Top D3 Men's Soccer Rivalries

[PaulNewman]

Congratulations, Greg.

Well deserved and great to see North Park University bestow this honor. You are the "Cawood Ledford" of North Park athletics.

I hereby grant you 10 corrections to PaulNewman during the upcoming season for free without me recoiling into defensive reactivity. Indeed,  I look forward to them.

Congrats again!

[Gregory Sager]

Congratulations, Greg.

Thanks! Much appreciated!

Well deserved and great to see North Park University bestow this honor. You are the "Cawood Ledford" of North Park athletics.

You probably know this already, but Cawood Ledford graduated from what is now a D3 institution, Centre College.

I hereby grant you 10 corrections to PaulNewman during the upcoming season for free without me recoiling into defensive reactivity. Indeed,  I look forward to them.

This image immediately popped into my head:

[PaulNewman]

Yes, I knew he went to Centre, and I'm guessing you appreciate that putting your name in the same breath with Cawood Ledford is the highest level of compliment.  He truly is one of the all-time greats in broadcasting history and my very favorite UK Wildcat person ever going back to age 6 when I would listen to UK bball play in Oxford or Starkville, MS in our carport inside my Dad's car where we got the best reception of WHAS out of Louisville.  In addition to 39 years with UK bball and football, Cawood did the national radio for the men's Final Four for years and also called the Kentucky Derby for years.

As fate would have it, Cawood's last game was "the greatest college basketball game ever," the 1992 East Regional Final that UK lost 104-103 in double OT.  My father in NC got tickets out of the Duke allotment, picked me up in DC, and we were sitting among the Duke fans at the Spectrum when Laettner hit "The Shot."  At any rate, Cawood signed off borrowing the goodbye words of Adolph Rupp...."for all of you who have gone down the glory road with me, my eternal thanks."  Six years later I used that phrase on my father's behalf for his eulogy. 

Interesting tidbit...During Cawood's radio sign-off that night Coach K from Duke came over even in exaltation to soothe Big Blue Nation and praise how great UK had played while also giving a nod to Cawood and his career.

Cawood has a banner hanging in the rafters of Rupp Arena that has a big microphone on it.  He is absolutely beloved across the Commonwealth by all old enough to have memories of his play-by-play.  Classy, classy guy.

Here's a cut of the final sign-off that includes Coach K's gracious words...

https://soundcloud.com/tim-edwards-45/cawood-final-sign-off-with-coach-k?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

[WUPHF]

Except when he is calling North Park and Wheaton basketball...  Best to turn down the volume.

[LibbyMoore]

Does Lehigh v Lafayette extend past football to soccer?

[NEPAFAN]

Does Lehigh v Lafayette extend past football to soccer?

Maybe but we would be talking D1 soccer at that point.

[Freddyfud]

Does Lehigh v Lafayette extend past football to soccer?

Maybe but we would be talking D1 soccer at that point.

And no it doesn't.  At least when I was there in the early 90's.  No one was rushing the field after the soccer game risking life and limb to get a piece of the goal posts like they did for football.

[LibbyMoore]

Ah right of course, D1. As you can tell, I wasn't an athlete, I only parent one now. Not sure I knew what D1 was as a student if you can possibly imagine!