I was really hoping for Mount to pull it out -- even with 5 minutes left, I thought there was a chance.  But the 2 TDs called back, the other penalties, the overturned completion on 3rd down on the sidelines (you can't tell me he didn't make a football move before he lost the ball out of bounds -- but maybe that was the payback for the totally botched TD catch that wasn't at the beginning of the game), and the INTs were a killer.  On the other hand, the dropped INT by Mount in the 3rd Quarter that would have been a sure Pick-6 didn't help either.

But I will say one thing -- you can sure learn a lot about D3 Football, and how well it is played by watching teams like Mount and UWW.

Quote from: PolarCat on December 12, 2014, 01:08:58 PM
Unfortunately, that would require a complete sea change at Bowdoin.

Wednesday night, my daughter (recruited athlete) was sitting in the library when a couple of NARP's (non-athletic regular persons) asked her to leave.  They told her flat-out that athletes had no right to be taking up resources that the "real" students needed.  This type of thing has happened on multiple occasions in the 3 1/2 months she has been there, mostly with students, but also with some faculty.

They are building a really divisive culture in Brunswicks: Jocks vs. NARP's, with the jocks  treated like second-class citizens.  Pretty shocking for a school that takes such great umbrage over an off-campus costume party that might offend a handful of students.  (Can you imagine the repercussions if a couple of straight white students told a black, Lation, Native American, or LGBT student to give up their seat in the library?)

The attitude is so pervasive that the current Senior Class President ran on a platform that included eliminating all non-essential athletic expenses, and re-allocating those funds to providing scholarship help for children from middle income families.  And the list of "non-essential" expenses included:

• Assistant coaches
• Trainers
• Uniforms (athletes would buy their own)
• Water on the sidelines (ditto)

There's a lot our daughter loves about Bowdoin.  But if we'd known about the anti-jock mentality 18 months ago, my wife and I would have urged her to accept one of the Division I offers she had on the table, instead of becoming a Polar Bear.

That's crazy.  I can pretty much say that kind of thing would never happen at MIT.  I frankly don't understand that kind of attitude...

Quote from: jackson5 on December 11, 2014, 01:30:15 PM
This is why I don't get why people act all shocked that MIT made the tournament in the big media. You have a D-3 school, in one of the weaker conferences, who is able to go to D-2 and low D-1 athletes and say "Hey, you want a MIT education?" You're telling me that Curry or Endicott can step into a kids living room in Minnesota and say yeah I know you're looking at Carleton and Bemidji state, but you should come to Massachusetts to play for our D-3 school?

No -- but they do that with Florida kids all of the time now.

Quote from: gordonmann on December 08, 2014, 03:12:25 PM
Coleman was awesome. One of those rare physical talents where I kept saying to myself (or on air), "Did you just see that?  Did you see what he did?"

I agree -- Coleman's performance was very impressive.  I particularly liked his backflip on the screen that he tipped.  Guy is a monster.

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Quote from: Teamski on December 02, 2014, 04:03:17 PM
Ahh yes!     Congrads to Ben Martin on making the D3football.com Play of the Week.  I am happy my wide camera was able to catch the play as I was sure he was going to be downed behind the line of scrimmage.  Keep an eye on this kid.  I have been really impressed with his acceleration and moves.  Earlier in the season, the Menlo TV announcers were really impressed as well when he started tearing down the sidelines play after play racking up some serious yardage. 

-Ski

Nice run.  I think he could easily be the starter.  He has better acceleration and makes people miss.  If not this year, he will get plenty of touches next year.  I hope he gets them this year because he could make a difference against a Mount or Whitewater.

I was just watching the play again and had a laugh seeing the Wesley left tackle start blasting the left guard for missing his assignment right in the middle of the play, obviously thinking that Martin was about to get tackled.  Hilarious.

-Ski

That's funny -- I never even noticed it until you mentioned it.  He did recover in time to make another block, though!

