FB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[Mr. Ypsi]

RFMichigan - excellent post!  +k

I fear you are right that their 'reward' for making the playoffs will be going to Whitewater.

[I always wondered about the RF if your moniker - now I understand.  My brother taught his entire career at Oak Park-River Forest HS (and lived for several years just a few blocks from CURF); small world!]

[baseman201]

Dizzle -

Man, what school did you go to or what school are you going to now?

Seems like no matter what CUC does you always find a way to bash them in one way or another.

Your reasoning for CUC being good this year is because it is a down year for the conference.  Can't CUC be good because they have players sticking around for more than one year, the top 3 offensive weapons on CUC and pretty much in the NAC (Marotta, Copeland, Egebrecht) are all Juniors, have stuck around, and probably will be there again next year.

Maybe they are good because talented players realize they have been getting better little by little the past few years.

Just saying, I don't think CUC is where they are now because the NAC is having a down year.

I assume you are going to pick BU this week, but since CUC is my Alma Mater, I hope CUC wins big and makes the playoffs.

Sure they may play a team like Whitewater in the first round (if they win this week), even if they do get blown out, the point is they were there and having a good time doing it.

Good luck to all teams this weekend.  Depending on who wins and loses things could get a little messy as who will represent the NAC.  But hopefully CUC wins and makes it easy, 

[au dad]

After reading some of the posts here about the NAC, I feel that I need to add a couple of things. After being at all AU games this year, CUC is the best offense in the league that I have seen (With LC left to see). The best team I have seen this year is IWU in the CCIW. They are heads above anyone in the NAC. I feel bad that CUC is going to draw a tough opening round game. They will have a tough time beating a team like IWU or Whitewater.

As for what is up at AU, I'll post my thoughts after Saturday.

[FalconsFootball]

I wouldn't necessarily say the conference is down this year.  I do believe that AU, CUW, and LC are not as good as they have been in the past few years.  However, the usual lower ranked teams have gotten better i.e. CUC, WLC.  BU was once very good as well; lately they have been kind of hovering around the middle, but are now back near the top. 

That being said, it is hard to say the conference is down when some of the traditionally weaker teams are getting better.  That makes for more parity, and hopefully a stronger overall conference in the future.  Just because some of the traditionally stronger teams are struggling doesn't mean everything is worse. 

Believe me, it is hard to watch CUW right now, but in the long run this is the best thing for the conference.  The more good teams there are, the more recruits each school will bring in, the stronger the conference overall. 

Good Luck, God Bless!

Seniors Make of the Most of this game!

[old 40]

Congrats to Kyree Copland from CUC on being named to the "D3 Football Team of the Week". Not to many NAC players have received this honor. I sat through his record breaking day last week. I have not seen a back like him in the IBFC or NAC. Good Job.

Falcons Football

Great points, I agree 100%. CUW, AU and LC will continue to have to upgrade their recruiting or they will be passed certainly by BU, CUC and WLC each year.

[WLCALUM83]

WLCALUM83's guesses:

Lakeland
Concordia-Chicago
Concordia-WI
WLC

[dizzle52]

baseman201-

I definitely agree with you that CUC is a much improved team and a reason for that is they are an older team with experience and key players have come back for them.  But I have also watched CUC play the last five years or so, and I just can't believe that they are this much improved over one year.  Some teams they beat this year killed them last year (some by 40 or more points).  I don't really see that big of a turn-around just on veteran players coming back.  I just can't help to think that they also got a lot of help from LC, CUW, and AU not being on top of their game this year.

Maybe I am wrong.  Who knows.  Congrats to them on a well played year so far and I do hope they represent the NAC well in the playoffs (assuming they win Saturday).

One last thing.  This weekend:  Way too much offense for the Eagles.  CUC lights up BU.

[old 40]

My Guesses for the last week of the regular season;

CUW@RC- Ouch, CUW wins big 56-6

AU@LC- Last year AU hammered them, this year will be close AU28- LC27

MBBC@WLC- Ouch, WLC wins big and shuts down MBBC 52-0

BU @CUC- Closer game than many think. BU shuts the run but can't handle the pass- CUC 32-21

Good Luck to everyones team and Congrats to all the NAC Seniors. It has been Great watching you preform. Good Luck in your life's endeavors.

[baseman201]

Dizzle-

Fair enough, I have been watching CUC for a LONG time as well so I understand your reasoning.  I know someone mentioned LaGrange and the turnaround they had, so it can happen.

Monmouth was 2-8 in 1999, 3-7 in 2000, then 8-2 in 2001 and they haven't looked back since.  Now granted Monmouth is an awesome football team, but still the similarities are there.  Even Whitewater was 3-7 and then 5-5 for 3 years before dominating.  CUC was 3-7 in 2007, 3-7 in 2008 and now 8-1.  The more you win the more quality recruits come in as they want to win too.  CUC has been at the bottom it seems since 1985, new coaches (that stick around) and recruits (that stick around) can go a long way to being succesful, just takes a while to build, it seems CUC is starting to build a quality program.

My picks are the same as Old 40, so it will save me some typing time,  

[WLCALUM83]

NAthCon updates:

Concordia-WI 38, Rockford 0  --less than 5 minutes left

Lakeland 28, Aurora 0  --less than 6 minutes left

Benedictine 15, Concordia-Chicago 14  --about 3 minutes left in 3rd.

[WLCALUM83]

Final:  WLC 49, Maranatha Baptist 6
               (Stats indicate Crusaders had 5 passes intercepted; Warriors' Muldrow and Hairl combined for
                   more than 250 yards rushing.)

The Warriors' 5-5 record is their best regular season record since 2003. 

[fishguy]

I'm sure most have seen this by now - Lakeland shuts out Aurora, and Benedictine pulls out a 15-14 win at CUC. Lakeland heads to the playoffs. Heartbreaker for CUC. It will be interesting to see who Lakeland draws. They already played Central of Iowa - would they play again? Maybe UW-Whitewater?

[Cougswillwin]

St. John's of Minnesota...good luck.

10,000 strong for the Johnnies...will be tough to go in there and stick with them.

[fishguy]

What happened at the end of the CUC game? Do they not have a kicker good enough to try a game winning FG?

[WLCALUM83]

This poster had the radio feed going--on the last drive, Copeland was pulled after 2 good runs, the Cougars lost yardage on the ensuing 2 plays,  the last shot they had was a 4th down pass, which fell incomplete. Maybe they didn't want to put that kind of pressure on their freshman kicker--