FB: New England Small College Athletic Conference

[Nescacman]

Exactly games have been close at half and Trinity ends up pulling away. In the past years Trinity has had the talent and wins second half battle. All I am saying could be a trap game. I still think Trinity will win but in this particular year of uncertainty who knows

I feel like we're beating a dead horse here, Charlie. Think of it this way; against Trinity, in the Cosgrove era, Colby's first half point differential is -11. While in just the second half of those games Colby's point differential is -17.

Do you really believe that those six extra second half points is a huge difference?
It seems pretty clear to me that Trinity has been winning both the first half battle and the second half battle fairly convincingly.


Lumber congrats to Bates (and Tufts) on 150. Here's when the rest of the NESCAC first began playing football:

Bates	1875
Tufts	1875
Trinity	1877
Amherst	1878
Wesleyan	1881
Williams	1881
Middlebury	1885
Bowdoin	1889
Hamilton	1890
Colby	1892

HS7-2, hope you are doing well, our friend.

Some might say that some of the programs on this list have never actually started played football.

[Nescacman]

Interesting news out of Pats camp...

https://www.si.com/nfl/patriots/news/new-england-patriots-sign-former-delaware-phil-lutz

Would be nice to see Lutz make the team, especially so close to home (another Joisey Boy)...

Yes Lumber, as we noted yesterday...

[nescac1]

Updated list of Williams 2026 commits, including other offers they announced via social media:

Ryan Murray - 6'4 225 Edge, Fairfield Prep (Middlebury and Hamilton)
Walker Moore - 6'5 230 TE/DE, Bronxville (Middlebury and Amherst)
Jack Fabiano - 5'11 190 RB/LB, Masconomet
Flynn Collins - 6'4 315 OL/DL, Jesuit H.S. (Air Force and Middlebury)
Finn Ryan - 6'1 195 DB, St. Paul's (Wesleyan, Amherst, Middlebury, Colby and Bowdoin)
Evan Sood - 6'1 230 LB, Williston
Jack Kripke - 6'3 230 DE, Brentwood School
William Machnik - 5'10 180 CB/WR, Deerfield
Danny Montesano - 6'4 240 TE/LB, Saint Joseph (Middlebury)
Benjamin Quinn - 6'3 250 DE/OL, Randolph H.S. (Trinity and Hamilton)
Michael Ballan, 5'10 WR/CB, Ramapo H.S. (Bates)

Amherst has also had a good number of announced recruits, including recently a particularly interesting commitment from Ben Curtis, a LB/RB from Loomis who had four low D1 offers.  Both Williams and, in particular, Amherst have fallen off their historical highs in recent years but both seem to be bringing some good talent in. 

[Nescacman]

Updated list of Williams 2026 commits, including other offers they announced via social media:

Ryan Murray - 6'4 225 Edge, Fairfield Prep (Middlebury and Hamilton)
Walker Moore - 6'5 230 TE/DE, Bronxville (Middlebury and Amherst)
Jack Fabiano - 5'11 190 RB/LB, Masconomet
Flynn Collins - 6'4 315 OL/DL, Jesuit H.S. (Air Force and Middlebury)
Finn Ryan - 6'1 195 DB, St. Paul's (Wesleyan, Amherst, Middlebury, Colby and Bowdoin)
Evan Sood - 6'1 230 LB, Williston
Jack Kripke - 6'3 230 DE, Brentwood School
William Machnik - 5'10 180 CB/WR, Deerfield
Danny Montesano - 6'4 240 TE/LB, Saint Joseph (Middlebury)
Benjamin Quinn - 6'3 250 DE/OL, Randolph H.S. (Trinity and Hamilton)
Michael Ballan, 5'10 WR/CB, Ramapo H.S. (Bates)

Amherst has also had a good number of announced recruits, including recently a particularly interesting commitment from Ben Curtis, a LB/RB from Loomis who had four low D1 offers.  Both Williams and, in particular, Amherst have fallen off their historical highs in recent years but both seem to be bringing some good talent in. 

Nice list but where are all the QBs??? Tough to win without one as discussed...

[lumbercat]

Let me remind that these are 2030 commits! We are very early in the recruiting cycle, none of these prospects have played a snap in their senior year. I've never seen Williams and especially Amherst out of the blocks this fast with this many early commits.

From my vantage point, Amherst is in a different recruiting mode this year which I think must be attributed to a change in administrative support following a couple of sub par recruiting years. As stated in a prior post they have a very impressive group of high quality commitments.

N1's info shows unprecedented early commits at Williams as well.

I can confirm Bates also has more early commits to date than any point in the past with some very talented prospects.

Maybe a changing trend in the NESCAC recruiting environment.

[Brady12]

Looking like Willams is working the family tree rout.  The Montesano's are big boy.


William Machnik - 5'10 180 CB/WR, Deerfield

Danny Montesano - 6'4 240 TE/LB, Saint Joseph (Middlebury)