University Athletic Association

[Li'l Giant]

Congrats to CWRU on a great season. You guys played a great game today. What a great job to take the lead there at the end. Wow. I missed most of the action but got home just in time for Whalen's last TD.

Whalen is a stud, y'all have a great team, a great coach and after two years of disappointment, I hate to imagine what y'all will do next year if we meet up again in the playoffs.

Great game, great season.

[fijidoc]

Great game by CWRU.  You had a heck of a season.  A lot to look forward to and be proud of.

But if you didn't know what it means when we yell WABASH ALWAYS FIGHTS you do now after the game today.

After last weeks showing in the Bell game, I wasn't sure this team knew what that meant but after today's performance they proved to be true Little Giants.

[Joe Wally]

Congrats to Case on a great game.

Calderone was a beast on one leg.  I think he would have been the difference if healthy.

[seventiesraider]

Beautiful stadium and campus and a great team effort.

[bashbrother]

Congrats to Case Western for the great game today.

Your football program has taken another step forward this year.   Your defense was outstanding today and Whalen is a tremendous athlete.

[frank uible]

I am hard pressed to believe that 115th Street and Bellflower Road (the approximate site of the CWRU stadium) could ever become beautiful, irrespective of renovation, restoration or renewal.

[ADL70]

The new construction is impressive, not that there aren't a few things I would have done differently.  Next step is to remove the cold war bunker dorms.  The only thing out of place is the lump of metal that is the Peter Lewis Bulding.

Heartbreaker is all I can say.  It's a shame that the D will likely most remember the last two plays, but not the great game that they played.  Ironic the last play was very similar to the knife-in-the-heart TD in last year's game just as the Spartans had pulled to within eight.  Penalties really hurt and Whalen's fumble seemed to be that he wasn't expecting the snap.  What else can you say about Whalen, but that he refuses to lose.  I saw an interesting quote from Whalen, who said when he came to CWRU he wasn't sure they would win ten games in four years.

While I think going for the TD was the right call, if the Spartans kick the FG to tie would Wabash have gone for it on fourth down or would they have let the game go to OT?

I doubt any undefeated team had to survive anywhere near the number of injuries to starters and key backups as the Spartans did.  Despite the seniors who will be leaving, things look promising for another 10-0 season.

[wally_wabash]

While I think going for the TD was the right call, if the Spartans kick the FG to tie would Wabash have gone for it on fourth down or would they have let the game go to OT?

I've been thinking about this very thing since the end of the game yesterday.  At 4th and 1 from the 1, Debeljak sent the FG unit out.  I was relieved...they're playing for OT which would have been fine by me given how the last 5-6 minutes of the game had gone.  Then Wabash took a timeout and I was just hoping that Debeljak wouldn't change his mind...he did, Whalen converted, and Wabash found themselves behind and in a very tough situation.  I didn't agree with Wabash's use of the timeout there (unless they had too many guys on the field or something like that....CWRU wasn't going to fake from the 1-yard line...there are 125 better plays to run to get one yard than a fake field goal). 

Had CWRU kicked and tied the game, I absolutely think that, barring a great kickoff return, Wabash would have run the clock out and been happy to play OT.  Sometimes it's funny how things work out. 

[jam40jeff]

There are 8 million what-ifs that you can think of for every game.  I think I've run through about 7 and a half million of them in the last 21 hours.

Like what if we put pressure on Hudson on 4th and 15, what if Hommyk caught that first deep ball, what if Whalen throws it out of bounds or tucks and runs on that INT, what if we don't have about 57 penalties, etc, etc, etc.  But all it does is give you a headache.  It doesn't change the fact that I watched one of the most exciting football games I have ever seen (at least top 5) yesterday and am immensely proud of CWRU football and to be a CWRU alumnus.  Do I wish the outcome was different?  Of course.  But we played a great game and just came up a little short.  Wonderful effort this season by everybody, and best of luck to the seniors for their futures.  And to the rest of the team, next year looks to be another great year for the Spartans, keep up the good work!  It's not even a full day since the season ended, and I'm already excited for the next one.

[DagarmanSpartan]

Bottom line.

They were just ever so slightly better, and pulled it off at the end.

Congrats to Wabash!

Now, let's hope that they win the NCAA title, that way we can at least claim that we barely lost to the best team!

[seventiesraider]

  The only thing out of place is the lump of metal that is the Peter Lewis Bulding.

I forgot about that monstrosity

[jam40jeff]

I am hard pressed to believe that 115th Street and Bellflower Road (the approximate site of the CWRU stadium) could ever become beautiful, irrespective of renovation, restoration or renewal.

Why's that?  Other than the piles of crap on the northwest corner of the intersection (which are slated for replacement), I think it is a very nice area.  You have beautiful century homes on Bellflower meeting nice new Collegiate Gothic dorms integrated with a very nice football stadium.  Also, just south of the new dorms on E. 117th St., you have some very nice old apartment buildings.  I think that after the replacement of the (pardon the French) a$$-nasty 60s dorms you will have a beautiful intersection if you don't already think it is.

And yes, Case's campus is beautiful.  To me, it is the perfect mix of an urban environment and a bucolic college campus.  For the problems Cleveland may have, the whole University Circle/Little Italy/Heights (CH, SH, and UH) areas are combined one of the nicest most livable contiguous neighborhood-type areas in the country.

And let me reiterate...thanks for a GREAT season Spartans!  And good luck to Wabash.

[frank uible]

Most of those so-called century homes on Bellflower were well past their primes and ugly in the 30s, 40s and 50s and, to the extent still standing, are not any better today.

[jam40jeff]

Based on the architecture, some of those look to be around 90 years old, so they wouldn't be century homes yet.  So I guess some of them are not technically century homes yet.  Maybe I should have just said Pre-WWII, you know, that time when we still valued architecture and aesthetic beauty in a neighborhood instead of mass production, cost-cutting, and overemphasis on the automobile.

Beautiful is in the eye of the beholder.  What do you consider beautiful?  Those bland off-white cardboard $hitboxes they put up in the suburbs these days on windy dead end streets funneling into 6- or 8-lane high speed highways?  Most of the houses on Bellflower are surely not ugly by my standards.

[frank uible]

To use a currently popular phrase, to call most of them "century homes" is putting lipstick on a pig.