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[Raider 68]

I think this years playoffs will be great... for mount union Go RAIDERS!!!!!

MountUnion12,

Welcome to the OAC Board! +k 

[seventiesraider]

Hey MountUnion12, welcome. Anybody with Nebraska in their email name and MountUnion in their screen name is fine with this Omaha Westside/Mount Union Union graduate

[Kehresma]

Pointless observation about Witt/ONU:

Wittenberg (1999)

373 points scored (37.3 points per game)
110 points given up (11.0 points per game)

Approx 1600 passing yards and 2500 rushing yards

Top two receivers: approx 1300 yards and 12 TDs

Wittenberg escapes with a 3 point win at Allegheny 20-17

Wittenberg plays a tough game at Wooster to close out the regular season (21-14 ballgame deep into 4th quarter...)

NCAC player of the year: Casey Donaldson (1308 yards and 17 total touchdowns)

Wittenberg (2010)

372 points scored (37.2 points per game)
117 points given up (11.7 points per game)

Approx 1600 rushing yards and 2800 passing yards

Top two rushers: approx 1300 yards and 14 TDs

Wittenberg escapes with a 3 point win at Allegheny 24-21

Wittenberg squeaks out their final game at Wooster to close out the regular season

Probable NCAC player of the year: Josh McKee (1354 yards and 16 total touchdowns)





Deja vu?  

That's hard to do! Remarkable!

[Kehresma]

Did anyone else note the heightened security at last week's game?  More cops, none of the extra gates opened at the end of the game?  LK being escorted off the field after the game by APD?  I teach here and had no idea what was going on.

Couldn't quite stand it to stay till the end, so we missed the excitement. Must have been extraordinary threat for Coach Kehres to utilize personal security services. One has to believe he's dealt with plenty  runofthemill thugs before

[Kehresma]

I read on the Springfield paper website that Witt will be spending Friday night in Lima.  I was unaware but the article claims that the NCAA requires an overnight stay for visiting teams in the playoffs in spite of the fact that both schools sit less than 90 minutes apart and are closer than many conference opponents.

LIMA!..now that just ain't right.

[Kehresma]

I think this years playoffs will be great... for mount union Go RAIDERS!!!!!

Welcome, mountunion12. We were getting a little light in proportion of purple posters... in the new, kinder, gentler, more civil discourse of the OAC message board...which will last til, say, the week after semis maybe...

[SaintsFAN]

I read on the Springfield paper website that Witt will be spending Friday night in Lima.  I was unaware but the article claims that the NCAA requires an overnight stay for visiting teams in the playoffs in spite of the fact that both schools sit less than 90 minutes apart and are closer than many conference opponents.

LIMA!..now that just ain't right.

can't be worse than Springfield... jeez.. that place has gone to hell in a handbasket.

[seventiesraider]

After all the years of my family telling me Mount Union "needs to move up", I can finally tell them this Thanksgiving that Akron needs to move down. 0-11 and playing in the MAC. What a waste of scholarship money

[mr_mom]

After all the years of my family telling me Mount Union "needs to move up", I can finally tell them this Thanksgiving that Akron needs to move down. 0-11 and playing in the MAC. What a waste of scholarship money

But they totally blow Mount away in the category of "Percentage of campus under concrete"!   

[skunks_sidekick]

What?  Akron is a "beacon of light" or some such drivel their egotistical president spews every time you see one of those commercials. 

The dude has such an ego, he won't "allow"any of his commercials to be shot on video...it HAS to be film.   

Don't get me wrong.....that university has grown so much it's pretty amazing.  Too bad there is a really crappy football team occupying that beautiful new stadium.

[Toph]

After all the years of my family telling me Mount Union "needs to move up", I can finally tell them this Thanksgiving that Akron needs to move down. 0-11 and playing in the MAC. What a waste of scholarship money

At least their $61.5 million stadium looks nice while they lose to everyone on their schedule, including Gardner-Webb, D1 Non-BCS...with three wins on their schedule.

I know that Infocision paid $10 mil for the naming rights, but how was the rest of that albatross...errrr facility funded?  If I were a UA alum I'd be none to happy about a football team going 0-11 with a stadium that cost almost 6 times more than neighboring Kent State's Dix Stadium original construction and renovation combined.

How many people do they have in that 30,000 seat stadium these days...a couple thousand?

