programs in the field for football. Johns Hopkins and MIT have been mentioned already, and if we expand geographically, U Chicago and the Claremont/Harvey Mudd team both play in conferences with automatic bids to the NCAA tournament. I don't see why football needs to be treated differently from other NESCAC sports, and I don't see why the NESCAC needs to be treated differently from the rest of the country. Let the boys play.

Thanks.  Are you a former NESCAC player?

Some of the people on here are amazing with their research skills.  Let's see what the Playoff records are for "academic" schools in the D3 Playoffs.

Just hate to see the joy of League Champ be fizzled when the school spends lots of money to travel to a loss of a school where the players are majoring in PE, destined to be HS coaches with a debt load they can never pay off.

But if the kids and the Admins are supportive of it, sure.  Get in the dance.  Just remember, 31 teams end on a let down in the playoff.

The problem here is probably more than half of the Amherst College football team isn't getting into Amherst if they aren't playing football (or had parents who attended which could also change now). 

So the argument kind of has to start there.  Amherst is an "academic school" but the football roster doesn't really reflect the admissions standards of the school as a whole. Now the MIT football team could fit in well with your argument.  I don't think they mind playing in a conference that allows them to go to the playoffs. 

Also you know there are probably more Nescac/Ivy league grad public school teachers making the same $ as your phys ed teacher? Not sure where you are getting the PE angle from.

So the bottom line is you have to ask yourself how much do the colleges want to bend their admissions and financial aid.  Stanford, Vanderbilt and Boston College all decided to bend the admissions a lot and give out 75+ free rides a year.  The Ivy league schools decided to bend the admissions and financial aid a little, but not to the extend the other schools did.  Then you have Amherst and Williams who also bend the admissions and financial aid, but want to stay small.  Then you have MIT who doesn't bend at either end.

  That's just a coded way of saying "dumba$$ jocks who would never be allowed to darken the doors of our prestigious scholarly enclave". In all fairness I haven't seen that from other posters on this board, but it fits in with the administration attitudes that MapleBBQChicken and BantChamps referenced previously, and apparently MammothDad agrees.
#6
  Congratulations, great job by the Jackets today. Good luck next week against Cortland; keep repping for the ODAC.
#7
bluestreak66 - Check your PMs.
#8
Quote from: faunch on November 18, 2023, 03:07:38 PM
I said it week one and am sticking with it...Trinity will win the 'ship!

I guess we will find out next week. There's a post on the SAA board that says Hansen's ratings have NCC as a 25 point favorite.
#9
Quote from: hazzben on November 11, 2023, 08:31:59 AM
Quote from: DuffMan on November 10, 2023, 10:56:23 PM
DuffMan liked the old IceBear.  ;)

Hazzben did too

Ditto. HSCTiger74 suspects that if it was put out as a poll the old Ice Bear would garner 90% or more.
#10
Quote from: jknezek on November 06, 2023, 09:52:12 AM
Well... R-MC has sown up the ODAC again. Very impressive. I believe they have lost something like 3 conference games since the end of the 2017 season. Never know what will happen in a rivalry like The Game, but I don't doubt that R-MC is the better team going in. I hope the Jackets make a nice run in the playoffs. They certainly have the tools to be dangerous.

As for the rest of the post-season, lets talk about this year's first ever Chesapeake Challenge, something I find way more exciting than a post-season game against Apprentice! Still lots of possibilities for teams on both the Landmark and ODAC side. The Challenge is set up this year so #2 in the ODAC (or the first ranked team left out of the playoffs, which will be #2 this year) hosts #3 in the Landmark (again, accounting for playoff teams. It is possible that the Landmark could get 2 teams in the playoffs if Lycoming beats Susquehanna to the AQ. Susquehanna will hold one win over a RR opponent in Cortland, possibly 2 with Brockport. Bridgewater losing to W&L didn't help for a third. But Susquehanna would definitely be in the mix for a Pool C if they lose to Lycoming.

The ODAC is much more straight forward. Assuming the order of finish is logical, conference record with ties broken by head to head, W&L has 2nd place and hosting duties locked up. Even an upset by Shenandoah won't knock W&L out of second as they would have, at most, 2 conference losses. The only other teams that can tie with 2 conference losses are Bridgewater and H-SC, and W&L holds h2h wins against both.

So that leaves the ODAC 3rd place, and the trip to the Landmark's first non-NCAA playoff team, up for grabs. There are two teams in play, Bridgewater who hosts Guilford and H-SC who travels to Ashland. In theory, if both H-SC and Bridgewater lose, and Shenandoah beats W&L, they could all be 4-3 in conference. But both H-SC and Bridgewater hold head to head wins over Shenandoah.

Bridgewater, by the slimmest of 1 pt margins, has the head to head over H-SC. So if Bridgewater beats Guilford they should be the third place ODAC team and travel to the first non-NCAA Landmark team. If Bridgewater loses, and H-SC upsets R-MC in The Game, then H-SC would hold 3rd place in the ODAC. If both Bridgewater and H-SC lose, Bridgewater with the h2h should get the nod.

Sorting out the Landmark is somewhat harder.

First scenario is easier.... Susquehanna beats Lycoming at home. Susquehanna gets the AQ, Lycoming is farther from the running for a Pool C than W&L. At this point, Lycoming is 4-2 in conference and the only thing that matters is who wins the Wilkes at Moravian game. If Wilkes wins, Wilkes will get the 2nd spot and host 3rd in the ODAC, as they have a head to head over Lycoming, and Lycoming will travel to W&L. If Moravian wins, Lycoming will be second in the Landmark courtesy of a head to head, they will host 3rd in the ODAC and Moravian will travel to W&L.

