Wait? We have a football team?
by Iwillpaytheway!! on Nov 6, 2011 11:02 AM EST
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PrintOk. I realize that this is a basketball blog, and there has been plenty to talk about over the last month or so with Conference Realignment, recruiting, the new IAC, and of course the basketball season starting in less than a week, but I feel that Georgetown Football deserves a little recognition right now. They defeated Fordham 30-13 in senior day yesterday to improve to 8-2 on the year.
It was a fitting performance on senior day and sends Georgetown (8-2, 3-1 Patriot League) into next week's crucial game at Lehigh on a five-game winning streak. If the Hoyas prevail in Bethlehem, Pa. - and end a 10-game drought against the Mountain Hawks - they'll claim the school's first league title and a berth in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, just two years after suffering through a winless season.
This is by far the most successful season the Hoyas have had since joining the Patriot league in 2001. Since that time they have had a combined record of 28-81 (0.257). Really outside of a few successful seasons here and there, and a brief period of success in the late 1990's the Hoyas really haven't been relevant in NCAA football. In fact, they have been a combined 173-202-2 since the program was officially reinstated in 1970.
Weather this season is just a blip on the radar, or the start of something better to come, I can not say. What ever the case may be, I am going to enjoy it while I can, much like I did growing up watching the Hoyas of the late 90's.
Also, if anyone out there wants to write Georgetown Football a $100 million check so they can rebuild into a Division 1 team and save the Big East that would be much appreciated.
Stay Casual, my friends.
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big saturday for georgetown
bball season opener, patriot league “championship”
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Nov 7, 2011 9:07 AM EST up reply actions
Win Saturday @ Lehigh and we've got an auto bid for the FCS Tourney
Also a slight possibility for a home game at the hallowed Multi-Sport Field, which is scary.
No
0 chance of a home game at MSF.
for 1 it would not meet the requirements for hosting. You have to apply to host a game and there’s no way MSF would meet the criteria for seating or amenities.
2nd we’re definitely going to be on the road due to our low SOS and RPI. Our 2 losses would still be bad loses from a numbers point of view and we’d only have 1 quality win Lehigh.
by hoyasincebirth on Nov 7, 2011 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
Um, we might not have any quality wins yet this year but
We lost to Yale and Bucknell. Those aren’t bad losses. Their RPIs are roughly on par with ours (as are HC and Lafayette, etc.).
As a conference, the Patriot League’s SOS is actually better than the MAC’s and just a sliver behind that of C-USA’s.
If we beat Lehigh, we’ll deserve to be in the FCS. If we don’t beat Lehigh then we’ll have had a good season (no bad losses) but not a postseason-worthy one.
by HoyaSmacksYa on Nov 7, 2011 12:14 PM EST up reply actions
OK bad loss was maybe a bit harsh
but they’re not good losses to highly ranked teams.
Yale is 4-4 and Bucknell is 5-4. Both I believe are in the bottom half of the Sagarin ratings. if you remove all the I-A teams.
by hoyasincebirth on Nov 7, 2011 4:21 PM EST up reply actions
2200 attendance
honestly don’t most high schools draw that. ahh enough cynical. Basketball finally starts, Upshaw is going to be a hoya (just a guess) and Oregon will lose to Stanford but still end up in the Rose Bowl.
that lsu-bama game was a travesty
game of the century, my ass.
they should shut college football down
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Nov 7, 2011 9:57 AM EST up reply actions
i can't understand
why people are hating on that game. i’m not a huge college football fan or anything, but i thought it was very exciting. the interception on the 1 yard line was amazing.
it was like an nba game
boring until 4th
Good talk.
by Hire Esherick on Nov 7, 2011 10:18 AM EST up reply actions
the goal-line stand to stop a TD at the end of the first half was awesome too
when you have arguably the two best defenses in the country, this is the kind of game you get!
hire esherick is a well-known college football hater
that LSU-‘Bama game was an epic battle, can’t wait for the rematch
Casually.
nah, Bama lost at home
and almost had more missed field goals than points. Plus Ok lost at home to an unranked team and Oregon was already handled by LSU. I can’t make a case for a rematch for any of those 1-loss teams. If OSU and Stanford stumble, maybe Boise State’s year? Following their announcement to join the BE and destruction of LSU, the BE can then claim the football and Bball champ. Not bad for the Hindenburg of conferences. Delusional Monday.
by bunk moreland on Nov 7, 2011 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
Only 2200?
I wonder how they counted that. If that was 2200 people and we had 5000 for homecoming, then I don’t know where they fit all those people. Also, strangely enough, there seemed to be significantly more fans in the stands in the second half than in the first (how often has that happened?).
I was also rather surprised by the rather disproportionate male-female ratio amongst the undergrads at the game. Somebody in McDonough or HoyaBlue really needs to sit down and try to analyze how their marketing is working.
by HoyaSmacksYa on Nov 7, 2011 12:24 PM EST up reply actions
according to the Hoyasaxa site
The team averaged a home attendance of 2,568 which is 107% the listed capacity of the MSF.
by hoyasincebirth on Nov 7, 2011 4:23 PM EST up reply actions
I don't get how they are counting attendance either.
Georgetown has a strange way of counting attendance for their football team. There is no way that stadium seats more that 2000. Yet their attendance for 2008 was 2100 people per game and their attendance for 2009 was 2500 people per game (the same attendance they have during this infinitely more successful season). I was on campus those years and I can tell you there was rarely more than 1000 people in that stadium at any one time. There is certainly no way in hell that our home “rivalry” game verse Howard in 2009 pulled in 2600. It was raining the whole game and when I walked by the field mid-way through the third there were at most 200 people there (mostly from Howard).
Lehigh Ranked 6th Georgetown Ranked 33
http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/misc/tsn-div-1aa-poll.htm
"That is crap. It is unfair."
by Iwillpaytheway!! on Nov 7, 2011 10:51 PM EST reply actions
We're gonna need
After that last, unholy row,
I never, ever play, basketball now.
It joins a list of things I'll miss like fencing foils and lovely girls I'll never kiss.
by vivanloshoyas on Nov 10, 2011 3:46 PM EST up reply actions
He is the best tackler I've seen since Joe Montana
"That is crap. It is unfair."
by Iwillpaytheway!! on Nov 10, 2011 5:22 PM EST up reply actions
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