2023 Pre-Season Poll

[Runnin' Cat]

Says a guy whose team has had their conference collapse and find someone to take them in.....

:-)

You school has to travel for a day or two for away games....ours is a morning bus ride.

Your "whataboutism" argument says you know I am correct.

[IUPNation]

They have to have something good about the conference. .

Says a guy whose team has had their conference collapse and find someone to take them in.....

:-)

You school has to travel for a day or two for away games....ours is a morning bus ride.

[Runnin' Cat]

The PSAC has the best system in D2 for a two-division conference to crown a single champion.

They have to have something good about the conference. .

[Brandon]

So the last week of the regular season is the final of three crossover games between each division. If the first place teams of each division are not already scheduled the teams they both play now face each other and the two first place teams square off. Yes it’s a change but it’s with a weeks notice and the teams traveling were already preparing to travel across the state and they still get a full week to prepare unlike being asked to play a game with two days notice and a full day of travel.

IUP was scheduled to host Bloomsburg and Shepherd was scheduled to go to Erie. Shepherd got a shorter trip to IUP and Bloomsburg diverted over to Mercyhurst.

Each division takes turn bring the host. This year was the West. East hosts next year and so on..


It works out well.

The PSAC has the best system in D2 for a two-division conference to crown a single champion.

[IUPNation]

Well 10 games is good for us as we know we will play a total of 14 to 15 games per year. We have won 20 playoff games since 2016. That is 2 extra seasons more than IUP has played. Might as well rest up before the playoffs

With the Pee Sack cross over schedule IUP had last year it was going to pad their SOS in the regional rankings. There was literally zero incentive to bail out GV needing a stand in for Edinboro. No coach is taking that game with little notice.

Now if they had only defended three punts from being blocked they go 9-1 and into the playoffs but it was 7-3 and see ya later. But they had great SOS on paper. HA!

[FSUBulldog27]

It’s not. How often has Ferris Bueller State taken a game with two days notice and has to travel a long distance? We’ll wait. Why didn’t you guys just fill in the game? You own GV why not own them twice in the season?

:-)

Well 10 games is good for us as we know we will play a total of 14 to 15 games per year. We have won 20 playoff games since 2016. That is 2 extra seasons more than IUP has played. Might as well rest up before the playoffs

[IUPNation]

the only ones we can compare results to are GAC typically.

UCO beat down tarleton and angelo state in the last 5 years. bout as far as our SILO schedules will allow.

The Pee Sack is a 10 game schedule leaving only one week open for OOC. With the lack of money to travel beyond the region for most programs, it’s rare to see teams from other regions in the regular season.

[jimbo slice]

Until D2 teams have the money to play teams far away in the regular season , you’ll never know how good your lesser teams really are if they never get to play anyone from other regions.

the only ones we can compare results to are GAC typically.

UCO beat down tarleton and angelo state in the last 5 years. bout as far as our SILO schedules will allow.

[IUPNation]

not sure of the GLIAC, haven't been involved nationally. i will say outside of 4 teams at the bottom of the MIAA, you will be in danger every time you take the field against an MIAA team.
pitt state didnt exactly WALK through the MIAA. there were multiple games that weren't decided until the last little bit of the game and they gave everything that ferris wanted. same with NWMSU. they lost a couple of games one to the middle of the pack team and a few others gave them the business until they pulled away. they beat the number 3 team down in the playoffs on the road and were less that 2 minutes away from taking down the number 1 team in their barn also. our middle of the road teams in the MIAA are better than a majority of the rest of D2. id be willing to bet on that.

or, don't be scared. you'll walk away with a knot on our head and an L in your pocket.

Until D2 teams have the money to play teams far away in the regular season , you’ll never know how good your lesser teams really are if they never get to play anyone from other regions.

[jimbo slice]

The top of the GLIAC and MIAA are better than the rest of the country. Your warm body teams are not that scary.

not sure of the GLIAC, haven't been involved nationally. i will say outside of 4 teams at the bottom of the MIAA, you will be in danger every time you take the field against an MIAA team.
pitt state didnt exactly WALK through the MIAA. there were multiple games that weren't decided until the last little bit of the game and they gave everything that ferris wanted. same with NWMSU. they lost a couple of games one to the middle of the pack team and a few others gave them the business until they pulled away. they beat the number 3 team down in the playoffs on the road and were less that 2 minutes away from taking down the number 1 team in their barn also. our middle of the road teams in the MIAA are better than a majority of the rest of D2. id be willing to bet on that.

or, don't be scared. you'll walk away with a knot on our head and an L in your pocket.

[IUPNation]

Sounds like an excuse to me.....

It’s not. How often has Ferris Bueller State taken a game with two days notice and has to travel a long distance? We’ll wait. Why didn’t you guys just fill in the game? You own GV why not own them twice in the season?

:-)

[IUPNation]

An MIAA title game would be amazing. IUPNation how has the PSAC adjusted their schedules for one?

So the last week of the regular season is the final of three crossover games between each division. If the first place teams of each division are not already scheduled the teams they both play now face each other and the two first place teams square off. Yes it’s a change but it’s with a weeks notice and the teams traveling were already preparing to travel across the state and they still get a full week to prepare unlike being asked to play a game with two days notice and a full day of travel.

IUP was scheduled to host Bloomsburg and Shepherd was scheduled to go to Erie. Shepherd got a shorter trip to IUP and Bloomsburg diverted over to Mercyhurst.

Each division takes turn bring the host. This year was the West. East hosts next year and so on..


It works out well.

[IUPNation]

Sounds like your coaches were just cowards.

Says a non athlete/ couch who sits on the couch..

[IUPNation]

All teams start camp on the same date.

IUP started a week later this year…

[DawgUp]

IUP had a challenge..opening with two crossover games with teams that wound up in the playoffs last year and got a split. They had Covid issues the first week with Kutztown and then had Shepherd the following week and you think our coaches were going to pivot with two days notice and find a way to Meatchicken? That would be like North Dakotastan State asking you with no notice to go to their field and get rolled when you have Northwest Misery and Ferris Bueller State as your next two games and you didn’t have a game planned the first week so you opened camp later than the teams who did have a first week game scheduled. You didn’t think IUP opened camp a week later because they could with no first game scheduled OOC. No coach who has a brain takes that game in that position, sure let’s get our team ripped to shreds in a game with no preparation and a week behind the team paying you to roll over…yeah what a sales pitch!!!

Sounds like an excuse to me.....