FB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[LetItRain]

Tri-State 17
Defiance 13

This was an unbelievable game.  All I can say is I believe in Eric Watt!   

[ADAWGISADAWG4LIFE]

Letitrain:

Congrats to Tri State on the win, its good to see them making strides in the right direction and hopefully the momentum just keeps carrying!

Further thoughts on the Adrian Bluffton game.  I just got home from work and was able to look at the boxscore and WOW, what a game by Jim Deeres Defense at Adrian.  Bluffton must like smashing its head against a wall because thats the only equivalent I can see for running the ball 46 times for 23 yards.  Only giving up 106 passing yards on the day for a total of 129 yards is a great showing.  If anyone was at the game I would like to hear thoughts on the offense.  It looks at least by the stats that the running game continues to struggle 32 carries, 73 yards is not a great day by any means does anyone have any thoughts.  Passing game looks to have ignited some big plays for Adrian again, Beehler(great young WR) with a 45yd TD and I think everyone will have to get used to Troy Niblock scoring touch downs on the ground as he is an amazing athlete.  Turnovers looked like an issue for Adrian as well, 2 Int's and one fumble lost, all in all though a good win, anytime you can blank a team and do so at their place you have to be happy.  Congrats to all the Bulldogs on the win!  I look forward to catching my first game and seeing this team in person for the first time all season, hopefully thats this coming weekend!

[D306]

Albion let one get away today. 13-10

Defense played very well, fighting field position all day.

Offense showed signs of moving the ball. Just are not clicking, block FG and a fumble while going into score really came back to bite Albion.

Great weather for a game, nice crowd.
A bye week next week and the "real" season starts, if Albion can get a little Rythym to the offense they will be a force in the MIAA. getting beat on the outside rush too much need to get some backfield help on pass plays.

Defense is shaping up pretty nice, good punter hang time and coverage.

Glad to see the MIAA play some tough out of conference games, need to come out on the winning end of some of these.

[DEACONBLUE]

LetItRain,

What a game, eh!  It's getting hard not to believe in these guys, because they believe so much in themselves.  They sure made believers to the home crowd that set a new attendance record at TSU today.  Coach Land had said it would take three to four games to find out who they really are, and I think they are on track putting the pieces together.  You can notice their physical veteran defense anchored by definite individual conference stand-outs begin to ferment, and the offense invigorated with some key talented true freshmen begining to perform to levels well beyond their experience.

Exciting... you bet, but what most impressed me is their collective tenacity to never let up until the final gun.  Next week is Franklin, rated top in the HCAC.  A real trial as the team is still fine tuning itself, whatever the outcome I believe the Grizzleys will come to know the "never say die" attitude Coach Land and his staff has instilled in this Thunder team.

Tangled up in Blue.

[bulldogalum]

I will say this about the Michigan game:  Michigan played much better today.  They came out with an intensity I did not see last week against Oregon, and I think if they played the way they played today every week this year, they'd probably be 2-1.  They tackled better, they were flying around on special teams, and both the offensive and defensive lines dominated the line of scrimmage.

That said, Notre Dame is the worst team I've seen in a long time.  Clausen looked every bit the freshman, but his line gave him zero help.  It's telling that Notre Dame's best play all day was a fake punt in the first half (which I might add was a very nice, if necessary, call given the score at the time).  I have not looked at ND's schedule the rest of the way, but the folks in South Bend better brace themselves for an awfully painful season.

We'll see now if Michigan can build on its improvements next week against a strong Penn State squad.

As for the MIAA--glad to see Adrian get a win, pleasantly surprised by the defensive performance and slightly underwhelmed by the offensive output, but all in all a nice win.  Happy to see Tri State continue its winning ways.  Disappointed that Olivet couldn't pull out a victory over Wittenberg.  Looking forward to an exciting weekend upcoming!

[79jaybird]

Any Olivet fans making the trip to Elmhurst next week and looking for good places to eat/hang out before/after the game here are a few spots close to campus.
Fitz's Pub wings, burgers, etc.
Mc Nally's Irish Pub casual Irish Bar/Grill
100 South York Restaurant (fancy and somewhat expensive)
Maple Tree Pancake House & Restaurant  good food
Kopper Kitchen Restaurant  very good food.
All are within 2-3 blocks of campus.
Safe travels to all and hope you can make down to the game.
Last year I think it took me 2.5 hours from suburban Chicago to Olivet, MI.  Give yourself some extra time as there is always a hangup on 80/94 south of Lake Michigan.

