FB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[FatalImpact]

Let me examine T-bags claims the old teams were better, when I contend teams have gotten better.....T and obvious coach scott fan refuses to give credit to coach scott's colleague John Cooper...Currently at BU....which has improved greatly mostly due to Coach Coop's coaching abilities...That was a great game BU has improved greatly...........T calls himself a spartan fan when he is a fairweather fan....True supporters are with their team thick and thin....Apparently you just dont care anymore......This new staff is working great in a mostly Improved IBFC.....In 2004 (I realize that it was a coach scott game ) went blow for blow in a playoff game with a ranked opponent...This year CUW beatss North Central....SO this conf has improved your just not giving any team credit... Trust me I was at the AU football reunion dinner and Coach Scott willingly supports Coach Duncan in everything he does....Let Me repeat that COACH SCOTT WILLINGLY SUPPORTS COACH DUNCAN IN EVERYTHING HE DOES......Coach Duncan is a great coach he understands his players and he is going to be at AU for a very long time.........SO tBaggin.....You are not really an AU supporter at all....AT least when I was conversing with Twisted and Da One they gave credit where credit is due

[FatalImpact]

My CUC remarks were a little outrageous I realize the play tougher teams....But CUC has consistently been a sub-par team year after year.....baseman201 was hatin on AU when AU plays tougher opponents closer and more consistently

[baseman201]

I think CUW gets the home game and wins because they went 10-0 the deserve it

Fatal just because a team went 10-0 doesn't mean they deserve anything.  Now I agree with you I hope they win as well but going 10-0 doesn't automatically give them a win. 

That's true CUC did play Loras and Elmhurst the previous 2 seasons.

[FatalImpact]

I think CUW gets the home game and wins because they went 10-0 the deserve it

Fatal just because a team went 10-0 doesn't mean they deserve anything.  Now I agree with you I hope they win as well but going 10-0 doesn't automatically give them a win. 

That's true CUC did play Loras and Elmhurst the previous 2 seasons.

Let me rephrase they beat NCC and they are a great team....IMO the get the bid  because they are good

[Fartcus Smellwood]

Yes, CUC has also played Elmhurst 2 years ago and was once televised on their channel (Channel 6 I believe). Elmhurst and Loras are very very very respectable teams and to add to the table, Loras would wipe their asses with every team in this conference. I am sure U of Chicago would probably beat every team to. I am trying my best not to put this conference down but show that CUC does have respectable opponents for their non-conference games...as someone has agreed already. One day very soon, I even think next season, CUC is going to go .500 or more. Teams are going to take them lightly next season (as usual) and this is what the players eyes will do (Pat, the faces....cute and helpful) Anyways, I am out. Later.

[TBaggins]

Fatal and aufb,

A few things:


a) first of all, Fatal, good lord, please stop drinking before posting. Your grammar and sentence construction gives me a headache. Seriously, it's terrible.

b) fairweather fan? Yes, I will say that I am indeed a fairweather fan, and that is because I witnessed the dismantling of a proud and strong football tradition. I have absolutely no shame admitting that.

c) regarding Coach Cooper, I give him all the credit in the world for turning BU around, and I think things would be much different if he were running the show at AU. I think BU is actually a better team than AU currently.

d) aufb, point conceded regarding Coach Scott. I have no idea what he thinks about the current state of AU so I can't co-opt his endorsement of my perspective. I humbly remove his name. However, that still doesn't change the fact that a once proud program is crumbling. I hope that changes, I really do. You two can hem and haw all day about how great AU is but I doubt either one of you has been around long enough to have any sufficient basis for comparison between the Scott era and the current era.

e) finally, and this will be my last post on this subject, I'm not brining this up solely to ruffle feathers (remember Fat Pongo?). I just can't sit and listen to everyone go on and on about how great AU is. It's simply disingenuous. AU is under new leadership and it may take a while to build the program up again, but the fact remains that it is currently a far cry from the glory days. Things can change, and I hope they do, but in the meantime all I ask is that you cheerleaders look in the mirror a little bit. You can crow all you want about how great AU is but you only make yourselves appear like the Emperor with no clothes.

[TBaggins]

Ok, I lied, this will be my last post. I forgot  to add:

e) this conference wasn't always the DIV-III dormat. It was a lot more competitive in the 90's, making the separation between those AU teams and the current even more pronounced.

[7400West]

Alright, I haven't posted for awhile.

To all you AU alum to have nothing else to post but how good you guys were from 98-01 or whatever, uhm yeah, we really don't care.  How about you talk about the present and the future of the schools and not live in the past on every post.

"Yeah man, we were like 27-1 against IBC schools", yeah you talk about how piss poor CUC, Ben, EU are, good job, way to beat those teams then.......how did you do in the playoffs?  Oh yeah, didn't win.  Maybe start bragging how good your team is when you win a playoff game, or better yet, in a conference with some competition.

your 98-01 squads probably would have been .500 in a majority of the other conferences, but congratualations though.

In conclusion........I hope CUW wins their playoff game.

Didn't you go to or are going to CUC a team that is, with the exception of EC, the weakest of this so called "weak" conference........Don't be mad at AU alums because your team has been "lackluster".....SO what were consistently good, we try our best in non-conf to play tough teams to make us better, CUC on the other hand tries to plays teams they can beat and even that might not even happen.....SO dont hate on us

AHHHHEMMM, CUC doesn't really play weak non conference games. If you want to call Loras, U of Chicago and Rose Hulman weak then go ahead, I could understand Blackburn being weak...but be serious and do some research before you slap a team in the face seeing as you really have nothing better to do.

