FB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[pg04]

Even though I've been razzing on the wizard a bit, there should definitely be excitement in the UWO Program, and in the WIAC in general, of course. I agree with ExTartanPlayer. Did Mount believe UWW was actually going to show up year in and year out? Or were they St. John's with a one year and gone. The previous history is just that.

[ExTartanPlayer]

1,740 is a terrible average.

1,740 is a terrible average?  Um, OK.

Pop quiz: I'll give a cookie to anyone who can recognize the following sequence of four numbers:

1100
1100
1790
1942

....and....time!

Give up?  Those four numbers represent the attendance at home playoff games at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2014.  For those lacking math skills, the average of those four numbers is 1,483.  In the playoffs!  The biggest games of the season!  Even if you throw out the first two games because you cheeseheads would rather stay in and drink beer at the local watering hole and watch the Badgers during the first two UWW blowouts, the average for the quarterfinals + semifinals - which were both thrilling games against high-quality opposition - was just 1,866; a whopping 126 higher than UWO's "terrible" average.

[d-train]

Wow, they are drawing twice that many at tiny George Fox. Ask Wildcat11 for the details if you are interested. 

[cubs]

If UW-Oshkosh gets a home game in December, I've heard they will play at Lambeau Field.    Is that possible under NCAA rules?

You've created a fascinating, yet horrifying mental picture - UW-Oshkosh football, struggling to get a crowd of 450 or so people, in their own 10,000 seat stadium - requesting to play in the 80,000 seat football shrine known as Lambeau Field...in December, of all months...Hell, when I went on a stadium tour in August 2013, we weren't even allowed to touch the grass. We could take a picture of it, sniff if, absorb it's aura, marvel at it's greeness, walk next to it, but couldn't touch it. And I'm a fricken shareholder, man. 

However, many years ago (mid 90's), La Crosse moved their scheduled game with Mount Union to Camp Randall (of course CR had artificial turf and no game on Sunday) when a snowstorm blew through La Crosse the night or two before the game and buried the unprotected, natural turf field in La Crosse at that time. But, seriously, aliens will come out of their resting places and rule the earth before Oshkosh plays a game at Lambeau. We may need to take your man card away from you, Mr. Geologist, for suggesting otherwise. Oshkosh fans getting slightly cocky these days...already dreaming about playing in the rarefied playoff air during the month of December.

Nice to see so many people "take the bait" in regards to AppletonRocks post....  His style reminds me of a guy who had many "run-ins" with Pat in the past that went by the name of titan2000.

He was trying to get a reaction from the board, and he did.  Notice he hasn't posted since then and that should show tell you all you need to know. 

As far as Oshkosh fans getting "cocky," the last time they won the WIAC, they played two games in December, winning at Linfield before losing at St. Thomas.  Will be interesting to see how they fare this season after having clinched the Pool A bid going into their regular season finale today.

[cubs]

It appears to be another week of easy victories for Oshkosh, Whitewater and Platteville today....

I did notice that Dylan Hecker didn't play for UWO today.  Anyone have any details on that?  Would seem to be a big loss for UWO if he is out for the playoffs as well.

[retagent]

Even though I've been razzing on the wizard a bit, there should definitely be excitement in the UWO Program, and in the WIAC in general, of course. I agree with ExTartanPlayer. Did Mount believe UWW was actually going to show up year in and year out? Or were they St. John's with a one year and gone. The previous history is just that.

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[palum]

Platteville had a balanced attack today Kelly was 22 of 25 passing for 284 yards and they rushed for 284 yards with Fish leading  the way with 111 yard followed by Whitman with 92. I'm fearful the selection committee will put to much weight on the loss to Oshkosh where Platteville did not play up to its potential and Oshkosh couldn't do anything wrong.  In a perfect world a 14th ranked team with a 8 and 2 record whose losses came against the 3rd and 6th ranked teams and has wins against the 16th and 20th ranked teams they should make the field of 32, but D3 football while good is not perfect.  I hope they feel Platteville is deserving of a bid but the selection committee will take some  flack for putting 3 teams  from the same conference in the playoffs.  I know the NCAA is concerned about travel costs Platteville will hitch hike to Dubuque next Saturday to help save money.