[D306]

Rules clarification please.

Can a player play in the JV game, and the Varsity game in the same week?

I thought I heard somewhere a reference to number of plays on Varsity.

What consistutes the same week. Sunday thru Saturday.

If a team has a by week on Saturday can a player play the following Monday and still be in that Saturdays game 5 days later?

Thank You in advance

By the way the League play starts with this next game. I think the league will be wide open again, several teams in the mix.

[ADAWGISADAWG4LIFE]

It was my understanding that as long as the player still had the 24 hour no contact period during the week (sunday to sunday) then he could play in both games.  At Adrian one year, we had a player play 3 games in one week, JV on Monday, Varsity Saturday and JV Sunday.  He had the Sunday off as a 24 hour no contact thus fulfilling the requirement the only long term problem that you can run into is that players are only allowed 10 games and a scrimmage, so if they play to many JV games you lose them for varsity or vis versa.

[D306]

Dawg

Thanks for the info.

I thought I noticed some of the same players when I was watching a JV and Varsity game.
While they were in separate weeks, it got me thinking the above question.

I could see how the 10 game rule could be burned up his availabilty quickly on a young player whom is good, and varsity can not decide if they should use him or not in a game.

I would think getting the varsity play would be more beneficial , but if they only get a series or 2  then it is a lost game on JV level.

[D306]

Football fans

Go to the CCIW postings

Scary story about Wheaton QB injury, sounds like he will be OK Thank God.

He is in our prayers, as it could happen to one of My boys 1 day and should not happen to anyone.

Remember to tell your kids, and players how proud you are of them, no matter how they played (or did not get in ) because it is hard work and can come to a crashing end all to quickly.

[ACRULZ]

Here are my picks this week:

Adrian over Huntingdon - Will be a close one
Alma over Wittenberg - My upset special
K-Zoo over Bluffton - With Bluffton's offense K-Zoo's defense will look like stars
Olivet over Elmhurst
Franklin over Tri-State
Wheaton over Hope

[bulldogalum]

Adrian over Huntingdon
Alma over Wittenberg
Bluffton over Kzoo
Elmhurst over Olivet
Tri State over Franklin
Wheaton over Hope

[miaafbfan]

Picks for Sept. 22

Huntingdon, Ala. at Adrian:  Adrian
Wittenberg, Ohio at Alma:  Alma
Bluffton, Ohio at Kalamazoo:  Kalamazoo
Olivet at Elmhurst, Ill.:  Elmhurst
Tri-State at Franklin, Ind.:  Franklin
Hope at Wheaton, Ill.:  Wheaton

[ADAWGISADAWG4LIFE]

Picks:

Adrian over Huntingdon: Should be a good game Huntingdon has athletes.
Wittenberg over Alma
Kalamazoo over Bluffton
Elmhurst over Olivet: Elmhursts QB is dynamite and Olivet seems to have problems there.
Tri State over Franklin: I want to believe  and think TSU might be scrappy enough
Hope over Wheaton: It has to come together sooner or later

[formerd3db]

My picks for this weekend:

Huntingdon @ Adrian:  Adrian (While Huntingdon is much improved   
                                    team this year, Adrian too strong)
Wittenberg @ Alma:  Wittenberg (Witt just got by Olivet, but Witt
                                  historically is a tough team vs. Alma even at the
                                  latter's place)
Bluffton @ Kalamazoo:  Bluffton (Although Bluffton is 0-2 and Kazoo
                                      scored 24 on DIAA Valpo, I think Bluffton having
                                      played two games is the advantage over a thin #'d
                                      squad at Kazoo; I could be wrong however )
Olivet @ Elmhurst:  Elmhurst (BlueJays are a good team and it is at
                                their stadium - Olivet struggling which is surprising
                                although they should have beaten Witt last week)
Tri-State @ Franklin:  Tri-State (TSU is much improved and on a roll -
                                  hope the bubble dosn't burst this Sat )
Hope @ Wheaton:  Hope (As DAWG said, it has to start 
                                somewhere  , even though it is a Wheaton and
                                their starting QB is out for the season most likely -
                                BTW my prayers are with him and his family and the
                                Wheaton team in that situation - and Hope historically
                                has not always played as well at Wheaton, Hope just
                                might pull this one in IF they don't self-implode.  I have
                                to go with my alma mater in this one )
Albion and Wis-Luth both have a "bye" this week.


Good luck to all MIAA teams this week and safe travels to all of you who will be going on the road to see those games.

Best regards to all my MIAA colleagues here,
formerd3db