Though i am done with playing for the wolverines, there are a couple of things that surpass football.  9/11, Pearl Harbor, 1st bombings of the world trade center, Oklahoma City bombings, these recent mall shootings, and many other events including our troops overseas.  I know that when i played i always thought about those who gave their lives, limbs, or even their family members so that we few young men would be able to experience something as grand as stepping onto a D3 football field not for a scholarship, nor to make the NFL no we did it because we loved it.  The saying "football is war", that isn't true Football is a great game played by extraordinary young men, who play this game because people gave their lives and their families for us as americans to enjoy the freedoms that we do.  I know that every opportunity that i have or had to take in a game at wesley or play, i always looked up at that flag and knew what it represented.  For all those remembering Pearl Harbor, and those mourning the deaths of the recent mall killings.  Remember this that this sat. and next sat are extremely special.  Its not only a chance to play a game that you love, no its also a chance to show that as a country we respect those who gave their lives, and that we will play on because thats what we do in D3 we play for love of the game. Case and point no one can argue that.  Thank you to everyone this year was great, nice to meet the Stone station, "always next year" damn those Dodgers were optomistic.  Good luck to all this weekend and next MUC looks like another Championship to add to the old collection.  See you around posters, and remember why we listen to the anthem and look at a flag, then you will understand a small part of why we play D3 football.

Today went just like the whole season did.  UMHB looked like they had stickum on their hands while wesley had vasaline.  Turnovers were wesleys kryptonite.  Schatz did not lose the game for wesley.  The passing game was there it just wasn't working out.  Great season for the wolverines, sorry to say but this years UMHB team does not look like the same team that they have had for the past two years.  If you get 5 turnovers you should be putting up 40+.  Whitewater is going to drown the Cru next week.  Sorry the team i saw out there could not beat UWW if you think you can go ahead and try.  I predict UWW 42 UMHB 17.  Looks like a UWW vs MUC final again, kinda getting old.

Wesley 28 Cru 24
Hard fought game Wesley needs to run the ball and the Cru needs to play more drop back zone.  Wesley will score early and the Cru will make a comeback.  Great game lots of tailgating and hopefully in the end the wolverines will be getting a third shot at the Warhawks go Wolverines beat the Cru.
Oh yah and don't kick to beavers if you want to win.

Last year Wesley defeated Dickinson and they were really sound on defense as well and they lost 49-21.  Even though the CC is loaded with good players how do you expect to beat a team that defeated Dickinson, Carnegie-Mellon, UMHB last year.  And defeated Ferrum, UMHB, and Bridgewater(VA) two years ago. And defeated HSU this year.  You are averaging 30.4 a game on offense and only giving up 7.5 a game on defense.  Gettysburg gave up 29.2 a game and you only scored 14 points barely gaining a win against a team that ended up 6-5.  Johns Hopkins gave up 22.4 a game this year and was scoring 21.2 a game yet you only beat a 4-6 team by a score of 28-21.  Juniata isn't worth talking about especially when you only win one game Sorry! Same thing about McDaniel!  I will say Franklin and Marshall looks like a good win 31-0 on a team that ended up giving up 25.4 and scoring 20.8 but on second thought I think they were just a sub par team.  Especially when they go 4-6.  Dickinson was a good game against a good team.  Although you did give up 24 against a team that was averaging 29.5 take your 7.5 and stuff it when it comes to playing a good not great offensive team.  And you only scored 29 on a team that was giving up 21.5 at seasons end so how good is your offense exactly.  Especially when McDaniel, Hobart, and Ursinus even scored 30+.  And no 29 is not 30.  And your strength of schedule who have you played lets take a look.
College of NJ good win against a 8-2 team.  Union 5-4, Gettysburg 6-5, Juniata 1-9, McDaniel 1-9, Franklin and Marshall 4-6, Dickinson 9-2, Ursinus 7-3, Moravian, 6-4, and Salisbury 9-2 an opponent win loss of 56-46. Wesley on the other hand has faced much tougher competition.  NC Wesleyan 9-2 and defeated #1 W&J, Del Val 5-5, Widener 8-3 Made the playoffs, Montclair State 8-3 who won a ECAC bowl game, Huntingdon 5-5, Frostburg 2-7, N News 4-6, Brockport 5-5, Salisbury 9-2, Morrisville 3-7, and HSU 8-3.  A total record of 66-48. Your opponents winning percentage is .558 where as Wesley's is .716 and your opponents-opponents winning percentage is .520 where as Wesley's is .547.  Wesley's strength of schedule which is only relevant to D3football.com's Website has Wesley at Number 2 and Muhlenburg at 35.  Wesley is averaging 37.4 good luck and only giving up 16.4.  The mules are giving up 7.5 against a weaker schedule and scoring 30.4 and once again good luck getting to 30 in this game.  Whether you or not you are faster or stronger than Wesley, or even smarter than Wesley, Point of Reference the Carnegie-Mellon and Dickinson game last year.  There is one thing that you cannot match.  And that is playoff experience in the past 3 years Wesley has played 9 playoff games the mules must have been in the stable because they had a combined record of 8-12 the past two seasons then this break out year.  But my point is come this time of year injuries, and the mental toll effects players.  Wesley with a lot of starters and even their backups have a lot of playoff experience.  And Muhlenburg hasn't played since 2002 in the playoffs and last time I checked you can't play 6 years in college.  Good luck to the mules your going to need it Wolverines+ Playoffs+ Home Field+ tailgating= advil for muledaddy, Mike Donnelly, and the rest of the mules.  Tell you what on my way to the game I will stop at Sam's Club pick you up some Advil and you can share with everyone especially the posters because I can't shut up don't worry I am done.  For NOW!!!!!

