FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[e_lee]

kirasdad,

That would require a laptop and a wireless connection.  Two of which I do not have.  I think I am watching Ohio State-Michigan game under the hope(wish?) that Capital will play again next week.  I hope this works out for me. If OSU gets up big on Michigan I might just head to teh school and get on teh computer to listen and then work the clock at the tip-off tournament.

[Mugsy]

Carthate stopped it, and Wheaton maintained it ( I would have said stopped it, but they did give up 21 pts on D).

Not to quibble... but one of Augie's TD's came when they started from the Wheaton 10 yard line (after the long interception return).  Another came on a blocked punt for a TD.  Augie had 203 yards rushing, which was 150 yards below average.  After the first drive of 82 yards, Augie only had 121 yards for the remainder of the game.  Against Augie, I'd say that's pretty close to stopping it. 

I know you can't do it... but if you take away the blocked punt for TD and the long interception, I'd say there was potential for a tight game.  Granted... Wheaton's passing offense was horrendous.  But if it were a 14-7 game, I doubt they would have been chuckin' the ball all over.  They would have continued to rush the ball, which they were having moderate success.  I know... it's a moot point now.

[augiedogie]

Mugsy:

Although they started with great field position on that drive, they still gave up a td on 2nd down from the 10 yard line.  It would have been different if they held them to a field goal, or created a turn over ala the Augie D that gave them the short field with the pick deep in the red zone.  I acknowledge that Wheton held them way below their normal numbers, but with the 3 td lead Augie's offense was even more conservative (if you can call it that) then if they needed to score more points in that game.

[zorbadagreek]

I meant anthony from auggie, not carthage on my earlier post!! 
whats the running back situation at carthage going to be like for next year?? Namon Johnson, who was supposed to be the heir to Dante, seems to have lost his job to Mengel, who was selected as a 2nd team CCIW. Whose the man for next year? The same can be said about the QB situation!!

[wheels81]

Augie's 2nd drive of the game was a MINUS 7 yards, and  they were  up 7-0 at the time.  Are you saying they went conservative?  What part of their game isn't conservative?  :-).  Also the long TD run, #36? came when Andy Studebaker got dinged up and left game for one play. The run went right around his subbed position of right DE.  I thought that was good coaching by picking on the sub.  I honestly didn't see the handoff to the lineman.  Someone who was at the field level said that if Barnes hadn't called him out on it the ref appeared to be ready to flag him for taunting?
Maybe Wheaton should have used Kyle Bradley at qb to help get the Bradley MOJO working against Augie since his cousin had a lot of success against them. 

Good luck to NCC this weekend as I think that game will be the most competitive. 
Augustana should roll over Lakeland and then on to Ohio and scale the Purple Mountain.

[zorbadagreek]

Just making conversation here: Now that the regular season is over, who, in the opinion of you guys, are the best and worst of the Athletic directors in the conference?? After all, these are the guys that hire the head coaches! I was never a Bonn (Carthage) fan, that is to say I didnt like him as a person, I dont mean to take anything away from what he's done at Carthage(Before all you guys jump all over me). He has helped turn that place around as well as the AD's at Elmhurst and NCC!!

[CardinalAlum]

FYI, NCC has a new AD this year.  Jim Miller is a 1986 NCC graduate and was the former head wrestling coach and assistant football coach.  Jim has worked his way up the ladder at NCC from his days as an admission counselor, following the path that Walter Johnson followed before him as AD.  Jim is a fantastic hire and has the full support of the alumni.  Quite a few alumni went to bat for him when the hiring process was going on.  He has done and will do a great job.

[Mugsy]

Mugsy:

Although they started with great field position on that drive, they still gave up a td on 2nd down from the 10 yard line.  It would have been different if they held them to a field goal, or created a turn over ala the Augie D that gave them the short field with the pick deep in the red zone.  I acknowledge that Wheton held them way below their normal numbers, but with the 3 td lead Augie's offense was even more conservative (if you can call it that) then if they needed to score more points in that game.

augiedogie,
I should have stopped with my point to support that Wheaton was effective in stopping Augie's offense.  Anything I said beyond that is purely speculative... could have/would have... and the talk of "losers".  I retract (if possible) everything beyond the "I know you can't do it... " comment.

I recognize Augie's defense played a significant role in disrupting Wheaton's offense, but given the offensive output over the past 5 years, I think Swider would take holding Augie to 200 yards rushing most every game assuming Wheaton's offense executes anywhere near as expected.

[FormerCard]

countdown till NCC-Capital kickoff,     44 hours and 59 minutes......

[Ebenezer]

Mugsy...I believe your returning starters for Wheaton would be:

Offense:

Chupp-QB
Black-TB
Thornton-FB
Chupp-WR
Fossum-WR
Manda - OL-He started every game
Rowson-OL


Defense

Toal - OLB
McKinney-OLB
March-CB
Ittersagen-CB
A. Studebaker-DE
D. Studebaker DT- He was the starter at tackle although there was a regular
                          rotation
T Andrews DE- will return as 5th year senior    (was starter at beginning of season until hurt week 2 which interestingly opened up a spot for A Studebaker who was not starting early on.)

Essentially 7 returnees on each side of the ball.  I understand they have some very good young OL.  Will need to rebuild up the middle on D although K McKenny had significant time at safety.

It is sad when you have to talk about next year at this time, which means you missed the playoffs.

[Mugsy]

Ebenezer,
Actually I wasn't too far off.   I included some guys based on significant playing time... they weren't starters but they played a bunch.

You cleared it up for me regarding the o-line.  And I wasn't sure about Trey Andrews - I knew he was injured early on, but was didn't know about his eligiblity.  Thanks for the input.

[usee]

Ebenezer/Mr. Toal-

thanks

[Mugsy]

Ebenezer/Mr. Toal-

thanks

I noticed the name as well... 

[vikes35]

bgbully40,

Augiedogie is saying that they went conservative in the second half with the 28-7 lead. They were running straight into Wheaton players, making sure they held on to the ball, not wanting any fumbles to make the game close as the fumbles in the NCC game did. They were quite content to play 3 yards and a cloud of dust football, punting when they didn't get the 1st down and letting the defense keep up their sparkling play. I have seen the Augie O all year and I can say that the play calling in the 2nd half was hold on to the ball and get out of here with the win and a higher seed. I know Augie is not the team to play tight until halftime and it was a great effort by the Wheaton D (not trying to take that away) just saying that the play calling was even more conservative than normal in the 2nd half.

[vikes35]

So I am reading the IBFC postboard and I can't stop laughing at these straight faced Lakeland upset predictions. If it is an upset then I will eat my words, but they haven't won a playoff game since the expansion, and I guarantee they haven't played the schedule we have over the last 7 weeks. Nice non-conf but we have been in 5 battles (omit NPU and IWU) over the last 7 weeks and we have come out on top of all of them. It is going to be a good game, but I don't think LC has seen the explosiveness that Augie brings for 60 mins in every game. Augie plays to the end and just beats defenses down with that boring offense of theirs, that is what LC will eventually succomb to. Early in the 1st half, but not late.

Augie 38
LC 14

Also good luck to NCC this weekend. That should be one heck of a game against a tough OAC opponent.