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[ADL70]

Welcome E115

[ADL70]

Spartans leading 17-9 less than 2 mins to go inside the 15.  Allegheny LB gets helment on ball scoop and 85 yard score for Allegheny.  Twopoint conversion ties the game.   CWRU TD and PAT in OT.  Allegheny TD and Spartans block second palacement of game to win 24-23.

Spartans were called several times for holding, but Allegheny none despite glaring holds.

[DagarmanSpartan]

WOW!!!

What a THRILLING victory!!!!

And Allegheny was definitely NO pushover!

Maybe CWRU still has an outside shot at a playoff bid.  Let's hope that we take care of business these next few weeks, and set ourselves up for a strong showing in conference.

GO SPARTANS!!!

[PoppaN]

I agree Alleghany has a good team .. Case stood their ground against a good team from NCAC. That could help with the rankings and hopefully Case can break into top 25 soon with a few more wins.

Alleghany Fans on the roof of garage were little rowdy even during pregame ..... but they had a good following and much respect for their Program and Fans.

Now I am going to dry off and have a hot cup of Tea .... bone chilling rain all day sucks.

GO BLUE !!!!

[ADL70]

Poppa N   You came through loud and clear on the broadcast just before Shaun's OT TD, "Come on O line!"

[E.115]

Bravo CWRU!!

[PoppaN]

Good to be heard .... today I have no voice as usual ... even Tea and Honey is not helping.

[Raider 68]

Spartans leading 17-9 less than 2 mins to go inside the 15.  Allegheny LB gets helment on ball scoop and 85 yard score for Allegheny.  Twopoint conversion ties the game.   CWRU TD and PAT in OT.  Allegheny TD and Spartans block second palacement of game to win 24-23.

Spartans were called several times for holding, but Allegheny none despite glaring holds.

Congrats ALD70 on your Spartans with a tough win against Allegheny! +k

[jam40jeff]

Spartans were called several times for holding, but Allegheny none despite glaring holds.

I'm not one that normally thinks whining about the refs is OK, but I couldn't believe how lopsided the holdings calls seemed to be.  CWRU had 6 sacks, but there were also a few times when Allegheny avoided a sack with an obvious hold that always somehow went uncalled.  Didn't seem like they missed a single hold on us, though.

From my seat on the 45 yard line under the press box, the loudspeaker was difficult to hear, but PoppaN's voice came through loud and clear.

I was pretty much in chock after the fumble and scoop-and-score.  After driving all the way down the field, I couldn't have been any more confident we had the game in the bag.  Three runs (even for little or no gain) and a short field goal would have given Allegheny about 1 minute and no timeouts to work with, down either 8 or 11 (depending on the outcome of the field goal).  I played this all out in my mind about 3 seconds before the fumble.

I thought Baum played a great game, especially with the wet conditions that couldn't have made it very easy to throw the ball on target.  Over 75% completion percentage, almost 300 yards, 3 TDs, and no INTs.  The play I was impressed with the most was near the end of the game when Allegheny put pressure on him and they had Homyk smothered on the 5 yard out.  He pump faked to Homyk and 3 defenders jumped up to knock the pass down.  He was surrounded and I thought for sure he was going to get sacked, but he hung in the pocket long enough to find Nicely on the deep out.  As great as Whalen was for 4 years for us, it's definitely a change to see a quarterback who looks comfortable staying in the pocket.

[E.115]

Here are the two best write-ups of the CWRU-Allegheny game:

News Herald: http://news-herald.com/articles/2010/10/03/sports/nh3123478.txt

Case Western Athletics page: http://www.case.edu/athletics/varsity/sports_men/football/stats/2010/casevsalleghenystory.html


Also, while googling for these stories, I came across that Case Western and Jacob Adams had a blurb in USAToday.  Pretty neat:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/10/st-johns-byu-albany-and-baylor-among-others-by-the-numbers/1

[ADL70]

Picture from the game on the front page here.

http://www.d3football.com/images/2010/case-defense-295.jpg?

