FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[hsbsballcoach7]

So Larry Kehres flew all the way to Florida to see new QB recruit Luke Poorman play a game and hes enrolled early. hmm wonder if he'll pull a Bill Borchert and start as a true freshman or be in the mix?

This and early enrolling are the only reasons I mentioned the kid possibly playing as a freshman. LK personally flew down to watch a game. That's not messing around.

I've got too much time on my hands right now as my school where I teach is on break and baseball season isn't full go for another month and I keep looking around at Mount stuff. You all probably think I'm nuts posting this much recently.

I noticed that some Mount players put together hudl highlight films. You have to take it for what it's worth playing on JV and all because lots of freshman (Brown at JCU comes to mind) are playing varsity at other schools. Anyway, Klaver threw some nice looking balls in his film and Jawanza Evans-Morris might be pushing for playing time next year. He's only about 5-8, but looks at least 185 and runs hard. He could be that between the tackles type of runner the Purple Raiders will need if they want to go far in the playoffs again.

[jknezek]

I would guess that Amherst is pretty good, but I pictured them more in line with a Case than a Wabash.  Perhaps a little better than Case?  But not on par with this year's Wabash or TMC squads.  Not based on the NESCAC games I've seen the last few years.

Yeah. I could have overshot. It's just so hard to tell. Either way, I don't think Amherst is getting blown out by anyone but the very top of DIII.

[edward de vere]

How sweet is it to have the world's most overqualified quarterback coach?

[Craft_Beermeister]

So Larry Kehres flew all the way to Florida to see new QB recruit Luke Poorman play a game and hes enrolled early. hmm wonder if he'll pull a Bill Borchert and start as a true freshman or be in the mix?

Larry hates to fly, but .....Luke Poorman is a great pickup

Luke tweeted the following right after the game 

MOUNT UNION 2016 NATIONAL CHAMPS!!! THE MACHINE!!! Can't wait to be there in 3 weeks!!

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

So Larry Kehres flew all the way to Florida to see new QB recruit Luke Poorman play a game and hes enrolled early. hmm wonder if he'll pull a Bill Borchert and start as a true freshman or be in the mix?

Larry hates to fly, but .....Luke Poorman is a great pickup

Luke tweeted the following right after the game 

MOUNT UNION 2016 NATIONAL CHAMPS!!! THE MACHINE!!! Can't wait to be there in 3 weeks!!

He was also on campus for the win over UWW

[rlk]

Trolling the NESCAC page and there is some discussion on the outcome of Mount and Amherst. My statement was Mount 63-Amherst 3 (maybe 10). Don't know alot about Amherst but I see them as an Otterbein type football team. Anyone know a bit more?

NESCAC not only doesn't participate in the postseason in football, they never play outside their conference, not even the ECAC games.  That's why they only play 8 games.  They're completely on an island.  They don't even play NEFC, Liberty League, etc. schools that are very close by.  So I'd argue that it would be really hard to project what would happen, although if I were forced to venture a guess I suspect your prediction would be more accurate than theirs, if for no other reason than the fact that you play a lot wider variety of good teams.  It would have been interesting to see last year, when MIT had a terrific season, going 9-0 and beating Husson in the first round only to then have to play Wesley, because Amherst was also undefeated in their regular season.

But bear in mind that NESCAC does play out of conference and post-season in other sports, and they've done very well indeed if you look at the Learfield Directors' Cup.  They had four teams in the top 10 even without the benefit of football, including Williams at #1 (Johns Hopkins #2, MIT #3, Washington #4, Amherst #5).  Amherst has won multiple national titles in men's basketball, Williams has won one and lost as close a game as could be to Whitewater a couple of years ago (after clobbering Amherst in their semifinal).  They can recruit nationally on both academics and athletics, although football may be harder because one would have no chance of playing for a national championship and they're going to have some recruiting competition from the Ivy League.

BTW, Williams and Amherst have a rivalry that makes yours with UWW look tame by way of comparison (there's a fair bit of banter between NEWMAC and NESCAC on the basketball boards, since we're both strong conferences in that sport).  I've seen it said that Amherst alums will excuse not winning a national championship before they'll excuse losing to Williams.  They go back a very, very long way.

[gizzmo13]

So Larry Kehres flew all the way to Florida to see new QB recruit Luke Poorman play a game and hes enrolled early. hmm wonder if he'll pull a Bill Borchert and start as a true freshman or be in the mix?

Larry hates to fly, but .....Luke Poorman is a great pickup

Luke tweeted the following right after the game 

MOUNT UNION 2016 NATIONAL CHAMPS!!! THE MACHINE!!! Can't wait to be there in 3 weeks!!

but arent we 2015 champs?

