FB: Centennial Conference

[The Mole]

Muhlenberg is a fine team and is going to win their share of contests. Just outclassed by a bigger, faster and stronger team. They moved the ball in a few spots, but just could not keep up with the speed and athleticism of The Cru. The end result was not a surprise, almost expected.....

[phil]

Johns Hopkins fans --

On the heals of the Orioles beating our Guardian @ and taking the series, Cleveland welcomes the travelers from Baltimore.

Food recommendations walking distance to the stadium (DiSanto Field):

1) Little Italy https://littleitalycle.com (Presti's Bakery for breakfast...anywhere for lunch or dinner)
2) Cheap and easy = Jolly Scholar Brewery https://www.thejollyscholar.com
3) Fancy = L'Albatros https://www.albatrosbrasserie.com

My DD is committing to CWRU for softball and we're heading up to the campus from Texas for Homecoming wknd and the softball ring ceremony on Sat. morning before the football game. Any suggestions for a particular restaurant in Little Italy? I've already got Cleveland Bagels, Presti's and L'Albatros on the itinerary.

[E.115]

^ oh nice!  Great softball program.  NCAA tournament most years recently.

For Little Italy dinner, I'd check out Mia Bella... but you really can't go wrong with some of the surrounding spots (Valerio's, Etna). 

Enjoy your trip to Cleveland in October.  You'll be there in peak fall foliage.

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JHU @ CWRU game photos:  https://www.news-herald.com/2022/09/03/photos-case-western-reserve-johns-hopkins-football-sept-3-2022/

[phil]

Valerio's it is. Fall foliage is a nice perk... not much of that in Houston! Thanks for the assist!

[Ralph Turner]

Mules miss a 31-yd FG with 5 mins left in 2Q. OUCH! Trail JHU 21-14.

Jays drive the length of the field, score a TD but miss the PAT. 27-14 at the half.

[Ice Bear]

Ice Bear says great write up on Susquehanna https://www.d3football.com/columns/features/2022/2021-stumble-still-stings-susquehanna.

Ice loves their story and remembers their time in the LL well. The River hawks carved up the LL, winning the league, during their last season in the conference (2009). They only lost to LL foe MMA in league play that season, while also dropping games to Lycoming (beginning of the season) and Del Valley in the NCAA Playoffs. The Bear thinks the River Hawks have grown as a program since then and would certainly show better in the tournament if they are able to win the CC this season. Maybe the lesson here is don't **** with this team on their last year of affiliation with a conference?

Ice will be watching and rooting for them that's for sure. Great write up and story!

[D O.C.]

Congratulations Susquehanna despite those gawd awful announcers.

[Ice Bear]

Ice Bear sends his congrats to former LL member Susquehanna on their huge ****ing WIN today over an excellent John's Hopkins team!

[Ralph Turner]

Ice Bear sends his congrats to former LL member Susquehanna on their huge ****ing WIN today over an excellent John's Hopkins team!

... the win that knocked JHU out of the playoffs

[Ice Bear]

Ice Bear sends his congrats to former LL member Susquehanna on their huge ****ing WIN today over an excellent John's Hopkins team!

... the win that knocked JHU out of the playoffs

Ice is happy for Susquehanna Ralph but admittedly bummed for JHU. IIBHO JHU is a very strong team this year and an excellent program. Ice feels they are a better team than Utica.

[Bob.Gregg]

Utica had to be ahead of Hopkins when time came to choose the at-large teams.
Final regional rankings flipped or national committee flipped final regional rankings.
If I wanted to, I'd look at who is on what committee...

[BallGuy145]

This board seems to be dying down but the conference is doing pretty good.

Muhlenberg starting off 3-0! 3 wins vs Moravian, Salisbury, and TCNJ.

Hopkins has been rolling lately! 3 good wins vs Ithaca, Christopher Newport, and Salisbury.

[UfanBill]

I came on here as a Union fan looking for comments about the CC and Muhlenberg specifically.The Centennial Conference is one of the best and arguably most competitive leagues in all D3 football. Where are all your posters??? I suspect there is another forum that CC fans use to communicate with each other. Link please.

[MRMIKESMITH]

I came on here as a Union fan looking for comments about the CC and Muhlenberg specifically.The Centennial Conference is one of the best and arguably most competitive leagues in all D3 football. Where are all your posters??? I suspect there is another forum that CC fans use to communicate with each other. Link please.

I think with technology, many folks go striaght to the website to get the information they need on social media. I know for some teams, they don't encourage players to look at D3boards at all or the website and to focus on the 1 game at a time. I wish all DIII schools marketed the boards to the parents/alum. I just don't think many Coaches, OCs, and DCs could stomach what would be said on these boards. Then there is the vetting of emails by D3football to preven trolls. Many posters that would have general conversations would get overun by trolls, current players fake account, etc.

[Kuiper]

Nice story in the LA Times this morning about Johns Hopkins football alum Luke Schuermann's grad transfer move to UCLA and the rise from DIII to the Big 10 generally

https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2024-08-13/ucla-luke-schuermann

More than a century later, the Blue Jays are still playing in the shadows. They're a plucky NCAA Division III operation that averages a few thousand fans for home games, its players doubling as promoters.

"I've had people be like, 'Oh, I didn't know they had a football team, you know, I just thought they had like a med school,' " Schuermann said with a chuckle.

Even as a three-time All-American, Schuermann never became a household name outside his own abode. Maybe that's why UCLA is the transfer edge rusher's new football home, the next stop on an improbable journey that Schuermann hopes can take him from Division III to the Big Ten to the NFL.

Now he's prepping to go after Big Ten quarterbacks following an assist from another Johns Hopkins success story. Chip Kelly, whose first full-time coaching job came as Johns Hopkins' defensive coordinator in 1993, always kept tabs on his old team even as he rose to become a major college and NFL coach.

Schuermann's big showing on the small stage caught Kelly's interest and earned him a recruiting visit to UCLA, where coaches praised his relentlessness and told him and his father that he could help mentor younger players based on his own constant improvement.

Coach DeShaun Foster and his new staff kept the commitment to Schuermann even after Kelly departed to become Ohio State's offensive coordinator, believing that the redshirt senior's size and speed (he's been clocked at 21.23 miles per hour at a dead sprint) could allow him to contribute for a team needing to replace its entire fleet of edge rushers.

"Everything that you've seen that he's done in college at the D-III level," Foster said, "he's capable of doing here."