University Athletic Association

[mustang]

Certainly a season of "what ifs" for the Spartans.

Bottom line is this team did not play to it's potential but there were enough bright spots to ease the pain. Nice win with both sides of the ball and special teams contributing to a victory over a solid opponent. I have to wonder if the CMU running back was not quite 100%, although the Spartan defense has been stout against the run all year.

While my time as a Spartan football parent is through I look forward to keeping up with the team in the future. I wish all players and parents much success on the field and more importantly, in the classroom.

[ExTartanPlayer]

CMU will be traveling to Waynesburg for ECAC Southwest Bowl.  I got to play in one of these games as a senior, and while it seems a little tacky for non-playoff teams to play that one bonus game, I have to say that it was very memorable for the seniors to get to play one more game and go out on a high note (ours was particularly special, a come-from-behind 21-20 win that required a touchdown on fourth-and-goal in the last 2 minutes).  Hopefully the Tartans will show up to play and score a quality nonconference win for the UAA.  Let's Go Tartans!

http://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/fball/2012-13/releases/20121112x5w712

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Tha is a nice thing that the ECAC does. I belive it has 7 post season bowls.

Are there any other post season bowls for D3 not counting these and the Stagg.
Go Tartans!!!!!!!!

[Pat Coleman]

There aren't -- the ECAC is an umbrella organization for east coast schools. About 15 years ago I heard talk of a desire to do a similar one in the Great Lakes general area, but it never went anywhere.

[ADL70]

I wonder if when CWRU is a PAC football affiliate it would be eligible for the ECACs.  Or do you have to be east of Ohio?

[Pat Coleman]

I don't know the rules for ECAC membership but I don't know if you'd want to self-transport all the way to Philadelphia for a potential ECAC game.

[SaintsFAN]

I don't know the rules for ECAC membership but I don't know if you'd want to self-transport all the way to Philadelphia for a potential ECAC game.

Good question.  PAC member Thomas More didn't participate (this year was probably the only year they were eligible in the PAC and not playing a post season game).  I'm not sure if they weren't invited because Waynesburg had a better record and beat TMC early on in the season or because they weren't eligible for it geographically.

[ADL70]

I don't know the rules for ECAC membership but I don't know if you'd want to self-transport all the way to Philadelphia for a potential ECAC game.

Good question.  PAC member Thomas More didn't participate (this year was probably the only year they were eligible in the PAC and not playing a post season game).  I'm not sure if they weren't invited because Waynesburg had a better record and beat TMC early on in the season or because they weren't eligible for it geographically.

Checked the ECAC site; neither Thomas More, Thiel, nor Westminster are ECAC members.  I couldn't find any reference to a geographic qualification for membership.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

As pe ther website they go as far west as Illinois

The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is the nation's largest athletic conference and only multi-divisional conference, with approximately 300 member institutions ranging across 16 states from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Illinois.  Established in 1938 with 58 charter members, the ECAC has since emerged as the nationwide leader in service.  Click on the links to the right for alphabetical listing of the membership by division.

In D3 they go as far west as Steubenville Ohio with Franciscan University of Steubenville.

[ExTartanPlayer]

Waynesburg 28, CMU 24. Pretty exciting game.

Playoff games coming out about as expected, but there were a few surprisingly close games. Our pseudo-conference-rival Wittenberg played a whale of a game against Heidelberg.

[DagarmanSpartan]

Gang,

Not sure this is the right forum, but it might be worth mentioning.

CWRU is apparently a new Division III men's swimming super-power.  Currently ranked #6 in the nation, the Spartans beat a Division II school this weekend, crushed Division III Grove City, and tied Kenyon, the almost perennial DIII national champion in the sport.

GO SPARTANS!!!

http://athletics.case.edu/sports/mswimdive/2012-13/releases/20121117cd1pce

[SpartanMom_2016]

That's great!  Is a dual match the same as it is in wrestling where the teams compete head to head in every event?

[DagarmanSpartan]

My understanding is yes.

[WashUDad]

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. And congrats to all of the UAA All Conference selections.

[DagarmanSpartan]

Gang,

Check this out!  CWRU may soon have one of the best training facilities in all of Division III, thanks in no small part to a donation from the Belichik family, one of the "first families" of football coaching!

http://cwru-daily.com/news/bill-belichick-donation-to-case-western-reserve-university-honors-late-father/

Steve Belichik was a starting fullback on the 1940 Western Reserve University Red Cat football team that went on to defeat Arizona State in the 1941 Sun Bowl............the ONLY bowl appearance by any school affiliated with modern-day Case Western Reserve University.  In those days, Western Reserve and Case were both technically "big time" programs.