When you schedule in advance, there isn't always knowledge of what quality the football team will be by the time you actually play. And why would you think Witt fans wouldn't show up?

I think sometimes in sports, especially perhaps in football, seemingly inexplicable results against common opponents can sometimes be explained by a comparison to rock, paper, scissors. If a team is really good at defending against a particular type of offense it doesn't guarantee success against another team that may have done poorly against the team you dominated.

How odd for Witt to play in Timken twice and not play Wooster? I do think the loss may work to the Tiger's advantage by allowing them to escape having to play against the Scots with a home court advantage. Perhaps Wittenberg will even have a quasi-home court advantage themselves having had a lot of tournament level games in this very gym? Certainly more than their opponent. Anyway, great season Scots and let us hope the Tigers will continue to represent the NCAC well.

WITTENBERG wins 58-55!
Very exciting game, including the ending.

Wittenberg up by 3 with just seconds left and Cardinal ball. Time to...
Tiger up!

Timeout for NCC with just over a minute left and Witt up 4.

Wittenberg takes the lead with just over 6 minutes remaining.

A glimmer of hope in that NCC has some foul trouble so Witt is taking it inside and manages to cuts it to four.

Less than 12 mins. left.

Tigers down by 8 and call a timeout.

Quote from: BashBacker#16 on December 05, 2009, 05:01:10 PM
Dan the Man,

Since when does that statistic equate to playing "chippy" or "dirty?"  Wouldn't the applicable stat be # of personal foul penalties?

If you have acess to a more specific stat on this, post it. That would be better for proving a point than anecdotes about a particular single game or player. I don't condone dirty playing or players, but I don't think it is fair to characterize an entire team that way either, based on limited evidence.

Quote from: bashbrother on December 05, 2009, 01:48:18 PM
Known for that.

NOT born out by NCAC stats.:

PENALTIES                G   No  Yds Avg/G
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1. Denison.............  10   51  481  48.1
2. Wittenberg....... 12   60  582  48.5
3. Oberlin.............   10   55  493  49.3
4. Kenyon..............  10   54  510  51.0
5. Earlham.............  10   55  544  54.4
6. Ohio Wesleyan.....10   62  563  56.3
7. Allegheny...........  10   66  589  58.9
8. Wooster.............  10   64  603  60.3
9. Hiram...............    10   68  641  64.1
10.Wabash..............11   77  710  64.5

Oh, and look whose team IS statistically the  most penalized in the conference. My, my. I am sure that's an easily explained aberration.

Personally, I think closing ranks a bit in the playoffs like most people have done and supporting our conference teams is the better way to go rather than making ugly remarks  about each other in front of people that might only visit this forum once per year.

Quote from: wab64 on November 28, 2009, 08:15:35 PM
Best of luck to Witt to get some good, honest Red&White into the mix. Why do they call themselves "Tigers"? Tigers are supposed to wear orange and black.

This explains that better than I could:
http://www4.wittenberg.edu/news/athletics/mascot/mascot.html
To sum up, we aren't Tigers because of how we look, we are Tigers because of how we PLAY

Quote from: wally_wabash on October 24, 2009, 08:19:42 PM
We are going to find out next year, Wes. Wabash is at Witt in week 10.

I also couldn't help but notice that with the 2010 schedule reshuffle, Witt somehow wound up with a week 9 bye in front of the Wabash game. 

So the bye...is a Witt.-concocted conspiracy? Seriously, you  2 'bash guys are contradicting each other a bit: one says it's disadvantageous to schedule a 'cream puff' or two before a big game, but the other says a bye (which seems even more cream-filled to me) is an advantage (but only for the opponent)? Ya' can't have it both ways. Besides, next year in of itself will tell very little empirically. It would take a lot of seasons to make that clear, if then.

Quote from: Wooster Booster on February 28, 2009, 05:26:24 AM

Quote from: Pat Coleman on February 27, 2009, 11:06:38 PM
Fifteen bucks is by far the highest I've seen for a D-III live video.

I think it's outrageous.  Wittenbergish.  Sitting home recovering from an apendectomy, it was an easy choice to listen to the game, free, rather than fork over that much cash for a dubious video flow.  I'm sending half of my negative kudos to the NCAC.

Yours was not a Scotty comment, but a snotty comment. Why must you start stuff like that? Can't you just be happy your team has the chance to advance without denigrating others and making your association with Wooster one your fellow alums might regret?