MBB: American Rivers Conference

[Purple Heys]

Cornell announces that Mike DeGeorge has resigned.

Citing family/personal reasons, he is the father of several very young kids and wants to be a bigger part of their growing up than a hardworking, recruiting coach can be.   A very tough choice for an up and comer.

Best of luck to you, Coach Mike...Cornell's loss is your family's gain...and I can't find anything really to complain about...we were blessed to have him work his tail off for us while he was here.

What a wonderful measure of love you have shown your wife and kids.

http://www.cornellcollege.edu/athletics/mens-sports/mens-basketball/news/07-20-09.shtml

[Alfredeneumann]

Wartburg 2009-10 Schedule is released

http://www.go-knights.net/mbasketball/0910schedule.htm

Wartburg College Sports Releases
Contact: Mark Adkins, Sports Information Director

Jul. 22, 2009

Battles with the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference begin the 2009-10 Wartburg College men's and women's basketball campaigns.

Head coach Dick Peth's men's squad travels to Northfield, Minn., for a game against Carleton Nov. 16. Head coach Bob Amsberry's women's team hosts the University of St. Thomas of St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 15 and travels to Gustavus Adolphus College of St. Peter, Minn., Nov. 23.

The men's non-league slate is also highlighted by the annual Buzz Levick/Pizza Ranch Tipoff Tournament Nov. 20 and 21 and trip to Florida Dec. 27-31 for games at the Land of Magic tournament in Daytona Beach, Fla., and against NCAA Division II Florida Tech. The women's non-conference schedule has trips to UW-Stout (Nov. 28-29) and Franklin College of Indiana (Dec. 19-20) for tournaments along with its annual AmericInn Holiday Tournament Dec. 29 and 30 at Levick Arena.

Both teams begin Iowa Conference action Dec. 5 with a home doubleheader against Central College of Pella. The remaining IIAC visits will be Jan. 6 (Simpson College of Indianola); Jan. 16 (Buena Vista University of Storm Lake); Jan. 20 (Luther College of Decorah); Jan. 27 (University of Dubuque); Feb. 3 (Cornell College of Mount Vernon); Feb. 10 (Coe College of Cedar Rapids); and Feb. 17 (Loras College of Dubuque).

[sportsknight]

Cornell announces that Mike DeGeorge has resigned.

Citing family/personal reasons, he is the father of several very young kids and wants to be a bigger part of their growing up than a hardworking, recruiting coach can be.   A very tough choice for an up and comer.

Best of luck to you, Coach Mike...Cornell's loss is your family's gain...and I can't find anything really to complain about...we were blessed to have him work his tail off for us while he was here.

What a wonderful measure of love you have shown your wife and kids.

http://www.cornellcollege.edu/athletics/mens-sports/mens-basketball/news/07-20-09.shtml

I guess this answers the "how badly did DeGeorge want to coach somewhere not named Cornell" question.

[doolittledog]

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has a write up on Dubuque Senior 6'7 center Tom Frederick picking Wartburg.  Also notes Cornell coach DeGeorge leaving the school for the insurance field. 

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=251402

[Purple Heys]

Cornell announces that Mike DeGeorge has resigned.

Citing family/personal reasons, he is the father of several very young kids and wants to be a bigger part of their growing up than a hardworking, recruiting coach can be.   A very tough choice for an up and comer.

Best of luck to you, Coach Mike...Cornell's loss is your family's gain...and I can't find anything really to complain about...we were blessed to have him work his tail off for us while he was here.

What a wonderful measure of love you have shown your wife and kids.

http://www.cornellcollege.edu/athletics/mens-sports/mens-basketball/news/07-20-09.shtml

I guess this answers the "how badly did DeGeorge want to coach somewhere not named Cornell" question.

That's rather cynical...how about giving the guy the benefit of the doubt?

If he surfaces with a HC job for '10-11 season then we'll know...

[Purple Heys]

Jr. was 18 months old when I made my choice to stop coaching at the scholastic level (having coached HS Basketball and Football and small college Football).

