FB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[janesvilleflash]

Quite a day for respect, or lack thereof for WW. The biggest award remains to be given on Saturday after the game. Let's get that one!

[Sakman 1111]

I agree with Janesville Flash totally.......Saturday is the day.....don't need any help to get up for that and we have proved that all year. POUND THE ROCK!!!!.....

[uww0212]

The MIAA has never won a playoff game.

Alma finished 2nd in the MIAA.... Hope, who won the conference went 7-0 in conference games and 0-4 in non conference.

I'm not meaning to attack Josh Brehm, but talk to me when you put up numbers against even average competition.

[Sakman 1111]

Josh Brehm could have been a credible backup to Jacobs if that.....

[CaptainKurt]

They never have before, no.

Hey, at least he played a WIAC team and beat them. 

A team that the rest of the conference wiped their asses with.

[OU#25]

POUND THE ROCK!!!!.....

I agree with you.  You'll see that on Saturday.

[Pat Coleman]

A team that the rest of the conference wiped their asses with.

That's appropriate.

[CaptainKurt]

A team that the rest of the conference wiped their asses with.

That's appropriate.

Sorry if I stepped on toes.  Kleppe was deserving.  Plain and simple. 

One of the major things that I see that's wrong with our country's morals today is that we are accepting of losing.  I hear the parents of my high school football players tell me that "It's okay if you lose.  It's the expereince that counts."  I don't agree with any of that.  We get involved in this fine sport of football for many reasons, with the main one being winning.  I know there's other lessons to be learned along the way, like team work, dedidcation, committment, etc, etc.  But the bottom line is winning, and anyone who disagrees with me is someone I don't want on my team.  Again, I don't want people to take this wrong way and say that I'd do anything to win, including cheating, because I don't like that.  However, we collectively seem to have this inner voice that tells us that it's okay to be average and it's okay to lose.  I hate that sh*t.  That is a loser's mentality.  Before you know, our country will be taken over because our military is full of men who as children learned that is was okay to lose. 

Bottom line: the best player came from a football team that went 6-4.  Quite honestly, Alma is a bad team that looks "average" playing in a brutal conference.  I just don't think the award went to the best recipient.

Of course, I'm biased.  I'm a Whitewater alum.  But what the hell, why don't we find the best player on a 4-6 team and give him the award.  I don't agree with the award going to a kid who was on a below average team.  Since that is the case, I'll bet money that they are hundreds of other qualified kids who played for 2-8 teams or 1-9 teams that could be nominated for the award. 
 

[johnniepress]

The Gagliardi Trophy honors excellence in athletics, academics and community service.

[CaptainKurt]

Hey Captain Obvious, thanks for pointing that out.

[Pat Coleman]

Captain Curt -- you appear to have misspelled your name.

It doesn't seem obvious, sometimes. People are reacting as if performance on the field is the only thing that matters. Although, the voters are instructed to view this as a football award, with the other factors as tiebreakers. I just don't know if everyone listens.

That's why there's room for more than one award.

[frank uible]

uww0212: About 1998 Albion, a MIAA team, won the Stagg Bowl.

[Pat Coleman]

1994

[frank uible]

Time flies when one is having fun!

[rscl70]

That was an outstanding Albion team in '94 - beat Mount Union 34-33 in the quarterfinals.