FB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Not a good day for Michigan teams - I haven't checked D2 scores, but Olivet and Adrian may have been the only winners.  Though EMU played a helluva game - only lost to Florida by 65-0!

Don't forget about Central Michigan beating Purdue 38-17

[Mr. Ypsi]

Not a good day for Michigan teams - I haven't checked D2 scores, but Olivet and Adrian may have been the only winners.  Though EMU played a helluva game - only lost to Florida by 65-0!

Don't forget about Central Michigan beating Purdue 38-17

Yeah, I remembered that right after I hit 'post'.  Don't know about Western, Northern, GVSU, etc.  but overall, not a good day.

[ExTartanPlayer]

Not a good day for Michigan teams - I haven't checked D2 scores, but Olivet and Adrian may have been the only winners.  Though EMU played a helluva game - only lost to Florida by 65-0!

Don't forget about Central Michigan beating Purdue 38-17

FIRE UP CHIPS!

(My girlfriend is in her first year teaching at Central Michigan and I've dragged her onto the Chips' bandwagon...her words: "I'm here for the next year at least; so we might as well try out everything the place has to offer" - we went to the home opener last week, and she's already bought our tickets for next week's game vs. Syracuse)

[OC_SID]

It is going to be a nice day, so either will be a good choice. I have heard that we (Olivet) might have a large crowd. If you do come to Olivet, I am not afraid of meeting posters on here. Before the game would be better since we have a home volleyball match in the gym at 5 p.m. and I have to get in there for that.

Sounds like a deal.  Nice weather ... big crowd ... home opener ... and a team building on momentum and success from last season.  I'll see if I can track you down before the game.

Nice meeting you at the game, yesterday. Feel free to post on here about your thoughts from the game.

[Mr. Ypsi]

sac PM'd me that he had been misinformed, and the injured couple (both critical condition, one expected to recover, the other probably not) was not formerd3db and his wife.  Hopefully he will post soon and relieve any anxieties.

[sac]

My apologies if I caused any alarm.

[DBQ1965]

It is going to be a nice day, so either will be a good choice. I have heard that we (Olivet) might have a large crowd. If you do come to Olivet, I am not afraid of meeting posters on here. Before the game would be better since we have a home volleyball match in the gym at 5 p.m. and I have to get in there for that.

Sounds like a deal.  Nice weather ... big crowd ... home opener ... and a team building on momentum and success from last season.  I'll see if I can track you down before the game.

Nice meeting you at the game, yesterday. Feel free to post on here about your thoughts from the game.

Thoughts on the Olivet College Comets home opener.  Olivet seems to have picked up where they left off last year, albeit Wilmington didn't provide as much competition as I thought they might.  The Quakers are obviously still in the rebuilding/recovering mode.  Olivet showed some good defense although they didn't always contain the Wilmington QB when he ran out of the pocket.  The Comets had some good "red zone" stops.  I was most impressed with Olivet's offense.  The QB showed good leadership, a good arm (349 yds. passing although the Quaker defense seemed to be playing a little soft), and ran effectively when he had to.  The running game was steady and determined with a lot of yards gained after contact.  Most impressive was Olivet's receiving corps with some gutsy catches across the middle in traffic and also good speed down field. 

After what Loras did to Elmhurst yesterday, Olivet should get another win at home next week and I would be so bold as to say they will be 3-0 going into their MIAA opener against Adrian. 

[formerd3db]

Mr. Ypsi:

It was not me/my wife.  Nonetheless, I am sorry to hear of an accident, although I do not know anything about it.  I will keep the two people who were involved in my prayers.  I was supposed to go with the team for the game Saturday, however, some personal aspects came up for me late last week preventing me from doing so.  I will be at our home opener this Saturday.

Various (random) thoughts:

Your IWU had a nice win against Franklin.  Your former EMU got blasted by Florida as expected after a nice opening win the first week against Morgan State.  I see they only had just over 8700 for the game at Rynearson (now "The Grey Factory" ), although they played the same day at the U of Mich/Applch St. game just "down the road" which had 106,811 for the day.  EMU needs to try and avoid scheduling home games when Michigan has home games if possible. 

Speaking of attendance figures, it was nice to see most of the MIAA teams have games (either home or away) that had attendance in the mid-upper 2000's.  The disappointing exceptions were Kazoo only have mid-500 and Hope @ Monmouth only having about 870.  With the enthusiasm heading into the season for Kazoo, including 90 players and after having a nice record last year, it was disappointing to see they had such a low crowd for the home opener as well as that they lost the game.  I thought Rose-Hulman was not supposed to be that good this year.