Just to add to Marcus, CUC has played some monsters in the past. Teams like, Lake Forest, NAIA teams like St. Xiaver, who beat CUC by 70, In the bast, with former Coach BBW, He set up good teams,

"if you want to be the best then you play the best"

AU- you have done nothing to help the cred of the conf in  those years befor!!! No playoff winn with such a "good team" give me a break!!!

[Fartcus Smellwood]

7400,
You have probably passed the line of crap talking about AU with the rest of us. For that, they are going to give you - karma because they can't take criticism. Shame Shame. And I forgot about Lake Forest and St. Xavier, nice additions to the list of tough non conference games.

Tbaggins, you make sense to some of us, some of the guys are just dense, especially.....ones.....who.....don't.....know......how......to....properly......end.....a..........sentence.......it.....just.......keeps.......going......and....going. So, your input was read by some and appreciated.

Pat, give me a shout out on ESPN sunday, unfortunately I have to tape it but will watch and will be waiting to hear it. 

[Twisted2]

CUC

Dating back to the 1999 football season CUC has a record of 4-52 in the IBFC.  3 of the 4 wins (over the past 8 seasons) have been taken from EC.
Reality, its all around you, grasp it.

This is why AU will always beat the bricks off of CUC:

CUC perspective- Next year we are going to go .500 or more!
AU perspective-  Lets beat VALPO so we don't have to be .500

.500 is glory for CUC
.500 for AU is crap

Keep setting those un-reachable goals CUC... .500   psssssss, please!
Try averaging 1 win per season in the confrence over the next three years, then you'll get some respect.  And when I say some respect, I mean no respect.  Self improvement, self improvement, self improvement!!  If you guys get another win next year Pat may have a reason to give you a "shout out".

Pat Colman,"I believe it will be a Raider romp at the Stagg.  Ohhhhh, hold on, I almost forgot.  Can I give a shout out to my guy Marcus Ellwood?" 

ESPNews guy, "Ahhhhhh sure, what the hell" 

Pat,  "Thanks.  What up Marcus?  Let talk about the resergence that has happened in River FOrest. His CUC has made some TINY improvements over the past two seasons.  They have great facilities and the talent is underwhelming.  If they keep this up in another 10 years they will reach 10, count them 10, Wins in the IBFC."

REACTIONS!!!

[aufb05]

Face it people CUC is tanked until it can learn to recruit.

[79jaybird]

Don't you guys think you are being a little hard on Coach Pries?  I mean the man is still in his "infant" stages with CUC,  give the man some slack.  He ended their long losing streak, was able to give the Cougars a shot at more wins since the 90's what more could you ask for in a 1st/2nd year HC?

[FatalImpact]

T-Baggin, I didn't know I was being graded on how we wrote on here.....I didn't know it had to be in an essay style format.....Plus I never drink...ask anyone who knows me...Trust me I have been in both programs (duncan and scott)  I saw them at the football reunion and they support each other

If Bu is so much better than AU, then Why O Why did we beat them....And WHY O WHY did we beat LC.....WHY O WHY did they only beat the 3 bottom teams in this conference(MAC, EC and of course CUC)??

Tbaggins, you make sense to some of us, some of the guys are just dense, especially.....ones.....who.....don't.....know......how......to....properly......end.....a..........sentence.......it.....just.......keeps.......going......and....going. So, your input was read by some and appreciated.

Again its not an essay I'm writing and if anyone is dense its those that are upset, that even when AU has a troubled year they still come out #2 in the IBFC.

Twisted is right we focus on next week where as CUC is beginnig to be like my CUbs.....Well Welll There's Always Next Year.......ANd then next year they get stompped....FACE REALITY

[FatalImpact]

oh yeah I got one of those sittin on my desk AUFB05

[Fartcus Smellwood]

holy crap...slow down twisted and all you AU fans. Don't get all your panties tangled up in a bunch now. Thank you Jaybird for helping those guys face reality. Comparing CUC to AU, you are correct as in every post you make, you somehow find a way to down a program that has been down...congrats. CUC has had a rough past and unless you are around or see what Coach Pries is doing with the program, you should probably just keep your mouth shut. Concordia at one game had 30-40 recruits at the game...CUC doesn't know how to recruit??? No, the past coaches at CUC did not know how to recruit. Don't attack the players old man...that is wrong in the first place. Coach BW, didn't help the program one bit, putting the team in debt from impact sports and horrible recruiting, Coach/now Dean Hynes did a considerable job for the one year he decided to take over. Coach Conwell faced a lot of rough times @ CUC, being rushed into the HC position and then facing illness and not having the "proper" coaching staff to help recruit. Now, Coach Pries who was hired in early January, brought in around 35 recruits with the help of his coaching staff and THEY ALL STAYED!!! Something the past coaches at CUC could not do. Keep throwing jokes around about CUC, they probably love it and laugh about it.

As for the "shout out" thing, it was a joke, loosen up jag. But hey, I am sure that is how the whole thing would go, thanks for the laugh. Now......lets.........read............some..........more..........posts.........about........AU......and..........how...........they..............are............so..........good.............