[HScoach]

Maybe Craft's magic 8-ball is predicting a successful 2016 too?

[Mr. Ypsi]

Maybe Craft's magic 8-ball is predicting a successful 2016 too?

Or else Luke Poorman is giddy with possibilities!

[jknezek]

Maybe Craft's magic 8-ball is predicting a successful 2016 too?

Or else Luke Poorman is giddy with possibilities!

It's also possible your vaunted football recruit can't remember simple things like what year it is...

[Craft_Beermeister]

Maybe Craft's magic 8-ball is predicting a successful 2016 too?

The MOUNT UNION 2016 NATIONAL CHAMPS!!! THE MACHINE!!! Can't wait to be there in 3 weeks!! was a direct copy from Luke Poorman's twitter page.  It looks like Luke tweeted it just after Mount Union's impressive win Friday night.

It was interesting that Luke had several tweets about Mount Union going back to I think June.  Poorman also thanked Larry for flying down to watch him play.  There is a lot of neat stuff related to the Purple Raiders I saw on Poorman's twitter page, but after I asked to follow him on Twitter he blocked me.  LOL I can't recall another time that I've been blocked on Twitter.  Maybe D3Board karma has carried over to Twitter or maybe the young man doesn't liked to be followed by old men.

[Raider 68]

Maybe Craft's magic 8-ball is predicting a successful 2016 too?

The MOUNT UNION 2016 NATIONAL CHAMPS!!! THE MACHINE!!! Can't wait to be there in 3 weeks!! was a direct copy from Luke Poorman's twitter page.  It looks like Luke tweeted it just after Mount Union's impressive win Friday night.

It was interesting that Luke had several tweets about Mount Union going back to I think June.  Poorman also thanked Larry for flying down to watch him play.  There is a lot of neat stuff related to the Purple Raiders I saw on Poorman's twitter page, but after I asked to follow him on Twitter he blocked me.  LOL I can't recall another time that I've been blocked on Twitter.  Maybe D3Board karma has carried over to Twitter or maybe the young man doesn't liked to be followed by old men.

Luke Poorman, graduate University H.S. Orlando, Florida. He is unrolled at Mount starting January 2016;

- 6'0 190 lbs, probably will add another 10+ lbs

- Great arm, accurate and mobile

- Set all kinds of records at University school

- Graduated early

Although it is unlikely to be the starter against Bethany next fall, he could be later in the season. Maybe he will be an answer
to the QB question for 2016.

Here is some video:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG_2PEV1pVg

[Toph]

A few days late, but this is my first chance to post about the game.

First things first, good God, was it cold.  That was the first time I ever tailgated inside a car.  The ambient temperature wasn't bad, but that wind was awful. 

I was very impressed with Mount Union in my first opportunity to see them live this season.  They're fast all over the field.  UST's running backs were good, but did anyone else notice (and I'm sorry if this has already been discussed) that they ran toward their sideline probably 95% of the time?  I think that's one reason the ground game slowed a little, you knew where the ball was going before it was snapped.  They also got a little pass happy which didn't make sense to me, being a big running team, with 25 mile an hour wind...

Finally, our buddy Glenn...I've never seen a coach who was 10 yards beyond the box, nearly at the hash marks complaining to officials so much without drawing a flag.  I loved watching Mount score just to see Campbell's reaction on the sideline.  But I was happy to see that he decided to go out with some class this time and not try to disrupt the victory formation.

I'll end by saying that after the Raiders tied it up 14-14 the game was never really in doubt.  Take away a fluke score on the fumble recovery, take away the weird fake punt call that made absolutely no sense, this game wasn't as close as the score indicated.  Mount Union was clearly the better team Friday night.

Enjoy it, Raider fans, and we'll see what happens next year.

[Toph]

Oh, and one other thing I found myself wondering at the game:

How is it that Notre Dame can sell 30,000+ tickets to a bowl game, but a school with a larger enrollment can't get 3,000 to show up for their national championship?

I'm not suggesting St. Thomas should be able to get 30k, but think about that for a second.  They graduate over 10,000 people every four years and only had about 2,500 (my estimate) at the national championship game.

[pg04]

The draw of Salem, Virginia probably isn't THAT enticing. It's a long trip from Minnesota.  Also, to be perfectly honest, how many of the students there rea all that interested in the football team as compared to Notre Dame? At many D1 schools the football team is the top talk throughout the campus (at least it is here in the south). But at a D3 school, where does it fall on the priority list? Just from my own experience with a team that made it semi-far in the playoffs (although it was more than 10 years ago) there was barely a buzz on campus.