FB: American Rivers Conference

Wartburg Fan · July 28, 2008, 08:08:04 PM

Congrats to Coach Koehler, even if I'm sorry he is leaving. When My son graudated from the Burg, Coach k said it was his first recurit class he was involved in. Coach Mitchell was the one that recurit my son. But I do remember talking to Koehler on my son recurit trip. Coach Willis was the head coach. Both Willis and Koehler never lied to my son and was always up front with him. I sure the program willl not skip a beat with this chance.

OzJohnnie · July 28, 2008, 08:14:33 PM

Quote from: Alfredeneumann on July 28, 2008, 06:38:34 PM
Quote from: OzJohnnie on July 28, 2008, 04:52:19 PM
Quote from: dutchfan1 on July 28, 2008, 09:59:38 AM
Was anyone else reading the front page thinking, "He's baaaaaaack"?? With Willis back at the helm, everyone needs to watch out for Wartburg (AGAIN). He's amazingly talented and definitely knows the conference.

Congrats to Koehler on making the move to a higher level.

I don't get why Willis stepped aside in the first place. Was he tired of coaching? Why did Wartburg ever hire Koehler if thy still had Willis sitting in the next office?

All the moves were due to "the W" project. Then AD Grace was asked by JackO to become VP Business/Finance to oversee the project. Willis was asked to take over AD and be athletic dept. contact on construction. With Koehler there and skilled enough to become FB coach the moves were done, even though there was a search for coach Koehler was pretty much the "heir apparent" at the time. The AD and FB coach had offices next door was because AD office is larger then most in coaches wing and near largest conf. room the assist fb coaches were positioned in exterior offices and made sense to have Head FB coach nearest them.

Hmmm... so the 'W Project' was a plan to expand the scope of Wartburg sports and such?

Well, this works well for Willis, it seems. He gets to keep his 'W Project' promotion while returning to his football roll, which I bet he missed a bit as a guy would tend to do.

Purple Heys · July 28, 2008, 08:36:57 PM

Well it looks to me like Wartburg took the opportunity to get a little more Ram-like by reinstating a Cornell grad as its head coach.

Ash Park · July 28, 2008, 09:18:23 PM

Quote from: sportsknight on July 28, 2008, 04:46:06 PM
Quote from: knightfootball on July 28, 2007, 10:30:07 PM
Hey quick question for ya, is this new addition to the knight offense the addition of suckow to that potent offense. Just what i heard through the rumor mill, someone want to confirm.

Note the date signature on that post. Apparently the last week of July is a typical time for change within the Wartburg football program.

I was thinking that myself last night that this was about the time that the suckow saga started.

Ash Park · July 28, 2008, 09:21:59 PM

Quote from: Purple Heys on July 28, 2008, 08:36:57 PM
Well it looks to me like Wartburg took the opportunity to get a little more Ram-like by reinstating a Cornell grad as its head coach.

Pretty sure it has been talked about before on here but wasn't at one time almost the entire staff at Wartburg made up of Cornell grads?

koekrazy87 · July 28, 2008, 09:26:39 PM

Coach Koehler must have been doing some roofing on the side up near Grand Valley State this past summer. Nothing else motivated him. no outside help at all.

Old Dutch · July 28, 2008, 09:30:48 PM

Maybe Koehler was just watching films of the Dutch JV and decided to avoid his 3rd straight L to the perennial COY of the IIAC.

koekrazy87 · July 28, 2008, 09:46:07 PM

Completely changing the subject. With all of the news coming from Iowa City about the trouble with athletes and alcohol what school prohibit their athletes from drinking during the season. I know Central does becuase i have a good friend that plays for them. I know Wartburg and Coe drink in season becuase i have been to both places and seen players drinking during season. I'm pretty sure Simpson also has no rules but I have no idea about the other schools. What are the other schools views about drinking during the season.

Charlie Kohawk · July 28, 2008, 10:02:37 PM

Hey folks. Long time no post. Just wanted to publicly acknowledge CooCooForCoeKohawks for generously hosting Team CoeBRAI in North Liberty. We had a great ride, even if we suffered our second straight kickball loss to the Knight Riders.

Klopenhiemer · July 28, 2008, 10:51:37 PM

2 Questions

What ever happened to the numbers game that we were playing?

What was the final result of the pick em's contest. Wernt we talking about giving pre season ranking and weighting games?

Walston Hoover · July 28, 2008, 10:58:55 PM

Quote from: Charlie Kohawk on July 28, 2008, 10:02:37 PM
Hey folks. Long time no post. Just wanted to publicly acknowledge CooCooForCoeKohawks for generously hosting Team CoeBRAI in North Liberty. We had a great ride, even if we suffered our second straight kickball loss to the Knight Riders.

Wartburg owns Coe AGAIN!!!

Walston Hoover · July 28, 2008, 11:00:31 PM

Quote from: Klopenhiemer on July 28, 2008, 10:51:37 PM
2 Questions

What ever happened to the numbers game that we were playing?

What was the final result of the pick em's contest. Wernt we talking about giving pre season ranking and weighting games?

Good Question. We missed out on #64 which I was really looking forward to.
Lets start at 76. That will time out with weekends and such to get us pretty much to week 1.
76 was Wartburg All American LT Jeff Voreis, now the OC at Juniata.

Klopenhiemer · July 28, 2008, 11:04:36 PM

Quote from: Walston Hoover on July 28, 2008, 11:00:31 PM
Quote from: Klopenhiemer on July 28, 2008, 10:51:37 PM
2 Questions

What ever happened to the numbers game that we were playing?

What was the final result of the pick em's contest. Wernt we talking about giving pre season ranking and weighting games?

Good Question. We missed out on #64 which I was really looking forward to.
Lets start at 76. That will time out with weekends and such to get us pretty much to week 1.
76 was Wartburg All American LT Jeff Voreis, now the OC at Juniata.

76 - The number one of the more famed olineman to come through BV in a while wore. This is the same kid who broke his hand riding a horse two days before camp opened his sophmore season. Mind you his response was he was taking it up to full speed before he crashed and burned $:-\$

davedevine · July 28, 2008, 11:08:20 PM

SK1, I believe he is coaching LB's.

By the way, I'd be interested to see how many IIAC alumni are now either a head coach, OC or DC and at what levels.

I'm sure there are many position coaches across the conference and at D3 schools but i'm more interested in seeing how many coordinators and head coaches are out there now.
(I guess throw in position coaches for D2 and above as well)
From what I know off the top of my head for football,
WB is representing Mich St, Grand Valley & North Carolina Weselyan, Juniata- just saw Walston's post.

Walston Hoover · July 28, 2008, 11:30:44 PM

Matt Entz is the DC at Winona State. Couple-time defending champ of the NSIC.