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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 5:23:48 GMT -5
Post by rgs318 on Sept 11, 2022 5:23:48 GMT -5
Massey makes HC a 2 point favorite (28-26) at home against Yale this week. He gives HC a 53% chance for the win. This will be Yale's first game of the year.
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Post by HC92 on Sept 11, 2022 8:48:18 GMT -5
Pretty detailed preview of the Yale roster from a Yale blogger here: yalefb.com/
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Post by mm67 on Sept 11, 2022 9:13:40 GMT -5
Traditionally, Yale has been tough. Will require the team's best effort and then some.
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 10:14:07 GMT -5
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Post by purplehaze on Sept 11, 2022 10:14:07 GMT -5
Big job this week for the coaching staff and team captains to enforce the ‘24 hour rule’ to move on to prep for the next game - you just know the Eli will be healthy and prepared from watching 2 game films - will there be a big home field advantage on Saturday? We will need it
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Post by wstruz71 on Sept 11, 2022 11:51:04 GMT -5
I'm very concerned about this game, as Yale always has Holy Cross's number. Actually, Yale dominates the series. IMO home field and Homecoming will not do much good. Look what happened last year with Merrimack, the game after UConn. Holy Cross got its butt kicked. Even with no let down, the Yale game will go down to the wire.
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 11, 2022 12:27:21 GMT -5
Having spoken to both Coach Chesney and a few of the players, there will be no "Merrimack let down" this year. You'd have to speak with them directly to know how much that game gnaws at them and they've vowed to never let that happen again. And, besides, none of them would mistake Yale for Merrimack. If Yale wins, and I agree this will likely be another nail-biter either way, it'll be on the merits, not some psychological let down.
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 14:11:06 GMT -5
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 11, 2022 14:11:06 GMT -5
Oh, thought I'd share with you that if there are actual paper copies of the game program at home games, you can thank a member of the class of 1976. He's a regular at both basketball and football games and at the Football Season Ticket Member event during the Q&A when asked for any suggestions, he said that his eyesight is not as good as it once was and even if the roster/game program was on his phone, he could not effectively see it (here! here!). The suggestion seemed to be well received and hopefully we'll see them this coming weekend.
I've lost my once pretty complete list I compiled of Crossports' aliases so don't remember if he is on Crossports but strongly suspect he is and so I'll allow him to come forth and take a bow if he so chooses.
Anyone else going to the Worcester Club coaches night this Thursday night?
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Post by hchoops on Sept 11, 2022 14:14:48 GMT -5
Good timing for a coaches night Hope coach Smith attends After two games I am very impressed with his play calling
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 14:27:00 GMT -5
Post by Tom on Sept 11, 2022 14:27:00 GMT -5
Good timing for a coaches night Hope coach Smith attends After two games I am very impressed with his play calling Coach Smith is scheduled to be there In a random game note, freshman wide receiver Matt Brunelle has a brother on the Yale team
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 17:53:42 GMT -5
Post by hn1974 on Sept 11, 2022 17:53:42 GMT -5
He transferred to Yale from Notre Dame.
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Post by hcdad22 on Sept 11, 2022 18:05:55 GMT -5
There will be no let down vs Yale compared to Merrimack last year.
Last year with the Uconn win , it was the first FBS win in 19 years. Merrimack was looked as a team that was transitioning from Div. 2 to FCS. In fact they played St. Anslem the week before.
Even though we have beat Yale 2 out of the last 3 times, the games have been extremely close. Two Derek Ng FGs, one in overtime and one with 43 seconds left. Both games we trailed at halftime.
Coaches and players know this will be a tough game. But if we play our best, we got this.
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 18:09:11 GMT -5
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 11, 2022 18:09:11 GMT -5
Up until the "kick heard round Central Mass" in 2018, HC hadn't beaten Yale in Worcester in like 100 years.
Team has to assume that Week 3 v. Yale will be just as tough as our Week 2 opponent.
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 18:15:10 GMT -5
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 11, 2022 18:15:10 GMT -5
Up until the "kick heard round Central Mass" in 2018, HC hadn't beaten Yale in Worcester in like 100 years. Team has to assume that Week 3 v. Yale will be just as tough as our Week 2 opponent. Much more continuity on the roster and coaching staff. Most players who are offered by both Buffalo and Yale out of HS would probably choose Yale, so despite all the "We have a P-5 secondary" talk by UB, HC will be facing very talented players.
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Post by football44 on Sept 11, 2022 18:32:54 GMT -5
The team always plays well on the road. They meet and get their minds right for whoever they’re playing that week. Possible that the team will stay away from campus on the Friday before the Yale game. Focus on the game and get away from the parties and the wild homecoming gatherings on campus. They stayed on campus the night before the Merrimack game last year. Too many distractions.
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Post by td128 on Sept 11, 2022 18:35:07 GMT -5
Not sure who this individual is providing this pre-season review of Yale FB but he seems fairly knowledgeable. yalefb.com/Let’s Win . . !! #BEATYALE ✝️👊🏻🏈👊🏾✝️
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Post by efg72 on Sept 11, 2022 18:37:44 GMT -5
Amen No matter what you plan events take over Get off campus and watch Top Gun- team, school and honor prevail HC 38 Yale 20
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Post by HC92 on Sept 11, 2022 18:55:22 GMT -5
Up until the "kick heard round Central Mass" in 2018, HC hadn't beaten Yale in Worcester in like 100 years. Team has to assume that Week 3 v. Yale will be just as tough as our Week 2 opponent. We’ve beaten them 2 out of 3. Reason Yale has enjoyed some historical success could be their history of not playing us when we’re good. Sadly for them, they’re locked in for this weekend.