In the past three years wesley has had 9 playoff games going 7-2 the only wins posted for the ACFC.  Salisbury has gone 0-2 in the playoffs the past few years.  Why is it that they can't take the next step like wesley did.  They have good athletes like wesley, they work hard like wesley, and yet they haven't been able to get it done when it counts.  I do feel sorry for the seniors that had their 1st playoff win fumbled away in the fourth,  but you can't blame it on just the fumbles.  Wasn't at the game but any coach will tell you their are 6-7 plays that determine a game.  2 plays were fumbles what happened on the other opportunities.  I guess it would have been nice to see the gulls again, but i guess that opportunity was fumbled away literally.
Anyway on to the mules playing salisbury was nothing like what you will be facing at wesley.  The enviroment, the fans, the tailgating, a little smack talking but more pads talking(unlike salisbury), an intense coach, and a great field.  All of which awaits the mules.  Not to mention a nearly unstoppable offensive attack and a great hard hitting tough defense. 
Points to the game this weekend
1-You know that your in for a tough game against the wolverines when their is no smack talking, and the trainers get more work then the kicker.
2-If the crowd gets into it the players will feed the fire.(never been to a home wesley game where the crowd was silent and the wolverines won while it still wasn't a blowout, game of reference Montclair, crowd was in and out of it and they lost)
3-Beavers touches the ball at least 10-15 times, talking about x box worthy material it seems everytime this kid touches the ball the other coach is taking another advil.
4-you can't stop the wesley offense they have to many weapons
1.Beavers
2.Clarke
3.Schatz
4.Lanoette
5.Pennewell and his offensive line
6.Wesley's defense-  the offense has always fed off the defense, warning to the mules if you see a big hit, a turnover, or even the hit train on Kickoff make a bone jarring hit, you might want to head to the tailgating because you can bet the next few events won't be to pleasurable at least for the mules!
But i do have to say something if you can beat salisbury you have a good squad is wesley scared of the mules no.  Because come this saturday beating some A**(mules behind) is all that will be on Wesley's mind definantly not looking head past the mules, just looking forward to the a**(mules behind) kicking that will be happening this weekend
Final Score Wesley 42- Muhlenberg 17

It is time to get it started this week is a great week for the acfc Salisbury will handle Mu. no doubt about it they don't have the athletes to compete with a fast multi tooled salisbury team no turnovers i say Salisbury 42 Mulenburg 10
that being said lets move to the wesley game Hampton a little less of a chance Wesley offense will handle their defense and might even put up 45-50 points on them.  Final score Wesley 49- Hampton S. 13
You know what that means if all goes well we get another showdown at Wolverine Stadium and Wesley gets a shot to do something they have never done not only beat Salisbury once but twice in one season.  And how sweet would that be to claim route 13 in the playoffs as well as in the regular season. Go Wolverines
Wish i could be there for this weekend but cannot attend wesley wins i will be their to watch the battle for route 13

I would like to apologize for any disconcern i might have implied about Salisbury's injured QB.  Hope he heals well.  Big week for Wesley and Salisbury this week.  Salisbury will absolutely destroy a Frostburg team that hasn't been the same as they were five years ago.  Wesley is going to the cold fridged Upstate New York.  Been to the area Cortland, Ithica, and Morrisville is all right next to each other.  And it is a different kind of cold.  Shrugging off our reputation for the past two years that we can't play in bad weather will be essential in this game.  That being said i think that wesley will win their final game. 
And yes when the ball is fluttering in the air and is underthrown by 10 to 15 yards that is a drunk duck with a bad sense of direction.  Don't blame one drop ball for Salisbury losing.  Also wesley dropped a ball and the reciever ran into the fence while jumping over it, that fence is a little to close.  Last year Clarke ran into the fence on a pass play and was a little lost. 

