FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Superfoot Wallace]

Great stuff Scotlass, great stuff.

Apologies for the undeserved karma hit.

Just before that post I has dished out a bunch of positive karma only to find it neutralized by some hater-hater.  Since some of it was to Wabash posters I assumed, and worse yet assumed with bad recon and intel.  Guess I forgot about the Woo-Bash lovefest round these parts.

Maybe am underestimating myself, maybe it was a hater.  After all there are only three kinds of people in the world: players, haters and hater-haters.  Roughly the equivalent of artists, critics and apologists.

It wasn't a TNA post though, geez.  Contextually teet was probably most appropriate.

Good luck this weekend.  Surely the 96 meeting is the closest the Scots have come to winning in Springfield the previous 58 years.  Most probably the greatest NCAC football match have witnessed and in my esteem the beginning of Wooster's modern era of success.

Get back in the oven!

signed,
Hansel

[Schwami]

LG, that's really funny!  

I almost choked on my beer when I read that MacLeod may be taking a liking to Indiana style football.  

Still can't figure out what Schmitz means when he says that on most plays Woo is one or two players away from getting things right.  Should Woo sneak in some extra players and hope no one notices?  8)

[ScotLass]

All is forgiven MacLeod...

I watched the karma monster deleting karma long before my post.

And the breast thing was dry humor...... see I should have used teeth instead of  

Good luck to all this weekend.....

Signed,

Ethel Merman

[Superfoot Wallace]

I almost choked on my beer when I read that MacLeod may be taking a liking to Indiana style football.  

265 yards rushing by my fullback is Indiana style football?

Kinda got me excited this past weekend.

That and heard something about a former linebacker turned downlineman turned fullback smashing things in Springfield.  Well, in Michigan at least.

Hadn't ya heard, tiggers are good at smashing stuff.  Bouncing too.  Did I mention bouncing and smashing stuff?

best regards,
da hunert acres

[ScotLass]

Still can't figure out what Schmitz means when he says that on most plays Woo is one or two players away from getting things right.  Should Woo sneak in some extra players and hope no one notices?  8)

That must have been a misprint. We have the players....we are one or two plays....each possession..... away from getting things right

[Schwami]

Sort of like OWU was one play away from a TD on the fake punt 

[ScotLass]

Sort of like OWU was one play away from a TD on the fake punt 

Sort of like that, but I can't talk specifics. My therapist says I have to let go of all unpleasant memories....

[Superfoot Wallace]

Must resist, must resist talking x's and o's.  But it's wing T?

Stay on topic Macleod, stay on topic.

Throw an insult at the opposition or something.

Thats mascot's stupid looking.

aargh!

signed,
oh wth they named the mascot after me 

[ScotLass]

Get a grip MacLeod!

I've found Corona's help, but it's all in the slicing of the lime.....

Signed,

Sigmund as in fraud....oopppsss Freud

[Li'l Giant]

I've found Corona's help, but it's all in the slicing of the lime.

Corona?  Yuck. Corona exists because pregnant women and children need to drink beer, too.

[Superfoot Wallace]

Without opening the can o' worms, in his address and paper to the AFCA the short punt A formation was, with the T and single wing, the offense Tubby Raymond credited as forming the wing T.

Is it true they're running Power I in Delaware?  Sorry, but doesn't match well with the A branch of the T passing game.  Relies too much on the wheel.  Smash routes and wheel routes aren't as consistently going to defeat the looks you're going to get against a punt return unit as will digs and meshes.  Punt returns just tend to look like cover three and play like two.  Returner looks like a three center field free, and the corners whether up in the receivers face like two or walked off like three tend to run gunners to the sideline like two

LG,
We'll get to utes guys soon enough.

W4E,
Not quite yet, but evolving.

Grip had.  Hysteria analysis absolved.

signed,
Toetsel ENTerPrise

[ScotLass]

I've found Corona's help, but it's all in the slicing of the lime.

Corona?  Yuck. Corona exists because pregnant women and children need to drink beer, too.

