FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[cave2bens]

Safe travels to the LG's (and all) for the game(s)....
Wish I could be there; life got in the way of my football...
Hope Selby is rocking for this match up
GO BISHOPS

Well, this auld phart will be on the river side of Selby - don't know if there's any t'gating or not, but beats going back to Atlanta earlier and painting a couple of rooms for the remainder of the weekend.  Cheers, All.  WAF

[formerd3db]

Safe travels to the LG's (and all) for the game(s)....
Wish I could be there; life got in the way of my football...
Hope Selby is rocking for this match up
GO BISHOPS

Well, this auld phart will be on the river side of Selby - don't know if there's any t'gating or not, but beats going back to Atlanta earlier and painting a couple of rooms for the remainder of the weekend.  Cheers, All.  WAF

cave2 (and aueagle):

Would be a most enjoyable experience to join you at old Selby for such game.  However, my duties call me to the other game.   Anyway, I hope you both have a great, fun filled (and dry) day.  Indeed, as aueagle stated...safe travels to you and everyone.

[BashFan74]

Obnoxious play by play. Jim and Steve are class acts!

[old wabash]

What a homer!! He thinks he can do better than the refs here, at Penn St, and even the umps at Wrigley!!

[aueagle]

LG's spanking Bishops
Big Red getting  a wake up call by the Tigers
Puppy Power Lives
Another NCAC weekend
I may be wrong, but the Bash faithful doesn't look as large
at Selby as I remember it
GO BISHOPS

[WooClone15]

LG's spanking Bishops
Big Red getting  a wake up call by the Tigers
Puppy Power Lives
Another NCAC weekend
I may be wrong, but the Bash faithful doesn't look as large
at Selby as I remember it
GO BISHOPS

and Woo's firing on all cylinders against Kenyon today. 6:30 left in the game and it's 41-16

[aueagle]

ScotLass would be proud of her Marching Kilts
Bishops got to find a way to beat the Top Tier
Great fall day for grid action

[wally_wabash]

Would love to hear from anybody who watched if Canaan Gebele's 11 attempts for 15 yards had anything to do with him being obviously limited from a mobility perspective or if DePauw just locked him down.   I tried to watch a little bit of this game, but DPU's feed was giving me trouble so I bailed on that pretty quick. 

[sigma one]

Wally, While watching Wabash on one computer, I had Denison/DPU on another.  After the feed finally got rolling, the broadcast was fine.  I thought DPU handled Gebele well, but he was also gimpy from time to time.  I understand his injury is to the ankle.  As we know, those kinds of injuries can be tricky; and if it's some version of a high ankle sprain, it will hamper him going forward.  I guess we will see next week.  He left the game once, then returned, only to leave again.  For me, it was hard to tell how much his mobility suffered.  l will add that I watched two Denison games earlier in the year, and Gebele did not look the same yesterday, running or passing.  Was this DPU's defense or Gebele's health?  Still, Denison's two QBs passed for a lot of yards.  The Big Red showed no running game vs. what I believe is a really good DPU front seven.
     On another topic for Wabash guys on this board with good memories about Wabash football:    During his career at Wabash, Drake Christian (who was injured in the second half yesterday) has scored TDs as a receiver, as a runner, and on a punt return.  He has also thrown two TD passes this year (on two passing attempts!).   Can any of you think of another Wabash players who has done those four things?  I can't think of anyone who has, and it's quite a collection of ways to score.
     

[HCAlum86]

42 - 14 over a former head coach, Tribe could seal, and the Browns are not getting destroyed. Life is good, friends.

[Li'l Giant]

     On another topic for Wabash guys on this board with good memories about Wabash football:    During his career at Wabash, Drake Christian (who was injured in the second half yesterday) has scored TDs as a receiver, as a runner, and on a punt return.  He has also thrown two TD passes this year (on two passing attempts!).   Can any of you think of another Wabash players who has done those four things?  I can't think of anyone who has, and it's quite a collection of ways to score.
   

Didn't Wes Chamblee have a play where he threw a pass on an end around type of thing? Don't remember it being a scoring play but I'm pretty sure he was used in a similar manner.

[wally_wabash]

     On another topic for Wabash guys on this board with good memories about Wabash football:    During his career at Wabash, Drake Christian (who was injured in the second half yesterday) has scored TDs as a receiver, as a runner, and on a punt return.  He has also thrown two TD passes this year (on two passing attempts!).   Can any of you think of another Wabash players who has done those four things?  I can't think of anyone who has, and it's quite a collection of ways to score.
   

Didn't Wes Chamblee have a play where he threw a pass on an end around type of thing? Don't remember it being a scoring play but I'm pretty sure he was used in a similar manner.

I think I've got it.  Billy King. 

In 2003, Billy King returned a punt for a TD for his first career Wabash TD. 

In 2004, Billy King returned an interception for a TD. 

In 2005, Billy King handled 8 punts, 10 kickoffs, and intercepted four balls, but did not score. 

In 2006, Billy King switched to offense, led Wabash in rushing and scored 3 TDs on the ground (how different was that era...Wabash's leading rusher had 3 TDs). He was also 2-2 passing that season with one TD, and he caught 15 balls, one of which was a touchdown. 

[sigma one]

Yea, Chamblee and King came to mind.  I was (reasonably) sure, however, that Chamblee never threw a TD pass.  I couldn't think of a situation where he had that opportunity.  I didn't recall that King threw for a TD. So, King's doings were even more special; he achieved TDs five different ways,with the interception return for a TD.  Thanks, Wally.  Wonder if there was someone further back who also did all four, five?  Maybe someone as far back as the 60s single wing era?  Anyway, these are rare and special accomplishments.

[wally_wabash]

I thought Saturday was a really good day for Wabash.  Rice was efficient again (11-16, 133, 3 TDs, 0 INT) and he's really been good post-Witt.  Saw some more wrinkles this week, another TD pass out of Drake Christen, more Isaac Avant in the run game (they seriously ran the same jet sweep with Avant four straight plays...it was incredible...also, the jet sweep is morphing into Wabash's thing, which I have mixed feelings about).  Wabash continues to be banged up on the OL, which is definitely having an impact, but I think some credit is due to the offensive coaching staff for evolving and finding some things that do work when just straight-ahead-pound-you-in-the-face-running isn't working. 

Hard to find fault with the defense after a shutout.  This team scored 37 points and piled up a jillion yards at DePauw one week earlier, so keeping them off the board in their own rustic stadium was really excellent work by Jeff Ramsey and his defense.  OWU was limited to 3-12 on 3rd downs, which is great, particularly a week after Wooster had a pretty good day in that area against Wabash.  Nice bit of correction there from week to week. 

Elsewhere, I think Wabash got a bit of help from DePauw and here's why- If Denison, Witt, and Wabash all ended 9-1 and Denison got the AQ (which I think would have happened), Wabash almost certainly winds up behind (at least) Wheaton and Wittenberg in the North region and that is basically doomsday for the Little Giants getting one of the six Pool C bids (I'm having hard time finding a path for a third North Region team to make the field via Pool C...I'm not sure Wittenberg would be safely in through the at-large route, tbh).  If Wabash can get these last two games (and they can) and have a co-championship with Wittenberg, Wittenberg gets peeled off as the league's Pool A team, and there's one less team in front of Wabash in the at-large line.  Still a lot to learn from this Wednesday's regional rankings and where Wabash is placed within the region, but I think Saturday's results around the league helped at least a little bit. 

[smedindy]

Here's to hoping Wooster was a wake up call. But lets not sleep on the Big Red.