FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Mr. Ypsi]

w_w,

Yeah, that looks like about the Wabash vs. Witt active posters!

As an outsider, I'll abstain.  I suspect Wabash is the better team, but the key game is at Witt, so....

[frank uible]

Get with it you Little Giants! We expect to have heard from you. Wabash is highly ranked in Forbes magazine's 8/13/08 beauty contest of best colleges.

[Li'l Giant]

Meh. Those rankings are all a bunch of horse puckey. Great publicity though.

These rankings had 25% of the score from ratemyprofessor.com. Yeah, like that can't be manipulated. I think Dr. Richard Vedder is a pretty interesting fellow and I actually read his blog regularly. But ratemyprofessor.com? Seriously.

[Ryan Tipps]

These rankings had 25% of the score from ratemyprofessor.com. Yeah, like that can't be manipulated. I think Dr. Richard Vedder is a pretty interesting fellow and I actually read his blog regularly. But ratemyprofessor.com? Seriously.

Ratemyprofessor.com. Yeah, that's a weird criterium.

But is it any less fair than judging a school based on the what caliber of student it brings in (like U.S. News does)? I take the approach that it's not what kind of person arrives at a school but rather what kind of man/woman that school can turn a student into.

I'm not sure that's something you can quantify in any rankings.

[SaintsFAN]

Alright...almost a week late, but I've finally gotten around to tallying the results from our fan poll.  I hope you'll excuse me...I've been spending the week nursing a reconstructed ACL.  I can honestly say that I've never been this uncomfortable for this long of a period of time in my life.  My advice to the board: don't tear your ACL.  The post-op pain just isn't worth it. 

Wally...good luck...  That sucks, but at least you did while you were still younger. 

[WAF78]

Wally...how did you destroy your ACL? Bummer man...I tore my ACL, PCL and MCL all in one shot...when a nice, blond Dutch Reformed kid chop blocked me at Hope...many years ago. Can I say...I feel your pain? Hang in there buddy...it'll get better.

Concerning the Forbes article, I think it's great publicity and an honor. The U.S News rankings use a lot of criteria that don't say anything about how the school teaches or changes kids. I think the Forbes rankings tried to get at that. One thing I will say about Wabash...I had no idea how good a school it was until I went to grad school...and met people who had never seen a blue book, let alone had to go through comprehensive exams.

As far as this years predictions...I think Witt will probably prevail over the Bash...this year. I hope I am wrong...and I'll be at Springfield wildly cheering for the men of Wabash to beat the Witty boys. We shall see.

[LGHistorian]

Responding to a long ago and most probably long forgotten post Jake Gilbert is Wabash's Defensive Coordinator/Linebacker Coach and not DC/Offensive Line Coach.

For all Wabash and NCAC fans a good rule to follow is not to take any sports info on Wabash's website to heart in the middle of summer.  For some reason old and new info seems to mix together rather than get replaced.  I learned this lesson several years ago.

I apologize if this was already cleared up either on or off the board.  It would have been better if I had boldy stated at the time of the post it had to be a typo.  However, I would have done so without knowledge of the facts.  And these days you just never know what they'll come up with next!

[wally_wabash]

Wally...how did you destroy your ACL? Bummer man...I tore my ACL, PCL and MCL all in one shot...when a nice, blond Dutch Reformed kid chop blocked me at Hope...many years ago. Can I say...I feel your pain? Hang in there buddy...it'll get better.

Playing slo-pitch softball of all things.  This was the scenario...I was a runner on first base when a ball was hit in the air toward centerfield.  Seeing that the other team's outfielder was going to be under the ball and catch it I shuffled my way back to first base.  Except he didn't catch it, he completely blew the play and dropped the ball.  At that point, I had to change direction rapidly and bust hump to not get forced out at second.  When I planted with my right foot to push back toward second, the right knee popped, gave out,  and I fell on my face.  I wish I had a tougher story than that, but that's how it went down. 

The worst part though was that the donkey that dropped the easy fly ball which more or less led to my having to change direction quickly and blow my knee out in the process didn't even throw to second for the force out.  He came up and tagged me out while I was laying face first in the basepath.  How triflin' is that?   

Anyway, I'm one week out of surgery today and it looks like today is the last day that I'll need a crutch to get around.  The doc says I'm doing very well ("better than most" were his words this morning) and that I should be back in the starting tailgate lineup when the season gets underway.   

[DadofBashWarrior..]

Wally...how did you destroy your ACL? Bummer man...I tore my ACL, PCL and MCL all in one shot...when a nice, blond Dutch Reformed kid chop blocked me at Hope...many years ago. Can I say...I feel your pain? Hang in there buddy...it'll get better.

