Comments on: NCAA regional rankings

By: brounds

brounds — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:38:58 +0000

Why don’t the Purple Raiders get any love, we get “nobody wants to play top ranked Mount Union” but thats it?!?!?!? Don’t they deserve alittle credit, MUC is the only think Alliance has going for it……

Carnation City!!!!!!
MUC 9X NC!!!!!
Keep It Rolling!

By: Catdomer87

Catdomer87 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:42:18 +0000

Thanks Ralph. Wondered why the ‘Cats scheduled a home and home with an out of region team…turns out they didn’t.

By: D3Keith

D3Keith — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:50:58 +0000

Wow,
What a bizarre thread. Refs in love with teams, the power schools like Hobart frowning upon poor ol’ Curry.

Getting ranked in the Week 9 regional rankings hopefully isn’t the kind of recognition Curry fans really want. One thing (and possibly one thing only) will get you both recognition and respect: A playoff victory.

There is a cool string this year (Curry over WNEC over Hartwick over St. John Fisher) that you can use to justify top 25 status (I did), but it really won’t come unless you have some significant wins over teams from other conferences — the so-called big boys — either in the regular season or postseason.

And that goes for the whole NEFC. And I’m not saying that because of personal bias, I’m just saying I’ve been around long enough to approximate how it works.

By: Ralph Turner

Ralph Turner — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:35:37 +0000

Catdomer87, the NCAA added another definition to “in-region” by including the ” four Administrative Regions” to “in-region” for the 2006 season.

Administrative Region #4 includes Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and all states westward.

It does help us who are on geographic “islands”.

By: Statesmen78

Statesmen78 — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:01:29 +0000

And by the way, Angel 3…Hobart College has about 1000 students, total. That’s it! So if Hobart is a “big name” school, I guess it’s earned. Hobart certainly is not a BIG school!

By: Statesmen78

Statesmen78 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:49:28 +0000

AU Mom, and the rest of you Alfred Saxons…I too will be at that game and I got a feeling you may head home with some disappointment. Hobart’s 2 losses have both been nail biters and they have played some very impressive football in the past few weeks. Hobart could easily be 7-0 and just may give your team more than they can handle. That being said, Alfred is always a most formidable opponent and your season thus far, very impressive! I guess we’ll see tomarrow. Can’t wait! Go Hobart!!!!! (As you can see from my Login name, I’ve never gotten over our 8-1 1974 season, with the one blemish being at your place).

By: Catdomer87

Catdomer87 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:10:46 +0000

Unless I’m missing something, Linfield’s regional record is only 2-1, not 3-1, since Hardin-Simmons is a South region team.

The lack of available DIII opponents is a real problem. And there will be one less possible convert to DIII if Southern Oregon goes to DII as reported.

Where are the SCIAC teams? How about someone from Minnesota or Wisconsin? Oregon is beautiful in the Fall?

By: dlippiel

dlippiel — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:25:15 +0000

Angel
I don’t think anyone is saying Curry does not deserve positive recognition for their achievements. Obviously the kids work hard, any student athelete who works hard in and out of the classroom deserves credit. Yet should they recieve credit that they have not earned? Pat makes a great point and one must relaize that there are many different levels to D3 football. In order to climb and be recognized with a certain group of teams you must first play those teams and have some success against them. If Curry makes the NCAAs lets see how they do. If they beat a solid program then they will get the attention you think they deserve. Until then, it just will not happen and they still are not one of the top ten teams in the east period.

By: aggiefan

aggiefan — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:22:09 +0000

I’ll correct myself … I just realized the 4-2 is for regional play … sorry.

By: aggiefan

aggiefan — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:14:50 +0000

For the record, let’s correct Delaware Valleys record to 4-0, 4-3.

That being said, I’m ecstatic for the recognition after the 0-3 start, which were good showings against tough opponents. The Aggies were in every game they played, even the 36-16 loss to Salisbury was way closer than the score indicates. Since MAC play began, the Aggies have had every game pretty much in hand by halftime, with 2 shutouts and an awakened offense. Now the fun begins (?) with tonights game at Widener, home to Wilkes and away at Albright over the next 3 weekends. Not to get ahead of ourselves, but for MAC fans, these last 3 weeks of the season are going to be an old-fashioned dogfight with all the top teams playing other in every combination imaginable!! Of course, my feeling is the Aggies will prevail, but that’s what being an “aggiefan” is all about. Let’s enjoy the finish either way because it’s great D3 football which so many are not priviledge to experience.