[BoBo]

1,740 is a terrible average.

1,740 is a terrible average?  Um, OK.

Pop quiz: I'll give a cookie to anyone who can recognize the following sequence of four numbers:

1100
1100
1790
1942

....and....time!

Give up?  Those four numbers represent the attendance at home playoff games at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2014.  For those lacking math skills, the average of those four numbers is 1,483.  In the playoffs!  The biggest games of the season!  Even if you throw out the first two games because you cheeseheads would rather stay in and drink beer at the local watering hole and watch the Badgers during the first two UWW blowouts, the average for the quarterfinals + semifinals - which were both thrilling games against high-quality opposition - was just 1,866; a whopping 126 higher than UWO's "terrible" average.

Thanks ex, this issue has been beaten to death every year for the last 8 years or so...great that you can be the horse beater/Capt. Obvious this year - congrats!!

I believe play-off attendance, or lack thereof, seems to be an issue at many schools, not just UWW. If the Hawks are awarded a home game(s) this year, I'm certain it will be no different. Sponsors have tried giving away free tickets to students and still few go to those games. You can name just about any reason responsible for the lack of fannies in the stands and will get no disagreement from me - watching from the bars (or overseas), deer hunting season in WI, thanksgiving, yada, yada, yada,  complacency.  So tell us how attendance is for playoff games at your school...btw, who is your school - who are these tartan's your an ex for?

[ExTartanPlayer]

1,740 is a terrible average.

1,740 is a terrible average?  Um, OK.

Pop quiz: I'll give a cookie to anyone who can recognize the following sequence of four numbers:

1100
1100
1790
1942

....and....time!

Give up?  Those four numbers represent the attendance at home playoff games at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2014.  For those lacking math skills, the average of those four numbers is 1,483.  In the playoffs!  The biggest games of the season!  Even if you throw out the first two games because you cheeseheads would rather stay in and drink beer at the local watering hole and watch the Badgers during the first two UWW blowouts, the average for the quarterfinals + semifinals - which were both thrilling games against high-quality opposition - was just 1,866; a whopping 126 higher than UWO's "terrible" average.

Thanks ex, this issue has been beaten to death every year for the last 8 years or so...great that you can be the horse beater/Capt. Obvious this year - congrats!!

I believe play-off attendance, or lack thereof, seems to be an issue at many schools, not just UWW. If the Hawks are awarded a home game(s) this year, I'm certain it will be no different. Sponsors have tried giving away free tickets to students and still few go to those games. You can name just about any reason responsible for the lack of fannies in the stands and will get no disagreement from me - watching from the bars (or overseas), deer hunting season in WI, thanksgiving, yada, yada, yada,  complacency.  So tell us how attendance is for playoff games at your school...btw, who is your school - who are these tartan's your an ex for?

My school is irrelevant to the present discussion.

You posted that UWO's attendance is terrible.  I merely pointed out that the "terrible" number equals about what UWW manages to draw for a national quarterfinal & semifinal against some of the best teams in the country.  Don't get mad at me because UWW's home playoff attendance is approximately at the same threshold at which you're mocking UWO for having "terrible" attendance

[MasterJedi]

1,740 is a terrible average.

1,740 is a terrible average?  Um, OK.

Pop quiz: I'll give a cookie to anyone who can recognize the following sequence of four numbers:

1100
1100
1790
1942

....and....time!

Give up?  Those four numbers represent the attendance at home playoff games at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2014.  For those lacking math skills, the average of those four numbers is 1,483.  In the playoffs!  The biggest games of the season!  Even if you throw out the first two games because you cheeseheads would rather stay in and drink beer at the local watering hole and watch the Badgers during the first two UWW blowouts, the average for the quarterfinals + semifinals - which were both thrilling games against high-quality opposition - was just 1,866; a whopping 126 higher than UWO's "terrible" average.

Thanks ex, this issue has been beaten to death every year for the last 8 years or so...great that you can be the horse beater/Capt. Obvious this year - congrats!!

