FB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[FMR IBFC Champ]

Old 40,

          Yeah I agree. MAC needs to keep this group together. I think with a little more maturity they could be a good team...now I mean good team as in winning games. I know there was someone posting that MAC was a dirty team. That may have been years past but I know I have seen a change since Sweeney has been HC. You're also right when you say the administration are the only ones who can flub this up. I think with the new President, the program is covered. But then again, who knows! MAC will be on top with Sweeney running things. It will just take time.

I agree, the Administartion has to support the program or it won't matter what Sweeney does. Hopefully this SID works out, they have had some incompetent people handling this job in the past.

[NCAA Football]

Well, it's been pretty quiet on the board lately, so I'm gonna put my picks up. 

Mac vs. Benedictine - I think this will be a low scoring game, even though all of Macs opponents have put 40 + up on them this year.  i think Mac can play with these guys as well, but in the end it all comes down to home field advantage. 

Sorry Mac, but BU takes this one 20-12

AU vs. Eureka - Not much to say about this one.

AU rolls 48-6

CUC vs. Lakelad - After a tough loss last week, I think Lakeland comes back strong against an improving CUC team. 

Lakeland by a couple td's 35-20

Last but not least, CUW vs. Greenville - CUW may have a bit taken out of them after a hard fought game last weekend, but i think it is safe to say we aren't gonna get the 14-7 overtime thriller we had last year. 

CUW is gonna come out this weekend and take care of the Panthers 42-7

[mac_grad]

I've never made picks on here before, but why not, just for kicks?

Mac v. BU- I agree that Mac took a step forward last week, and I'll even venture to say they make a close game out of it, but I still don't see them winning except maybe against Blackburn- defense spends too much time on the field.

BU- 35  Mac- 12

AU v. Eureka- I'll take a wild guess that AU doesn't have to try too hard for this one.

AU- 49  Eur-10

CUC v. Lakeland- CUC is a decent team, Lakeland obviously knows how to hang with the best of them, I'll say Lakeland but it goes down to the wire.

CUC- 21 Lake- 28

CUW v. GC- Greenville showed it can handle the weaker teams, but the way it handled Mac in the first and second quarters wasn't very impressive. CUW rolls.

CUW- 52 GC-10

[old 40]

Predictions for 10-27-07

BU over MAC, 17-7, If Mac can move the ball they may keep BU from scoring 17. Defense dominates this game.

AU over Eureka, 31-14, AU to strong on Defense and the run game. Eureka will cause problems early.

CUW over GC, 41-14, CUW moves and controls the ball. Big plays allows them to score. If their Defense shuts down the GC QB then GC fails to score.

LC over CUC, 42-21, Should be alot of passing. CUC may struggle with the speed of LC defense.

[TruCountry95]

Well haven't posted on here since GC lost to 3 straight games and all hope was lost for a IBFC conf. crown after losing to LC, AU, and BC. 

So maybe since I'm getting married this Saturday, GC can get a win against CUW.   

AU vs EC  - AU wins 38- 12

CUC vs LC - LC wins 28-14

BU vs MAC -  BU wins 35-13

CUW @ GC -  GC wins close one 17-14

[cudub]

Does anyone smarter than I, have ideas for who CUW (or whoever wins the IBFC) will be playing first round of the playoffs?  I know nobody knows for sure, but what are the options looking like at this point?

[matblake]

Does anyone smarter than I, have ideas for who CUW (or whoever wins the IBFC) will be playing first round of the playoffs?  I know nobody knows for sure, but what are the options looking like at this point?

If you had to take a stab at it I would probably say the CCIW Pool A Qualifier.  In 2005 Augustana beat Lakeland in the first round, in 2006 North Central beat CUW in the first round.  So recently that would be the trend.  However, in 2004 Aurora went to Wooster and in 2003 CUW played LaCrosse. 

[old 40]

cudub;

IMO, if the region standings stay the way they are, I would think the NCAA has CUW at Wheaton and MIAA champ at Mt. Union. Currently Mount and Wheaton are #1 and #2. If Wheaton would lose maybe CUW goes to Wabash or Mount.

[Gomer Pyle]

 This saturdays games don`t hold much in the way of excitement. CU-W
   has the championship in hand. The Believers have jumped ship. Greenville
   never got out of the gate as some thought. Benedictine has surprised
   some people. Eureka is just being Eureka. The Highlanders are heading down a slippery slope.
    (1)  Aurora @ Eureka: Aurora
     (2)  CU-W @ Greenville.  CU-W....Those that think GC is going to
     win,don`t forget your  twinkies.
    (3)   CU-C @ Cheese-ville :   Maddog smiles
    (4)  MacMurray @ Benedictine :  Guess who`s going to be 0-8.

[Boss]

Does Anyone give CUC a chance against Lakeland?  I personally think that it will be real difficult for them.  CUC has not played good on the road this year.  It seems that they are a totally different team at home on their turf field.  Last weekend they never showed up against Aurora and if they play like that this week the game will be over by half time.  I just don't know if they can put together one full solid game of football on the road right now.  They played a great 1/2 of football with CUW but that was at home.  I think the weather is going to be bad or at least some rain and possibly sloppy.  That will not be good for CUC either as it is difficult to run the spread in sloppy weather.  It probably will not happen but I was looking for that one game this week where there might be an upset. 

What do you all think?

[baseman201]

We believers haven't left this board yet at all.  I have just been really busy lately, but here I am now, 

Anyway, I am really disapointed with the way CUC has played so far.  I expected a lot more from them this year.  But they are young, so hopefully most of the team sticks around for the 2008 season. 

I honestly thought they had a great chance to knock off 1 or 2 of the better teams in the conference this year.    I mean they played the playoff bound (most likely) CUW to only 3-0 at halftime.  Of course then the rest of the game went South but it kind of showed that they can hang with some of the better teams.

So to answer Boss, they do have a chance in any game, but they just never pull it out.  If it's raining then both teams may have to run a lot.  CUC has an excellent running back in Copeland, not sure who Lakeland has in the backfield?  So maybe that could play a big part. 

So I think Lakeland wins, but it's closer then most people think this time around, maybe just a touchdown.

[Eyeinthesky]

LC vs. CUC - 56-7 LC
CUW vs. GC - 44-13 GC

[d3ftball1]

Greenville played great today... oh and by the way gomer the twinkies were great!!

[Timewilltell]

Yes Gomer the Twinkies were good today in Greenville. I finally got to a GC game, and was not expecting what I saw.

CUW was never really in the ball game. Scored one offensive TD in the 1st
half, to trail 21-7 at half. Run 2nd half kick off back to close to 21-14, but never really threatened after that. With the fianl GC 44 - CUW 14.

Unable to move ball at all. Several turnovers for CUW, led to their demise.
From what I have read on Greenville and what I seen today, They just waited to long to get it all together for this year.

Greenville had to have over 500 yards of offense. Doubt CUW had much over 250 yards.
Greenville's QB is the best I have seen in the IBC. But have yet to see AU or CUC's QB's.

[Gomer Pyle]

Greenville played great today... oh and by the way gomer the twinkies were great!!

  I am eating a big bowl of ..........crow.
   Great win for Greenville.  Sounds like they beat the snot out of the Boys from Mequon.