FB: American Rivers Conference

[wartknight]

Are the Cry babies, I mean the Packers the luckiest team in the world or what!!!?? Aided by the stripes, again today.

[doolittledog]

Are the Cry babies, I mean the Packers the luckiest team in the world or what!!!?? Aided by the stripes, again today.

[doolittledog]

Wasting time before the Outback Bowl starts...and I'm not hung over...I looked through the US News college rankings.  Endowment figures for Iowa Colleges and Universities...

Grinnell -     1,383,856,000
Iowa -            981,104,000
ISU -              555,326,484
Drake -           149,284,407
Luther -           115,569,411
Buena Vista -   114,246,498
St Ambrose -    105,247,246
Coe College -     87,482,958
Simpson -         69,166,031
Dubuque -        68,734,471
UNI -               68,600,583
Central -          68,072,250
Cornell -           63,666,636
Wartburg -       45,679,819
Graceland -      43,423,958
Northwestern - 41,317,514
Morningside -   38,050,728
Clarke -           29,994,218
Dordt -            25,858,285
Loras -            21,411,554
Grand View -   16,434,208
Upper Iowa -     9,301,511
Briar Cliff -        8,902,569

[doolittledog]

At half time of the Outback Bowl...and the Hawkeyes have no offense to speak of.  More from US News and World Report college rankings...

Enrollment figures for Iowa Colleges and Universities...

ISU -            25,555
Iowa -           21,999
UNI -            10,655
Upper Iowa -   4,645
Drake -           3,365
St. Ambrose -  2,794
Luther -          2,473
Grand View -   2,195
Simpson -       1,844
Wartburg -      1,747
Dubuque -       1,676
Grinnell -         1,674
Graceland -      1,495
Central -          1,486
Loras -            1,483
Dordt -            1,384
Coe -               1,364
Morningside -   1,242
Northwestern - 1,241
Cornell -          1,180
Briar Cliff -       1,030
Clarke -              967
Buena Vista -      913

[doolittledog]

So we don't go too long between posts.

Do IIAC schools have football record books posted online?

Here is the UD one...http://issuu.com/udubuquesports/docs/football/1

If anyone else has their school, post it here so I can take a look.  I think it would be interesting to compare what is an all-time leading rusher at one schools vs. another. 

[Fannosaurus Rex]

Central's 2013 football media guide is at http://www.central.edu/athletics/mediaGuides/2013Fall/Football13.pdf

It has all time records.

[DBQ1965]

Clearing out the driveway again yesterday ... and thinking about Nick Saban's appearance on ESPN Monday night at the BCS game ... as Saban commented/analyzed play selection, coaching strategy, and even body language of the players ... I began to wonder:

What if D-3 declared an "Assistant Coaches Game Day" where the head coach was forbidden from being on the field or up in the box?  The HC could maybe be the color commentator for the local broadcast/telecast ... but it would be up to the assistant coaches to "run the show" for a day.

Interesting possibilities.

GO SPARTANS!

[doolittledog]

Clearing out the driveway again yesterday ... and thinking about Nick Saban's appearance on ESPN Monday night at the BCS game ... as Saban commented/analyzed play selection, coaching strategy, and even body language of the players ... I began to wonder:

What if D-3 declared an "Assistant Coaches Game Day" where the head coach was forbidden from being on the field or up in the box?  The HC could maybe be the color commentator for the local broadcast/telecast ... but it would be up to the assistant coaches to "run the show" for a day.

Interesting possibilities.

GO SPARTANS!

I would bet that would never happen.  But, I wonder if the conference ever went back to 9 teams and we had 1 team with an off week each week...and we could get KCRG 9.2 to broadcast 1 game each week of conference play, we might get the conference to supply the head coach with the off week do some color work on the broadcast.  That could be fun. 

[warthog]

With Grandview and Wm Penn leaving their existing NAIA conference, St. Ambrose is left holding the bag in a weak 5 team conference.  Now is the time I'd like to see them move up to NCAA D3 and become the IIAC's ninth team.  The Bee's would have a natural non-conference rival across the Mississippi River at Augustana in Rock Island. The IIAC could gain an outpost in the Quad Cities metro area and the media outlets (television, radio, and newspaper) that goes with it.  Besides that I could leave the house, pick up a bucket of KFC for tailgating, and make it to the proposed new Fighting Bee's stadium before an episode of Dragnet concludes on Sirrus radio.

[doolittledog]

With Grandview and Wm Penn leaving their existing NAIA conference, St. Ambrose is left holding the bag in a weak 5 team conference.  Now is the time I'd like to see them move up to NCAA D3 and become the IIAC's ninth team.  The Bee's would have a natural non-conference rival across the Mississippi River at Augustana in Rock Island. The IIAC could gain an outpost in the Quad Cities metro area and the media outlets (television, radio, and newspaper) that goes with it.  Besides that I could leave the house, pick up a bucket of KFC for tailgating, and make it to the proposed new Fighting Bee's stadium before an episode of Dragnet concludes on Sirrus radio.

You could show up at my sisters house in Bettendorf afterwards.  Tell her to bring you a gin and tonic out on the back deck and don't chince on the gin 

While convenient for you, St Ambrose would also be an easy drive for Coe, and the Dubuque schools.  Add in Morningside for a western Iowa presence and the IIAC would be set.  The NAIA people I talk to all seem to think St. Ambrose is trying to start an all-catholic conference.  When I ask them what schools that all-catholic conference would include they just shrug their shoulders.  We shall see I guess.   

[DBQ1965]

Kudos to Wyatt Hanus and the University of Dubuque Spartans.  If my memory serves me right, this is the second year in a row a Spartan has won the award.  Never in my wildest dreams ....\

http://www.iowaconference.com/news/2014/1/15/IIAC_0115145651.aspx

GO SPARTANS!

[doolittledog]

Kudos to Wyatt Hanus and the University of Dubuque Spartans.  If my memory serves me right, this is the second year in a row a Spartan has won the award.  Never in my wildest dreams ....\

http://www.iowaconference.com/news/2014/1/15/IIAC_0115145651.aspx

GO SPARTANS!

Strong academics at UD...despite what some will try to tell you 

Since it is so cold out, I'll bore you with another picture of the indoor practice facility at UD...

[doolittledog]

IIAC football news...

Jake Olsen (Wartburg grad) has moved from UD across town to become the OC for Loras.  He previously coached with Loras HC Steve Helminiak at Rockford and Southern Oregon. 

UD replaces Jake Olsen, with Drew Nystrom.  Coach Nystrom was a Grad Assistant at Illinois last season, before that he spent 2011 and 2012 as the O-line coach at UD. 

[NewKnightDad]

Rumor has it Wartburg will be playing Augsburg, UW Stout and Bethel in their non-con schedule in 2014.

[doolittledog]

Rumor has it Wartburg will be playing Augsburg, UW Stout and Bethel in their non-con schedule in 2014.

Wow 

If Wartburg survives their 1st 6 games, they would have to be feeling pretty good about life and what the playoffs could bring!!!