MBB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[columbianmaffia]

im back and half alive after 5 days of wild craziness...my brain has gone into shock after coming back to reality...therefore i will not be able to report my finding from clearwater, florida for another day or two....


i love life

[Touchdown Tommy]

Hope Cmaffia went to the ORIGINAL Hooters on the beach in Clearwater.

A bit steamy this time of year in South FLA...

[Drake Palmer]

im back and half alive after 5 days of wild craziness...my brain has gone into shock after coming back to reality...therefore i will not be able to report my finding from clearwater, florida for another day or two....


i love life

Well rest up there young fella, so you can tell us all about it.  Us old Gs need to live our lives out vicariously through your exploits & esca-l/pades. 

[abominable_snowman]

Alright from the barely news/rumor department - after scanning the other boards, it would seem that the gone, but not forgotten Sofa King may be moving back west to become an assistant coach at Whitworth College in Washington.

Cord of the North, can you confirm or dispel this story? Also, what's Andrew Passanante (sp?) up to?

Willy - Speaking of coaches, have the Gusties announced their new assistant hoops coach & what's up in the recruiting news?

Local, Local?

Anyone see the SofaKing skit on SNL?

It's Sofa King cool.

[localcoach]

Good morning to everyone.  The board has been kind of quiet lately so I thought I would drop one coaching tidbit that I recently was informed of as I haven't seen it mentioned on here yet.  Winona State Ass't coach Josh Drinkall will apparently be the new assistant at Gustavus this fall. 

If memory serves me correctly he's a Rushford-Peterson grad, but I thought he was a football guy  Can anyone confirm or deny that?  Regardless if he's coming from Winona one must believe he knows how to get things done.

Sorry Drake....no recruiting news to offer just yet.  As soon as I have anything concrete you'll be the first to know.

[sumander]

Good morning to everyone.  The board has been kind of quiet lately so I thought I would drop one coaching tidbit that I recently was informed of as I haven't seen it mentioned on here yet.  Winona State Ass't coach Josh Drinkall will apparently be the new assistant at Gustavus this fall. 

If memory serves me correctly he's a Rushford-Peterson grad, but I thought he was a football guy  Can anyone confirm or deny that?  Regardless if he's coming from Winona one must believe he knows how to get things done.

Sorry Drake....no recruiting news to offer just yet.  As soon as I have anything concrete you'll be the first to know.

That's an understatement!

We need Wonka to drop in and grace us with an answer to your question.

Local, anymore news out of HAM?

[Drake Palmer]

Good dig LC!  I believe there were/are several Drinkall brothers who came out of Rushford-Peterson, & I'm fairly sure I saw at least one of them on TV when R-P advanced to the state basketball tourney & the Prep bowl.  They all were decent to good, hard-nosed multi-sports athletes who played football, hoops & baseball.

Chad Walthall, former head basketball coach at Loras College in Iowa is a good example of a football player who went on to success as a college coach in a different sport from the one he played.  I think Walthall played Qb for the Cobbs back in the day.

If the Gustie coaching rumor is correct, Drinkall might be able to help ramp up the defensive intensity the Gusties seemed to lack the last couple of years.  R-P teams were always ready to play, played a physical style defense & ran a motion offense similar to the Gusties.   Obviously, Winona State played some pretty solid D -- a National championship & nat'l runner-up, but they had some pretty amazing D2 athletes/players.  At Rushford Pete, they might not have had the best players in the state, but the coaching staff sure seemed to coax maximum effort out of their teams each year.

[piperinsider]

You know us media type, we like the controversy. Funny how two of the most outspoken female coaches at Hamline have resigned during the past few weeks. First, Janelle Tieken, softball coach, now, Gina Rollie, who is the volleyball coach.

I'm not sure if it is resigned or "resigned," but Tieken has been one of the most successful coaches in the program the past 7 years. Rollie got her team into the playoffs last fall.

I'm just saying.

[Drake Palmer]

Dang PI, you're the first to jump on the family/school dysfunction?  O'Brien sure has been keeping the coaching revolving door bisnazz well oiled at Hambone.  How many coaches have left under his administration - 14+??

Your relatively new school President, Linda Hanson (?) doesn't strike me as the "win at all cost" type of president.

In other off-topic news, I saw in the paper/magazine the other day that St. Olaf College, a school affiliated with the  ELCA Lutheran synod, named a longtime professor in the religion department, Anantanand Rambachan, the newest department head.  Interestingly, he practices Hinduism. That's an interesting, if not bold ecumenical selection. 

http://www.stolaf.edu/news/interview/rambachan/

[nca11]

i've heard rumors that mr. wohler will be leaving his post for a local high school job.

[piperinsider]

Dang PI, you're the first to jump on the family/school dysfunction?  O'Brien sure has been keeping the coaching revolving door bisnazz well oiled at Hambone.  How many coaches have left under his administration - 14+??

I believe with the resignations of Rollie and Tieken, that brings it up to 16 new head coaches over the past six years.

[nca11]

anders halvorsen to st. thomas

[concordia of the north]

who is anders halvorsen?


st. olaf's religion chair is, i believe, like most other school's a rotating position held for maybe 3 years at a time.  Like the man said, a great deal of progress has been made on church-affiliated college campuses in the last 25 years.  Concordia just lost perhaps their most respected religion professor (and a devout Muslim) to a premier university in Pakistan, a university which is coincidentally the alma mater of a prominent systematics professor at Luther Seminary (the largest ELCA seminary in the country).

what's even more interesting is that 15-20 years ago, the MIAC schools were regularly sending basketball players onto rostered ministry and seminary study.  Concordia had between 3-5 in a 10 year span, or so.  I know that Luther, Decorah sent a record-holding quarterback on to theological studies.  It doesn't happen anymore.  There is a growing divide (it seems) between the realms of athletics and theology.  A lot of professors at LutherSem are frustrated about that. 

Any ideas why jocks aren't good pastors anymore?

[nca11]

halvorsen is a 6'8" forward from henry sibley high school. 

[Drake Palmer]

CON – the article is no longer available for free, but the Pioneer Press recently had an article titled the "Pitching Preacher" – a story on former Ole, Charlie Ruud who is pitching for the St. Paul Saints, & is in his second year at Luther Seminary.  If you're interested, College Sporting News did a feature article on him several years ago: Charlie Ruud  Also, about a month ago, Nites mentioned a former Cobb hooper, Kerry Nelson who is a pastor at a Lutheran church in Houston, TX.

Interesting news on Anders Halvorsen.  The last I'd heard he was thinking of attending prep school in the hope of snagging a D-1 scholie.  If this latest rumor by NCA11 is true, this is a real intriguing coup for the Tommies.  Physically he's got the height & size to be a D-1 player, but plays more like a 2G/wing inside a power forward's body.  Halvorsen is a bright, nice kid who needs to get tougher physically/emotionally & develop a little mean streak.  His current style of play reminds me of former 3pt shooting specialist for Marquette -- 6-10 Steve Novak.  IF, he develops, he could be a real force 2-3 years from now. I can't think of any 6-8 big men in the league who can run or jump with him. 

The kid comes from good athletic stock -  his father Dan was a big stud for the Oles back in the 70s & is the 3rd all time leading scorer for St. Olaf.  And was a talented tennis player & played the MN amateur circuit for a number of years.  In addition he's noted for his work as a sports/ exercise physiologist not only in the cities but nationally.

NCA11 -- tell us more on your Wohler whisperings, any additional insights?