FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

Enterprise is on that list and is a sometimes poster here.

I was in a meeting when I was scanning the list. Missed Enterprise...  Sorry Coach!

[bushman]

McDaniels took the coaching job at Jackson high.  He may have  winning seasons but I don't see him winning a state championship at JHS.

[runyr]

Classic.
The ref from h*ll:
http://firemarkmay.blogspot.com/2006/10/i-hate-your-favorite-team.html

[section13raiderfan]

Poor Thom McDaniels. Those parents are going to drive him crazy! Its pay to play in Jackson and those guys are going to expect to get every penny's worth of their fees. Hes going to have to schedule 3 games a week to get everybody playing time. Heres my prediction....2 years or less, especially if his son scores a head coaching job in the NFL soon. Has anybody ever jumped from the Federal League to the NFL before? It could happen!

[JK]

yes, the off season is upon us, and it does suck.

Although, I was rather ejoying this game of "MUC Football trivia challenge."  Perhaps we can pass offseason time by expanding this little game to the entire OAC?

Here are a couple of starter questions:

Who was the last OAC team before MUC to win a Stagg Bowl and the year?  Kirasdad was correct, BW in 78

Five OAC teams have an all-time OAC winning percentage over .500, who are they?  Seventies got it, MUC, BW, JCU, ONU, and MUSK

The OAC was broken into divisions and played a championship game from what year to what year?  Kirasdad again, from 72-83

There are two current OAC schools that do not have a winning record against any other current OAC schools.  Who are they?  I was wrong here, Otterbein is the only OAC school that does not have a winning record against any current OAC opponent, so RC gets the Karma

Which current OAC school has had the most number of players selected to All-OAC first teams?  No one answered, BW has had 194 players selected all-OAC first team.  MUC is second with 175

The OAC has awarded the Mike Gregory award since 1956 to two players.  What positions must those players be?  NCC_Alum got it, Back and lineman

Who was the OAC coach of the year in 2005?  Again, NCC Alum, Joe Loth, Otterbein

There we go.  That should be a good start.  Answer away...

[JK]

Here is another good one that I couldn't resist:

Only one OAC coach has been named coach of the year at two different current OAC schools.  Who is he, what schools did he win the award at, and what were the years?

Wally Hood was the only coach to be OAC coach of the year at two different schools, at ONU in 1982 (he shared the award that year with MUC's Ken Wable) and at OTT in 2000

Interesting that this post follows the one about McDaniels going to Jackson, as Wally was the coach at Jackson in the 80's, I believe.

[reality check]

JK

Don't beat yourself up.  OTT beat Marietta last season 27-24 which brings the overall series record to 39-39.  So in other words Marietta AND Otterbein are tied up (non-winning) and have losingrecords against everyone else in the OAC. 

+Karma

[raiderguy]

Olinemom,

I just sent you a recipe for "Buckeyes". I hope I am not stepping on any toes there 70's. They are a great delight.

Or should that now be spelled delite? Beer drinkers should get that.

[4u]

Nick Caserio (JCU '98) will be the new wide receiver's coach for the New England Patriots.  He will be transitioning from his role as Director of Pro Personnel.
It should hit the wire soon...
4u

[runyr]

Here's a good one.  Big Ten Commish pulls academic card in letter to members.
http://bigten.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020907aaa.html

[NCC_alum62]

Here's a good one.  Big Ten Commish pulls academic card in letter to members.
http://bigten.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020907aaa.html

There was another aritcle on Yahoo about Clemson's admissions requirements...how the booster club wanted them to lower the standards to get kids into the school after signing letters of intent.

This is absolutly disturbing. To think that we must lower excellence in the classroom in favor of excellence on the football field.  Hats off to someone saying they weren't going to do that. Its the job of high school and college coaches to mold these powerful athletes into young men.  If we give a pass to a kid just becasue he is the biggest and the strongest what kind of message does that send? Forget learning to be a better citizen, learning to read and write, and function as a member of society, if you can run a 4.3 you don't have to go to class or respect women or stay out of jail because as a coach I need you to get me in a bowl game....its absolutly the death of the student athlete and the end of football as a teaching tool for life.

I think football helps teach us that adversity is something we have to confront and over come. And adversity comes not only from an opponent but from your life. Trying to make decent grades, keeping yourself eligible, making the right choices, and getting an education, because not every person who runs a 4.3 is going to get in the NFL.  in 1998 Tennessee had a graduation rate of something like 22% for its football team, thats unbelievable.  What happens to those kids when they find themselves unable to hold a good job when they realize they aren't going pro?

They didn't have to learn the basics in H.S. because they were a great athlete and now they can't gradaute college because they don't have the basic skills to even get through the remedial classes.

Its time to raise standards, not lower them, its time to enforce the academic policies of having a C average in order to play H.S. sports and keeping teachers and coaches acountable for that.  I hope that reporter who wrote that article realizes what they are saying when they say standards have to be lowered to get those fast kids out of Florida and Texas...maybe if they had better teachers and higher standards they could have gotten an academic scholarship instead of an athletic one.

[reality check]

4u

That's aweseome for Caserio.  I think I remember another JCU alum moving up the chain in Foxboro recently.  Makes me wonder...if I went to JCU instead of ONU maybe I could have worked my way up the ladder with New England while I lived in CT.  I could have been head hot dog vendor or something.

Nice to see another OAC (and specifically) JCU guy get a promotion.

[e_lee]

seventies,

During my senior year I did my student teaching with Rocky Pentello.  I am not saying which one, except its the older one. 

[Small but Slow]

NCC alum - Double standards for athletes is nothing new.  Only in recent years there has been uniform minimum standards established by the NCAA for athletic participation.  Arguments exist for giving students who have not succeeded academically opportunities to receive an education.  The present standards have eliminated a good number of athletes who would have represented a university athletically from doing so.  The standards have motivated many kids who would not have performed in the class room to do so in order to play college sports.  Consider the reputations of the institutions who wish to lower their admission standards for athletes.  I believe the minimum SAT score to compete at an NCAA school is 860 and the ACT is a 15.  The hypocrisy is that to be accepted to many of these schools a "regular" student wishing to earn an education must have a much higher score.  Of course, these schools earn much more money from their athletes than they do their students.

[NCC_alum62]

By no means do I believe its nothing new. You're absolutly right about that. And yes more recently standards have raised the intelligence (at least on paper) of the average college D-1 player.

I just feel like we do a dis-service to young men and women when we lower the bar instead of teaching them how to really excel at something other than thier sport.  I think a majority of kids who go to D-I, D-II on an athletic scholarship make the grade and actually could have been accepted to that institution on thier academic merit as well as thier athletic prowess, however for the group of kids that don't have the basic skills to succeed in college, what do they really gain. Even if they somehow pass, anyone with a degree can get an interview, but if you can't form proper sentences and contribute as a thinker why would any company hire them?

Its time to make sure every high schooler comes out of highschool at a high school reading and math level. I love stories about college athletes who excel in the classroom and help remove a stigma that all we are is jocks, but far too often we see the oppositte, young people who turn to something dishonest or illegal to make money because they don't have the intelligence that comes with a real education