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« Reply #135 on: September 10, 2017, 06:26:21 am »
It's early in the season, I guess Stony Brook doesn't miss their previous defense coordinator  ;D
How many people on this Board thought our defense would take a major step back this season with the loss of the previous D.C.  ;D

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« Reply #136 on: September 10, 2017, 07:33:07 am »
It's early in the season, I guess Stony Brook doesn't miss their previous defense coordinator  ;D
How many people on this Board thought our defense would take a major step back this season with the loss of the previous D.C.  ;D

I think we all did. But keep in mind. We still have many of Lyle Hemphill original players. The true test is when our Junior and Seniors graduate..

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« Reply #137 on: September 10, 2017, 08:17:24 am »
It's early in the season, I guess Stony Brook doesn't miss their previous defense coordinator  ;D
How many people on this Board thought our defense would take a major step back this season with the loss of the previous D.C.  ;D

I think we all did. But keep in mind. We still have many of Lyle Hemphill original players. The true test is when our Junior and Seniors graduate..
Hammer - The WM loss was brutal on Friday night. I thought the game was over when WM was up 26-14, but  Connetquot brought in their best lacrosse player and WM could not handle him. There was some serious bad coaching throughout the game and football coaches in general never take the kicking game seriously.  Melville has some serious athletes in the backfield, but the wideout #1 had a brutal game.  Melville showed a lot of heart, but wore down throughout the 4th quarter.

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« Reply #138 on: September 10, 2017, 08:39:54 am »
It's early in the season, I guess Stony Brook doesn't miss their previous defense coordinator  ;D
How many people on this Board thought our defense would take a major step back this season with the loss of the previous D.C.  ;D

I think we all did. But keep in mind. We still have many of Lyle Hemphill original players. The true test is when our Junior and Seniors graduate..
Hammer - The WM loss was brutal on Friday night. I thought the game was over when WM was up 26-14, but  Connetquot brought in their best lacrosse player and WM could not handle him. There was some serious bad coaching throughout the game and football coaches in general never take the kicking game seriously.  Melville has some serious athletes in the backfield, but the wideout #1 had a brutal game.  Melville showed a lot of heart, but wore down throughout the 4th quarter.

Lax. You are correct. Brutal to say is an understatement.. We were up by 2 scores with 5 minutes left in the game. Boltrek should have played conservative and just stick with the running game but he decided to have our Q throw the ball instead, thus causing a turnover and that changed the momentum. I dont know what WM is going to do with their kicking game. They had the same problem last week again CI... I asked my son if they work on that in practice and he said they do. Unfortunate!

The officials were so brutal in this game I wanted to run out on the field and strangle those old bats. First play of the game WM ran the kick off for a TD and they called it back on a bogus holding penalty. I saw 2 face mask penalties on Connetquot and the refs did not call them. WM coaches were going ballistic on the sidelines.

WM had plenty of chances to win this game but threw it away. Oh well, we'll get them in the playoffs like we did last year!!!

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« Reply #139 on: September 10, 2017, 10:30:55 am »
It's early in the season, I guess Stony Brook doesn't miss their previous defense coordinator  ;D
How many people on this Board thought our defense would take a major step back this season with the loss of the previous D.C.  ;D

I think we all did. But keep in mind. We still have many of Lyle Hemphill original players. The true test is when our Junior and Seniors graduate..
Hammer - The WM loss was brutal on Friday night. I thought the game was over when WM was up 26-14, but  Connetquot brought in their best lacrosse player and WM could not handle him. There was some serious bad coaching throughout the game and football coaches in general never take the kicking game seriously.  Melville has some serious athletes in the backfield, but the wideout #1 had a brutal game.  Melville showed a lot of heart, but wore down throughout the 4th quarter.

Lax. You are correct. Brutal to say is an understatement.. We were up by 2 scores with 5 minutes left in the game. Boltrek should have played conservative and just stick with the running game but he decided to have our Q throw the ball instead, thus causing a turnover and that changed the momentum. I dont know what WM is going to do with their kicking game. They had the same problem last week again CI... I asked my son if they work on that in practice and he said they do. Unfortunate!

The officials were so brutal in this game I wanted to run out on the field and strangle those old bats. First play of the game WM ran the kick off for a TD and they called it back on a bogus holding penalty. I saw 2 face mask penalties on Connetquot and the refs did not call them. WM coaches were going ballistic on the sidelines.

WM had plenty of chances to win this game but threw it away. Oh well, we'll get them in the playoffs like we did last year!!!
I don't want to be too harsh on the coach because he hasn't taken the "program" to another level.  Good luck the rest of the way and I wish more of these kids were playing lax!
« Last Edit: September 10, 2017, 10:33:37 am by laxnation »

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« Reply #140 on: September 25, 2017, 04:38:30 pm »
The polls are much more favorable to us this week:

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fcs/fcs-coaches-poll
http://www.fcs.football/cfb/polls.asp?div=fcs

Stony Brook is the first team out receiving votes, coming in at #26 in both major polls. We're finally starting to get some respect, but W&M will be a hard game. The game is at their place and we have yet to beat them. Good news is we will certainly be ranked next week if we beat them. The hard part will be getting it done and moving to 4-1 on the year.

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« Reply #141 on: September 26, 2017, 11:18:21 am »
Very interesting find regarding this years team:

https://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare1aa.htm

I checked the Massey Composite ratings (statistical composite rankings for teams based on a number of factors) for FCS and Stony Brook is 11th in the FCS based on these statistical ratings. The polls might be selling us short, but the statistics don't. I think this could largely be due to how close we played USF along with how statistically strong our defense is.

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« Reply #142 on: September 27, 2017, 08:13:08 pm »
We need to win  2 of our next 3 going into our bye week.   That's two home games in there . We  get to our by week 5-2  we might be ok  going forward.

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« Reply #143 on: September 27, 2017, 08:45:36 pm »
We need to win  2 of our next 3 going into our bye week.   That's two home games in there . We  get to our by week 5-2  we might be ok  going forward.

I'm in agreement here. Overall for a playoff berth, I still say we need 7 wins. It's possible to get in with six wins (WIU from the MVFC got in with six in 2015, but that was the only time) given how ridiculously stacked the CAA is this year, but 7 this year would be a pretty safe bet. Meaning we'd need to go 4-3 down the stretch. Other than Wagner, there are no more easy games on this schedule.

Though we've yet to beat them since joining the CAA, a win this weekend over William and Mary would be huge for us as far as putting us in a good position to make a run. I think this could be the year we finally do it now that all the pieces seem to be coming together. Of these next three games, I say UNH at home will be the toughest despite their inexplicable loss to Holy Cross. If we can run the table these next three though and reach 6-1, we'll be in real good shape. Though here's what I think will happen:

W&M - L (though winnable)
Delaware - W
UNH - W (homecoming magic returns to Lavalle)
BYE
Richmond - L
Albany - W (they've got a very good team this year, but they're our rival and for the most part we've had their number. We ought to beat the **** out of them  ;D ;D )
Wagner - W
Maine - W

Final: 8-3 (6-2 CAA), not enough to win the conference or get a bye, but good enough to get a home playoff game against an opponent from a lesser conference.
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« Reply #144 on: September 30, 2017, 09:39:40 pm »
6-2 conference record should be enough for playoff at large invite. Since SB joined CAA, every 6-2 CAA team has played in the playoffs. Even some 5-3 teams!

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« Reply #145 on: September 30, 2017, 09:44:45 pm »
  Albany and Delaware both lost today .    We have 3 CAA  wins and I think we beat Delaware at our house .  UNH is tough but get past them we have a tough game at Richmond those games we need to win 1. 

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« Reply #146 on: September 30, 2017, 09:51:48 pm »
  Albany and Delaware both lost today .    We have 3 CAA  wins and I think we beat Delaware at our house .  UNH is tough but get past them we have a tough game at Richmond those games we need to win 1.

Delaware will not be an easy win next week. JMU struggled today getting a win!!

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« Reply #147 on: September 30, 2017, 10:13:06 pm »
  Albany and Delaware both lost today .    We have 3 CAA  wins and I think we beat Delaware at our house .  UNH is tough but get past them we have a tough game at Richmond those games we need to win 1.

Delaware will not be an easy win next week. JMU struggled today getting a win!!

There are no easy games in this conference. The only "easy" game we have left is Wagner and I wouldn't even look past them. We're looking good now. At 4-1, I'd wager we could go .500 down the stretch and still sneak in on the back end of the playoffs.

Every game is a toss up. We could both beat, or lose to anyone left on our schedule. Finish 7-4 and we're probably in. Finish 8-3 and we're a lock. Finish 9-2 and we're potentially looking at a bye.

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« Reply #148 on: October 01, 2017, 11:17:28 am »
I watched the Delaware JMU game on TV and the Blue Hens are better on defense than anyone we played this year except USF. JMU had a 20 play drive and came away with nothing the reason The reason the Blues Hens lost today was because they couldn't generate any offense which reminded me of us up until this year so far.

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