I know this is the CFL board but obviously CIS is closely connected to the CFL hopefully mods don't mind it being on here. Figured we could keep a running thread for anyone keeping track.
I am a huge CIS guy mostly OUA growing up in Hamilton but just generally enjoy the college game and think the CIS is vastly underrated when you get two schools going at it.
Super excited for tomorrow with Mac taking on U of T at THF even though I think Mac should walk over them, also happy to see York off to a 1-0 start taking on nationally ranked Laurier under the lights. Laurier will likely win but York has something going on offence with Quinlan as the OC and the Hunchak brothers looking like legit threats, hoping the Lions can at least compete and avoid a blowout.
Huge upset tonight with Carleton taking out Western 38-31, amazing the progress they have made in such a short amount of time but it was sort of expected with the money they pumped into the program. They are going to have their first crop of CFL draftees this year if I am not mistaken they have a few ball players, Nate Behar I imagine has a future in the pros.
Post any thoughts on OUA action here the more talk the better, if you don't like CIS football and just want to derail the thread probably best not to post just looking for a place to have a good discussion.
They sent out a Tweet that City TV will be broadcasting the Game of the Week every Saturday beginning Sept 17 @ 1pm. City is available via an antenna (in the GTHA), so it should be good viewing. :thup:
Well one Hamilton team has won the first game of the Labour Day doubleheader between Toronto and Hamilton teams at THF with Mac rolling over the University of Toronto 32 - 5 in front of a few thousand fans.
So time for me to head down to THF for the between games concert/tailgate and get ready for this evening's Cats-Argos game.
(If I had sat out in that sun and 30C heat - which is what it is here in the Hammer today for that Mac game I'm not sure I would have ever made it to the Cats game.)
Shaw Cable through Access Television, free channel, televises a couple of games a week out west. Not HD, but for a limited broadcaster they do a fairly good job.
Watched the Sask Huskies and Regina Rams game. It was very good.
What a disaster for York. Can't believe people were actually pumping Warren Craney's tires for some irrelevant "championship" where he coached the Canadian team.
WTF was Craney doing to let Laurier hang 74pts and an incredible 575yds rushing on his defence? Add in the 247yds passing and Laurier went for more than EIGHT HUNDRED (800) yards against York.
The craziest part was that it was 4-3 with about 10min left in the second quarter, it looked like they might hang with them but every time I checked in just got worse and worse. Pathetic performance unfortunately, their win over Waterloo showed some signs of promise but really just showed how bad Waterloo really is.
An interesting tidbit, with the Regina win, new head coach Steve Bryce is now the 2nd winning-est coach in team history with 1 win :lol: Frank McCrystal retired 2 years ago and Mike Gibson won 0 games last year and resigned.
As usual Brian Dobie (the youngest looking 67 yr old coach I've ever seen) over-rated his squad and has come out of the chute with back-to-back losses.
Squashed in their first outing but leading by 11 with 4 minutes to play in Regina a couple days back and basically passing out deep in Regina territory, allowing a massive comeback by the Rams.
0-2 for Mr. Positive.
Not end of world. In many cases 5-3 secures a playoff berth - in extreme cases 4-4 does the trick. At least that's the lie Dobie will be pushing on his Bisons. :cowboy: