FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[joelmama]

I want a poster of this (and for Tyler Holmes to come ripping through the wall I hang it on).

WABASH COLLEGE drive start at 09:32.
Tyler Holmes rush for 11 yards to the WABF36, 1ST DOWN WABF (Jamaal Everett).
Tyler Holmes rush for 4 yards to the WABF40 (Josh Bannick).
Tyler Holmes rush for 3 yards to the WABF43 (Kyle Sanning).
Chase Belton rush for 2 yards to the WABF45 (Spencer Leno;Mark Swope).
Tyler Holmes rush for 2 yards to the WABF47, 1ST DOWN WABF (Jon Daniels;Josh Bannick).
Tyler Holmes rush for 1 yard to the WABF48 (Cory Cosby).
Tyler Holmes rush for 5 yards to the WITF47 (Jon Daniels;Spencer Leno).
Chase Belton pass complete to Charlie Kolisek for 8 yards to the WITF39, 1ST DOWN WABF.
Chase Belton rush for 4 yards to the WITF35 (Evan Killilea), PENALTY WITF offside 1 yards to the WITF34.
1st and 5.
Tyler Holmes rush for 2 yards to the WITF32 (Jon Daniels).
Tyler Holmes rush for 4 yards to the WITF28, 1ST DOWN WABF (Spencer Leno).
Tyler Holmes rush for 4 yards to the WITF24 (Spencer Leno;Kyle Sanning).
Tyler Holmes rush for 2 yards to the WITF22 (Kyle Sanning).
Timeout Wittenberg, clock 02:20.
Chase Belton rush for 6 yards to the WITF16, 1ST DOWN WABF (Kyle Sanning).
Tyler Holmes rush for 2 yards to the WITF14 (Jon Daniels).
Timeout Wittenberg, clock 01:44.
Tyler Holmes rush for loss of 1 yard to the WITF15 (Mark Swope).
CP Porter rush for 11 yards to the WITF4 (Karlos Marshall), PENALTY WABF holding 10 yards to the WITF25, NO PLAY.
Timeout Wabash College, clock 00:32.
Team rush for loss of 2 yards to the WITF27.
End of game, clock 00:00.

This reminds me of Air Force or Navy grinding out a win!

So why did they pass so much.

[nike]

It is official!
Wife will accompany me to Wabash OWU game in a couple weeks.
Wooster vs. DePauw just will not suffice this year.

[BashDad]

The front page, if you haven't seen it, has a terrific gallery of "fantastic finishes" inspired by Bethel's miracle on Saturday. The Catch is #5. It's a really, really cool collection.

http://d3football.com/landing/index

[wally_wabash]

The front page, if you haven't seen it, has a terrific gallery of "fantastic finishes" inspired by Bethel's miracle on Saturday. The Catch is #5. It's a really, really cool collection.

http://d3football.com/landing/index

I had forgotten that it was our own NCAC officials that jammed Rowan in that national semifinal against Bridgewater.  Ouch. 

[BashDad]

Yeah, that one is surprisingly hard to watch for a neutral observer a decade removed. It's... well. Yeah. Ugh.

[Li'l Giant]

The front page, if you haven't seen it, has a terrific gallery of "fantastic finishes" inspired by Bethel's miracle on Saturday. The Catch is #5. It's a really, really cool collection.

http://d3football.com/landing/index

I had forgotten that it was our own NCAC officials that jammed Rowan in that national semifinal against Bridgewater.  Ouch.

Yeah, me too.

[Breckenridgebear]

Looks like change is on its way at Depauw. I just hope they do enough to get back into the arms race.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012121008036

http://www.depauw.edu/athletics/news/details/29033/

[The_Bishop]

Video highlights from OWU vs. DePauw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=08zs3bGNjBI

[nike]

Looks like change is on its way at Depauw. I just hope they do enough to get back into the arms race.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012121008036

http://www.depauw.edu/athletics/news/details/29033/

They didn't need to fire Long to accept this money and get the new athletic campaign going. 

[wally_wabash]

h/t to ETP for pointing this out to me...but this is a real possibility:

Wabash, Witt, and OWU can all (very reasonably) finish at 9-1.  Let that rattle around in the mentals for a little bit. 

As we mentioned earlier, this scenario would send Wabash as the automatic qualifier.  Intuition tells you that Witt would be the next best candidate, but I don't think that would be the case.  Wittenberg would have zero wins against RR'd teams and their SOS is going to nosedive in the last two weeks.  OWU would have a decent chance at having a win over a RR'd team (CMU, if CMU can absorb a second loss and be RR'd...maybe) and will probably wind up with a slightly better SOS than Wittenberg thanks to CMU being regional for OWU.  Criteria would probably favor the Bishops in this scenario. 

[Breckenridgebear]

Looks like change is on its way at Depauw. I just hope they do enough to get back into the arms race.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012121008036

http://www.depauw.edu/athletics/news/details/29033/

They didn't need to fire Long to accept this money and get the new athletic campaign going.

True, but I feel the school had an idea that they were coming into some money and wanted to make a coaching change to coincide with the campus upgrades. They probably think they can get more $$$ for upgrades if they have a coach that the alumni feel they can get behind.

[jknezek]

With two losses it will be pretty hard for CMU to be Regionally Ranked in the south. There are a lot of really good south teams this year. I don't think a 2 loss CMU will be able to crack it.
UMHB, Johns Hopkins/Gettysburg winner, Waynesburg stand good shots at being undefeated. Wesley (UMHB), Birmingham Southern (Wesley), W&L/RMC winner, JHU/Gettysburg loser, stand good shots at being 1 loss teams. La College (Wesley UMHB), Huntingdon (Wesley BSC), Trinity (UMHB SRSU??), H-SC (Huntingdon, Catholic??) (if they can top the other 2 ODAC teams), CNU (Salisbury, H-SC) could be two loss teams with very strong schedules.
For a 2 loss CMU to crack the regional rankings they are going to need help.

[BashDad]

OWU would have a decent chance at having a win over a RR'd team (CMU, if CMU can absorb a second loss and be RR'd...maybe) and will probably wind up with a slightly better SOS than Wittenberg thanks to CMU being regional for OWU.  Criteria would probably favor the Bishops in this scenario.

CMU is going to destroy OWU.

[nike]

Have two NCAC teams ever made the tournament in the same year?
Who would ever have imagined a year ago that "OWU" would be used in the same sentence with Witt and Wabash by anyone with regards to contention for the league title.
Amazing.  As a Scots follower, I can look to the Wabash OWU game as possibly being the new game of the year in the NCAC this year, only because the Wabash Witt game is history. Being out of the chase allows one to look past games and into the future without fear of jinxing said team.
Can anyone say Coach of the Year?

[BashDad]

You guys. OWU has played 5 teams that have won, in total, 7 games. Let's take a breath.