FB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[baseman201]

Sheesh, CUC puts up 63 on Hope, although their D gave up 47, that should be a concern....

Either way, CUC has the best offense (in my opinion) in the conference, defense needs a little work!!

[d3fan1515]

BU WINNNNNNNNNS, Borsellino showed why he is an All American! The defense and lockton stepped up huge in the 2nd half what a gameeeeee! More analysis later!

[Captain_Joe08]

WLC loses to Adrian 31-23.

WLC was down 24-7 at halftime and could not get the ball rolling on offense. Zack Shaw threw two INT's that were turned into TD's later on. WLC defense stiffened in the second half and did not give Adrian much to work with. After getting a safety on a blocked punt, WLC pulled within 8 24-16 heading into the fourth, then Shaw threw his third INT when leading the offense downfield. Adrian converted that into another TD on the ensuing drive. WLC got within 8 again and had the ball driving into Adrian territory but the Bulldog D forced and recovered a fumble and iced the game. WLC lost the game as much as Adrian won the game IMO.

[Captain_Joe08]

The NATHCon wins the first round of the NATHC/MIAA Challenge 4-3.

Benedictine 32 Albion 28
Concordia Chicago 63 Hope 47
Adrian 31 Wisconsin Lutheran 23
Kalamazoo 31 Lakeland 24
Aurora 24 Alma 21
Concordia Wisconsin 13 Trine 10
Rockford 28 Olivet 12

Also Congrats to Rockford for ending their 22 game losing streak with the win today!!

[irisheagle]

The NATHCon wins the first round of the NATHC/MIAA Challenge 4-3.

Benedictine 32 Albion 28
Concordia Chicago 63 Hope 47
Adrian 31 Wisconsin Lutheran 23
Kalamazoo 31 Lakeland 24
Aurora 24 Alma 21
Concordia Wisconsin 13 Trine 10
Rockford 28 Olivet 12

Also Congrats to Rockford for ending their 22 game losing streak with the win today!!

Isnt this 5-2? BUt congrats to all NAC teams showing that this is an upcoming conference!

[Captain_Joe08]

The NATHCon wins the first round of the NATHC/MIAA Challenge 4-3.

Benedictine 32 Albion 28
Concordia Chicago 63 Hope 47
Adrian 31 Wisconsin Lutheran 23
Kalamazoo 31 Lakeland 24
Aurora 24 Alma 21
Concordia Wisconsin 13 Trine 10
Rockford 28 Olivet 12

Also Congrats to Rockford for ending their 22 game losing streak with the win today!!

Isnt this 5-2? BUt congrats to all NAC teams showing that this is an upcoming conference!

My bad 5-2. That's why I am not a math major lol.

[RFMichigan]

Well, I'm pretty surprised by the results of the weekend. I hope that this gets the NAC a little respect anyhow. Shoutouts to:

- Benedictine for coming back from a 21 point deficit. They could have folded their tent but didn't and got a pretty impressive win.

- CUW for holding Trine to a mere 10 points and making a huge play at the end (?) to come up with the win.

- Aurora for also making a huge play in the end to come up with the win! (Could someone who was at the game explain the last possession for Alma? I couldn't figure it out based on the play-by-play or the summaries but it looked weird on the play-by-play; a long completion with a fumble with the ball recovered 30 yards behind where the pass was completed?

- CUC for getting the ball in the end zone a lot. (They needed all of those 63. Even when they had 56 the outcome was still very much in doubt.)

- Rockford for getting into the W column!

- Even in the losses, WLC and Lakeland were in it until the end.

The conference teams, players, and coaches should be proud of themselves! It makes for a competitive conference season that we all should be looking forward to.

And what has happened to the MIAA? In my mind they are and have historically been a pretty decent conference in football in which most of the teams consistently bring in to their programs all-conference and all-state type players from around the state of Michigan.

As I mentioned on the MIAA board, we'll see what happens next year when the NAC teams travel around the lake.

[Pat Coleman]

BU WINNNNNNNNNS, Borsellino showed why he is an All American! The defense and lockton stepped up huge in the 2nd half what a gameeeeee! More analysis later!

