Last year we played and beat the 5th best team in the Mac. You talked about it all season like it was going to save the season.
We are a big east team. We should certainly beat Vermont. This years Vermont>>> Miami of Ohio, Akron, or whatever Mac team we played last year.
Bowling Green won 22 games last year and lost in the conference championship game to the #12 ranked team in the RPI — who they beat earlier in the year. They weren’t the 5th best team in that conference.
The MAC is considerably better than the America East. No reasonable person would argue to the contrary.
More to the point, I only acknowledged Bowling Green was a good team during our game (which they almost won) and afterwards. I never went in thinking anything other than it should definitely be a win. If posters would have acted this way about them I would have responded the same way I am now.
Vermont kills the shitballs in its conference and struggles out of conference. E.g., they were 14-2 in conference last year and just 9-5 against D-1 teams out of conference. The year before they were 15-1 in conference and 10-7 against D-1 outside.
This should be a contested win and never a game we walk into thinking a loss is possible.
What do you think Nova or Seton would do to them?
A loss here would be extremely disappointing.