FCS Playoff Matchups

Davidson won the Pioneer, also has Marist

Marist is a geographical fit in the NEC. Does it have to do with scholarships? I seem to remember the Pioneer League was/is non-scholarship.

Saturday's game will be for pride in the PL also. A victory may put the PL ahead of the NEC.

On the average, it is warmer at noon than any other time.   So, no complaints from me.

Thanks for posting this breezy I wonder if this will keep some HC fans from venturing down on a Friday. Perhaps this lends itself to an ESPN/2 game rather than streaming on Plus.

I, for one, was thinking of heading down to Philly if we beat Sacred Heart but I have a hockey game to coach that Friday afternoon in Needham, Mass. The missus gets out of work at 4, I don't think we could make it.

Not to get ahead of ourselves, and not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but the winner of the Villanova game may very well be facing off against old friend Sacramento State.

Now that would be a human interest story for FCS fans.

If Holy Cross is successful through the next two games, and the opponent is Sacramento State, Tom Lamb and Bill Mocevicz ( Holy Cross) and Mike Carter ( Sacramento State ) should be Honorary Captains for the game and be present for the coin toss if possible.

It will certainly provide an interesting story for pre game coverage. Our SID should pitch the story to Burke Magnus at ESPN.

You want to be a program that plays on the national stage with home playoff games....you need lights.

You need to get Fitton out of the 1950s.

Permanent lights are a long term investment. Renting and installing temporary lights for a noon game on a day forecast to be sunny doesn't strike me as a good investment, but I am cheap and perhaps out of touch, too.

The definitive story of the Sac State/Holy Cross connection was captured in the fall 2004 issue of the Holy Cross Magazine that used to be available on line but has since been taken off for some reason. It was the 35th anniversary of the cancelled season and the article was entitled "The Missing Season." There were interviews of almost all the '69 seniors and a couple of underclassmen and their reactions 35 years later including Lamb and Moncevicz trip to Sacramento State.

Subsequently, as I posted at the time, I and a football classmate/co-worker of mine who was one of the victims of the hepatitis outbreak happened to be on a business trip together to Sacramento. A local Sacramento business associate and graduate of Sac State was well connected with the people there (my classmate and I were Rhode Islanders and so, "we knew a guy"). After our business meeting, the local took us to Sac State for a tour of the stadium and we met the AD and one of the assistant football coaches. They were both aware of the history and connection with Holy Cross though neither had been there at the time (1969). I knew Dick Regan and while I emphasized to the Sac State people that we were not there in any official capacity and were not speaking for or on behalf of Holy Cross, I wondered if they had any interest in playing a game against Holy Cross (we had made a couple of trips to play on the west coast previously). They were very enthusiastic about the idea and really would have liked to make a trip to the east coast but said money was the issue. Essentially, they were looking for a pay game.

When I got back, I talked to Dick Regan who said that was a non-starter. 1. we weren't about to pay for another team to come to our place regardless of the history and 2. we weren't going to go west as he said Tom Gilmore didn't want to make any more west coast trips as he felt it took too much out of the players. From memory now, think we went twice to the west coast either back to back years or with a year between and lost both games. 

On the 50th anniversary, I was trying to get TPTB to honor the players of the '69 team at a halftime ceremony at one of the games but without success. I guess I no longer knew a guy!