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This Saturday will be family day at Ship, which will probably draw a large crowd if the weather turns out to be as forecast....

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LOL. Too bad Division II can't get in on that. The $475k would be about half of Ship's football budget. And it wasn't that long ago Ship was playing the...

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Could be wrong, but I don't believe there is a PSAC columnist at present....

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Well, that does explain a few things. I think Ship spends about $1 million a year on football....

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It seems apparent now that Division II support is all over the map. From the little I read, that Minnesota outfit that pounded Slippery Rock in the playoffs...

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Yes, and that still doesn't change the fact that they weren't in the PSAC. Hard to be perennial champs of the PSAC East when you're not in the PSAC....

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Yeah, and when they made it they weren't in our conference....

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Well, this guy says he lives in Florida now. Certainly wouldn't want to claim him in Pa. He also says he went to the University of Virginia and then to...

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Just pointing out that what's true today might not be true tomorrow. Shepherd wasn't even in our conference a couple of years ago, let alone a perennial...

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Perennial for a few years, perhaps, but funny things can happen to the balance of power over the years. When I went to Ship in the '60s, Clarion was one...

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I see a lot of linemen who look as if they're carrying too much weight these days, and it starts at the high school level. Unless you have a lot of depth,...

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That is a good point. I think I said in another post that Coach Mac said prior to Shippensburg's opener that 80 percent of his roster had never played...

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Perhaps, but Clarion's ability to pass on the Raiders was troubling, and they certainly don't have the passing game of Shepherd. The defense is smallish...

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I can't see Ship as a playoff team this season. They still don't look to have a dominant defense, and beating Shepherd at their place is a real longshot....

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Well, Broadway opened last week, so apparently someone forgot to tell them NYC was burned down and ruined....

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Actually, Shepherd wasn't as good as the big boys until the early to mid '90s when Monte came along. In my college days in the '60s and long after that,...

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You're going to have these schedules in Division II, where we can't buy ourselves seven home games like the big boys. Ship hit a doozy of a schedule in...

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True, but they're not going to beat Bagent's Rams with 14 points. Just sayin'....

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West Virginia State, whom Ship beat in its season opener, also had played four spring games....

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True that. Not having a season last year really resulted in some massive roster changes, a lot of inexperience on the field, and probably a little rust...