Pat,

Thank you for correcting what was truly a collateral mistake (D.C. / NYC). I'm glad to see your Google search engine works.

I believe a page or two once a week is reasonable.  There has to be over 20 small college football programs in Iowa. Right now the register gives more space for garbage-pail eight-man high school football then they do for small college football programs and games featuring teams with a combined 200 years of football history. I am not asking for a full two pages devoted to each football program, weekly, what I am asking, is for them to feature one small college team, once a week - something more than a box score blurb. Also, I ask IOWA posters, those who read the Register daily (not just Google it after reading a d3football post) and tell me whether I am all washed up or whether its time to grab a gun and start a revolution O.A.R. style!

It does no good to complain to management if you think alone, that is why I was tossing out some feelers to see whether I am all alone on this one, I guess I am.  I am glad the makers of d3football did not think so small otherwise you would not be reading this right now.

K-Mack: digesting liberal garble is the reason why half the intercollegiate wrestling programs and many intercollegiate football programs no longer exist (Title IX), no thanks.   

(gives hippy a shower)

Another thing, what conference does not allow any non-conference play - not even an exception for the playoffs? I cannot think of any reason (any logical one) for such a rule and I also cannot think of any reason any quality player would want to compete in that conference.

NESCAC, WTF?

Tony's Picks:

Luther

Coe

Central

BV/Cornell (conflict of interest so I have to eat this one)

Good Luck IIAC

One more thing, awhile back someone mentioned the Des Moines Register's coverage of an IIAC game (I am not for sure which one). Does anyone else believe it is an absolute shame the Register does not devote an entire page or two (substantive material not just box scores) to small college football in Iowa. They seem to have no problem giving a page or two the Drake Bulldogs (who we all know would lose to the top two teams in the IIAC, that is if if they had the marbles to schedule an IIAC team instead of a middle tier WIAC school).  They could even work some deal with the powers that run d3football and use their material - it is not as if 85% of the Register is filled with AP stories, anyway (mostly liberal garble from NYC where the owners/true operators of the Iowa paper reside). Maybe I (we) and people who think like us, who grew up with small college football and represent a small minority of sports page readers. 

In conclusion, I would like to see more small college coverage (in all sports), but until that day I guess we will have to suffer through reading about Drake's stunning victory over Waldorf or how No. 3 UNI got beat by a D2 school and dang near got beat by one of the worst teams in 1AA (south dakota state university).

Tony's Picks -

BV
Loras
Cornell
Wartburg

I love all the talk about the Wartburg/Luther rivalry. True college spirit!  I wish my alma mater (BV) had a conference rival in close proximity to its campus.

Good luck to all the IIAC -

Joeyice: Thank you and everyone else for the kind words.

DavidDevine: The best part about that trip was the fact wheels was driving without a license. I remember it like it was yesterday. Burr and I were running at a track meet at UNI and saw wheels in the stands (why he was there I have no idea). Anyways, he conned us into staying at the burg that Friday night and told us he would take us back in the morning. At that time I had no idea he neither had a vehicle or a license. Long story short, I owned Joe's (pretty sure burr got kicked out of Joe's), we rode back to the dorms in the bed of an S-10, me with my shirt off and burr screaming to the town of Waverly, "YOU AINT GOT IT!" When we got back to the dorms burr and I were screaming and pounding on dorm room doors, and even tried to break down someone's door. Everyone was looking at us (burr and I) like we had just escaped from a mental hospital. Little did wheels or anyone else from the burg know is that is how the beavers roll. Devine can vouch as he was the person wheels conned into driving burr and I back to stormy pond the next day and was there on a Saturday night to witness first hand the K (beaver slang for chaos).  It was at that time I knew that, although Wartburg had beaten us in football that year, they couldn't touch BV in the after hours department (sad consolation but I will take it).