Great Game, Wesley was explosive today especially when it counts.  Not knocking the Option but when your behind and you have a sub par passing offense where where the ball is thrown like a drunk duck with a bad sense of direction its no wonder you don't throw more interceptions.  One more thing i thought it was quite nice to see the gulls squirm in the final minutes having to do what they hate the most throwing the ball.  It was probably not a good warm up game for your toughest opponents the past three years 79-20(Becker who) any way Salisbury will make the playoffs (the ecac's) sorry i just don't think that you will make the NCAA's.  Your strength of schedule is okay not as good as wesley though.  It would be nice to see you in but i dunno.  Oh yah forgot one more thing way to go Wolverines 3 in a row and even more important winning the battle of Route 13.  Wesley has made its mark once again in the conference.  One more team to take care of and then Home Field? East or South region? Number 1 seed in either south or east?  Give me some thoughts?
Oh i just wanted to say wow Whitewater really took the crusaders out back the barn and gave them a good ole fashion whoopin.  Possible rematch i think in the National championship.

The ACFC has some good teams.  Unfortunately B-Port is leaving, and if we could get FSU back up there along with a few new teams to help get an AQ, the league could be one of the power conferences.  As it stands now Salisbury and Wesley are continuing on their collision course.

Hey NJlinc... that would be great but it appears that Wesley, Salisbury are on an exit course in the next couple of years but who knows right.  The CAC is where other Wesley teams are moving to and in the next couple of years i believe that we will be carrying our rivalry over there.  Not sure if Frostburg is also on that route or not. 

As far as how next week is going to happen one thing you can always count on is a NNA team that is big, fast, and hard hitting.  Two years ago Beavers caught a hitch and took it 60 yards for a touchdown.  Unfortunately I have to say that the near future is not looking good for NNA.  Wesley has to much talent, size, speed, and experience to not beat NNA. Sorry sid hopefully you kept some of those points from last week because Wesley has had 2 shutouts in a row.  Could this week be number three?

Today Wesley set some records, beat frostburg, tailgaited, had a little fun and are ready to start conference play.  NNA and Brockport better start game planning early for Wesley.  Running, passing, blocking these things i don't think anyone in the conference can compete with the wolverines at.  The only thing that will hold the wolverines are mistakes fumbles, interceptions, penalties, etc... I really cannont wait for three weeks from now.  Wesley vs Salisbury at Wolverine Stadium (The Den)  last year was last year whether Wesley won by a field goal at the end of the game or by 40 points one thing is for certain Salisbury and Wesley are rivals.  I can say when i played at Wesley we always looked forward to Salisbury week.  But lets not get ahead of ourselves NNA and Brockport are both respectible teams and if we are going to make the playoffs and knock Salisbury out we are going to have to go undefeated from here on out. 
Step 1 Beat NNA
Step 2 Beat Brockport
Step 3 Destroy the Gulls (In a manner of speaking)
Great wins all around the conference this week
Go Wolverines Maybe next year Frostburg (Lets do some recruiting)

PS Maybe you can play Salisbury a little Closer in Whats that bowl game you guys play.  I think the Battle of Rt. 13 is taking over whatever your bowl game at towson is called.

Today,
Wesley over Frostburg, tough game every year Wesley wants to make a big splash and give salisbury something to think about.

Salisbury over Geneva late i give a slight chance for an upset though

Brockport blown out by SJF, This brockport team is way different than it was a year or two years ago.  Stays close for a while but in the end a superior running game and a young defense makes all the difference.

NNA grinds out a low scoring win over Morrisville, but again chance for it to go the opposite way two big teams butting heads going to be a rough game for some two really hard hitting teams will be interesting.
Go Wolverines...HOMECOMING baby

I wasn't going off on a rant i just wanted some opinions about the absurd scores that are being thrown up by everyone.  Doesn't it seem that if you are beating teams by extravagant amounts that you would look for tougher competition.  Wisconsin Whitewater lost a game this year to a d2 school did they have to play them no but they did for the competition.  Why can't we have the Whitewater's play the Mary Hardin Baylors more.  And i did reference the Wesley factor and how we too have run the score up for all you salisbury fans out there.  Its not the fact of why they are running up the score but how.  Face a better team for heavens sake i understand that MUC kicked field goals on third down against AVERETT.  Who is a good d3 team but come on MUC could play all their freshmen football JV team and beat Averett.  I just want to spark up a contriversal topic.  Plus i am just rooting to get some of the younger kids some game time experience.  I mean with out redshirting most kids lose a year of eligibility before they even set foot on a game field.(exception JV football)  And they say that they took away red shirting for education.  I know plenty of kids that graduated in five years and had to help their teams from the stands.  I am not calling out the MUC coach or Coach Woods i rather am looking for some good debating conversation.  I mean no disrespect and i am sorry that some of you took it the wrong way.  I simply want some reaction to scores that are a little outragioius no matter the underlying circumstances.  Not saying their running up the score or anything like that only asking what you all think about it.  And yes i think that staring at your opponent after a sack or a tackle, throwing the ball at your opponent, and many other things are disrespectful.  I was just looking to get things stirred up and maybe have a little more excitement on this board looks like i got some responces and yes I actually got things a little more stirred up.  And yes go Wesley , go Apprentice, go Salisbury , go Brockport (for one more season) , and go Frostburg(except this week you need to lose sorry)  And go ACFC.  Good luck to all

