Game Day: Sixteen go home

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Keith McMillan will be at Maine Maritime-Montclair State. I’ll be at Coe-St. John’s. Gordon Mann will be broadcasting Susquehanna-Delaware Valley and Joe Davis will be broadcasting at St. Thomas-Monmouth.

Some pretty good teams will be going home today, as well as some not-so-good teams. Someone has to play the part of Mount St. Mary’s or Florida A&M in this bracket, but that shouldn’t make the trip less memorable for them or make the conference championship any less of a recruiting boost among their prospects.

Later in the day, the site probably will get slow. One of the things we do when we have to keep the site operating under heavy traffic is close down the Daily Dose. We always hope it won’t come to that, but I just wanted you to be forewarned.

Scoreboard, Twitter, Daily Dose, lots of live video (more than half of the games). Plenty of ways to get your fix.

St. John’s and Coe trade fumbles. Then SJU’s Bobby Klint drops a wide-wide-open INT. 13-7 Coe 4:29 2nd.

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57 thoughts on “Game Day: Sixteen go home”

  1. I see you have seeds listed in the playoffs capsules, are those educated guesses or did the NCAA finally admit that they have seeds like they always have?

  2. I am glad that Neil is on board now! Thanks to Pat and his fantastic wife! We all hope to be checking in on D3football when we are 74? Wahoo! Keith and Pat, you have another 30 or 40 years of work ahead of you!!! 🙂

    Its game time! Let’s get out there and have some fun! Good luck to everyone!

  3. 14-0 TMC with 7 min left in 1st quarter. Saints have totally shutdown the run and making plays on Dicks passes. 70 yard TD pass to reception by Owens and 1 yard run by Collier. 539 left in 1st quarter and Tigers are now punting for 3rd time..

  4. Mount Union jumps all over W & J. 20-0 with just over 5 minutes remaining the first. I lost the Wittenberg video feed, anyone else having trouble there?

  8. One little note to pass along from the home office. The seedings in the playoff bracket are our educated guesses because the bracket in the system required seedings.

    It’s a shoot-out so far in New Jersey as Montclair leads Maine Maritime, 14-7, late in the first quarter. Each team has run for over 100 yards already with Montclair’s Jeff Bliss leading the way with 101 yards rushing and two touchdowns.

  14. Autenreib broke my buddys int record for the season on that last int for TD.. We are giving him hell..

    Meanwhile a terrible pass interference penalty has Depauw at the TMC 31

  15. St. John’s wins the toss and defers. Nice day for football, esp. for late November in central Minnesota. About a 10-mph wind out of one end zone. Temperature about 48 degrees.

  16. 41 – 0 in the second quarter in alliance should leave the selection committee feeling really proud of the decision to leave ONU out. wow.

  17. Coe got a first down on its first play from scrimmage (pass to No. 91 Ryan Jones, 6-5, 215) but goes three-and-out.

  18. Joe Boyle wearing a glove on his passing hand, as Frank Rajkowski reported for the St. Cloud Times earlier in the week. Freshman Stephen Johnson getting the first couple of carries with Jakob Reding injured.

  22. @neil- yeah, I discovered the site last week. My parents are Alfred alums(’52, ’53), and I live in VA, so it’s the only way for me to get that “being there” experience. 🙂

  26. St. John’s and Coe trade fumbles. Then SJU’s Bobby Klint drops a wide-wide-open INT. 13-7 Coe 4:29 2nd.

  29. Crap, my pc freezes up for 10 minutes and AU gets behind 21-10, and they just had a fg blocked. But then, they blocked an Albright punt, and just scored a td and a 2-pt conversion. It’s now 21-18 Albright, very early in the 4th.

  31. Saxons “52” just after I posted………….nothing……………no picture….no nothing then I saw 25/35 NUTS…Penn Atlantic sent me a nice note..D3 went …closed for busy busy…thats O K ..F Y I as the kids say I got my new lap top…WOW..it took me years to get used to the mouse..this machine does not have any..its a finger slide thing…I’ll be an old man before I get this down..;.can,t wait till the Bombers and Saxons do it again on your field next year GO BOMBERS.

