aceinthehole
June 20th, 2011, 12:19 PM
From the NEC:
Somerset, NJ - The 2011 Northeast Conference Football schedule is loaded with noteworthy non-conference opponents and intriguing intra-league match-ups.
For the first time since 2004, there is a Northeast Conference contest on the Week 1 docket.
Wagner and Saint Francis (PA) officially kick off the league schedule on September 3 in Staten Island, while the seven other NEC members lift the lid off the 2011 campaign by facing non-conference foes from the CAA, Patriot League, and Pioneer League.
NEC teams will most-frequently face CAA opponents during the 27-game non-conference slate. There are six scheduled contests between members of the two leagues, the first of which will feature Bryant and Maine on September 3 in Orono. Albany, which has beaten Maine each of the past two years, will face the Black Bears two week later (Sept. 17) in New York’s Capital Region.
Central Connecticut, which shared the 2010 NEC title with Robert Morris, will take on two opponents from the CAA this season. Jeff McInerney’s Blue Devils will visit former NCAA champion James Madison on September 10 followed by a bout at Massachusetts, which has begun transitioning out of the CAA and into the Mid-American Conference (FBS), on October 8.
The Northeast Conference will look to continue its recent success against Patriot League members. After NEC teams took four of the five meetings in 2010, members of the two conferences will clash five more times this season with three of the contests coming on Opening Day.
Lehigh (1st) and Colgate (3rd) were two of the top-three finishers in the Patriot League last season and will both begin the 2011 campaign by taking on perennial NEC title contenders. Read full release at http://northeastconference.org/News/general/2011/6/16/fb-skedstory-11.asp?path=general
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Also from the NEC, the Conference will host its annual preseason media teleconference on Wednesday, August 3 (tentative), beginning at 11:00 am. The preseason poll results and the Preseason All-NEC Team will be announced on the call and media members will have the opportunity to speak with all nine of the league’s head coaches.
And the conference has plans to televise five games on NEC-TV with each of the league's nine members guaranteed at least one exposure. NEC-TV will partner with MSG and FCS in order to give the games a strong platform in the New York City market as well as nationally. The five dates/times/games have not yet been determined.
Somerset, NJ - The 2011 Northeast Conference Football schedule is loaded with noteworthy non-conference opponents and intriguing intra-league match-ups.
For the first time since 2004, there is a Northeast Conference contest on the Week 1 docket.
Wagner and Saint Francis (PA) officially kick off the league schedule on September 3 in Staten Island, while the seven other NEC members lift the lid off the 2011 campaign by facing non-conference foes from the CAA, Patriot League, and Pioneer League.
NEC teams will most-frequently face CAA opponents during the 27-game non-conference slate. There are six scheduled contests between members of the two leagues, the first of which will feature Bryant and Maine on September 3 in Orono. Albany, which has beaten Maine each of the past two years, will face the Black Bears two week later (Sept. 17) in New York’s Capital Region.
Central Connecticut, which shared the 2010 NEC title with Robert Morris, will take on two opponents from the CAA this season. Jeff McInerney’s Blue Devils will visit former NCAA champion James Madison on September 10 followed by a bout at Massachusetts, which has begun transitioning out of the CAA and into the Mid-American Conference (FBS), on October 8.
The Northeast Conference will look to continue its recent success against Patriot League members. After NEC teams took four of the five meetings in 2010, members of the two conferences will clash five more times this season with three of the contests coming on Opening Day.
Lehigh (1st) and Colgate (3rd) were two of the top-three finishers in the Patriot League last season and will both begin the 2011 campaign by taking on perennial NEC title contenders. Read full release at http://northeastconference.org/News/general/2011/6/16/fb-skedstory-11.asp?path=general
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Also from the NEC, the Conference will host its annual preseason media teleconference on Wednesday, August 3 (tentative), beginning at 11:00 am. The preseason poll results and the Preseason All-NEC Team will be announced on the call and media members will have the opportunity to speak with all nine of the league’s head coaches.
And the conference has plans to televise five games on NEC-TV with each of the league's nine members guaranteed at least one exposure. NEC-TV will partner with MSG and FCS in order to give the games a strong platform in the New York City market as well as nationally. The five dates/times/games have not yet been determined.