Around the Nation board

[gordonmann]

As the person who suggested Daily Dose for our site, I want royalties.

Or candy.  I'm not picky.

Great job with Part II by the way, K-Mack.

[Ralph Turner]

As the person who suggested Daily Dose for our site, I want royalties.

Or candy.  I'm not picky.

Great job with Part II by the way, K-Mack.

Will you settle for an extra karma point per month? 

[K-Mack]

Great job with Part II by the way, K-Mack.

Frank, Gordon, those who e-mailed. Thanks. It would definitely be not worth all the hassle if there weren't still people reading D3football.com in the offseason and enjoying it.

Part III is looking like a mid-week delivery, not Monday, FYI. Should be the most fun part though.

[janesvilleflash]

Great job. We're reading!

[AUPepBand]

For "least bang for the buck," take a look at the Hamilton Continentals' results for 2006. With the return of Coach Steve Stetson, Hamilton showed improvement defensively, but struggled putting points on the scoreboard. The first seven games of the Continentals' 8-game schedule were shutouts, with Hamilton winning two. It wasn't until the finale against Bates that both teams scored and total points scored exceeded 17.

Tufts 17, Hamilton 0
Wesleyan 7, Hamilton 0
Trinity 13, Hamilton 0
Hamilton 12, Bowdoin 0
Hamilton 6, Colby 0
Williams 15, Hamilton 0
Middlebury 10, Hamilton 0
Bates 20, Hamilton 6

Great job on Around the Nation....appreciate the fact there's someone out there that takes good care of the little guys in the land.

[frank uible]

Hamilton put, I conjecture, deliberately the vast majority of its best athletes on defense and consequently received the aforementioned outcomes, probably in the belief that it did not have enough talent for both offense and defense and that if its defense could shut its opponents down offensively and if in certain games the ball bounced favorably for it by way of takeaways and otherwise, it could win a few. As a result it did - in fact one more game than it won the year prior.

[AUPepBand]

That was the same philosophy of Alfred's legendary Coach Alex Yunevich, who seldom had sufficient numbers of athletes to otherwise compete with some of the Saxon opponents. When he did have enough talent to spread to the offensive side of the ball, he certainly made the most of it.

[Pat Coleman]

I think it's OK to say "Coach Alex Yunevich" without "legendary" in front of it just one time, Pep.

[frank uible]

Pep: Others (most memorably to me Don Coryell) place their best athletes on offense and stock the defense with highly motivated left overs in an attempt to out score the opposition. Still others strive for balance between the quality of their offensive personnel and that of their defensive personnel.

[AUPepBand]

I think it's OK to say "Coach Alex Yunevich" without "legendary" in front of it just one time, Pep.

Coach Alex Yunevich compiled a 177-85-12 career record at Alfred University in his 36 seasons at the helm of the Saxon gridiron teams from 1937-1976. There's your one time, Pat.   

[frank uible]

Damn good record - in my judgment,  one of College HOF quality.

[AUPepBand]

Damn good record - in my judgment,  one of College HOF quality.

Yuni has been on the ballot for several years. Pep is hoping one of these days....

[K-Mack]

Loving that the ATN thread is alive and well. This has sort of become the "random tidbits for the diehards" thread, but keep it coming!

That Hamilton thing was a great one. We/I tried to streamline some this year, but last year or the year before we had Plymouth State on there for scoring 7 points the whole year.

I think they were almost .500 this year too, so big strides.

Holding Williams to 15 must've meant they were pretty good defensively.

I'd be honored to be permanently known as the guy who "takes good care of the little guys." 

[frank uible]

The Hamilton-Williams game was played in a continual rainstorm on a field which had become a swamp.

[K-Mack]

The Hamilton-Williams game was played on a field which had become a swamp.

Ah. Football-watching 101. The score doesn't always tell the whole story.