I believe play-off attendance, or lack thereof, seems to be an issue at many schools, not just UWW. If the Hawks are awarded a home game(s) this year, I'm certain it will be no different. Sponsors have tried giving away free tickets to students and still few go to those games. You can name just about any reason responsible for the lack of fannies in the stands and will get no disagreement from me - watching from the bars (or overseas), deer hunting season in WI, thanksgiving, yada, yada, yada,  complacency.  So tell us how attendance is for playoff games at your school...btw, who is your school - who are these tartan's your an ex for?

My school is irrelevant to the present discussion.

You posted that UWO's attendance is terrible.  I merely pointed out that the "terrible" number equals about what UWW manages to draw for a national quarterfinal & semifinal against some of the best teams in the country.  Don't get mad at me because UWW's home playoff attendance is approximately at the same threshold at which you're mocking UWO for having "terrible" attendance

That home playoff attendance equals other schools at that time, so it's not unique. UWW has excellent attendance in the regular season, UWO does not, which leads people to the conclusion since all attendance accross D3 plummets in the playoffs that it would be an almost empty stadium at UWO since they already started wel behind the curve.

Not that I think you'll care for that logical explanation since it appears you're more interested in digging it in to Bobo instead of understanding where he's obviously coming from but it's a highly logical conclusion which may or may not hold.

[ExTartanPlayer]

1,740 is a terrible average.

1,740 is a terrible average?  Um, OK.

Pop quiz: I'll give a cookie to anyone who can recognize the following sequence of four numbers:

1100
1100
1790
1942

....and....time!

Give up?  Those four numbers represent the attendance at home playoff games at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2014.  For those lacking math skills, the average of those four numbers is 1,483.  In the playoffs!  The biggest games of the season!  Even if you throw out the first two games because you cheeseheads would rather stay in and drink beer at the local watering hole and watch the Badgers during the first two UWW blowouts, the average for the quarterfinals + semifinals - which were both thrilling games against high-quality opposition - was just 1,866; a whopping 126 higher than UWO's "terrible" average.

Thanks ex, this issue has been beaten to death every year for the last 8 years or so...great that you can be the horse beater/Capt. Obvious this year - congrats!!

I believe play-off attendance, or lack thereof, seems to be an issue at many schools, not just UWW. If the Hawks are awarded a home game(s) this year, I'm certain it will be no different. Sponsors have tried giving away free tickets to students and still few go to those games. You can name just about any reason responsible for the lack of fannies in the stands and will get no disagreement from me - watching from the bars (or overseas), deer hunting season in WI, thanksgiving, yada, yada, yada,  complacency.  So tell us how attendance is for playoff games at your school...btw, who is your school - who are these tartan's your an ex for?

My school is irrelevant to the present discussion.

You posted that UWO's attendance is terrible.  I merely pointed out that the "terrible" number equals about what UWW manages to draw for a national quarterfinal & semifinal against some of the best teams in the country.  Don't get mad at me because UWW's home playoff attendance is approximately at the same threshold at which you're mocking UWO for having "terrible" attendance

That home playoff attendance equals other schools at that time, so it's not unique. UWW has excellent attendance in the regular season, UWO does not, which leads people to the conclusion since all attendance accross D3 plummets in the playoffs that it would be an almost empty stadium at UWO since they already started wel behind the curve.

Not that I think you'll care for that logical explanation since it appears you're more interested in digging it in to Bobo instead of understanding where he's obviously coming from but it's a highly logical conclusion which may or may not hold.

That's a perfectly reasonable explanation, thank you. 

I just think it's funny that some of you UWW guys (certainly not all) are happy to take a crap on other schools in pretty much any way possible, but get prickly whenever someone does anything but grovel at UWW's feet.  It's hilarious.

[cubs]

I just think it's funny that some of you UWW guys (certainly not all) are happy to take a crap on other schools in pretty much any way possible, but get prickly whenever someone does anything but grovel at UWW's feet.  It's hilarious.

Definitely not the first time I have read something like this on here...  Starting to think there might just be some truth to it!!!!

