FB: American Rivers Conference

[Thunderbolt]

Centrals ranking isn't going to be a concern for any of their IIAC opponents. But as McMartin said after the game, the confidence a team gets from a signature win like that can go a long ways. That is the concern for the rest of the IIAC.

[DutchFan2004]

In D3 football you just need to win your conference and the playoffs will take care of rankings.  I wouldn't want to have a big bulls eye on my back with a high ranking right now. 

In D1 where your ranking will help determine what bowl you go to as well as if you make national tv during the season...and therefore help next years recruiting...then rankings matter a lot more.  For D3, it's more of a conversation starter than anything important really.

I do agree with footballdaddy and dutchie that in the past there was a confidence with Central that kind of made rankings unimportant to them and they just went into each weeks game with the objective to win and didn't care about rankings.

Though, it does give us something to talk about on here, which is fun. 

Speaking of talking points.  Dubuque is the LEAST penalized team in the conference right now!!!

True up till you get into Pool C bids.  The Top 25 Rankings have nothing to do with Pool C bids but Regional Rankings do come in to play for that.  As far as the Dutch go the rankings mean little to the team.  I know that they are looked at from week to week to see how high a team is or how high other teams are.  I do know that Coach MC will keep the men on task and concentrat on the Spartans this week.  One game, one week at a time has always been his path he takes.  This year will be no different.  

[CaliRamRL6]

Walson, if I rememeber right, that game almost didn't happen due to the 9/11 attack. And you're right about that being the best season/team that Cornell's had while being a member of the IIAC. Coach Miller had built the program into one that could compete for a title and things obviously haven't gone that way since he retired from coaching.

[dutchfan1]

I'm not talking about the Dutch being ranked, they should. I meant all the talk about where they should be ranked. I've never heard Dutch supporters concerned with that before, it was always said that it wasn't important. Just unusual to me.

FBdaddy, I agree with you....I remember the good 'ole days when rankings didn't matter....back when getting it done was enough. That was back in the day when the team had a quiet confidence about themselves. It seems like we are quick to toot our own horn these days, and that concerns me a bit.

For the record, the ranking is a nice compliment, but it's only an uphill battle from here. I have a feeling the conference is going to provide more than a few surprises this year.

I don't know wether to go to church or buy a Powerball ticket. Dutchie and I agree on something!

You're a Wartburg fan -- I feel confident recommending church.

[Purple Heys]

So am I correct in taking from the latest comments by the Wartburgers that Cornell's last win was due, even in some small way, to 9/11 aftermath?

Get real.

[Purple Heys]

I can't imagine the situation and the feelings in the Ram locker room were any different.

[footballdaddy]

You're a Wartburg fan -- I feel confident recommending church.

Coming from a Central fan, I wouldn't expect anything less. 

[coocooforcoekohawk]

Can't wait to watch Freddie.

From Buffalo Bills.com:
Jackson, a former Coe College grad, is a known NFL commodity. In fact in his last start in place of an injured Marshawn Lynch in Buffalo's 2008 season finale he rushed for 136 yards on 27 carries against the same New England defense he'll face tonight. And he did it on a day that was so windswept at Ralph Wilson Stadium that the throwing the ball wasn't an option. The Patriots defense knew the run was coming and Jackson still averaged five yards a carry.

[Purple Heys]

Good luck to Freddie Jackson tonight...even if he was a Kohawk.   8)

[coocooforcoekohawk]

Heys,
Ricky said you are going to be at the Coe game.  He also enjoyed meeting Dutchfan2004, I believe. DF2K4 you should come out to K. Ray and witness the oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi too.  Look forward to meeting you.

[DutchFan2004]

When is the game? I would love to meet you as well.  Hey Coocoo congrats to Coe and you for the great start.  I didn't pick Coe to do well at all this year maybe they are coming along better than I thought or were always better than I thought.  Either way great preseason. 

[coocooforcoekohawk]

When is the game?

Last game of the year for Cornell, and the game before the playoffs start for Coe.

[BeaverOfYore]

Very impressed with Fred Jackson tonight.  My fantasy team won without him, but I still wish I would have started him as a vote of confidence.

[warthog]

Thought for the day:

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

- Brad Bird

[Walston Hoover]

So am I correct in taking from the latest comments by the Wartburgers that Cornell's last win was due, even in some small way, to 9/11 aftermath?

Get real.

Not a bit. I just said the whole game felt like a funeral. I know it is commonplace now, but that was the first time they had teams come on the field for the Anthem in the IIAC, as well as a moment of silence.
Just not your normal Saturday atmosphere for a football game.