Long time UNW offensive coordinator Bryan Johnson has announced his retirement after 29 years at UNW.
https://unweagles.com/news/2023/12/18/coach-johnson-announces-retirement-from-unw-football-coaching-staff.aspx

Watching this UNW vs Greenville game is a disgrace to the UMAC. This officiating crew is awful. They never know where to spot the ball. The Umpire stands over the ball until everyone is lined up and has misspotted the ball multiple times. They have to talk for about 5 minutes before calling a penalty every time. Also the announcer sounds like he didn't even look at the rosters going into this game. He's mispronouncing names and calling players the wrong names consistently. All this makes this game nearly impossible to watch.

UNW beats Concordia Wisconsin 26-10. Both offenses were able to move the ball and pick up some big plays, but both defenses were able to make stops when they needed to and UNW made more stops. Great game! And nice to see a UMAC school going up against a more evenly matched opponent.

Congrats to Damon Clapper for the 2nd team all-region honors!

Quote from: AO on November 04, 2022, 02:05:38 PM

Quote from: Baldini on November 04, 2022, 11:47:35 AM
The Northwestern hosting Minnesota-Morris game ended with Northwestern in full control of their playoff destiny, for M-M it ended with what might have been. Northwestern only needs to handle their business with Crown and Martin Luther to wrap-up the AQ bid and maybe a first-round game with Bethel that would be to the delight of @AO, I'm sure.

This week's games are not the most exciting trio, but Northwestern still needs to show up against a scrappy Crown team as will Greenville against Finlandia. If Northwestern and Greenville stay focused both games may well be lopsided games though. The game with a chance to be a close battle is the Westminster @ Martin Luther game, an evenly matched game between two 1-7 teams and who ends up with a second win on the year. A game that seems like a complete tossup. Can Westminster overcome another long road trip two weeks in a row?

Minnesota-Morris is on the bye this weekend.   

I'd rather be on the opposite side of the bracket from Bethel so we could meet in the Stagg.

I would love to think that a UNW Bethel Stagg Bowl would be a possibility as my mom's side of the family are all Bethel grads, but I would rather this be a first round game so that it will actually happen. I would love to think UNW can make it to the Stagg bowl but I'm going to be realistic about this.

UNW's defense and special teams are playing a dominating game today with 5 tour overs so far half way through the 3rd. And 2 of those are blocked punts for TD's. The offense is looking good not great but that's ok when your defense is playing out of their mind.

I didn't watch any UMAC football this weekend and just checked in on the scores. This week really separated the top teams from the bottom teams with all 3 games ending in shutouts.

Quote from: DuffMan on October 10, 2022, 04:04:53 PM

Quote from: jstoll19 on October 08, 2022, 08:07:33 PM
Looks like they should definitely win the AQ for the UMAC.

Has UNW made it to the post-season before?  I can't recall that happening.

They made it in 2016 and lost to St. Thomas 43-0.

I would like to point out that UNW just beat Greenville somewhat easily with a QB that has a broken left wrist. Looks like they should definitely win the AQ for the UMAC.

I know this isn't the volleyball board, but I gotta give a shoutout to the UNW volleyball team for beating #5, 8, and 9 teams in the nation last week and moving up to #3 in the nation. They have a great chance at making it back to the Final Four this year.

Quote from: Baldini on September 10, 2022, 03:34:34 PM

Quote from: jstoll19 on September 10, 2022, 03:13:56 PM
UNW is tied up with Concordia Wisconsin at halftime. UNW looks to be evenly match with Concordia even after losing Nick Drinken at the end of the 1st. They definitely look a lot better than MLC did last week.

Just came in from yard work, did Drinken get hurt?

Also, the first UMAC final is in, Concordia-Chicago defeated Finlandia 45-7.

Yeah. They said he got taken off on a stretcher. This game just went final as well. UNW loses 28-14 after shooting themselves in the foot with a handful of turnovers.

UNW is tied up with Concordia Wisconsin at halftime. UNW looks to be evenly match with Concordia even after losing Nick Drinken at the end of the 1st. They definitely look a lot better than MLC did last week.

The way that SJU13 described it was that one player called for the fair catch, and another actually caught the ball...that probably created some confusion?  I don't know how the application of the rule works in that case...can the person who doesn't catch it make a fair catch signal for someone else?  It sounds like the refs accepted the signal, but should they have?  Perhaps that's why they didn't tack on a penalty?

I know we're going way too far in on one play, but I'm always curious about the nuances of rules like this...
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I played over at UNW and can give a little insight into this. If any player calls a fair catch, the play should be ruled dead when someone catches the kick. From my experience is someone other than the returner catching the ball calls the fair catch, the refs will just blow the play dead until the returner stops and just spot it where the ball was caught unless it is clear that they were trying to be deceptive in calling the fair catch.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on September 06, 2022, 04:06:47 PM
I was kind of surprised that Northwestern was picked behind Morris in the preseason coaches' poll. That seemed to be low for me.

Good luck this season!

I was very surprised too. I know they've been improving over the last few years, but I still don't think they're to the level of Greenville and UNW. I'm also very interested to see how Martin Luther does this year with the new coach.

I'm a '21 UNW football alum thats new to this page but I've listened to the ATN podcast and been meaning to join this. I was at the UNW game on Saturday and they looked much improved from last year. This game was much closer than I thought it would be. I think the thing that hurt the Eagles the most was that in the 3rd their starting center went out. The backup that came in rolled a few snaps back to Drinken that gave Augsburg the ball back. UNW should be a legit threat in the UMAC this year for the first time since Coach Talley left.