Concerning the Forbes article, I think it's great publicity and an honor. The U.S News rankings use a lot of criteria that don't say anything about how the school teaches or changes kids. I think the Forbes rankings tried to get at that. One thing I will say about Wabash...I had no idea how good a school it was until I went to grad school...and met people who had never seen a blue book, let alone had to go through comprehensive exams.

As far as this years predictions...I think Witt will probably prevail over the Bash...this year. I hope I am wrong...and I'll be at Springfield wildly cheering for the men of Wabash to beat the Witty boys. We shall see.

WAF78
The fact that you had no idea is not surprising....Many don't have an understanding of just what this school is about and what it has been able to achieve. It is my belief and contention that Wabash College represents a truly unique place and opportunity in our world today. While I was researching schools for my third born son in his Jr year of HS, Wabash was not in the list. I was aware of the school in that oddly enough back in the 70's Wabash was trying to recruit me for football. I ignored Wabash thinking at the time "I have never heard of Wabash...I am NOT going there." I also had no one guiding me or helping me as a very young man in making good decisions for my life. I ultimately went to Drake (which unfortunately came on to many of your radar screens in the last year) for business. Frankly I don't think I could have made the grades at Wabash in my life at that time.
A friend of mine that knew of my work with Men's groups gave me a brochure of Wabash College and said "You should look at this as it seems like something that you will be interested in."  Reading that brochure put Wabash on my radar screen as I could see that Wabash was "selling or aspiring to"" something like no other school that I was looking at. It was then that I found Wabash to be in Barron's Best Buys in college educations, the book 40 Colleges That Will Change Your Life and a more obscure college guide called Rugg's Recommendations. Rugg's gave me some critical info that I don't think many are aware of. It does a ranking of schools by each major. 3 categories are listed for each. Top schools, 2nd tier schools and third tier schools. Being unlisted and unranked at all is a forth class obviously. I found Wabash to be ranked in the top tier of elite academic schools in every major and department that is offered. Each Top Tier was usually only about 25 schools nationwide which meant whether it is English or Biology or Psychology or whatever Wabash offered there was Wabash ranked with Princeton and Yale etc.
One finds Wabash alone as a school offering the highest of academic standards along with being a Best Buy so to speak and being all Men. The all Men point is where I will speak last. Wabash is teaching, modeling, continuing to create a place for a young man to become a Man if you will. IE. The world is filled with little boys in Men's bodies.

For anyone interested here is the info on Ruggs.
CONTACT RUGG'S RECOMMENDATIONS AT:

P.O. Box 417
Fallbrook, CA 92088
Phone: 760-728-4558  Fax: 760-728-4467
info@ruggsrecommendations.com
Rugg's Recommendations is located at:
1752 Rice Canyon Road in Fallbrook, California.

Probably needless to say but I have no connection to or with the Ruggs publication.

[WallyFS4]

Responding to a long ago and most probably long forgotten post Jake Gilbert is Wabash's Defensive Coordinator/Linebacker Coach and not DC/Offensive Line Coach.

At the time of that posting Coach Gilbert was listed as DC/OL coach.  Brent or who ever does the web site has since updated.  As always.

WABASH ALWAYS FIGHTS!!!!

[nike]

Anybody from Wooster know which game will be homecoming this year?
Wooster coaching staff will dedicate an oak tree overlooking Papp to the late Roy Lockett at that game.
Beautiful article on Wooster's school website of today's funeral on the college's lovely campus.  The school flag was even at half mast. A number of former players there.
College athletics adds such a richness to the lives of student athletes and coaches like Roy Lockett are on the front lines.
Bagpies led him in and led him out. Amen!

[Pat Coleman]

http://www.wooster.edu/Alumni/isan/isan_homecoming_08.pdf

[nike]

Thanks so much Pat.  How in the world did you find that?

[BashBacker#16]

Wabash article on Special Olympics plane pull - winners of All Star division - http://www.thepaper24-7.com/main.asp?SectionID=24&SubSectionID=23&ArticleID=17073&TM=29770.9

Wally - that stinks bro.  Did Doc Shelbourne do the surgery?

Little Giants report on Monday!

BashBro & BashDad - BJFL 5th & 6th grade Cowboys open today at 2:15!  The debut of the Shotgun Jet package offense!  I found out our league playoff game is October 18th!!!!!  UGH!   

[Pat Coleman]

Thanks so much Pat.  How in the world did you find that?

Went to wooster.edu and used the search box.