FB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[repete]

It could end up being the d3 regular season "game of the year" although there's an OAC game on Oct. 28 that might claim that title.

Somehow "WIAC game of the century" sounds like "storm of the century" . . .

[doclittle]

Whitewater came out and dominated Oshkosh tonight. The offense shined in the firast half,and the Defense dominated the second half. The way the Warhawks played tonight they could probably stop the Wisconsin badgers rushing attack.
Beaver had opne huge run 97 yards on the second drive of the game for UWW I believe. Then they came back and marched down the field with a beautiful bomb to stanley I beleieve and a nice throw from Jacobs to Mrivicka to make the lead after a field goal from their automatic freshman kicker17-00. The only bad part of the first half was Beavers fumble which lead to a Oshkosh Field Goal. Where the Warhawks started their domination as in three plays the Titans had negative yardage.
I do have to commend the Oshkosh defense as they put upa good fight. however they had to because their offense stunk up the joint,and the play calling by the titans was questionable at most.
The Warhawks also cleaned up the penalties three for 35 yards I believe is what I read on warhawkfootball.com.
So I know am convince the Warhawks are ready for the rest fo the WIAC.
I know everyone is looking forward to the Showdown against Lacrosse which is also Homecoming at UW Whitewater. However next week the Warhawks hit the road again and play at Eau Claire to take on the Blu Golds at Carsn park which is not always a nice play for the Warhawks to play at not a lot of success their as of late.
Howeevr for know all i ahev to say is WARHAWKS,WARHAWKS,WARHAWKS,

[palum]

Platteville beats Augustana 24-7.  2 Nelson to Danielson 49 yard TD passes helped Platteville jump out to a 21-7 half time lead.  Platteville's defense did a good job of stoping Augies running attack.  A good win for Platteville to end their non-conference schedule on a high note b-4 they enter the WIAC where anything can happen.   

[Hootfish]

Hi....congratulations to WW but the statement that WW dominated is half true.  WW dominated on D but the offense was not impressive.  I have seen WW dominate on offense and this was not it.   Two plays a perfect bomb to Stanley and the 97 yard rum were impressive other than that I would say the Titan D dominated....


Good luck

[WIACPOWER]

Whitewater came out and dominated Oshkosh tonight. The offense shined in the firast half,and the Defense dominated the second half. The way the Warhawks played tonight they could probably stop the Wisconsin badgers rushing attack.
Beaver had opne huge run 97 yards on the second drive of the game for UWW I believe. Then they came back and marched down the field with a beautiful bomb to stanley I beleieve and a nice throw from Jacobs to Mrivicka to make the lead after a field goal from their automatic freshman kicker17-00. The only bad part of the first half was Beavers fumble which lead to a Oshkosh Field Goal. Where the Warhawks started their domination as in three plays the Titans had negative yardage.
I do have to commend the Oshkosh defense as they put upa good fight. however they had to because their offense stunk up the joint,and the play calling by the titans was questionable at most.
The Warhawks also cleaned up the penalties three for 35 yards I believe is what I read on warhawkfootball.com.
So I know am convince the Warhawks are ready for the rest fo the WIAC.
I know everyone is looking forward to the Showdown against Lacrosse which is also Homecoming at UW Whitewater. However next week the Warhawks hit the road again and play at Eau Claire to take on the Blu Golds at Carsn park which is not always a nice play for the Warhawks to play at not a lot of success their as of late.
Howeevr for know all i ahev to say is WARHAWKS,WARHAWKS,WARHAWKS,

[WIACPOWER]

doclittle,  I must have been at a different game then you...WW had 99 yards in the 2nd half....

[Mr. Downtown]

Give lots of credit to Whitewater's D-Line. Everytime Moriarty had the ball, already the "new line of scrimmage" was two yards back. So it seem every 2 yard carry looked a 5 yard run at times.

Oshkosh recievers need to really work on catching balls this week in practice. We were planning on having a drink for every dropped ball after the first half, and then when the game was over decided that wouldn't be very safe thing to do.

Its hard to question the play calling, when nothing is working. Granted, I too questioned why on 2 and 15 we were running a QB draw, but when Mo' is getting nothing on the ground, and everytime you threw a ball more than 15 yards it seemed it would go through the receivers hands you don't have too many choices other than dump off's or quick slants.

I doubt anyone thought that Oshkosh would hold Whitewater to 17 points, little lone shut them out in the second half. Once again, the defense played like a champion and the offense sputtered.

[badgerwarhawk]

Not as effective offensively as we'd like to be but effective enough and  dominating on defense particularly against the run and on our end of the field.  The series in which Oshkosh recovered the fumble on our 11 and four plays later kicked a field goal from the 15 really illustrated both points.  Oshkosh's offense made a lot of mistakes too.  Between the holding, offensive interference penalties they killed two decent looking drives and the dropped passes didn't help much.   

I hadn't been to Titan Stadium since 2000 and I thought the improvements were very nice.  The field looks great.   A grass field would have been in sorry shape when this one finished. 

