FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[aueagle]

I've looked at stats...scores...Vegas Line...read posts...talked to 2 Ohio HS coach's....
Little Giants win and advance....done.

[BashDad]

Joe Tait is a tragic figure: Despite holding on well past the point of wanting to, the Miracle of Richfield turned out to be his championship. He makes quite the cameo in Scott Raab's book, THE WHORE OF AKRON. You Ohio guys would like it. See you tonight!

http://www.amazon.com/Whore-Akron-Search-LeBron-James/product-reviews/0062066366/ref=cm_cr_dp_synop?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending#RECJXY2GPFL09

"For all of its rousing, air-clearing invective, The Whore of Akron is strangely celebratory,  making a particularly Jewish–American case for family and place, and for waiting and hoping past the point of reason. In Scott Raab's cosmos, where championship seasons seem about as likely as the arrival of the messiah, next year in Jerusalem might as well be next year in Cleveland. He suggests that there is nevertheless redemption to be had in grinding away at life, at parenthood, at work, and in loving something more than yourself until that longed-for day when victory arrives. Or doesn't. Don't hold a gaudy festival of self and flee to Miami, for instance. Stay in Cleveland and suffer." -Will Blythe, NY Magazine

[smedindy]

That book is being held for me in the library in FL, so I'll read it next week on my trips back and forth!

[BayernFan]

Thanks K-Mack!!!

[SaintsFAN]

WOW!  Easy there big fellas!  You can tell it's getting closer to game day.

All this talk about a webstream, karma, not all that, Madonna, etc....

Oh...and IF (and that's a big if) Wabash wins this weekend I will be the first one on here (once I get back home) congratulating the Little Giants and wishing them luck in the semi's.  I don't THINK it will happen, but it could.

Hope to see some of you tomorrow night.

Safe journeys...

I'm there tomorrow night. Are we all just Mount guys and Wabash guys anonymously or do we need Post Patterns name tags?

We started doing name tags at the Stagg a few years ago, so if I think of it tomorrow morning at the office, I will grab some and a sharpie.  I will also try to coerce my sig other (who is the creative director at the agency where we work) to make up a Mount & Wabash sign to hang/place on the table (s).  As she said earlier tonight....."oh good...does this mean I get a football free night to workout and watch Christmas shows?"  It's win-win.   

skunkssidekick -- you dirty dawg!!! 

[cave2bens]

Safe travels to all of you into the rusty corridor, whether purple or scarlet.  Tika and Mexican wings on the braai, brews are iced, and it's a balmy 88 degrees in the sub-Sahara - pound back  a few for me at tonight's prelims, BB and Wally.

Regarding the desire for Woo in the OAC-NCAC challenge - is that rivalry based on my dated hairline - when the Scots and the Lords had their way with the Alliance boys in the early 70s?   

Will be tuned in tomorrow, ready to rock in absentia.  WAF!

"Cave" - general manager
Bev and Bob's Batswana Bed, Breakfast, and Beer Bordello - Phase 2, Gabs

[SaintsFAN]

Missing Rudolph and Burl Ives for this? You are committed, friend.

Looking forward to seeing and meeting people tomorrow. Comaraderie is a great thing.

This comaraderie thing isn't what will happen tonight --- you're going to see a wing eating contest (Tommy like wingy!) between skunk, skunkssidekick, mtfan, hurf and hscoach.  You're also going to see hsoach putting people in headlocks, probably starting with seventiesraider.  Then the attention will be turned to "why aren't there "talented" waitresses in this joint?" questions and then all of the guys mentioned above will announce they have to use the potty and the Wabash dudes will be stuck with the bill. 

[wally_wabash]

Dude...+k for the Tommy Boy reference. That made my morning.

[wally56]

Just read the Triple Take for today; I wasn't too suprised, didn't expect anyone to actually pick the Little Giants, but much respect was shown.  The one thing I feel the need to point out was to correct this quote: "The day's fourth game, between Mount Union and Wabash, comes nine years after these teams last met, which was also the last time the Little Giants made it this deep in the playoffs."  Correct me if I'm wrong, but we also made the quarterfinals in 2007 when we played in the blizzard at Whitewater?