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Quote from: dedragon on November 29, 2014, 06:27:05 PM
No reason to hang any heads. Great season you guys. The playoffs are just where you find out how good the really good teams are. Wesley is still trying to break through to the Stagg Bowl, so we know how it feels to get leveled in the playoffs. Coach Drass, the staff, team, and the College committed to becoming the best they could be. I would think MIT might  have some resources to head in that direction if they want to.

Really enjoyed watching #15  make tackles all over the field. He finished with 24 on the day. Have a great offseason, and good luck next season.

According to the MIT article on d3football.com, Cam Wagar had 34 tackles -- I don't think I've ever seen a number like that before.

I swear -- my eyes must be getting bad...

The article says 24.

Guys -- this Wesley team is deadly dangerous.  They make very few mistakes, and make you make many.  If you have even the slightest tipped ball, or a loose carry they will get the tip, or strip the ball, and they will turn it into 6.  Wish Hobart luck -- but I think you are going to find this a very tough team to handle.

Quote from: dedragon on November 29, 2014, 06:27:05 PM
No reason to hang any heads. Great season you guys. The playoffs are just where you find out how good the really good teams are. Wesley is still trying to break through to the Stagg Bowl, so we know how it feels to get leveled in the playoffs. Coach Drass, the staff, team, and the College committed to becoming the best they could be. I would think MIT might  have some resources to head in that direction if they want to.

Really enjoyed watching #15  make tackles all over the field. He finished with 24 on the day. Have a great offseason, and good luck next season.

According to the MIT article on d3football.com, Cam Wagar had 34 tackles -- I don't think I've ever seen a number like that before.  Cam used to be a safety, and converted to linebacker -- amazing ability.

MIT made lots of mistakes, Wesley made none.  They are so fast, and can kill you in so many ways.
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To those of you that talk about MIT acceding to doing what Wesley has -- yes, they would love to do that, but you have to do it with kids that can get into the Institute.  I don't think that Wesley or Widener, or Mt. Union or UW-Whitewater has to worry about those things -- in fact, there were many D1 recruits that have transferred on Wesley's roster.

One last thing -- according to some of the MIT players, some of the Wesley kids were asking if they could send their resumes to them during the hadshakes -- kidding of course, but still kind of funny!

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Quote from: amh63 on November 27, 2014, 09:41:02 AM
There is another school out west that dropped the Indian mascot to become a "tree"...redwood?  Yes the PC correct Stanford...??  Do not know which school gave up their mascot first.
My experience wrt to the wild men up north was the big weekends at Smith and Mt. Holyoke.  The frats at Amherst often hosted the men from The Big Three and the Indians of Dartmouth.  Wake up and find bodies sleeping on couches everywhere.  Still, did get rides back from relative sober Dartmouth drivers after dropping off dates at members of the Seven Sisters.

I think Stanford is actually the Cardinal - not the bird, the color.  Go figure.

Thanks for reminding me about Dartmouth's epic road trips, which also went the way of the dinosaur.  Not just to Smith and Mt. Holyoke (though I have fond memories of each  ) but Skidmore, Wellesley and Wheaton (the latter 2 when the Indians took on the Crimson).  I think it was 1973 when Sports Illustrated did an article about the Harvard-Dartmouth game; describing the hordes of beer-soaked wild men descending from the wilds of New Hampshire to rape and pillage the innocent and unsuspecting denizens of Cambridge.  SI could say what they liked: I remember the women of Wellesley were always pretty excited to have the Dartmouth guys arrive in town; the rugged Marlboro Man types were a nice break from the insipid tea drinking Cantabridgians they were stuck with the rest of the year.

BTW I was reminded that Dartmouth's very first intercollegiate football game was against Amherst.

Reminds me of a Dartmouth-Harvard game I went to at the stadium once.  Harvard band's halftime show was "Top 10 reasons Dartmouth is in New Hampshire".  Reason #1 was "The animal husbandry laws are more lenient there..."

Johns Hopkins has the video feed that every team should attempt to match!

Quote from: polbear73 on November 23, 2014, 10:57:52 AM
Was MIT ever considered for NESCAC? It certainly appears that they could compete.

I don't know for sure, but I have to believe they never considered it when we were looking at conferences over the years...

