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The 86th meeting and the Pards have won 3 in a row only once. The home team was accused of playing only 30 minutes vs. Liberty. Two years ago the Penn coach went brain dead and handed a victory to Lafayette with that intentional safety. Last year the Leopards barely survived a 30 minute coma by their own head coach. This year they need to play 60 minutes, can expect no help from the Penn side of the field, and cannot survive any Idiot Frank moments. Not a must, and a hope more than a conviction, as the Pards begin their annual trek into the land of The Curse.
Pard94
Alright...I'll bite. I think this is going to be a defensive battle. I'll pick Lafayette win in a close and brusing one.
Lafayette 10
Penn 3
I'm picking 10 points for Lafayette becuase I'd like to think our kicking game choses this week to wake up. I'm hoping we see more of the offensive flashes that we saw last week. It would be great fun to watch Lafayette morph into a high powered pass based offense. It might mean we have to tie Frank up and stick him in a closet somewhere but I think Coach Fein is has something good gowing there. I think Legerrio and Crew did a pretty damn good job against a tough offense last week. If they can reproduce that effort I think we'll win this game and many more.
RichH
An opinion, Penn showed excellent D, Pards have excellent D. Pards win on defensive scoring . Would not be surprised with 10-6 score for Pards
Pards Rule
Yo 94, did you make it to Easton for the Liberty game or did you stay in the Granite State and watch on TV? Where can I watch the Penn game on TV if A) I am home in Cherry Hill, NJ or B) Decide to go to my shore condo on Long Beach Island?
TheRock90
I predict the Penn band will be boorish and immature.
Pard94
Pards Rule wrote:
Yo 94, did you make it to Easton for the Liberty game or did you stay in the Granite State and watch on TV? Where can I watch the Penn game on TV if A) I am home in Cherry Hill, NJ or B) Decide to go to my shore condo on Long Beach Island?
It took them a while but they finally got the broadcast up on All Access through the Lafayette sports site. I think it's 10 bucks a month but you can cancel it after the season. It's not ideal by any stretch but it beats the days where you had to hit refresh on the SI scores page every 15 minutes.
Pard4Life
TheRock90 wrote:
I predict the Penn band will be boorish and immature.
"Predict?" Are you trying to hustle us?
Pard4Life
Penn always plays Nova tough. The Quakers came out flat against us because I believe they lost a heartbreaker in OT the previous week. They must have a good D if they held the #2 team in the nation to 14 points. I bet that we will play that ridiculous conservative style again, which will put us in a hole, leave our defense tired, and allow Penn to unleash their passing attack and get their first scores of the year. Our past two wins had more to do with luck than good football (except our D's heroic effort in 2007, though maybe it could have been different if Sandberg didn't go down in the first quarter). I think this will be our season's theme: conservative, predictable offense = tired defense and low scoring losses; staff finally gets it after an embarassing loss, maybe to Columbia or Fordham, and we run the table.
Penn 24, Pards 10.
carney2
Pard4Life wrote:
Penn always plays Nova tough. The Quakers came out flat against us because I believe they lost a heartbreaker in OT the previous week. They must have a good D if they held the #2 team in the nation to 14 points. I bet that we will play that ridiculous conservative style again, which will put us in a hole, leave our defense tired, and allow Penn to unleash their passing attack and get their first scores of the year. Our past two wins had more to do with luck than good football (except our D's heroic effort in 2007, though maybe it could have been different if Sandberg didn't go down in the first quarter). I think this will be our season's theme: conservative, predictable offense = tired defense and low scoring losses; staff finally gets it after an embarassing loss, maybe to Columbia or Fordham, and we run the table.
Penn 24, Pards 10.
Frank will never "get it."
The Maroon
The thing I've noticed over the years is that when we play a Liberty or a Richmond or make it into the playoffs there's a certain "looseness" in our guys and even, to some degree, in our play-calling--and hence, it seems to bring out the best in us. I don't know how best to describe it, but the team just seems to be having more fun. I heard a commentator say that one of Urban Meyer's greatest assets is how he keeps his Gators "loose."
Maybe that's a trend in all of football. What the heck is William and Mary doing beating UVA?....Richmond beating Duke, 'Nova beating Temple (OK...not nearly as big of an upset) and JMU taking Maryland to OT. Maybe it's an indictment of the ACC...but I think there's a different mindset when you are playing and basically everybody expects you to lose.
Hence: I don't put much stock in the Liberty game. It's almost an exhibition game. The mindset isn't the same. Do you really think Liberty's on the same level as WVU?
I'll take a beating on this from you fine gentleman who have donned the pads...And I realize for every upset of this sort there are 10 drubbings...but I stand behind it.
Penn 24, Lafayette 10
(BTW...I'm up to my neck in youth soccer right now, I find it hilarious that many of the things said about Frank's style are almost the same as what parents are saying about the coaches of their 8 year old girls. That's why coaches laugh at boards like this).
Lafalum29
[quote="The Maroon"]The thing I've noticed over the years is that when we play a Liberty or a Richmond or make it into the playoffs there's a certain "looseness" in our guys and even, to some degree, in our play-calling--and hence, it seems to bring out the best in us. I don't know how best to describe it, but the team just seems to be having more fun. I heard a commentator say that one of Urban Meyer's greatest assets is how he keeps his Gators "loose."
Maybe that's a trend in all of football. What the heck is William and Mary doing beating UVA?....Richmond beating Duke, 'Nova beating Temple (OK...not nearly as big of an upset) and JMU taking Maryland to OT. Maybe it's an indictment of the ACC...but I think there's a different mindset when you are playing and basically everybody expects you to lose.
Hence: I don't put much stock in the Liberty game. It's almost an exhibition game. The mindset isn't the same. Do you really think Liberty's on the same level as WVU?
I'll take a beating on this from you fine gentleman who have donned the pads...And I realize for every upset of this sort there are 10 drubbings...but I stand behind it.
Penn 24, Lafayette 10
(BTW...I'm up to my neck in youth soccer right now, I find it hilarious that many of the things said about Frank's style are almost the same as what parents are saying about the coaches of their 8 year old girls. That's why coaches laugh at boards like this).[/quote]
Yeah, I have to agree. I am one of those coaches (HS) who laugh at the comments about Frank and the staff's decisions/plays called. I'm not the biggest fan of Frank but I know his decisions/plays called are decided with much more info than anyone has here. Boys its not about the X's and O's its about the Jimmy's and Joe's!
