FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[usee]

The new clock rules are a lot better than the ones from last year, which cost teams closer to 30 plays a game IMO.

[SaintsFAN]

The new clock rules are a lot better than the ones from last year, which cost teams closer to 30 plays a game IMO.

Agreed..  and I just thought of a related OAC question (though it might be rhetorical).

With Nate Kmic's JR and SR seasons having been played with different clock rules --which shortened the games, do you think he would've beat the record already?  Or has MUC's lighter 1st string work nullified that? 

[SaintsFAN]

One more thing:

OAC Regulars,

Someone mentioned that fc84 needs to come back in here when he's sobered up, and I think an anology applies here.  When he first came into the HCAC board... it was much the same way.  More recently, we've had to put him in "time out" less and less.  We still call him idiot and whatnot from time to time... but I think you can compare it to drinking and the standing up too quickly... your equilibrium is off for a bit and you can cause some irreversible damage until you get used to it, but once you get the hang of it... you can stand upright and walk just fine.

Think of the OAC as that room and he's stood up too quickly.... he'll be fine, eventually.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

To GET Respect, you have to EARN Respect, and you do that by SHOWING Respect.

You don't do that by coming on here and telling someone to "Shut the F*** Up" as FC84 did.  Especially when HSCoach posted nothing to warrant that type of response.

[SaintsFAN]

To GET Respect, you have to EARN Respect, and you do that by SHOWING Respect.

You don't do that by coming on here and telling someone to "Shut the F*** Up" as FC84 did.  Especially when HSCoach posted nothing to warrant that type of response.

Thats what I mean by "irreversible damage"... if irreversible is even a word. 

[usee]

To GET Respect, you have to EARN Respect, and you do that by SHOWING Respect.

You don't do that by coming on here and telling someone to "Shut the F*** Up" as FC84 did.  Especially when HSCoach posted nothing to warrant that type of response.

Thats what I mean by "irreversible damage"... if irreversible is even a word. 

it is now. 

[seventiesraider]

Thanks for the heads up Saintsfan.

I'd love to hear about the game but not from him.

[HScoach]

Kmic should have the D3 rushing record sometime in the first half next week against Hobart.  And though I would have never thought it a couple weeks ago, he has a shot at the all-division record too if MUC keeps winning. 


All-division career rushing list going into Round 2 on 11-29-08

No.    Player, Team (Division)                                  Years        Car.         Yds.        Avg.        TO PASS
1.    Danny Woodhead, Chadron St. (II).....................   '04-07     1,156    7,962        6.89         749
2.   R.J. Bowers, Grove City (III).............................      '97-00     1,188      7,353       6.19       140
3.     Nate Kmic, Mount Union (III)......................         '05-          1,056    7,214        6.83

[seventiesraider]

To put the East Region  playoff picture in perspective: St John Fisher kicked the crap out of Ithaca.

[raiderpa]

I don't remember many, if any Mt fans saying that Otterbein was superior to Franklin just because they were in the OAC.  What most Mount fans said, myself included, is that it was great to see Otterbein get in the playoffs and we supported them as a fellow OAC squad.
Further, we said that OAC second place teams had traditionally fared well in the playoffs, and we hoped they would as well.

I have never heard of Franklin or its football program until today, and if this is how their fans handle success, I hope the Raiders get to see them in the playoffs..NOTE TO FC ALUM .if your team gets knocked off before they see Mount in the playoffs  please have your peeps call Larry Kehres(330-823-4880)..he is looking for an opening game for 2010 and 2011...

[altor]

Otterbein should be ashamed of themselves.  62 points to Franklin?  Yeesh.

At least when Capital lost in Round 1 last year, it was without a QB or TB to Whitewater.   

Just to clear things up a bit, I think this is the post to which FCfan was originally responding.  Though, I'm not excusing the response at all.

[reality check]

its all cool.  As FC is newer to the annual playoff tradition no real value adding to the banter. I let the OC folks and others do the talking all last week.   I wont be on here this week making grandiose predictions either.  

I'll take the liberty to translate this post:

"I'm not going to run my mouth or waste anyone's time with meaningful discussion this week (on any board).  In fact, you'll only hear from me if my team wins again.  In the event they beat NCC, I'll spout off to all the NCC fans (and whomever else will listen to me) about how we were disrespected all week and showed everyone how amazing we are.  Oh and I'll chip in with all sorts of useless, unfounded thoughts on NCC's conference and the relative strength of its members.

Also I won't be around if we lose to man up to anything.  In all reality, this is the last time I'll bother anyone with my drivel."

OC played well and made great plays for three quarters. Bit when the going got tough in the fourth they wore out.  The receivers (IMO) are not used to having to make big play after big play as the running game keeps them in it.  Today (and for the last few weeks) FC has been stout against the run.  That was the difference.  FC won the line of scrimmage on both sides.

"Otterbein is a running juggernaut though most of you OAC fans don't know that.  I also have no idea that teams don't typically run the ball when they're behind in a shootout and have to keep pace when they can't stop the other team's offense.  I'm also going to ignore that Otterbein lit us up through the air in their own right.  That's unimportant to my point.  The fact that Otterbein rushed the ball just 4 times from the point they last led (34-31) doesn't tell me that they were passing to get back into it at all.  I can't decipher anything from that statistic."

My main point is that the OAC without MUC is not that much better than many other conferences.  IMO the CCIW and the conference that UW-Whitewater plays in is better top to bottom.  That is why NCC gets the respect they get.  Also Wheaton is stilll alive from the CCIW.

"My main point is that I want to make silly and historically unfounded statements about the OAC  I've never even heard of John Carroll or Capital or Ohio Northern.  Have they ever been in the playoffs?  If so, I'm sure they were thrashed by whomever they played.  In my opinion the CCIW and the conference that Whitewater plays in (I'd know the name of it if I had a clue about Division III football in general) are better top to bottom.  This is why I give NCC respect (oh and I also expect we'll lose to them this week so I don't want to say too much.... unless we win, and then I'll dance on their grave too.  God I hope we win.)  Also Wheaton is still alive in the only other conference I can name.

Thank you all for your time and attention.  God Bless."

[Mr. Ypsi]

rc, delightful!   +k

[seventiesraider]

I grew up hating Oklahoma and nothing changed tonight. Hopefully no desgruntled Texas Tech fans on here whining about running up the score.

[TooForRaider]

Hilarious postings by FC.  I think we talked about this not long ago about "acting like you've been there before."  That's all that needs said to someone like that.

Seventies-I don't like Oklahoma, but hate Texas even more.  After watching the first half of the MUC-RM game, if RM's first guy would have tackled Kmic HALF of the time it MIGHT have been a better game.

One thing that did worry me, and I think some of us have been worried all year--Mount D-line, while fast and strong, lacks size.  It showed a bit today, but luckilly the "bend don't break" mentality came through.  Goodluck as we march toward round 2!