SECRHL Columbia weekend thoughts

[BEEZERAL]

Any good matchups that people are anticipating?

Miami vs Elon should be entertaining. Those two teams always play eachpther tough regardless of the talent on either team

[GMU18]

I want to see UCF vs FAU...

[CSteamer]

I want to see UCF vs FAU...

You will on either Nov 21 or 22 in Ft. Meyers. Will probably get to see UCF vs Tampa and FAU vs Tampa as well...but the schedule hasnt come out yet so I dont know for sure.

[FAUplayer]

You will on either Nov 21 or 22 in Ft. Meyers. Will probably get to see UCF vs Tampa and FAU vs Tampa as well...but the schedule hasnt come out yet so I dont know for sure.

I'll be sure to make sure I am sick next weekend (possibly swine flu).

GMU and UM should be a decent game tomorrow. UM's only hope is if there goalie can pull off a good performance. UM definitely has some fire power, but the other aspects of there game is of question mark. Hopefully they learned defense and goaltending in the past 4 days!

[CSteamer]

George Mason lost 6-5 to NC State? What happened?

[NCGoalie]

George Mason lost 6-5 to NC State? What happened?

NC State's solid this year.

[chickentender65]

NC's top four guys are just awesome. if they had a deeper bench with 3 or 4 more solid guys, they would be able to compete with UCF and FAU. but only 4 guys isnt enough against great teams.

This weekend in Ft Myers should be entertaining with UT going up against UCF and FAU. not sure about any other games but there is a good chance FAU and UCF will be playing each other since they are the only D1 teams going. i have high hopes for that game to be great to watch.

[CSteamer]

NC State's solid this year.

They are decent. UCF beat them twice by 7 goals though. I thought GMU would handle them with their results so far this year.

[FAUplayer]

NC's top four guys are just awesome. if they had a deeper bench with 3 or 4 more solid guys, they would be able to compete with UCF and FAU. but only 4 guys isnt enough against great teams.

This weekend in Ft Myers should be entertaining with UT going up against UCF and FAU. not sure about any other games but there is a good chance FAU and UCF will be playing each other since they are the only D1 teams going. i have high hopes for that game to be great to watch.

Schedule is made and has been emailed out.

They have Fau playing UCF at 4pm and 9pm on Saturday. Complete stupidity. Separate the game days, don't have us playing 3 hours apart. Fau also plays UT Sunday morning and Florida Sunday afternoon.

[GMU18]

NC State was not that amazing and they really only had like 2 really good guys. FAU is a lot better of a team but both of them are solid teams. We were up by 3 goals on them and then decided not to play defense. they are a good team though and deserved to win against us cause we didnt play good.

can we seriously get some big rinks to play on? tired of these extremely small rinks where speed doesn't even matter...

[CSteamer]

Schedule is made and has been emailed out.

They have Fau playing UCF at 4pm and 9pm on Saturday. Complete stupidity. Separate the game days, don't have us playing 3 hours apart. Fau also plays UT Sunday morning and Florida Sunday afternoon.

That is retarded. Why would you have the two teams play each other on the same day. One game on Saturday and one on Sunday makes much more sense.

[The Golden Boy]

GMU 18 come down to ft myers. That rink is huge!! The next Ft. Myers event we should get NC State and GMU at, would make for a good showing!! As for the schedule, who cares who you play when. Your going to play them twice either way....

[MasonHockey]

Now that we have been to three events and have seen a majority of the teams we figured we would do a little SECRHL prediction "rankings" as to who would make regionals and the order that they would finish.

1. Tampa - 4-0 haven't really seen them except against "weaker" teams at Snellville
2. GMU - 11-1 against top teams, with their only loss to D1 NCSU who is better.
3. Miami - 3-1 good skating team that scores and has a good goalie.
4. USF - 3-1 We are assuming they will play with more than six guys, unlike Atanta
5. UF - 0-4 against D1 teams, but definetely a top D2 team.
6. ECU - 5-3 Good team that should be 6-2 if they didn't start backup goalie vs. VT
7. Kennesaw - 5-3 another good team, but doesn't have a "difference maker" unlike 1-5
8. Western Carolina - 3-1 this is based on results as we haven't seen this team
9. Elon - 2-6 Schedule can only get easier, they have played the top D2 teams.
10. Florida State - 4-4 and they seem to be improving every game.
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11. GSU - 2-2 The Panthers are a decent team that could surprise people.
12. JMU - 4-4 was lucky to play USC 8am sunday morning after the UF USC football game
13. USC - 4-4 lost to FSU 6-3 and JMU, so they probably are going to fall just short.
* . College of Charleston - 1-7 didn't have their goalie in Colombia so they could "improve" drastically.

[CSteamer]

Now that we have been to three events and have seen a majority of the teams we figured we would do a little SECRHL prediction "rankings" as to who would make regionals and the order that they would finish.

1. Tampa - 4-0 haven't really seen them except against "weaker" teams at Snellville
2. GMU - 11-1 against top teams, with their only loss to D1 NCSU who is better.
3. Miami - 3-1 good skating team that scores and has a good goalie.
4. USF - 3-1 We are assuming they will play with more than six guys, unlike Atanta
5. UF - 0-4 against D1 teams, but definetely a top D2 team.
6. ECU - 5-3 Good team that should be 6-2 if they didn't start backup goalie vs. VT
7. Kennesaw - 5-3 another good team, but doesn't have a "difference maker" unlike 1-5
8. Western Carolina - 3-1 this is based on results as we haven't seen this team
9. Elon - 2-6 Schedule can only get easier, they have played the top D2 teams.
10. Florida State - 4-4 and they seem to be improving every game.
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11. GSU - 2-2 The Panthers are a decent team that could surprise people.
12. JMU - 4-4 was lucky to play USC 8am sunday morning after the UF USC football game
13. USC - 4-4 lost to FSU 6-3 and JMU, so they probably are going to fall just short.
* . College of Charleston - 1-7 didn't have their goalie in Colombia so they could "improve" drastically.

I dont think UF is a top 5 D2 team. Kennesaw and ECU are both better than them.

[GMU18]

GMU 18 come down to ft myers. That rink is huge!! The next Ft. Myers event we should get NC State and GMU at, would make for a good showing!! As for the schedule, who cares who you play when. Your going to play them twice either way....

I would love to come down to ft myers and play UCF, FAU and Tampa. But sadly its a 17 hour drive and flying isn't cheap. I agree the rink is great, i've played there before and its one of the best i've been to.

I'm interested in how FAU does this coming weekend since i think that FAU and us are very similar in skill. so i hope to see an FAU vs tampa and FAU vs UCF game.

I would love a rematch with NC state, The game felt like it was going to be another blow-out danglefest. But since it got to the point where no one made any effort unless they had the puck and defense was non-existent. We lost.

This coming weekend im an FAU fan.