FB: American Rivers Conference

[Fannosaurus Rex]

Good luck to Wartburg in the play-offs but there is still the serious regular season business of Central beating Simpson to be attended to.

My first experience with the Central Simpson rivalry was 1967.  Back before football fields were made out of rubber, it used to be a tradition for fans of whoever was going to be the visiting team to try to sneak onto the home field with a can of gasoline and try to burn a C on Simpson's field or an S on Central's field if the Simpson people could remember how to spell Simpson.  Fans of whoever was going to be the home team would post round the clock guards.  The Friday morning before the 1967 game at Simpson, I got up and went to take a shower in the first floor bathroom in Gaass Hall.  Someone I'd never seen before was passed out there in the middle of the big communal shower floor.  I nudged him with my foot until he got up and stumbled out muttering and cussing.  I learned later that he had been guarding the beer supply for the gang of Simpson guys who were patrolling their field when some Central guys showed up to do mischief in the dark of the prior night.  According to the story, when they found the beer cache, they lost interest in burning the C and decided to just take the beer and run.  The guy guarding it wouldn't surrender it so they brought him too.  He must have got his share because he was pretty wobbly the next morning.  It was the closest I ever came to admiring a Simpson man.   

[the_mayne_event]

Biggest turning Point in the season for any team:  Coe - getting robbed of the Loras win by the refs and never really recovering fully after that.   - Coe was never right all season long.. this loss did nothing for them
Your favorite IIAC mascott:  Charlie Kohawk 
Best food and drink after a game:  Used to be Paddy O'Rourke's for me... now it's most deffinately Mulligan's. 

[dbljay21]

Dutchie, there's plenty of room. If you're not too careful, you may stay.

Congrats to all winners and especially the Dutch as they took a HUGE step forward with another win whille being out gained.

I am sadly disappointed that the most loyal of Central backers could not pick their Dutch this weekend.  DF2004, DF1 and Klompen, among others.  No Dutch letters for you!

Ouch, I know -- lesson learned! I'd rather drop the pick and pick up the W in this case, though!

Congrats to the Beavers -- even with a loss yesterday, you guys are having a hell of a season.

Consider me on the 'Burg bandwagon in the postseason. From those of us who have been there, do us proud! 

Thanks, but I'll stick with Central. Cheering for Wartburg is like enjoying a fine adult beverage -- sometimes enjoyable, but you have to know when enough is enough. 

+K for that dutchfan....moderation is the key   

[Klopenhiemer]

Good luck to Wartburg in the play-offs but there is still the serious regular season business of Central beating Simpson to be attended to.

My first experience with the Central Simpson rivalry was 1967.  Back before football fields were made out of rubber, it used to be a tradition for fans of whoever was going to be the visiting team to try to sneak onto the home field with a can of gasoline and try to burn a C on Simpson's field or an S on Central's field if the Simpson people could remember how to spell Simpson.  Fans of whoever was going to be the home team would post round the clock guards.  The Friday morning before the 1967 game at Simpson, I got up and went to take a shower in the first floor bathroom in Gaass Hall.  Someone I'd never seen before was passed out there in the middle of the big communal shower floor.  I nudged him with my foot until he got up and stumbled out muttering and cussing.  I learned later that he had been guarding the beer supply for the gang of Simpson guys who were patrolling their field when some Central guys showed up to do mischief in the dark of the prior night.  According to the story, when they found the beer cache, they lost interest in burning the C and decided to just take the beer and run.  The guy guarding it wouldn't surrender it so they brought him too.  He must have got his share because he was pretty wobbly the next morning.  It was the closest I ever came to admiring a Simpson man.   

That is an outstanding story. 

[Klopenhiemer]

CEDAR RAPIDS , IOWA . . . A total of seven Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) football student-athletes were named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VII College Division Football Teams selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and announced Thursday, November 6.

University of Dubuque offensive lineman Dustin Vertin (Morgan Hill, Calif./Live Oak) and Coe College defensive back Tommy Breitbach (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Xavier) were named to the Academic All-District VII College Division First Team, while Central College offensive lineman Jordan Edgerly (Lisbon, Iowa/Lisbon), Cornell College defensive back Don Bladt (Shelby, Iowa/AHST) and linebacker Brian King (West Des Moines, Iowa/Valley), and Wartburg College defensive back Marcus Hemesath (Watkins, Iowa/Benton Community) and linebacker Kyle Goodchild (Van Horne, Iowa/Benton Community) were named to the Second Team.

