FB: American Rivers Conference

[New Storm]

http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=11179458

Looks like the Northern Sun is looking to add a couple teams....  Cornell??

Travel in that conference is a ways. Crowds are small not like the good old IIAC   

[doolittledog]

http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=11179458

Looks like the Northern Sun is looking to add a couple teams....  Cornell??

Travel in that conference is a ways. Crowds are small not like the good old IIAC   

The IIAC, WIAC, and MIAC all bring in larger crowds than the NSIC.  Add into that the added travel expenses, scholarship issues, I don't know why a school from the IIAC would be interested. 

It can be fun to listen to NSIC fans, they often talk about moving to D1-AA.  With fan bases that average about 2,500 per game for football and schools with smaller endowments than most IIAC schools I wonder how they would be able to fund that. 

[Fannosaurus Rex]

Regarding Drake and the non-scholarship D-1AA schools.

I think it's a sham.  This division is a sham created to allow these schools to compete at the Division 1 scholarship level in every sport but football.  Many of these teams couldn't beat the schools in the D3 top 25.  I can't even figure out what attracts a kid to one of these schoold to play football there unless its our local Pioneer League affiliate University of San Diego (for the weather).  And screw the Ivy League and their "principles"...they go to the NCAA's playoffs in Basketball.

USD is the only Pioneer League team in the area and has to travel all over the country to play in its "league".

They get beat, even when they are at their high point, by low-level, legitimate D1-AA (FCS) schools and D1 FBS have no use to play them. 

They usually won't play D3 teams unless they can get a guaranteed win against a patsy for fear of being exposed.

Don't forget a lot of those schools were pretty successful in D3 football back before they got their own division.  I don't know whose idea it was for them to leave, but I wasn't sorry to see Dayton and Wagner go.  I'm not going to look up Drake's record against D3 but I would bet they won more than they lost.

[Klompen]

Cornell to D2....nonsense.  If anything they will be in a new conference with Grinnell, St. Olaf, Carlton, Luther, Beloit, Lawrence and some of the other philosophy and music schools sometime in the future.

The only really interesting teams in the IIAC this year are Cornell and Dubuque.  Central and Wartburg are "Same old, Same old"  and everyone else is an also ran except the above two. 

The interesting teams are Cornell....will they win a game in the IIAC?  Dubuque....just how improved can they be in one year?  That can keep you on the edge of your stadium seat.

Everything else is just...........fluff.

If Central is "same old, same old" how does that make Dubuque improved.  Don't get me wrong, I think Dubuque has a very good team this year, but since we beat them by 3 last year and took 3 OT's the year before, wouldn't them playing us close make them "same old, same old" too?  It's nice that people see Central as same old, same old when they are undefeated.  But in reality, we were winless in the conference last year at this time, granted that was after only one game, but...

[Airborne Dutch]

Didn't Cornell join the IIAC in 2001? Why, after 9 seasons, would they move up to D2? PH, I like your point about not putting athletics ahead of everything else. I don't know much about Cornell, but it sounds to me like they encourage students from all walks of life (i.e. not creating a jock culture) to attend. Also, good luck to Central on Saturday's game since I will be getting intimately acquainted with the roads of central Afghanistan and not listening in. For you Coe followers, any word on whether rising stud Fred Jackson calls back and offers words of encouragement, especially on such a pivotal weekend like this??

[badgerwarhawk]

Stay safe Airborne. 

[AZDutchman]

Airborne Dutch,

Putting God's blanket of protection over you and all that are there!

[footballdaddy]

Be careful Airborne, get them before they get you!

[Alfredeneumann]

Airborne,
Take care of yourself.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your service to this country.

[5 Words or Less]

As they say in Drama ...

[5 Words or Less]

As they say in Drama ...

Break a leg Airborne Dutch

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As they say in Drama ...

Break a leg Airborne Dutch

Have a nice day Fanny Rex

[dutchfan1]

As they say in Drama ...

Break a leg Airborne Dutch

...preferrably someone else's.

[5 Words or Less]

http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=11179458

Looks like the Northern Sun is looking to add a couple teams....  Cornell??

UD seems a better fit

[doolittledog]

http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=11179458

Looks like the Northern Sun is looking to add a couple teams....  Cornell??

UD seems a better fit

I hope not...I like it where we are!!!

Plus, you know, road trips are easier in the IIAC