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Date Posted: 09:54:21 11/16/04 Tue
Author: J.J.
Subject: NO ECAC bowl
In reply to: Moose 's message, "Re: Congrats on the conference championship" on 07:56:58 11/16/04 Tue

My understanding is that there is no bowl game this year because the MAAC/Duqunese backed out. Anyway, I think Monmouth would have gotten the invite becasue they were co-champs and beat CCSU in a head-to-head tiebreaker.

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[> [> [> Playoffs possible for NEC in 2005 -- J.J., 11:07:12 11/18/04 Thu

Published in the Asbury Park Press 11/18/04
By TONY GRAHAM
STAFF WRITER

After going without a football postseason this fall, the Northeast Conference is looking to remedy that for 2005.

Last year, Monmouth University participated in the ECAC Bowl by virtue of a head-to-head victory over NEC co-champion Albany. But the ECAC Bowl, which pitted the NEC champion vs. the MAAC champion, was scuttled when the MAAC pulled out earlier this year.

Monmouth shared the NEC title with Central Connecticut State this year, and is eligible for one of eight at-large bids to the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA playoffs. But no team from the non- or limited-scholarship NEC, MAAC or Pioneer leagues have ever been selected. NEC teams previously ignored by the NCAA include champions Sacred Heart, 11-0 in 2001, and 10-0 Robert Morris in 2000.

Though an NCAA bid is the ultimate goal of the eight NEC football schools, it appears to be "a couple of years away," according to NEC commissioner John Iamarino.

"It's (lack of a postseason opportunity) not a satisfactory conclusion for anybody involved," he said.

So the NEC is devising a plan for its own championship game. It is likely to either match the winners of two four-team NEC divisions or be played between the top two NEC teams in the standings. The latter is the option Iamarino prefers.

"I think we're going to have something in place by the time the spring (NEC) meetings come along," Iamarino said last Saturday shortly before Monmouth University defeated St. Francis, Pa., to secure a share of the 2004 NEC title.

Since the NEC began sponsoring football in 1996, Monmouth has been involved in all four co-championships and the second place team has never finished worse than one game behind the league champion.

"My job is to do whatever I can to make sure we are in a position to take advantage of that (postseason) opportunity if it presents itself," Monmouth coach Kevin Callahan said.


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