FB: Upper Midwest Athletic Conference

[art76]

Wow, crickets for over a year. I came over from the MIAC board to see if anyone at Northwestern was aware that they have the wrong link on their website for playing St. Thomas next Saturday.

[HansenRatings]

Decided I'm going to spam every conference board with my preseason (non-returning-starter-adjusted) projections.

Team	Rating	Overall	Conference
CSS	0.4076	7.6-2.4	6.8-1.2
NWestern	0.3473	7.7-2.3	6.6-1.4
Westminster	0.1094	4.9-5.1	4.2-3.8
Eureka	0.1076	5.5-4.5	4.6-3.4
Greenville	0.1021	4.8-5.2	4.5-3.5
MacMurray	0.0904	5.2-4.8	3.4-4.6
MN-Morris	0.0750	5.1-4.9	3.8-4.2
Crown	0.0514	3.5-6.5	2.9-5.1
IWU	0.0402	3.4-6.6	2.7-5.3
Martin Luther	0.0010	0.4-9.6	0.4-7.6

To quote Mark Twain (and Ramler probably), "Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated." Around the rest of the conference, home-field advantage plays a huge role to explain why some teams with lower ratings are predicted to have better records.

[Ralph Turner]

Eureka leaves for the NACC in 2018. Here are some thoughts and opinions to kick around.

Plusses for Eureka.

Possibly less travel expense.
Resume old rivalries from the Illini-Badger Conference

Minuses/plusses for Eureka.

Playing in a tougher conference.

Minuses for UMAC
Going to a 9-team conference and filling a tough open date.

Plusses for UMAC
One less trip to the far southern part of the conference.
Are there any UMAC schools that might add football now that there is an "opening"?

Plus for the NACC
Getting to an 8-team conference which balances with the MIAA.

[Pat Coleman]

I don't think the UMAC will worry too much about the nine-team alignment. You can play non-conference in Week 1 and Week 2 and then play eight conference games over the nine remaining weeks. You don't have to try to slide in your non-conference opponent in Week 7.

[Gray Fox]

http://www.d3football.com/seasons/2017/contrib/201708043gg9lu

[Gray Fox]

Why am I the only poster on this board?

  http://morriscougars.com/news/2017/8/4/johnson-hoffmann-announced-as-football-co-head-coaches-for-2017-season.aspx

[HSCTiger74]

Why am I the only poster on this board?

  http://morriscougars.com/news/2017/8/4/johnson-hoffmann-announced-as-football-co-head-coaches-for-2017-season.aspx

   As best I can tell, the last post from an actual UMACer was in November of 2015. Draw your own conclusions.

[Gray Fox]

Why am I the only poster on this board?

  http://morriscougars.com/news/2017/8/4/johnson-hoffmann-announced-as-football-co-head-coaches-for-2017-season.aspx

   As best I can tell, the last post from an actual UMACer was in November of 2015. Draw your own conclusions.

SAD

[02 Warhawk]

I'm looking to get the West Fan poll up and running again this year, and I have a few open spots available. Please send me a PM if you're interested in participating the season.

Thanks!

[Gray Fox]

Another find by your UMAC stringer.

  http://www.d3football.com/notables/2017/08/eureka-football-join-nacc-2018

[sjusection105]

Any CSS Saints fans making the trip to Collegeville for the Sept. 2 game? If so, you are welcome to join our tailgate party.

[scottyeagle93]

BLC weighing adding football: 

http://blcvikings.com/news/2017/8/21/general-update-on-football-study-at-bethany.aspx

[Oleblue]

Which UMAC Coord. wants to move to Mankato and takeover the Vikings?

[art76]

Why am I the only poster on this board?

Reposting what I put over on the MIAC board yesterday:

At the risk of getting a piling on penalty thrown against me, I took a few minutes to do a somewhat exaustive investigation into last week's games in the UMAC.

MacMurray beat Rockford of the NACC, 22 to 14, who last year won just one game.

Martin Luther beat Minnesota Morris 14 to 7. (This game apparently is considered a non-confernece game, as they play each other in conferenrce action on October 7th.)

Eureka fell to Knox of the MWC, 21 to 28, who won just two games last year.

Iowa Wesleyan fell to Cornell of the MWC, 25 to 62, who won 5 games last year.

Northwestern lost to Augsburg of the MIAC, 7 to 42, who won 2 games last year.

Greenville lost to Millikin of the CC!W, 3 to 76, who won 4 games last year.

Westminster lost to Gustavus of the MIAC, 0 to 38, who won 5 games last year.

Crown lost to Hamline of the MIAC, 0 to 51, who won 5 games last year.

St. Scholastica lost to St. John's of the MIAC, 0 to 98, who won 10 games last season.

So, we can observe and deduce a few things from the above information. Out of the 8 games the UMAC played out of their conference, half the time, they played teams with .500 or better records last year. In only two of their games were the scores close. And the lone win they recorded this past week, was against a team whose only win last season was against the now defunct team of Maranatha Baptist. The guys at D3 Football definitely have this one picked right as being the weakest of all 28 conferences this year.

[ecreddevils]

Good article on EC coach, Kurt Barth:  http://minorleaguesportsreport.com/index.php/kurt-barth-found-formula-success-eureka-college/