FB: American Rivers Conference

[doolittledog]

I like your platform warthog.  I might be ok with letting go of Chameleon's Bleu Cheeseburgers if you add "women jumping on trampolines" at those well shaded, booze encouraged tailgating facilities within two blocks of football stadiums...I'm sure coocoo knows some fine ladies that would be up for that

I'm also all for joining Bird Dog with his "procrastinators for Warthog" group.  I just haven't had the time to join yet...I might get around to joining tomorrow...if I'm not too busy with something else...or maybe the next day...I'm just not sure when I can around to it. 

[footballdaddy]

Count me in as a member of PFW-Procrasinators For Warthog. I was going to tell everyone yesterday, but time just slipped away on me.

Dolittle, I like the way you think. Perhaps we could offer other events like Thong Bikini Hopscotch or Wet T-shirt Shakespeare in the Park.

[Bird Dog]

Count me in as a member of PFW-Procrasinators For Warthog. I was going to tell everyone yesterday, but time just slipped away on me.

Dolittle, I like the way you think. Perhaps we could offer other events like Thong Bikini Hopscotch or Wet T-shirt Shakespeare in the Park.

I thought we were trying to get Warthog elected.  Not Anthony Weiner.   This is going to take the campaign in a different direction.   Warthog if were going this route we are going to need some pictures of you without your shirt and a list of your AE friends.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Count me in as a member of PFW-Procrasinators For Warthog. I was going to tell everyone yesterday, but time just slipped away on me.

Dolittle, I like the way you think. Perhaps we could offer other events like Thong Bikini Hopscotch or Wet T-shirt Shakespeare in the Park.

I thought we were trying to get Warthog elected.  Not Anthony Weiner.   

Do you have any proof they are not the same guy?

[Bird Dog]

Count me in as a member of PFW-Procrasinators For Warthog. I was going to tell everyone yesterday, but time just slipped away on me.

Dolittle, I like the way you think. Perhaps we could offer other events like Thong Bikini Hopscotch or Wet T-shirt Shakespeare in the Park.

I thought we were trying to get Warthog elected.  Not Anthony Weiner.  

Do you have any proof they are not the same guy?

I modified the text of my post while you were posting yours.  If you read my modified post we should get some pictures of Warthog w/out his shirt any minute now.  We can compare the pictures with Weiners and be able to tell.

[doolittledog]

I'm betting Mrs warthog puts the kibosh on all this

[warthog]

Need to hold off on those pictures until we get the wide angle lens on the camera.   

[footballdaddy]

 We can compare the pictures with Weiners and be able to tell.

This is a family board. No need to be comapring Weiners.

[doolittledog]

Webcams are up for following the construction of the UD Performing Arts and Campus Center.

http://www.dbq.edu/pac.cfm 

You get a good view of the UD football field from the top one...and what will now be the FORMER tailgating spot for us.  Now I have to figure out the next best place for our pregame tailgating. 

[DBQ1965]

Webcams are up for following the construction of the UD Performing Arts and Campus Center.

http://www.dbq.edu/pac.cfm 

You get a good view of the UD football field from the top one...and what will now be the FORMER tailgating spot for us.  Now I have to figure out the next best place for our pregame tailgating. 

With warthog's platform and doolittledog's refinements, we could have an even better tail-gating spot.

[warthog]

As Cornell prepares for their final season in the IIAC, I looked back over the past three decades.  I decided the Rams perhaps should have seen some writing on the wall.

From the 1980 season through 1997, which was the Rams last MWC season, there were fifteen seasons when Cornell played one or two IIAC teams in non-conference games.  During those fifteen seasons the Rams had a 94-47 record, which means they won twice as many games as they lost (66.7%).  In those fifteen seasons they played 20 games against IIAC teams.  The Rams' record against the IIAC was 5-15, which means they lost three times as many games as they won (25.0%).  Cornell's record for non-IIAC games in those fifteen seasons was 89-32 (73.6%).  During the 1980 to 1997 time period the Rams won four MWC championships and had 12 seasons in which they had three or fewer losses for the season.  So it appears the Rams were respectable as long as they weren't playing the IIAC.

