FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[79jaybird]

When President Cureton retired and Dr. Ray took office,  Elmhurst quickly worked on getting a LaCrosse Team.  Dr. Ray has native american roots which I think influenced the decision greatly.  Unfortunately, EC's first coach received a great offer that he couldn't pass up, and (as far as I know) the search is still on for a new coach.

I never liked to have a bye week going into a big game against a tough, favored opponent.  While it is nice to have a week off and rest,  it also is nice to keep the "beat" and staying strong.  To each his own I'm sure, but for my two cents,  I would much rather be playing, heading into next weeks game in Naperville.

[iwu70]

Even with the bye week, it appears that Stinde is still injured.  The daily Paragraph reports that he will likely not play @Hope this weekend.  Other tailbacks also injured.  Hope they all recoup by CCIW play, opener vs. MU @Tucci Stadium at Wilder Field on the 29th.

IWU70

[RFMichigan]

I never liked to have a bye week going into a big game against a tough, favored opponent.  While it is nice to have a week off and rest,  it also is nice to keep the "beat" and staying strong.  To each his own I'm sure, but for my two cents,  I would much rather be playing, heading into next weeks game in Naperville.

Unless you need a week to get an injured player(s) back on the field, I totally agree.

[AndOne]

I never liked to have a bye week going into a big game against a tough, favored opponent.  While it is nice to have a week off and rest,  it also is nice to keep the "beat" and staying strong.  To each his own I'm sure, but for my two cents,  I would much rather be playing, heading into next weeks game in Naperville.

Unless you need a week to get an injured player(s) back on the field, I totally agree.

Most importantly, I'm sure the players on both teams would agree.

[NCF]

I never liked to have a bye week going into a big game against a tough, favored opponent.  While it is nice to have a week off and rest,  it also is nice to keep the "beat" and staying strong.  To each his own I'm sure, but for my two cents,  I would much rather be playing, heading into next weeks game in Naperville.

Unless you need a week to get an injured player(s) back on the field, I totally agree.

Most importantly, I'm sure the players on both teams would agree.

The players would always rather play, but if they are dinged up, the bye week gives them a chance to recover.

[Gregory Sager]

Chuck, dahlby, and formerd3db, I can't believe that none of you mentioned the Corn Palace.

iwu70, by game time on Saturday I should be approaching (or in) eastern South Dakota, on the way to 2 weeks in the Black Hills.  I definitely had the IWU@Hope game on my calendar, but it has been hectic this year and was the only time we could squeeze in a vacation before it got too cold.

As an insecure kid, I too was a front-running Yankees fan - I grew out of it! Agree that NCC is still the boss until someone can even come within three TDs of them!

Blasphemy You never outgrow being a Yankee fan especially if your Chicago team is the Cubs

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me."
-- 1 Corinthians 13:11

[NCF]

Chuck, dahlby, and formerd3db, I can't believe that none of you mentioned the Corn Palace.

iwu70, by game time on Saturday I should be approaching (or in) eastern South Dakota, on the way to 2 weeks in the Black Hills.  I definitely had the IWU@Hope game on my calendar, but it has been hectic this year and was the only time we could squeeze in a vacation before it got too cold.

As an insecure kid, I too was a front-running Yankees fan - I grew out of it! Agree that NCC is still the boss until someone can even come within three TDs of them!

Blasphemy You never outgrow being a Yankee fan especially if your Chicago team is the Cubs

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me."
-- 1 Corinthians 13:11

Great verse, however, do you still root for your childhood team(s)? Very funny in that Sagerisitic sort of way.

[USee]

I really can't see Elmhurst beating North Central in Naperville. The BlueJays host Wheaton on October 13th and then IWU in the last game of the regular season. My guess is those will be winnable games for Elmhurst. So if they go 9-1 look for them to lose respectably to NCC and beat Wheaton and IWU at home. That assuredly get's them into the playoffs. A tall task but not unreasonable

[Gregory Sager]

Chuck, dahlby, and formerd3db, I can't believe that none of you mentioned the Corn Palace.

iwu70, by game time on Saturday I should be approaching (or in) eastern South Dakota, on the way to 2 weeks in the Black Hills.  I definitely had the IWU@Hope game on my calendar, but it has been hectic this year and was the only time we could squeeze in a vacation before it got too cold.

As an insecure kid, I too was a front-running Yankees fan - I grew out of it! Agree that NCC is still the boss until someone can even come within three TDs of them!

Blasphemy You never outgrow being a Yankee fan especially if your Chicago team is the Cubs

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me."
-- 1 Corinthians 13:11

Great verse, however, do you still root for your childhood team(s)? Very funny in that Sagerisitic sort of way.

Yes, I do. And, believe me, these guys have given me a lot less reward for my loyalty over the past decade-plus than have the Cubs:



But I chose them for the right reasons: They were my father's team (he was a Bills season-ticketholder for the first 15 years of the franchise's existence; I got to see O.J. Simpson and the Electric Company numerous times from a 40-yard-line seat in the Ralph when I was a kid), and they were the closest thing I had to a local team as a kid growing up in suburban Syracuse.

