FB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[WLCALUM83]

I'm hoping to take in at least part of that bowl game. I hope our players represent the NAthCon well.

[d3fan1515]

Anyone know of any facility upgrades going on within the NAC schools?

[formerd3db]

wlcalum, wlcalum83:

It seems like a long time ago already since your WLC was in our MIAA!  Anyway, you guys are getting ready for the next era (Era II) of WLC football with the new head coach.  The facilities are nice also at the stadium with the new center/locker rooms there, instead of the circus/wedding reception tent!

Anyway, I just wanted to wish you guys and all the NAC posters here (even including RFMichigan, who is a CUC guy but posts here occasionally ) a wonderful Christmas and New Years holiday with your families and whatever you do/wherever you will be at.  Safe travels.  It is a pleasure posting with you all here when I do occasionally (even though we are in different leagues) and I look forward to more of the same in 2013. 

[Captain_Joe08]

Merry Christmas to all the Nath-con (or NAC for everyone familiar with the conference) users that post on here!!!

[Gregory Sager]

It has nothing to do with familiarity, or lack thereof. It's called the NAthCon or the NAthC in d3sports.com circles because there was already a NAC -- the North Atlantic Conference -- within the ranks of D3 leagues when yours was created. The North Atlantic Conference therefore has a prior claim to the abbreviation "NAC".

[formerd3db]

It has nothing to do with familiarity, or lack thereof. It's called the NAthCon or the NAthC in d3sports.com circles because there was already a NAC -- the North Atlantic Conference -- within the ranks of D3 leagues when yours was created. The North Atlantic Conference therefore has a prior claim to the abbreviation "NAC".

With all due respect, Gregory, according to the official Northern Athletic Conferences website, their administrators (at least those who maintain the official league website) do indeed refer to it as the NAC.  So despite the North Atlantic Conference having rightful prior claim to the abbreviation "NAC" by virtue of it being established before the midwest conference, the latter appears to use the "NAC" abbreviation, regardless of whether those of us here on the d3sports .com circles refer to it as the NAthCon for clarity. Perhaps the conference in our midwest region should change that if there is any confusion.

[Gregory Sager]

Yes, I'm aware that this league's administrators use the "NAC" abbreviation. If I remember correctly, somebody involved with the larger world of D3 athletics -- it might've been Pat Coleman, because I remember him talking about it -- made an appeal to the newly-founded league to not use that name when it was first announced that that's what the fusion of the two defunct predecessor leagues, the Lake Michigan Conference and the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference, would call itself, since the older North Atlantic Conference had already staked its claim to the abbreviation. This plea for the new league to seek something more original and less confusing was obviously ignored.

The league can call itself anything it likes, of course. But those of us who follow the larger world of D3 athletics will continue to call this league the NAthCon or the NAthC so as to avoid confusion with the older league out east that has the right of precedence as far as the initials "NAC" are concerned.

[formerd3db]

Yes, I'm aware that this league's administrators use the "NAC" abbreviation. If I remember correctly, somebody involved with the larger world of D3 athletics -- it might've been Pat Coleman, because I remember him talking about it -- made an appeal to the newly-founded league to not use that name when it was first announced that that's what the fusion of the two defunct predecessor leagues, the Lake Michigan Conference and the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference, would call itself, since the older North Atlantic Conference had already staked its claim to the abbreviation. This plea for the new league to seek something more original and less confusing was obviously ignored.

The league can call itself anything it likes, of course. But those of us who follow the larger world of D3 athletics will continue to call this league the NAthCon or the NAthC so as to avoid confusion with the older league out east that has the right of precedence as far as the initials "NAC" are concerned.

Certainly makes sense for avoiding confusion as you mention despite the league administrators deciding to call their league/use the initials "NAC".  I guess that is keeping in line with the absurdity of the DI conferences with their wacky names and alignments in the current ever-changing world of college football. It's even affecting DIII in that small, albeit insignificant way.

[Pat Coleman]

It has nothing to do with familiarity, or lack thereof. It's called the NAthCon or the NAthC in d3sports.com circles because there was already a NAC -- the North Atlantic Conference -- within the ranks of D3 leagues when yours was created. The North Atlantic Conference therefore has a prior claim to the abbreviation "NAC".

With all due respect, Gregory, according to the official Northern Athletic Conferences website, their administrators (at least those who maintain the official league website) do indeed refer to it as the NAC.  So despite the North Atlantic Conference having rightful prior claim to the abbreviation "NAC" by virtue of it being established before the midwest conference, the latter appears to use the "NAC" abbreviation, regardless of whether those of us here on the d3sports .com circles refer to it as the NAthCon for clarity. Perhaps the conference in our midwest region should change that if there is any confusion.

It's actually the Northern Athletics Conference.

[formerd3db]

Thanks for the grammatical clarification/correction Pat!

[lem4094]

Any word on who has interviewed for the CUC position?  Any speculations?

[RFMichigan]

CUC football HC position . . . something's going on . . .

There's a You Tube clip, posted January 12 (only featured in a small interview box on the CUC baseball page) showing Randy Awrey speaking to an unnamed group (assuming from the questions fielded that they are players/prospective players) titled "Concordia-Chicago's new head football coach Randy Awrey speaks about his new position and the future of Cougar football".

