FB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[footballfan413]

Footballfan413: You are right in many of your points, Thank you for the Love! The best running Back on the field Saturday will be 25, Mike Geslinger of UWP. We will run the ball on your great defense, The results will speak for themselves. Your defense is tough, but we ran the ball against you last Year. God Bless you guys, nice to hear from Texas fans.

Is that the Mike Gelinger that was 6th in rushing in the WIAC as of October 9th games?   (they haven't update the site after yesterdays games)  I have no doubt that he is a very good RB.

Maybe he will fair better against our DEFENSE than the other top WIAC RB'S.  8) 8) 8)

 
#2   USTP Cody Childs                     26 net yards on 21 attempts
#3   UWO  Andy Moriarty                 7 net yards on 13 attempts

I repeat, UWW's defense has held 6 teams to under 65 yards rushing........

UWP will not run on the WARHAWKS!!!  My guess is your coaches will have a different game plan!   

[footballfan413]

BTW,  Don't know the answer to this but I would be curious to know how much of the rushing yards by UWP last season came in garbage time after the starting D sat down.  UWW was up 49-14 by end of 3rd quarter.

[badgerwarhawk]

We can only hope that Platteville focuses their game plan around establishing a running attack.  Please, God, make it so. 

[doclittle]

Yes that would be playing right into our hands. If anyone has noticed at all our rn defense is the best in the WIAC.
So please Platteville run the ball. I encourage it. That would be great at least for the warhawks. Just ask Cody Childs how good the warhawk run defense is.
GO WARHAWKS BEAT PLATTEVILLE[/color]

[janesvilleflash]

Quote from warhawkfootball.com----Bob Berezowitz is entering his 20th season as head football coach at UW-Whitewater. Berezowitz is the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's longest tenured coach. Berezowitz entered the season in third place in all-time in WIAC wins.

I am amazed that some people feel qualified to critisize someone with credentials like that. I'll wait for someone with better qualifications than Brez to say he made a mistake before I take it to heart.

Beaver is great, but the season isn't over for WW. I think #9 can step right in and take over the tailback spot and do just fine. If they decide to go with one of the younger guys, they must have good reasons to do so.

If people think they can slack on stopping the run against WW because Beaver is out, they will get a big suprise.

[pagel22]

In my opinion I think the Whitewater coaches were stupid for keeping him in!  In my experience if you are up by that much, put in the back ups.  Who cares if he doesn't want to come out!  No one ever wants to come out.  He is one of the best backs in the country, he doesn't have to prove anything else.  I wish his a fast recovery.  Congrats to Whitewater for playing a great game.  My heart is always with LaCrosse but they just got outplayed.

[UWPSUPERFAN77]

As I said before, we will run the ball at least 50 percent of the time in our offense. Whether or not we are successful will depend on whether or not we win the game. The run keeps your defense honest, kills the clock, keeps your offense off the field.This is why we play the game on the field. God Bless

[badgerwarhawk]

Excellent

[DutchFan2004]

Pat,

I agree with you about the four week thing.  It would be nice if he only had to miss that much time.  I think time will tell.  The thing I think about is if Adrian Pedereson from OK broke his collar bone and he is done for the season then I wonder how Beaver can come back in just four weeks.  I know it may be two different or degrees of injury but they are both broken bones.  Good Luck to UWW without him and I hope his prediction comes true.

[CaptainKurt]

I haven't weighed in on this board lately.  But after reading the poll results from the d3football homepage, I'm suprised that 53.5% of 1216 voters said "No" to the question.... "If Justin Beaver misses six weeks, will UWW still be playing (regional finals)?" 

With all respects to Beav, we have to remember a few things here to discuss.  My Top Ten list why UWW is still money in the bank:

1.  UWW's defense is one of the best defense's overall in the nation.  Period.  This specific injury will not set the defense back.

2.  Jacobs, Mrkvicka, Stanley, Reuland, Underwood, Gorecki, Wells, Schmitt, Douglas, Slupski, and  Gifford can score points for team too.  WW + Beaver will stab you in the face.  The WW - Beaver will stab you in the face.  If Beav wants to pull off a T.O. and heal fast enough for the playoffs, he knows he's welcome back fo' shizzle.

3. Special teams are tough.  As usual.  Jeff Schebler should be on Mel Kiper's big board.

4.  Bob Berezowitz

5. Warhawkfootball.com will monitor the healing process and provide updates every 25 minutes on Beaver.

6.  Bob Berezowitz

7.  The offensive line hasn't gotten any love.  They don't suck either: Max, Brady, Allen, Serfort, Anstett, and Schmitt will stab you in the face.

8. Bob Berezowitz

9. Forest Perkins

10. Bob Berezowitz

[chmarx]

Congratulations to Whitewater on a convincing win.

As far as the Beaver issue...As Brian Carroll and I were walking out of the stadium with a friend, I speculated that Berewitz might want to run up the score on La Crosse.

