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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Dec 9, 2016 18:16:00 GMT -5
I don't understand the dislike of the playoffs by some on this board. It's a chance for the Cross to win a National Title. Why would that not be enough for you? I do understand the little brother big brother jealously with the Ivies but don't players want a chance to be National Champs? Completely agree unh. It's pretty much one disgruntled postah who doesn't like da playoffs. I wondah if his tune would change if HC were involved.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Dec 9, 2016 18:38:48 GMT -5
Perhaps unique in that it would be at the higher ranked teams school rather than at a neutral site. I would envision reduced interest in an IL vs PL Bowl game being called The Applebee's Bowl and played in Orlando if you know what I mean. I imagine this would be a bowl game as unique as the schools playing in it. Keep it in the northeast, cold weather, home field advantage - as traditional, pure, and old school as the student athletes competing. Mud would always be nice. Anything else misses the point. If a neutral site is required, Fenway or nothing. Nothing larger. No NFL stadiums. I can see the shoot out idea being a stretch. My thought behind that is just that it would avoid a wasted week for the other teams, and would just be an out of conference game at the end of the year rather than the beginning. I felt this would allow us to then go to the FCS without conflict. Problem is that what you describe here ISN'T unique. Princeton @ Lehigh in the freezing cold the first week of December after they've already played this season. Yawn.
In order to make this work, it would have to be a legit bowl game at a great venue like Yankee Stadium. I don't think enough fans would travel to Florida or somewhere down south to make the bowl game sustainable. We would have to model this game after the HBCU national championship game. I'll take FCS playoffs any day over a home-site, dead-end postseason game that is pretty likely to be a rematch anyway.
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Post by joe on Dec 9, 2016 18:56:43 GMT -5
I'm ok with that. Fenway or Yankee. Just not down south. Even I wouldn't go. Needs to be within driving distance for local fans of both schools. Win that game and then on to the playoffs.
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Post by hcnation on Dec 9, 2016 20:08:35 GMT -5
Nice exposure Friday night on ESPN2 James Madison vs Sam Houston
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Post by joe on Dec 9, 2016 21:02:50 GMT -5
Nice exposure Friday night on ESPN2 James Madison vs Sam Houston I'm putting my money on Houston for the KO in the 4th round.
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Post by deep Purple on Dec 9, 2016 21:54:48 GMT -5
At the end of the 3rd qtr, Madison is beating Houston 65-0.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Dec 9, 2016 23:26:19 GMT -5
JMU wins 65-7. Whoa...
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Post by unhfan on Dec 10, 2016 5:24:57 GMT -5
I think it's safe to say that a young UNH team loss to a pretty good team last week. JMU is for real!
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Post by ncaam on Dec 10, 2016 8:49:36 GMT -5
Boring
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Post by sader1970 on Dec 10, 2016 8:57:41 GMT -5
What strikes me about the I-AA (that's what I call them) playoffs is that as the teams get winnowed down to the theoretical "best teams," how often the games are blow-outs, including the semis and championship game. Intuitively, you would think as a team progresses against higher and higher seeds that the challenge would be greater and the scores closer. Very frequently, that does not happen.
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Post by hc87 on Dec 10, 2016 11:18:45 GMT -5
It's a joke really....schools like NDSU, JMU, EWU are essentially FBS programs in "lamb's clothing"...it's basically the same 5 or 6 teams in the semifinals every year. While the same could be said for the FBS...they at least have the good sense to go right to the semifinal round.
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Post by deep Purple on Dec 10, 2016 11:30:08 GMT -5
There should be 8 teams in FBS. There's no way Washington is better than Michigan.
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Post by ncaam on Dec 10, 2016 12:07:24 GMT -5
If HC was in the FCS playoffs, I would be energized. Since they are not, I couldn't care less if East Dakota AM+N and UNH played in the championship game.
If there were 8 teams in the FBS playoffs, numbers 9 and 10 would batch. Should be 4 teams: SEC winner, Big10 winner, Pac10 winner and ACC winner. Shrew the Big12. Some of their teams could migrate to the POWER4 conferences.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Dec 10, 2016 12:50:14 GMT -5
It's a joke really....schools like NDSU, JMU, EWU are essentially FBS programs in "lamb's clothing" What does it matter? So was HC circa '87, yet you long for those days.
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Post by deep Purple on Dec 10, 2016 13:40:22 GMT -5
SD st Jackrabbits had a great Statue of Liberty trick play against ND St that went for a td.
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Post by hcgrad94 on Dec 10, 2016 17:56:24 GMT -5
Colgate won at JMU last year. Amazing.
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Post by timholycross on Dec 11, 2016 0:03:10 GMT -5
It's a joke really....schools like NDSU, JMU, EWU are essentially FBS programs in "lamb's clothing"...it's basically the same 5 or 6 teams in the semifinals every year. While the same could be said for the FBS...they at least have the good sense to go right to the semifinal round. It's worse in Division 3. Mount Union was in the finals 11 years in a row until this year, 9 of them against Wisconsin Whitewater. In a division where you'd think with no scholarships there'd be a greater degree of parity.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Dec 11, 2016 0:28:28 GMT -5
Doesn't Mount Union typically have a number of former d-1 players?
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Post by timholycross on Dec 11, 2016 16:57:29 GMT -5
Don't know a thing about the place other than the enrollment is around 2,200.
UWW is around 12K and UWO (in the finals this year) 14K. You gotta think that makes a difference at that level.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Dec 17, 2016 15:37:19 GMT -5
JMU takes down NDSU. ____________________ The Crusaders win a national title for the first time. ADNP redeemed. Oshkosh by gosh couldn't hold up against the Crusaders.. Don't fancy the yellow numerals on the uni's though.
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Post by hc87 on Dec 17, 2016 18:20:59 GMT -5
NDSU losing is probably good for the division....that being said, I doubt one out of ten hard-core "sports fans" will know this tomorrow. The FCS playoffs are basically played in a vacuum....ovahwhelmed by Christmas, FBS bowl games etc...they really aren't going to put Holy Cross on the map.
A "bowl game" against the Ivy champ would draw more recognition imo
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Post by joe on Dec 17, 2016 20:29:01 GMT -5
The FCS playoffs still going on? Me and the 99.9% of the college football world had forgotten. Sorry couldn't resist. Seriously though, for JMU. Good to see NDSU get beat. They have a nice program at JMU, lots of fans, congrats to all of them.
IL vs PL bowl is where it's at for HC. FCS is fine also, to keep up appearances, but a bowl game at Fenway as a realistic goal to shoot for each year would be sweet.
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Post by bfoley82 on Dec 17, 2016 22:36:26 GMT -5
What an ending to the Youngstown state and eastern Washington game with this game winning TD with a second left
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Post by hc87 on Dec 18, 2016 1:30:29 GMT -5
And people in Youngstown, Spokane and Fargo care......everybody else? Not so much.
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Post by unhfan on Dec 18, 2016 5:29:19 GMT -5
And people in Youngstown, Spokane and Fargo care......everybody else? Not so much. Compared to the excitement of theses 40+ bowls that besides the big ones have very few fans in attendance or people watching. I'm shocked that some folks continue to put down a system where HC has a shot to win a National Title in a major sport. That is only happening in football and hockey. Why not embrace it the next time the Cross is in? The bowl game vs. the ivy is not happening. They will goto the playoffs first. I'm not sure why the desire for a bowl game vs the Ivy champ. It sounds more like little brother wants to prove their worth to big brother. The PL has great schools but the Ivies are the cream of the crop.
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