Quote from: doolittledog on December 11, 2008, 11:19:32 AM
Or, the classes you take at Cornell could also be tougher.  Leading to less football players on the All-Academic team. 

Or, none of the Ram football players are taking easy classes like most of us on here took.  No Southwest trip, outdoor rec, bicycle 101 and others of that type

Trust me, there are plenty of courses that can be taken on the hilltop that one probably wouldn't call overly strenuous.  In fact I think it's a great benefit of being an athlete on the one course at a time schedule.  Schedule your more difficult classes for your off-season time when you have more time to devote to schoolwork; and use your in-season time to take some of your less strenuous classes and use the extra time towards your sport.

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From W-CF Courier Small College preview article

Who's house did he work on Koehler's or Willis'?

Maybe Neumann's?     How many years before that question, in some form, goes away?  Good you WB fans can laugh at it yourselves, AEN.  It could be around for a long time to come. 

Augsburg's coach is actually his brother in-law.  I think he just wanted to get out of the twin cities.

I don't know for sure or not yet, but I've heard from a couple of people today that Yordi at Wartburg was found innocent of any charges that had been brought against him this morning.  I'm glad for his sake that it's over, and maybe we all shouldn't have been as hard on the Wartburg staff for "taking their time" to hand out a punishment last fall.

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Ok ... we have Harry Smith as a football student-athlete at Central.  When I was teaching at UD in the late 60's, one of my students was Anthony Iadanza ... now known at Tony Danza .. a wrestler for the Spartans.  Any other IIAC athletes gone on to fame?

Actually just had this discussion with a co-worker a couple days ago.  The famous IIAC alums that immediately come to mind (even if they weren't all athletes):
BV:  Uhh...help me out here Beavers
Central:  The aforementioned Harry Smith, NFL Hall of Famer Vern Den Herder
Coe:  Marv Levy, Fred Hickman of ESPN, Curt Menefee of Fox Sports, former NBA coach Bill Fitch (he is either an alum or coached there at some point)
Cornell:  Drawing a blank again
Dubuque:  Danza, disgraced Notre Dame coach George O'Leary
Loras:  Greg Gumbel, MLB Hall of Famer Red Faber, Notre Dame AD Kevin White, actor Don Ameche, Harlem Globetrotter Curly "Boo" Johnson
Luther:  Former Iowa congressman Jim Nussle (just one among numerous reasons not to vote for him)
Simpson:  George Washington Carver
Wartburg:  Former Texas Rangers broadcaster Mark Holtz, FBI whistle blower Coleen Rowley, Iran hostage Kathryn Koob, former MLB umpire Don Denkinger (Cardinals fans know who he is), Hooters co-founder Dennis Johnson

Off the top of my head: Larry Biittner (MLB in the 70's), Bernie Saggau, RAY REASLAND (sorry Rams, our bad).

New Hampton High School thought Ray did a good job (I think he coached Heideman and the guys around him when the Chickasaws got very good in football in the late 1980s and early 1990s).  What did Ram fans think of him when he was an assistant at Cornell?  Maybe Coach Miller needed to stay in Mount Vernon a little longer.

I thought Coach Reasland did a fine job as both an assistant and a head coach.  No, he didn't have success as a head coach, but it definitely wasn't from lack of effort.  It has been said on here many times that there is a different attitude on the team now that he is gone and that players now expect to win games.  I can tell you first hand that Ray never would have played a player who was playing just to play.  I played under coach for one year as an assistant and 3 years when he was head coach, and I will tell you that a head coach can have only so much influence over his players.  It was not all Coach Reasland's fault that the program failed to continue the success on the field that Coach Miller had in his final season.  If you look at the numbers, Coach Miller's final team was a team that was led by an outstanding senior class and some young guys who had career years, and Cornell for whatever reason hasn't been able to keep producing those types of teams for the past several years.  I personally think that Coach Reasland did some nice things for the program and laid a pretty solid foundation, he was just not able to build on it.  Now that being said, I am also impressed with what I have seen and heard from Coach Dillon.

Congrats to the Dutch, Saturday was the first time I'd gotten a chance to see them play in a couple of years, and I was very impressed.  It amazes me how they are consistently able to turn out winning football team after winning football team.  The only aspect of Saturday that I would question would be the drive in the 3rd quarter where they settled for a field goal instead of a touchdown when they had the ball first and goal on about the half yard line.  Why not give the ball to Schuring with a fullback in front of him out of the I instead of sending each ballcarrier into a different side of the line.  I guess though, when someone has to nitpick about something like this, it means there was a pretty good performance on the field.  