It takes a lot of time and energy.  And it does sap time from the family no matter how hard you try.

I can accept DeGeorge's decision at face value...I'll bet he's going be a whole lot better compensated compared to a D3 Basketball coach too.

[doolittledog]

I would think DeGeorge would have had plenty of opportunities to coach elsewhere if that had been his desire.  With how indepth this training seems to be that he is going into, I think he is in it for at least somewhat for the long haul and is doing it for the money and his family. 

Now, I bet that most of us on here would agree though that with Purple Heys and DeGeorge both leaving the small college coaching ranks for higher paying jobs in the real world.  Purple Heys ended up with the cooler profession.  I think Purple Heys and his hot tub engineer job title trumps DeGeorge and his Insurance salesman trainer job title every day of the week and twice on sunday

Now, hopefully Robbie Sieverding at UD stays in Dubuque for the long haul...like as long as Jon Davison stayed at UD.  I think Sieverding is on the verge of something special in Dubuque and want him to stay for many years. 

[T.A.R.D.I.S.]

Anyone know if Cornell is considering moving Brase to the men's side?  He has a good run at Coe from 1999 until he left.  He also was able to recruit pretty well at Coe (Steve Banks, Mike Mohr, Mike Killberg, and Kyle Knuestling).  Any thoughts on this?   

[haterinthehouse]

I would doubt that Braase is interested, however, is there any news on the Head Coaching position at Cornell

[Purple Heys]

No news and no rumors that I can detect...

[Kohawk Krazy]

Anyone know if Cornell is considering moving Brase to the men's side?  He has a good run at Coe from 1999 until he left.  He also was able to recruit pretty well at Coe (Steve Banks, Mike Mohr, Mike Killberg, and Kyle Knuestling).  Any thoughts on this?   

Brase did not recruit Kilburg.  That was 100% Juckem.

[AndOne]

No news and no rumors that I can detect...

Greetings IIAC posters from a CCIW regular.

Effective today, Cornell has a new head coach as Chad Murray from North Central of the CCIW takes the reigns of the Rams program.
Cornell's release appears below:

http://www.cornellcollege.edu/athletics/mens-sports/mens-basketball/coach.shtml

[Dr. Phil]

So the Coe boys will be hitting the hardwood with UNI in November.

When is the last time a D3 school played a D1 school in the regular season? I realize D2 vs D1s are quite common, especially as an exhibition game, but a regular season game?

Will this count as a game for UNI and would it help Coe, win or lose, as part of the selection criteria if they happened to be a bubble team for post season play?

When is the last time anyone can think of a D3 school beating a D1 school in mens basketball?

[AndOne]

New Cornell coach Murray and his team face a big hurdle in his 1st year as Cornell is scheduled to play at D1 Coastal Carolina on Dec 27. The game does not yet appear on Cornell's schedule. Coastal Carolina has an early season date with Duke in the NIT Tip-Off Tournament. Good luck Chad. 

[Gregory Sager]

When is the last time a D3 school played a D1 school in the regular season? I realize D2 vs D1s are quite common, especially as an exhibition game, but a regular season game?

It's not all that common anymore, but it's hardly rare, either. There's at least a half-dozen instances each year of a D3 playing a D1 in a regular-season game, maybe more. Pat Coleman might have a better bead on the exact number of D3 @ D1 games in recent seasons.

Will this count as a game for UNI and would it help Coe, win or lose, as part of the selection criteria if they happened to be a bubble team for post season play?

It counts towards the overall records of both Northern Iowa and Coe, but both D1 and D3 championship rules state that games against teams from other NCAA divisions do not count towards the records used as determining criteria for tournament bids. In D3 terms, only games against fellow D3 teams from its own region (be it administrative region or geographic region) count towards a team's record with regard to determining criteria.

When is the last time anyone can think of a D3 school beating a D1 school in mens basketball?

Last season; December 9, 2008, to be precise.