- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 6,374
- Reaction Score
- 16,572
These guys just went 2 years at 9-1. It is a complete anomaly for a Ivy to Play a FBS. You can find Towson, UNH, URI, Fordham and Holy Cross on Ivy Schedules and it is an absolute outlier for this game to happen. However ...
Ivy Football has come up in the world. They have bigger lines; the coaching staffs aren't inbred Ivy guys going back & forth - which is the way it was a decade ago; and you will see Major California, Texas, Florida high schools on their rosters. They get kids that would not think about that school not too long ago.
Yale was a 9 win team because this kid Rawlings (QB) threw the ball over the park. They have 7 games against other Ivy. And they are a solid program. However ... Rawlings is gone; the 2 major WR from 2019 are gone; the backup QB O'Connor was a major FBS recruit out of Orange County CA and he seems to have left. They will come into East Hartford ... and it won't be our first game.
I hope we play Yale as often as possible. I dunno. This CFB world is about regional competition and YES ... I would rather beat Yale than SMU. I read the scheduling battle ... and I do want UMass, Temple, Buffalo, Army and Navy in with more Rutgers, Syracuse, BC and Maryland. Holy Cross was tough for us a few years ago in a first game. But, Holy Cross will play 2 FBS some years; and BC often. This Yale hasn't seen a UCONN ... and we should be far better than 2 years ago.
Ivy Football has come up in the world. They have bigger lines; the coaching staffs aren't inbred Ivy guys going back & forth - which is the way it was a decade ago; and you will see Major California, Texas, Florida high schools on their rosters. They get kids that would not think about that school not too long ago.
Yale was a 9 win team because this kid Rawlings (QB) threw the ball over the park. They have 7 games against other Ivy. And they are a solid program. However ... Rawlings is gone; the 2 major WR from 2019 are gone; the backup QB O'Connor was a major FBS recruit out of Orange County CA and he seems to have left. They will come into East Hartford ... and it won't be our first game.
I hope we play Yale as often as possible. I dunno. This CFB world is about regional competition and YES ... I would rather beat Yale than SMU. I read the scheduling battle ... and I do want UMass, Temple, Buffalo, Army and Navy in with more Rutgers, Syracuse, BC and Maryland. Holy Cross was tough for us a few years ago in a first game. But, Holy Cross will play 2 FBS some years; and BC often. This Yale hasn't seen a UCONN ... and we should be far better than 2 years ago.
