The Mighty Penn Quakers

[finpxz1]

News flash…Penn is no longer all alone in last place in the Ivy. They’re now tied for last place…too funny. I’m just glad Penn isn’t on next year’s schedule. Would spell almost certain doom for our Hens. Thankfully we have much easier opponents in 2025 with Colorado, UConn, and Wake Forest…#FearTheQuakers!!!

[Hensfansince03]

News flash…Penn is no longer all alone in last place in the Ivy. They’re now tied for last place…too funny. I’m just glad Penn isn’t on next year’s schedule. Would spell almost certain doom for our Hens. Thankfully we have much easier opponents in 2025 with Colorado, UConn, and Wake Forest…#FearTheQuakers!!!

The coaching staff has a lot work to do for next year, especially on defense. We need an entirely new defense scheme and fresh talent on D. Especially up front on the defensive line. I'm worried based upon what we have seen from the team this year against low tier FCS teams. We have played one Luke Warm FCS team in Richmond and got blown out. Next week RHODE Island and NOVA will tell us a lot. If we lose them both and get blown out its time to make major changes.

[Cluck U]

Holy non-sequiturs, Batman!

News flash…Bryant (Sagrin 208) is now not alone in last place in the CAA. They are tied for last place…too funny. Yet, they took Stony (Sagrin 169), who, at 4-1, is sitting in 2nd in the CAA, to OT, and lost on an attempt at a 2-point conversion.

Quick, someone do the math…169 minus 208 equals…yeah, OT.

And, mighty nova (141…almost as good as Harvard, according to Sagrin), who is tied with Stony for 2nd place in the CAA, squeaks by Mighty, Mighty Hampton (179).

And, let’s not forget (Sagrin 81.07) South Carolina’s 44-20 destruction of #10 Texas A&M (Sagrin 86.19)…Does Not Compute…

Penn gave us a better game than everyone but Richmond. And, they have given common opponents better games than our opponents. Yet, someone wants to brush that aside and say that Penn wasn’t one of the better teams we’ve faced…because…Ivy…or something.

Woof.

With the season’s results… …Rhody and nova, as MIGHTY as they are , should be dispatched by our Hens. And, Campbell?

But, Ivy….or something.

[finpxz1]

As much as you try to continue to change the narrative, this has always been about Penn specifically…not Harvard, not Nova, not Bryant, and certainly not Texas A&M. So using your ridiculous logic there are at least 3 MAC schools better than Notre Dame, right??? My point has been, is now, and will continue to be, is that Penn (not Harvard, not Nova, not Texas A@M) would at best be a mid-tier CAA team and not a serious contender in the conference. You and others were talking about them like they were something they are not. The fact that we struggled to beat them that day was more a reflection on our performance and NOT the Mighty Penn Quakers. But if it helps, I’ll acknowledge that Penn would likely beat Bryant. Hopefully they finish the season strong and are able to escape last place in the Ivy.

[Caribbean Hen]

News flash…Penn is no longer all alone in last place in the Ivy. They’re now tied for last place…too funny. I’m just glad Penn isn’t on next year’s schedule. Would spell almost certain doom for our Hens. Thankfully we have much easier opponents in 2025 with Colorado, UConn, and Wake Forest…#FearTheQuakers!!!

The coaching staff has a lot work to do for next year, especially on defense. We need an entirely new defense scheme and fresh talent on D. Especially up front on the defensive line. I'm worried based upon what we have seen from the team this year against low tier FCS teams. We have played one Luke Warm FCS team in Richmond and got blown out. Next week RHODE Island and NOVA will tell us a lot. If we lose them both and get blown out its time to make major changes.

Well todays Richmond might be a luke warm FCS team if you’re living by 2008 CAA standards, but in 2024 Richmond is nationally ranked and actually look pretty good but yes, we should of beat them

You 03 raise some good points but your hyperbole always seems to derail your posts

[Caribbean Hen]

News flash…Penn is no longer all alone in last place in the Ivy. They’re now tied for last place…too funny. I’m just glad Penn isn’t on next year’s schedule. Would spell almost certain doom for our Hens. Thankfully we have much easier opponents in 2025 with Colorado, UConn, and Wake Forest…#FearTheQuakers!!!

That’s probably because you started this thread after the second Ivy League game. Should of waited

[finpxz1]

Probably works both ways, right…like before making the statement that “Penn is one of the best teams we’ll play all year” after only our 3rd game and their 1st???

[Caribbean Hen]

Probably works both ways, right…like before making the statement that “Penn is one of the best teams we’ll play all year” after only our 3rd game and their 1st???

Not really, a prediction always holds more weight if you make it before something actually happens

I make a lot of predictions, some of them are actually right
but please don’t start any threads on those because it would be kind of embarrassing…

[finpxz1]

Kind of like my prediction that Penn would be at best an average CAA team…even in today’s watered down version of the conference.

