Quote from: Hotskull on October 10, 2025, 08:52:57 AMMASSIVE Nescac weekend ahead of us. My predictions:

Bowdoin 2-1 Trinity
Wesleyan 0-0 Williams
Tufts 3-1 Bates
Amherst 4-0 Penn State Harrisburg (really Amherst? is that what your scheduling has come to??)
Conn College 2-2 Hamilton
Middlebury 2-1 Colby (Midd doesn't have a choice but to win here)

As we move through October, the main questions left to be unanswered:

- Are Middlebury washed?
- Can Wesleyan hold on to this form?
- Are Williams now a NESCAC powerhouse after a few years of growing success?
- Is Tyler "Huck Tua" the best player in the league?
- Who has the best defense in the league?
- Is this the most open the league has been in recent years?

The Amherst vs PSU-Harrisburg game was cancelled

There was some missing data.  A number of teams had Net NPI values of 0 for certain games

Tough weekend for Middlebury.  They need to find a way to get the offense going.

He turns 25 in October

Good for him and good for Emory but dude's gotta be close to his mid 20's at this point lol

He's still playing?! 

Bates beating Amherst 3-0 at Hitchcock.     

Quote from: Ejay on September 20, 2025, 08:07:20 PM

Quote from: Footy on September 20, 2025, 12:55:24 PMThe magic  of Dave Brandt is gone, and McCarty has simply been running his playbook for years. The problem is that this playbook was largely succesful because Messiah simply out recruited everyone.  With the parity increasing in D3 soccer, McCarty is showing his weakness as a coach, and his inability to adapt.  Messiah has always been predictable, but in the past, it didn't matter, as their personnel was simply better. Not the case anymore.  They should still be able to handle a very non competitive Mac Commonwealth, but I think the national power is fading.....They only lost 3-4 starters from last season, and haven't seen to be able to adjust. The freshman seem to have potential- but McCarty is going to need to show an ability to field a team based on talent and his opponent verses running the only game plan he seems to know.

Interesting take. Wish Falconer was around to chime in.

There was a hazing issue that just got resolved this past spring.  Mccarty was suspended from coaching for half of the spring season and an alum was suspended from volunteering with the team during the summer.  I don't think it's coincidence that they're off to such a poor start

The MAC Commonwealth is even worse than normal this year so Messiah will still probably go undefeated in conference play (York could potentially give them a game). 

Quote from: Kuiper on August 30, 2025, 01:10:01 AM

Quote from: Hopkins Walk-On on August 29, 2025, 09:12:41 PMCentennial Conf. highlights
JHU 3, Rhodes 0
Stockton 2, F&M 1
Dickinson 1, Virginia Wesleyan 1
Muhlenberg 0, Alvernia 0

Swarthmore 4 - Yeshiva 0
Haverford 2 - Arcadia 2
Gettysburg 2 - Hood 0
McDaniel 3 - Penn St Altoona 0

The NCAA scoreboard is already a mess per usual.  Gettysburg actually played Widener yesterday not Hood.  They won 5-0

Messiah lost 2-0 to Scranton. At home

Quote from: SKUD on August 19, 2025, 01:54:44 PMAre any of the other schools in the conference good at any sport?  Why does Stevens stay?

Misericordia women's soccer is very good. Del Val football is pretty good. Not sure about other sports.  Stevens used to be in the Empire 8 conference and prior to that the Skyline conference, both worse than the MAC Freedom.  Maybe they should join the NESCAC 

What's even more impressive is the athletes at Williams and Amherst are doing it all without any sort of support or safety net.  We know they're disadvantaged youth who have overcome insurmountable odds to attend these prestigious institutions. 

Quote from: Hopkins92 on December 05, 2024, 08:26:32 PMkuiper, with all due respect (and I'll do this again - when I say that I mean it, you are legend on this board) a lot of stuff that gets posted in the rule changes thread gets pretty tedious and quite often over-looked.

But, more to the point, has anyone seen a regular season or up to this point NCAA tournament game where VAR gets trotted out??

Either it's part of the game or it's not. Bringing it in at the Final Four stage, in my opinion, is not the correct course.

The Kenyon vs Denison NCAC semifinals had a PK overturned after VAR

Stop, I already have enough reasons to hate Amherst