FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[scotty]

I just watched "We are Marshall" last night.

Great, great football film.  Some of the football action was over the top - but it always is in football movies.

But I have a question for the old-time Wooster faithful on the board.

Was Jack Lengyel as big a screwball as he was portrayed to be in the movie?

If not, I think he has a defamation case against Matthew MConaghey and the writers of this flick.   

JW,

If you liked "We are Marshall", you will love "We are Wooster" which is due out this summer. It sort of combines the best of the Marshall story with the best of the Uruguayan soccer team that crashed in the Andes in the 70's. It is based on true accounts from a return trip back to Wooster from Meadville,Pa recently.

With the cut backs in the post game food allowance and a couple of wrong turns by an 80ish bus driver, the team finds themselves out of gas and lost in central Pa. With no food, no game plan and no chance for an NCAC title, the team resorts to...canibalism. First the kickers(who is really surprised) and the long snappers, then the tight ends as Wooster normally is deep in that position...and then the team looks toward the staff.
I don't want to give the ending away but let's just say that it goes good with a cold beer.

The cast is outstanding. Tony Sutton is played by Jim Brown, Justin Schaeffer by John Elway, Chris Craig by John Lynch and on and on. This is a must see for any true fan of D3 football.

[formerd3db]

I believe, if I recall correctly, that after he was dismissed from KSU, that Parrish was QB coach at Rutgers before going to Michigan (or was it the other way around?)

Also, a trivia question:  before Parrish, who was the KSU head coach?  Hint:  he was an assistant at Illinois and then Wisconsin; when at Illinois, he was one of the assistant coaches at the U of Illinois football camp that I attended for several years during hs.  Unfortunately, his tenure at KSU didn't turn out that great either, although he was a good coach/man.

[BoBo]

Also, a trivia question:  before Parrish, who was the KSU head coach?  Hint:  he was an assistant at Illinois and then Wisconsin; when at Illinois, he was one of the assistant coaches at the U of Illinois football camp that I attended for several years during hs.  Unfortunately, his tenure at KSU didn't turn out that great either, although he was a good coach/man.

Jim Dickey and Lee Moon coached KSU in '85.

[cave2bens]

JW,

If you liked "We are Marshall", you will love "We are Wooster" which is due out this summer. It sort of combines the best of the Marshall story with the best of the Uruguayan soccer team that crashed in the Andes in the 70's...

Twenty-four deceased and sixteen survivors of the Christian Brothers School alumni rugby club and supporters would not be amused, characterized as silk-short clad, chablis quaffers, after seventy-two days in the Cordilleria     

The crash of Uruguayan Flight 571 on 10/13/1972 was brought to print in 1974 in Survive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read and the title was altered to "Alive" within a couple of months due to the controversy.  An additional book by Nando Parrado (one of the hikers out) was just released last year, and the movie, Alive starring Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano came out in 1993.

Most popular bumper sticker on players' vehicles in 1973 - outselling the traditional "Rugby is best played on Grass" and "Give Blood - Play Rugby?"
"Rugby Players Eat Their Dead" and "More than a Game - It's A Way of Life."

Now a return to pads, helmets, and constant play stoppages after this brief commercial announcement for our local affiliates.   And, about this ingrown nail on my kicking foot...

[oldscot73]

Joe Wally,
   My dad and I watch "We are Marshall" the other week and my dad doesn't remember Jack Lengyel being a screwball as you put it.  Jack recruited my dad for Wooster but he didn't end up going there.

[BashBacker#16]

Thanks to Coach Selby:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHxis83GJ8Q

[WallyFS4]

Excellent video Coach.

Every time time I see that finish to the 2001 Bell game, I get a rush.  Has there ever been a better finish to a Wabash game than that?  I really think that was the spring board for the 2002 season.  As always.

WABASH ALWAYS FIGHTS!

[DadofBashWarrior..]

Great video....who put that together?

[footballfan413]

Great video....who put that together?

Somebody really, really, old!   Just kidding.  Awesome video!  Congrats on a long and storied tradition of great football.  As a Whitewater fan, I am honored we had a chance to be a part of it and to witness the proud tradition displayed by the Bash fans in the parking lot before the Blizzard Bowl.  That will be one I remember always.

[bigwheels77]

all signs point to Aaron Selby. He is a 2006 grad, now on the coaching staff. I am not sure what he is coaching, but he was an outside linebacker for the Bash.

[bigwheels77]

have you guys been to Depauw's website to view their "Monon Memories?"
They are fairly impartial, but I would like to see someone at Wabash get on the ball and do something like this. With a Wabash spin of course!

http://www.depauw.edu/ath/football/monon/memories.asp

I nominate Jim Amidon

[bigwheels77]

this just in... Sampson is out at IU.

victory for the student athlete that shouldn't be subjected to hundreds of phone calls a day

[bashbrother]

BashBro - get your checkbook out... 

16 - Just got back from Vegas, you may need to give Mandalay Bay a call on this one.  They have my checkbook. 

[wabco]

My information is that 'Bash will have AT THE LEAST a new scoreboard, new field turf, and a new field turf practice field (where baseball presently is) for the 2010 season.  I believe new restrooms and improved press box are also part of the package.  

Then there is soccer with field turf (separate facility where it is now) along with new baseball stadium (separate facility) where football practice area is now.  

With these pieces, the sports complex should be complete kick a**.

NOW ... get ready to help pay for it all footballers and baseballers!  It needs to be done once and done correctly ... this will cost some bread and so ... get ready to GIT 'ER DONE.  

[Li'l Giant]

I have a question about the field turf. Don't the track and field guys use the football field for throwing events? Is it okay to jam javelins or hammers in the field turf? Or are they going to have to move those events?