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Post by DFW HOYA on Oct 20, 2018 22:56:18 GMT -5
Bucknell Bryant Lehigh (I refuse to accept GTown as a legitimate football team) This years Lehigh team might be their worst of the 21st Century. I wonder what their record is against the Hoyas since they joined the league. After Saturday, 17-1.
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Post by joe on Oct 21, 2018 6:43:23 GMT -5
This is one pathetic league. A decent team or two once in a while and the rest below average, with one program whose entire football program is an obligation. At what point does the league either change its approach or admit defeat? Folding is probably not an option, but if this were a real world venture the Patriot League in football would be a vague memory; a failed experiment from years ago. All parties would have moved on long ago.
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Post by sader1970 on Oct 21, 2018 6:53:07 GMT -5
I wonder if you will still feel this way in 2-3 years when Bob Chesney has turned the Holy Cross program around and regularly wins the PL championship and plays in the NCAA playoffs?
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 21, 2018 7:57:13 GMT -5
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Post by hcpride on Oct 21, 2018 9:09:39 GMT -5
This is one pathetic league. A decent team or two once in a while and the rest below average, with one program whose entire football program is an obligation. At what point does the league either change its approach or admit defeat? Folding is probably not an option, but if this were a real world venture the Patriot League in football would be a vague memory; a failed experiment from years ago. All parties would have moved on long ago. I was chatting with a NESCAC grad (and CAA fan) at last night's SBU blowout of URI and together we tried to figure out if the Patriot League will ditch football (and matching) schollies if they figure out they can have irrelevant and pretty weak football with or without schollies. We figured there would not even be a dropoff in fan/alumni interest. (As a completely unrelated point-of-interest, they did not crown a homecoming King and Queen at SBU last night. That is so yesterday. Instead they crowned three 'royals' to account for gender issues. A boy, a girl, and someone who is transitioning.)
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Post by joe on Oct 21, 2018 9:50:45 GMT -5
I wonder if you will still feel this way in 2-3 years when Bob Chesney has turned the Holy Cross program around and regularly wins the PL championship and plays in the NCAA playoffs? Yes, even more so, because at that point we will really have no business being in this crap league.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 21, 2018 17:43:56 GMT -5
This is one pathetic league. A decent team or two once in a while and the rest below average, with one program whose entire football program is an obligation. At what point does the league either change its approach or admit defeat? Folding is probably not an option, but if this were a real world venture the Patriot League in football would be a vague memory; a failed experiment from years ago. All parties would have moved on long ago. (As a completely unrelated point-of-interest, they did not crown a homecoming King and Queen at SBU last night. That is so yesterday. Instead they crowned three 'royals' to account for gender issues. A boy, a girl, and someone who is transitioning.) Didn't know colleges did that stuff. Sounds like middle school to me.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 21, 2018 17:47:00 GMT -5
This is one pathetic league. A decent team or two once in a while and the rest below average, with one program whose entire football program is an obligation. At what point does the league either change its approach or admit defeat? Folding is probably not an option, but if this were a real world venture the Patriot League in football would be a vague memory; a failed experiment from years ago. All parties would have moved on long ago. I chatting with a NESCAC grad (and CAA fan) at last night's SBU blowout of URI and together we tried to figure out if the Patriot League will ditch football (and matching) schollies if they figure out they can have irrelevant and pretty weak football with or without schollies. We figured there would not even be a dropoff in fan/alumni interest. Given our track record since scholarships were adopted, your hypothesis is probably correct. I think a combination of a stronger Ivy League and NEC are putting the squeeze on the PL right now.
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Post by JRGNYR on Oct 22, 2018 9:52:55 GMT -5
The schools will always hamstring themselves unless they revisit the AI and redshirting. EDIT: and the roster limit.
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