Amherst College exhibition game?

[umass1234]

I'd be afraid they would beat us.

[Quann]

It is a great idea, and I think we should do it in football too, but I have a feeling that the athletic department would never go for it due to the potential "shame" that could follow if we were to lose to them.

The department would probably be looking more at the big picture on this one. It would not be good for the university to lose to AC at anything, since the university already deals with being perceived as inferior to AC.

I don't know about football IV. There may be quite a few Amherst College players' bodies strewn all over the field after that game!

[InnervisionsUMASS]

I certainly hope so. They are all a bunch of dicks.

[philosopher]

It probably would not be a good idea to play Amherst, and thump them heartily. You could easily find yourself working for an Amherst grad with a memory in future years.

[Marty Peretz]

It'd be stupid to be them in football, as the disparity between D3 and D1AA talent is massive and it wouldn't even be a competitive tune-up. Basketball, however, is another story. D3 hoops can be very quality basketball...remember a few years ago when Williams thumped Holy Cross in Worcester (and that was the regular season). Amherst won the title and returns everyone...it wouldn't be a blow-out. And you're right that such games aren't unprecedented...Washington University in St. Louis, another team which qualified for the D3 final four opened its season by holding Southern Illinois to 58 points in an exhibition loss (though it was a real game for the Salukis, since NCAA rules mandate that D3 start its season a week later) in Carbondale. Full disclosure: WashU scored 29.

[Lunatic]

I think rather than us playing them is do they want to play us, they know they'll get thumped... i've replayed this scenario a 100 times in my head and the result is always the same... us beating the living crap out of them, in any sport.

Great for them, they love to compete and have a national championship to show for it, but think for a second, why are they division 3? it's the talent, and they have minimal talent compared to UMass team, their tallest player will get shut down by someone like forbes or brower... honestly, do they really wanna come here to get their asses handed to them, go home all disheartened and have a chance of injuring their stars in a meaningless game where they will probably try their hardest to keep up?



but... if they do, then by all means i would love to sit there, and laugh my ass off when we beat the hell out of them.


oh and in football, the scene from the movie *not another teen movie* comes to mind, where a nerdy looking kid catches the ball in the endzone and gets torn in half by two bigger safetys....


i'd be there too, doing the same... laughing my ass off.

[PBT]

Lunatic: Clearly, you haven't seen them play.

[Lunatic]

Lunatic: Clearly, you haven't seen them play.

do you honestly think a d3 team will be able to keep up with a d1 team which atleast this year was a pretty good team. and next year has a lot of promise. I have seen many d3 schools play, and many d2 schools play, but the fact of the matter is, the game itself is much different, the shots come much harder and the defense is tighter. I can bet money that we'd beat teh crap out of Amherst College.


as far as football goes, i have no doubt in my mind that we'd destroy them physically.


Clearly, you think too highly of AC team.

[Marty Peretz]

Lunatic, you're just not all that informed. UMass hoops would beat Amherst by around 15, not a blow out by any means. Football obviosuyly is a different story.

[HarborRunner]

went to a AC game this year. really fun to watch.
AC is a great D3 team and our guys wouldn't take them lightly considering the consequences of a loss. would love to see it. play it in the cage with old uniforms and make it a charity thing.
wow, i like that idea

[PBT]

It's nice that this thread is rolling on...

For the doubters, Andrew Olson will be a senior next season...D3 co-player of the year, all everything you can be...so check your Amherst College issues at the door, forget your D's for a few hours and free up your mind...Andrew and his boys will be playing 32 more at LaFrak or on the New England Everyone's Biggest Game road tour...take in a game and decide for yourself.

[CrooksisRhyming]

I think it would be similar to playing Yale, if Yale was playing like dogshit

[PBT]

or my Buffs.

[UMassHoops]

I think we should also let Amherst students come to all our games for free since the UMass students can't seem to fill up the center consistently. Add Hampshire, Holyoke and Smith to that also. Plus I'm pretty sure they wouldn't participate in the "you suck" chant which would be nice.

[SportBalls]

Amherst College is filled with talented players, most of which had offers to division 1 schools, but chose the undeniable chance of attending such a good academic school rather than playing at a low division 1 school with lesser academics. There is little doubt in my mind that AC could compete in the lower rungs of Division 1 basketball, this is a team that would challenge in the Ivy League and probably could go out and beat some of the teams like Binghamton, and the Jackson States and such. I know that 3 years ago we would go over to AC and scrimmage against the team over there and they would always be competitive games and it was great to compete against players other than those that they have practiced against every day. All in all i agree that it would be great to promote a game between the two schools, and why not do something like have it in their gym, make it a charity event where we dont need tickets, those who enter give up 5 bucks and it goes to a charity that both schools agree on. I know Dave Hixon knew Jack very very well and Im sure we could agree with them on putting it toward the Leaman Fund.