Here is a bio from his most recent position:
"Randy Awrey joins the Marietta College football staff as the defensive coordinator in 2012. Awrey comes to Marietta from Northern Michigan University where he served in the same capacity since 2007.

Awrey brings over 30 years of football coaching experience to the Pioneer program, including 18 as a collegiate head coach. His career record as a head coach is 124-68-1.

Prior to his stint at Northern Michigan, Awrey was the head coach at Saginaw Valley State University for nine seasons (1999-2007) where he led the Cardinals to a 76-27 overall record. He left Saginaw Valley as the all-time winningest coach in school history."

I know of him from his days at SVSU where he followed Jerry Kill, and then  . . . 

Commence discussion.

   

[WisIllMich]

Here is the video link for those wondering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3IKjYV40hMQ

He seems like a solid man. Anyone replacing Pries will obviously be a downgrade in the faith/leadership/personal aspect. What I am hoping for is that he will bring an aspect of football knowledge that Pries did not necessarily have.

Finally, I pray that the team will unite around this man, and most importantly for the team, still unite with each other.

[formerd3db]

Here is the video link for those wondering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3IKjYV40hMQ

He seems like a solid man. Anyone replacing Pries will obviously be a downgrade in the faith/leadership/personal aspect. What I am hoping for is that he will bring an aspect of football knowledge that Pries did not necessarily have.

Finally, I pray that the team will unite around this man, and most importantly for the team, still unite with each other.

CUC football HC position . . . something's going on . . .

There's a You Tube clip, posted January 12 (only featured in a small interview box on the CUC baseball page) showing Randy Awrey speaking to an unnamed group (assuming from the questions fielded that they are players/prospective players) titled "Concordia-Chicago's new head football coach Randy Awrey speaks about his new position and the future of Cougar football".

Here is a bio from his most recent position:
"Randy Awrey joins the Marietta College football staff as the defensive coordinator in 2012. Awrey comes to Marietta from Northern Michigan University where he served in the same capacity since 2007.

Awrey brings over 30 years of football coaching experience to the Pioneer program, including 18 as a collegiate head coach. His career record as a head coach is 124-68-1.

Prior to his stint at Northern Michigan, Awrey was the head coach at Saginaw Valley State University for nine seasons (1999-2007) where he led the Cardinals to a 76-27 overall record. He left Saginaw Valley as the all-time winningest coach in school history."

I know of him from his days at SVSU where he followed Jerry Kill, and then  . . . 

Commence discussion.

Thanks for the info and the link guys.  Not surprising that he returns more "north" although only after one year at Marietta.  Also, perhaps not so surprising that his second (and last) son would give up his senior year at Marietta to go play for his dad again at CUC.  His other son (who is coaching at Olivet (MI) College in the MIAA) apparently did the same thing, playing at DII Saginaw Valley State when Awrey was head coach there, then following his dad to his dad's alma mater DII Northern Michigan and finishing there, according to what I recall and also his bio on the Marietta website.

Finally, it is somewhat strange that as of early this evening, CUC had not posted any info on him on their football website.  I assume they will do so tomorrow or very soon?

[RFMichigan]

Here is the video link for those wondering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3IKjYV40hMQ

He seems like a solid man. Anyone replacing Pries will obviously be a downgrade in the faith/leadership/personal aspect. What I am hoping for is that he will bring an aspect of football knowledge that Pries did not necessarily have.

Finally, I pray that the team will unite around this man, and most importantly for the team, still unite with each other.

CUC football HC position . . . something's going on . . .

There's a You Tube clip, posted January 12 (only featured in a small interview box on the CUC baseball page) showing Randy Awrey speaking to an unnamed group (assuming from the questions fielded that they are players/prospective players) titled "Concordia-Chicago's new head football coach Randy Awrey speaks about his new position and the future of Cougar football".

Here is a bio from his most recent position:
"Randy Awrey joins the Marietta College football staff as the defensive coordinator in 2012. Awrey comes to Marietta from Northern Michigan University where he served in the same capacity since 2007.

Awrey brings over 30 years of football coaching experience to the Pioneer program, including 18 as a collegiate head coach. His career record as a head coach is 124-68-1.

Prior to his stint at Northern Michigan, Awrey was the head coach at Saginaw Valley State University for nine seasons (1999-2007) where he led the Cardinals to a 76-27 overall record. He left Saginaw Valley as the all-time winningest coach in school history."

I know of him from his days at SVSU where he followed Jerry Kill, and then  . . . 

Commence discussion.

Thanks for the info and the link guys.  Not surprising that he returns more "north" although only after one year at Marietta.  Also, perhaps not so surprising that his second (and last) son would give up his senior year at Marietta to go play for his dad again at CUC.  His other son (who is coaching at Olivet (MI) College in the MIAA) apparently did the same thing, playing at DII Saginaw Valley State when Awrey was head coach there, then following his dad to his dad's alma mater DII Northern Michigan and finishing there, according to what I recall and also his bio on the Marietta website.

Finally, it is somewhat strange that as of early this evening, CUC had not posted any info on him on their football website.  I assume they will do so tomorrow or very soon?

I'm guessing something will be up Monday.

As to him being at Marietta only one year, I'm chalking that up to his being not retained at Northern for the 2012 season when they had a new head coach named a year ago (not surprising to have a head coach bring in his own coordinators) and his wanting to get back into a head coaching position. 

Stay tuned.