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Post by hc87 on May 27, 2020 16:32:17 GMT -5
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Post by HC92 on May 27, 2020 16:39:21 GMT -5
Not one vote for a PL team. No worries. It’s the wins and losses that matter most. Hopefully we start getting votes once the games start.
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Post by hc2020 on May 27, 2020 17:00:30 GMT -5
Patriot League Preview is due out the week of July 6-10
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on May 27, 2020 18:30:32 GMT -5
It would be a good thing to play more than Yale. Means HC makes the 1AA playoffs.
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Post by gocrossgo on May 27, 2020 19:13:01 GMT -5
Bulletin board material. Gotta love it.
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Post by bringbackcaro on May 27, 2020 19:25:59 GMT -5
Don't follow any of these nowhere state directional schools, but was surprised to see Central Arkansas at #10 and a WR recruit who committed there after taking an official visit to HC stuck out in my memory. ucasports.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7416&path=footballHad 55 receptions for 975 yards and 12 TDs as a freshman last year. Shucks.
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Post by hc87 on Jun 3, 2020 10:32:58 GMT -5
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Post by rickii on Jun 15, 2020 10:45:28 GMT -5
We went 7-6 last year. That was a good year of improvement in year #2 under Chesney. It’s not the stuff worthy of a preseason Top 25 ranking.
OOC sked is easier this season which should help to achieve another 7-win season. The 8-9 win season should fall in 2021.
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Post by purplehaze on Jun 16, 2020 11:12:04 GMT -5
I know this thread refers to team ranking but thought I'd inject the no.1 recruiting class in the country here - it's Princeton, according to HERO - Princeton is playing Army this season and could win that game Bob Surace and his staff have put together another class that will come to Princeton from all over the country, and the class itself is once again highly regarded for its depth and quality. Hero Sports, for instance, said that if it had included the Ivy League schools in its FCS rankings, then "Princeton would have been No. 1 in the country by a mile." Hero Sports also ranks 22 of the incoming players among the top 500 in the country, including seven in the top 100. 31 players which adds up to about 120 recruited football players in the school - easy to understand how they get a very solid 2-deep with such depth. goprincetontigers.com/news/2020/6/15/princeton-football-announces-class-of-2024.aspx
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Post by gocrossgo on Jun 16, 2020 11:16:16 GMT -5
I vaguely remember Princeton landing a 4 star QB an offseason or two ago. Quite the rarity for an FCS program, an Ivy at that. This may be the year he starts. Did HERO say that Princeton would’ve been their #1 overall team, over the likes of NDSU and JMU?
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Post by princetoncrusader on Jun 16, 2020 12:55:44 GMT -5
I don't believe Princeton's 4 star recruit from California, who had numerous Pac-12 offers, has played a single down yet in his 2 years as a Tiger. He has had the unfortunate luck of sitting behind 2 talented QBs who signed NFL contracts. This could well be his year. Coach Sourace once said he was the best scout team QB he has ever had.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 16, 2020 15:50:48 GMT -5
Those of who could have, should have chosen Yale /HarvardPrinceton for better football. Big mistake. I couldn't have so I am quite pleased with the Holy Cross Football Team. I see no reason why HC won't have a winning record vs the Ivy League for the remainder of Coach Chesney's tenure.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jun 16, 2020 17:45:46 GMT -5
I vaguely remember Princeton landing a 4 star QB an offseason or two ago. Quite the rarity for an FCS program, an Ivy at that. This may be the year he starts. Did HERO say that Princeton would’ve been their #1 overall team, over the likes of NDSU and JMU? No, just #1 incoming recruiting class.
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Post by thecrossisback on Jun 16, 2020 19:23:18 GMT -5
The top half of the Ivy League Teams are very good. But it’s time for the stuck up athletic directors and presidents to put their best teams in the FCS playoffs. Last time I checked their fan bases are falling apart. People want to see playoffs and championships.
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Post by hcgrad94 on Jun 16, 2020 20:13:51 GMT -5
I know this thread refers to team ranking but thought I'd inject the no.1 recruiting class in the country here - it's Princeton, according to HERO - Princeton is playing Army this season and could win that game Bob Surace and his staff have put together another class that will come to Princeton from all over the country, and the class itself is once again highly regarded for its depth and quality. Hero Sports, for instance, said that if it had included the Ivy League schools in its FCS rankings, then "Princeton would have been No. 1 in the country by a mile." Hero Sports also ranks 22 of the incoming players among the top 500 in the country, including seven in the top 100. 31 players which adds up to about 120 recruited football players in the school - easy to understand how they get a very solid 2-deep with such depth. goprincetontigers.com/news/2020/6/15/princeton-football-announces-class-of-2024.aspxJordan Forrest chose HC over Princeton in the end.
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Post by hcgrad94 on Jun 16, 2020 20:15:12 GMT -5
Those of who could have, should have chosen Yale /HarvardPrinceton for better football. Big mistake. I couldn't have so I am quite pleased with the Holy Cross Football Team. I see no reason why HC won't have a winning record vs the Ivy League for the remainder of Coach Chesney's tenure. The reason would be the Ivies have 80+ financial aid equivalencies and we have 60.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jun 16, 2020 20:20:34 GMT -5
The top half of the Ivy League Teams are very good. But it’s time for the stuck up athletic directors and presidents to put their best teams in the FCS playoffs. Last time I checked their fan bases are falling apart. People want to see playoffs and championships. The Ivy League has not only gotten very strong at the top but much deeper over the last 5-8 years or so. When I was in college, Harvard, Penn and Yale were all very good, Brown was decent and the rest of the Ivy league was basically the equivalent of Bucknell. The Princeton team from 2018 may be the best Ivy team since the I-AA dropdown in 1983. The 2004 Harvard team with Fitzpatrick also would be up there. Playoffs -- In 2007 if you'd asked me about the subject, I'd have predicted the Ivy League would be in by now. Now if you ask me, I'd tell you that I'd be surprised to see them participate in Sader87's lifetime. Aside from the players, football alumni and maybe 100 die-hard fans between the 8 schools, there just doesn't seem to be interest.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 16, 2020 22:03:17 GMT -5
I couldn't have so I am quite pleased with the Holy Cross Football Team. I see no reason why HC won't have a winning record vs the Ivy League for the remainder of Coach Chesney's tenure. The reason would be the Ivies have 80+ financial aid equivalencies and we have 60. Throwing facts at me, eh? I am quite impressed with Coach Chesney and his track record in his three head coaching stops and feel we have an advantage with him. I also have one experience with a family friend who played basketball at an Ivy League School from 1988-92. He was recruited and a good student but it was not clear he would have been accepted if he hadn't been a good basketball player. He started his freshman year as a seventh or eighth man and stayed at that level for his whole four years. He loved everything about being on the basketball team and both his father and mother rocked the whole experience for four years with the other basketball parents. When I asked his father why he thought his son never progressed to being a starter I was told it was because he embraced everything that the Ivy league school had to offer and never became driven to excel in basketball with the tunnel vision that would require. So eighty financial aid equivalencies might generate closer to sixty focused and driven scholarship players than eighty. Or maybe not. My experience is just one thirty year old anecdote, not a scientific survey.
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