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[Pat Coleman]

Seems a little short of six or nine stadiums.

[ADL70]

Metro Cleveland would give you 5 stadia, and 7 if you go a little farther and hit MUC and Wooster.  And I have caught all of two games and part of one in the same day/night.

[BoBo]

In addition to the new video scoreboards mentioned in the latest ATN, Whitewater has also installed one at Perkins Stadium, giving the biggest DIII stadium a newer, big-time look, too.

[K-Mack]

Claremont/Pomona area (L.A.) is another good one, the SCIAC is based there, except for Oxy, Cal Lu and Redlands. There's also a mix of day and night kickoffs from time-to-time, which help in terms of seeing games, rather than just stadiums.

I'm sure there's a day when CMS, PP, LaVerne and Whittier are all at home. You might be able to do quarters with same-time kickoffs on those.

Cleveland area, same deal. Night kickoffs from time to time. Case, JCU, B-W, etc.

(Believe it or not, I've seen MUC's stadium already)  

I guess Rochester, NY, anywhere in Mass. and a couple other places could make for some serious viewing if kickoffs were staggered.

But I still think Chicago & Minn/St. Paul are the silliest concentrations of D3 schools out there.

[K-Mack]

In addition to the new video scoreboards mentioned in the latest ATN, Whitewater has also installed one at Perkins Stadium, giving the biggest DIII stadium a newer, big-time look, too.

It was the middle of the night when I wrote that part, so I couldn't recall the entire discussion, but Pat and I began to list the 6-7 video boards we knew of.

Those were just the ones I'd seen in the past few weeks.

Nice pic.

[Bob.Gregg]

The Pittsburgh region isn't lacking for possibilities of multiple games:

Carnegie-Mellon in the city

Washington & Jefferson 25 miles sw
Bethany 38 miles sw
Waynesburg 45 miles sw

Geneva 25 miles nw
Grove City 35 miles nw
Westminster 35 miles nw
Thiel 65 miles nw

St. Vincent 35 miles east

[K-Mack]

That's true. Although we were hardly talking that kind of mileage in and around Chicago, and I'm telling you, staggered kickoff times are key to getting D3football.com to your town.

[Bob.Gregg]

The mileage might be longer, but not sure the travel time is....


CMU to W&J can be done in about 28 minutes. Parked and walking in to the field.
CMU to Geneva in about the same.

Get through the tunnels and it's open road.

[K-Mack]

Makes sense.

Thiel is far though. Made that trip before

[Pat Coleman]

Not exactly the kind of trip you can make at halftime. We did Benedictine-to-Elmhurst at halftime and only missed the second half kickoff because we stayed at Benedictine an extra two minutes for me to download photos.

And, fairly certain Elmhurst-to-Wheaton, Benedictine-to-North Central, North Central-to-Aurora, North Park-to-Concordia (Ill.) are all shorter than Elmhurst-to-Benedictine.

[AUPepBand]

Quoting Keith:

You might've missed: The effect of the new kickoff rules on games. I don't think I've seen a touchback this season, and I've seen kicks taken at the 18, resulting in tremendous field position for the offense. Kickoffs are from the 30 this year instead of the 35 ... the return to the old clock operation procedures, restoring the 12 or so plays coaches felt the '06 changes lopped off of games.

Keith, you may have not seen a touchback this season, but here in Mayberry (Alfred), we've seen as many as FIVE touchbacks in a single game. I do not have totals but when I get some spare time, I'll go through the stats to see exactly how many touchbacks we've had from senior placekicker Chris "It's Up, It's Good" Reynolds. We've been blessed with his kicking for four years and he's continued to get stronger each season. He's 33-for-33 on XPs this season to boot.

It's Up! It's Good! It's Reynolds!!

On Saxon Warriors!

[K-Mack]

This has been mentioned a couple times since that came out in different formats (e-mail, here maybe)

I can't think of a touchback I've seen this year.

Mark Simon says he's seen some up at Coast Guard.

Someone else (SCIAC maybe?) let me know they saw some.

You don't have to comb through the stats, I get the messaage loud and clear. Across the nation, there are still touchbacks taking place.

But ... there definitely aren't as many.

[Pat Coleman]

Cortland had several at Kean.

[frank uible]

All one needs is a good but not necessarily great DIII place kicker, a wind of at least 15 mph and a kickoffoff from the 30 with the benefit of that wind for the not uncommon ingredients of a possible touchback.

[Hawks88]

Last year Huntingdon had 22 touchbacks on on 47 kickoffs. So far this year we have 2 on 33 kickoffs. Part of that might be that last year's kicker decided to play soccer this year. I believe he would still be getting plenty of touchbacks from the 30.