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[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

No. 16 Capital at No. 5 Mount Union
Vitals: In the "North" bracket, the 10-2 Crusaders, in the playoffs for the first time since 1987, take on the 12-0 Purple Raiders.

Mike Gibbons is "a beast" at defensive end ...

Finishing up late last night K-Mack?

I think ONU would have something to say about the 12-0 Purple Raiders, and Mike Gibbons is a LB, although he may have looked like a DE vs. Auggie last week.

[HScoach]

K-Mack:  Don't worry about the typo on Gibbons.  You got the most important part right.   

He is a BEAST! 

Albeit a small one at 5'-10", 190 lbs.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

K-Mack:  Don't worry about the typo on Gibbons.  You got the most important part right.   

He is a BEAST! 

Albeit a small one at 5'-10", 190 lbs.

Must be something in the water up there in Mentor, OH. MUC seems to find some stud players from up there on the Lake.

[K-Mack]

Finishing up late last night K-Mack?

Um, yes, although I can pass the buck since that was from the "insider" interview.

Then it could probably get passed back as a misquote, huh?

I'll be tinkering with it in the next hour or so, if that helps any.

[K-Mack]

I'll be tinkering with it in the next hour or so, if that helps any.

Actually never got around to it. I can fix the LB thing though.

Stupid day job.

(What? It's pay day? Just kidding day job  8) )

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

LOL, no hurry. We all know the Truth.

[PA_wesleyfan]

K-mack  Thank you!!!!! You probably didn't know that your Around the Nation from last week made it to the Wesley bulletin board before the MHB game and was an inspiration. It was mentioned by a few of the players in some of the follow up news articles out of Delaware. I believe the statement regarding Welsey as the weakest team left in the playoffs was the Wolverines. So with your pick of Bridgewater
this week I can imagine that will be seen somewhere.. So thanks again!!!   To bad you haven't had an opportunity to see this Wesley team. I think that would sway your opinion differently.

  I understand why you think the way you do,. BUT i think everyone has put way too much emphisis on the Brockport game. We all know it happened,  even though many people who post on these pages don' t think it possible for a good team to be blown out on a given day with certain circumstances and still be considered a above average team.

  Keep up the great coverage and hope to see you at a Wesley game in the near !!! future.   

[K-Mack]

Well, sometimes the picks are based on a lot of information, such as conversations with coaches who have played against those teams, or others who have seen them,  seeing the teams myself  ... or flimsier things like statistics and gut feelings.

But I learned long ago that even making picks on a whim (i.e. Thiel in 4 OTs) tends to be good reading. Some agree, some don't, but I just feel like the position I'm in requires me to be the conversation starter. So I go out on a limb, and if that's what it takes some teams to get motivated, more power to them.

But anyone that thinks I sit up nights browbeating myself for getting picks wrong is kidding themselves.

Personally, hearing the score updates from Wesley was a lot more personally exciting than Mount Union 44, Augustana 7. But wait, am I a Mount Union hater then, or lover?

The last two above paragraphs make a great segue to this week's Mail To Share Department:

----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Jebsen
To: keith@d3football.com
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:38 AM
Subject: mt union

As much as you wish they were 12-0, they were not. They lost to Ohio Northern, remember back when ONU was your assured pick, being picked on by the NCAA, and all that stuff you were tied up on in your opinions. 

Okay, Uncle Condescending. I can't tell if you're from ONU and you want me to make sure they get credit where it is due (and it is) or Mount Union bothers you or you just like to rub people's noses in their mistakes.

I much prefer my corrections to come in this way, but to each his own:
----- Original Message -----
From: Brandon
To: keith@d3football.com
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:23 AM
Subject: error

Keith,
In case someone has not pointed it out already, there is an error in your column this week.  As much as I would like it, Mount Union I believe is 11-1 and not 12-0. Just thought I would let you know.

No. 16 Capital at No. 5 Mount Union
Vitals: In the "North" bracket, the 10-2 Crusaders, in the playoffs for the first time since 1987, take on the 12-0 Purple Raiders.

Sincerely,
Brandon Keck

I do this in addition working full-time, raising a son and all that other sob story mess you don't really want to hear. 10 times of out of 10 it involves me working late into the night/early into the next morning, and occasionally I get a little loopy. I have no recollection of writing 12-0, but clearly it's there, so it'll be fixed if it hasn't been already.

(Bright idea for self: Separate e-mail address for typos/factual errors)

But Harry, it's a typo. Since my "wish" isn't true, does that mean Christmas is ruined?

If only I ruled the world like this board (which I actually don't rule, but play along with me here), there would be Karma plus one for Mr. Keck, and Smite minus one for mean old Mr. Jebsen.

Carry on.

(More later, but I'm guessing I see about 75 Year in review e-mails, so this might take a while.)

[K-Mack]

Keep up the great coverage and hope to see you at a Wesley game in the near !!! future.

How's 12 hours for ya?

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Technical question:

Am I the only one that is finding the Northwest board frozen from just before the end of the game?  I can reply to the WIAC and SCIAC, but no reply button appears for the NW and the last post is mine from less than a minute to go?  Is it me or the board?

[Ralph Turner]

Technical question:

Am I the only one that is finding the Northwest board frozen from just before the end of the game?  I can reply to the WIAC and SCIAC, but no reply button appears for the NW and the last post is mine from less than a minute to go?  Is it me or the board?

It was a disturbance in the Force!

[Jeremybozz]

Will CSTV show Wesley at Wis. Whitewater or Rowan vs Mount Union?
  Last year CSTV showed a D3 semifinal I think. I assume they will do the same this year but I may be wrong.

[PA_wesleyfan]

  Wesley and Rowan are in the same in the same viewing area for comcast out of Philly, So if it were shown here I am afraid that Rowan would get the nod.

[Pat Coleman]

They showed a quarterfinal two years ago. CSTV hasn't touched Division III since.

[HabsGoalie33]

can you blame them, its not like division III football is something a normal person sets the tivo for. Now me, I would