Vertin is a senior criminal justice major with a 3.96 grade point average. Breitbach is a senior business and economics major with a 3.87 GPA. Edgerly is a 3.84 math/computer science/spanish/secondary education major with a 3.84 GPA. Bladt is a junior chemistry major witha 3.56 GPA. Hemesath is a senior biology major with a 3.59 GPA. Goodchild is a senior accounting and business administration major with a 3.59 GPA. King is a junior biochemistry and molecular biology major with a 3.79 GPA.

Academic All-District First Team members move on to the national ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® ballot. The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Football Team is scheduled to be announced on Monday, November 24.

To be eligible for selection to the Academic All-District Team, a student-athlete must have reached sophomore academic and athletic standing, be a starter or key reserve and possess at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).

District VII College Division includes NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and NAIA schools as well as Junior/Community Colleges in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Congratulations to all of these young men.  This is truly what D3 is all about.  Good football along with good academics. 

[kohawkfan]

Biggest turning Point in the season for any team:  Coe - getting robbed of the Loras win by the refs and never really recovering fully after that.   - Coe was never right all season long.. this loss did nothing for them
Your favorite IIAC mascott:  Charlie Kohawk 
Best food and drink after a game:  Used to be Paddy O'Rourke's for me... now it's most deffinately Mulligan's. 

The Loras "loss" (I don't think the Coe scoreboard ever did show Loras's postgame points.) was horrific for the Kohawk morale.  It was Coe's first home conference game, in front of a big homecoming crowd, with morons for officials who decided the outcome of the game!  I don't know any teams that wouldn't have had an effect on.  But it is what it is...  
I only hope whomever is in charge makes a mental note:  Never, ever hire a guy named Goosic and his crew from Altoona for another IIAC game ANYWHERE.

[dutchfan1]

Biggest turning Point in the season for any team:  Coe - getting robbed of the Loras win by the refs and never really recovering fully after that.   - Coe was never right all season long.. this loss did nothing for them
Your favorite IIAC mascott:  Charlie Kohawk 
Best food and drink after a game:  Used to be Paddy O'Rourke's for me... now it's most deffinately Mulligan's. 

The Loras "loss" (I don't think the Coe scoreboard ever did show Loras's postgame points.) was horrific for the Kohawk morale.  It was Coe's first home conference game, in front of a big homecoming crowd, with morons for officials who decided the outcome of the game!  I don't know any teams that wouldn't have had an effect on.  But it is what it is...  
I only hope whomever is in charge makes a mental note:  Never, ever hire a guy named Goosic and his crew from Altoona for another IIAC game ANYWHERE.

That game was September 27th -- you've played 5 games since then. Yeah, I agree, Coe got a raw deal, but get past it. Maybe the reason Coe has lost 3 game since is because they are still focused on what is in the rearview mirror.

How sad that that moment defined the Coe football team in 2008.

[Klopenhiemer]

Biggest turning Point in the season for any team:  Coe - getting robbed of the Loras win by the refs and never really recovering fully after that.   - Coe was never right all season long.. this loss did nothing for them
Your favorite IIAC mascott:  Charlie Kohawk 
Best food and drink after a game:  Used to be Paddy O'Rourke's for me... now it's most deffinately Mulligan's. 

The Loras "loss" (I don't think the Coe scoreboard ever did show Loras's postgame points.) was horrific for the Kohawk morale.  It was Coe's first home conference game, in front of a big homecoming crowd, with morons for officials who decided the outcome of the game!  I don't know any teams that wouldn't have had an effect on.  But it is what it is...  
I only hope whomever is in charge makes a mental note:  Never, ever hire a guy named Goosic and his crew from Altoona for another IIAC game ANYWHERE.

You are basically saying that the Coe football team lacks any mental toughness or any moral.  That does not say a lot for your football team.  As dutchie has said, what a sad thing that your season was defined on Sept. 27th. 
The Beavers droped a heart breaker on a cold windy day in Storm Lake to Luther 6-3, but came back to wallop Waldorf (not saying much), and then beat the Kohawks at their house.  We did fold Saturday, but you can not say that Beavers were defined by one loss. 

