FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[DadofBashWarrior..]

Best of luck to you Witt Fans.....

I saw Capital play North Central in the first round last year .....It was the ugliest win I have ever seen in my life......Cap played horrible and still got the win from a very excellent North Central Team......Then I saw them play Wabash in the second round.....and they again got the W .....

[crusader26]

Best of luck to you Witt Fans.....

I saw Capital play North Central in the first round last year .....It was the ugliest win I have ever seen in my life......Cap played horrible and still got the win from a very excellent North Central Team......Then I saw them play Wabash in the second round.....and they again got the W .....

You missed the boat on this...an EXCELLENT Cap team got a win vs an EXCELLENT NCC Team & and an EXCELLENT Wabash team ON THE ROAD!!  Cap made mistakes, but so did NCC & Wabash!!  How can you knock a team for getting 2 wins in the postseason, then losing to the Nat'l Champion by 3 points??  Not sure what point you trying to make on this post??

[wally_wabash]

maybe wabash should enertain the idea of playing a non-conference schedule with an OAC team, someone who might beat them, but will give them a measuring stick for where they need to go to be on the national level.. witt set the standard by playing cap, wooster picked up JCU ( although that game was a bit of a disappointment this year. it seems a logical choice is mount... I hear they have trouble finding non-conference games.

I don't think Witt thought in a jillion years that Capital would be as good as they are when they signed on for this series.  It was a HUGE shock to all of us when Cap threw that first beatdown on Witt in '04.  We weren't quite as surprised the last two times they've played by the outcome, but the scores were certainly surprising. 

Measuring stick?  With or without this so called measuring stick game, Wabash has accounted for itself very well in their last two playoff appearances.  National quarters in '02, and then went to the wire with Capital last season despite playing what I considered to be their worst game of the year.  Wabash would have hosted MUC had the Cap game went their way, which I believe would have been an outstanding game.   But enough with the woulda/shouldas. 

DOnt get me wrong, im not sayin the bash non con is SOFT by any stretch, but before you knock witt for trying to play top teams in their non-con and getting drilled... try it sometime.  I relize franklin was pretty good, (1 loss) and milliken was supposed to be good, but turned to be not quite good enough.

I don't think anybody was knocking Witt's schedule.  The AQ system is supposed to encourage this kind of challenging scheduling, and hats off to Witt for taking the opportunity. 

But I feel bash should pick up someone who is a perennial top 25 team.... B-W, is around.. CAP, mount, are posibilities.. or maybe even a DII indiana team ( i can't think of any offhand)

There any number of reasons why this scenario is very difficult to pull off.  I'd love to see Wabash schedule an OAC team, but it just isn't likely to happen in the foreseeable future for a number of reasons:

- OAC clubs like to play their non-con game during week 1.  Wabash doesn't start their schedule until week 2.  I don't know why Wabash does this, they just do and I can assure you that nowhere on the list of reasons why Wabash does this is ducking the OAC.  We stepped it up this year by subbing our MIAA game with a CCIW team. 

- Wabash and the rest of the NCAC is about to enter into a scheduling agreement with the UAA.  Our non-con games will be locked up with Chicago and Wash U. through at least '09 and I'm guessing probably longer. 

- Non-D3's from Indiana or elsewhere are right out.  It's a waste of a game.  We only get 10 games to build a resumé for possible at-large selection, and you're throwing away a shot at a regional win if you schedule out of division.  Let's pretend that Wabash went 9-1 this year, losing the AQ to Witt and beating somebody like Butler or Valpo or St. Francis or whoever you want to pick...Wabash ends the  year with an 8-1 regional record which immediately puts them behind every other 1-loss team in the country who is eligible for a pool C selection.  You'd have no chance, particularly out of the NCAC where the conference schedule doesn't exactly do wonders for one's QOWI. 

There are a lot of things in play...I'd love to see Wabash play a game against a top-half OAC team, but it just isn't going to happen. 

[aueagle]

GO BUCKS.........GO TIGERS...........

[Li'l Giant]

Good luck to Witt! Get that Cap monkey off your back!

(just think of the enjoyment you'd get out of throwing a win over Cap in Wally's face.)

And sorry Buckeye fans, I put down money on Michigan as soon as I heard about Schembechler's death. I think the Wolverines are unbeatable today.

[Ryder16]

thatnks wally, that was a very insightful post... I hadn't considered the week one problem... If I could give u a karma, I would.

does anyone have any idea why bash does not start until week 2, wouldn't it be more benificial to have a rest week during the season rather than  have a 3 week long camp ?

[TigerFan_1973]

Wittenberg up 7-0 over Capital at the end of the first quarter.

Go Tigers!

I haven't been positing since basketball season, but I'm glad to be back.

[TigerFan_1973]

Capital just scored to make it 7-7.

Go Tigers.

I'm in Cincinnati OH listenting to the Wittenberg Tiger Radio Network via the web.

[wally_wabash]

Cap forces a 3 and out and then takes 13 seconds to score again.  14-7 Crusaders. 

[BashBacker#16]

20-7 Cap going in and Brumfield returns a blocked FG 98 yards for a TD...sweet...Witt 14 Cap 20...huge play for Witt.

Murray has over 60 on ONLY 10 carries.

Witt D holds to end the half - nice job Tigers.  Pentello is shredding the Witt D with over 250 in the air and the receiver has 150 on about 10 catches...

[TigerFan_1973]

Go Tigers.

[jscwittfan]

20-7 Cap going in and Brumfield returns a blocked FG 98 yards for a TD...sweet...Witt 14 Cap 20...huge play for Witt.

That's actually a typo on Cap's live stats.  They bobbled the snap (second time today - one on the missed XP and here), and then the holder tried to throw it and had it stripped before he could.  Brumfield picked it up around the 30-35 yard line and took it in from there.

Either way, hopefully this is the kind of play that Witt needs to try and get back into this.  The D played great in the first quarter - let's bring it back!

Go Witt!!

[Superfoot Wallace]

Can I get an amen from the ICAC bobbleheads on nomadic quarterbacks?

[The_Bishop]

Go Witt

[Schwami]

Amen, MacLeod!

Has the ICAC infected the OAC also?  Rocky Pentello throws for 294 yards in the first half!

Go Tigers!