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Post by longsuffering on Jul 23, 2024 19:12:26 GMT -5
Farrell is listed as a red shirt freshman. It's his third year as a freshman. Somewhere Yakov Smirnoff is saying "What a country!" Nope - he will be a RS sophomore this season. They haven’t updated his 2024 bio yet. 2022 true freshman at VA Tech 2023 RS frosh at URI 2024 RS Soph at URI That makes more sense.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Jul 24, 2024 8:12:36 GMT -5
CAA Media Day Preseason Rankings: x.com/HEROSports_FCS/status/18160969586934133261. Villanova (9 first-place votes) 2. Richmond (1 first-place vote) 3. UAlbany (3 first-place votes) 4. William & Mary 5. Delaware (3 first-place votes) 6. Elon 7. New Hampshire 8. Rhode Island 9. Towson 10. Monmouth 11. Campbell 12. Hampton 13. Maine 14. North Carolina A&T 15. Bryant 16. Stony Brook
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jul 24, 2024 8:13:44 GMT -5
Just imagine when Villanova joins the PL...
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 24, 2024 14:26:31 GMT -5
Two PL teams at the top of the heap.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Jul 28, 2024 19:27:36 GMT -5
Herder write up on Laffy for his Top 25 preview - herosports.com/fcs-2024-lafayette-football-preview-bzbz/Note all 5 outgoing transfers are grad transfers. They didn’t lose anyone that hadn’t earned their Lafayette degree. Still return 16 starters (8 from each side) and other solid depth pieces from last year. A clear favorite IMO. Someone else’s turn to be the hunted. Tough draw for an opener at Buffalo. You have to figure after two consecutive losses to PL schools and Lembo’s history at Lehigh, he will have that squad wanting to throughly embarrass the Leopards.
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Post by timholycross on Jul 29, 2024 9:08:57 GMT -5
Curtis killed HC last year. Am optimistic that the defense will be more like it was the last 2-3 games of 2023 than what it was vs Harvard, LC and Fordham.
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 2, 2024 10:54:42 GMT -5
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Post by Wayne on Aug 2, 2024 13:06:52 GMT -5
I have been to Meade Stadium for games on probably 10 occasions, and the stadium was never close to being sold out. Supposedly the Monmouth game (Parent's Weekend) is sold out, and the Campbell(!!!), Brown, Maine (Homecoming), and Albany(!!) games are "almost sold out." Is this really accurate? Since when has Rhody football become this hot ticket?
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Post by midwestsader05 on Aug 2, 2024 13:13:12 GMT -5
Since they got way better in the past 3 seasons. Fleming has brought in talent (HS and portal) that Can win almost any game any given week. They should have beat Georgia State in their opener last year. Got robbed by a bad call..
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 2, 2024 13:30:28 GMT -5
C'mon guys! This will be Dan Curran's opening debut. Let's show him that Holy Cross football fans travel well and make that long trip down 146 to 95 to 4 even if most Rhode Islanders can't seem to be able to do the reverse.
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Post by hcnj on Aug 2, 2024 14:05:55 GMT -5
Just imagine when Villanova joins the PL... I haven't been following all the league realignment threads, are there still beliefs they will be joining soon? I know you've fooled me with your tongue in cheek comments a couple of times also.
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 2, 2024 15:09:42 GMT -5
Meade Stadium capacity is 6,555. Looks like plenty of room for SRO tickets, but perhaps the 6,555 includes standing room. Coach Curran strikes me as enthusiastic a salesperson for the program as Coach Chesney. Perhaps he and the Athletic Department are promoting a student road trip already.
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Post by rgs318 on Aug 2, 2024 15:14:15 GMT -5
Getting more HC students there...a thing many of us have hoped to see for some time, would be a great start to the Curran years.
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Post by hc69 on Aug 2, 2024 19:22:34 GMT -5
Just imagine when Villanova joins the PL... I haven't been following all the league realignment threads, are there still beliefs they will be joining soon? I know you've fooled me with your tongue in cheek comments a couple of times also. I had a conversation with VR at reunion weekend. I congratulated him on how the UR news hadn't leaked out ahead of time. He told me the PL had inquiries from other schools before UR but none fit the PL profile. I suggested that Nova might be looking for a new conference. He didn't bite on that but FWIW he said W&M would be a good fit. Maybe the conventional wisdom on here is wrong . . .
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 2, 2024 20:19:11 GMT -5
I haven't been following all the league realignment threads, are there still beliefs they will be joining soon? I know you've fooled me with your tongue in cheek comments a couple of times also. I had a conversation with VR at reunion weekend. I congratulated him on how the UR news hadn't leaked out ahead of time. He told me the PL had inquiries from other schools before UR but none fit the PL profile. I suggested that Nova might be looking for a new conference. He didn't bite on that but FWIW he said W&M would be a good fit. Maybe the conventional wisdom on here is wrong . . . Interesting. A good PL policy for these two fine institutions would be "first come, first served." W&M would be more involved because they probably would need a new full league membership if they left CAA FB.
