FB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[BOYA87]

well lets all give em something to talk about!  I hope everyones squads are busting their butts in camp so the MIAA can have a strong non-conference showing!  We need to develop more wins in this area as a conference to earn more respect around the nation.

[sflzman]

Top teams (perennially or just occasionally) always yield more posters on pretty much every board.

But d3boards has only been around for a dozen or so years - when was Alma ever hot?  (Sorry, but being a Titan, and September 10th approaching, had to start the trash talking! )

I hope to make it to Alma for the game (have already picked out the campground for my RV), but might not make it.  My folks recently celebrated their SEVENTIETH!! anniversary, and we'll have a family reunion in Illinois sometime in early September, but exact date currently unknown (depends on arrival of my oldest brother and sister-in-law from California).

IF I make it, which posters could I count on meeting?

Oh. Wow. I see how it is .....but after bein trounced by your IWU squad the past two years I can't really say anything.

well lets all give em something to talk about!  I hope everyones squads are busting their butts in camp so the MIAA can have a strong non-conference showing!  We need to develop more wins in this area as a conference to earn more respect around the nation.

I don't think anyone is in camp right now, are they?

[LetItRain]

You're exactly right, the weather has been fantastic for those guys. I hope they're enjoying themselves.

Somehow I doubt the players would say they're "enjoying themselves".   

[LetItRain]

sflzman - Trine reported to camp on Tuesday, August 9.  I think I read that one other MIAA team reported this week also.  I'm not sure if they've put on the pads yet (run tests, meetings, etc...), but they are in Angola right now preparing to win their 4th consecutive MIAA conference title!

(I decided to join Mr. Ypsi with the trash talking).   

[d3fan1]

Would it stir the pot if I said I thought Calvin had the best football team in the conference? 

[Mr. Ypsi]

Would it stir the pot if I said I thought Calvin had the best football team in the conference? 

Well, they will go undefeated for the umpteenth year in a row!

[BOYA87]

Dont forget about Saint Mary's!  Those girls give the Calvin team a run for their money every year!

[ThunderHead]

Boya - while it's true they may not be "enjoying" themselves hopefully they're aware how much worse it could be.  

My karma is at 0, so I have to withdraw from the trash talking at the moment.   BUT don't worry, as soon as I get my Karma up around 10 (which is about where I top out) I'm sure I'll post something that will collectively raise peoples blood pressure.  

Until then, I hope everyones looking forward to a great season.

[ThunderHead]

OFF TOPIC

Interesting read for those interested:

According to this article (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2011/08/ncaa-academic-standard-apr-ncaa-tournament-bowl-eligibility/1):

"University of Hartford President Walt Harrison, who heads the NCAA committee that oversees academic issues, said there's also interest in applying the cutoff to football bowls, which aren't run by the association. At 930, that would have affected six of last season's 70 bowl participants and 17 of 120 major-college teams overall. Among the latter were six teams from marquee conferences -- Maryland and North Carolina State from the Atlantic Coast, Louisville from the Big East, Michigan from the Big Ten and Colorado and Washington State from the Pacific 12 -- plus newly independent Brigham Young."

[Pat Coleman]

I would agree with sac's assessment that the current pace of the MIAA football message board is the best it's been in our 12 seasons.

[ThunderHead]

OFF TOPIC

Ok, so as we head into another season, how about some tailgating receipts?

I always enjoy these to snack on before I start throwing the meats on the grill. I like a little heat, but generally these are really mild and taste great. They go quick, so make a few.


Grilled Stuffed Bacon Jalapeños Recipe

This is a great appetizer on a fall saturday before kickoff.

Ingredients:
Large Jalapeño Peppers
Mozzarella
Cream Cheese
Bacon
Onion (optional)
Toothpicks

Directions:
Slice open the jalapeños vertically, removing the seeds and membranes, but make sure they come back to be whole again. (don't damage the pepper walls so it close whole)

Mix the mozzarella and cream cheese, enough to fill your peppers.  If desired, you can add minced onion to the cheese mixture.

Add the cheese to the peppers, and close so the cheese squeezes out between the gaps. Wrap a strip of bacon around the entire pepper, and skewer the pepper and bacon together with a toothpick.

Over an open flame on the grill, place the peppers, turning constantly, with tongs.  Cook until the bacon is done.

Let rest and then eat whole right off the tooth pick, or cut in half to cool cheese before eating.

