Thursday, July 17, 2008

Odds & Ends July 17, 2008

Two Colgate football players including their featured RB Jordon Scott are spending 21 days in the county jail. That can't be good for conditioning.

This article seems to imply that the CAA will have two TV games a week starting September 13th. Nothing on the CAA's website about this year's TV package.

Championship Subdivision New Log is the home of the FCS Stadium Google Map. Click on the team icon and it displays the team's Stadium.

A computer geek tip from the UMass Football Blog: If you double click on the stadium image in the above map, it displays the location in decimal longitude and latitude. For Example, Lehigh's stadium displays 40.58908579220241, -75.35554651932216.

You can then load that into your car GPS and create a custom Point of Interest if you want to drive to the stadium. This link shows how to create a custom POI files for Garmin GPS automobile navigation systems. Note the GPS will probaby try to drive you to the center of the stadium. The data could be refined by checking the visitor's parking coordinates when you get there and then updating the POI file. Most GPS units have a way to display longitude and latitude .

And there's a new college football simulation website that includes FCS/I-AA teams. It's a pay site but has free head to head simulations. I did UMass' 2006 team that made the National Championship Game against the 2006 Army team. The prediction----UMass 35 Army 19.

It predicts that if UMass and this year's I-AA team Texas Tech played in 2007----Texas Tech 35 UMass 21. The Red Raiders won in all 25 simulations.

An excellent way to waste time!