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Date Posted: 11/29/15 12:43:57pm Sun
Author: Gate'83
Subject: Re: Most impressive fb win since 2003
In reply to: 'gate80 's message, "Most impressive fb win since 2003" on 11/29/15 12:14:11pm Sun

>Not sure if late UNH rally was due to any
>faults on our part but rather a good team desperately
>trying to get back in the game. No quibble with Hunt
>running out the clock at the end of the end against a
>team that can strike so quickly. I do have to question
>that pitch out with 4 minutes left on a wet field. UHN
>had only lost 5 times at home in 9 years coming into
>that game! The announcers didn't seem to have good
>eyesight. A completed pass was dropped and vice versa.
>a sideline pass was intended for the endzone, as so
>forth.

Looked from the stands like we were trying to bleed the clock & when they went to the hurry-up Goldrich found his rhythm... got a little scary there at the end! Talking to the players afterwards, apparently that pitch is an option every time Melville runs the stretch play, he just hasn't pitched it at all this year... think it was just a mistake by a player trying to do a little too much. Glad we survived it!

We're also not the only school that doesn't market its athletic product very well. Attended the game with a pal who's got a son who's at UNH, they shut their dorms down for Thanksgiving week and didn't re-open them once the game was scheduled at Cowell... he can't get into his room until tonight after dinner. Wonder why there were no students in the stands?

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[> "Who would have thought this 2 months ago? " -- Raider Archivist, 11/29/15 12:57:04pm Sun

"Who would have thought this 2 months ago? "

That's really the really wonderful aspect of this season. From the onset of schollies, I've wondered how the pieces for a new Era was going to materialize ? After the shellacking by a very good Navy team, red zone impotence in UNH 1 and giving the game away to Yale, you had to be skeptical about whether anything had changed materially and whether gate could pull off a decent season?

Still puzzled by the Princeton loss. But, since then, week-by-week, this team, this Coach/Staff and Gate FB in the new Era, found itself. Obviously, the skill players and the balance of this team on O turned out to be much more consistent in the games subsequent to Princeton than any of us would have imagined. And we scoffed at Hunt's statement at the end of the summer that the D line and LB's were as good as any group he had worked with in his 20 years at Gate. And some of us even wondered, i contrast to Biddle's John Wayne persona, whether Hunt was "too nice of a guy? "

We were dazzled by the O line pulverizing Holy Cross in the 4th quarter.
But none of us knew that the line on both sides of the ball, were this special? Love it: "We're going to run And You're not going to run against us. Want to try ?" Not as sexy as a pass-happy spread offense line or a crazed inconsistent D line....but consistent and tough. The traditional Gate smash mouth football executed quietly, but CONSISTENTLY.

Compared to any team that we've played this year, save Navy, watching our season progress encompassing the growth of players, coaches and the Program, itself, was the most dramatic story. Especially, because to truly appreciate what was developing you had to savor the development, game-by-game. Regardless of the outcome at JMU, this will rank as a memorable season within the 125 years of gate FB.

The next step, is to do this, season by season, from this great foundation.
Go Gate!





>Melville impresses me more every time I see him. Was
>it common knowledge that he has the lowest
>interception rate in all of Div 1? No picks last 200
>passes? 1 pick in last 350?? Interesting that Hunt did
>not platoon the RBs as much but gave the bulk of the
>carries to Holland, especially in key situations.
>Should I have known who Thomas Ives is? Nice balanced
>offense - same run and pass yds. Great defense against
>the run. Raiders dominated that game until the last 10
>minutes. Not sure if late UNH rally was due to any
>faults on our part but rather a good team desperately
>trying to get back in the game. No quibble with Hunt
>running out the clock at the end of the end against a
>team that can strike so quickly. I do have to question
>that pitch out with 4 minutes left on a wet field. UHN
>had only lost 5 times at home in 9 years coming into
>that game! The announcers didn't seem to have good
>eyesight. A completed pass was dropped and vice versa.
>a sideline pass was intended for the endzone, as so
>forth.
>
>Who would have thought this 2 months ago? Undefeated
>in the PL and a playoff win against a school that has
>been to the semis the last 2 years. While I'm usually
>pessimistic when we take on OOC non-Ivy foes, I had a
>good feeling about this one and thought the karma was
>with us. Very happy for Hunt to finish the year this
>way (no matter what happens next week(s)), after he
>started out 5-10.


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