Saturday was also the first time I'd ever seen St. John's play.  I thought that the Johnnies looked very small compared to Central, and that Centrals size helped them to wear the Johnnies out.  Does St. John's normally have more size than they had this year?  I was impressed with the SJU quarterback who made some nice audibles to get SJU into plays to take advantage of Central's defensive alignment when they were available.  He made some nice throws up the seams.  

Yeah I knew he had a good year but wasn't sure if he was all-conference. Senior year Ditch did the same thing I believe getting all-conference honors in all three. What about Chet was he both all-conference in football and baseball?
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Ah yes, Chet Knake, all-conference and honorable mention all-america linebacker as well as all-conference third baseman at least once.  Also would probably gather a few votes for the all-conference knows how to have a good time team.

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What about multi-sport all-conference selections?

Anyone else like to comment towards this?  This might take even more digging to find a multi-sport all-conference athlete.  Track & cross-country doubles, while amazing, should be left out as those are much more common.

Matt Ditch from Cornell comes to mind when talking about multi sport all-conference perfomers.  Two time first team wide receiver in football when they were more of a true option team, at least 2 time first teamer in basketball, won at least one conference long jump title.

Here's my take on the Yordi situation ... first of all, probably not the best comment to make, but hey from what I've heard it was something that was said one time and yelled out a window not knowing who was walking by.  If that is true, then I find these charges ridiculous.  He is at a private university where all students pay and choose to go to.  If being called a name is the worst thing that ever happens to this student, then he truly lives a blessed life.  I am not condoning what was said by Mr. Yordi, but to be taken to court over a remark yelled out a window on a private university seems to be taking things way over the line to me.  

I have a hard time believing that the coaches wife was yelling F-Bombs at the person escorting Coe off the field at halftime, mostly because she was standing about 20 yards from where I was right by the Coe stands.

Was at the Knight Kohawk game Saturday and came away very impressed with Wartburg on both sides of the ball.  Their team speed is very impressive.  Coe has a fast defense and they didn't seem to be much of a match for Wartburg.  Coe seemed to be a little flatter than I thought they would be, but playing their third game in a row against the top teams in the conference has probably left them all pretty beat up.  I would agree that the Coe line didn't do a very good job protecting the QB for most of the game, but I would also argue that the QB didn't help himself much either.   A lot of his passes that were knocked down or intercepted seemed to be slung from almost a sidearm motion.  When you are not a very tall quarterback to begin with, dropping down on your release isn't going to help anyone out.  

I've had another 1 or 2.  The one that seems to stick out in my mind was a couple of years ago when they played Lake Forest in the playoffs. 

Going to be heading to Waverly this weekend to take in the Coe Wartburg game and wanted to get there in time to watch the Hawkeye kickoff.  Can some of the Wartburg faithful let me know if there will be a table two open at Joe's to watch the game.  Normally I wouldn't think it would be a problem, but I wasn't sure with this being homecoming weekend how crowded it will be.  Thanks.

Yeah, it was definitely a fumble.  I liked the play call, they spread the field and the receiver just hooked up in a hole in the middle of the field.  Dubuque's defender showed good closing speed and popped the ball out.  I would expect one heckuva game this weekend down in Pella.

Dutch Fan 2004 - It was just a nice play by the UD defender.  Coe's receiver ran a nice route and was trying to get some YAC and the UD player just punched the ball out from behind.  Ball security seemed to be a bit of an issue all day long on the Coe side.

Had a chance to see the Coe vs. Dubuque game on Saturday, and while I don't think that I would say the better team won, I will definitely say that this is the type of game that Dubuque would not have won 3 or 4 years ago.  I didn't see any of the discipline/breakdown problems that the Spartans have been known for in the past, all I saw was a solid football game that is going to give itself a chance to win every game that it is in.  As the game wore on, I thought that Coe was starting to do a good job of taking over the game as the Spartan defense looked to be tiring, but they made some great plays when they had needed them.  One thing I will say about Coe is that they have the makings of beating Central and Wartburg.  Their defense is going to hang right with anyone's offense, and they look like they're starting figure some things out on offense.  I was especially impressed with the drive in the second half when they had #3 in at running back, I don't know if Wagner was dinged or what, but #3 seemed to give them an explosiveness that Wagner either just has not shown or doesn't have.  A consistently quick explosive threat out of the backfield would work wonders for that offense.  Also, it's been talked about how the offensive line needed some work, but I thought they played a pretty decent ballgame on Saturday aganist and athletic front from UD.