Atlantic Central Football Conference/Independents

[DE Wesley Fan]

What a game!  Much credit to Linfield for a great first half.  That offense was down right scary - was beginning to wonder if your receivers would ever drop a ball.  I give Wesley's special teams much credit for a pretty good day (still don't like the stupid punt formation, but at least it worked ok).  Glad to see an end to the stupid penalties.  And very glad the injured player is ok.

[Teamski]

What I would give to see a replay of the telecast!!

-Ski

You'd be really disappointed.  It sucked--really choppy video and motion blur.  Audio was good for me most of the game but even that got messed up (along with my Wildcats season) near the end of the game.

Oh well.  They had some students doing the camera work.

-Ski

[MonroviaCat]

What I would give to see a replay of the telecast!!

-Ski

You'd be really disappointed.  It sucked--really choppy video and motion blur.  Audio was good for me most of the game but even that got messed up (along with my Wildcats season) near the end of the game.

Oh well.  They had some students doing the camera work.

-Ski

Seemed like it was more of an issue of the camera they used or bandwidth or something--looked like it was shot via a web-cam--not enough frames per second or something...

[Teamski]

What I would give to see a replay of the telecast!!

-Ski

You'd be really disappointed.  It sucked--really choppy video and motion blur.  Audio was good for me most of the game but even that got messed up (along with my Wildcats season) near the end of the game.

Oh well.  They had some students doing the camera work.

-Ski

Seemed like it was more of an issue of the camera they used or bandwidth or something--looked like it was shot via a web-cam--not enough frames per second or something...

Probably an issue of bandwith.  There were two cameras used.  Both were decent ones.

-Ski

[Raider 68]

wesleydad, teamski,

Congrats to Wesley on a great game over a top notch program in Linfield +K ! Maybe we will see you in the semi's, who knows!

[umhb2001]

Also, great to see the few Wesley posters today at the game.  Pawesley, Beenhit2hard, Ski, and Waterboy,  We get another week to enjoy D3 football against a familiar and classy rival.  Will be fun chatting with the UMHB people.

Looking forward to seeing y'all again. Came up there in 2006, hope we can return the hospitality! 

[umhb2001]

crualum58, in my opinion this is the least overall talented team that Wesley has had since 2004.  That being said they may be playing the best as a team since the team that went to Mount in 2009.  They are non-descropt on offense except for McSweeney and you can see by the stats today that he can make things happen.  The O line is big and the receivers are getting better as the season goes on.  The defense is what you are used to, big and fast.  The secondary is the weakest part, but came up huge today with the 99 yd int return for a TD.  If UMHB is as usual, run first, throw last, then this should be a good game.  Strength on strength.  The x factor will be McSweeney, if UMHB cant contain him Wesley will have a good shot to win the game.  Looking forward to the game.

UMHB has faced many tough QB's this year: Sed Harris, Jake Mullin x2, Redlands' QB. We do a good job. The secondary will have to get better this week, but overall, our D is looking good.

[umhb2001]

wesleydad, teamski,

Congrats to Wesley on a great game over a top notch program in Linfield +K ! Maybe we will see you in the semi's, who knows!

Got to face UMHB first!!

[PA_wesleyfan]

  What an awesome game to see. I don't know if there are too many games that could have the downs and ups for two teams like we saw today. I too was impressed with Wesley's ability to run down a few players from behind today. Linfield certainly had their way in the first half.   But whatever the coaches did at half sure worked.   

  IMHO McSweeney showed today that he is the most exciting player at the QB position in DIII. He refuses to go down and he makes some eye popping throws. As many hits as he took today and he still gets down field and throws block.   

[thewaterboy]

Still cant get over how motivated Wesley came out in that 2nd half! The fumble on the kickoff was just what the doctor ordered, and Wesley punched it in. Then the interception return was the turning point. That was a great play by Leon Jones, who I think was scored on in the game earlier. Cant ask for anything more than what the Wolverines put forward in that 2nd half. Absolutely amazing!

