University Athletic Association

[plaidfanatic]

Congratulations to Case for a great run.  Next year with the joint agreement with the NCAC will bring new competitors to the UAA teams.  It should make for an interesting year for all the teams!!!!

[BDTartan]

Three Tartans were named to the Academic All-America team.  Offensive tackle Brian Freeman and defensive lineman Clay Crites, both juniors, were named to the first team.  Senior punter Matt Adams was named to the second team.

[ADL70]

Tom Brew was also second team.  BTW this team includes DII and NAIA not just DIII.

Brew has just been added to the Aztec Bowl roster too.

[BDTartan]

Anybody checked out the UAA page lately?  I was just there and it looks like it hasn't been updated in about a month.

[ADL70]

It was updated Nov 28 after CWRU's last game, not much has happened since then.  It would be nice if they would report post-season honors from other sources though.

[Knightstalker]

Today let us remember our Soldiers and Sailors who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor and those who survived the attack in our prayers and thoughts.

[ADL70]

Hats off to UAA's All-Region selections:
CWRU
N-1  Tom Brew
N-2  John Tiermeier, Brian Calderone, Brandon Jeffries, and Tom Zagorski.
N-3  Dan Whalen

WUStL
S-2  Tim Mahan

Also to Tom Brew who played very well in the Aztec Bowl.

[ADL70]

CWRU ends the year #22
http://www.d3football.com/top25/2007/week-16

Ironically the same spot CMU finished last season.

[DagarmanSpartan]

cwru70,

I saw a coaches poll that had Case finishing at ELEVENTH in the country!!!!

See below:

http://www.afca.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9300&ATCLID=1353734

1.   Wis.-Whitewater (40)   14-1   1,000   2   D. No. 1 Mount Union (Ohio), 31-21, in Stagg Bowl   Lance Leipold
2.   Mount Union (Ohio)    14-1   960   1   Lost to No. 2 Wis.-Whitewater, 31-21, in Stagg Bowl   Larry Kehres
3.   Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas)    12-2   916   5   Lost to No. 2 Wis.-Whitewater, 16-7, in semifinals   Pete Fredenburg
4.   Bethel (Minn.)   12-2   869   10   Lost to No. 1 Mount Union (Ohio), 62-14, in semifinals   Steve Johnson
5.   Wesley (Del.)   11-2   802   6   Lost to No. 5 Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas), 27-10 in quarterfinals   Mike Drass
6.   Central (Iowa)   12-1   792   3   Lost to No. 10 Bethel (Minn.), 27-10, in quarterfinals   Jeff McMartin
7.   St. John Fisher (N.Y.)   11-2   763   7   Lost to No. 1 Mount Union (Ohio), 52-10, in quarterfinals   Paul Vosburgh
8.   Wabash (Ind.)   11-2   657   14   Lost to No. 2 Wis.-Whitewater, 47-7, in quarterfinals   Chris Creighton
9.   St. John's (Minn.)    10-2   623   8   Lost to No. 3 Central (Iowa), 37-7, in second round   John Gagliardi
10.   Muhlenberg (Pa.)   11-1   597   9   Lost to No. 6 Wesley (Del.), 38-21, in second round   Mike Donnelly
11.   Case Western Reserve (Ohio)   11-1   456   15   Lost to No. 14 Wabash (Ind.), 28-23, in second round   Greg Debeljak
12.   Washington & Jefferson (Pa.)   10-1   454   4   Lost to North Carolina Wesleyan, 35-34 (OT), in first round   Mike Sirianni
13.   Wis.-Eau-Claire   9-3   446   22   Lost to No. 10 Bethel (Minn.), 20-10, in second round   Todd Glaser
14.   Trinity (Texas)   9-2   398   13   Lost to No. 5 Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas), 52-23, in first round   Steve Mohr
15.   Capital (Ohio)   8-3   383   16   Lost to No. 2 Wis.-Whitewater, 34-14, in first round   Jim Collins
16.   North Central (Ill.)   9-3   380   NR   Lost to No. 2 Wis.-Whitewater, 59-28, in second round   John Thorne
17.   Salisbury (Md.)   9-2   341   12   Lost to No. 9 Muhlenberg (Pa.), 31-21, in first round   Sherman Wood
18.   St. Norbert (Wis.)   10-1   340   11   Lost to No. 22 Wis.-Eau Claire, 24-20, in first round   Jim Purtill
19.   Curry (Mass.)   12-1   276   20   Lost to No. 7 St. John Fisher (N.Y.), 38-7, in second round   Skip Bandini
20.   Franklin (Ind.)   9-2   247   17   Lost to North Central (Ill.), 44-42, in first round   Mike Leonard
21.   College of New Jersey   9-3   219   NR   Lost to No. 1 Mount Union (Ohio), 59-7, in second round   Eric Hamilton
22.   North Carolina Wesleyan   9-3   191   NR   Lost to No. 5 Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas), 64-0, in second round   Jack Ginn
23.   Mount St. Joseph (Ohio)   9-2   187   18   Lost to No. 14 Wabash (Ind.), 31-21, in first round   Rod Huber
24.   Ithaca (N.Y.)   8-3   129   NR   Lost to No. 1 Mount Union (Ohio), 42-18, in first round   Mike Welch
25.   Wartburg (Iowa)   8-2   127   19   DNQ Playoffs   Eric Koehler


QUERY: What will Case's pre-season national ranking be at the start of NEXT season?

[ADL70]

#11 ... nice of PR, but not very realistic. 

Pre-season D3football.com, Top 40 I would suspect.

[e_lee]

Congrats to CWRU back-up QB Angelo Mirando. 

After graduating this semester Angelo then heads south to Gainesville, FL to join fellow Ashtabula County native Urban Meyer as a GA.

[ADL70]

I'm back after a month long absence occassioned by a computer crash ans a personal health crash.

The UAA website is undergoing a revision.  Mysteriously Tom Brew has vanished from the All-UAA team posted there.

Here's an article on an award for Jeff Mayer who caught the game winner v Widener.

http://www.case.edu/athletics/varsity/news.htm#s1_page2

[ADL70]

NYT article on Josh McDaniels [free sign up may be required] mentions his being caoched by Coach Debeljak and correctly identifies him as current CWRU head coach.

If he keeps getting all this attention how long will he stay in University Circle?

[BashBacker#16]

cwru70,

We almost wondered that ourselves.     You can take a sigh of relief that Wabash named a coach.

I think he's pretty content at Case though - or at least his family is.   

[ADL70]

When Josh McDaniels gets the HC job that seems inevitable, would he tap his old coach for the staff?  Could he be tempted by DII Lake Erie once the program gets rolling?