FB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[augiedogie]

Grover:
Augie scored on the 1st play of the game. They had 3 Td's before Lakeland had 3 first downs.  I can only recall 2 huge plays where the corners were burned deep. The fake reverse play, and the 4th and 1. Even then, 1 of the deep guys was covered while the other made a great catch. Even if Lakeland would have scored 1 or more td's in the first half of the game, they weren't able to stop Augie's attack. They put up 35 in the first half and could have done the same thing in the second half if they had wanted to. Lakeland won the second half 15-14 while keeping their starting receivers in against Augie's 2nd string defense.

People are all talking about how augustana beat the crap out of Lakeland. I think even augie fans should realize that there is no reason the game should have been 21-14 or even 21-21 halfway through the second.
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You are right, there is no reason why Lakeland should have scored that many points in the 1st half and they didn't.

[grover1728]

There were 2 other underthrown balls that half, the first #1 dropped the pick, and the second #1 caught the pick.  But in both instances, WR #1 had gotten behind the Augie corner.  Yes, after those plays Augie did manage to put up 35 in the first half.  But we can only imagine the possibilities if the score was 21-21.  All i'm saying is that Lakeland did have some chances to stay in the game.  After the quick 21 put up by Augie, lakeland stopped them for a couple of drives. 

[baseman201]

Lakeland stopped them because Augie for some reason just quit playing it seemed like to me.  They just didnt have any fire after their first 3 scores. 

I agree, the score could have been alot worse if Augie stayed fired up after their first 3 scores, and kept their starters in. Lakeland definately would NOT have come out with 22 points. Grover, don't make me come accross the hall and beat you with my bad arm.

GeTitBoY........you got burned..............burned hard

[GeTiTBoI]

People are all talking about how augustana beat the crap out of Lakeland.    I think even augie fans should realize that there is no reason the game should have been 21-14 or even 21-21 halfway through the second.  There were at least 4 passes that were underthrown to receivers who were either wide open, or had their corners beat deep.  Lakeland had their back-up QB the whole first half, and then had Mauiri in for the 2nd half.  Anyone who has seen lakeland and Mauiri play knows that Mauiri gets lots of things done with his feet, which obviously he didn't have because of a broken leg.  Anyways, what I'm saying is that if Lakeland had their full team, i think it would have been closer.  I still think Augie would win, but it would have been a better game.

Getitboi -
I played against CUW this year and yeah, you guys were good.  We're you better than Lakeland???  Well they beat you.  You can't argue with that.  I would say you are both pretty evenly matched, but Lakeland had a more versitile QB with talents in both passing and running.  However, there is no way that you can say that CUW is far superior to Lakeland. 

[GeTiTBoI]

Never did I say we are FAR superior than Lakeland I said they aren't better than us meaning we pretty equal across the board expect they had a veteran and pretty good QB we had a freshman and seeing action for the first time QB. Your quoting me with my post right below man get it right....

[augiedogie]

baseman:

Augie has the tendancy to come out of the gates hard in the 1st quater. They got up 17-0 against NC in the first half and they were up 21-7 against Wheaton in the first half. They for some unknown reason tend to have a not so great 2nd quarter. They let North Park stay in the game early along with an IWU team they put away later in the game.  Augie did seem to get complacent after the 1st quarter and to start the 2nd half. They seem to have an ok 3rd quarter but put teams away in the 4th.  It should be a great matchup @ Mt. Union this weekend.  I give Lakeland a lot of credit for staying in the game and doing whatever they needed to try to score. The gutsy 4th and 1 long bomb certained fooled the Augie D along with the fake punt from deep in their own territory. 

[GeTiTBoI]

Dansand Lets hear all this Auggie talk when The "U" of D-III stomps a mudhole in them....

And the reason I didn't choose Auggie I'd rather play for a team with a little diveristy just a little!!

[vikes35]

GetitBoy

So you were heavily recruited by AUGIE (one G so get it right). Then why didn't you play for us. If you wanted diversity we have it, you should come out to a game and see. Of course at a private school it is going to be heavily white. I am not being racist that is just the way it is. The fact is our team is top 10 in the nation and nobody in your conference is even ranked. It didn't matter what team we played from your conference we would have beaten them. We are not saying that your conference is bad, we are just saying that the CCIW is one of the toughest conferences in the nation and that Augie is one of the powerhouses in that conference. The only reason the game was so close was simply because Augie played even more conservative than normal in the second half for the second straight week with a big lead. If you wanted to see Augie play 60 minutes of all out football the score would have been something like what UW-W did to them early.

Also you think you are better than Lakeland, then my question is why didn't you beat them? The fact that they only scored one touchdown on offense means nothing to me. I read the press relaese and you guys did absolutely nothing the last 3 quarters. If you want to win you have to play the whole game, something you did not do on that Saturday.

Also why don't you go over to the OAC board and check out what the people are saying about the Augie/ MUC game next week. They admit they are beatable and they are saying that Augie would be just the team to do it. You haven't seen us play all year, so don't act like you know a thing about our football team. They are equal to MUC and the game is going to be a tough battle. At least our team is still playing, as you have to sit at home and type about what might have been.


To all posters:

Why is it that so many active players are posting on this site? I know that CCIW players are not allowed to post of these sites, why don't the coaches from the IBFC stop their players from doing the same? It seems to me these guys should care more about playing then they should reading what we all have ot say.

[dansand]

vikes35,
I figured he just meant more diversity on offense. I could be wrong.

GeTiTBoi,
The word Augie (or Auggie) didn't even appear in my post.

[GeTiTBoI]

 Wow so passionate..Active players should be posting not fake chris bermans and mel kiper jr's....You haven't seen our team play so how could you say something about a press release. Were you guys better than Carthage last year when they beat you or how about Central when they beat you by one go ask your players I bet they would tell you they were so that who arguement is out the window...I just didn't want to go there still don't I'm happy with my choice.. Coming on this board and bashing IBFC is a slap in the face of every player and coach in this league and I'm not saying the IBFC is all that great but were good and LC is good there will be a shift in power soon...And no more talking about what could have been it is what its going to be.

No I was talking about the pop. you were right.

[GeTiTBoI]

It didn't have to..you have it in you picture

[grover1728]

Vikes35 -
We (baseman and I) are no longer active players as of 3 weeks ago.  Our college playing days have come and gone, which went by far too fast and saddens me.  But what does posting have to do about the desire to play?  It's not like any current players are talking ****.  This site is merely an online convo about football.  If you don't like it, get off the IBFC page.

While I despise mequon( Muck Fequon    ) getitboi has a point.  One thing i noticed was that every single Augie player was white.  Sure there may be diversity on the campus, but not on the team.  Mequon is a much more diverse squad, as are most IBFC schools.

[dansand]

GeTiTBoi,

Just so you know, Augie beat Carthage 35-0 last year. They've lost a lot of tight games the past few years, mostly to Wheaton. While dissappointed, I don't recall any Augie backers saying that the CCIW didn't send their best when Wheaton went to the playoffs. As far as bashing your conference, if you look at my posts, I've said nothing negative about the IBFC, unless you consider pointing out that the CCIW is better as negative. It's also true.

[GeTiTBoI]

I'm talking about just you since the playoff pairings were announced people have been on here talk a whole bunch of trash just downing the entire IBFC I understand top to bottom were no where compared to CCIW didn't know that when I committed but I know now but our top 2 teams would compete in your league not saying we would have the 7-3 or 8-2 like we had this year but we would compete i.e lakeland vs carthage 20-16

[GeTiTBoI]

My bad I thought ya'll lost to carthage the way Coach Rucks were talking about ya'll when i said Augie was in the hunt for me