FB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[79jaybird]

Pirolllo9-
CardinalAlum (like most of us posters) is a former football player at North Central from the 80's.  I played in the late 90's at Elmhurst.  I would guess 80-90% of the posters on the d3football website  are former players that know their fair share of football. 
I know CardinalAlum personally and he is a GREAT guy to sit and reminisce about our playing days, and recent rises by our respective schools.  We both played on some pretty bad teams at NC/EC.
Unfortunately, many people will not start to "open their eyes" to the IBFC (or soon to NAC) until they start making some noise in the post-season.  I am not saying the CCIW is the BEST conference in d3, but they have had their success and Nat'l Championships (83,84,85,86) which shows that the conference is historically very strong.

[Pat Coleman]

I would guess it's more like 50% former players.

[79jaybird]

Hey Pat,

Are you and Pat Cummings going to be  on the air covering the game at the Stagg Bowl?  I liked listening in to last year's game.  MR

[Pat Coleman]

Yep.

2 p.m. ET
Pregame show, including All-American announcements
Gordon Mann, John McGraw, Pat Cummings

4 p.m. ET
Game coverage
Pat Coleman, Keith McMillan, Pat Cummings

After the game
Postgame coverage
All hands on deck, including postgame news conference and extra interviews, final summation of 2006 Division III football season

[ptownhero]

If I am correct the cciw did not win a playoff game until 1982.  If I am correct the playoffs started in 1973.  So that leaves 9 years in there when the cciw lost 9 straight games in the playoffs or they were not in it at all.  The source I found just said they lost in 76 and 81 so that must mean they didnt even get a bid into the playoffs.  If you look the IBFC is 0-8 so I dont really think the conference is that far behind the cciw.  Since the teams that are currently in it did not form until the middle 90's.  If I am wrong let me know but I believe my information is correct.  So all the cciw fans on here can tell me if i am wrong, and we are a horrible conference still when you guys lost 9 straight years when are conference wasnt even formed with the teams we currently have.  Your conference has had the same teams except for 2 since the early 1940's. 

[Pat Coleman]

They didn't lose nine straight years. There were only eight teams in the NCAA playoffs for most of those years and some years there were only FOUR.

The CCIW was never 0-9. It was all of 0-2 in the postseason at one point, then won its next two games.

The IBFC is far, far behind the CCIW. Please don't delude yourself into thinking it's a short trip. You don't just need facilities -- you need full-time coaches, you need good recruiting and you need student-athletes who are willing to work hard in the offseason instead of posting and making excuses for the lack of success of the league.

That's my piece.

[baseman201]

Cardinalalum-

I loved your "English Major" quote, I did snicker a little.

And Fatal-

Yeah, maybe I just won't read his posts anymore since I have seen better grammer and spelling in some 5th graders work.

Or maybe he is just an excited person and types fast, if so I apologize.  Parillo, where are you graduating from? Greenville, Lakeland?  I know it's a school in the IBC though.

[sotha sil]

Be honest Pat....taking a few minutes out of the day to read post patterns and post is not going to make or break a football teams season or build a conference to the next level....besides this site has a lot of support from current players...be it in post patterns or other sections...and I hate hearing that spending time on here is bad for current players (and its not just Pat's post it is a lot of post on a lot of post boards)...I posted for four years and had a great four year career...sorry IBFC for not staying off this site and carrying this conference to the National Championship...

[ptownhero]

How many teams were in it then because on the cciw site is says that in 1976 there was 4 teams in it. 

[Pat Coleman]

http://www.d3football.com/playoffs/

[FatalImpact]

Cardinalalum-

I loved your "English Major" quote, I did snicker a little.

And Fatal-

Yeah, maybe I just won't read his posts anymore since I have seen better grammer and spelling in some 5th graders work.

Or maybe he is just an excited person and types fast, if so I apologize.  Parillo, where are you graduating from? Greenville, Lakeland?  I know it's a school in the IBC though.

I'm not usually one to correct other posts but since you started...You misspelled "grammar"

To those at the CCIW the way I've read it over there it ain't always that peaceful, if yall wanna stick your nose in the air and walk away fine.

[Mugsy]

I'm not usually one to correct other posts but since you started...You misspelled "grammar"

To those at the CCIW the way I've read it over there it ain't always that peaceful, if yall wanna stick your nose in the air and walk away fine.

I'm not walking away... We've basically been told to take a hike, so I'll respect that wish.  If others don't want us to be part of the discussion and would rather rant and live in their dream world where the IBC is a superior football conference, fine.

Personally I think the IBC has continued to improve.  Problem is they had a LONG way to go from the start, and still do.  Win a playoff game and that will go a long way.

[baseman201]

Ohhhhh








You got me

[Gregory Sager]

Your conference has had the same teams except for 2 since the early 1940's. 

You're wrong on that score as well, ptownhero. The CCIW has had three schools permanently drop out over the years (Illinois College, Lake Forest, and Carroll), three schools drop out in the 1950s and then come back into the fold a decade later (Carthage, Wheaton, and Elmhurst), and added another team in the early 1960s that has been a part of the league ever since (North Park).

The only schools that have been continuous members since the league was founded in 1946 are Augustana, Illinois Wesleyan, Millikin, and North Central.

[FatalImpact]

I'm not usually one to correct other posts but since you started...You misspelled "grammar"

To those at the CCIW the way I've read it over there it ain't always that peaceful, if yall wanna stick your nose in the air and walk away fine.

I'm not walking away... We've basically been told to take a hike, so I'll respect that wish.  If others don't want us to be part of the discussion and would rather rant and live in their dream world where the IBC is a superior football conference, fine.

Personally I think the IBC has continued to improve.  Problem is they had a LONG way to go from the start, and still do.  Win a playoff game and that will go a long way.

Now you're just putting words in my mouth......I never said we were superior, I said that the CCIW needs to not always walk around like they're better than everyone else.....like when CUW beat NCC.....and I realize on the rematch it was the other way around.....but it is possible for someone from this conference to beat someone from the "untouchable" CCIW