Good win for the Wolverines today.  Overall a solid day, next week Homecoming, Frostburg has always found a way to make it a tough game every year.  Looks like the Wolverine defense and the Running game is on track for Wesley.  I do have a question to pose to all of you.
When is too Much??? 
No. 1 Mount Union  62  Heidelberg  3, No. 15 Washington and Jefferson  64  St. Vincent  6,  Wisconsin Lutheran  2  Olivet  62, Newport News  14  No. 19 Salisbury  62.  Not every blow out this week is listed sorry I don't have the patience.  Since when is it classy to defeat a team 62-3 or 62-14.  Does it mean that coaches just don't care anymore.  I know Salisbury pretty well running the ball like they do takes alot more time then lets say throwing the ball like Wesley.  So when do you call off the dogs.  Coach Sherman and the Gulls are a good team why do you have to completely disgrace the shipbuilders.  "Salisbury steamrolls Shipbuilders" thats what the article says on Salisbury site. Is that completely necessary.  But thats only one instance this year.
Sep. 1  1:00 PM  Averett •  W, 75-7     This one is absurd, learn how to be a gracious winner
Sep. 15  7:00 PM  Otterbein * •  W, 58-14     
Sep. 22  7:00 PM  Muskingum * •  W, 62-0     
Sep. 29  1:30 PM  at Heidelberg * •  W, 62-3 
This is the Mount Union Purple Raiders past 4 games.  How many d3 titles have you won?  Wow Maybe its just me but hey maybe a matchup against a d2 or d1AA school would better suit you.  With scores like this it is evident that you don't respect your opponents.  I don't understand why with these scores being an every year thing why you stay in D3.  Not saying i don't like having a Mount Union in D3 but lets be classy and maybe a little respectful of your opponents.  Just a thought and yes i do realize that Wesley has run up the score before also.  I am just making a statement to spark some thought.  Any takers?
   

This week the picks aren't that difficult
Wesley 34 Mon. St. 10
The Wolverines will dominate the Hawks offense tomorrow I look for the Wesley backfield to find another producer in the back field.  Week 4 all the expectations come to light.  With Montclair keeping an eye on Beavers and Clarke I see Lano, Scanlon and all the little scrapy Wolverine backs to get their touches and lift Wesley to another consecutive win at home.  Schatz is going to have an amazing game.  With Coach Knapp calling the plays and the skill all over the offense its only a matter of when not if its going to happen.  That said i give Wesley the win, oh i hope the Hawks found a hotel somewhere in town.(Race Week)
Sal. 24 Del Val 21
Don't get to cocky Salisbury, Delaware Valley has a good team will make it a hard game if left in the game till the second half.
Frostburg 3 Brockport 17
Don't think that Frostburg has what it takes to beat a tough and huge Brockport.  Over the past 4 years Frostburg has slowly declined anyone have any clue why?
E&H 31 Newport News 24
Too much E&H, News will have their share of wins just not tomorrow.
           Good luck to all the teams tomorrow.  And go Wolverines.

Wesley has been gaining strength every week last week a tough weidner team gave wesley all they could handle for two quarters.  But in the end the Wolverines came out and clawed out a win.  If Monclair can score on a tough wesley defense then they might have a chance that is if they can hold Wesley's multi tooled offense.  Though wesley lost their starting quarterback, full back, tackle, and guard it seems as if they have picked up right where they left off minus the turnovers.  Biggest lost was Chris Warrick and the offensive players from last year.  Beavers, Clarke, Lano, Scanlon, Jackson, Pennewell, and Knight have all proved themselves in the first three games.  If Schatz picks up his game a little more settles in and makes the throws the Hawks are in for a beat down.  The O line needs to pick up their game a little bit.  Now that they have a mobile quarterback they need to never let up a sack(sorry Warrick) but Chris wasn't the most fleet of foot.  If the game is anything like the Del Val game or the others we could be in for a heck of a game.  Will be in attendence for the game.  And yes it is absolutely necessary to arrive in Delaware at least by 9 in the morning NASCAR takes over everything in Delaware.  I myself am coming down friday night.  Go Wolverines Beat MSU
Good luck boys, No TURNOVERS or SACKS!