RE: Denison feed, I had to click on an icon on the upper right-hand corner of the screen to start the feed.  Good luck

Quote from: wally_wabash on September 24, 2016, 11:46:08 PM
Alright, long day on the road but here's some Wabash/Witt thoughts. 

- Absolutely perfect start for Wabash today.  The opening set of offensive plays were perfect, had Witt totally reeling.  Then those plays ran out and I'm not sure what the plan was for the remaining phases of the game.  Witt smothered every run from quarter 2 on.  They also had Wabash's pass plays well covered after the first two drives.  I'm not sure if Wabash is getting diagnosed pre snap here or what, but Wittenberg flat out solved the Wabash offense and they should get credit for that.  I'll come back to this point at the end. 

- Thought the Wabash defense did pretty well today, particularly in the second half with the field position situation.  Average defense against that kind of field position disadvantage usually gets run off the field, but Wabash held their own here.  If there's something to pick on here from the defensive side of the ball, it's that I think LBs jumped outside on a few of Kennedy's options when the outside option was already covered.  Wabash was not always assignment sound on these plays and Kennedy was able to take advantage for a few nice plays in spots where Witt had to have them. 

- Have to give credit to Witt WR's.  They made some really nice catches against some good coverage, a couple for big scores.  Those guys made plays today. 

- Specials were dominated by Witt today.  Gingery's punts had Wabash on the long field all day.  Wabash definitely missed a couple of opportunities to save some yards by fielding said punts, but for the most part I'm not sure there's a big difference in this game if Wabash is starting from their own 9 or starting from their own 3 every second half drive.  The one big error was on Gingery's 69-yarder in the 4th quarter.  Wabash finally pushed Witt back far enough to get reasonable field position and maybe get something going to tie the thing up, but that punt bounced and rolled forever and I think it was really deflating.  That drive ended with a Rice interception (trying to make a play there where there wasn't one) deep on the Wabash side of the field which immediately led to a Gingery FG to push the lead out to 10 which was basically the knockout punch.   

So back to the first bullet.  After Albion went bonkers for 300 yards and nearly won in the second half of the first game, I wiped my hands of that.  New coordinators, weird night game, weird scheme to play in the Week 1.  All of that.  This week Witt got hit for 140 yards in two drives, and then locked Wabash up for 137 yards over the last 15 drives (the final 51 minutes of the game) and did it in a way that looked like they knew what was coming.  The LGs got solved like a puzzle again.  It's happened once to the defense which nearly lost a game and it's happened now to the offense which did end up in a loss.  When it happens twice in three games, it's a thing.  I hope the staff can figure out what the tell is here and have future opponents guessing wrong once in a while. 

At the end of the day here, Witt played a better game and got that W.  They got staggered with those two early drives, but showed a lot of guts to hang in there, rally, and close the deal.  Big game there in two weeks against DePauw.

Wally:


Well said.  I kept wondering when Wabash was going to adjust but any adjustments were not apparent.  Witt's strategy was spot on - force Wabash to throw.  They had the horses to stop the run and it appears that we did not have the horses to execute a passing game. 


The DPU / Witt game will be one to watch.  I have watched two of DPU's games and I think they will beat Witt based on what I saw on Saturday.  For whom the Bell will toll in November is in doubt for the first time several years.

Link to Wabash's game notes are below.  I don't thing they have been posted as yet.  If so, I apologize for the redundancy.  Hope to see many of you at Albion tomorrow night.


WAF




http://http://sports.wabash.edu/documents/2016/8/30//WabashReleaseAug302016.pdf?id=477

Best audio is 830 WCCO  broadcast.  Video is still out.

Quote from: WittFan on December 05, 2015, 02:05:16 PM
You Little Giants might want to rethink your righteous indignation here. As bad as this stream is (was?), it is still significantly more watchable than Wabash's stream of the Wittenberg game earlier this year.

WittFan - you might want to get off of a 64K modem.  If you ran into problems with Wabash's stream, it wasn't on our end.  I saw the stream without any problems.

The audio feed is garbled - anyone else having problems?


The Tommies must have purchased their networking equipment from East Germany - the audio and video suck.  Max Headroom time.

Quote from: Joe Wally on November 30, 2015, 10:49:25 AM
Anyone found decent flight packages to St. Paul out of Indianapolis?  It looks like you can get a flight (on American Airlines) from Indy to St. Paul that gets you there at around nine in the morning, but return flights to Indy would have to be on Sunday.

Getting to Minneapolis/St. Paul from Indy is no small task.  A few times, I have driven to Chicago and taken Southwest from Midway to Minneapolis. Most times, the legs have been under $100.  Would save some driving time. 

Is there going to be some kind of announcement or press release to formally communicate the designated hosts for next weekend's games?  Most of the articles I read yesterday indicated that the sites would be announced early on Sunday.  Has anything been published?

The weather is not going to be doing Albion any favors.  It is a wet and windy track right now and only going to get worse during the game as snow is on the way.  The wind will make it tough on the downfield passing game for both teams.   Albion has a great short passing scheme so the wind may not play as much of a factor.  Good luck to both teams and safe travels to the fans.  Heading out in a few minutes - getting bundled up and bringing an ample supply of antifreeze.

NCAC All Conference Teams announced.  Congrats to Wabash for taking three of the four top awards.   Wabash and DePauw make up the vast majority of those named to the first teams. 


http://www.northcoast.org/sports/fball/All-NCAC/All-NCAC_Files/2015_FB_All-NCAC.pdf

Quote from: jknezek on November 15, 2015, 06:20:15 PM

Quote from: SaintsFAN on November 15, 2015, 06:17:26 PM
I'm not talking to you, Bub.  I could care less if I meet someone with such an attitude.  I'm hoping to meet jknezek, finally.

SaintsFan I would have gone to a home game but I'm not going to TMC. Too much time to miss with the family especially right before Thanksgiving since we're heading out of town most of that week. TMC is actually closer to me, but I just don't have the desire. Was really hoping for the team's first home game. My Dad and I were planning on meeting up. Oh well. Maybe another year...

jknezek & Saintsfan:


If Wabash makes it past Albion, you are cordially invited to our tailgate the following weekend.  Wabash has never played Thomas More and we last played W&L in 1956 and 1957, winning both games.  I hope we have the opportunity to knock heads with one of you in two weeks.  Would be a long trip for W&L - been there, done that in September at Hampden-Sydney College.  Good luck to both teams.

Quote from: wabndy on November 12, 2015, 11:51:38 AM
Monon Bell Game Notes are up.

Also a good preview of the game on the Wabash football site:


http://sports.wabash.edu/news/2015/11/12/FB_1112152339.aspx?path=football

Quote from: wally_wabash on November 09, 2015, 02:35:37 PM

Quote from: wabndy on November 09, 2015, 02:23:39 PM

Quote from: wally_wabash on November 09, 2015, 02:08:20 PM
Aw man, I honestly thought the Bear was making up quotes here, but no.  Those are actually things said by their AD and written by their journos. 

It's really unfortunate that the rhetoric from the people in charge down there insists on perpetuating an overly hostile context around this game that hasn't really existed for 15 years.   

"Within Blackstock Stadium, crowd control fences are riddled throughout as well as the additional 650 seats."

650 extra seats?  Really?  Didn't blackstock get renovated not that long ago and that is the best they can do?

Thought that was weird, also.  That has to be a misprint.  I think the new and "improved" Blackstock Stadium holds 3,000.  So what's the typo here?  Could be 6500 extra, but that sounds like more people than they usually let in- 8000 is about their max, give or take a couple hundred.  So I don't know what it's supposed to be, but 650 can't be right.  Gonna need a bigger boat than that.

The published capacity on their D3 football page is 4000. The DPU website ( [size=78%]http://www.depauwtigers.com/facilities/Blackstock_Stadium[/size]) lists capacity at 3000 for the home stands.  My guess is that there is a "zero" missing from the 650.  Total seating for around 9000 to 10000 would be about right.


My understanding based on previous comments on this board is that the Dannies don't sell SRO tix - in theory there is a seat for each ticket they provide to Wabash. 

Quote from: BashBacker#16 on November 08, 2015, 11:30:04 AM
Any more commentary on the Wabash/Denison game??  Bash seemed to dominate...  I couldn't watch much of it but it seemed they really shut Brown down most of the game.  2 catches for the 2014 NCAC Offensive Player of the Year.  I wonder what the frosh QB thinks about the Wabash D...   

McCullen is a beast!

WAF!

...going for 7 straight Bells...

BB16 - your read on the game was about right.  Only Wabash could stop Wabash on Saturday.  Held Brown without a catch in the first half.  Denision QB was under constant pressure.  Wind seemed to play havoc with both QBs - it looked like duck season when going into the wind.  Wabash's wideouts did a great a job of adjusting to the ball.  Wabash has some freshmen that can play. In addition to the two WRs, the rookie RB from Zionsville, while only in for a couple of series, looks like he could be Zurek clone.


Looks like Wabash rested its kickoff guy - may have tweeked a hammy last week (from what I saw on video). Our backup Kickoff guys are not yet ready for prime time.  Hope he is at full strength next week.


Overall - Wabash looked strong on both sides of the ball.  They are primed and ready to feast on some Tiger tail next weekend.

Quote from: wabndy on November 06, 2015, 04:51:38 PM

Quote from: Wabash Hokie on November 06, 2015, 04:44:57 PM

Quote from: wally_wabash on November 06, 2015, 10:42:35 AM
Wabash is playing for a conference championship tomorrow.  Just putting that out there.

Wally - I think a more accurate statement is that Wabash is playing to remain in contention for a conference championship tomorrow. Even if we beat Denison, we don't lock up the championship.  With only one conference loss, DePauw can still win it all - unless they choke on the Yeomen -  with a win in the Bell game.  While we would tie with same record, DePauw would take the championship with the head to head win - yes?

Nope.  The AQ and conference championship are separate.  We can lock up a piece of the conference championship tomorrow.  The AQ will likely have to wait until the bell game.  Over the years we split several conference championships with Wittenberg because we finished with the same conference record.  The tiebreaker rules are only applicable to the AQ.

Got it. Thanks.


I should have known that Wally was right.