Quote from: amh63 on November 23, 2014, 10:05:21 AM
Frank U....you will do the right thing...as always!
It is refreshing to read the " soft story" on the front page of the Sat. WSJ...how MIT engineered a football team out of scrap.  The student body had voted out football in 1901 , but in 978 a group of students created a football team.  It finally got varsity status in 1988.  A poster on this board...recently...was the center on that 1978 team...as noted by poster rlk here. 
Bottom line...the Prez is proud of MIT's 9-0 team as it goes into the post season.  Here we are still stuck in a 8 game season.  Harvard won its game against Yale but has its fans wondering what if the season was extended into the post season. 
Guess football at all levels are prospering in New England ...for now.

It would be fantastic if the NESCAC would allow postseason -- MIT would love to play them again for the first time since 1900!

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Quote from: wesleydad on November 22, 2014, 09:29:29 AM
I think Hobart wins this game by 10.  The Widener game is going to be tighter than most think and I expect a shoot our in DelVal with DelVal winning it.  I don't think Rowan has any chance to beat Hopkins.  Playoff football gets started.  Almost forgot the big game today, I am taking Husson against MIT.

Wesleydad -- Husson thought they had it won too.  But then they failed to convert a fake punt on 4th and 5 on our 35, and we took over with < 54 seconds left.  Got a great pass play to Brad Goldsberry, and then another, where you see one of their coaches run up to the ref and scream right in his face (obviously something nasty), and they move us into field goal position.  Then the clock breaks, which gives us 2 full minutes to get a field goal prepared.  They tell us there are 18 seconds left, Goldsberry takes a pass and gets stopped in the field of play, but somehow the FG team gets on and kicks it through with no time left.  We got very lucky.  See you next week.

Another weird ending to a game.  widener/muhlenberg was just as crazy.

I just read the recap.  That was nuts.  When the clock went out at Husson with 24 seconds left, Somebody commented "There are enough electirical engineers in this place -- can't someone fix it?"

Also -- I just want to say this -- we were told we couldn't host the game because our press box and other facilities were unsatisfactory.  Yes, they have more seating than us -- but it is oriented for baseball.  Seeing anything in the east endzone was impossible if you sat right at the 50, which was the furthest to that side you could get.  The press box was no larger than ours -- may have been smaller.  And they had to take the tops of the stands for tents for the spotters.  You can't tell me that we didn't deserve the home field.  On the other hand, we somehow got a few hundred people up to Bangor on a cold day.  We hear that a large contingent of students will attend this Saturday in Dover.  We know you guys are vastly superior, but MIT has a tendency to play up in big games. 

Quote from: GoPerry on November 22, 2014, 09:51:33 AM
Nobody should miss the article in Saturday's Wall Street Journal on MIT's Football Team.  "How MIT Engineered a Football Team Out of Scrap".

Here's the link but it might not work if you're not a subscriber to the Online WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-players-at-mit-engineered-a-football-team-1416586648


Enjoy!

Thanks -- it was fun talking to Ben Cohen about that article, and pulling all of the documents out of that archive.  I even got a chance to connect with Tim Lange of Siena.  As I said to him, MIT owes the players from the Siena program (deceased) a debt of gratitude for coming and playing us in 1978!

Quote from: wesleydad on November 22, 2014, 09:29:29 AM
I think Hobart wins this game by 10.  The Widener game is going to be tighter than most think and I expect a shoot our in DelVal with DelVal winning it.  I don't think Rowan has any chance to beat Hopkins.  Playoff football gets started.  Almost forgot the big game today, I am taking Husson against MIT.

Wesleydad -- Husson thought they had it won too.  But then they failed to convert a fake punt on 4th and 5 on our 35, and we took over with < 54 seconds left.  Got a great pass play to Brad Goldsberry, and then another, where you see one of their coaches run up to the ref and scream right in his face (obviously something nasty), and they move us into field goal position.  Then the clock breaks, which gives us 2 full minutes to get a field goal prepared.  They tell us there are 18 seconds left, Goldsberry takes a pass and gets stopped in the field of play, but somehow the FG team gets on and kicks it through with no time left.  We got very lucky.  See you next week.