I didn't have a local major-league baseball team for which I could root as a kid (although my hatred of the Yankees was cemented as an adolescent, given Steinbrenner's predilection for screwing with his team's AAA farm club in Syracuse in the mid-'70s). But I adopted the Cubs immediately upon coming to Chicago to attend North Park in the fall of '79. And when I say immediately, I mean immediately -- on the third day of freshman orientation, the orientation staff took a bunch of us to Wrigley Field. (Then, as now, most of North Park's resident students were non-Illinoisians, so this was a first for most of us.) I can still remember walking up the ramp to the bleachers, seeing the inside of that beautiful ballpark for the first time, and thinking to myself, "Wow. This is where I am definitely going to spend my summers for the rest of my life. I now have a favorite major-league team." The Cubs beat the Phillies that day, 4-3 (Dennis Lamp over Tug McGraw; Barry Foote doubled home Miguel Dilone with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth), but, except for a few intermittent years here and there, it certainly hasn't paid dividends for me in terms of my loyalty being rewarded with the team's success.

And this is why I have very, very little patience with people who pick their favorite teams arbitrarily, rather than through location or family ties. What an amazing coincidence that most people who choose their favorite teams arbitrarily end up choosing the New York Yankees, or the Dallas Cowboys, or the Boston Celtics, or the Los Angeles Lakers. I don't care if you picked that team as a kid, you're still a front-runner. If you're someone like Dennis Prikkel, who actually grew up in the Bronx and went to more Yankees games as a kid than he can count, then, yeah, you've got a legitimate claim on Yankees fanhood. But if you're some midwesterner who simply picked the Yankees or the Cowboys or the Lakers because they won all the time, then I don't want to hear about it. You're a front-runner, and I don't think much of that particular species of fandom.

[NCF]

Chuck, dahlby, and formerd3db, I can't believe that none of you mentioned the Corn Palace.

iwu70, by game time on Saturday I should be approaching (or in) eastern South Dakota, on the way to 2 weeks in the Black Hills.  I definitely had the IWU@Hope game on my calendar, but it has been hectic this year and was the only time we could squeeze in a vacation before it got too cold.

As an insecure kid, I too was a front-running Yankees fan - I grew out of it! Agree that NCC is still the boss until someone can even come within three TDs of them!

Blasphemy You never outgrow being a Yankee fan especially if your Chicago team is the Cubs

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me."
-- 1 Corinthians 13:11

Great verse, however, do you still root for your childhood team(s)? Very funny in that Sagerisitic sort of way.

Yes, I do. And, believe me, these guys have given me a lot less reward for my loyalty over the past decade-plus than have the Cubs:



But I chose them for the right reasons: They were my father's team (he was a Bills season-ticketholder for the first 15 years of the franchise's existence; I got to see O.J. Simpson and the Electric Company numerous times from a 40-yard-line seat in the Ralph when I was a kid), and they were the closest thing I had to a local team as a kid growing up in suburban Syracuse.

I didn't have a local major-league baseball team for which I could root as a kid (although my hatred of the Yankees was cemented as an adolescent, given Steinbrenner's predilection for screwing with his team's AAA farm club in Syracuse in the mid-'70s). But I adopted the Cubs immediately upon coming to Chicago to attend North Park in the fall of '79. And when I say immediately, I mean immediately -- on the third day of freshman orientation, the orientation staff took a bunch of us to Wrigley Field. (Then, as now, most of North Park's resident students were non-Illinoisians, so this was a first for most of us.) I can still remember walking up the ramp to the bleachers, seeing the inside of that beautiful ballpark for the first time, and thinking to myself, "Wow. This is where I am definitely going to spend my summers for the rest of my life. I now have a favorite major-league team." The Cubs beat the Phillies that day, 4-3 (Dennis Lamp over Tug McGraw; Barry Foote doubled home Miguel Dilone with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth), but, except for a few intermittent years here and there, it certainly hasn't paid dividends for me in terms of my loyalty being rewarded with the team's success.

And this is why I have very, very little patience with people who pick their favorite teams arbitrarily, rather than through location or family ties. What an amazing coincidence that most people who choose their favorite teams arbitrarily end up choosing the New York Yankees, or the Dallas Cowboys, or the Boston Celtics, or the Los Angeles Lakers. I don't care if you picked that team as a kid, you're still a front-runner. If you're someone like Dennis Prikkel, who actually grew up in the Bronx and went to more Yankees games as a kid than he can count, then, yeah, you've got a legitimate claim on Yankees fanhood. But if you're some midwesterner who simply picked the Yankees or the Cowboys or the Lakers because they won all the time, then I don't want to hear about it. You're a front-runner, and I don't think much of that particular species of fandom.

I love the Yankees, because of my favorite childhood book, Young Baseball Champions.I really wanted to play center for the Yanks, but obviously that didn't pan out. As far as the allegiance to Chicago sports teams (except the White Sox, however there is a story to that) besides living in(or near) Chicago all my life, is that my grandfather got tickets for all the games from people at work, Cubs, Sox, Bears, Bulls ect. He actually was a Cardinal fan, which is strange since he grew up in Pittsburgh. Anyway, when I finally turned 13, they (grandfather and uncles) finally started taking me with them!!!

[Langhorst_Ghost]

A little EC love in the Sun Times...

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/colleges/15254878-419/scottie-williams-joe-furco-key-fast-start-by-elmhurst.html

[NCF]

A little EC love in the Sun Times...

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/colleges/15254878-419/scottie-williams-joe-furco-key-fast-start-by-elmhurst.html

...followed by a little NC love Should be a great game in Naperville next Saturday!!

[markerickson]

I predict a North Park victory tomorrow.

[Pat Coleman]

I predict a North Park victory tomorrow.

If they don't win tomorrow there is no hope of them winning a CCIW game this year.

[NCF]

I predict a North Park victory tomorrow.

If they don't win tomorrow there is no hope of them winning a CCIW game this year.

That is for sure. They need a win!!