Twenty-five penalties for 232 yards in Richmond today.  No wonder this league is 2nd to last.

Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on February 17, 2012, 05:16:17 AM
Anderson: 100% (they are in the tourney)

Bluffton: Win OR Manchester Loss OR Franklin Win
Defiance: Win
Manchester: Win plus Bluffton Loss OR Win plus Franklin Win
Franklin: Win plus Manchester Loss

Bluffton and Defiance are in control of their destiny, Bluffton can also make it with some help if they lose, Manchester and Franklin need to win and have help

FWIW, I went through all 32 scenarios this morning and I concur with this assessment.  The 4-way ties for 4th were fun to break.

Quote from: Fannosaurus Rex on December 21, 2011, 12:00:34 PM
I must be one of the few sports fans who liked the old Division I system where, at the end of the season, conferences were locked into bowl games, pollsters decided who was the #1 team in the country and everyone else argued about it and complained about what a shame it was that there wasn't a tournament to settle it on the field.

I'm a fan of going back to JBOB (Just a Bunch of Bowls) in D-I.  It's not going to happen, but one can dream.

People put too much emphasis on National Championships any more.  This is true in most sports, but especially in football.  The focus should be on winning your conference.  Supposedly, the other institutions in your conference are "like-minded."  If you defeat all of them, doesn't that say enough about your ability?  Who cares if you can't defeat schools that have ten times the student population of your school?  Does it really matter that the schools that can beat you have admissions standards that would make the University of Phoenix turn their head in disgust?  You beat the schools whom you can most relate to, and that says something.

Quote from: BUBeaverFan on November 14, 2011, 10:00:08 AM
It is sad how the Defiance/Bluffton game ended this past Saturday.  I actually turned off the stream at the start of the fourth and missed the events at the end of the game (not sure if they were on the stream or not).

It was not.  They showed the teams shaking hands for a bit then went to a commercial.  Nothing seemed out of the ordinary at that point.  But, it was a LOOOONNG commercial break.  When they came back for the post-game stuff they explained why they showed more commercials than they were expecting.

QuoteDefiance/Bluffton athletic contests have generally had a good "ol' fashioned rivalry" feel for many years.  Fans on both sides have generally kept things within bounds even while giving it pretty good to the other schools players and fans.

My sister and I attend this game every year.  She's a Bluffton (College) grad and I'm a DC grad.  We always wear our team's sweatshirts and always sit on the home side and we've never had a problem.  After the incident in the 2nd quarter, my sister actually felt scared to be sitting with us.  She didn't want to go down to the concession stand at halftime.

We were on our way out the gate as Bluffton tacked on the last TD, so we didn't witness the postgame (thank goodness).  We never did have the problems she was worried about, but it was the first time that she actually didn't feel safe at this game.

Quote from: Frank Rossi on October 29, 2011, 10:49:05 PM
(F) HCAC – Impossible for runner-up 1-loss team

While technically true, if Hanover wins out to win the HCAC, Franklin will have a 7-1 in-region record with an out of region win over I-FCS Valparaiso and loss to UWW.

Quote from: FCGrizzliesGrad on October 14, 2011, 08:00:25 AMI just don't see Manchester keeping this one close though.

Somebody needed to QFP.  When Manchester was driving with 6 minutes in the game, I can only imagine what was going through Griz's head.

QuoteEarlham @ Defiance: Earlham is now at 16 straight losses and it doesn't get any better this week. Defiance finally got in the win column last week with a big win at MSJ and can show that they're better than their 0-4 start by putting up a big game against the Quakers.

Closer than it should have been probably.  Mostly, I came here to give the Quaker kicking game some props.  In the first quarter, Levi Simpson punted about 50 yards in the air and then it bounced another 25 yards and into the endzone...a 75 yard punt.  Later in the same quarter, Ryan Acosta kicked a 54 yard field goal.  Yes, it was with a stiff wind, but it was still impressive that it was on target.

Rob Taylor resigns; Nate Jensen new interim head coach
http://www.defianceathletics.com/football/news/67/1715/

Handbook posted.
http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/champ_handbooks/football/2011/2011_3_football.pdf

Pool B - 1 "berth"
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Macalester College
Nebraska Wesleyan University*
Carnegie Mellon University
DePauw University**
Huntingdon College
La Grange College
Washington University (Missouri)
Wesley College

*while technically in Pool B, NWU is not really eligible for a bid because they do not play enough in-region games (unless they have received a waiver?).

** I find it funny that DePauw is still in the South Region.

Quote from: The_Bishop on December 17, 2010, 04:05:48 PM
For anyone else finding the last hour of this particular Friday painfully long (try to beat 30):

http://www.sporcle.com/games/McNeal/ohuniversities

Sorry Indiana gents, I've sent a request to the site for an IN colleges and universities. 

Got 36 of 56, which apparently puts me in the top 25%.  I should have got more.  After looking at the list, there was only about 4 or 5 that really should be missed.

Quote from: OU#25 on December 16, 2010, 08:57:53 PM
You would think that in the year 2010...you could pay to watch a sporting event on the Internet?

I could be wrong, but I thought the ncaa.org website had streaming video of every one of their championship contests.  You might check http://www.ncaa.com/allaccess/ tomorrow.

They don't seem to have anything up as a "upcoming events," so it's hard to tell.  They do broadcast the Indoor Track & Field Championships, so I've got to believe they'll have the Football Championship.

Merry Christmas from J. Denny Beaver.

Does Defiance really deserve the "big X" in naughty though?  It seems to me that they gave Bluffton about 5 turnovers a few weeks ago.

I don't know how "new" it is.  It's not a rule change for the 2010 season, but I don't recall when it was changed.

In most cases, resumption of play in the NCAA after the free throws for a technical foul goes to what they call "point of interrruption."  That is, if the ball was live, the team with control gets a throw-in at the designated spot nearest the ball when the stoppage occurred.  If they were about to shoot free-throws for a personal foul, they shoot free throws.  If there was no team possession at the time of interruption, you use the alternating possession arrow.

As always, there are exceptions to this.  "Single flagrant" and "single contact dead ball" technical fouls award a throw-in to the offended team at midcourt for men.  For women, a technical foul for an "excessive timeout" awards the throw-in to the offended team at the designated spot nearest the ball at the point of interruption.

Flipped over to WJR on the ride to work this morning and heard that Adrian won a game in the Big House last weekend.

Yes, it was hockey.  No, it wasn't against the Wolverines.

Congrats to the Bulldogs on the win in the first ever D-III outdoor hockey game!

Quote from: USee on November 29, 2010, 05:14:35 PM
No, but a backup QB did engineer 96 pts the last two weeks. Which is pretty good.

My point was that I'd understand bringing up the quarterback if they were low scoring games.  But, the offense was not UWW's problem.

If Franklin was down 7-0 at the half before UWW went on to win 38-7, or if the Trine score was 3-3 after 49 minutes before the backup quarterback finally got the offense together to score the final two touchdowns, the "backup quarterback" argument would carry more weight.

Quote from: skunks_sidekick on November 29, 2010, 03:51:41 PMAdd that in with a back-up QB, and I believe what we witnessed against Franklin and Trine is very understandable.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on November 29, 2010, 03:55:12 PM
Depends, as always, on which quarterback plays, yep.

I'm sorry.  A backup QB has not allowed 52 points against in the last two weeks.

To put this in perspective, St. Thomas is the next closest of the so called "possible #1 seeds", with 27 points against...practically half of UWW's (and St Thomas also played 2 OTs).  The other four "possible #1 seeds" (NCC, Mt Union, Wesley, and UMHB) have had a COMBINED 54 points scored against them.