You may critique my team, but not the beer buddy....not the beer 

[WAF78]

It'll be a beautiful day tomorrow in C'ville as the Little Giants hope to get healthy against Earlham. I'm hoping to see Bobby Kimp be able to run the ball a bit more for Wabash as I thought he showed the most of all the backs against OWU. The Wabash D will get a chance to actually dominate. After actually SEEING Wabash at OWU...I'm thinking that Gheny and Witt are a bit encouraged. The D did do a better job in the second half but still gave up 319 to an offense that would be classified as less than stellar. They gave up over 400 the week before. They DID keep OWU out of the end zone...and thanks be to OWU's kicker and kicking team for ensuring a shut out for the Little Giants. I'm hoping to see Hudson lead the O...Hudson did a good job of directing the Offense...and if not for a drop on a perfectly thrown pass....would have probably led Wabash to another score. The only thing that I saw from Hudson that caused concern was that he stared down his receivers...you knew right where he was going to throw. The other thing that really concerned me...the lack of adjustment ON THE FIELD to the wing T that OWU ran. Wabash DID adjust at half...but...OWU dominated the first half because we kept running the same D and didn't make the adjustments. When they lined up in the unbalanced line Wing T, they did the same thing time after time and we didn't adjust. But that's coaching...the guys up in the box need to be doing their job as well.
OWU's defense could really hit...and they had good speed. A couple of times OWU defenders ran down Wabash backs from behind...numbers 69 and 47 really played well.
So, does anyone know if Hudson will be QB tomorrow or Augie?
Go Little Giants.

[wally_wabash]

The two-deep says it will most definitely be one or the other.  I hope that helps.   

I really have no idea who should start tomorrow.  Augie looked great at Millikin.  Hudson looked really good against OWU.  From my vantage point, it looked to me like Augie fell victim to some seriously poor line play and never really had much time to throw.  Whereas he was getting designed rollouts a lot vs. Millikin, he played more from the pocket against OWU and the pocket just wasn't a safe place to be.  I think the line played about 700% better in the second half...it's hard for me to say that Augie wouldn't have been able to lead a couple of scoring drives in the second half behind some better blocking, but then again if CC didn't see something about Augie's game that bothered him last weekend he probably doesn't go Hudson in the first place. 

As far as the first half D from the OWU game...OWU had two weeks to get ready and put in a bunch of new stuff that Wabash hadn't seen before.  I think there were remarks from Adi or Deig or somebody on the defense speaking to the fact that OWU ran a bunch of stuff that hadn't been seen and it took some time adjusting to it.  Even so, the defense never let anybody into the end zone and over the last two weeks the score is Wabash defense/special teams 8, MIllikin/OWU 6.  I agree that the yardage totals are a little uncomfortable, but it's hard to complain too much when the defense has outscored the opponent two weeks in a row. 

[seinfeld]

It's hard to top the note that Wooster has not won in Springfield since 1949, but this a pretty good one as well, and demonstrates, in my opinion, the misguided use of talent and playcalling the Scots have had in recent years.

In 2004 when Wooster went to the playoffs and played 12 games, Tony Sutton caught just six passes the entire season. He caught a measly one pass for three yards against Carthage in the playoffs, despite the fact that dump passes and screens to him would have helped against the every-down blitzing of Carthage. This is a guy who was probably the most athletic and dangerous player on the field every time he stepped on it. He was also a receiver his one year at Findlay, so obviously he had good hands and knew how to run pass routes.

Now this year, Dustin Sheppard has already caught 10 passes in just three games. And while Sheppard is a nice back, he doesn't have anywhere near the quickness of Sutton that you would want to be throwing him the ball on a regular basis. Plus, it seems that his hands aren't that great, as has been evidenced by some dropped passes and fumbles his first two years. If Wooster is going to throw to their backs more this year (necessitated in part because of a lack of pass protection), Orlando Jones seems much more equipped to be the guy, as he seems to have more speed and better moves in space.