[02Bash]

Regardless of what I want the outcome to be...

Until someone actually beats Mt. Union or UWW, they are the teams to beat and it's hard to come up with a real argument against the predictions.  There is certainly a path to victory for Wabash, nobody is predicting a blowout; but the Little Giants are going to have to be playing not just the game of the year, but the game of their career to do it...and that would only get us to the semi-finals.

[Bash-Dad #84]

Regardless of what I want the outcome to be...

Until someone actually beats Mt. Union or UWW, they are the teams to beat and it's hard to come up with a real argument against the predictions.  There is certainly a path to victory for Wabash, nobody is predicting a blowout; but the Little Giants are going to have to be playing not just the game of the year, but the game of their career to do it...and that would only get us to the semi-finals.

You can only climb a mountain one step at a time and these men are ready to do just that. They have been prepared to play the game of their careers, they are going to play the game of their careers. If that is good enough and that is a big "if", then it won't be their last game. 

[wally world]

Dude...+k for the Tommy Boy reference. That made my morning.

Not to be a movie dick, but the correct phrase is "Tommy likey. Tommy want wingy!"

Next to Caddyshack, I might know more lines from Tommy Boy than any other movie ever made.

http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=tommy%20want%20wingy&tnr=21&vid=1338049364508&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D1338049364508%26id%3Db40ec7c100837fa5c5aa37d0958721a5%26bid%3DzGZf3hJGT9V%252f6w%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%252fwatch%253fv%253dLN7Pb7cXjYY&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLN7Pb7cXjYY&sigr=11argg3nc&newfp=1&tit=Tommy+Like+Wingy

[SaintsFAN]

Dude...+k for the Tommy Boy reference. That made my morning.

Not to be a movie dick, but the correct phrase is "Tommy likey. Tommy want wingy!"

Next to Caddyshack, I might know more lines from Tommy Boy than any other movie ever made.

http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=tommy%20want%20wingy&tnr=21&vid=1338049364508&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D1338049364508%26id%3Db40ec7c100837fa5c5aa37d0958721a5%26bid%3DzGZf3hJGT9V%252f6w%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%252fwatch%253fv%253dLN7Pb7cXjYY&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLN7Pb7cXjYY&sigr=11argg3nc&newfp=1&tit=Tommy+Like+Wingy

I smited myself for being dumb.  Check that.. tried to smite myself.

[Li'l Giant]

I admit it. I watched the whole repetitive clip.

[firstdown]

I certainly can't fault Ryan's, Keith's and Pat's picking Mount Union tomorrow.  This is Wabash's third climb to this level in the past 10 years, which is certainly a laudable accomplishment that few teams in D3 can match.  Mount Union does this every year.  A couple of things occur to me.  This year the Little Giants are not quite as reliant on the offense, and they also have a strong defense and special teams.  The two other teams had many great players, some of the best in Wabash history at their respective positions, but this year's team has a very good balance, and that balance has been supported by the play of the "next man up" to a great degree, and they eat, sleep, and breathe the WAF motto. One major difference is that Coach Raeburn is no stranger to playing and coaching in the regional finals.  In 2002, we were a bit of a stranger in a strange land, but no more.  This team is prepared for what lies ahead.  Just like last week at halftime, I felt that the Little Giants were still going to make a game of it, and I have that feeling about tomorrow.  This year's team stands on the solid foundation erected by the LG's that played UMU and UWW.  Many of them were in the stands on Saturday and you could feel the electricity in the air in the fourth quarter.  It was great to see Jake Knott congratulating Tyler Burker, and the smile on Curt Casper's face from both remembering the "Catch" in 2001 and seeing it unfold again.  Hopefully our friends at Mount Union will remember Wabash this time for more than Sphinx Club, who will be there in full force, this time around.