Brian agreed that he didn't have to worry about next year if he did.

I then observed that if an essential player got hurt, he might regret it.

Interesting how things work out.

At any rate, I hope Beaver heals quickly and that Whitewater goes all the way in the playoffs.

[K-Mack]

I feel for the WW fans as you have lost a player who was a joy to watch.  The only thing that bothers me about the whole "should he have been in there yet" stuff is your coaches reaction to it:  "He didn't want to come out."  I'm sorry, but my reaction to that is "This is not a democracy." Coaches are paid to make those decisions.  Beaver not wanting to come out should not be a factor.  No player wants to come out.

He said a lot more than that, unfortunately you can really only put one quote out front. I can go in depth a lot more in the column.

Still, I'm assuming the Wisconsin papers reflect this since we were all at the same press conference but Berezowitz was basically saying they were leaving him in there for the rest of that series, which killed a bunch of clock and added the last score, and that Beaver didn't have a problem with being left in. (as opposed to other players who have had 30-plus carries and might say "'coach, I'm tired"). I don't think he was saying "well it's up to Justin, whenever he wants to come out then it's his call." He said they thought about it, and were OK with leaving him in to finish off the win.

I thought Berezowitz took the questions well and admitted he shouldn't have done it. We reporters came back to the topic three or four times and asked him pretty directly about it.

The only thing I think they weren't being completely genuine about is their concern that La Crosse could come back on them. Granted Lax has the passing game to score in a hurry and Berezowitz has coached long enough to be on both sides of crazy comebacks, but I think 28 points with 9 minutes or thereabouts is fairly safe. The 35-point margin and the last drive could've been meant to be a clock-killer, but nobody ever said that specifically. They just said they thought about taking him out and decided one more series and then they would.

I think they'll miss Beaver, but they're good enough that they can still win the rest of their games. Doesn't mean they will, but a very good O-line will ease the transition to a backup. Especially if they take it personally, that people think they're done without Beaver or they feel like they each have to play at maximum effectiveness and they "step up." (most overused football phrase of all-time)

But that's just my opinion.

[K-Mack]

I know you like your stadium, and it is nice, but you have to remember that SI picked Collegeville as one of the great places to watch a football game, so don't get too high on your horse.

Yeah, I'm sure SI considered the other three to six stadiums they've seen D3 games in.

Don't get me wrong, I love The Sweet Season, and if I recall correctly the honor came before the book, but you can't exactly brag on that honor if it was bestowed by a group that's surely never seen the Perk or most of the other top spots in D3. I have no doubt St. John's is a great place to see a game, and that's what SI was getting at, not rating it better than other D3s.

Some of my favorite "places to watch a game" I've seen are Widener and North Central. Some places are fancier and newer (CNU, Shenandoah, Benedictine) and some rely more on personality (McDaniel, Whitworth) ... Honestly though, every place has it's own cool little aura about it. I always like to see what schools can create with a small spot and a small budget. And on game days, you see how the people fill it and give it's life.

Anyway, this is why I don't hang on the boards. I fall victim to rambling tangentitis frequently.

[D O.C.]

I did not want to hear about The Beav. Any injury like that is a risk of the game and I can trust the Coach of the Year. LINFIELD has had it's share of All-Americans lost for the season and it DID matter a couple of years against St. Johns on the way up. That defense will step up from great to super and you can always put Stanley on the other teams best receiver again.
Perish the thought that he is out for the first couple of play-off games.

[Olinemom]

Footballfan413: You are right in many of your points, Thank you for the Love! The best running Back on the field Saturday will be 25, Mike Geslinger of UWP. We will run the ball on your great defense, The results will speak for themselves. Your defense is tough, but we ran the ball against you last Year. God Bless you guys, nice to hear from Texas fans.

Is that the Mike Gelinger that was 6th in rushing in the WIAC as of October 9th games?   (they haven't update the site after yesterdays games)  I have no doubt that he is a very good RB.

Maybe he will fair better against our DEFENSE than the other top WIAC RB'S.  8) 8) 8)

 
#2   USTP Cody Childs                     26 net yards on 21 attempts
#3   UWO  Andy Moriarty                 7 net yards on 13 attempts

I repeat, UWW's defense has held 6 teams to under 65 yards rushing........

UWP will not run on the WARHAWKS!!!  My guess is your coaches will have a different game plan!   

+karma for your excellent analysis of the game.  Glad that you all did such a great job on a game many people thought would be a squeaker--NOT!!!  I am sorry that Justin got hurt!  Collarbones can be tricky to heal.  I've broken both of mine so I know!!  But the O-Line will certainly open holes for all the other RBs that Coach Brez has.  What is marvelous is the way the Defense has jelled--especially the D-backs!!  And that's not an easy thing to do either!!  Good luck on next Saturday's game.  We at BC have got to refocus our efforts.  I won't say what I've been thinking all weekend long because I haven't figured out how to say it in a socially acceptable fashion. Know what I mean?