UMHB next week. We will see how things go. If I remember right from last year Wesley played great in the secondary giving LiDarral Bailey no where to throw the ball. I think it wont be quite as strong of a secondary performance, but I think if we can stop Bailey on the ground, or keep his gains to a minimum that will be key.

[umhb2001]

Still cant get over how motivated Wesley came out in that 2nd half! The fumble on the kickoff was just what the doctor ordered, and Wesley punched it in. Then the interception return was the turning point. That was a great play by Leon Jones, who I think was scored on in the game earlier. Cant ask for anything more than what the Wolverines put forward in that 2nd half. Absolutely amazing!

UMHB next week. We will see how things go. If I remember right from last year Wesley played great in the secondary giving LiDarral Bailey no where to throw the ball. I think it wont be quite as strong of a secondary performance, but I think if we can stop Bailey on the ground, or keep his gains to a minimum that will be key.

LB has played under control and with great patience as he has waited for receivers to open up, and if he can't find one, he'll take it the distance as he did today when he jaunted 78 yards for a TD. He has grown up this year, after struggling early under the pistol formation, he has thrown far fewer INTs since being in the I formation.

It will surely be a great game, and I look forward to it.

[D O.C.]

Yeah, well, bleedpurple is a nice new friend of yours from Whitewater.

[Assistant Waterboy]

  Just got back to Ohio and looks like a lot got covered. I was doing the video on the field during the game and the Wesley coachs who review my video are not going to like the job I did because I was watching the game most of the time and not shooting very good video. Hopefully I get asked to do video again.
  Linfield punched us right in the mouth the whole 1st half and I have to say that I had my doubts about beating Linfield. Obviously Wesley showed why its been one of the top 3 Programs in the last 5 or 6 years in D3. I dont think if we lost this game it should have changed that but I think a lot of people around D3 were doubting if Wesley was still on that level. They still have not been able to get to the level with the you know who's. Hopefully this year is they break thru.
Gotta give props to the O-line for the job the did because they dont get talked about very often. I thought McSweeney was pretty good before the playoffs this year. Well, he's brought it to another level against good teams and is showing that he is one of the top players in D3.
  Let the Purple People eating continue!

  Had a perfect day Saturday. Saw my nephew Ben Knapp at 8am in the hospital. He smiled. He laughed. He cried and he smiled again. Went and saw the best Wesley Football game Ive ever seen. Unbelievable.

Game Changer!!!!

[Teamski]

  Had a perfect day Saturday. Saw my nephew Ben Knapp at 8am in the hospital. He smiled. He laughed. He cried and he smiled again. Went and saw the best Wesley Football game Ive ever seen. Unbelievable.

Game Changer!!!!

It was great to see you and your family at the game.  And, great news on Ben!! 

The game was a classic and one I think we will all be talking about for a very long time.  You just don't see something like that everyday, or maybe even every ten years!   In a way, I see what the Kean coaches felt when they beat Wesley earlier in the year.  They were literally running around like a bunch of kids screaming after we fumbled the ball in the 4th quarter and ended the game.  While the Wesley coaches weren't running around, they definitely felt that euphoria of a game well played with an unlikely turnaround executed with drive and determination.   Looking over at Coach Az, you could see that excitement we all crave in his eyes.  The true talent of the Wolverines came out in that second half on Saturday.  As sloppy as Wesley can play from time to time, you KNOW that their true selves will surface at some point to knock doubters off their walls.  It is an amazing experience to see, and I get to see it every year.  How lucky am I?

Hats off to Coach Drass, Coach Knapp, Coach Azzanesi and crew for one hell of a show this weekend.  That was fun!

-Ski

[PA_wesleyfan]

Ski

We need you to run a covert operation and hijack that film copy it send it to all of us and put it back before anyone knows it's gone.. That is definitely a historic film!!!