FB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

Mr. Ypsi · September 13, 2013, 02:41:25 PM

Quote from: sflzman on September 13, 2013, 02:05:52 PM
Mr. Ypsi, are you going to be making the trek up to Alma tomorrow afternoon?

Unfortunately, no can do.

sflzman · September 13, 2013, 11:47:17 PM

Quote from: Mr. Ypsi on September 13, 2013, 02:41:25 PM
Quote from: sflzman on September 13, 2013, 02:05:52 PM
Mr. Ypsi, are you going to be making the trek up to Alma tomorrow afternoon?

Unfortunately, no can do.

That's too bad! Unfortunately I don't think it will be much of a game. Alma's still in the rebuilding stages. Predicting IWU's offense to be too much, along with Alma's youth and inexperience on offense. Those two don't add up to a good result, unfortunately

Mr. Ypsi · September 14, 2013, 12:33:36 AM

Quote from: sflzman on September 13, 2013, 11:47:17 PM
Quote from: Mr. Ypsi on September 13, 2013, 02:41:25 PM
Quote from: sflzman on September 13, 2013, 02:05:52 PM
Mr. Ypsi, are you going to be making the trek up to Alma tomorrow afternoon?

Unfortunately, no can do.

That's too bad! Unfortunately I don't think it will be much of a game. Alma's still in the rebuilding stages. Predicting IWU's offense to be too much, along with Alma's youth and inexperience on offense. Those two don't add up to a good result, unfortunately

Yeah, at one point last week Rob Gallik (the qb who's season-ending injury killed our season last year after starting 6-0, 12th in the country; we finished 6-4) was 20-22 - which is hard to do in the back yard with no defenders!

Our hoped-for running back, T J Stinde can't seem to shake his injuries, but Devonte Jones had a break-out game with 313 total yards: 135 rushing, 36 receiving (1 TD), and 142 on kick returns, including a 91 yard return which (amazingly) did not get him a TD.

Good luck to Alma, but I suspect this one will be over by halftime.

IF Gallik (and most of the rest) can stay healthy, I'm predicting a top ten national finish for IWU - and they'd better do it this year, because this is a VERY senior-loaded team.

formerd3db · September 14, 2013, 10:03:59 AM

Mr. Ypsi and sflzman:

Yes, depending on how Hope does this weekend and next, it will be interesting to see how we fare against IWU when we play down there. By then, it will probably be more than evident as to just how good IWU is as you have already pointed out. We'll see. I will have a better gauge on that after I see how we do against Millikin today.

Mr. Ypsi · September 14, 2013, 02:23:57 PM

YIKES!! At the half, Alma 3, IWU 0!!

After his magnificent passing performance last week, Gallik is so far 2 for 9, with THREE interceptions. Just before the half, IWU had 1st and goal at the Alma 2, and couldn't score.

TUAngola · September 14, 2013, 03:46:39 PM

UPSET ALERT BOYS AND GIRLS......TRINE 16 ELMHURST 7!! Defense, defense and more defense from Trine. Transfer Richard Gunn over 100 yds on the ground and a huge TD in 4th to seal the victory.

sac · September 14, 2013, 04:05:17 PM

Trine 16, Elmhurst, Ill. 7
Illinois Wesleyan 38, Alma 3
Olivet 14, Wisconsin Lutheran 10

Adrian and Kzoo were both up by 14 and 10 points respectively in the 4th and Hope is rolling Millikin by 34 in the 4th. Good day for the MIAA.

DBQ1965 · September 14, 2013, 06:12:50 PM

Watched the Hope-Millikan game today. Hope looked better than I've seen them in the last few years ... although Millikan helped out. Hope's offense was pretty evenly balanced. QB Atwell looked good as did Hope's running game. Going by today's scores (and allowing for the fact that this is only the second week of MIAA competition), the MIAA title might come down to the Hope-Trine game in early November. Will have to wait to see how Adrian factors in.

Mr. Ypsi · September 14, 2013, 06:15:37 PM

The IWU @ Alma final score was about what I would have predicted, but what a weird way to reach it! After probably their worst half of football in many years, they were absolutely unstoppable in the second, while holding Alma without a 2nd half first down. Gallik rebounded from his worst half as a collegiate qb, going 11 for 15 with 147 yards and 2 TDs after the break. Something tells me the halftime lockerroom was NOT g-rated!

DBQ1965 · September 14, 2013, 10:16:06 PM

Couldn't figure out why my posting on today's Hope-Millikan game seemed out of sync. I finally figured it out. Its Millikin ... duh!!!

formerd3db · September 14, 2013, 10:41:14 PM

Random thoughts re: today's games:

I agree with DBQ's assessment of Hope's game. The bigger test(s) will come next week now against Wisconsin Lutheran (which was a surprising loser to Olivet today) and, of course, the week later against Illinois Wesleyan (who easily handled Alma today). It was a beautiful day for football; fantastic home crowd of 4,110 and dedication of Coach Ray and Sue Smith Stadium. It was great to see quite a few of my former Hope teammates. It was also great that we did not have any major injuries today (except for the visiting high school band which had about 11 students go down before the start of the game due to dehydration - I heard they are all doing fine, yet my thoughts and prayers go out to them and their families). Congrats to Coach Kreps and staff and the team for a great start to the season- much better than recent years.

Olivet is a surprising 2-0! So I say watch out for them. Despite that, I was very surprised to see that they only had 985 at their home game today. Kazoo is 2-0 also.

Albion is getting smashed by Wheaton; 66-0 so far - ouch! However, I would not count them out at all. Alma is in trouble so far - not being able to put up points doesn't help - that is surprising for them. Adrian beats Defiance as expected. Trine beating Elmhurst is a good sign for them; I think they will be in the mix for the title also.

The league race will be interesting and, at least so far, I think there will be some spoilers and surprises. Let's also hope that the great weather continues for quite some time.

sac · September 15, 2013, 02:18:09 PM

Wheaton 66 Albion 0

rough night for the Britons after a rough week.

Uncle Rico · September 15, 2013, 10:10:34 PM

Nice to see some non-conference wins for the MIAA!

Mr. Ypsi · September 16, 2013, 12:22:15 AM

Olivet has already equaled their win total for the last five years put together, and with winless Rockford and North Park coming the next two weeks they would seem to have a decent shot at entering conference competition undefeated!

If they do that and can win even a couple of MIAA games, their coach may be a shoo-in for COY!

formerd3db · September 16, 2013, 12:20:58 PM

Quote from: Mr. Ypsi on September 16, 2013, 12:22:15 AM
Olivet has already equaled their win total for the last five years put together, and with winless Rockford and North Park coming the next two weeks they would seem to have a decent shot at entering conference competition undefeated! If they do that and can win even a couple of MIAA games, their coach may be a shoo-in for COY!

You could very well be right, although obviously, we don't want to jump to conclusions or rather get ahead of ourselves since there is still a long way to go. Being that it is early, we also can't count out Kazoo's and/or Hope's coach in that regard! As we've seen at all levels, anything can happen!