FB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[WLCALUM83]

Outrage in CUW land.

They lose two points in the top 25 voting and receive one less vote than North Central.

Balderdash!!!

Could it be because North Central knocked off Benedictine (a team with a better overall record than WLC?) Just throwing that out there.

[7400West]

no one wants to talk about the woodshed beatting of CUC on Sat. at RHIT....It seems the team that was so loud two weeks ago is very quiet. I dont blam them with a running game of 25 yards on 26 carries all day. RHIT looked like Conf. champs and put up the stats to show it
"The Engineers recorded their first shutout since 2002, and their largest margin of victory since 1958. Concordia has been held scoreless in their last two games following a week one win over Blackburn College, 13-3."
-- taken from cuchaicago.edu

but the hard truth is that the team wont even make 3rd place in the Conf. they play at. Hopefully some of the ego's on the team have had a long sunday and monday to think about reality. Word is that there are a lot of "injured" players if you catch my drift. And if coach Pries is the Coach I imagined he would be the "injured" players will be delt with with a strong fist.

Conf. play starts and what better team the start with then the eagles. former coach, rivilry, team in same boat(sort of), and local team. I feel that this is going to be a game to watch, much like last year. I think CUC wins and builds some confidence, not cockyness for the following weeks. But it will not be easy, they drop  this one and it will be a longs season as a cougar.


And to add about CUW and the point system. This will happen to IBC for a long time as long as IBC plays weeks where only one team wins and the rest get beat badly.

[79jaybird]

With regards to the polls and CUW/NC

I wouldn't worry about the polls and Top 25  votes/ who stands where.  The fact remains, that CUW beat NC on their home turf, and have the knowledge and esteem that they can beat a quality team in NC.  If they were to meet again in the playoffs, CUW knows how to beat them... since they already did it once.
IMO, I am not a big fan of polls, rankings, etc.  Sure it is nice to see your school in the rankings,  however a poll is just that-- somebody's opinion.

I think the utmost importance is getting your team into the playoffs by winning your conference games.  If you don't play well and win your conference games, then all the polls/rankings/ and what not  doesn't really matter.

[Gomer Pyle]

   CU-W  may have lost points but in week 2 they where 39th and in week 3 there`re still 39th............  In the Top 25 in D-3.

[FatalImpact]

CUW shouldnt be focusing on rank who cares those are just numbers....carthage was on there preseason and after the first couple weeks....they feel off because the numbers just dont matter....cuz anything can happen on any given day.........Thoughts on this upcoming week?

AU beats Mac
LC beats Greenville (though I think this one will be close)
BU over CUC (another close one)
CUW beats Eureka

[Cougswillwin]

Cougs Will Win!!

[TruCountry95]

Predications for conference saturday.........

CUW vs Eureka (CUW wins 49-7)
Benedictine vs CUC (BU wins 33-12)
Aurora vs MacMurray (AU wins 27-6)
Lakeland vs Greenville (Greenville wins 23-14)

GC has the defense to beat Lakeland, but their offense is going to have to produce right from the start. If GC can get on the board early and shut down Lakeland early then GC get's the "W".  LC won last year by 7 and that's win they had "super team" and was picked to win by 5 TD's from Maddog.  Hope GC can get the win. Good luck to the othe IBC teams this Saturday.   

[coocooforcoekohawk]

Better showing for CUW in the AFCA poll.

http://www.afca.com/lev3.cfm/1145

[FalconsFootball]

CUW over Eureka 0  With the shutout Whether or not they come out for the sencond half. 

CUC over Bendictine In a hardfought game.

AU over Mac by 14

Greenville over LC by 3

[Gomer Pyle]

  To all you guys who think Greenville will take Lakeland this saturday, you just know Maddog (aka, Mel Allen) is spitting nails. 
   For his beloved Lake-etts to be projected losers i`m sure will bring a
   bombastic retort to the contrary.

     He`ll tell all that his team, laden with NFL talent,..............Oops, sorry Mel
    didn`t mean to steal your thunder. 

[79jaybird]

Why doesn't somebody who is a major poster on the IBFC board, start up an IBFC pick em's board with the other conferences?

[bufan]

BU 34- CUC 6: CUC has won 6 games in the last 7 years.

AU 21- Mac 10: Aurora has the best conference winning percentage since 1999(41-8)

CUW 88- EC 0: i have no reason why this game should not be hideuos. CUW beat NCC by 6, who beat BU by 38, and BU beat NP by 16, who killed EC by 28...so due to this simple math, its clear that this will be the score.


LC 28- GC 17: Lakeland is 20-15 at home since 1999.

Yes i am a loser and looked these things up.

[Bigg_Smack]

CUW 88- EC 0: i have no reason why this game should not be hideuos. CUW beat NCC by 6, who beat BU by 38, and BU beat NP by 16, who killed EC by 28...so due to this simple math, its clear that this will be the score.


Yes i am a loser and looked these things up.

yeah the CUW-EC game should be very lopsided. Better hope the CUW boys are road weary. I heard EC finished their game against NPU with about 5 or 6 new injuries. Anyone know if any those are serious, and if they were key players? Also, NPU looked pretty good, even if it was just Eureka that they were playing. They might steal one or two in their conf. with their new found running game and their new coaching staff. Kudos to NP fullback, #37 he looked like a beast out there. I hope, for the sake of their season that he keeps up the physical play.

[Gomer Pyle]

  Con (Wis) got some "ink" on the front page of the D-3 site.
     Always good to see a IBC team get recognition on the "BIG SITE."
   Looks like the boys from CUW have got the train moving in the right direction. Good luck to them.

  bufan:  nice work.   

[baseman201]

BU over CUC by 28?

Don't think so, will be the best game of the weekend, with one of the teams winning by 3-7 pts.

And yeah, sweet picture on the front of D3football.com

See, the IBC is getting noticed and if anything it gets Concordias name out there, which is a good thing for the 10 Concordias around the nation.