Congratulations to Alex Tanney on being named 2nd Team ALL-AMERICAN!!! 

Great recognition and congrat's to James Allen, 3rd Team All-America and to Mike Blodgett, Honorable Mention!

Well deserved!!!

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Quote from: SUADC on December 02, 2011, 07:21:18 PM
Just received confirmation that since I am only 23 years of age, I can not rent a car from Milwaukee airport to Whitewater. 

Did you try several different rental agencies.  I think they have different policies on that and there is at least one that will rent to people under 25.  Maybe Budget?

Will likely pay a surcharge, Thrifty and National still accord under 25 rates for daughter in Arizona, but each airport is different. If all else fails, try Enterprise.

Quote from: Moncolfan on November 30, 2011, 02:25:36 PM
If I am not mistaken IC has never beat MC since Coach Bell has been there.

Moncolfan, no doubt: Coach Bell: Eight Twelve seasons; Blue Boys: -15 years against the Scots.

Non-Conference match-up with Coe brings the likelyhood to a home game for the Scot's. Otherwise Scots regular season will consist of six away games...

How do the Scots do out of the gate in 2112...

MC's 2012 first half of season:
WEEK 1-   9/1/12   Monmouth vs Non-conference
WEEK 2-   9/8/12   Monmouth @ Beloit
WEEK 3-   9/15/12 Monmouth- Bye 
WEEK 4-   9/22/12 Monmouth @ Cornell 
WEEK 5-   9/29/12 St. Norbert

Away games for the Scots: Beloit, Cornell (by the way; welcome back to MWC), Grinnell, Lawrence, and Ripon.

Home games of St. Norbert, Lake Forest, Illinois, and Knox. These teams believe they can compete and will be looking to do some gate-crashing to a conference championship.

Carroll U, we'll miss your tail-gating in 2012, may see in 2013 or 2014?

Hibernation appears apparent for now, awaiting August, 2012...

FWIW: 26 points going into this weeks D3photography.com bracket playoffs. I fell from grace as one of the four first-place position (yes, a perfect score) in week one! My mistake of many, the wrong picks on last minute wins going the other way...

Quote from: wnc52 on November 27, 2011, 06:26:33 PM
I'm not going to go into the "for reasons other than" much other than to say that other than the texting stuff, I still haven't heard ANYTHING about it other than cute phrases on this site.  Can I ask where you got the stats and head-to-head record stuff, FightnScot77?  Conference web page?  Wouldn't mind looking up how IC stacks up against some of the other teams in overall head to head.  I haven't been into the history of the conference much, just going back to when I played which was 98-O2.

Conference schools head-to-head numbers have been available over at the Ripon's website  http://ripon.edu/athletics/football/records/rival.html. The SNC conference record is simply sick.

MWC all-time conference statistical information was last updated 1/2011; wouldn't be appropriate to accord link until posting of 2011 season numbers.


Speaking of things ahead...

Wouldn't be surprised to seeing discussions of Tanney #11 and Blodgett #17 uniform numbers being retired in short order!

Quote from: wnc52 on November 27, 2011, 11:19:55 AM
This is a serious question, so don't make fun of me as easy as I'm making it!  Someone tried telling me yesterday that I had no idea how it felt to be Michigan having not beaten Ohio St. in seven years.  I told that person, "Well, actually, I do..." and then tried to explain the "rivalry" between IC and Monmouth.  I put rivalry in quotes because IC considers Monmouth their biggest rival, but Monmouth considers Knox their biggest rival.  So, my question is, as embarassing as the answer is...when is the last time IC beat Monmouth?  My guess is its around 1995, although I really don't know.

You have to go back to 1996 (15 years) to a 16 - 14 setback by Fighting Scots to Blueboys. The Scots scored 587 points to IC's - 215 over the last fifteen years.

Scot's lead series 39-10-2. Not a rivalry yet... in our eyes.

On another matter... Should IC's coach get let go (for reasons other than )for first loss in playoffs, Zook is available after being fired at Illinois after season's collapse and loss to Minnesota.

Checked Coe and IIAC sites without success for 2012 schedules. If WMOI announcers of the game yesterday are correct, MC will meet Coe in the first game of the season. If confirmed, Scots and Kohawks will meet for the 75th time!

