For what it's worth...many years ago...when Frank Navarro left Wabash, he recommended to the Wabash administration that they hire Stan Parrish as the next head coach.  But the Wabash administration still followed through with a national search with Parrish and either 2 or 3 other coaches selected to interview and meet with the team in an informal meeting in the Little Giant Room. My personal preference after meeting with all of the candidates was still Coach Parrish.  I would have to believe if BJ stays and is either recommended by ER or just steps up and expresses interest in the head coaching job that Joe Haklin and the administration will still seek outside candidates.  That is just the way the hiring process takes place at the collegiate level for the most part for any vacancy whether it's administration, teaching or coaching.  When big money, alumni pressure and TV revenue is involved then, yes, it may be a sure thing to go ahead and promote an assistant without the time needed to conduct a search.  Another thing to remember or take into account is that once the search begins there will be quality coaches already prepared to apply before the job opens.  I believe this happened with a previous coaching vacancy at Wabash...the timeframe for accepting applications was very short due to overwhelming response.  Would love to see BJ get the job if ER leaves...I have always been more of a defensive minded football guy...like the defensive philosophy and coaching of BJ's teams...but still would hope that ER is still coach here next year.

Quote from: Ralph Lee Wilson on February 09, 2013, 08:26:33 PM
Wabash should have won by one more, but the ref decided to grant Kenyon an extra free throw after a rhynie waved a towel behind the basket.  The ref said (and I quote) "I already told you no!". Needless to say, the ref was booed by all Wabash fans for the rest of the game.

I was at the game...actually what happened was there was about 10-12 rhynies on the endline off to the left side of the basket all down on their knees slapping the floor with their hands.  After the Kenyon player missed the free throw the ref gave the player another shot.  So, the rhynies went up into the stands DIRECTLY BEHIND the basket and basically did the same thing by slapping their hands on the bleachers, MAKING EVEN MORE NOISE, but the Kenyon player made the shot.  My guess is that the ref would have given the Kenyon player another shot if he had missed that one...and probably kicked the rhynies out of the gym.

I have followed Wabash basketball for 43 years and high school basketball for even longer than that. I have never seen as many people (fans) admonished or thrown out of the gym for causing distractions (which, like it or not, has become commonplace throughout all levels of the sport) since Wabash joined the North Coast conference.  Can anyone tell me if this has happened elsewhere in the NCAC?  Or is it because the conference administrators believe that those mean Indiana fans say and do hurtful things to our Ohio boys?    Maybe it's just time that the referees get back to paying attention solely to what goes on in the field of play and not the sidelines and bleachers.

The official story on Wabash's website makes the correct call, 147-26!   

This year's program has 42-7 but it probably was 45-7 because I just looked at the scoreboard picture from last year's calendar and the scoreboard from 2010 had 45.9 seconds left I had a feeling that would be the final score for 2011.

Sorry, the scores were 32-19, 47-0, 42-7 and23-0 for 144-26

The question was what teams went 4-0, so I stuck with that.  Even Wabash's program sold at the game today said that this would be the 10th group of Seniors to accomplish this with a win today.

I wish I could give you +karma for that one Smeds 

This is the 10th Wabash class of Seniors to go 4-0 against DePauw.  Here is the list:

1905-08, Cumulative score 82-4, 3 shutouts
1921-24, 90-0, 4
1922-25, 90-0, 4
1923-26, 66-0, 4
1924-27, 62-7, 3
1949-52, 147-53, 1
1950-53, 164-32, 2
1951-54, 158-12, 3
1976-79, 71-29, 0
2009-12, 144-26, 2

This is also the first time since 1954 that Wabash leads both the overall series 57-53-9 and the series since the Monon Bell became the trophy, 38-37-6.

According to Wabash radio...unofficially...Belton suffered a poke in the eye.  He remained on the field and was even part of the "signal corp" sending in plays to Walsh.  MacDougall has been bothered by a hamstring injury for the last 2 weeks and apparently aggravated it enough to be removed from the game.  It was obvious on the video that he was not following through on his two PAT's.  The final straw was the short kickoff after Wabash's 2nd TD.  The announcer said he was showing signs of a problem after that kick.

My compliments to the D3football.com people for the first paragraph in the article named "Big-game rallies."  It is a simple paragraph mentioning our motto, "Wabash Always Fights!"  Some of our opponents make fun of it or just don't understand that it is a motto that Wabash has used for 92 years running.  It has special meaning to me because that's the way I always played sports (long before I had ever heard of Wabash College) and it is what I have used as a source of strength when my personal life had a few setbacks.  Tyler Burke showed he was truly a "Little Giant" today...and somewhere looking down from above is a man named Ike Williams (Wabash, Class of 1906) who coined the motto in the fall of 1919.

Wabash sent out a message to their alumni that in spite of the appearance that Wabash received a #2 seed it does not necessarily mean that the Little Giants would host a second round home game if they win this weekend.  I know the NCAA does not always share their rules for seeding and hosting but if they are no longer going to give the higher seeds the automatic homefield (barring not filing proper paperwork/lack of suitable facilities) how will they decide?

- better chance of larger attendance?
- better chance of good weather? (In 1977 the NCAA did this...Wabash was a #7 seed and hosted #1 seed Minnesota-Morris in the second round...and of course Indiana weather cooperated by dumping about 4-6 inches of snow during Thanksgiving week requiring the field to be plowed and game time temperature on Saturday was a crisp 20 degrees when normal temperatures during this time is mid 40's during the day.)
- assigning host in rounds 2-4 based on breakdown of how many times a school has played at home? (Indiana's high school playoffs used to assign the game to the team that had hosted the fewest playoff rounds...can't remember how they settled it if the teams had hosted the same number of previous rounds.)
- coin flip after each round of games?

I don't know about you guys, but if they have altered the way hosts are assigned somehow I don't anticipate any of the #1 seeds playing anywhere but their home stadium until the semifinals. 

I think those games are even past LGHistorian's memory bank! 
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Smed:

     I do not call myself LGHistorian for nothing! 

BayernFan:

     Wabash played Illinois College in 1936, Wabash 6-2, 1937, IC 13-0, 1949, Wabash 28-12, and 1950, Wabash 14-7 for a series record of 3-1 in favor of the Little Giants.

D3DB:

     I certainly was surprised when the Hope cheerleaders showed up on our side of the field...I thought to myself, "What the heck?" (and it really was "heck" and not something more colorful  ).  I had never seen a stadium set up like this in all the games I went to growing up.  The home fans stayed nice and dry and the visiting team had to listen to the cheers against them from right behind the bench.  In spite of the outcome I did at least enjoy getting to see one of the old style football stadiums.

Wabco,

     The game you are thinking of was 1979.  Stan Parrish was the head coach.  The final score was Hope 20, Wabash 2.  The 1977 game was Hope 20, Wabash 18.  Coach Navarro was the head coach.  The Coach Bowman I mentioned was the longtime OC for Coach Navarro, Ken "The Bear" Bowman, not the former head coach, Dick Bowman.  Sorry, since you said you saw these games I thought you knew who I was talking about.  I was on the sidelines for the 1977 game and was assisting the coaches in the press box in 1979...so, I am quite clear on which game was which.