I guess I should finish my own game –

Cornell – Quad City DJ's (come on ride the train)
Coe – I don't remember it being in a ghetto, I do remember thinking the field and the college itself were unique because they were smack dab in the middle of a large city in Iowa.
Dubuque – the track surrounding the field was crumbling like a month old cookie
Simpson – Kitty Litter Field (when it rained the maintenance crew put kitty litter on the field to fill the water filled holes)
Luther – Cement Bleacher Mountain
Loras – Hills
Billy Penn – Sandlot the movie, keep the playing surface, but change the sport.
Wartburg – ESPN College Gameday type atmosphere
Upper Iowa University – Fayette County Fair
BV – A little slice of lakeside heaven

CooCoo: I think it is only fair you force your children to jam to the tunes you did while in your youth. If your childhood was anything like mine, you can tune into any oldies station and sing along verbatim only because you were strapped in, in the back seat of the family car and your father had control of the AM radio knobs.  Or you could just take out your pent up angst on the showerhead (singing in the shower). Anyways, I do not think you are a jerk.

I cannot really think of a word when I think of Coe's stadium/field.

CooCoo:  You are the one with your personal posting information all Nirvana'd out. Tony and the crew thoroughly enjoy the late Cobain's music. Just trying to make a connection. "O well, whatever, never mind."

Dave Devine: What's up buddy. Seems like yesterday we were booze cruising from Wave Town to Stormy Pond, pounding powdered donuts and conversation candy hearts. Give me your email address. You will not believe what I have planned for the next three months. Let's just say it involves the Latin term "Semper Fi."

What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of an IIAC football team's stadium/field? For example: Cornell/Ash Park  . . . Choo Choo Trains. 

Tony's Picks:

BV

Wartburg

Luther

Cornell

which makes my Kanye West link highly appropriate . . .

"Your over-confidence is your weakness." --Luke Skywalker

Question: Would you rather play football on a quality artificial surface having soccer lines or a regular grass field without the same flames, I mean lines?

Question for CooCoo: Why does Kurt Cobain believe it is ok to eat fish?

Walston:  Maybe it's me, but your posts come across as arrogant. However, I admit the second-stringer comment was uncalled for; I was merely trying to ruffle some feathers. You are right, I do not know you Mr. Hoover. My apologies.

Central Fans: Your new field looks sweet! I believe I like the look of your turf more than I do Wartburg's (which is also very nice).

Are there any hard numbers on all costs associated with year-round maintenance of natural grass fields as opposed to the costs of purchasing, installing and otherwise maintaining a quality artificial surface? I would have to believe the latter, in the long run, would be the cheaper alternative.

Rumor on the street is that Wartburg went into the red to fund their new facility and are raising tuition significantly as a result. Is there any merit to this?

It is not actual bullying or intimidating of which I am speaking; it is your attempts at doing such, which are tiresome. I doubt anyone would be intimidated in real life by a second-stringer.

I do recall a few years ago when your team had a rough start, there was nary a former knight on this message board. That is, until your team started winning again.

Instead of worrying about whether new posters from up and coming teams will stick out the bad, why don't you worry about your welcoming tone ("I welcome more people to the board," Walston Hoover, Reply #2379), because it needs work.

If I had to be at a game this week it would be Dubuque vs. Cornell; its outcome will tell us much.

To answer your question Ash Park, I am an IIAC fan. However, I just get sick of these second-stringers from Wartburg still trying to make the first team by posting on d3football post patterns. So, good luck to all in the IIAC. Keep on posting in a free world.

"Glad to see all the new Cornell groupies though. Reminds me of when Brautigham took over at Dubuqe (sic) and we had all the new posters on here, and when Hefty took over at Luther and all of the sudden Luther was going to win the league." (Walston Hoover, Reply #2357 on: Today at 09:09:54 am,

Cornell football fans are posting because they are excited about their team, which they have every right to be (new coach, 2-0 start). Then, Walston Hoover, the Kanye West of d3football post patterns (for explanation click on website below)

http://contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/cocky%20west%20i%20should%20be%20in%20the%20bible_09_02_2006 )

attempts to bully and intimidate new posters by calling them groupies. As if such fans have less a right to speak on this board and have not earned the right to post encouraging words and comments about their team, merely because their teams do not contend for the conference title every year.

Reading your attempts at making other posters feel inferior is getting old.