FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[oldguy]

Wally,

Mother nature doesn't care if its Wabash week.  It never stops raining in Meadville...ever.

[smedindy]

Congrats to Aaron Selby as he's named the NCAC defensive player of the week.

Now on to the mud.

[ski]

Wow Woo, another nail biter.  Oberlin is a solid football team as is Kenyon.  The next few years should be exciting in the NCAC as the once easy teams are improving.  As far as Woo goes, they are just hard to figure out.  The numbers say that they have a running game but they still seem hell bent on featuring their passing attack.  They did get Shafer under center but did not provide Sheppard with any company in the backfield.  Woo was unable to burn the clock at the end of the game giving Oberlin life, but a pick and all ended well.  Woo is a solid team, yet many questions remain as they just don't seem to have a clue as to what their forte is. 

[wabco]

Great game.  I said 2 TDs ... only 1 ... I'll take it.  Murray is genuine article.  Holmes was very solid and Glover is Glover.  Witt was at a fever pitch and threw everything they had.  Stop a screen pass or 2 or several ... designed to isolate the Glover/Murray advantage ... and the game would have been more than 2.  Still ... the screens were there and worked several times.

I was supprised it took as long as it did to D these isolation plays.  Suspect the need was to keep the middle and pressure on QB solid and adjust to limit the effect of the isolation.  It began to work the second half and picked up steam as the game went along.

Also thought the Witt. O line began to tire a little later in the game.  'Bash liberal substitution on D permitted fresh bodies which began to tell as the game wore on.

I believe the game was good for the Little Giants ... it was a total team effort and there was no "what do we do now" ... rather a calm faith in the D and  O schemes and continued execution with minor adjustment as game action analysis dictated. 

Unless we forget ourselves ... we should finish the NCAC without blemish ... now, given the Dannies success to date, I do not think a ball will be necessdary to play the Monon Bell Game.  PLUS ... it is usually a new season all unto itself.  We simply have to win that.

Someone follow Selby around and not let him around the Betas and their activities until the season is over.   

[KC]

What's the deal with the Betas and their "activities" at Wabash?  I seem to recall a rather successful QB being a Beta there so I wouldn't think they'd be a disruptive force to the team.

[smedindy]

That's an allusion to something that happened that caused Selby to miss a couple of games.

[WallyFS4]

BB16

You are right, that INT was big.  Too bad Foster doesn't remember it.  That shows you how good he is.  He was on auto pilot for much of the 2nd half.

CONGRATS to Selby.  Glad to see him back in the line-up.

We need to stay focus this week.  Anything can, and probably will happen at the Swamp.  The Swamp is the most difficult place in the NCAC to play.  I'm very confident as long as we don't beat ourselves, we come home victorious.

Did anyone else see the article from our visiting Prof?  How far off base was she?  One good thing about it, it got my blood boiling.  I need that every once in awhile.  As always.

WABASH ALWAYS FIGHTS![/font][/size]

[aueagle]

Solid win for the Bishops...BUT, Total Offense: OWU-370...Kenyon-360. OWU had 199 yard special team advantage. Bishops travel to Springfield for Tiger Homecoming. Men of Wabash continue to produce...Championship Crown within grasp. Why is anyone surprised that a OWU QB runs alot/throws little? I know Iam a day late/dollar short, but, nice job by the D3's versus the D1AA (Butler & others) earlier in the year. GO BISHOPS

[BashBacker#16]

WallyFS4,

Where is the article you mention?

Speaking of articles, anyone see the one in Details magazine on Wabash?  Pretty good read...it is in the November issue.  There is a pretty good portion of it talking about Harbaugh.

Just heard about Foster, I hope he'll play at Gheny.

Did you guys hear about the cheap shot in the Mount St. Joe/Defiance game?  An Frosh O-L from Defiance broke his femur and had to have emergency surgery.  Apparently, from the HCAC posters, the hit was shady...not cool if that was the case.

[wabco]

BB 16

I believe the article is in the most recent Bachelor .

On another subject:  Where/how is Kenyon getting its O production?

[smedindy]

If what she alluded to in her first paragraph has happened, then it definitely is ungentlemanly and unacceptable.  As someone with two young daughters, I'd hate to have to explain some of that stuff to them.

Alby Coombs has rushed for almost 800 yards this year, but he got hurt early in the OWU game. Rafael Sanchez has had a decent year at QB.

[WallyFS4]

Smed,

I couldn't agree more.  I have never witness this, have you?  Others that I spoke to have never witness this either.  The actions she is speaking of are no different at Wabash than any other coed campus.  I really believe the men of Wabash have more respect for women than any other campus I have been on.  I just think this person has an issue with an all male campus.  I have a daughter that is sohpmore in college, and has always been treated with respect when she and her friends have been on campus.  I really believe the "Gentlemans Rule" is as strong as ever.  As always.

WABASH ALWAYS FIGHTS![/size][/font]

[Li'l Giant]

After reading the letter I agree with Smeds wholeheartedly. That's not gentlemanly behavior at all. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be some leeway; but I think if what she's talking about is true, then it needs to be called out and stopped.

[oberlinparent]

I have been reading this for four years.  My familly have been to all NCAC schools and to alot of football games.  I think this year, Wabash will be Champs.  What does get old is the fact that it seems like all Wabash fans think that there is nothing better than thereself.  I know all fans think the same about there schools.  The thing about all of you who follow NCAC football is the fact that all schools are getting better players.  Therefor better teams and competition are here now and hopefully here to stay.  Each week players have great games on the loosing teams, and there are not mention.  I would hope to see the NCAC fans from all schools recgonize all players, that can play.  Good Luck to all NCAC teams this week.  Go Yeomen!

[gobash]

  Yeah, I'm at IU in grad school and I see a lot of t-shirts like that "eat pink" one.  They're not so much sexist as just painfully unfunny (but yes, they're sexist too).  And I see a lot of women wearing demeaning shirts too, in fact one of my students had a shirt that said "I do all my own nude scenes".  Mildly funny, but at the same time it seems to belittle her and women in general.  It's like the "Co-ed naked shirts" back when I was in high school, with painfully strained euphemisms on them.  They're just in poor taste, all around, and I'd have been embarrassed to be seen in one.

  I agree that all those things that she listed in the article happen at co-ed schools, or at least the one I'm at now.  Hell, they shot a porno in one of the dorms down here two years ago.  But that doesn't mean that she's wrong.  If that's going on at Wabash, it should be called out, as not only should we strive to be better than that mindset, but we'll get more flak for it inherently because we are all-male, and that will make it seem worse than at a co-ed school.