You are the one who said "worst teams they can find". Rose schedules according to the athletes that they can recruit. That scope is limited to the curriculum. I think they do a good job of mixing the "good" with the "bad".

Quote from: ttu719803 on February 20, 2006, 02:34:10 PM

That's more than you can say for Rose, who schedules some of the worst teams they can find, and then wonders why they get walloped when they play DePauw and Trinity.

Since 2003, Rose has scheduled Wash U., Wheaton, Carnegie Mellon & Mt. St. Joe... yeah, I see what you mean, a bunch of cupcakes!

True about the schedule (see below) and the league switch, but Rose had a couple of open spots to fill this year.
Earlham has been the first game for awhile and that was not going to change. MSJ has been the second game for the last two years and will remain, but be a league game in 2006. Concordia had been on the schedule for the last two years, but that was suppose to end last year.
North Park was another surprise that showed up when the schedule came out.
The athletic dept. at Rose stated that in 2007, Rose will try to pick-up maybe Centre or Sewanee out of the SCAC again as a non-league game, because (I think) Concordia is only a one year thing. I think Rose fans were surprised that DePauw didn't remain. It is too bad, they are only 40 miles apart and makes for a nice "mini" rivalry. Too bad that the actions during and the competative nature of the game (on either side), effects decisions to not play in the future.

Sat., Sept. 2      Earlham College
Sat., Sept. 9    College of Mount St. Joe
Sat., Sept. 16    Concordia University (Ill.)
Sat., Sept. 23    at North Park University    

Probably mad about the DePauw starters being in well into the 4th qtr. when they had 60 on the board. Word is, that is why they are not playing anymore.

 Well, I won't go into too many details, but when I said that some "Rhodes players took exception", I was being nice. You can figure out the rest.
Rose won for the first time at Rhodes this past year, so everyone was up after the game, while Rhodes (it was their homecoming) was the opposite... which led to the "mouthing". It was not a "fight" and was never going to be one, just a shouting match.

Renegade program... Marian college? They have never had/played football yet! What are you talking about? Coach(es) Karras' like to have fun... they played ball at Northwestern and still think that they can "whip" anybody. They are from the "region" in northwest Indiana and are typical "Bears" type guys. Against Rhodes this year after the game was sealed at the end... coach Ted and his brother Tony did their traditional "chest butt" and it was fairly close to some Rhodes players who thought that the Rose coaches were "mocking" them. They took exception and started to mouth the Karras', and of course, that is all it took! The (RHIT) players had to hold them back! Of note, Tony had to have knee surgery after the season because when he and Ted did that "chest butt" thing, he landed wrong and tore it up!