FB: American Rivers Conference

[doolittledog]

A weather update from my winter wonder land. As I sit here in the same clothes I went to work in Tuesday morning, I feel fortunate to not be in one of the 800 plus vehichles that have been stranded on interstate 90 since 11am yesterday. The National Guard sent 15 Humvees and 5 duece and a half trucks to feed and water the stranded motorist, and evacuate those who had run out of gas. Traffic is now moving slowly, and this just in, a snow plow has been sighted starting on Thunderbolts 1/2 mile long in-drive. We have been the lucky recipients of about twenty inches of snow since Tuesday with winds capable of making 4 foot drifts in some of the most inconvienent places. Looking forward to a warm and sunny reply from Heys or DF1

Yikes, where do you live Thunderbolt???

[Thunderbolt]

 About 30 miles Southwest of Madison, and approx. 45 miles west of where the interstate was closed. Happy to report the in-drive to my igloo is passable, I'm now back in the office after a long shower and some clean clothes. What a work ethic eh?

[footballdaddy]

Nice to know you had the good sense to stay put until it was safe to drive. I bet all those that got stuck were from Minnesota. They seem to think that they are master winter drivers.

[doolittledog]

This is a story about tennis but they mention transferring and wondered if the IIAC now has a rule about transfers within the conference. 

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=189911

From the article: "Porter is excited about the 2009 season, which will bring Coe transfer T.J. Leicht, a two-time state champion at Dubuque Wahlert. Leicht is sitting out the 2008 season due to transfer eligibility issues."

[footballdaddy]

The way I read the NCAA handbook is that he would have to sit out if he was short on credits when he transferred. Otherwise a D3 to D3 would have instant elegibility(see Suckow).

[doolittledog]

Wartburg non-con schedule next year is St. Norbert at home and at Augsburg the first two weeks of the season with the last week of the season as their bye week. 

[Thunderbolt]

Wartburg non-con schedule next year is St. Norbert at home and at Augsburg the first two weeks of the season with the last week of the season as their bye week. 

Thats a nice ambitious schedule. St. Norberts will be a favorite to make the playoff field, and as much fun as it was to heckle the Knight fans about losing to Augie, they were a very young team that was playing some pretty good football by the end of the year.

[Thunderbolt]

 Oops, I forgot, I have no working knowledge of any MIAC teams. Hence, disreguard my last opinion.

[DutchFan2004]

Coldest game has to be the Bethel playoff game. 

Worst Weather Same game. 

Hottest game I would say the Simpson or Augustana game 3 years ago.

Funnest game was beating no Monkey Stomping SJU this year. 

This is all from a fans point of view but if you asked the players I am sure that they would say the Bethel for coldest and worst weather. 

[Superfoot Wallace]

The way I read the NCAA handbook is that he would have to sit out if he was short on credits when he transferred. Otherwise a D3 to D3 would have instant elegibility(see Suckow).

Or the UWW Warhawks national champion quarterback for that matter.

signed,
Troy Aikman and Cracklin' Bread

[Walston Hoover]

Coldest - Vs UD at Wartburg in 1999. Cold as it ever was for any games I was at in the old Schield stadium. Bench clearing brawl before halftime and I just wanted to get inside.
As a play by play guy, definitely at Concordia-Moorehead in the first round of the 04 playoffs. They had a space heater in the booth and I was still frozen
Hottest - Wartburg at UD in week one of 2000. First Varsity game I played and we were all cramping like crazy. Didn't go to the locker room at halftime, just took our pads off under a shade tree. Won 67-0 and took along something like 4 QBs and skimped on linemen so I played most of the game and was exhausted.
Worst field conditions, Cornell in '01 was like playing on gravel. No grass where they had the Ram's head. Also Coe in '01 was mud wrestling. Horrible.
Ever not make it to a game? I always made it, but All-IIAC Justin Beatty in our conf. championship year of '99 was a freshmen. I woke up Saturday morning to shower before heading to Fayettenam to work the TV crew to cap the 10-0 season. I got into the freshmen dorm bathroom and Beatty is in their brushing his teeth, about 30 minutes after the bus left. I asked why he wasn't on it, and he asked what time it was. He hitched a ride with his dad and didn't play much that day.
Worst road trip experience - Traveling to Luther in '02 we had to change buses shortly out of Waverly. Got their late but put our normal @$$ whoopin on them. Doesn't hold a candle to the playoff trip to Linfield in '03.
After getting royally stomped, we waited a long time after for the NCAA-mandated drug testing. My roommate was one of the random-testees  and if you knew this guy, you knew he was always walking around drinking water. The PH in his urine wasn't high enough because he was too hydrated after the game. We waited for several hours outside the Catdome while he kept getting tested. At least 3 hours after the game we finally were able to take off, leaving him to take a different flight the next day. On the way back to Portland, one of the buses took a wrong turn and ended up in the mountains. At some point, the bus couldn't make it any higher, so everyone had to get off the bus with their luggage so the bus could turn around. The first bus got to the airport, got out to the runway, and the other bus wasn't there. We waited for several hours while the parents watched the ND/USC game in the airport. We were supposed to be back home by supper. Instead got to the Waterloo airport about 3:00 the following morning.
Worst road trip ever! On the plus side, by the time we got home, the loss was the last thing on our minds.

