FB: Liberty League

[UfanBill]

Union has posted their Game Day Program which includes this week's Two Deep... https://unionathletics.com/gameday/football-vs-20-21-susquehanna/football/1003/ ...Lots of youth including two first year's starting on the O-Line. Gioioso and Anderson were teammates at Xaverian Brothers in Massachusetts. They'll have a head start to gelling quickly...The defense is full of experience with 9 of 11 returning starters.   

[Caz Bombers]

Brockport 68
Buffalo State 0

Just drop the program already

[Ice Bear]

Brockport 68
Buffalo State 0

Just drop the program already

I watched some of this and had hope for the first five minutes. I feel for the players. The program hasn't had it in quite some time...

[IC798891]

It's getting to the point where I really wonder if Buff State is just better off going down to club for awhile.

They're not some small school that needs the 30-40 first-year students from football to stay open -- their enrollment is north of 6,000. And in 2025, they not only saw their first-year enrollment jump 3.7%, their retention rate of the Fall 2024 class jumped 7.8 percentage points from the year before and 16.7 from three years ago. On campus enrollment and retention are increasing at even higher rates.

How is their football program being this bad a positive for those involved? They went 17-61 (.217) between Boyes 1.0 and Boyes 2.0, and have managed to go 7-54 (.114) since then.

It looks like they have launched a JV team so maybe that will start to bear some long term fruit. But seeing them get handled this bad is really depressing

[IC798891]

Also, I stand corrected.

Matthew Parker *is* QB1 at Alfred, and he...kinda shredding them? 21-of-29 for 214 a TD and 0 picks, while adding (I think) 31 yards on three non-sack carries.

[IC798891]

Hobart looking like they will hang on though, up 24-17 with the ball and less than 4 minutes to go

[IC798891]

I simply do not get offensive coordinators.

Hobart is up 24-17, 2nd and 6 on their own 48, clock running just under 3 minutes. They have the best RB in the conference, if not the best player in the conference, and they try to get cute and run a reverse, the pitch of which is fumbled. Alfred recovers and returns it to the 28. They were lucky it wasn't taken to the house.

The Saxons drive to the 12 before Hobart's defensive line -- which ate Alfred's line alive all night -- finished the game off.

Like, what are we doing calling trick plays here guys? Give the ball to your workhorse, tell him to pick up six yards on two carries, and bring it home. If he can't, punt away from midfield, and tell your D-line, which had already sacked Parker 5 times, to pin their ears back and get more.

Sometimes I wish teams would lose when they do boneheaded things like that

[Bartman]

I simply do not get offensive coordinators.

Hobart is up 24-17, 2nd and 6 on their own 48, clock running just under 3 minutes. They have the best RB in the conference, if not the best player in the conference, and they try to get cute and run a reverse, the pitch of which is fumbled. Alfred recovers and returns it to the 28. They were lucky it wasn't taken to the house.

The Saxons drive to the 12 before Hobart's defensive line -- which ate Alfred's line alive all night -- finished the game off.

Like, what are we doing calling trick plays here guys? Give the ball to your workhorse, tell him to pick up six yards on two carries, and bring it home. If he can't, punt away from midfield, and tell your D-line, which had already sacked Parker 5 times, to pin their ears back and get more.

Sometimes I wish teams would lose when they do boneheaded things like that

Amen . Horrible call , up by 7 with 3 minutes to go on third down on your own 30 and call a reverse .... Fumble and give the ball back to Alfred. Parker played tough all night despite being sacked 7 times , he was one pass away from saving the game for Alfred. I had visions of one Parker TD pass followed by a two point conversion  and a win for Alfred based on an unnecessary reverse call. Luckily the defense held and Hobart avenged last years opening season loss.
EJ Taylor was a total stud with over 130 yards rushing and 70 yards receiving with 2 TDs and a two point conversion. He pretty much won the game single handidly . Billy Brosko was a beast at DT all night, as Parker will have nightmares tonight with Billy throwing him down repeatedly. These two players deserved their AA preseason awards. Hopefully the rest of the team will be inspired by them.