FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[ncc_fan]

Very funny very funny    Course I left the open for that one.   Reality is NC is clearly a few steps above anybody else in the conference right now.   
Yes, the loss @ Loras was very surprising because even though I think Elmhurst is going to hover around 500 this year,  I still thought they were going to have the tools to win this game.  But no matter how good you are, 7 turnovers is going to be tough to overcome.

...as NCC knows all too well from the 2012 playoff game at Linfield. 

[wildcat11]

Very funny very funny    Course I left the open for that one.   Reality is NC is clearly a few steps above anybody else in the conference right now.   
Yes, the loss @ Loras was very surprising because even though I think Elmhurst is going to hover around 500 this year,  I still thought they were going to have the tools to win this game.  But no matter how good you are, 7 turnovers is going to be tough to overcome.

...as NCC knows all too well from the 2012 playoff game at Linfield. 

In case you forget you can relive it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JijYxc9XZjA 

[NCF]

Very funny very funny    Course I left the open for that one.   Reality is NC is clearly a few steps above anybody else in the conference right now.   
Yes, the loss @ Loras was very surprising because even though I think Elmhurst is going to hover around 500 this year,  I still thought they were going to have the tools to win this game.  But no matter how good you are, 7 turnovers is going to be tough to overcome.

...as NCC knows all too well from the 2012 playoff game at Linfield. 

In case you forget you can relive it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JijYxc9XZjA 

I find these videos much more entertaining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVX9nfcuwXc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TczRBB6-QPM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoQ94PYODlo

[Mr. Ypsi]

Very funny very funny    Course I left the open for that one.   Reality is NC is clearly a few steps above anybody else in the conference right now.   
Yes, the loss @ Loras was very surprising because even though I think Elmhurst is going to hover around 500 this year,  I still thought they were going to have the tools to win this game.  But no matter how good you are, 7 turnovers is going to be tough to overcome.

...as NCC knows all too well from the 2012 playoff game at Linfield. 

In case you forget you can relive it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JijYxc9XZjA 

11, I've never thought of you as a sadist before - live and learn!

[wildcat11]

11, I've never thought of you as a sadist before - live and learn!

 

[Mr. Ypsi]

I'm currently about half-way thru a marvelous book, Pat Conroy's My Losing Season, about his senior year at The Citadel.  They had a very good set of players and a potentially great team, but were totally destroyed by a horrible coach, Mel Thompson, who was an even more despicable human being.  His non-stop verbal abuse broke some of the players completely; Pat learned to totally tune him out, though often at the cost of being benched.  Both his offense and defense were 100% predictable, unless Pat (who was by his own admission a very mediocre point guard) got them to play loose and ignore the coach.  They should have easily won the Southern Conference (and perhaps even cracked the Top 25) if they had had a different coach.

He grew up with a physically and verbally abusive father, Colonel Don Conroy (he doesn't even reveal his father's first name until page 211 - a definite love-hate relationship).  By his senior year, he had also learned to totally tune him out, but it probably led to his lifelong battle with depression.  Colonel Don missed no opportunity to abuse his wife and seven kids, but his special venom seemed to be for his first-born, Pat.  (But remember, this is Pat's recounting - some others may feel they were abused even worse.)  My reason for bringing this up is that Colonel Don was supposedly the best basketball player St. Ambrose ever had (at least as of 1966 (when the action takes place) or 2005 (when the book was published), in addition to alerting you to a marvelously entertaining book.  Can anyone confirm or deny this assessment of the 'monster' Marine Colonel Don Conroy?

[iwu70]

#21 IWU at Albion tomorrow, 1 p.m. EST.  Ypsi, are you attending?

Good luck to the Titans -- hope they play offensively as well as they did last week and improve some on D, esp. middle pass coverage and limiting the penalties. 

Looks like a very promising season for the Greenies.

IWU'70

[Mr. Ypsi]

#21 IWU at Albion tomorrow, 1 p.m. EST.  Ypsi, are you attending?

Good luck to the Titans -- hope they play offensively as well as they did last week and improve some on D, esp. middle pass coverage and limiting the penalties. 

Looks like a very promising season for the Greenies.

IWU'70

Mark, thanks for reminding me.  I hope to.

Although Albion is among the favorites for the MIAA title, I'd be disappointed if we win by less than 3 TDs.  Though that has usually not been the case against MIAA teams - the games against Hope are always closer than expected, and the game at Alma a few years ago should have been 70-7, and ended with us holding our breath as we recovered a fumble on our own two yard line, up by seven.  We always win, but they have a hex on us.

