FB: American Rivers Conference

[DBQ1965]

A nice, night time view.

http://www.dbq.edu/ChlapatyCenter/webcams/Chlapatycamera.cfm

Don't know what your looking at DBQ1965 but it sure looks like daylights to me   Gotta love checking up on this board after being away from the office for the morning....almost 6-7 pages to read.

It was dark when I posted last night.

[Klopenhiemer]

Only 22 days, 23 hours and 58 minutes until kickoff....

Unless you are Dubuque...then add 6 hours to that!!!

I do wonder why more IIAC teams don't play at least 1 game per year under the lights.  Pretty much every team has them. 

As much fun as night games are, logistical wise, a day game makes more sense. Teams can get all their travelling done in one day. Those games that start at 7 can make a VERY late night. We played UW OshKosh my sr year and I think it was something like 3 when we got home in the morning. Meetings at 1 the next day that coaches need to be ready for.
Night games are great when you are the home team, but adds a little stress for the road team.
Personally, as a player, I hated them. If I would have had my way, the games would have started about 7 am because I was almost always up by 5:30 on game day. By the tail end of my jr, year, I got in the habit of getting up and going for a walk and then coming back and showering and putting on my travel clothes, even if it was a home game. Made me feel ready to go.
Loras has lights.

I loved playing under the lights in high school but did not care for it so much in college.  There is something to be said for gameDAY.  The only game that I played under the lights in college was a terrible experience.  When I was at SW MN State, we played Northern State at their house under the lights.  Nevermind the dastardly long bus trip and bitterly cold temps, we got blown out the the water.  It was a waste of fuel to drive up there to play the way we did.  I recall getting back well into the early morning hours, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 to 4 am.  I was doing work study for the o-line coach and we gave up so many sacks that he took is frustrations out on me.  My new duty was to be back in the equipment room at 6am to clean grass stains out of the uniforms by hand.  I am not giving you a line of BS.  I did show up and do my duty, but there on out our relationship was a bit strained to say the least.  I never thought I was touch another thing of Stain Stick for the rest of my life after that morning.  

[TheOne89.1]

A nice, night time view.

http://www.dbq.edu/ChlapatyCenter/webcams/Chlapatycamera.cfm

Don't know what your looking at DBQ1965 but it sure looks like daylights to me   Gotta love checking up on this board after being away from the office for the morning....almost 6-7 pages to read.

It was dark when I posted last night.

Figured I had to give you a little bit of hard time spending your nights on the board and looking at the webcam.  Thanks for posting the link.  I like checking in...I should just bookmark it, but easy enough to just click on your daily links.  Stadium is looking good.  Big, professional, very impressive.  Will we see the UD Spartans looking the same way this fall?

[BeaverOfYore]

http://www2.bvu.edu/athletics/sports/football/roster.jsp

BV's roster shows 42 freshmen as of today.  Younger brother (#44) reported yesterday and is currently penciled in as a WLB.  It's embarrassing having a defensive player in the family, but I figure after 2 months of eating at the Servery he'll be promoted to O-line.

[New Storm]

Only 22 days, 23 hours and 58 minutes until kickoff....

Unless you are Dubuque...then add 6 hours to that!!!

I do wonder why more IIAC teams don't play at least 1 game per year under the lights.  Pretty much every team has them. 

As much fun as night games are, logistical wise, a day game makes more sense. Teams can get all their travelling done in one day. Those games that start at 7 can make a VERY late night. We played UW OshKosh my sr year and I think it was something like 3 when we got home in the morning. Meetings at 1 the next day that coaches need to be ready for.
Night games are great when you are the home team, but adds a little stress for the road team.
Personally, as a player, I hated them. If I would have had my way, the games would have started about 7 am because I was almost always up by 5:30 on game day. By the tail end of my jr, year, I got in the habit of getting up and going for a walk and then coming back and showering and putting on my travel clothes, even if it was a home game. Made me feel ready to go.
Loras has lights.

WH you are right great for the home team not so much the visitors. The ride home or flight home was always long. As a parent the game is only good if you have a short distance to go ,otherwise it is late again,. Good for HS not so much for college.. Simpson has lights played Cornell at night last year. 

[DBQ1965]

A nice, night time view.

http://www.dbq.edu/ChlapatyCenter/webcams/Chlapatycamera.cfm

Don't know what your looking at DBQ1965 but it sure looks like daylights to me   Gotta love checking up on this board after being away from the office for the morning....almost 6-7 pages to read.

It was dark when I posted last night.

Figured I had to give you a little bit of hard time spending your nights on the board and looking at the webcam.  Thanks for posting the link.  I like checking in...I should just bookmark it, but easy enough to just click on your daily links.  Stadium is looking good.  Big, professional, very impressive.  Will we see the UD Spartans looking the same way this fall?

Thanks ... since I'm retired, I need to be reminded of reality once in a while. 

[Thunderbolt]

Only 22 days, 23 hours and 58 minutes until kickoff....

Unless you are Dubuque...then add 6 hours to that!!!

I do wonder why more IIAC teams don't play at least 1 game per year under the lights.  Pretty much every team has them. 

As much fun as night games are, logistical wise, a day game makes more sense. Teams can get all their travelling done in one day. Those games that start at 7 can make a VERY late night. We played UW OshKosh my sr year and I think it was something like 3 when we got home in the morning. Meetings at 1 the next day that coaches need to be ready for.
Night games are great when you are the home team, but adds a little stress for the road team.
Personally, as a player, I hated them. If I would have had my way, the games would have started about 7 am because I was almost always up by 5:30 on game day. By the tail end of my jr, year, I got in the habit of getting up and going for a walk and then coming back and showering and putting on my travel clothes, even if it was a home game. Made me feel ready to go.
Loras has lights.

WH you are right great for the home team not so much the visitors. The ride home or flight home was always long. As a parent the game is only good if you have a short distance to go ,otherwise it is late again,. Good for HS not so much for college.. Simpson has lights played Cornell at night last year. 

" Can anyone explain a late October 6pm kickoff, in Indianola? Other than Indianola looks better in dim light."  ( Fannasaurus Rex)  That still cracks me up. I will make my first trip to Indianola this year. I can't wait, if its anything like last years game. The only thing that bums me out about this season, is SK saying i have to go to Forest City to see the blue and white win a game.

[Spurrier]

got a cool picture of spurrier jr laying a lick on a receiver at cincinnati practice. . .how do i post it?

[warthog]

The season hasn't even started and I'm starting to back pedal a bit.

If this illustrious group knows what it is talking about; the Wartburg schedule that has games on the road at Central, Coe and Simpson may cause me to reconsider whether predicting a stroll through the IIAC makes much sense.   

[sportsknight]

The only thing that bums me out about this season, is SK saying i have to go to Forest City to see the blue and white win a game.

Hey Forest City is pretty nice.  There's plenty to see in town.  I mean besides the Waldorf campus there's...umm...uh...probably something else to see. 

[Alfredeneumann]

From CR GAZETTE
Iowa Conference names commissioner


  CEDAR RAPIDS — Chuck Yrigoyen has the been hired as commissioner of the Iowa Conference, the league said Thursday.
  He replaces John Cochrane, who resigned to become director of athletics at Cornell College.
  "Chuck is a tremendous talent and will serve the Iowa Conference well," Frederick V. Moore, Buena Vista University president and chair of the Iowa Conference Presi dents' Council, said in a news release.
  Yrigoyen spent the last 19 years in the Ivy League, including the last 10 as associate director for athletics administration and championships.
  Hired in 1989 as assistant director for public information, Yrigoyen stepped into a newly created position to oversee expansion of the office's public information function, focusing on the league's weekly press releases and publications. Yrigoyen subsequently developed the League's first Web site and oversaw technical and logistical arrangements for the League's football and basketball telecasts.
 
IIAC Release
http://www.iowaconference.com/news/2008-09/0814iiac_yrigoyen.htm

[doolittledog]

From CR GAZETTE
Iowa Conference names commissioner


  CEDAR RAPIDS — Chuck Yrigoyen has the been hired as commissioner of the Iowa Conference, the league said Thursday.
  He replaces John Cochrane, who resigned to become director of athletics at Cornell College.
  "Chuck is a tremendous talent and will serve the Iowa Conference well," Frederick V. Moore, Buena Vista University president and chair of the Iowa Conference Presi dents' Council, said in a news release.
  Yrigoyen spent the last 19 years in the Ivy League, including the last 10 as associate director for athletics administration and championships.
  Hired in 1989 as assistant director for public information, Yrigoyen stepped into a newly created position to oversee expansion of the office's public information function, focusing on the league's weekly press releases and publications. Yrigoyen subsequently developed the League's first Web site and oversaw technical and logistical arrangements for the League's football and basketball telecasts.
 
IIAC Release
http://www.iowaconference.com/news/2008-09/0814iiac_yrigoyen.htm

Very interesting.  I hope he does well here and helps move the conference forward.  I would like to see the conference get more exposure in our state as well as I would like to see the conference utilize newer technology like video webcasts for our more far flung fans!!!  He sounds like a good hire.  Hopefully, he and his family aren't just using this job as a stepping stone to a job back east!!!

[New Storm]

Are all teams in camp The season has started  8) 8)

[Walston Hoover]

That line was a product of the feature that when you are done posting, tells you another post has been made.

Only 22 days, 23 hours and 58 minutes until kickoff....

Unless you are Dubuque...then add 6 hours to that!!!

I do wonder why more IIAC teams don't play at least 1 game per year under the lights.  Pretty much every team has them. 

As much fun as night games are, logistical wise, a day game makes more sense. Teams can get all their travelling done in one day. Those games that start at 7 can make a VERY late night. We played UW OshKosh my sr year and I think it was something like 3 when we got home in the morning. Meetings at 1 the next day that coaches need to be ready for.
Night games are great when you are the home team, but adds a little stress for the road team.
Personally, as a player, I hated them. If I would have had my way, the games would have started about 7 am because I was almost always up by 5:30 on game day. By the tail end of my jr, year, I got in the habit of getting up and going for a walk and then coming back and showering and putting on my travel clothes, even if it was a home game. Made me feel ready to go.
Loras has lights.

I don't know why, but how this was tacked onto the end of this made me laugh.

[Walston Hoover]

Over 2 hours between posts on a Friday??? What is wrong with you people???
Question of the day-August 16-
This was talked about probably 2 years ago, but what HS teams do you pull for/follow and why.
I've gotta run to the bank and I will be back to talk about mine.