Alma is in big trouble.  I expected them to not have much chance of winning at Heidi, since the latter is so good as expected, however, the shellshacking they had was a little surprising.  I am not sure what is going on up at Alma-difficulties in recruiting is what I've hear via the "MIAA rumor mill" (sorry, borrowing sac's term here! ).  I was surprised at Hope's loss, although it appears that turnovers had a big part. 

That's all for now.  Talk to you all later.     

[Mr. Ypsi]

Mr. Ypsi:

It was not me/my wife.  Nonetheless, I am sorry to hear of an accident, although I do not know anything about it.  I will keep the two people who were involved in my prayers.  I was supposed to go with the team for the game Saturday, however, some personal aspects came up for me late last week preventing me from doing so.  I will be at our home opener this Saturday.

Various (random) thoughts:

Your IWU had a nice win against Franklin.  Your former EMU got blasted by Florida as expected after a nice opening win the first week against Morgan State.  I see they only had just over 8700 for the game at Rynearson (now "The Grey Factory" ), although they played the same day at the U of Mich/Applch St. game just "down the road" which had 106,811 for the day. EMU needs to try and avoid scheduling home games when Michigan has home games if possible.

Speaking of attendance figures, it was nice to see most of the MIAA teams have games (either home or away) that had attendance in the mid-upper 2000's.  The disappointing exceptions were Kazoo only have mid-500 and Hope @ Monmouth only having about 870.  With the enthusiasm heading into the season for Kazoo, including 90 players and after having a nice record last year, it was disappointing to see they had such a low crowd for the home opener as well as that they lost the game.  I thought Rose-Hulman was not supposed to be that good this year.

Alma is in big trouble.  I expected them to not have much chance of winning at Heidi, since the latter is so good as expected, however, the shellshacking they had was a little surprising.  I am not sure what is going on up at Alma-difficulties in recruiting is what I've hear via the "MIAA rumor mill" (sorry, borrowing sac's term here! ).  I was surprised at Hope's loss, although it appears that turnovers had a big part. 

That's all for now.  Talk to you all later.     

Agreed, with one exception - on the relatively rare occasions that Michigan plays a night home game, they should do everything possible to schedule a day game.  Maybe, just maybe, they could lure some of those 100,000+ fans to see an 'opening act'.

Of the 8,700 people they drew to the first game, I dare say over half were freshmen who didn't know any better.  And they likely will never be back.  It is one thing to be really bad, but EMU has (most years) also been boring.  Without cheating on attendance count, I doubt they will ever average even 5,000 for a season.  Though I am excited about their new coach, Chris Creighton(?) (late of Wabash and Drake(?) - if anyone can get them to be exciting and a winning team, he seems to be it.  And, even with all the almost insurmountable obstacles they face (most notably being totally overshadowed by Michigan and being primarily a commuter school with an average student age probably north of 25), if they DO become exciting and a winning team, they WILL begin to draw D1 sorts of numbers.

[gohope]

sac PM'd me that he had been misinformed, and the injured couple (both critical condition, one expected to recover, the other probably not) was not formerd3db and his wife.  Hopefully he will post soon and relieve any anxieties.

The couple that was involved in the Wrong-way accident last Friday in Marne are actually the Grandparents of Hope FB Captain Joe Droppers. They are Don and Shirley VanHoeven, and Shirley lost her fight from the accident on Monday evening. Don has been released from the hospital but still has a lot of recovering to go thru. Don also played football for Hope while a student years ago. Please keep the VanHoeven Family in your thoughts and prayers.

[formerd3db]

I had been informed of this sad news last evening.  Indeed, my prayers are for Doc Don, Kurt and Deb (his daughter and son-in-law), Joe and his siblings/brothers and all the family.  Prayers also for the other survivor of the accident (that man's wife was killed in the accident also it is my understanding).

[Gregory Sager]

Does anybody here have a read on Alma? I'm traveling to the middle of the mitten tomorrow to broadcast the North Park @ Alma contest, and I'm trying to get a feel for the Scots. Last week they were eviscerated by Heidelberg down in Tiffin, 72-7, but, since Heidelberg's posted a good record over the past three years, I have to sort out just how much of that beatdown was the Student Princes being a good team and how much of it was Alma being a bad team.

[sac]

Alma was 1-9 last year, and lost to Heidelberg 52-7

[formerd3db]

Gregory:

Alma is simply not a very good team, unfortunately.  Let's keep it at that for now.  Obviously, you will have a better assessment of them after today's outcome, whatever that might be.

[D3SportzBall]

Gregory:

Alma is simply not a very good team, unfortunately.  Let's keep it at that for now.  Obviously, you will have a better assessment of them after today's outcome, whatever that might be.

Well, Alma had a pretty convincing (31-7) win over North Park last Saturday, so they must not be all that bad.  Especially when you see that North Park only lost 28-31 in week 1 to a Concordia (Wis.) team that was in the playoffs last year.