FB: American Rivers Conference

[Purple Heys]

PH,

Redlands beat the NWC champion (Whitworth) last year and I would be surprised if DB or the IIAC Champ (Central) was better.

Hmmm...you'd be very surprised then, especially with Central. 

PH,

Redlands was without their starting quarterback and best defensive player for the St. John's game. They got hurt the week earlier against Cal Lu.

So, are you suggesting that UofR would have won that game @ St. John's with a healthy Selway and the other kid in the lineup?

[Purple Heys]

Purple Heys - Any word on additional Cornell facility upgrades?

The new heaters seem to be working fine.

[Purple Heys]

Hey RFB...a little background check for you.

What do the words Nipper DeRoo mean to you?

[5 Words or Less]

UD has 3 returning players from CA (two from Morgan Hill and one from Oakhurst).  Is the the Redlands trip a perk to woo more Floridians or are they forging new recruiting ties in SoCal?

[RFB]

PH,

Redlands beat the NWC champion (Whitworth) last year and I would be surprised if DB or the IIAC Champ (Central) was better. Redlands was without their starting quarterback and best defensive player for the St. John's game. They got hurt the week earlier against Cal Lu. Anyways, you and I speculating solves nothing. It should be a fun game to watch this September. Are you making the trip out West? I'm sure a burrito from Cuca's would be worth the trip alone.

Dude, I live in Oceanside, not Iowa.

And El Burrito has been my favorite since 1975.

My mistake. Oceanside is very nice and El Burrito is a good one.

[RFB]

PH,

Redlands beat the NWC champion (Whitworth) last year and I would be surprised if DB or the IIAC Champ (Central) was better.

Hmmm...you'd be very surprised then, especially with Central. 

PH,

Redlands was without their starting quarterback and best defensive player for the St. John's game. They got hurt the week earlier against Cal Lu.

So, are you suggesting that UofR would have won that game @ St. John's with a healthy Selway and the other kid in the lineup?

A believe a healthy Dan Selway and Brock Arndt could have made a huge difference. Not many teams will do well when they lose their best offensive and defensive player to injury. How would DB do last year without J. Jackson running the offense? Now substitute your backup quarterback for his first real snaps of the year in a playoff game at St. John's.

[RFB]

Hey RFB...a little background check for you.

What do the words Nipper DeRoo mean to you?

I'm not familiar with those words. I would assume they are related to the Och Tamale but not sure. Educate me please!

[doolittledog]

A believe a healthy Dan Selway and Brock Arndt could have made a huge difference. Not many teams will do well when they lose their best offensive and defensive player to injury. How would DB do last year without J. Jackson running the offense? Now substitute your backup quarterback for his first real snaps of the year in a playoff game at St. John's.

While Dubuque would have been hurt to lose Jermar Jackson during the season last year.  They would have been ok because he had an o-line with 4 seniors and 1 junior that had all been starting for multiple years along with 2 senior running backs and 3 wide recievers and a tight end with starting experiance. 

Next year with Dubuque starting a new QB, RB, and an entire new o-line...which I believe the new o-line will be the thing that really hurts Dubuque, they SHOULD be in for a hard time against Redlands.  But the fan in me makes me believe they will find replacements for all those guys and give Redlands all they can handle. 

[Alfredeneumann]

Doolittle - W Parking
The best bets for parking is in the lot near the Maintenance facility- across 12th Street from the W. You can enter the building on football stadium side or park in the lots closest to Joes and head NORTH to see the game, south to drink.
The lot right next to Walston-Hoover has been blocked by security so only those working out can park there, NO SPECTATOR parking. Mrs. Neumann likes to work out first then go to game for better parking. 

I may be at the game or I may be home shinning up the golf clubs before I leave a week later for a week in Alabama playing golf with AEN Jr.

89.1 - FYI - AEN Jr. could not handle the pressure of living up (?) to the greatness of the former residents of his dorm room in Clinton Hall  so he moved to Grossmann.

[Klopenhiemer]

PH,

Redlands beat the NWC champion (Whitworth) last year and I would be surprised if DB or the IIAC Champ (Central) was better. Redlands was without their starting quarterback and best defensive player for the St. John's game. They got hurt the week earlier against Cal Lu. Anyways, you and I speculating solves nothing. It should be a fun game to watch this September. Are you making the trip out West? I'm sure a burrito from Cuca's would be worth the trip alone.

I will have to say upfront that I know nothing about the Redlands, but I am very framilar with the IIAC and Central in the respects of playing against them and having many friends attend Central. 

Central put a monkey stomp on SJU last year.  I am not trying to start a boarder battle here with the MIAC.

I will say one thing though, I did not see the outcome of the Bethel v. Central game turning out the way it did either. 

So there is always room to assume that it would have been Central matched up against the Redlands. 

[sportsknight]

W Parking
The best bets for parking is in the lot near the Maintenance facility- across 12th Street from the W. You can enter the building on football stadium side or park in the lots closest to Joes and head NORTH to see the game, south to drink.

