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October 30th, 2009, 04:29 PM
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By Chuck Burton, The CSN Way Columnist
Some years, it seems like you could write the story of the season before the season even begins. How much skill did it take to pick Appalachian State to win the SoCon title, for example, after they had won it twice in a row? Just follow the Mountaineers closely - and add a CAA team to give Appalachian State a worthy rival to beat in the final game - and voila. Call Hollywood.
The Mountaineers - and Richmond, who has been the No. 1 team almost the entire way so far this year - are conforming to the script so far. Montana’s also playing their part of the big bad Grizzlies out West, too, and South Carolina State has justified that they’re no fluke, with a place in the Top Ten after powering through their MEAC schedule. But there are other conferences where the script for the season is getting rewritten. Teams that were once penciled into the playoffs are now in the fight for their playoff lives.
Whose season scripts needed the biggest rewrites? We’ll look at three situations which would have been bold predictions in August.
Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/10/30/the-csn-way-rewriting-the-scripts?blog=5)
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By Chuck Burton, The CSN Way Columnist
Some years, it seems like you could write the story of the season before the season even begins. How much skill did it take to pick Appalachian State to win the SoCon title, for example, after they had won it twice in a row? Just follow the Mountaineers closely - and add a CAA team to give Appalachian State a worthy rival to beat in the final game - and voila. Call Hollywood.
The Mountaineers - and Richmond, who has been the No. 1 team almost the entire way so far this year - are conforming to the script so far. Montana’s also playing their part of the big bad Grizzlies out West, too, and South Carolina State has justified that they’re no fluke, with a place in the Top Ten after powering through their MEAC schedule. But there are other conferences where the script for the season is getting rewritten. Teams that were once penciled into the playoffs are now in the fight for their playoff lives.
Whose season scripts needed the biggest rewrites? We’ll look at three situations which would have been bold predictions in August.
Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/10/30/the-csn-way-rewriting-the-scripts?blog=5)