  32. Well, just returned home from the Monmouth – St Thomas game…what a debacle for the Scots. 2nd year in a row they were shutout in the 2nd half and watched their opponents score the last 16 points of the game.

    The Tommies made all the plays; 71 yd KOR by Waldvogel to set up a short TD after the Scots got within 20-14, a blocked punt returned 22 yards for a TD that made it 27-14, and a 26 yd fumble return that ended a Scots drive in UST territory and promptly put the Tommies in business. Even still, MC trailed only 30-21 at the half and were set to receive the ball to start the 2nd. Once again, Monmouth couldn’t make the most of their redzone opportunities, going 0-2 in the 4th quarter. Meanwhile, the Tommies got 3 different career long FG’s from their senior kicker…as I said they made all the plays.

    The biggest difference though may have been how “big” the UST O-line is. The Scots couldn’t stop the run and they lost the time of possession battle by 17 minutes! It’s hard to score when you don’t have the ball.

    It was a great season and we lost to an awefully darn good football team. I look forward to next year and hope to see Mr. Tanney break some D3 career records. Good luck to the Tommies the rest of the way!

  33. Linfield looked good today. 31 straight points, 8 sacks, 4 picks, etc. With SJU bowing out today, the Catdome could have a lot to say about who ends up in Salem.

    Go ‘Kitties!

  34. Central College lost to Mary Hardin-Baylor 42-40. In the closing minute of the game, the Dutch attempted an onside kick, which they recovered. However, the officials ruled the kicker offsides for his plant foot being beyond the ball. This was an incorrect ruling, as the kicker cannot be ruled offsides. You cannot placed the blame for a loss on the officials or on any one play, but when a team is trailing by 2 points and has an opportunity to win the game, the officials need to make the appropriate call.

  35. Congratulations Neil!

    We are happy for the progress that you are making with your laptop.

    You may find it easier to get a wireless remote mouse or a simple mouse with a restractable cord that works thru your USB port to use with your laptop.

    Pat’s server was really under pressure from us fans as we tried to find results and read the comments from the fans.

  37. jacob9er: You may be right…I don’t know….However, I saw the same call in a game, earlier this year…..(and was surprised!)

  38. Delaware Valley scared us for about the opening 3 mins of what turned out to be the Aggies’ easiest win of the year…and in the playoffs no doubt. Now if we can just get a repeat performance of a couple weeks ago against Albright. Then it’s off to Alliance…yippee.

  39. jacob9er: seems like I have seen that called before. Here’s one I can’t find in the rule book, maybe someone knows. A kickoff bounces untouched into the corner and bounces into the pylon at the goal line. Is it a touchback or is it out of bounds? In our game it was called out of bounds and spotted at the 40. I would have thought it would be a touchback since it is a touchdown when a ballcarrier diving for the endzone touches the pylon with the ball. The call had zero to do with the outcome of the game but it would be interesting to know.

  40. The situation has been researched and the ruling was incorrect. A kicker cannot be ruled offsides on a kickoff. The officiating crew made a call that directly affected the outcome of the game. The purpose of a penalty is to prevent a team from gaining an unfair advantage on a given play. The kicker was not attempting to recover the kick, nor was it his intent to advance beyond the ball spot. Therefore, even if the rule were ‘a kicker can be ruled offside on a kickoff,’ which is not the rule, the purpose of a penalty should have prevented the officials from throwing a flag. In any event, the game is over and the outcome may have been different with a correct ruling.

  41. is there a D3 team that never passes or hardley ever….I saw a N Y S section D high school semi-playoff team Randolph beat our local Groton team 61-8 they never attempted a pass theiir coach Pat Slater “were a running team” they play again 11/28 in the Syr, Dome T/W ch1026

  42. jacob9er……The kicker was offsides because he lined up past the line of scrimmage…the call was correct. Have you ever seen a pro kicker stand past the ball and line of scrimmage and kick it? If you noticed during the second attempt, the Central kicker moved the ball back from the initial line of scrimmage so he could stand past the ball and kick but still be onsides….Both teams played well. The ref’s missed several calls at the end of the game…Bailey’s knee was down before the ball came out that Central recovered with 1.39 left on the clock. Why snead didn’t run the ball in for the 2 pt conversion was a surprise.