Give it a try, I have found these to be a big hit.

I'd love to add to my tailgating menu though, so if you guys have a favorite tailgating food, I'd love to hear it.

[sac]

OFF TOPIC

Interesting read for those interested:

According to this article (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2011/08/ncaa-academic-standard-apr-ncaa-tournament-bowl-eligibility/1):

"University of Hartford President Walt Harrison, who heads the NCAA committee that oversees academic issues, said there's also interest in applying the cutoff to football bowls, which aren't run by the association. At 930, that would have affected six of last season's 70 bowl participants and 17 of 120 major-college teams overall. Among the latter were six teams from marquee conferences -- Maryland and North Carolina State from the Atlantic Coast, Louisville from the Big East, Michigan from the Big Ten and Colorado and Washington State from the Pacific 12 -- plus newly independent Brigham Young."

That's proposed to start in the 2014-2015 season.  By then Michigan will be well above the APR threshold.  Right now most of its APR troubles relate to the mass exodus when Rich Rodriguez became the head coach.  The really bad parts of its APR will have rolled off the board by then.  Unless things go nuclear again, Michigan will be safe by miles.

To this point, I still don't get how players that transfer and are in good academic standing when they leave somehow hurt a school's APR calculation.  That makes no sense......and neither does a player leaving early to go pro who is also in good academic standing.


Basketball will be sport most affected by this.  It will cause the big time programs to think twice before taking a 'one and done' kind of player.  Currently Ohio State would not be eligible.  I would not be surprised to see even more high school basketball recruits heading for the NBA or overseas.



FWIW, here's a little write up from mgoblog.com about it from today.  The writer has been following the APR issue for quite some time, even before Rich Rod.


No, seriously, they appear to be serious. The NCAA announced (and then quickly approved) a massive increase in the APR's toothiness by requiring a 930 for a sport to participate in postseason play, whether it's the NCAA tournament or bowl games.

That's good for Michigan, which has only brushed up against penalties due to the unprecedented transferfest that took place upon Rodriguez's arrival. Once coaching transitions are out of the way they'll be well clear of 930 in every sport. Meanwhile, teams like Purdue, Ohio State, and Indiana have all seen their basketball programs suffer sanctions for falling beneath the 925 mark. They'll have to be more careful about one-and-dones and academic risks, i.e. recruit more like John Beilein.

As far as football goes, if you're worried about the Rodriguez anchor (an 897 2008 APR), don't be. The Bylaw Blog says the 2014-2015 APR will be the first point at which the new regulation will go into effect. At that point the anchor will have rolled off. The only yearly APR number to count then will be last year's score, an okay 946. Michigan's attrition during this coaching search has been less extensive and more likely to get waived (three medical scholarships and just the one academic implosion). This year's class has a lot of 3.8 GPAs and no immediately apparent academic risks—they'll be fine.

The Bylaw Blog also says it's critical to get rid of the one year lag in the APR. Michigan won't find out its 2010-11 number until next summer. I'd also suggest the thing has to be more transparent. Right now we just get a number; in the future they have to show how they got that number, because it's serious now. It's not going to fly with people if Kentucky basketball can boot seven guys off the team and not even have its APR flinch. Each APR report should come with

   The number of players who got through the year.
   The number of players who left the team
   The number of players who left who the school got a pass for and why

Right now trying to figure out your APR is fraught with difficulty; it needs to be more transparent, within FERPA reason.

[ThunderHead]

I think the APR needs to be re-worked. Clearly it has some merit, and yet the way it's applied really doesn't make much sense to me.

Players leave for a number of reasons, and a coaching change (Michigan) can have devastating effects on the APR.

The spirit of the rule is fine, it just needs to be re-worked so it can be applied to be used for its intent.

[sflzman]

sflzman - Trine reported to camp on Tuesday, August 9.  I think I read that one other MIAA team reported this week also.  I'm not sure if they've put on the pads yet (run tests, meetings, etc...), but they are in Angola right now preparing to win their 4th consecutive MIAA conference title!

(I decided to join Mr. Ypsi with the trash talking).   

Meant besides Trine haha.....the Scots come in to town tomorrow night - as we look to be the big surprise in MIAA play, now that we have a QB.....

[sflzman]

Dont forget about Saint Mary's!  Those girls give the Calvin team a run for their money every year!

We may be the only conference in the world that bosts two undefeated records, year in and year out!