Best road trip experience - Trip to UW OK to open '02 was a lot of fun coming back in the 2nd half and winning at the end. Return trip to Oregon was great as a fan in '03. Germany in the Spring of '01 was one of the greatest trips ever.

[Walston Hoover]

Luther I think it was 2005 fun stand in water over your shoe watching a game then the drive home and its raining so hard you can't see.


Best road trip was Ausburg 2006 spend the night with alot of the parents and some of the players alot of partying going on.

Luther in '05 was when Wartburg gave the game away on fumbles. Horrible conditions.
Augsburg '04 was fun as well, winning on a last second long field goal.

[Pat Coleman]

Looking outside at all the snow that is coming down got me thinking about weather extremes.

What is the coldest game you can remember playing in or attending?
Semifinals, 1999, Rowan at Mount Union

What is the hottest game you can remember playing in or attending?
Millsaps vs. Mississippi College, opening weekend 2001

Worst field conditions snow?
Baseball game against St. Bernard's HS, April 1990. Cold, too. Hard to track a fly ball in the flurries.

Worst field condition rain/mud?
Catholic at Thiel, 1996. Thiel was awful, Catholic was trying to make the playoffs. Crappy high school field. Catholic's quarterback hurts his knee in the first half and the second half they just hand the ball off the entire time behind a nine-man front.

Ever not able to make it to a game?
No.

Worst road trip experience?
Driving to Lycoming/Bridgewater at Lyco for the 2003 quarterfinals. I already hate U.S. 15 -- it's a crappy road north of Harrisburg, and it was snowing like you wouldn't believe. Plus, I couldn't leave until my wife got off of work Friday night. Cars in the ditch all over the place and I wasn't sure I was going to make it there. But I get there, probably seven hours before I'd have to be at the stadium on Saturday. Get to the stadium, and find out the game was postponed until Sunday and I'd have to either call out sick to work or drive back home without calling the game. ... But that's a picnic compared to what happened to Lycoming that weekend. Wide receiver Ricky Lannetti spent Friday night and Saturday in the hospital, where he died that night from a staph infection. Lycoming played the next day and fell 13-9.

Best road trip experience?  (and that probably shouldn't include any stories about catholic high school girls or cheerleaders) 
Damn.

[doolittledog]

Looking outside at all the snow that is coming down got me thinking about weather extremes.

What is the coldest game you can remember playing in or attending?
Semifinals, 1999, Rowan at Mount Union

What is the hottest game you can remember playing in or attending?
Millsaps vs. Mississippi College, opening weekend 2001

Worst field conditions snow?
Baseball game against St. Bernard's HS, April 1990. Cold, too. Hard to track a fly ball in the flurries.

Worst field condition rain/mud?
Catholic at Thiel, 1996. Thiel was awful, Catholic was trying to make the playoffs. Crappy high school field. Catholic's quarterback hurts his knee in the first half and the second half they just hand the ball off the entire time behind a nine-man front.

Ever not able to make it to a game?
No.

Worst road trip experience?
Driving to Lycoming/Bridgewater at Lyco for the 2003 quarterfinals. I already hate U.S. 15 -- it's a crappy road north of Harrisburg, and it was snowing like you wouldn't believe. Plus, I couldn't leave until my wife got off of work Friday night. Cars in the ditch all over the place and I wasn't sure I was going to make it there. But I get there, probably seven hours before I'd have to be at the stadium on Saturday. Get to the stadium, and find out the game was postponed until Sunday and I'd have to either call out sick to work or drive back home without calling the game. ... But that's a picnic compared to what happened to Lycoming that weekend. Wide receiver Ricky Lannetti spent Friday night and Saturday in the hospital, where he died that night from a staph infection. Lycoming played the next day and fell 13-9.

Best road trip experience?  (and that probably shouldn't include any stories about catholic high school girls or cheerleaders) 
Damn.

  Good ones Pat, you of all people should have some good answers.  Just think what another 10 years of doing this will do to the stories you can tell.  Of course by then you could have your kids driving you to games so you can get some sleep in the car!!!

Now, if I can just get my son back to sleep everything will be fine...we've played with his trains, pushed him around on his tractor, have ate an early breakfast and watched the Wiggles...it just seems like 2:30 was a good time for him to wake up for the day 

[Wartburg Fan]

Luther I think it was 2005 fun stand in water over your shoe watching a game then the drive home and its raining so hard you can't see.


Best road trip was Ausburg 2006 spend the night with alot of the parents and some of the players alot of partying going on.

Luther in '05 was when Wartburg gave the game away on fumbles. Horrible conditions.
Augsburg '04 was fun as well, winning on a last second long field goal.

I'm trying to forget that lost, was very hard to take after jumping out to a 14 point lead.
Augsburg trip in 04 was the only game we missed when the boy was playing. I was on  call for the Sheriff's Office that week-end and the wife had to work. Hated that week-end