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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Aug 3, 2024 6:26:45 GMT -5
Meade Stadium capacity is 6,555. Looks like plenty of room for SRO tickets, but perhaps the 6,555 includes standing room. Coach Curran strikes me as enthusiastic a salesperson for the program as Coach Chesney. Perhaps he and the Athletic Department are promoting a student road trip already. Got my tickets for the game (if I can figure out how to get them on my phone). My brother has a MS from URI and his wife a BS; I was stationed at Newport while in the Navy so lots of RI contacts. So I ordinarily pull for URI to do well but not this time.
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Post by hcpride on Aug 5, 2024 11:17:16 GMT -5
2024 IVY LEAGUE PRESEASON POLL (First Place Votes) 1. Yale – 114 (6) 2. Harvard – 108 (7) 3. Penn – 88 (2) 4. Princeton – 80 (1) 4. Dartmouth – 80 6. Brown – 56 7. Cornell – 26 8. Columbia – 24
Challenging Holy Cross football 2024 trifecta: Enormous talent losses due to graduation + New Head Coach + Tough FCS OOC (Including Harvard and Yale). Actually not as concerned about the new coach issue.
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 5, 2024 20:23:55 GMT -5
It's better for HC FB to play the Ivy #1 & 2 rather than our former regular opponents Dartmouth and Brown. But more scary, too. I thought last year's schedule had the top two FBS opponents possible for Holy Cross to play in the whole universe of FBS teams for multiple reasons. The ball didn't bounce the right way last season but HC still did the right thing by scheduling BC, Army, Harvard and Yale.
This year's CAA heavy schedule with Harvard, Yale and Syracuse is excellent also. Playing Harvard in our eighth game is an additional challenge as the Johnnies will be in mid season form.
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Post by Ignutz on Aug 5, 2024 20:34:55 GMT -5
It's better for HC FB to play the Ivy #1 & 2 rather than our former regular opponents Dartmouth and Brown. But more scary, too. I thought last year's schedule had the top two FBS opponents possible for Holy Cross to play in the whole universe of FBS teams. The ball didn't bounce the right way last season but HC still did the right thing by scheduling BC, Army, Harvard and Yale. This year's CAA heavy schedule with Harvard, Yale and Syracuse is excellent also. Playing Harvard in our eighth game is an additional challenge as the Johnnies will be in mid season form. But we’ll be able to scout them, as opposed to, as in many past years, we might have been in game two or three, and playing them in their opener.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Aug 5, 2024 20:39:17 GMT -5
It's better for HC FB to play the Ivy #1 & 2 rather than our former regular opponents Dartmouth and Brown. But more scary, too. I thought last year's schedule had the top two FBS opponents possible for Holy Cross to play in the whole universe of FBS teams. The ball didn't bounce the right way last season but HC still did the right thing by scheduling BC, Army, Harvard and Yale. This year's CAA heavy schedule with Harvard, Yale and Syracuse is excellent also. Playing Harvard in our eighth game is an additional challenge as the Johnnies will be in mid season form. But we’ll be able to scout them, as opposed to, as in many past years, we might have been in game two or three, and playing them in their opener. You are confusing Harvard for Yale. Yale we have played in our week 3 for several consecutive years while it is their first game. We are 4-1 v Yale in past 5 games. 1-4 v Harvard.
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Post by Crosser on Aug 17, 2024 23:02:37 GMT -5
Can anyone tell me whether the alphabetical or numerical rows are higher up at Meade Stadium?
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 22, 2024 12:44:46 GMT -5
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Post by Ignutz on Aug 22, 2024 14:03:29 GMT -5
But we’ll be able to scout them, as opposed to, as in many past years, we might have been in game two or three, and playing them in their opener. You are confusing Harvard for Yale. Yale we have played in our week 3 for several consecutive years while it is their first game. We are 4-1 v Yale in past 5 games. 1-4 v Harvard. Actually, back in the day, when we were on a hiatus from the Eli, we frequently were the Johnnie’s first game.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Aug 22, 2024 14:22:02 GMT -5
Yup I played in three of those Harvard games, not a 4th due to 9/11. However, this year’s pattern of Yale’s first game and mid season for both Harvard and HC will be the same as it has been for many consecutive years.
We’ve been able to scout Harvard for 5 consecutive seasons now with a 1-4 record to show for it. Harvard has had our number whether it’s their game 1 or mid season.
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Post by midwestsader05 on Aug 22, 2024 18:40:22 GMT -5
Montana State favored by -13.5 at New Mexico on Saturday!! If the Lobos can’t come out on fire with that locker room material disrespect, looking at a LOOONG season.
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