FB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[LetItRain]

Tazon de Estrellas 2010

Team Stars & Stripes - 48
Team Mexico - 7

FINAL

Congratulations to the Warhawks also!!

[formerd3db]

Pat:

Thank you to you, Keith, Frank and your other staff/colleagues for a very nice job on the broadcast.  Since I was not able to view the game on TV (I have all the ESPN channels except ESPNU, unfortunately, ), I listened to your broadcast and it was great.  Next year, if I can't make it down to The Stagg Bowl in person, I am definitely going to watch it on TV but with your audio broadcast instead of ESPN's!  Hope you had a great time and thanks again for another great year.

formerd3db

[sflzman]

Pat:

Thank you to you, Keith, Frank and your other staff/colleagues for a very nice job on the broadcast.  Since I was not able to view the game on TV (I have all the ESPN channels except ESPNU, unfortunately, ), I listened to your broadcast and it was great.  Next year, if I can't make it down to The Stagg Bowl in person, I am definitely going to watch it on TV but with your audio broadcast instead of ESPN's!  Hope you had a great time and thanks again for another great year.

formerd3db

I know, too little too late, but you could've watched it one espn3.com. The game was there and it was 100% free...

[Raider 68]

MIAA Posters:

Why aren't there posts about Trine finishing in the D3 Top 10!

[LetItRain]

I didn't realize that they released the final Top 25.  D3football.com has Trine at #10.  The AFCA Coaches Poll has Trine at #8.  Eric Watt won the Gagliardi.  Now we just need Matt Land to win Liberty Mutual's D3 Coach of the Year!

GO THUNDER!!

[sac]

Congrats to Trine on their top 10 finish.  First for the MIAA in the d3football.com poll.....probably ever.

[sac]

Montana Tech has themselves a gem of a coach........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LikNOLkPc50

for some reason it starts over at the 3 minute mark, so the video is really only 3 minutes and worth a watch.

[formerd3db]

Congrats to Trine on their top 10 finish.  First for the MIAA in the d3football.com poll.....probably ever.

sac:

I join you in congratulating Trine for the above - that is greatm, not only for them, but also the MIAA as you say.  However, I disagree with that it will probably be ever - I can't imagine that it will never happen again, for them or for another MIAA team such as Albion or Hope.  Might take a while, but I doubt it wouldn't ever happen. 

Also, for what it's worth, while this is obviously the first time for such an occurance in teh d3football.com poll, it is not the first time an MIAA team has been nationally ranked in the final top ten poll of the year in the NCAA and the nation.  That has occurred for Hope, Albion and Adrian in the past.  Just thought I'd throw that in there for the record!

[formerd3db]

Pat:

Thank you to you, Keith, Frank and your other staff/colleagues for a very nice job on the broadcast.  Since I was not able to view the game on TV (I have all the ESPN channels except ESPNU, unfortunately, ), I listened to your broadcast and it was great.  Next year, if I can't make it down to The Stagg Bowl in person, I am definitely going to watch it on TV but with your audio broadcast instead of ESPN's!  Hope you had a great time and thanks again for another great year.

formerd3db

I know, too little too late, but you could've watched it one espn3.com. The game was there and it was 100% free...

sflzman:

You're kidding! I didn't know that.  Oh well.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Congrats to Trine on their top 10 finish.  First for the MIAA in the d3football.com poll.....probably ever.

sac:

I join you in congratulating Trine for the above - that is greatm, not only for them, but also the MIAA as you say.  However, I disagree with that it will probably be ever - I can't imagine that it will never happen again, for them or for another MIAA team such as Albion or Hope.  Might take a while, but I doubt it wouldn't ever happen. 

Also, for what it's worth, while this is obviously the first time for such an occurance in teh d3football.com poll, it is not the first time an MIAA team has been nationally ranked in the final top ten poll of the year in the NCAA and the nation.  That has occurred for Hope, Albion and Adrian in the past.  Just thought I'd throw that in there for the record!

sac was clearly talking about the past 11(?) years - not predicting the future.

There were postings on several boards about a way to watch on line - you've gotta get out of just your North region shell!

