The ball is cold and wet

Left last week's game in an ambulance with what I believe was a compound fracture.  No bueno. 

I believe I can address the elephant in the room here.  Message boards require literacy.

Off the cuff probabilities to fight:
Wabash: 100%

I just looked through Wabash's roster and saw that Ross Sponsler wasn't there.  I know he was injured, but is he out for good?

Update via the Journal Review:
Antoine Carpenter resigns and the search for a new coach starts immediately. Interesting interesting.

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.

A little fun D3 national press with a few quotes from everyone's favorite coach.  http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8757311/division-iii-mount-union-football-team-head-coach-larry-kehres

Wabash loses 77-69 in what B Harris purported to be a mighty physical game.  I only heard parts on the audio stream, but it sounded like Wabash made a surge in the second half, but came up short.  Sponsler (frosh) started and co-lead Wabash scorers with Hodges (11 points each) after missing a few with a knee injury and making a strong contribution in the Denison game.  Yet another tough one to build on.  Sounds like they're all going through some Sphinx Club "character building".

Additional note on the great Danny heist failure of 2012:

    During the scuffle, which I've been told by students was between TKEs and the Dannies, the handle of the Bell was broken off.  The handle is currently being welded back on and will be able to dingding all day and night on Saturday in Crawfordsville.

Is it just me, or has being in the same conference has really muffled the gab this year?  In previous years, there were no common opponents, and each side could argue their bad record was against a strong schedule, good record against a bad schedule, etc.  I know we throw records out for the ding dong dance, but does having multiple common opponents kill some of the mystery and excitement?

On a bright note, 3 of the first 4 kicks hit the uprights.

In 2011, Coach Long failed to appear on a speeding ticket in Montgomery County (prosecuted by Salter, son of ex-pres, hilariously).  Must have been too many bad memories already made in Crawfordsville.  Due to that, he had a suspended license when he got into a little bump n' grind with his car in Greencastle.  He has nothing in Indiana except infractions, so no big story there.  He certainly could have paid all the back tickets and received a valid license by now.  Just some friendly public records searching from a C'ville attorney.

this may have been brought up here before, but is the Wabash live stream shaky in a A Scanner Darkly way, or is it just my connection?

I think part of the issue this year is that Wabash has just recently tagged the oral comps at the end of written comps.  In earlier years (at least when I graduated in '07), oral comps were weeks later.  Final effect - a mushy brained senior-laden team.  Still should have won.