[MasterJedi]

1,740 is a terrible average.

1,740 is a terrible average?  Um, OK.

Pop quiz: I'll give a cookie to anyone who can recognize the following sequence of four numbers:

1100
1100
1790
1942

....and....time!

Give up?  Those four numbers represent the attendance at home playoff games at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2014.  For those lacking math skills, the average of those four numbers is 1,483.  In the playoffs!  The biggest games of the season!  Even if you throw out the first two games because you cheeseheads would rather stay in and drink beer at the local watering hole and watch the Badgers during the first two UWW blowouts, the average for the quarterfinals + semifinals - which were both thrilling games against high-quality opposition - was just 1,866; a whopping 126 higher than UWO's "terrible" average.

Thanks ex, this issue has been beaten to death every year for the last 8 years or so...great that you can be the horse beater/Capt. Obvious this year - congrats!!

I believe play-off attendance, or lack thereof, seems to be an issue at many schools, not just UWW. If the Hawks are awarded a home game(s) this year, I'm certain it will be no different. Sponsors have tried giving away free tickets to students and still few go to those games. You can name just about any reason responsible for the lack of fannies in the stands and will get no disagreement from me - watching from the bars (or overseas), deer hunting season in WI, thanksgiving, yada, yada, yada,  complacency.  So tell us how attendance is for playoff games at your school...btw, who is your school - who are these tartan's your an ex for?

My school is irrelevant to the present discussion.

You posted that UWO's attendance is terrible.  I merely pointed out that the "terrible" number equals about what UWW manages to draw for a national quarterfinal & semifinal against some of the best teams in the country.  Don't get mad at me because UWW's home playoff attendance is approximately at the same threshold at which you're mocking UWO for having "terrible" attendance

That home playoff attendance equals other schools at that time, so it's not unique. UWW has excellent attendance in the regular season, UWO does not, which leads people to the conclusion since all attendance accross D3 plummets in the playoffs that it would be an almost empty stadium at UWO since they already started wel behind the curve.

Not that I think you'll care for that logical explanation since it appears you're more interested in digging it in to Bobo instead of understanding where he's obviously coming from but it's a highly logical conclusion which may or may not hold.

That's a perfectly reasonable explanation, thank you. 

I just think it's funny that some of you UWW guys (certainly not all) are happy to take a crap on other schools in pretty much any way possible, but get prickly whenever someone does anything but grovel at UWW's feet.  It's hilarious.

It's all relative. For UWO, an undefeated conference championship which is a really good football team to average that attendance with the enrollment at the school is awful. At other schools you see the campus rally around an undefeated team heading into the playoffs, even if they're unlikely to go deep. It's not happening there for some reason. My cousin (who played TE for the team in the 90s) and other family have gone there, it's earned the name "Sloshkosh" from them and around the state. Leads me to believe that the party scene on the weekend is more important, and lack of support in good weather in the regular season will make it brutal in the playoffs and cod.

[d3Wizard]

I would have to say that the stadium being over the river and not connected to campus does effect the attendance.  and uwo does not count their student attendance which was around 6 to 7 thousand against uww.   But the WIAC is about to make some noise in the playoffs.

[ExTartanPlayer]

It's all relative. For UWO, an undefeated conference championship which is a really good football team to average that attendance with the enrollment at the school is awful. At other schools you see the campus rally around an undefeated team heading into the playoffs, even if they're unlikely to go deep. It's not happening there for some reason. My cousin (who played TE for the team in the 90s) and other family have gone there, it's earned the name "Sloshkosh" from them and around the state. Leads me to believe that the party scene on the weekend is more important, and lack of support in good weather in the regular season will make it brutal in the playoffs and cod.

Unfortunately, that seems to be true many places, which is a genuine shame.  Since we're all football fans here (as much as we joust about certain things, we can all agree on that, right?) - we all tend to expect that people all over campus would be excited about a good football team and would want to come out and support the team.  But you're absolutely right that at many places, the party scene and subsequent hangover brunch takes precedent over "Hey, let's go freeze our asses off to support the team in the D3 playoffs against some school from Oregon."