  43. The opening week of the playoffs looked really good for the MAC being the #1 Eastern conference of 2009. There were some scores from earlier in the season which provided evidence of this. Combined with the playoff games, we now have:

    Del Valley 30 Kean 17
    Del Valley 66 Susquehanna 7
    Albright 48 West Conn 7
    Albright 35 Alfred 25
    Lebanon Valley 37 Salisbury (who beat Fisher) 21
    Wilkes 37 Montclair 10
    Lycoming 37 Susquehanna 23
    Rowan 29 Lycoming 7

    Very impressive out of conference performances by the top teams. I think Del Valley can give Mount Union a pretty good game if they make it one step farther.

  44. BaylorFan: Makes sense to me….the operative words being “lined up”….not the actual “kick” itself…..

  45. Well, didn’t get any video feed of the UMHB-Central game but is sounded like UMHB ran all over Central and it sounded like Central torched UMHB with the pass. Pass defense has always been their achilles so to speak. Don’t know about the bad call on the offsides on the onside but as an official, I would have to see the play before I could make judgement. That being said, I will back up Baylorfans statement——if the kicker is lined up on the opposite side of the restraining line(that is, towards UMHB) as opposes to behind it and proceeds to kick the ball, then he is indeed offsides and that would have been the appropriate call. Once again, can’t make judgement based on hearsay, I would have to see the play before ruling. Seemed like a very exciting game anyways. Based on comments from Central players, it sounds like UMHB was one of the better teams, if not the best team they had faced all season. Linfield seems to be a lot like the Central team—-big!!! Hopefully UMHB can use their speed to minimize the size advantage as they did with Central. Good luck to all teams left!!!

  46. Jacob9er,
    By definition of Rule 6-1-2 of the NCAA rule book, no player may be beyond the restraining line on a free kick—which in these terms defines a kick-off.

  47. Offside occurs when players of the kicking team are not behind their
    restraining line when the ball is legally free-kicked (Exception: The kicker
    and holder are not offside when they are beyond their restraining line) (Rule
    6-1-2).

    That is straight from the 2009-10 NCAA Football Rules and Interpretations. Video replay also showed that the kicker was not lined up beyond the line of scrimmage. He was called offside due to his plant foot which, according to Rule 6-1-2, does not receive an offsides penalty.

    If you are going to argue a point, research it a bit more.

    BaylorFan and CaptainCru, I am not saying that this call was responsible for the outcome of the game or that other calls were not missed. However, other incorrect calls do not justify another. They missed the call and allowed no chance for Central to make a play.

  48. Jacob9er,
    You should get all your facts straight——the rule does not apply to the kicker and holder only on the point after try————-in that position, they are beyond the line of scrimmage. That does not apply on free kicks—-which is a kick-off or onside attempt. Are you sure that is what they called the penalty for—–the kickers plant foot being offsides or still upset about the loss? As an official, I would not have made that call—-too ticky-tacky. Must be something else that you were missing there. I took my reading straight from the NCAA rule book—–not online, I am sitting here looking at it. If you are going to make a point, don’t leave out the remaining part of the rule.

  49. Besides, when do you have a holder on the kick-off——–only while attempting a free-kick, if the ball is blown off of the tee is a team given the opportunity to use a holder and yes, the rule applies to them in that situation. Only on point after try does it NOT apply——————–read it again thoroughly before making another attempt at making the execuse that an official lost the game for Central. They gave up 42 points—————-officials didn’t have any part of that.

  50. One other point, if you think you can do a better job officiating, quite flapping the jaws and get on the field and start calling some games——not as easy as everyone thinks. You may think you know everything there is to know about football, until you start officiating. Besides, you may have some fun—–you get the best seat in the house. Sorry to let out a little frustration, as an official it always ticks me off to hear people blame officials, especially when they don’t know all the rules or how they apply.

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