FB: American Rivers Conference

[the_mayne_event]

I'd like to add another category of what HS teams everyone pulls for. I know we've done this before but I'm a curious guy.

Waterloo Columbus.. or Columbus Catholic as they are calling it nowadays.

[Thunderbolt]

I do not know if anyone has had a chance to read the BV season preview but it was pretty good.  5WOL already did his, which was also very good, but I am hopeful about this years squad. 

  I was surprised to see the void at running back, though having Bertelsen back for another year is probably a net gain. I think BV joins Loras, Simpson, Coe and Luther as teams that will play good defense every week and hope they can find enough offense to compete every week.

[Walston Hoover]

  BUT, I never was a big fan of Grundy Center while I was in high school.  Now their coach reportedly told his players that if any of them went out for soccer in the spring he would not let them be starters for his football team in the fall.  That doesn't play well with me. 

Grundy doesn't have a soccer team.

[doolittledog]

  BUT, I never was a big fan of Grundy Center while I was in high school.  Now their coach reportedly told his players that if any of them went out for soccer in the spring he would not let them be starters for his football team in the fall.  That doesn't play well with me. 

Grundy doesn't have a soccer team.

Yes they do.

[Kohawk Krazy]

  BUT, I never was a big fan of Grundy Center while I was in high school.  Now their coach reportedly told his players that if any of them went out for soccer in the spring he would not let them be starters for his football team in the fall.  That doesn't play well with me. 

Grundy doesn't have a soccer team.

Yes they do.

If they have a team, the IAHSAA doesn't know about it...

https://www.iahsaa.org/secure/dirpublic.php

[sportsknight]

I graduated from North in 1984, right before the Ron Wymer era. 

High Schools I cheer for are North Fayette and Benton Community.

Another sign I'm getting old:  parents of current Knights were still in high school when I was born.

Speaking of high schools, I still root for my alma mater, Cascade, and against our biggest rival, Beckman.  West Dubuque was another rival of ours when I was in school, but that rivalry's gone dark for about the last 6-7 years, so I have no problem rooting for the Bobcats these days.  I used to cover Mason City Newman, Clear Lake, and Cedar Falls, so I'll pull for them as well.  And maybe Pella every now and then.  But not PC.

[doolittledog]

If they have a team, the IAHSAA doesn't know about it...

https://www.iahsaa.org/secure/dirpublic.php

In 2008 and previous years Grundy Center had their own team.  For 2009 they were shown as Aplington-Parkersburg/Grundy Center as this score... Gladbrook-Reinbeck 5, Aplington-Parkersburg/Grundy Center 2 (G-R is now 3-2-0)

from April 16, 2009 from that site shows.  

[sportsknight]

http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/top-us-colleges-graduate-salary-statistics.asp

Kind of a different, but interesting way to rank colleges:  by their graduates' starting and mid-career salaries.

Starting:
1.  Loma Linda 71,400
2.  MIT 71,100
3.  Harvey Mudd 71,000
4.  Stanford 67,500
5.  Carnegie Mellon 65,300
6.  Princeton 65,000
7.  Polytechnic Institute of New York University 62,700
8.  RPI 62,500
9.  Rose-Hulman 62,100
10.  Cooper Union 61,100
68.  Washington U. (the one in St. Louis) 51,500
109.  Wisconsin 48,800
t162.  Augsburg 46,500
t162.  Minnesota 46,500
t162.  Iowa State 46,500
186.  St. Olaf 45,900
190.  Linfield, 45,700
199.  Gustavus Adolphus 45,500
203.  Carleton 45,400
213.  UW-Platteville 45,200
274.  Iowa 43,900
304.  Grinnell 43,200
326.  Drake 42,700
383.  UW-Whitewater 41,800
406.  Clarke 41,400
480.  UNI 39,600
508.  UW-Stevens Point 38,500
524.  Luther 38,00
581.  Mount Union 35,500
584.  St. Ambrose 35,200

[Walston Hoover]

Did they in '08? I thought this was the second year they sent kids north.
Another brother of mine coached soccer at AP and I think the number of kids he told me they were going to send up was 3. This was before Krusey was hired as coach at GC.
So even if he did say it, It doesn't look like it had too much influence on the program.