[rscl70]

After all the years of my family telling me Mount Union "needs to move up", I can finally tell them this Thanksgiving that Akron needs to move down. 0-11 and playing in the MAC. What a waste of scholarship money

At least their $61.5 million stadium looks nice while they lose to everyone on their schedule, including Gardner-Webb, D1 Non-BCS...with three wins on their schedule.

I know that Infocision paid $10 mil for the naming rights, but how was the rest of that albatross...errrr facility funded?  If I were a UA alum I'd be none to happy about a football team going 0-11 with a stadium that cost almost 6 times more than neighboring Kent State's Dix Stadium original construction and renovation combined.

How many people do they have in that 30,000 seat stadium these days...a couple thousand?

It just looks empty.  Attendance was 7,671 for Miami.  They could have played the game at Mount Union. 

[Blutarsky]

After all the years of my family telling me Mount Union "needs to move up", I can finally tell them this Thanksgiving that Akron needs to move down. 0-11 and playing in the MAC. What a waste of scholarship money

At least their $61.5 million stadium looks nice while they lose to everyone on their schedule, including Gardner-Webb, D1 Non-BCS...with three wins on their schedule.

I know that Infocision paid $10 mil for the naming rights, but how was the rest of that albatross...errrr facility funded?  If I were a UA alum I'd be none to happy about a football team going 0-11 with a stadium that cost almost 6 times more than neighboring Kent State's Dix Stadium original construction and renovation combined.

How many people do they have in that 30,000 seat stadium these days...a couple thousand?

It just looks empty.  Attendance was 7,671 for Miami.  They could have played the game at Mount Union. 

It would have been the "sorriest" game played in that stadium in years.....

[formerd3db]

After all the years of my family telling me Mount Union "needs to move up", I can finally tell them this Thanksgiving that Akron needs to move down. 0-11 and playing in the MAC. What a waste of scholarship money

At least their $61.5 million stadium looks nice while they lose to everyone on their schedule, including Gardner-Webb, D1 Non-BCS...with three wins on their schedule.

I know that Infocision paid $10 mil for the naming rights, but how was the rest of that albatross...errrr facility funded?  If I were a UA alum I'd be none to happy about a football team going 0-11 with a stadium that cost almost 6 times more than neighboring Kent State's Dix Stadium original construction and renovation combined.

How many people do they have in that 30,000 seat stadium these days...a couple thousand?

It just looks empty.  Attendance was 7,671 for Miami.  They could have played the game at Mount Union.  

It would have been the "sorriest" game played in that stadium in years.....

I think you guys are right.  That is too bad.  Schools like that really should be FCS level (formerly DIAA).  We've talked about that on our board in the past regarding some of those similar schools Eastern Michigan, even Western Michigan and Central Michigan and Buffalo should be in that category IMO.  I have a friend who's brother coaches at Univ of Buffalo who played his football at DIII and has been a DI assistant coach for almost 20 years.  My friend went to his brother's game this past Saturday and they only had 3,000 at the game.  Heck, we had more than that at Homecoming at Hope this year and it was a bad year for us as you know.  One of my former Hope teammates whose son now plays for Hope, related to me that his son was being recruited by Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan.  He went to a game at Eastern and they only had 1,000 people in the huge stadium - like you are talking about Akron.  He told his dad that " heck, Hope gets more than that, and he'd rather play at DIII Hope".  Fortunately, his parents had the $ for him to go to Hope  I also remember a game last year when Hope outdrew what Western had for a game.  That is sad.  While Hope has obviously not been the great teams like Mount Union and/or draw like them or other DIII teams or even like  St. John's, St. Thomas, etc., or the Monon Bell game, still the community supports them very well and we get well-over 4,000 when they are winning (and that at Homecoming) and the MIAA will get what Akron did when they have a team like Trine this year that draws about 4,000 or close to that per home game.

Bottom line is that, I think some of the lower tier DI teams really need to be realistic and look at the situatiaon - they need to be FCS category really.  Anyway, thanks all of your for sharing your thoughts on this topic - very interesting.

[seventiesraider]

At least Akron played on Wednesday night so the big crowd high school games could be there this weekend, but of course not Mogadore. We get to travel to Twinsburg for the second straight week.

Two D1 football programs within a half an hour of my house in Akron and Kent with a combined record of 4-17