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[janesvilleflash]

What they said.

[stealth]

K-Mack & Pat,
I don't think that there is anybody on the planet that could get close to what you and the D3 team bring to the table. 4 years of watching you grow as a reporters and the D3.com team in general. Sorry I won't have a vested interest in tracking the football boards next year but I can ensure you I will be checking in just to get the low down. Been a hell of ride K-Mack. Going out as #1 is a good thing right footballfan413 ?

[footballfan413]

You betcha! Doesn't get any better and remember, Stealth............   

ONCE A WARHAWK, ALWAYS A WARHAWK!!     

[old ends]

Sorry I won't have a vested interest in tracking the football boards next year but I can ensure you I will be checking in just to get the low down. 

Check in more and have fun with the memories, you may see things in a different light and become more involved than you think.

Happy New Year to all..

may it be safe

[old ends]

NCAA.Org has changed the home page and layout. Contents still the same. Also they have a new quartley magazine coming out called Champion. which you can get for $15.00 a year. College get free copies.

[crufootball]

doubt we could already know but what are the chances Champion has much about D3 football or D3 sports in general?

[K-Mack]

Yet another well-argued point for the playoffs vs. the BCS. The Washington Post (full disclosure: Where I now work) wrote a story talking to Appalachian State and their AD who used to be at N.C. State asking if the playoff system that works at a sports-happy Appy State could work in I-A.

Division I-AA Shows Argument For Playoffs Isn't All Academic

I'm sure there are several other threads where this would fit.

Also,
been commuting into D.C., and this now continues the Weird D3 sightings from earlier in this thread:
Have seen two Denison stickers and an Oberlin on cars in D.C. In No. Va. malls yesterday, saw a guy with a Waynesburg shirt/hat, (something else I'm forgetting) and an M.I.T. sticker. And a Catholic sweatshirt, but that's to be expected

Thought I saw Olivet too, but it turned out to be something else.

It also appears Trinity has just won the Pontiac Game-Changing Play of the Year.

[K-Mack]

Georgia Prez giving more love to the I-A playoff idea.

The thought's been raised, in the wake of Ohio State's consecutive title game drubbings, that 3rd week of Nov. until late in the 1st week of Jan. is too long between games. :light bulb:

[K-Mack]

Hey, stumbled upon an end zone angle to the Trinity-Millsaps play, which if you've never seen it before from this angle (I hadn't, and didn't know there was a second angle floating around out there) it does give you a new impression of things. Particularly how tiring it was for Millsaps guys, especially the last one hustling who tried to make the tackle on Curry at the end then puts his hands on his hips like "We did not just lose that game that way." ... and then goes to hands-on-knees.

http://www.fantasycollegeblitz.com/ArticleDetail.asp?id=1085

This is the junk I find researching for YIR.

Also,
Learned that recently fired Dolphins GM Randy Mueller had been a Linfield guy, which had given us two GMs (the other is Sewanee's Phil Savage).

Also someone recently in the news started out at Occidental ... Oh snap, Barack Obama, that's who. I knew he had a Hawaii connection and all I could think of was June Jones.

Anyway, maybe that'll be one of my offseason goals, to start the proper D3 alums thread.

[K-Mack]

Also, in the personal ramblings department, it's frickin' impossible to find anything on the Don Hansen site, but I am looking for preseason rankings ... because the more sets of rankings I find (I have 7 in mind), the more I get to trash (mine own included) in YIR.

I did find a tale of Craig Burroughs' 2007 visit to St. John's, which was interesting. FWIW.

http://donhansen.blogspot.com/2007_09_24_archive.html

The overall site though, given my experience there just now, in 2008, I find it really, really hard to believe the below is true

Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette was the first publication to exclusively cover Small College Football.  The Football Gazette was also the first to go online with it's coverage.

[Ralph Turner]

...
I did find a tale of Craig Burroughs' 2007 visit to St. John's, which was interesting. FWIW.

http://donhansen.blogspot.com/2007_09_24_archive.html

The overall site though, given my experience there just now, in 2008, I find it really, really hard to believe the below is true

Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette was the first publication to exclusively cover Small College Football.  The Football Gazette was also the first to go online with it's coverage.

K-Mack, I found this tale of mis-behavior particularly instructive.  Fortunately, we have not had an end zone gang get out of hand in D3.

Delta State-Henderson State

As for how long Don Hansen has been doing this, there were some very early pioneers in this field who have fallen by the wayside.  I would like to find some archives of his Don's mid-1990's work.

It is quite clear which site has grown to be the leader in Division III coverage.

[Ron Boerger]

You can use the internet wayback machine (http://www.archive.org) to see a site's history - if anyone can figure out the URL of Hansen's original site.  The archive goes back to 1996.

[K-Mack]

Ron, good suggestion on the wayback machine, have used that once before. Although I'm starting to think that, in 30 or 45 minutes last night, if I could browse the site and never find the preseason ranking, maybe no one else did either, so what's the point of me reviewing it?

Also, Ralph, I have heard of some other publications that used to do the small college thing, so I believe you are right there. The only online presence I remember when I played was the Centennial-run site, whose basketball affiliate was the precursor to D3hoops.

As you well know, I'm sure.

[Ralph Turner]

When I discovered the internet and D3 in 1999-2000, Columbus Multimedia was the other site that was giving coverage, especially in Hoops.

That makes me a relative newbie!   

[PA_wesleyfan]

There was a decent D3 football site pre 1999  but I no longer have the bookmark. I remember that there was one person running it. I can't remember the exact circumstances of it's demise but time issues(career). Pat would know better than I but I recall that it wasn't cheap to run a site even then