FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[USee]

That is going to definitely change my rankings in the North Region Fan Poll!

[CardinalAlum]

Whispers of a major injury to a key Jaybird....

Any confirmations?

[79jaybird]

The one and only 79JAYBIRD is alive and well.  Other than being pushed around by my 5 and 3 year old. 

I have heard some things but nothing confirmed.  Hopefully Elmhurst can be at or near full strength vs. the Park Saturday.  They will definitely need it.

[iwu70]

Two key road games for the Titans these next two weeks -- at AC and at EC.  Gotta keep it going, keep playing well.  I think Augie will be a pretty stern test this week.  Always tough playing up in Rock Island.  Titans have played very very well so far, only had two injuries -- one to a D starter and now one to a O lineman rotational player.  But, generally pretty good, pretty injury free so far.  Let's hope this keeps going.  Titans seem to be getting just enough of a decent running game to match the great passing combinations of Warner to Checchin and Javorka and others.  D has played well, bent but not broken very often.  Very few big plays so far against the D.  An experienced and senior-laden D corners/safety. 

Gotta get these two road wins, then we can look to the great home games vs. NCC and WC.  I, too, think the schedule is pretty favorable to the TITANS this year.

IWU'70

[iwu70]

I'm driving up to RI tomorrow to watch the Titans play Augie.  Taking a few international students with me for the "experience."  Any good suggestions for good places to eat, for lunch and/or dinner in RI, near the Augie campus?  Pls. advise.  Any good Thai or Chinese places in the Augie area?

Look forward to the game and seeing the Mighty Mississippi again.

Thanks.

IWU'70

[Gregory Sager]

Whispers of a major injury to a key Jaybird....

Any confirmations?

He's not listed in my pregame two-deep, but I'm not gonna announce on the air that Williams isn't playing until I put the binoculars on the EC sideline and don't spot #5 in uniform.

Speaking of key injuries, I've just heard from someone who spoke with Johnny Peltz's dad that Peltz is done for the year due to a shoulder injury he suffered against Augustana. It's secondhand, so I won't stake my reputation on it, but it sounds legit.

[shepherd]

Wheaton game is at 6:00pm not the 1:00 central time on D3football.
I rushed to get to the game after getting off work and nobody was there.
Luckily I live in Wheaton.
No harm no foul.
http://athletics.wheaton.edu/schedule.aspx?path=football&;

[thunderdog]

Whispers of a major injury to a key Jaybird....

Any confirmations?

He's not listed in my pregame two-deep, but I'm not gonna announce on the air that Williams isn't playing until I put the binoculars on the EC sideline and don't spot #5 in uniform.

Speaking of key injuries, I've just heard from someone who spoke with Johnny Peltz's dad that Peltz is done for the year due to a shoulder injury he suffered against Augustana. It's secondhand, so I won't stake my reputation on it, but it sounds legit.

...say it ain't so Mr Sager... Say it ain't so...

[USee]

Whispers of a major injury to a key Jaybird....

Any confirmations?

He's not listed in my pregame two-deep, but I'm not gonna announce on the air that Williams isn't playing until I put the binoculars on the EC sideline and don't spot #5 in uniform.

Speaking of key injuries, I've just heard from someone who spoke with Johnny Peltz's dad that Peltz is done for the year due to a shoulder injury he suffered against Augustana. It's secondhand, so I won't stake my reputation on it, but it sounds legit.

...say it ain't so Mr Sager... Say it ain't so...

It ain't so!

[USee]

I watched most of the IWU game @Augie

IWU 21
Augie 7

IWU's defense is really good. They have a great secondary that is both athletic and physical. Their 3 LB's are also very athletic and good tacklers. They don't have a ton of playmakers up front outside of Will James, who is tough. Luke Roth made some great tackles on the perimeter and impressed me today. The IWU offense is spotty and inconsistent. They rely way too much on AC14. Wheaton and NCC are not going to let that guy beat them so they will have to be more balanced. Augie needs to figure out their redzone offense as Augie6 says. That said, the two defenses they faced the last two weeks are the 2 best defenses in the CCIW and both are top 20 in the country.