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 19:50:04 GMT -5
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Sept 11, 2022 19:50:04 GMT -5
Up until the "kick heard round Central Mass" in 2018, HC hadn't beaten Yale in Worcester in like 100 years. Team has to assume that Week 3 v. Yale will be just as tough as our Week 2 opponent. We’ve beaten them 2 out of 3. Reason Yale has enjoyed some historical success could be their history of not playing us when we’re good. Sadly for them, they’re locked in for this weekend. Yep, I missed a decent chunk of that HC history. And I do recall some posters talking about how for many years they would only play us in New Haven. My knowledge of the series starts with our win out there in 2005, getting out-classed by the Eli at Fitton in 2007 and then losing a heart-breaker in New Haven in 2008 in OT.
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Post by hc87 on Sept 11, 2022 20:01:58 GMT -5
Yeah, much of the lop-sidedness of our series with Yale is due to when we played them....played them a lot when they were strong in the early 20th Century, barely played them when we were strong in the 1930s. 40s and 50s....and even when we were good in the 60s, 70s and 80s they picked and choosed what year we'd play them.
Lost a couple of tough ones to them in 1981 and 1985.....it's a good series, hope we keep playing them most every year.
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 20:54:14 GMT -5
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Post by hcpride on Sept 11, 2022 20:54:14 GMT -5
We shouldn’t have any problems beating Yale or Colgate this year (looking at the next two games) and I’m more concerned with Colgate than Yale.
And our historical record v either of the two is completely irrelevant (ditto Merrimack, Buffalo, BTW).
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 20:57:35 GMT -5
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Post by efg72 on Sept 11, 2022 20:57:35 GMT -5
One day and game at a time
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 21:03:58 GMT -5
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Post by HC92 on Sept 11, 2022 21:03:58 GMT -5
We beat them at Yale in 1982 in Carter’s second season. We missed them in 1983 and 1984 when we were good. We lost to them 19-15 in 1985 at Yale again in what was a challenging season. They then somehow didn’t play us for the entirety of the Duff era. The series promptly resumed in the first year of the Vaas era in 1992 when we were at Yale for the third straight time in the series. Let’s destroy them on Saturday.
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Post by Ignutz on Sept 11, 2022 21:28:26 GMT -5
It’s my understanding that the on-going mantra for Chesney-coached teams is “Let’s go undefeated this week.”
Buffalo is in the books, and it doesn’t matter in the least who we’re playing next week.
Let’s go undefeated this week.
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 21:34:40 GMT -5
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 11, 2022 21:34:40 GMT -5
Of course someone can correct my memory if I have the years wrong but . . . .
2005 win away 22-19 (our season record 6-5) 2006 did not play 2007 lose home 38-17 (season record 7-4) 2008 lose away 31-28 (season record 7-4) 2009 we were scheduled to play Yale at home - contract abrogated - we are 9-3 PL champs barely losing to national champs Villanova in the NCAA playoffs. We end up playing Sacred Heart instead (no, they weren't good then, we beat SH 52-21)
Don't play them again until 2017 but we have to resume the series starting back in the Yale Bowl rather than at Fitton. We were 4-7 in 2016 and again in 2017 when it was safe for them to play us again.
They don't like losing to us or even close games and certainly not a level playing field. Get too good and any ongoing series gets cancelled.
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Yale
Sept 11, 2022 22:15:55 GMT -5
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Post by Xmassader on Sept 11, 2022 22:15:55 GMT -5
Of course someone can correct my memory if I have the years wrong but . . . . 2005 win away 22-19 (our season record 6-5) 2006 did not play 2007 lose home 38-17 (season record 7-4) 2008 lose away 31-28 (season record 7-4) 2009 we were scheduled to play Yale at home - contract abrogated - we are 9-3 PL champs barely losing to national champs Villanova in the NCAA playoffs. We end up playing Sacred Heart instead (no, they weren't good then, we beat SH 52-21) Don't play them again until 2017 but we have to resume the series starting back in the Yale Bowl rather than at Fitton. We were 4-7 in 2016 and again in 2017 when it was safe for them to play us again. They don't like losing to us or even close games and certainly not a level playing field. Get too good and any ongoing series gets cancelled. sader1970, HC92 and others have it right. We are 6-28 vs. Yale all-time (1-7 at home and 5-21 at Yale) with two 11 game losing streaks…the first 11 games against them in the early 1900s (all on the road) where we were shutout in the last 10 and then more recently in the 1990s and early 2000s. They have “slalomed” through the schedule with us over the years, not only by playing over 75% of the games in New Haven but also by somehow managing never to play us in years in which we have been good pre-PL or in which we won a PL championship (until 2019). Of our 6 wins vs. the Eli, only two have come by more than 7 pts., including the 1967 game with Phil O’Neill, Bob Neary, Dick Giardi et al. and Calvin Hill. I’m confident that HCBC, the staff and the players know the history of this series, especially the last 3 games, and will be well prepared.
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