Perhaps at returner, or all-purpose. Not an All-American running back, though. (And remember, he was not an All-American at running back by the AFCA last year either, but as an all-purpose player.) Maybe he'll be able to run the ball on NATHC teams but he couldn't on Wheaton or Albion.

[d3fan1515]

WOW Pat, I have been coming on this board for a couple years now and don't quite get why you would say something like that, I was just trying to be supportive of our team and express how well John and the rest of the Eagles played Saturday night. I don't care how you want to classify him, running back, wide receiver, all purpose player... Whatever, the kid makes plays and helps his team WIN! That is the most important thing! Its fine if you don't think he is an all american RB, but don't try and take away what he did Saturday night to help his team WIN . He is an all american caliber player period, and put on an ALL AMERICAN performance end of story!

[Pat Coleman]

I apologize for dropping a fact into your support.

[d3fan1515]

Would you agree that there was not much running room in either the Wheaton or Albion game for any BU running back???  The O-line was not getting much of a push in the Wheaton or Albion game, so getting Borsellino and the rest of the gang the ball on the perimeter was the right thing to do.  I want to commend the coaches for putting our players in a position for them to succeed Sat night! This was a big win for our program so forgive me for my excitement lol!

Im not really trying to debate you Pat, because I really appreciate what you and the rest of the D3football.com staff do, i'm just trying to engage in discussion. There aren't many NAC posters so any time people wander on our board and want to discuss football is alright by me lol!

[d3fan1515]

Also Pat, I know you were at BU Saturday night, were you able to check out BU's new locker room?? If so, what did you think!?

[Pat Coleman]

Would you agree that there was not much running room in either the Wheaton or Albion game for any BU running back???  The O-line was not getting much of a push in the Wheaton or Albion game, so getting Borsellino and the rest of the gang the ball on the perimeter was the right thing to do.  I want to commend the coaches for putting our players in a position for them to succeed Sat night! This was a big win for our program so forgive me for my excitement lol!

Im not really trying to debate you Pat, because I really appreciate what you and the rest of the D3football.com staff do, i'm just trying to engage in discussion. There aren't many NAC posters so any time people wander on our board and want to discuss football is alright by me lol!

It was definitely a big win and it was a great adjustment, more of what we saw a glimpse of in the Wheaton game. And I respect Borsellino as a player and all-around contributor whom you have to get the ball to, but to call him an All-American running back is a stretch. That is not where his value lies, in my opinion.

I did get to see the new building but not the locker room. I have heard great things, obviously.

[audad2011]

- Aurora for also making a huge play in the end to come up with the win! (Could someone who was at the game explain the last possession for Alma? I couldn't figure it out based on the play-by-play or the summaries but it looked weird o the play-by=play; a long completion with a fumble with the ball recovered 30 yards behind where the pass was completed?

Alma threw a long pass down field with very little time remaining. The receiver for Alma made the catch and tried the old lateral it back stuff. The ball rolled around until AU recovered it.

My thoughts are that this was a VERY sloppy game as neither team looked confident in what they were doing. WAY too many mental and physical errors on BOTH sides of the field. The much talked about O-line for AU better get their stuff together or the Bevell kid is gonna end up hurt again. You would figure that 4 returning starters and a transfer from Bowling Green could protect the QB a ton better then what they did. Bevell took a lot of hits he didn't need to take. AU is young on D and they made a ton of mistakes but that Christmas kid is a stud.

[d3fan1515]

That is fine, I respect your opinion, but I also disagree with your opinion lol, I do think he is an All American caliber RB! BU was down in a hurry in this game and had to resort to passing the football to get back into the game.  The O-Line was also struggling to get a push against a very good D-Line from Albion.  I don't care who you are, if your O-line is not getting a push it is going to be tough to get many yards up the gut!  Borsellino also only had 7 carries, that is not enough touches to get into a rhythm in the run game, but like I said before due to the score, we had to abandon the run game and start hurling the rock!

Only two games this week in the NAC
Carthage vs. Lakeland, i'm taking Carthage
Milikin vs. Aurora, I'm taking Milikin

After this week it is on to conference play, good luck to the two teams playing this weekend!