[Thunderbolt]

Biggest turning Point in the season for any team:  Coe - getting robbed of the Loras win by the refs and never really recovering fully after that.   - Coe was never right all season long.. this loss did nothing for them
Your favorite IIAC mascott:  Charlie Kohawk 
Best food and drink after a game:  Used to be Paddy O'Rourke's for me... now it's most deffinately Mulligan's. 

The Loras “loss” (I don’t think the Coe scoreboard ever did show Loras’s postgame points.) was horrific for the Kohawk morale.  It was Coe’s first home conference game, in front of a big homecoming crowd, with morons for officials who decided the outcome of the game!  I don't know any teams that wouldn't have had an effect on.  But it is what it is…  
I only hope whomever is in charge makes a mental note:  Never, ever hire a guy named Goosic and his crew from Altoona for another IIAC game ANYWHERE.

That same crew worked both BV losses.

[Klopenhiemer]

Biggest turning Point in the season for any team:  Coe - getting robbed of the Loras win by the refs and never really recovering fully after that.   - Coe was never right all season long.. this loss did nothing for them
Your favorite IIAC mascott:  Charlie Kohawk 
Best food and drink after a game:  Used to be Paddy O'Rourke's for me... now it's most deffinately Mulligan's. 

The Loras "loss" (I don't think the Coe scoreboard ever did show Loras's postgame points.) was horrific for the Kohawk morale.  It was Coe's first home conference game, in front of a big homecoming crowd, with morons for officials who decided the outcome of the game!  I don't know any teams that wouldn't have had an effect on.  But it is what it is...  
I only hope whomever is in charge makes a mental note:  Never, ever hire a guy named Goosic and his crew from Altoona for another IIAC game ANYWHERE.

That same crew worked both BV losses.

And you do not see us crying foul!

[Thunderbolt]

 A more honest assessment of this season is that Loras is probably just a little bit better than Coe.

[Walston Hoover]

A more honest assessment of this season is that Loras is probably just a little bit better than Coe.

Yes, judging by how the rest of things played out.

[the_mayne_event]

You are basically saying that the Coe football team lacks any mental toughness or any moral.  That does not say a lot for your football team.  As dutchie has said, what a sad thing that your season was defined on Sept. 27th. 
The Beavers droped a heart breaker on a cold windy day in Storm Lake to Luther 6-3, but came back to wallop Waldorf (not saying much), and then beat the Kohawks at their house.  We did fold Saturday, but you can not say that Beavers were defined by one loss. 

i thought that Coe's season was over after the 1st two games of the year.  terrible offensive production in those 2 games signaled what was to come from the Kohawks this year.  It was just a snowballing affect that those two games had.  Rebuilding year as it was, i hope Staker realized Coe needs to recruit some offensive linemen, and stop switching all their d-linemen over to the o-line.  They need to build them up from the start of their frosh years, not try to transfer them after 2 or 3 years.  The Loras loss, however difficult it was, was not the culimination of the season for the Kohawks... they simply put, wern't as good as years past.  First time they have had a losing season at home in years, let alone not even winning a game at home.

[DBQ1965]

A more honest assessment of this season is that Loras is probably just a little bit better than Coe.

Yes, judging by how the rest of things played out.

To add my 2-cents worth ... it seems to me the Coe-Loras game was decided long before that last play when Coe "let" Loras stay in the game for far too long.

GO SPARTANS!  Beat Coe.

[TheOne89.1]

Congratulations to the Knights for taking the IIAC title.  It was a rough season and it looks to be a tough first round of the playoffs.  Sounds like they got something going on the ground for once.  This was the second week in a row that the Knights had more rushing than passing yards (only the second time this year).  Hopefully they can keep that up as it will be important in the playoffs.  200 yards on the ground and a good day from Yordi (250 to 300) can win playoff games for the Knights.

I will admit right now, it has been awhile since I have posted.  I have been reading, but always just about 5 pages behind and then a weekend would hit and I would be busy with Winona State football (such a disappointing season) and then I would just be behind again.  Luckily I am caught up and hopefully if the Knights play in the Midwest I can travel to the game and see one in person this year.  I did get to tune in to bits and pieces on the radio a few times this year, but this board has kept me up to speed.

For all the non-Wartburg fans feel free to jump on the IIAC Bandwagon (not necessarily a Wartburg Bandwagon).  Just like many of us cheered for the Dutch last year, this year we can all cheer for the Knights to gain some respect for the IIAC in all of D3.