Maybe Adams will get an AOW in UAA and TOW on d3.com

[PoppaN]

Glad someone can hear me .. I always have a sore throat on Sundays ...

My heart skipped a beat for Derrick on that play .... a great player and this happens .... I know he is happy to come away with this one as the Team should be too.

Also had a flashback of the Wabash Playoff loss when it happened ... but these Spartans had time enough to redeem themselves and rose to it. Kudos for a great win against an established program and NCAC member.

There were some missed calls, blown calls, and flat out ignored calls .. but give these guys credit because it can't be easy running around inside all that organized confusion of players. We all have the right to be wrong ... hehe

[ADL70]

Joey Baum leads DIII in completion percentage at 73.9%.

A scheduling quirk has CWRU playing, in consecutive weeks, Allegheny, Oberlin, and Hiram the week after each has played Wittenberg.

[ExTartanPlayer]

Bored at work....here's a quick review of the UAA teams at the (almost) halfway point of the season:

CWRU (4-0) still is the clearcut favorite, although it's hard to tell if they are really good or merely "good" this year.  They opened with an impressive win over a so-so John Carroll team, struggled to beat a hard-luck Rochester team that's now 0-4, thrashed a so-so Denison team, then beat what LOOKS like a good Allegheny team in OT.  With Oberlin and Hiram up next, it's hard to see Case tested until the Wooster game, and they are really still a favorite there....but I think Wooster can test them (after all, Woo only lost to Wabash 21-17).

Chicago (3-2) has wins over three so-so teams and losses against two pretty good teams.  Decent measuring stick game against a maybe-not-so-awful Denison team, then Kenyon, then hitting the UAA schedule.  I think they'll be 5-2 going into UAA play.

CMU (3-2) has done about what one might expect.  Beat the three lesser opponents, lost to the two better ones (even though that loss to Hobart is starting to look kind of ugly).  One more layup this week against a crappy OWU team and then hitting the meat of the schedule.  Probably 4-3 entering UAA play.

WashU (2-2) opened by demolishing a bad Knox team they lost to Rhodes, who lost to Westminster (Mo.)...but then WashU went out and pummeled Westminster.  Decent games the next two weeks with Wabash and Wooster, then a breather against Oberlin before hitting the UAA schedule.  Could be 4-3 or 3-4 entering UAA play (depending on how they do with Wooster).


**Side note: I will be very intrigued to see the Wooster games vs. WashU and CWRU over the next few weeks.  Wooster opened with road losses at Baldwin-Wallace and Wabash (both currently undefeated), but they did play Wabash tough, and they have since run off three wins against so-so competition.  Don't be deceived by the apparent "close" game with Denison....that game was 31-7 in the fourth quarter before Denison put up three touchdowns in the last six minutes.

[ExTartanPlayer]

I also would add that I'm starting to question the UAA-NCAC scheduling arrangement (which seemed like a good idea at first).  The problem is that the NCAC has two really good teams, two more pretty good teams, and a bunch of BAD teams.

I wonder if the guaranteed games against that bottom half are going to keep the UAA teams mucking about at their current level (a few easy wins every year against Kenyon/Denison/Oberlin/Hiram/OWU) without providing much incentive to seek out some better nonconference games.  Really, of the NCAC teams, it seems like Allegheny and Wooster are the only ones that are truly a "good" matchup for the UAA teams.  Everybody else is either too good or too bad.

**Admittedly, this cuts both ways - the NCAC "elite" probably feel a bit hamstrung by this as well.  Wabash and Wittenberg already have enough crap games on their schedule and would probably prefer to schedule a good CCIW-type team rather than play CMU or Chicago. 

Problem for the UAA teams, I guess, is that dumping the arrangement leaves them with SO MANY holes on the schedule.  Better to get six guaranteed noncon games (even if four are cupcakes) than risk extra bye weeks and possibly not filling out the schedule.