[Gregory Sager]

NPU's on the air again tomorrow night, as the Vikings take on Alma at 6 pm CST. My play-by-play will be audio only. The Vikings will be the only late CCIW game, so I'm hoping to pick up some non-NPU listeners.

[Mr. Ypsi]

NPU's on the air again tomorrow night, as the Vikings take on Alma at 6 pm CST. My play-by-play will be audio only. The Vikings will be the only late CCIW game, so I'm hoping to pick up some non-NPU listeners.

I may tune in, but ALMA??!!  Ypsi HS could beat Alma.  If you don't beat them by 50, shame on you.

(Yet just 3-4 years ago, IWU had to recover a fumble on our 2 yard line to avoid OT at Alma - they are a dreadful team, but can be quite sneaky.  But their 8'8" (actually about 6'8") receiver has graduated - MAN, was he a load.)

[Gregory Sager]

Come on, Chuck. I expect NPU to win, and I don't expect it to be all that close, but this:

If you don't beat them by 50, shame on you.

... is ridiculous. I reject your attempt to set some sort of silly standard that the Vikings will have to meet in order for this game to be a success.

A blowout's a blowout. At some point, if your coach has any sense of sportsmanship at all, it becomes as much a matter of his trying to hold the margin down than anything else. I'm a bit surprised that Heidelberg played a number of starters well into the third quarter, and at least one of them into the fourth, in last week's 72-7 pulping of Alma, considering that it was 45-0 at the half. But I didn't see the game, and the play-by-play sometimes doesn't tell us everything. Perhaps there was a reason why they were in the game at that point, although it looks strange.

I want NPU to win comfortably, and I know that Mike Conway will demonstrate good sportsmanship if the game isn't close. I'm not saying that the 'berg's coach wasn't sportsmanlike last week, mind you. But saying that tomorrow evening will somehow be a failure for North Park if the Vikings don't win by at least 50 points is just plain wrong on more than one level.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Good post.

Rather than a point count, I'll just say - if you don't easily beat them, shame n you.

But watch out.  We were probably better than you are now, and not sure Alma is any worse then than now, but they took us to the wire.  Don't know if they if they have anyone like that huge receiver, but be careful.

[Titan Q]

IWU plays the 1000th game in program history today at Albion College.  The Britons were 6-0 in the MIAA last season, but got pounded by Wheaton in the non-conference and North Central in the playoffs.  Albion lost 42-31 at UW-Stevens Point last weekend.

IWU gets middle linebacker Connor Klein, a 2nd Team all-CCIW pick last year, back today.  I'm interested to see how the Titans play in their second game, on the road, after a pretty good showing in the opener vs Franklin. 

Here are a few recent articles...

http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/college/football/roberts-ready-to-keep-on-running-for-titans/article_29b62e7d-dcf8-58e2-b86d-d4f04f655cd5.html

http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/college/football/iwu-assistant-coach-ready-to-go-against-father/article_1664ea45-2b45-5ecf-aaeb-93b290d44489.html

http://www.wjbc.com/common/page.php?feed=31&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&pt=Illinois+Wesleyan+football+takes+new+%27identity%27+to+Albion&id=155644&is_corp=0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVVmKYo3wdA&feature=youtu.be

[Titan Q]

Although Albion is among the favorites for the MIAA title, I'd be disappointed if we win by less than 3 TDs. 

I may tune in, but ALMA??!!  Ypsi HS could beat Alma.  If you don't beat them by 50, shame on you.

To me, both statements are kind of silly. Greg commented on the NPU part of this.  As for the Titans winning by 3 TDs, IWU isn't anywhere good enough to put that kind of expectation out there for a road game against a program that went 6-0 its league last year.  I know Wheaton and NCC crushed Albion last year, but IWU isn't anywhere close to the caliber NCC was last year, and I don't think they are where Wheaton was in 2013 either.

Chuck is known for his over-the-top predictions/expectations, so just Ypsi being Ypsi I guess.  But I have found most of them to be fairly annoying over the years.

[Titan Q]

Artie Checchin's 100-yard kickoff return.  This was the longest return in IWU history and, amazingly (to me, at least), this was IWU's first kickoff return TD since my classmate Chris Bisaillon did it in 1990.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy646OHJeEs

Checchin is a fast dude.