Atlantic Central Football Conference/Independents

[PA_wesleyfan]

Congrats to your grand daughter beenhit2hard and  Mrs..

[wesleydad]

beenhit2hard, when did Duke join D3.   congrats to you and your daughter, see you next year on the road somewhere.

[@d3jason]

Congrats! My late step father was an alum. Teach her to say "Go to Hell Carolina, Go to Hell!."

[DE Wesley Fan]

A note away from football

My grand daughter just recieved her acceptance to DUKE,,

Now back to the Stagg Bowl

Congratulations!

[Toby Taff]

I would not be in favor of stacking the brackets, but I wouldn't mind a random draw for bracket seeding. If polls really have nothing to do with it and all records are equal for the #1s put them in a hat and draw for seedings. 1st out = 1, 2nd = 2, etc. then at least people would stop griping about it favoring UWW and UMU unfairly.

I would only have the random drawing amongst "undefeated" #1's.

I agree, but how often is there a 1 loss #1

[Teamski]

Well, now that the season is officially over, I want to thank the players and coaches of the Wesley Wolverines for putting on one hell of a show this year.  It was their strongest performance ever, IMHO.  Well done gents!  I will really miss McSweeny's presence on the field.  That said,  I am SO looking forward to the 2012-13 season!!  Each year looks to be a building block for the next and the possibilities abound next year for Wesley's rendezvous with destiny.

Hang in there Ben.  We are all rooting for you!!   

-Ski

[Teamski]

Big time congratulations to Shane McSweeny and Chris Mayes for their selections as 2011 D3F First Team All-Americans!!   

-Ski

[wesleydad]

Just returned from the Stagg Bowl.  It was a very good, but conservative game by both teams.  Wesley has to feel very frustrated with the loss to Mount now.  UWW was held to just over 200 yards of offense by a defense that Wesley had alomst 500 on.  Both teams looked beatable last night by a good offensive team that is willing to take chances, no mistakes and I think Wesley could beat either team.  Makes next year very interesting as I think both of the big 2 are showing signs of possibly being beatable.  Wesley will have to replace some key pieces, but has plenty coming back to be a top contender again.  Congrats to McSweeney and Mays for their AA selections.

[Teamski]

Just returned from the Stagg Bowl.  It was a very good, but conservative game by both teams.  Wesley has to feel very frustrated with the loss to Mount now.  UWW was held to just over 200 yards of offense by a defense that Wesley had alomst 500 on.  Both teams looked beatable last night by a good offensive team that is willing to take chances, no mistakes and I think Wesley could beat either team.  Makes next year very interesting as I think both of the big 2 are showing signs of possibly being beatable.  Wesley will have to replace some key pieces, but has plenty coming back to be a top contender again.  Congrats to McSweeney and Mays for their AA selections.

So close......trade in a couple turnovers and we would have seen a different opponent for UWW to chew on.  All we can say at this point is "next year."  The Wesley coaches are becoming more playoff savvy each year.  You can see it in the play calling.  It seems to be a matter of time before the purple bubble gets popped.  The game last night put MU in Wesley's position of being behind.  I mentioned to my wife that if MU got behind by two scores that they would lose.  I didn't feel the same about Wesley in the semis.  Unfortunately, the result was the same.

-Ski

[wesleydad]

ski, what i saw last night should make most of D3 happy.  I was worried that UWW had opened up a pretty large gap with the rest of D3, but that did not show last night.  They were not as good as any of the previous UWW teams that I have seen and they lose the QB and RB so they will likely take a step back.  Mounts defense will be good, but they could not handle Wesley last week and with Sottilaire coming back I dont see why Wesley wont be able to move the ball again against anyone.  Mount is not that good on offense so they will not scare anyone that is good when they have the ball.  I think Wesley is closer than anyone else is to beating either one of these teams, but I will not be surprised if they both lose a game next year, or at least I am hoping so.  Hopefully the players will see how close they were and dedicate themselves to doing what is necessary to make sure they are as prepared as they can be for next season.

[@d3jason]

I would not be in favor of stacking the brackets, but I wouldn't mind a random draw for bracket seeding. If polls really have nothing to do with it and all records are equal for the #1s put them in a hat and draw for seedings. 1st out = 1, 2nd = 2, etc. then at least people would stop griping about it favoring UWW and UMU unfairly.

I would only have the random drawing amongst "undefeated" #1's.

I agree, but how often is there a 1 loss #1

Wesley, UMHB, Linfield, McMurry, Cal Lutheran, Hobart, Trinity Redlands. I think they stacked the wrong bracket if they wanted UMU and UWW out...lol

[steelernation]

I was listening to the game last night at work.  It was the Mount Union announcers, and they said that it is a good thing that these two team are in the game, other wise it would be a 30-0 game so far, and that was in the 3rd.  Did they seem to forget that Wesley put up 500 total yards of offense against Mt. Union, and Matt Bariles's arm was being held on a perfect pass that bounced off his shoulder pads for an interception.  Look at the replay. I don't think they would have been down that much.  Sorry, but they need to get off of your high horses!!

[wesleydad]

steelernation, welcome to the boards.  i agree.  I did not see anything from UWW that Wesley's run defense would likely not have been able to handle.  Defensivly they were good, but would they have been able to handle McSweeney and the receivers, ask Mount how that went.  Wesley was done in by turnovers, mostly good plays by Mount, and dropped passes.  I would have liked to see them play UWW.  I think they would have proven to be more of a threat than Mount was offensivly which would have forced them to open up their offense which may have led to a turnover or 2, they did throw an int.  There are plenty of could have beens, just did not get it done when they had the chance.  As far as 30 - 0, I did not see anything from either offense that said they would score 30 on any good defense.  UWW only had 20 against St. Thomas and Mount only got 28 with the help of 6 turnovers, not likely getting to 30 against either since they did not last week.

[Teamski]

I was listening to the game last night at work.  It was the Mount Union announcers, and they said that it is a good thing that these two team are in the game, other wise it would be a 30-0 game so far, and that was in the 3rd.  Did they seem to forget that Wesley put up 500 total yards of offense against Mt. Union, and Matt Bariles's arm was being held on a perfect pass that bounced off his shoulder pads for an interception.  Look at the replay. I don't think they would have been down that much.  Sorry, but they need to get off of your high horses!!

That certainly seems like a bit of denial on their part.  Wesleydad is on target with his appraisal.

-Ski

[beenhit2hard]

Congrats! My late step father was an alum. Teach her to say "Go to Hell Carolina, Go to Hell!."

My granddaughter says "thanks",,to all of you and she is excited.And to Conrad,she has received at least 15 emails from the Duke welcoming committee that have all sent her the cheer. We even watched it on you tube !!