FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[VoodooDoc]

We should give some credit to Neal Nethery for instilling the Hard Hat D mentality when he was an assistant coach under Creighton. He named EMU's defense the same, and I notice their D is lacking since he retired.

https://emueagles.com/news/2022/12/19/football-emus-neathery-announces-retirement-from-coaching

Yeah, because the defense's were terrible before Neathery, and BJ learned everything he knew from him.

Coach Hammer worked with Coach Neathery one year and no doubt learned quite a bit from him.  However, Coach Hammer worked with several others as well and he spent 3 years as defensive coordinator with Coach Carlson in California where he was able to hone his approach.  During the years when Coach Hammer returned to Wabash with ER, the Little Giant Defense ranked in the top five in D3 several years and one year they led all the Divisions in College football in several defensive categories.  One key is speed.  At Wabash, Coach Hammer had a number of speedy linebackers, defensive linemen, and a couple of defensive backs who could run 4.3 forties.  These guys handled the great wide receiver from Hampden Sydney, and played well against the wide receiver from UWW who went on to play for the Green Bay Packers although they gave up several inches in height.

[Whitecarrera]

Doc - sometimes signature lines get overlooked.  I think you and I are on the same page.

[Crawford]

Doc - sometimes signature lines get overlooked.  I think you and I are on the same page.

Doc that was my observation about the ER era "Speed, Speed, Speed".

Noticed some Kenyon students as soon as Wabash scored their 4th TD were heading for the Library.

[Crawford]

Blake White hands the ball off twice for two scores and 158 years.  Keep letting Blake hand the ball off !

[VoodooDoc]

Doc - sometimes signature lines get overlooked.  I think you and I are on the same page.

Whitecarrera

I must have missed something.  Coach Neathery is a great defensive mind.  Coach Hammer obviously benefitted from their time working together,
but also drew from  his experiences on the field and from other coaches that he worked with.  Wabash has some great teams in the ER days.  The Purple teams had a bit more depth and could outlast them. (But the LG's are a small school of 900 students and gave a good accounting of themselves nonetheless.)

[Li'l Giant]

Interesting finish in Springfield. Witt had enough time at the end of the 4th to try to score but ran out the clock and then crapped the bed in their OT possession. Real head scratcher there.

[bleedpurple]

Doc - sometimes signature lines get overlooked.  I think you and I are on the same page.

Whitecarrera

I must have missed something.  Coach Neathery is a great defensive mind.  Coach Hammer obviously benefitted from their time working together,
but also drew from  his experiences on the field and from other coaches that he worked with.  Wabash has some great teams in the ER days.  The Purple teams had a bit more depth and could outlast them. (But the LG's are a small school of 900 students and gave a good accounting of themselves nonetheless.)

Those student body tryouts that Wabash apparently uses to fill their teams must have really been sparse at Wabash.  That really does put them at a disadvantage. I have seen some darn good teams at Wabash over the years. They definitely gave a good accounting of themselves. I had no idea they relied on their student body of 900 to fill their team. Maybe they should try recruiting. 

[DePauwalum05]

Gritty, resilient road win for the Tigers at Wittenberg today to gain sole possession of 1st in the league. Wasn't pretty, especially through the first three quarters. But we found a way to win against a talented team when we weren't at our best for a full 60 minutes.

Great matchup coming in Crawfordsville this week. I expect 'bash to win at home and keep their conference title hopes alive going into the Bell.

[sigma one]

Since I could not travel to the Kenyon/Wabash game yesterday, I watched on line.  The young Kenyon broadcaster was really, really good.  I assume he was a student.  Working alone ( no sidekick), he was prepared, articulate, eminently fair to both teams, and on top of the action.   I thoroughly enjoyed listening to him.  If there are any Kenyon readers here, I hope they let him know how good he was.

[Crawford]

Doc - sometimes signature lines get overlooked.  I think you and I are on the same page.

Whitecarrera

I must have missed something.  Coach Neathery is a great defensive mind.  Coach Hammer obviously benefitted from their time working together,
but also drew from  his experiences on the field and from other coaches that he worked with.  Wabash has some great teams in the ER days.  The Purple teams had a bit more depth and could outlast them. (But the LG's are a small school of 900 students and gave a good accounting of themselves nonetheless.)

Those student body tryouts that Wabash apparently uses to fill their teams must have really been sparse at Wabash.  That really does put them at a disadvantage. I have seen some darn good teams at Wabash over the years. They definitely gave a good accounting of themselves. I had no idea they relied on their student body of 900 to fill their team. Maybe they should try recruiting. 

Deep Purple, not sure what you mean by the above statement.  Aren't student body tryout for schools that offer athletic scholarships?  Wabash recruits and during the ER era they had a great pipeline from Arizona.  While I was at Wabash there were always about 100 players on the roster and it seems about a quarter of the first year students were on the team. 

[Pat Coleman]

Bleedpurple definitely knows how it works so I would ascribe the comments as sarcasm.

[Pat Coleman]

Since I could not travel to the Kenyon/Wabash game yesterday, I watched on line.  The young Kenyon broadcaster was really, really good.  I assume he was a student.  Working alone ( no sidekick), he was prepared, articulate, eminently fair to both teams, and on top of the action.   I thoroughly enjoyed listening to him.  If there are any Kenyon readers here, I hope they let him know how good he was.

Send the Kenyon SID and AD a note. That's nice feedback they should hear.

[Crawford]

Since I could not travel to the Kenyon/Wabash game yesterday, I watched on line.  The young Kenyon broadcaster was really, really good.  I assume he was a student.  Working alone ( no sidekick), he was prepared, articulate, eminently fair to both teams, and on top of the action.   I thoroughly enjoyed listening to him.  If there are any Kenyon readers here, I hope they let him know how good he was.

Send the Kenyon SID and AD a note. That's nice feedback they should hear.

Depauw's student announcers are also very good.

[Whitecarrera]

Pat - you are one of the few with an appreciation for sarcasm. 

[bleedpurple]

Doc - sometimes signature lines get overlooked.  I think you and I are on the same page.

Whitecarrera

I must have missed something.  Coach Neathery is a great defensive mind.  Coach Hammer obviously benefitted from their time working together,
but also drew from  his experiences on the field and from other coaches that he worked with.  Wabash has some great teams in the ER days.  The Purple teams had a bit more depth and could outlast them. (But the LG's are a small school of 900 students and gave a good accounting of themselves nonetheless.)

Those student body tryouts that Wabash apparently uses to fill their teams must have really been sparse at Wabash.  That really does put them at a disadvantage. I have seen some darn good teams at Wabash over the years. They definitely gave a good accounting of themselves. I had no idea they relied on their student body of 900 to fill their team. Maybe they should try recruiting. 

Deep Purple, not sure what you mean by the above statement.  Aren't student body tryout for schools that offer athletic scholarships?  Wabash recruits and during the ER era they had a great pipeline from Arizona.  While I was at Wabash there were always about 100 players on the roster and it seems about a quarter of the first year students were on the team.

It was just a light hearted tongue in cheek comment. Doc's comment read like Wabash's enrollment made them an underdog, so my comment was a light-hearted attempt to point out that the teams aren't comprised of students found in the general population of the school. They recruit talented football players, just like the bigger schools do. That was my only point.  The part of my comments that were NOT tongue in cheek were the ones about Wabash's teams.  They were good. When they came to Whitewater in 2014, the game was 10-7 at halftime. Raeburn was a really good coach. Probably other years too, but for sure his 2014 defense was special.