Al beat me to the punch.  The games that I've gone to, I've usually parked south of campus near Joe's and walked from there.  Its a pretty straight shot to the W from down there.

I'll be at the game.  The guys I lived with my (second) senior year at Wartburg decided we needed to see a game in the new place, and this game worked in everybody's schedule.  Sounds like we'll be rendevouzing at the Goat around noon, and then up to the games from there.

[Klompen]

A believe a healthy Dan Selway and Brock Arndt could have made a huge difference. Not many teams will do well when they lose their best offensive and defensive player to injury. How would DB do last year without J. Jackson running the offense? Now substitute your backup quarterback for his first real snaps of the year in a playoff game at St. John's.

It seemed to me Central spent a few games with two out of three captains going out for the coin toss in jeans.  One was a 2 time conference MVP running back the other was arguably one of the best defenseive players on the team.  We managed to go undefeated in the regular season and these were only two of a number of injuries we faced during the year.  The good teams find a way to win, just ask Doolittle.     It isn't to say you won't be challenged, but you still find a way.  We went from a running team to a passing team and a new conference MVP who proved he deserved it.  The interesting thing will be replacing these guys and duplicating the results.  One thing the injuries did for us was to give some other guys playing time.  With the incoming freshman class and the rumored transfers, I think it can be done.  It will be interesting playing Wartburg so early in the season.  The results of that game will be telling.  If Central can replace that much and run the table, look out!

[DutchFan2004]

PH,

Redlands beat the NWC champion (Whitworth) last year and I would be surprised if DB or the IIAC Champ (Central) was better.

Hmmm...you'd be very surprised then, especially with Central. 

PH,

Redlands was without their starting quarterback and best defensive player for the St. John's game. They got hurt the week earlier against Cal Lu.

So, are you suggesting that UofR would have won that game @ St. John's with a healthy Selway and the other kid in the lineup?

A believe a healthy Dan Selway and Brock Arndt could have made a huge difference. Not many teams will do well when they lose their best offensive and defensive player to injury. How would DB do last year without J. Jackson running the offense? Now substitute your backup quarterback for his first real snaps of the year in a playoff game at St. John's.

Funny,  Central lost their 2 time MVP player for all of part of 4 games and they went 10-0.  They also lost their LB for a game in that stretch and one of the best cover guys as well.  Good teams seem to be able to replace losses and move on and be successful.  

[doolittledog]

W Parking
The best bets for parking is in the lot near the Maintenance facility- across 12th Street from the W. You can enter the building on football stadium side or park in the lots closest to Joes and head NORTH to see the game, south to drink.

Al beat me to the punch.  The games that I've gone to, I've usually parked south of campus near Joe's and walked from there.  Its a pretty straight shot to the W from down there.

I'll be at the game.  The guys I lived with my (second) senior year at Wartburg decided we needed to see a game in the new place, and this game worked in everybody's schedule.  Sounds like we'll be rendevouzing at the Goat around noon, and then up to the games from there.

Thank you AEN and sportsknight.  Our plan is to leave home as soon as Doolittle jr wakes up from his nap.  He normally wakes up sometime between 1 and 2pm.  We are about 45 minutes south of Waverly.  I'm thinking we will park near Joe's and hit the last part of the womens game, then tour "the W" between games.  Will probably hit Joe's afterwards. 

Thanks again for the info.  If you see an older man, a middle aged man, and a 2 year old...all 3 short and fat...that would be my dad, myself, and my son!!!

[doolittledog]

Googled Joe Chlapaty, UD benefactor

1968 UD alumnus & football player
President and CEO of ADS (Advanced Drainage Systems - plastic pipe and tile manufacturer)
Tampa Bay Devil Rays Limited Partner
UD Chairman of board of Trustees
$5M donation to $9M Meyers Library project, 1998
$22M donation to build Chlapaty Sports & Wellnes Center, 2007
Proposing Dubuque Riverfront Minor League Baseball Park / Team

PM to Joe, Please send your kids to Luther

Well that answers which team you support.   

I believe all of Mr. Chlapaty's children are through with college.  I know one went to Marietta College in OH.  Mr. Chlapaty is on the Board of Trustees at Marietta also.  He also gave money to the Goldthorpe Science Hall addition/renovation at UD.  He was part of the group that voted to keep UD running in 1999 and came of with the plan to turn things around. 

An interesting thing about him is that most CEO's of company's with over a billion dollars in annual sales that live in Ohio you would think would have a suite at OSU and at an NFL stadium or two.  But last year I saw him walking the UD sidelines at Cornell in the rain with his wife right beside him.  Stood in line with everybody else buying hot chocolate at halftime and was talking about what a great game it was going to be the next week against Central.  The guy isn't about being seen by the "in-crowd"  he is just a big fan of small time college sports and a fan of UD who he played for back in the 1960's.