Millersville at IUP

[IUPNation]

You'll just have to postpone your fall foliage peeping trip until November 3.

[GhostOfHomer01]

Re: Millersville at IUP

Anything is possible. We were a playoff team and won nail biters against seton hill, clarion and Millersville. Was a play away from losing to all three of them lol

[MC1313]

Hopefully Millersville can show more fight against IUP then
ESU did against Ferris.


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[IUPbigINDIANS]

Re: Millersville at IUP

Hopefully Millersville can show more fight against IUP then
ESU did against Ferris.


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I doubt that ESU didn't show fight and try ... there's just nothing they could have done. Those two could play 100 times and Ferris wins every time. D2 just isn't an even playing field. ESU knew that when they took the payday to go out there and get pounded.

[Bart]

Re: Millersville at IUP

I doubt that ESU didn't show fight and try ... there's just nothing they could have done. Those two could play 100 times and Ferris wins every time. D2 just isn't an even playing field. ESU knew that when they took the payday to go out there and get pounded.

What would make D2 an even playing field? Some say if each school had 30 scholarships, that would do it. I recall in the nineteen sixties, D1 schools had anywhere between 50 and 25 scholarships, and they competed against each other. Penn State went undefeated in 1969 with 25 scholarships. Does the D2 2018 IUP team with 25 play on an even field with the D1 1969 Penn State team with 25? Is there something else in D2 that creates an uneven field besides money?

[IUP24]

Millersville at IUP

What would make D2 an even playing field? Some say if each school had 30 scholarships, that would do it. I recall in the nineteen sixties, D1 schools had anywhere between 50 and 25 scholarships, and they competed against each other. Penn State went undefeated in 1969 with 25 scholarships. Does the D2 2018 IUP team with 25 play on an even field with the D1 1969 Penn State team with 25? Is there something else in D2 that creates an uneven field besides money?

[Bart]

Re: Millersville at IUP

So it's not necessarily having equality in scholarships, but who has the best facilities that money can buy? I don't disagree, but teams like Appalachian State don't fit so easily into the theory.

[ironmaniup]

Re: Millersville at IUP

So it's not necessarily having equality in scholarships, but who has the best facilities that money can buy? I don't disagree, but teams like Appalachian State don't fit so easily into the theory.

In the end its fallible young men playing the game. Coaches also make a big difference, so with good organization and game management, a lean mean program can be pretty successful. Any given day, right ? Its cliche but that's why we play the games. I've also seen programs that wasted money and were disorganized. They'll never quite win despite the money they have.

[IUP24]

So it's not necessarily having equality in scholarships, but who has the best facilities that money can buy? I don't disagree, but teams like Appalachian State don't fit so easily into the theory.

Why? Because Appalachian State beat Michigan 11 years ago and gave Penn State a scare on Saturday? Please... Small sample size.

If you put a Appalachian State, a school from Boone, North Carolina, into the ACC or the SEC for a full season they would get slaughtered. A school like that can catch lighting in a bottle on a singular afternoon, not for a whole season.

Compared to UNC or Duke, App State is poor when it comes to football. And it will always be that way.


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[IUP24]

So it's not necessarily having equality in scholarships, but who has the best facilities that money can buy? I don't disagree, but teams like Appalachian State don't fit so easily into the theory.

[MC1313]

[Bart]

Re: Millersville at IUP

That's it. Watch out for the Ville this week.

[BADinPA]

Re: Millersville at IUP

In the end its fallible young men playing the game. Coaches also make a big difference, so with good organization and game management, a lean mean program can be pretty successful. Any given day, right ? Its cliche but that's why we play the games. I've also seen programs that wasted money and were disorganized. They'll never quite win despite the money they have.

[IUP24]

[Fightingscot82]

Re: Millersville at IUP

This sounds really peculiar. Who did you call? Maybe you called the wrong person. I have a hard time believing any school would ignore $25,000 unless you're persona non-grata.