FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[matblake]

DIIIVa, as a fellow Wheaton fan that is now out of the midwest and thought I would send you a list of DIII Football Schools in Virginia.  This is taken right out of the South region page of D3Football.com  http://www.d3football.com/regions.php?region=south 

Averett, Bridgewater, Christopher Newport, Emory & Henry, Ferrum, Hampden Sydney, Newport News, Randolph Macon, Shenandoah, and Washington and Lee. 

Can't speak for all of the teams, but some of these teams have been a factor on the national stage.  I myself living in Michigan check out an MIAA game or 2 per year.  Happy hunting for D3 closer to your home.

[Mugsy]

DIIIVa, as a fellow Wheaton fan that is now out of the midwest and thought I would send you a list of DIII Football Schools in Virginia.  This is taken right out of the South region page of D3Football.com  http://www.d3football.com/regions.php?region=south 

Averett, Bridgewater, Christopher Newport, Emory & Henry, Ferrum, Hampden Sydney, Newport News, Randolph Macon, Shenandoah, and Washington and Lee. 

Can't speak for all of the teams, but some of these teams have been a factor on the national stage.  I myself living in Michigan check out an MIAA game or 2 per year.  Happy hunting for D3 closer to your home.

Randolph Macon should hold special interest for any Wheaton football alum, since Pedro Arruza is the head coach.

[DIIIinVA]

Matblake, thanks for the list.  I didn't mean to suggest there was no D-III ball down here.  The ODAC is not bad - Bridgewater has had some recent success including a Stagg Bowl appearance, Ferrum had a run back in the 80's (including when future Seattle Seahawk Chris Warren played for them), and as Mugsy pointed out, my former teammate Pedro Arruza is coaching at Randolph Macon near Richmond.  Actually when Pedro was considering the job he called me to briefly ask what I knew about the school and the Richmond area.  I talked with a member of the search committee of one other Virginia D-III school some years back when they were considering interviewing Chris Creighton (then at NAIA Ottawa, KS, now at Wabash), whose DC is another former teammate of mine, Neal Neathery.  So I do get a little bit of D-III action down here, just don't make it to many games since the nearest actual D-III campus & stadium is at least an hour away from where I live.  The Stagg Bowl is usually the only D-III game I see each year.  As I mentioned before, these days if I make it to a college football game it's usually in Blacksburg, to watch Virginia Tech.  That's a great atmosphere to watch a game in, and their D in particular is a lot of fun to watch.  Sitting near field level, it's incredible to see the size and athleticism of high-level division one athletes.  Some of the D-III superstars I played with and against might have been good enough to walk on at VT.  Maybe.  But as fun as division one football in a big stadium is, my first love is still the very different experience of a saturday afternoon D-III contest.

[matblake]

DIII, didn't mean to make you think that I thought you thought VA was a D3 wasteland (a run-on convoluted sentence if I ever saw one).  I think you and I were at Wheaton at the same time.  Pedro was on my floor both freshman and sophomore years. 

[DIIIinVA]

Matblake, we probably overlapped by a year.  I was there from fall '89-spring '93.  Pedro hung out at our house a lot my senior year (his freshman year).

[Comet 14]

Somebody needs to give DIIIinVA some karma and get him off that goose egg. He has had some good posts. Other than Ittersagen from Wheaton and Kudyba from Elmhurst are ther any other players coming back from injury to watch in the CCIW this fall? I know Carthage had a lot of injuries last year. How many of them are so-called impact players and how are ther recoveries coming?

[Pat Coleman]

Wheaton are [sic] a bunch of (remainder deleted)

You have some facts to go with those allegations? Pretty strong ones, and I have never heard anything like them in nine years of this message board.

Seriously -- talk about out of left field.

[usee]

Wheaton are [sic] a bunch of (remainder deleted)

You have some facts to go with those allegations? Pretty strong ones, and I have never heard anything like them in nine years of this message board.

Seriously -- talk about out of left field.

Thanks pat. I'm glad I never saw the post.

[Redmen96]

For Redmen 04

Pat Healy: Really, it's only a side thing for my true passion.
Mary: And what's that?
Pat Healy: I work with retards.
Mary: Isn't that a little politically incorrect?
Pat Healy: Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one's gonna tell me who I can and can't work with.

[NCC_alum62]

I thought the USA in the World Cup of Football was a pretty cool thing.  I was going over the IFAF website and checking out the subject matter on the 2007 World Cup.

Austrailia lost to Korea 22-13 and a guy posted that he was embarassed that Austrailia didn't make the world cup of american football. USA beat Korea 77-0 holding them to -31 yards total offense, 0 first downs, and scoring 42 defensive and special teams points.

I was a bit surprised that after two pretty easy wins they had a real dogfight with Japan.

[byitisee]

The Wheaton Thunder season preview is now availabe at the new Wheaton Athletics website...

www.wheaton.edu/athletics

[usee]

The Wheaton Thunder season preview is now availabe at the new Wheaton Athletics website...

www.wheaton.edu/athletics

Augie is the only CCIW school with a preview listed on the front page of D3football.com.

interestingly, Augie also returns 15 starters from last years team. 8 on offense and 7 on defense, the same as the thunder. also, like the thunder, they return their entire offensive line.

Are you ready for some football?

[Gregory Sager]

NPU's new football unis:

http://www.northpark.edu/home/index.cfm?northpark=RNews.RNews_Story&ID=2135

Also, ICB Sports will be providing live webcasts for NPU football games this fall:

http://www.northpark.edu/home/index.cfm?northpark=Athletic_News.AthN_Story&ID=2080

[NCC_alum62]

NPU's new football unis:

http://www.northpark.edu/home/index.cfm?northpark=RNews.RNews_Story&ID=2135

Also, ICB Sports will be providing live webcasts for NPU football games this fall:

http://www.northpark.edu/home/index.cfm?northpark=Athletic_News.AthN_Story&ID=2080

Very nice...

I would personally go either all blue or all white because the pants don't continue the stripe pattern in the jersey...but thats just one man's eye.

[Gotberg]

NPU's new football unis:

http://www.northpark.edu/home/index.cfm?northpark=RNews.RNews_Story&ID=2135

Also, ICB Sports will be providing live webcasts for NPU football games this fall:

http://www.northpark.edu/home/index.cfm?northpark=Athletic_News.AthN_Story&ID=2080

It's good to see former players get involved by forming a booster club.  I also think programs like this will help develop recruiting relationships with area high schools:
http://www.northpark.edu/home/index.cfm?northpark=RNews.RNews_Story&ID=2132