Around the Pioneer - 2018

[VULB#62]

We have a thread like this for basketball, so I thought it might be useful and interesting to have a place for PFL news that keeps us all in tune with what's happening around the league during the season.  These are things of interest outside of our specific Valpo game threads.

I'll start by providing something on that Thursday night Davidson-Guilford (basketball?) game won by Davidson 91-61.  It made national coverage by ESPN and Sporting News.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24722622/inside-davidson-wildcats-91-61-win-guilford-college-quakers

http://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/davidson-college-football-guilford-quakers-91-points/1wb9bjtvqese11soztmedwi3r0

Some tidbits: 
>> They played on Thursday because of the impending Florence landfall.
>> Davidson hasn't won three games in a season since 2011, but they are now 3-0 going into Dayton.
>> Their OOC schedule was two D-IIIs and a D-II. 
>> In those games they have scored 34, 49 and 91 points.
>> Rush to pass ratio for Davidson in those games: 334/94, 426/43, and 685/279
>> Davidson gave up 41 1st Downs to Guilford - 20 by passing.

[vu72]

First thing I noticed was the ticket and the $14 price!  Valpo only charges $10! 

[VULB#62]

Here's another piece of news from Stetson.  They revamped their coaching staff on the O side and observers were saying that their Run/Pass Option (RPO) system seems to be suiting the team better than the O they had last year.  They are 2-0 so far and have taken two low-level NAIA schools to the woodshed 48-7 and 63-34. Their game with Presbyterian (a much more accurate litmus test) unfortunately was cancelled due to Florence.

We play Stetson at Stetson 11/17.