[formerd3db]

Congrats to Trine on their top 10 finish.  First for the MIAA in the d3football.com poll.....probably ever.

sac:

I join you in congratulating Trine for the above - that is greatm, not only for them, but also the MIAA as you say.  However, I disagree with that it will probably be ever - I can't imagine that it will never happen again, for them or for another MIAA team such as Albion or Hope.  Might take a while, but I doubt it wouldn't ever happen.  

Also, for what it's worth, while this is obviously the first time for such an occurance in teh d3football.com poll, it is not the first time an MIAA team has been nationally ranked in the final top ten poll of the year in the NCAA and the nation.  That has occurred for Hope, Albion and Adrian in the past.  Just thought I'd throw that in there for the record!

sac was clearly talking about the past 11(?) years - not predicting the future.

There were postings on several boards about a way to watch on line - you've gotta get out of just your North region shell!

Actually, I knew that Mr. Ypsi.  But, I just had to put in the "historical" perspective too!

As for the options of watcing on line, yes, I guess I should have/could have checked on other boards.  Actually, I did check on a couple of other boards, but no one was able to help , although they kindly tried.  Also, while listening to d3fb.com's live audio broadcast of the game, the USTREAM chat list on the side had people (UWW fans predominantly) discussing and trying to find out how to get a video cast of it.  No one was successful (they weren't very happy about it, obviously by some of the comments that were posted ), but also, I tried one of the links someone suggested there and it didn't work - it actually brought up a porno site (which I almost had trouble trying to get rid of off my computer - now I don't mean myself not wanting to but rather the computer aspect of tryiing to rid it - but I finally was successful! AND I would have had to pay for the service to get the live video of the game.  Even then, when deleting their site, they were very persistent in trying to get you to commit i.e. every time you clicke on cancel, another message came saying..."are you sure you want to cancel? We can give you a discount".  To say the least, I was frustrated, but as mentioned, did hear the game.  Next year, I'll know better and be prepared ahead of time, unless, of course, I can make it to The Stagg Bowl in person.

[Mr. Ypsi]

You should have checked the CCIW board (we collectively know EVERYTHING! )  Mugsy (or was it Q?) posted a site (quite possibly pirated, I don't know, or care ) which had a free link (though I never could figure out a way to get it beyond about 3" by 5".)  I had also seen the same link on two/three other boards.

[Uncle Rico]

MIAA Posters:

Why aren't there posts about Trine finishing in the D3 Top 10!

To be honest, I thought Trine would have been ranked higher based on the season they had, and how well they played against Whitewater.  If not for the fumble near Whitewaters goal line towards the end of the game, it was even closer.  I don't see how many of Whitewaters other competition played better against them, especially with Trine playing them on the road while most of the other playoff teams had them at home.  People can harp on the strength of schedule, but when you actually measure performance against the best team in the nation,  I think Trine deserves better than what they got.  You can play the toughest over all schedule, but when it comes down to duking it out with the best, isn't that what you really strive for?  I don't want to be judged by how well I did against everyone else, I want to be judged by how well I did against the best.  And in that scenario, Trine's performance deserved better than #10 in the nation, in my opinion... .

[formerd3db]

Thanks for the info, Mr. Ypsi.

Uncle Rico:

I thought they should have been rated higher also.  Oh well, at least they are in the Top Ten.

[Uncle Rico]

I returned home this morning from the Tazon de Estrella's game featuring a group of American D3 all star football players vs a Mexican all star team.  The Stars and Stripes team won 48-7.

One of the lasting impressions I had, other than the joy of watching my son play, was how the Mexican people embraced our players, and how well the players responded to them.

After the game, many many families would come up to the American players and ask for autographs, or to have their picture taken with the players.  Little kids would slowly walk up to one of the team and very politely ask to have their picture taken with the player.  It was so nice to see, and I hope our kids felt honored.  I think they did.  What a wonderful opportunity to spread "American futbol" to Mexico, with our players as ambassadors.   And what a great host Toluca was for our team.  A lot more than just a game of football happened that Saturday.