Steve Green to UConn

[pudge]

rumor had it that Paul was fighting MMA, if his knees aren't good enough to play football why is he fighting? I played with Kelly he was one of the most underated football players I have ever seen. He wasn't overy big or overly fast but he would wreck stuff. Crookshank was also very sucessfull at Slip. He also went from d1AA to D2 so he really didn't go down that far he may have even gone up if he would have transferred to a GLIAC school, but he was good at a good PSAC program.

There are a lot of kids from BC that I wondered why they don't go and play. Jared I believe is his name he graduated in 2006 was a tackle and Dtackle he was very good and didn't go anywhere to play. One of the best lineman that year, far better than Corson or anyone else in the area. I think he was number 74 0r 76 something like that but he was a solid player.

Oh yeah I forgot, to call a kid a p**** from behind a screenname is kinda odd I mean you come on here an talk trash about a kid from a protected identity. Internet tough guys gotta love em. I hope Steve Green finds you and beats seven shades of sh*t outa you.

Tell me about it. Jaret (Polites) was very good. He would me over in practice when I was a sophomore. He had offers from toledo and buffalo, but he wasnt smart enough in the classroom, and I dont think that he really wanted to play.

[nash112358]

Their performance in the classroom is why alot of past BC players did not continue their athletic carreers. Landon Day, the Byich (sp?) twins, Schilling.... could all excel on the field but not in school. Best of luck to Steve, I hope he works hard in and out of the classroom.

I heard Tackas had an offer to play football at Dartmouth? Does anyone know why he passed it up? Obviously that blend of education and athletics is very hard to pass up.

[El-Moldo]

crimsoncrush67: Are you serious about DII being close to I-AA in college football????? And let me get this straight. Whydo so many athletes at BC have trouble in the classroom? Isn't BC comparable to BM in academics?

[El-Moldo]

By the way, there are NO athletic scholarships in the Ivy League. So there would be NO money at Dartmouth unless it was academic.

[pudge]

crimsoncrush67: Are you serious about DII being close to I-AA in college football????? And let me get this straight. Whydo so many athletes at BC have trouble in the classroom? Isn't BC comparable to BM in academics?

In some cases D-2 teams are as good as I-AA. Grand Valley State and Most of the teams in GLIAC could play in I-AA and many teams are in the process of moving up NOW (South Dakota, North Dakota, Bryant,etc). It isnt just BC athletes who cannot make it in the classroom. There are countless athletes that could have played college if they would excel in the class. Take for instance Berlin's running back in 2004 I think it was D'Carrion or something. He made the westpac look like the joke it is and he never made it (academics). We probably dont even know how many athletes could have made it if they would have made the grade.

[Crimsoncrush67]

Old Man,
I know its been a while since you laced em up, but I know a ton of DII teams that would thump the top D1aa teams. Look how many kids get drafted out of DII schools. GVSU would win a D1AA national championship no doubt, Central Missouri could as well, Saginaw of 01, IUP of the 90's, Cal right now would beat any NEC team in the game bad too. I would take any GLIAC team against the Patriot League. Delaware is good no doubt, as are the penguins out there in youngstown. But upper D2 plays ball. They could play with any D1AA team and probably beat them. I mean App State, Wofford, Elon play good ball, but D2 teams could knock them off. There are a handful of Good D1aa programs and those even those could lose to a top D2 team. So yes I am serious.

[El-Moldo]

Are you kidding me? There is NO comparison between I-AA and DII football. And we're NOT talking St. Francis here either. With 63 scholarships compared to 35 ( and in many instances 25 ), the quality of play is night and day in favor of I-AA. And I would take a Patriot League team over most if not all DII schools, and the Patriot League teams don't even give athletic scholarship to their players.

[pudge]

Are you kidding me? There is NO comparison between I-AA and DII football. And we're NOT talking St. Francis here either. With 63 scholarships compared to 35 ( and in many instances 25 ), the quality of play is night and day in favor of I-AA. And I would take a Patriot League team over most if not all DII schools, and the Patriot League teams don't even give athletic scholarship to their players.

Not really El-Modo. There are many D-II schools that would hang with about 70% of I-AA teams. Overall I-AA is better(for instance Appalachian State, Wofford, James Madison, UMASS, Richmond, etc.) but there are D-II schools that could make it (Valdosta, CALPA, GVSU, CMSU) , hell Mt. Union a D-III team could play with SOME I-AA teams. Mainly because they have transfers from all divisions of college football, but they are still DIII and would win SOME games at that level.

[El-Moldo]

Give me some examples of DII schools which beat I-AA schools over the past couple of years. Here's a couple of good ones from this year. Delaware over West Chester 48-20, James Madison over NC Central 56-7, Maine over Iona 55-7, Umass over Bryant 42-7. I'm sure I could many more if I had the time. And what was that St. Francis score against VMI (which isn't even a top-notch I-AA team)?

[Crimsoncrush67]

Arent VMI and St. Francis both D1AA? I dont see what you are saying about that one. But alas i dont have time to dig in the achieves ive got some work to do but i am sure you will pick up that slack and do it for me.