BC, I'm sorry but I'll stay focused on Eau Claire and the WARHAWK/LaCrosse hype can wait for a few weeks.  We've got a lot of business to take care of first.  I know the staff is pushing that theme and hopefully this year's squad is as good at it as last year. 

You, however, may hype away. 

[doclittle]

WIACPOWER,\Your right they didn't have many yards on offense in the second half,and you havew to play 4 quarters just ask Michigan State.
However their defense continued thier dominance  of the titans. The UWO RB ahd no where to run and was stuffed all day.
When i saw Domination I am talking about all three phases Defense,Offense,Special Teams- Which the Warhawks dominated from the opening kickoff.
Hey if it qwasn'
t for the very touchy late hit on UWO first drive they had nothing going on the ground,and that call was very questionable. Is this football or what.

[raiderguy]

 A big thank you to BDB for a terrific afternoon in Menomonie. He was the perfect host especially with seats on the 50!

A great game and a heartbreaker for the Blue Devils. They had the game wrapped up with 1:45 left to play. That was the problem....there was 1:45 to play.

Whitworth finally decided to use their 7'7", 400 lb TE on the last drive for something other than blocking. They managed to score basically on the last play of regulation. Neither team scored the first OT. Stout scored first in the second OT and suffered a fate they had endured all day....the kicking game. They had several opportunies to put the game away with a FG's in regulation and then missed a FG in the first OT. Finally only an extra point needed and the famous phrase....."wide right" struck again. Whitworth managed to score on fourth and goal from the one .......and kicked the EP for the win. Heck of a finish.

I will tell you this ...there are some bruised and battered Pirates returning to Spokane. I don't think they were used to being smacked in the mouth like they were yesterday.  Plenty of pads cracking on that field today.

I was invited to a post game get together at the "Lakefront" and enjoyed plenty of post game discussions with the fans and coaches. What  great time. The owner of the restaurant put on a nice spread for everyone to try and ease the pain.

Nothing but class from Coach Strop, the whole Stout coaching staff and fans under some tough circumstances. I wish them huge success the rest of the way.


GO BLUE DEVILS!

Thanks again BDB I hope I can return the favor some day....Salem?

[Foss]

Just wanted to echo Coco's comments on saying it's a shame someone had to lose that game between UW-Stout and Whitworth. It sounded like it was an unbelievable game that could have went either way.

The UW-Stout coach's comments with the radio announcers after the game were very classy, especially considering how tough of a loss that was. He sounds like a heck of a coach. Good luck the rest of the season and thanks for stepping up and playing someone from the NWC. We have some of the same scheduling problems that the WIAC has, which is probably partly why there have been a number of WIAC vs. NWC games the last few years.

raiderguy, I agree with a lot of your comments but I would wager it was not only the Pirate players that were bruised and battered. They also held tough and did some smacking of their own, especially on defense. Whitworth gets plenty of physical games in conference, as well.

[retagent]

Re: Brian Carroll's  "WIAC Game of The Century" proposal. This doesn't have much to do with that, except he brought up the Notre Dame/Michigan State 40th anny of their "Game of the Century"

About 5 years ago when I was living in Virginia, I'm at one of my son's Lacrosse games against a team from Great Falls/ McLean. A guy sidles up next to me and we start talking. His son is playing for the Great Falls team, and he is new to the sport, and is asking me some questions about the rules etc.  (My son is killing them by the way scoring about 4 goals). After talking for a while, at halftime I decide to introduce myself. He comes back and says, "I'm Coley O"Brian. " I say, Oh!, Like the guy who played QB for Notre Dame years ago." He says, "Yeah!." Like I guess I thought there might be a whole bunch of Coley O"Brians around.

Turns out he's an attorney working at a Lobbying firm in the DC area. Seemed like a nice guy. Not very big - my size - about 5' 9" 180 lbs or so.

[doclittle]

Well hopefully LaCrosse is looking ahead tot he whitewater game.AKA "The Game of the Century" because the Warhawks are taking it one game at a time and this week it's the Blu Golds from Eau Claire.
I hope Lacrosse is looking ahead,and that way they stumble before they come to play the hawks.
Okay not really ebcause it should be a heck of  game but this week the foucs is on the Blu Golds.
WARHAWKS WARHAWK WARHAWKS WARHAWKS

[thewayitis]

Stout's Ryan Englebert had the most unbelievable 71 yard touchdown run in their game Saturday.  I never seen anything like it.  That kid is something special.  Glad to see him back healthy and strong.

[raiderguy]

Foss

You got that right. When you can hear the pop in the stands on a consistant basis you know the boys are bring'in it.

I can't quite figure out why Whitworth didn't use their tight end more often. He did make some plays but when he is matched up with 5'10" DB you would think he could be used a lot more. He spent a lot of time blocking for obvious reasons and was a key to the TD run in OT. Maybe it was just this game but he was one big dude. He made the Whitworth line look tiny.

Good luck against them later this year.