Second scenario... Lycoming beats Susquehanna for the AQ. Susquehanna will be second in the Landmark courtesy of the head to head loss. If they don't get a Pool C, they will host ODAC #3, and the winner of Wilkes at Moravian will travel to W&L.

Third scenario... If Susquehanna does get a Pool C, then the winner of Wilkes at Moravian is the Landmark host. The Landmark travel team will be Moravian if Wilkes wins, courtesy of a head to head over Catholic. If Moravian wins, it will be Catholic travelling to Lexington courtesy of a head to head over Wilkes if they beat hapless Juniata.

One thing I like about these post-season games is that it gives teams more to play for the last week or two of the season. Sadly it doesn't look like I'll get the W&L hosting Wilkes game I was hoping for, my alma mater vs my parents. My dad and I had made plans to travel to that game if it would have happened. But maybe over the next couple contract years we will get the chance.

As for how I think this all shakes out? R-MC (AQ), W&L (host Chesapeake Challenge), Bridgewater (travel CC), Susquehanna (AQ), Lycoming (host CC), Moravian (travel CC) seems most likely to me. Prior to Wilkes losing to Catholic last weekend, I would have thought they would have taken second in the Landmark, pushing Lycoming to the travel spot. But that was not a good loss for Wilkes. I just don't see Bridgewater losing to Guilford or Susquehanna losing to Lycoming. That leaves only Moravian hosting Wilkes to sort stuff out.

Of course, all this is dependent on using head to head to break placement ties. If there is something else in the documents, then I've wasted my time.

  You're usually pretty well dialed in, so I suspect you got things right.
#11
Quote from: Johns Knees on October 31, 2023, 09:01:23 PM
The Ezra Cleveland trade resulted in Bartch getting released. Hope he catches on somewhere.

Strange, because he started a few games early this year. I also saw him referred to as a locker room favorite by one reporter.

   I'd like to see him get picked up by the Panthers. Our offensive line sucks with a suckiness that is beyond measure, so they could use the help.
#12
Quote from: y_jack_lok on October 28, 2023, 07:09:58 PM
Quote from: jknezek on October 28, 2023, 05:58:04 PM
Quote from: y_jack_lok on October 28, 2023, 05:28:50 PM
W&L at RMC was a close game in every way except on the scoreboard. A couple of gambles by the Generals on 4th down that didn't work out, giving the Jackest decent field position after which they drove for TDs, were big factors in RMC's win.

That's a nice way of looking at it, but the Jackets are just better than the ODAC this year. I hope they get a good matchup this year and make a run!

Well, that's how I saw it. W&L was very good. They could probably have thrown the ball more. They were 14 of 22 passing. That's about 10 more passes than they normally throw in a game. With that kind of completion percentage, more might be better. The Generals' QB was a good scrambler and completed a couple of critical passes under pressure.

Those failed 4th down gambles were costly. Punting and forcing the Jackets to make longer drives could have made a difference.

RMC still has to win out to hopefully earn a first round tournament home game. There's the long road trip to Ferrum next week, then home vs a good H-SC team on 11/11. Take nothing for granted.

  That's a very prudent attitude to take, but I don't see the Jackets losing to either of those teams. I'd be happy for my Tigers to win of course, but rivalry emotion aside R-MC is just better.
#13
   As a longtime reader but rare poster maybe I shouldn't be the one to bring it up, but have the regulars noticed a decline in nonsense since the "disappearance" of Bluenote?
#14
Quote from: Jonny Utah on October 10, 2023, 01:59:01 PM
Quote from: HSCTiger74 on October 07, 2023, 03:39:13 PM
You're probably right about some of these pickers, but I suspect that most of them take the same approach that I do. I check each of the teams to see who and where they played, whether they won or lost and by how much, and where the game in question is being played. I admit to not checking offensive or defensive stats, or TOP, but I get an idea about those because I check in here pretty frequently (and the E8, because you guys cross-reference a lot) to see what all of you think and what you might know that I wouldn't. Then I mash it all together and make my pick. In this case I picked Ithaca, but it was my third-least confident pick because there's a part of me that believed RPI might win.
   Anyway, that's a wordy way of saying that there are a lot of us out here that pay attention to more than our "home" board and have a pretty fair handle on what's going on in the D3 world.

Does Pat really let people vote in the top 25 poll without even looking at TOP?  Do better HSCTiger74!

   I was actually thinking about all those LL discussions when I threw that part in Utah, but I can't claim to be a Top 25 voter. That response was in reference to my picks in the National Confidence pick-'ems. Pat would bust a gut laughing if anyone suggested I should be allowed to vote in the official Top 25.
#15
Quote from: mikefln on October 08, 2023, 10:23:10 PM
Endicott lost.  Period. Pat has gone on record that they look at history.  Endicott nor the CCC has ever done anything, so it is not like they can lay claim to their tradition either.  Plus CMU was ranked I believe #22 when GCC beat them. I am just looking to see the logic and some consistency here.

   If you are looking for logic and consistency why are you looking at polls, whether D3 or any others? They're voted on by people, who as we all know (or should) will be pretty inconsistent in their personal interpretation of the available data.