FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Li'l Giant]

1. I'll never question you again, Dean B.

2. I'm not sober enough to post what I am thinking on a phone keyboard. I'll do that tomorrow.

[CollegeGolf18]

https://twitter.com/MasonHAsher/status/1195809519076548610?s=20

[CollegeGolf18]

https://twitter.com/MasonHAsher/status/1195809519076548610?s=20

https://twitter.com/MasonHAsher/status/1195811829051736065?s=20

[CollegeGolf18]

You can't tell me that look at both that photo and video, that that wasn't a blatantly missed call by the official. Likely to make up the call early in the drive that DePauw coaches were fuming over (that was actually a correct call).

[BashDad]

Will prolly go full troll if y'all talk for three pages about how the refs are the issue.

[wally_wabash]

They missed it.  Flat out missed that call.  But that call isn't why Wabash lost to a 5-4 team today. 

[wabashcpa]

Will prolly go full troll if y'all talk for three pages about how the refs are the issue.

Thank you.

[Li'l Giant]

They missed it.  Flat out missed that call.  But that call isn't why Wabash lost to a 5-4 team today.

Every bit of this.

Will prolly go full troll if y'all talk for three pages about how the refs are the issue.

And this

[firstdown]

It is hard to watch football with the officials making bad calls.
First, the Colts go screwed on idiotic roughing call on the punt in Pittsburgh and the no touchdown call with Dolphins last week.  Then the refs missing the call on the TD in the end zone in  the Bell Game.

It is getting impossible to watch any football with such bad calls every week

[BayernFan]

Bad calls are part of the game.  This one will enter into Monon Bell lore.

So Wabash has finished its regular season at 7-3 after losing the Monon Bell Game..  In all likelihood it will finish the year at 7-4.  Its most losses since 2004 (6-4).

Will Wabash look at hiring a different Head Coach?  Should it?

[sigma one]

Disappointing today.  I agree, bad call.  But not THE reason DPU won.  No, Wabash will not look for a new coach.  The powers that be at the College love the way Morel interacts with the Wabash community after being critical of the way two previous, highly successful, coaches interacted.  Morel will be here for more years unless he decides to step down.  This ain't the administration at Wabash that puts football wins among its highest priorities.  I'm not saying that the administration doesn't want football success, but 8 or more wins every season is not among their biggest targets.   

[Whitecarrera]

... and, at the expense of sacrificing the things that have made Wabash what it is, that should not be a top priority ( read into that what you want ).

Sigma, I'm glad to hear your perspective on those things. It amazes me that a second straight share of the conference, and an automatic bid, can lead to discussion of a coach's security.  Wabash has some amazing things most schools will never have, but there are also things others have that Wabash never will (1000s of students, relaxed admissions/academics, girls). Wabash will always have the ability to "cycle up" and go deep in the playoffs, but when you look at those schools that have done it consistently, they're more likely to not have the things that Wabash does, and more of the things we never will.

On a different note, today's game reminded me of the '97 blizzard game —  not a lot of possessions, every one mattered, and ultimately it came down to a play where two guys matched up, good on good, and their guy came out on top that play.

[firstdown]

The Bell Game has greatly diminished in its cache and it is hard to motivate the many young Wabash players for it when their eyes are on the playoffs starting next weekend.

The Bell Game is a victim of 2 perverse acts:  the omission  of the undefeated Wabash team from the playoffs  in 1981 (may the members of that committee rot in the lowest level of Dante's Inferno for their dastardly acts.)
The other was the great signal cheating scandal in 1998.

The great Wabash team of 2002 began to set these things right.  It is unfortunate that Creighton would not let that team hang more than 35 points on DePaw.

[1837Tigers]

IIRC the undefeated team was '80.  '81 was my senior year and DP won the Bell.

Win or lose, always great to see my friends in red.  It was a special day for me (my last MB) -- we have a pretty special thing with this rivalry.

[Li'l Giant]

The Bell Game has greatly diminished in its cache and it is hard to motivate the many young Wabash players for it when their eyes are on the playoffs starting next weekend.

Is the take here that the playoffs are bad? I mean the teams in 2002, 2005, 2011, 2015 won the Bell with the playoffs looming that next week. Of course, there's one big difference between those 4 squads and this one.

I don't think the Bell Game has been diminished at all. And definitely not because of things that happened 21 and 38 years ago.