In Division III Football:

1. 126 games - Williams v Amherst (1881)
2. 125 games - Albion v Kalamazoo (1896)
3. 123 Meetings in the Battle for the Bronze Turkey - Monmouth v Knox (1888)
5. 121 games - Coe v Cornell College (1891)

Quote from: RedandPurple on November 26, 2011, 03:02:35 PM
A tale of two halves. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Quote from: RedandPurple on November 26, 2011, 03:05:12 PM
Deja vu all over again. 

Tried to think of what to say... different game yet words held the same thoughts...  No second half scoring against UST, again.

Hat's off to a Tommie's team that shut down our running game which limited our ability to get passing game going. Sounds like their big boys up front really pressured Tanney all day.

The Video failure by UST today was absolutely unexcuseable.

Scottie, Tracy throws an interception and Scots can't take it to the house, did convert a 23 yrd Field Goal. Scots up 3-0

Due to tech problems at UST, no video or audio apparently... Hope they can solve this for the viewers...

I don't need no stinking motiviation...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkk&feature=related

Al Pacino's Inch By Inch speech from Any Given Sunday
In it's entirety...
http://essaysfromexodus.scripting.com/stories/storyreader$1492
...You find out that life is just a game of inches.
So is football.
Because in either game
life or football
the margin for error is so small.
I mean one half step too late or to early
you don't quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game
every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know when we add up all those inches
that's going to make the f@#$ing difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.

I'll tell you this in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face...

Weather has never scored a point in a football game. If you let it play for you, you lose.

Go Scots!!

Quote from: BoBo on November 22, 2011, 10:47:33 PM
Just wondering, are Matt and his brother the only siblings who have been finalists for the Trophy?  voice, got any info on that?

He ain't heavy, he's my Brother...

This marks the third time in six years Monmouth's Fighting Scots have a player among the finalists. Tanney's older brother, Mitch, was a Gagliardi finalist in 2005.

Alex Tanney was a finalist for the award in 2009, the same year he won the Melberger Award as the division 3's top football player based solely on performance on the field.

A great tribute to both of these athletes and their families, talk about skill sets and achievements. Tough choices this year! So committee, call it a tie and award more than one!


http://www.galesburg.com/features/x2128795939/Monmouths-Tanney-a-finalist-for-Gagliardi-Trophy

The site locations for this weeks games are starred for Saturday, the 26th via http://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/external/gametool/brackets/football_d3_2011.pdf

Scots, as expected head to St. Thomas. Suggest Scots place call to Macalester bagpipers to stir our team on this week.

A slight surprise, but not unexpected, Linfield goes East to Wesley! The east does it again to the west.

Assume the NCAA charters these flights out and teams aren't put through the joys of body scans. Comments to the contrary?

     28  Lake Forest
     56  Concordia (Ill.)         Continuation of postponed game (first week of season)
   
Wow, didn't think this would happen to Lake Forest.

LF ahead 28 - 26 in second quarter of this contest when resumed.

Apparently the offensive squad missed the bus to River Forest or players transitioned over to Hockey and left the team to "call it in." A loss of forest burning preportions means a long winter for coaches and players to ask themselves where the wheels fell off this season.

Quote from: formerscot4 on November 19, 2011, 04:37:08 PM
What a great game!!! Congrats to my alma mater!!!! I think I went into cardiac arrest watching on my computer. Go get the Tommies!!!

Ditto!!!

Noticed the Fan Poll just went up from 317 to 327 in the last few minutes in ranking IWU - Monmouth as THE game accounting for the best toss - up game. It proved to be just that!

MC and IWU:
Unbelievable facts

The highways between the two schools: Route 34 and I-74  [34+74= 108] 
The distance between the two schools: 108 miles (ok, so it's 106) 
IWU leads series: 2-1-1 Lifetime 
Over the years they schedule JV games against each other...perhaps Tanney played first year against IWU's JV.    Just guessing...like I said, unbelieveable.

Courtesy newline:  Football opens NCAA playoffs at Illinois Wesleyan
http://www.monmouthcollege.edu/athletics/news/story.aspx?Channel=%2fChannels%2fSports&WorkflowItemID=a867fd55-e352-4407-a532-5c820c41fd2e

Game time is 12 noon.

Anything about IWU's (Red) cup policies Monmouth fans should know in advance? GO SCOTS

Notice the NCAA video placement of the Monmouth University (NJ) Hawks logo across the screen when they mentioned our Fighting Scots? Perhaps our SID can gear up a video and correct the NCAA of their errs, Come on NCAA, get it right.