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Penguins Ranked 21st In Preseason FCS Coaches Poll

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penguinpower:

--- Quote from: Wick250 on August 07, 2014, 12:49:08 PM ---The disparity in talent within FCS is wider than in FBS, even if you do not count the defacto DIII Pioneer League.  Who are the good programs: the top half of the MVFC, the CAA, and the Big Sky.  Add onto that a few teams from the Southland, although the bottom half of that league is very weak.  That's it.

What about the fabled Southern Conference?  Well, Marshall, Georgia Southern, and Appalachian State are gone.  The rest of the teams are really no stronger than the Big South.

Eastern Illinois?  Did you watch them on tv?  Pro prospect quarterback that threw on nearly every down (McNair anyone?)  He would have had a field day against our beleaguered defense.  But their defense stunk worse than ours; a fact not reflected in the statistics because they played in the terrible OVC.

The FCS selection committee is the most hypocritical element within the NCAA.  They claimed that they would pick at-large selections according to their own objective formula that emphasized STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE.  They of course ignored that and actually refused to release their precious formula until AFTER the playoff field had been selected.  If these people had any integrity, they would release a ranking of teams based upon their unique formula at least twice during the season, say at the end of September and the end of October.  Then, whether the formula was fair (unlikely) or a farce (probable) you would at least understand where you stood.

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Exellent post Wick.

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