IWU has other weapons but Warner seems to lock in on Artie most of the time. Javorka and Butler are pretty good and the two RB's are solid. They just don't seem to be very balanced.

[Augie6]

IWU wins at Augie 21-7.  It's almost impossible to figure this Augie team out.  The first 3 games, they move it up and down the field and average 48+ points per game, but the defense is non-existent.  In the next 3, the offense does little to nothing and the defense keeps them in games.  A bit of a moral victory today (if you believe in those), but the reality is that Augie will probably finish no better than 5-5 this season and could end up at 2-8 if they don't get a full game, at some point in the schedule, from all 3 phases. 

I was completely unimpressed with IWU today, particularly on offense.  They ended up with 271 yards of total offense today and really weren't able to sustain any drives. Of their 271 total yards, 135 came on two running plays, a 55 yard TD by Shoemaker-Gilmore in the 3rd quarter and a 60 yard run with less than 2 minutes left when the game was effectively over.  With one of IWU's TD coming through special teams, they managed to put up 14 points against an Augie D that had given up an average of 38 points/game coming in to this one.  IWU defense played well and I was particularly impressed with their LB's, Sean Garvey and Luke Roth.  But there is no way this team beats Wheaton or NCC if their offense doesn't play much better than it did today.

[Gregory Sager]

North Park 24
Elmhurst 14

I don't care if EC didn't have Josh Williams ... the Vikings hadn't beaten Elmhurst since 2000 (or at home since 1999), so we're not giving this one back.

The game turned on a blocked Brett Bayer field-goal attempt by Vikings frosh David Simmons, as his fellow freshman starting CB Robbie Hillier scooped up the ball and ran it back 76 yards for a score. That made the score 10-7 NPU midway thru the third quarter, and the Vikings never looked back. EC did manage a late touchdown, but, all in all, the Bluejays mustered very little offense today against a pretty stout NPU defense.

Mike Conway is now 3-0 for NPU Homecoming games. I doubt that NPU had won three Homecoming games over the last thirty years total before he was hired.

[badgerwarhawk]

Congrats to your Vikings, Greg. 

[USee]

Millikin 14
Wheaton 62
Final

Wheaton forced a 3 and out on the first series, scored in 2 plays and I thought the rout was on. Millikin had other plans. They scored on their next drive to tie it. Wheaton then scored again and Millkin held serve and it looked like a shootout was about to ensue as it was 14-14. Millikin would not score again and Wheaton never punted and scored on 7 of 8 redzone tries. The Thunder racked iup 657 yds of offense including 418 rushing yards on 51 attempts. Bowers was 10-13 for 166 yds and 3 TD's in just over a half of play for him as the Thunder cruised. Millikin had 235 yds offense with 55 on the ground and 180 through the air.

The big game is on. Wheaton @Naperville in the first of the 3 games over the next three weeks that will determine the CCIW title.

[Mr. Ypsi]

What an aggravating day!!  I had just started watching IWU @ Augie AND IWU women's soccer showdown @ Wheaton, and the power goes off!!  With nothing better to do, I went off to a bar to watch the MSU @ UM game, which UM led throughout until the most astonishing (and heart-breaking) finish I can ever recall: needing only a punt to ice the win, the Wolverine punter fumbled the snap which was batted around then returned for a game-winning TD by MSU (as time had already expired, the EP was not attempted).  After that I came home to find the house still dark and beginning to get rather cold.

The only redemption to the day was that the power was restored about an hour ago, at which time I learned that IWU won BOTH the games.   The win over Wheaton probably means the conference title (freshman keeper Katie Denney has yielded an amazing THREE goals in 15 games this year ).  And the win at Augie keeps the Titans unbeaten at 6-0/3-0.  Obviously (as whined about earlier ) I didn't see most of the @Augie game, but from descriptions it sounds like Jack Warner had one of his "he's still only a sophomore who missed half his freshman season" rather than his "he looks like a potential future OPOY" games.  (Call me a homer, but I prefer the latter games! )