Beginning in 1998 through the 2010 season, the Rams are sporting a 25-88 IIAC record (22.1%).  Twelve (nearly half) of those IIAC wins came against U of Dubuque, Wm. Penn, and UIU.

It seems there may have been some indication that Cornell was going to be a bottom feeder in the IIAC.  Perhaps with a jump back to the MWC they will begin to play some teams that aren't particularly strong and they can again use smoke and mirrors to pretend they have a strong football program.

[doolittledog]

That was a great post, warthog.  I love reading analysis like that. 

One of the sports radio stations I listen to...can't remember if it was sportsnights station or not...had a Cedar Rapids Gazette writer on as a guest recently and he said it was his opinion that Cornell never really wanted to leave the MWC in the first place but that Coe definately was leaving for the IIAC and they wanted to be together with Coe so they came over with them to the IIAC.  Cornell never wanted to put in the necessary work to develop athletics and were thinking that just belonging to the IIAC would bring in more Iowa students.  When they realized they weren't bringing in any more Iowa students than before  they figured they could return to the MWC, be more competitive, and are planning to keep their rivalry going with Coe. 

Our neighbors daughter just graduated from high school.  Her dad and I were talking college choices and he said he was surprised to see that Coe has become somewhat of the cool school as far as the IIAC for our local kids to go to.  We were saying that from our time in school onwards it had always been Wartburg that would get 4-6 kids every year from here...with the other IIAC schools always getting 1 or 2 kids most years.  Coe and Cornell rarely got kids from our school way back in the day when we were young. 

So...Has belonging to the IIAC somehow helped Coe but not Cornell?  Did Coe just do a better job at recruiting local kids than Cornell?  Has athletic success been the secret for Coe?   Coe was successfull in the MWC and never brought in kids from our area in these numbers in the past.  Did Cornell intentionally sabotage athletic success to ease their way back to the MWC?  Like winning the mens basketball title and then telling their coach he needed to take a 20% pay cut...then announcing they just completed a $105million capital campain!!!

Again, I loved your post warthog...I love reading that type of analysis...feel free to dig stats up like that on a nightly basis for me to pour over and digest the next morning!!!

[footballdaddy]

Dolittle, again you are on the spot. Several kids from my son's high school went to Coe. I belive 6 have gone there in the last 5 years, although 3 quit school leaving 2 currently enrolled and one that has graduated. I couldn't really find what the draw was on the multiple recruiting visits I was at Coe. The older buildings and the location would seem to be a drawback to me but somehow they get kids to commit.

[NewKnightDad]

Kind of the same at the school where my kids went, there has always been a few go to Coe as it is only 20 minutes from our high school to the Coe campus but when my son was in high school the football coach was a pretty good recruiter for Wartburg.  We are now starting on our second coach since he got out of coaching three years ago. 

The new coach got asked what it would take to get more kids to go to Coe to play football by Coach Staker.

I do not know what his answer was but I am sure some of you can come up with some creative ones. 

[Purple Heys]

It's all relative I guess.  The MWC seems to be the better fit for Cornell...I don't see that as an indictment of the Cornell Administration...it's their choice to freely make.

Warthog's comments about smoke and mirrors is a bit of cheap shot...I daresay the Rams are to the Kaniggets as the Kaniggets are to MUC and UW-W.  We're obviously not competing at that level and you're obviously not competing at that level.  Who really cares about that and is it necessary to beat us over the head with it?

I'd rather see us in the IIAC.  The IIAC is clearly a better athletic challenge across all sports (in general).  I'd like to say there is a difference between persistence and being too dumb to quit.  I don't have enough facts to back up Cornell's commitment to persistence prior to the decision to return to the MWC.  In the end it's not my choice and as a fan I can handle it and I will continue to support them.

As far a football is concerned the IIAC is a good, hard-nosed football conference that is getting its due as far a national recognition (multiple T25 Teams, 2 playoff entries).  I am glad my kid competed in the IIAC.  It is certainly a factor to me, as Rev. 3 begins the process of selecting where he will matriculate.  (That means enroll in college/university Coe fan...See, I'm going to miss that as I get banished to the MWC Board  )