If they have a team, the IAHSAA doesn't know about it...

https://www.iahsaa.org/secure/dirpublic.php

In 2008 and previous years Grundy Center had their own team.  For 2009 they were shown as Aplington-Parkersburg/Grundy Center as this score... Gladbrook-Reinbeck 5, Aplington-Parkersburg/Grundy Center 2 (G-R is now 3-2-0)

from April 16, 2009 from that site shows. 

[doolittledog]

Did they in '08? I thought this was the second year they sent kids north.
Another brother of mine coached soccer at AP and I think the number of kids he told me they were going to send up was 3. This was before Krusey was hired as coach at GC.
So even if he did say it, It doesn't look like it had too much influence on the program.

Grundy had their own team in '08.  A previous employer of mine was located in GC and my boss then was active in the youth soccer movement there.  Around '05 they had tons of kids at every age level going all over the state for youth tourneys.  Word was the football coach was not happy about this and then made the statement to his football team about not starting them for football and then pressured the school to drop soccer for budget reasons.  Who knows how accurate that all is though.  Though I did hear it from more than just my old boss. 

Sorry to hijack the thread with soccer though...my fault.  Back to football...will UD ever put up a new roster and give us a preseason update on their website???

[Walston Hoover]

Different Football coach at Grundy now. In his first year. Came from North Tama. Also an A-P and Wartburg Grad.

[wartknight]

D3   The Burg - obvious
D2   NWMSU - Good friend of mine has a son on the FB team.
FCS UNI
BCS Iowa
PRO Da Bears
HS   WSR Gohawks plus I keep an eye on my alma mater (Ewloo) to see how bad they get beat. People can't believe they used to be one of the best programs in the state/country. I know it was years ago, but those games/teams were unbelievable!!! I am sure I am not alone (showing my age also), but I was in attendance @ every single game during their win streak in the mid 60's to early 70's.

[Fannosaurus Rex]

FAVORITES
DIII=Central
DII=Wisconsin Whitewater and Mt Union.  I kid! I kid!
BCS=Texas A&M.  I dig their band and I would really like to go to a game at College Station some day.
Pros=Aren't they all the same?
HS=Ridgemont High

[Kohawk Remedy]

Congratulations to Elliot Rausa!

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Junior kicker Elliot Rausa (Waterloo, Iowa/Columbus) was named to the Fred Mitchell Award Preseason Watch List Monday.  The award is given to the best kicker in NCAA Division II and III combined.

The Watch List for the Fred Mitchell Award includes 18 Division II and III collegiate place-kickers that were nominated by their colleges for excellence on the football field and in the community. The Award's Selection Committee Chairman Chris Kearney said, "These place-kickers are a very impressive group on and off the football field. They admirably represent their schools, their football teams, their communities, their families and themselves."


Fred Mitchell said, "The diversity of these fine young men is terrific and it is a pleasure to include them on the Watch List for this Award. Division II and III place-kickers seldom receive national recognition, and we are delighted to recognize them based on outstanding performance in the community and expectations going into the 2009 college football season."

Rausa has tallied 107 points so far in his career, ranking fourth best in school history.  His 10 field goals in both his freshman and sophomore year sit tied atop the school record books, while his 20 career field goals ranks third all-time.

Along with the his duties on the football team, Rausa is a member of the men's tennis and soccer teams at Coe.  He has volunteered at Waterloo's Catholic Worker House, helping with the poor and underprivilged.  He has also worked various tennis and kicking camps in Eastern Iowa.

[Willie University]

Just to lighten the mood before we hate each other again in a few weeks 
Even Lorass faithful should feel smart compared to these people 

(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
       Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
       Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"
                                --Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
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                                "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
                                --Mariah Carey
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    "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life,"
          -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign .
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             "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,"
                                --Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
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   "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"
                                --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC . ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

    "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it,"
                                --A congressional candidate in Texas .
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                                "Half this game is ninety percent mental."
                                --Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
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   "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
                                --Al Gore, Vice President
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                                "I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix ."
                                -- Dan Quayle
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           "We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
                                --Lee Iacocca
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          "The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
                                --Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.
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       "We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."
                                -- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.
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     "Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."
                                --Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina
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             "Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas."
                                --Keppel Enderbery
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         "If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
                                --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman