[Cider Jim]

Don't they start today? Somebody please post some scores here, esp. the Coastal one.

[Cider Jim]

Coastal leading 21-3 in the 3rd quarter.

Link to the FCS playoff scores:
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/scoreboar ... kNumber=14

[flameshaw]

Actually CCU is leading 27-10 in the 3rd. Very sparse crowd for the seachickens.

[Cider Jim]

Coastal WINS big: 48-24.

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[rogers3]

I wonder if opinion about the Big South is slowly changing after last year's FCS tourney games, this year's OOC play and Coastal's showing today.

[Sly Fox]

Perhaps a bit. But most look at today's score as simply validation that a second MEAC team had no business being in the playoffs.

[phoenix]

Some lopsided scores today in FCS-land.

[bballfan84]

i dont follow our football squad very much but how in the world is this board drooling and squabbling about us making the jump to FBS when we cant even make the FCS playoffs..and never have since I was a freshman in 03..am i missing something here

[ATrain]

There are teams that have made/will make the jump without making the playoffs:
Georgia State
Charlotte

[rogers3]

There are teams that have made/will make the jump without making the playoffs:
Georgia State
Charlotte

and there is always U of Buffalo

[SumItUp]

Coastal leads Montana 21-14 with 6 minutes to go in the 2nd quarter. Temperatures have reached today's forecasted high temperature of 3 degrees.

[SumItUp]

Coastal 28-14 with 3:08 to go in the 2nd.

[SumItUp]

Make that 35-14 Coastal with less than a minute to go before the half.

[thepostman]

Anybody else shocked by this like I am? Maybe they are better than I realized. Makes the Big South look better which is always a good thing

[flameshaw]

WOW!!!! CCU kicking some Grizzly butt in Montana, didn't see this coming. The Beachchickens have played a perfect first half. Defense has really stepped up, Montana playing very poor offense so far.

[Cider Jim]

Final Score:

Coastal 42
Montana 35

Montana scored 14 points in the 4th quarter, but it was too little, too late.

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/scoreboar ... kNumber=15

[LUconn]

Is anybody else enraged by this? I see this as we have a playoff winning caliber team sitting on their butts watching this because we can't close out a game in the final minutes and/or we can't figure out how to schedule to allow for close losses.

[Purple Haize]

Is anybody else enraged by this? I see this as we have a playoff winning caliber team sitting on their butts watching this because we can't close out a game in the final minutes and/or we can't figure out how to schedule to allow for close losses.

What loss did we have that WASNT close

[PAmedic]

Is anybody else enraged by this? I see this as we have a playoff winning caliber team sitting on their butts watching this because we can't close out a game in the final minutes and/or we can't figure out how to schedule to allow for close losses.

this ^^^

sitting here ready to throw up

just another one of the teams we beat the crap outta up and down the field only to blow it in the last 5 minutes.

or less.

[flameshaw]

Is anybody else enraged by this? I see this as we have a playoff winning caliber team sitting on their butts watching this because we can't close out a game in the final minutes and/or we can't figure out how to schedule to allow for close losses.

You could have copy/pasted this comment for at least 4-5 years by now. It is going to come down to the same thing next year, if we don't win the conference ie. CCU next year, we will be sitting home again. We have to play them on the road and they will be good again next season. We gave them the game this year. Being a LU fan, is not for the faint of heart. We have to learn to close things out. We were 4 plays from being 12-0 this year. If we make just one of those 4 plays we are most likely in the playoffs.
No more moral victories, or shared conference championships.

[Purple Haize]

Is anybody else enraged by this? I see this as we have a playoff winning caliber team sitting on their butts watching this because we can't close out a game in the final minutes and/or we can't figure out how to schedule to allow for close losses.

this ^^^

sitting here ready to throw up

just another one of the teams we beat the crap outta up and down the field only to blow it in the last 5 minutes.

or less.

So you are saying we ALMOST won? The fact is we LOST. Judging by this logic, Chuck South should be mad because they actually BEAT Coastal and some other teams. We couldn't even beat Richmond!

[PAmedic]

agreed. we LOST

thats exactly what I'm saying.

we had the talent and just didn't follow thru

and I'm ready to puke

[Purple Haize]

agreed. we LOST

thats exactly what I'm saying.

we had the talent and just didn't follow thru

and I'm ready to puke

Hater! You know there are those that think we should count our games as 'Almost Wins' instead of Losses!