FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[smedindy]

Believe me, I know how much behind the scenes work goes into this little rivalry we have. When i worked there, if it was November, I never saw Amidon or Harris for days at a time...I think they just threw them packages of provisions in their offices in the Kane House! 

[BashBacker#16]

Congrats to former Wabash QB, All American, Gagliardi Finalist - #3 Russ Harbaugh for his film making the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah this January!!!  For those of you that don't know...this is a very big honor (32 selected from over 3,000 entries)!  Russ went on to Columbia grad school after Wabash. Best of luck brother and keep up the good work!!!

Wabash Always Fights!

Bashbro - this felt like a retweet!!  Haha.

[Li'l Giant]

Way to go Russ.

[BashDad]

Congrats to former Wabash QB, All American, Gagliardi Finalist - #3 Russ Harbaugh for his film making the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah this January!!!  For those of you that don't know...this is a very big honor (32 selected from over 3,000 entries)!  Russ went on to Columbia grad school after Wabash. Best of luck brother and keep up the good work!!!

Wabash Always Fights!

Bashbro - this felt like a retweet!!  Haha.

Oh, lord. We've officially arrived at the off-season. I beg you to return to football. Please. Just do it.

(If compelled, you can check out the film here and drop a line:www.facebook.com/roflfilm. Thanks, dudes.)

[gobash83]

yes, Hanover, probably a done deal.

And Hanover it is.....

http://sports.wabash.edu/schedule.aspx?path=football&schedule=22&elinkdata=4977

Also, a nice article about the season and the return to the recruiting trail.

http://www.wabash.edu/news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=9292

[BashDad]

Brent Harris sits down with The Architect (Eh? EH? Pretty good, right? Erik Raeburn! The ARCHITECT!) for a season-in-review.

It's a great interview. How Depauw will recruit even a single player away from Wabash is beyond me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5PHSS4d2yA

[wally_wabash]

Brent Harris sits down with The Architect (Eh? EH? Pretty good, right? Erik Raeburn! The ARCHITECT!) for a season-in-review.

I like it.  I'll put this in the rotation and see if it gets traction. 

[smedindy]

Hah! Just found out that Wabash hoops big man Nick Curosh is a member of the Wabash Ultimate Disc Club!

[ExTartanPlayer]

How Depauw will recruit even a single player away from Wabash is beyond me.

I was recruited hard by three schools: Carnegie Mellon, Rochester, and Johns Hopkins.  I had visited all three schools the summer before my senior year and came away thinking that the Hopkins program was the strongest, Rochy next, and CMU last.  Rochester and Hopkins both beat Carnegie Mellon in 2003 (my senior year of HS).  Nonetheless, I ended up going to CMU (and winning did matter to me; I played on a HS team that went 28-2 in my three seasons as a starter).  Why?

I attended the 2003 CMU-JHU game (which Hopkins won 21-0).  It was actually a pretty competitive game, but Hopkins was clearly a notch better - bigger, faster, more athletic.  Hopkins had the ball with a 14-0 lead in the closing minutes and appeared content to run out the clock; however, they proceeded to throw a deep ball down the sideline which gave them a first-and-goal, eventually converting it into a meaningless touchdown with under one minute to play.

That seriously turned me off.  It was a classless gesture.  Running the ball downfield to run out the clock, I can live with, but there was no reason to throw a deep ball and tack on a last-minute touchdown there unless you were trying to rub it in.  The way their sideline reacted was totally classless, too; lot of trash-talking and celebrating after that final meaningless touchdown.  I vowed that day that I would never play for Hopkins (admittedly, a younger HS teammate of mine eventually did and had a great experience there; he became their alltime leading rusher).

My point here is not to grind an axe with the Hopkins coaching staff; I'm trying to illustrate that young HS kids are impressionable (or at least I certainly was), and that when you have a limited number of interactions with a coaching staff that will control the rest of your football career, you want to go someplace where a) you're wanted and b) you know that you'll fit in.  Winning mattered, but it wasn't the ONLY factor.

Hopkins had turned me off with the last-minute display in that CMU game and the general arrogance of their coaching staff.  Rochester played a spread offense that didn't really suit me (an undersized left tackle with slow feet and stubby arms) well.  CMU, despite being the least successful program of the three options in the 2002-03 seasons, was the school that gave me the right vibe. 

I'm really just spitballing here - I have no personal knowledge of the 'Bash staff, players, et cet...aand from what most of you guys post here, I assume that it's a pretty classy operation (well, kinda).  Just pointing out that winning isn't the ONLY reason that a player might choose a particular institution, and that some decent players WILL still want to go play for the "underdog" if they feel that it's a better personal fit.

[wally_wabash]

yes, Hanover, probably a done deal.

And Hanover it is.....

http://sports.wabash.edu/schedule.aspx?path=football&schedule=22&elinkdata=4977

How was it decided that the Hanover game would be a road game for Wabash?  (just curious as to the process)   

Would guess that it's because the LGs already have 5 home games on the schedule.  Asking for a sixth is just greedy.   

[WABCOL86]

Six home games sounds pretty good to me...

[wally_wabash]

Six home games sounds pretty good to me...

It's less good when you have six roadies the year after.  I'm happy to see Wabash earn a sixth and seventh and eighth and ninth home game with good play in the regular season.   

[smedindy]

We're not an SEC team or Nebraska.  Let's keep the home and road games split 50-50!

[sigma one]

Scheduling discussions are not one sided.  Wabash doesn't have total control; the other team has a say as well.  And throw in that sometimes for budgetary reasons, playing within Indiana, re-establishing (if only for a short time) traditional rivalries, etc., and you have several reasons in addition to 5/5.

[aueagle]

Bishops upgrade athletic website....outstanding look with good content & features....
Long over-due...but, a great pairing with the National Championship in soccer.