It's been 4yrs since I officially joined this board, and 4yrs since I posted. Although I check this board daily in season and weekly out of season.
Ain't **** changed but the location, and sometimes that don't change. Hiram is still in the basement of the NCAC and D3 as a whole. I got an interesting stat for you guys. During Mroz's tenure they have gone 4-29. But that's not my stat.
2023: Beat Oberlin 27-19. Yeomen on the verge of going 1-9 down in Gambier this weekend.
2022: Beat 0-10 Oberlin and Hilbert 59-27. Hilbert has yet to win a game in program history (still not my stat). In 15 games Hilbert has scored no more than 27pts in a game, doing so twice. Other game was against Lyon.
2021: Beat 1-9 Bethany 41-21.
In the past 3 seasons Hiram has put up 588pts, and given up 1209pts. That is my stat. This season alone, 154/432.
So yea, nothing has changed. I'll give Mroz one more year. Hiram always has great players, every team does. But as I've said before, if you do not have a good leader in a HC, you will not succeed. But how do you get a good HC? By having ppl higher up in the institution that actually care about the football program. I know there a plenty of alums that want Hiram football to succeed. I just don't know if the right ppl are in place at Hiram College for the football team to ever achieve a conference title in the NCAC.
Hiram played against three potential playoff teams this season. Lost to Depauw 49-0, Wabash 52-13, and Mt St Joes 62-21. Those three teams are good but put them up against NC, Mount, WIAC teams etc they probably wouldn't do too well. Point being, Hiram has a long ladder to climb. They just need to get to the first check point, a winning season.
Obviously the game I'm tuning into this weekend for the NCAC is between the Indy teams. Don't care who wins just wanna see a good game. I guess if you held a gun to my head and forced me to pick a winner, I would go with Wabash because I would like to see what Thompson can do in the playoffs (I think he played in 2019 against North Central but was a freshman). Never seen him play in person but his stats are good, and everyone on here talks highly of him. D3 football had a nice little spotlight on him earlier this season.
One last side note... I see Depauw has scheduled Berry next season. That's a solid non conference opponent. Would like to see Berry get an "at large" this weekend, but doesn't seen promising.