[dovetail]

And, mighty nova (141…almost as good as Harvard, according to Sagrin), who is tied with Stony for 2nd place in the CAA, squeaks by Mighty, Mighty Hampton (179).

Everybody seems to be able to beat them or give them a close game....except us.

[HENJOHN]

Wow unbelievable the time and effort being exerted on this thread because someone may have overrated a Football team some. Happens all the time so what is the big deal. Ask the Florida State fans how they feel about their #9 Preseason ranking now that they are 1-8. I think we all got the point that Penn isn't as good as some thought they might be.

[Hensfansince03]

News flash…Penn is no longer all alone in last place in the Ivy. They’re now tied for last place…too funny. I’m just glad Penn isn’t on next year’s schedule. Would spell almost certain doom for our Hens. Thankfully we have much easier opponents in 2025 with Colorado, UConn, and Wake Forest…#FearTheQuakers!!!

The coaching staff has a lot work to do for next year, especially on defense. We need an entirely new defense scheme and fresh talent on D. Especially up front on the defensive line. I'm worried based upon what we have seen from the team this year against low tier FCS teams. We have played one Luke Warm FCS team in Richmond and got blown out. Next week RHODE Island and NOVA will tell us a lot. If we lose them both and get blown out its time to make major changes.

Well todays Richmond might be a luke warm FCS team if you’re living by 2008 CAA standards, but in 2024 Richmond is nationally ranked and actually look pretty good but yes, we should of beat them

You 03 raise some good points but your hyperbole always seems to derail your posts

Well, we will see about Richmond, they are 16. Rhode Island 14 and Villanova 13 are ranked slightly ahead of them. These are the only real teams we play this year. The rest of our schedule is awful and many tiers below everyone we will play next year. We failed the first test and only test we have had so far with Richmond. Penn is not a team that should have been competitive with us.

In three games we are moving up a level. We do not appear to have the talent, and anything related to defense to make the jump successfully at this point. I am worried about having a 1-to-3-win season next year. This is based upon the reality of what we are seeing right now on the field. My gut just says this is an FCS staff that is not the right ticket to bring us up successfully. They will end up being replaced after next season. I would take KC Keeler over what we have now and what we had over Rocco or Brock. KC is a special coach that didn't get the support he needed at UD to take things any further. Now the admin is giving support to the football program, and we have it all except the coaches to level up. I hope I am wrong, and we win the next 3 games and recruit some good transfers on D and OL this offseason to get us to the level we need to be competitive next year. However, based upon reality and results so far, I am not optimistic. Trust me I want to me.

[finpxz1]

Excellent post 03, and I can’t say I disagree with your POV. Although I do think we should win more than 1 to 3 games next year…simply because I don’t think the move up to CUSA will be that much better than the upper echelon teams in the CAA. Now I understand your perspective is we haven’t been very strong against the upper echelon CAA teams in recent years…Nova, Richmond, JMU, etc…as well as the better FCS playoff teams we have faced (Montana, SDST). And that would be a fair point. And I also share your concern about the current staff’s ability to manage this transition effectively. Having said that, I will remain hopeful for now. As crazy as Carty makes me at times with his over aggressiveness, he has still won over 70 percent of his games and 2/3rds of his conference games. Those are good numbers by any standard.

I do want to see us close this season out on a high note, which would include wins in our last 3 games (and an end to the Nova curse). I’m also hopeful that the off-season will bring in more FBS talent by way of the transfer portal. Having said all of that, I do think the leash on the current staff will need to be short. We can’t afford to completely screw up this move up to FBS and CUSA.

[77HEN]

I think we are all right to have concerns about competing against URI and Nova let alone the CUSA schedule and OOC opponents. To be honest, this team and the staff have a lot to prove. It is just not good enough to sit at the top of the lower half of the CAA. They get a chance to prove their mettle this coming week. Let’s see how they handle it; I’m hoping to cheer on a well played game and a victory.

[Caribbean Hen]

SAGARIN merge of CUSA and CAA Rankings after week 10

72 Western Kentucky A = 69.15 CONF-USA
88 Jacksonville State A = 66.42 CONF-USA
98 Liberty A = 63.32 CONF-USA
104 Sam Houston State A = 62.11 CONF-USA
131 Delaware Aa = 55.82
133 Richmond AA = 55.62
138 Fla. International A = 54.87 CONF-USA
142 Villanova AA = 54.62
144 Louisiana Tech A = 53.97 CONF-USA
146 Rhode Island AA = 53.54
151 William & Mary AA = 52.11
159 Middle Tennessee A = 50.78 CONF-USA
161 New Hampshire AA = 50.38
164 Monmouth-NJ AA = 49.70
168 UTEP A = 49.52 CONF-USA
173 Towson AA = 48.66
179 Stony Brook AA = 48.03
180 Elon AA = 47.99
182 New Mexico State A = 47.54 CONF-USA
183 Hampton AA = 47.40
185 Kennesaw State A = 46.89 CONF-USA