FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Red Reign]

Maybe if you want to know why Wienke (I believe this is the correct spelling) was removed, replaced by Lester, and then
brought back again, you should go to the source - Coach Thorne could answer those questions so you guys don't have to guess at the answer.  Or better yet, go to the players - they'll tell you!

GoldenBoy

The reason Wienke was replaced by Lester was because Lester was thought to be a better coach. Wienke's defense was torched against Capital in 06 playoffs. Thorne wanted to move the team to the next level, when Lester became available Thorne jumped on it. Was he a better coach? players say so... statistics say otherwise.

Coach Thorne took each senior in his office and asked who they wanted to play for defensively (3 or 4 choices), all of them said Wienke... between that and the fact that it was early july, wienke was the obvious choice.

[washdupcard]

coversation heard recently:

Norm Eash: "when is the last time a quarterback completed 65% of his passes, threw for 272 yards and 6 TD's and wasn't player of the week in the CCIW???!!"

Tim Rucks:"Norm, I feel your pain, but I am sure it happened the last time a second CCIW QB completed 65% of his passes for 426 yds and 6 TD's"

Norm Eash: "But Tim, we scored 48pts and won the game against an MIAA opponent"

Tim Rucks: "Sorry Stormin Norm, the MIAA's top team was victim to our 70pt tirade. I guess my clinic speech on defensive back play didn't make it across the pond to Holland. Come to think of it, I may have to brush that talk off for our guys...gotta go Norm."

Norm Eash: "Can you send me a copy of that talk?....."

I saw a quarterback pass for two 3 TD's, run for 2 TD's, kick all five extra points and a field goal in his team's 38-6 win, and Ken Anderson didn't get CCIW Player of the Week honors for Augstana's 1970 victory over North Park at Rock Island High School Stadium.  It could have been because I inaugurated the CCIW Player of the Week award during the 1978 football season.

dgp

Is that like 60% of the time it works everytime?

Anchorman?  anyone?  crickets...............Wait, let me try the 80's....Bueller.....Bueller.......anyone?.....

sigh.

[CCIW]

Many Americans have been screwed by the likes of Enron, WorldCom and more recently Lehman, Merrill Lynch and AIG.  Although I've been fortunate to avoid most of this pain, I now know how they feel, at a lesser level, considering how I've been screwed out of the past 10 minutes of my life scrolling through pointless arguments about puddles and Pete Ittersagen.  Any time anyone invokes the "L" word (luck, for the uninitiated), it's not worth arguing about.  That said, I think the majority of arguments that were made, well...made good arguments to support the fact that Pete Ittersagen is darn good.  In other words, it's funny how the best players always seem to make the luckiest plays, huh?  Furthermore, I can think of few things that sound sillier and more sophomoric (with the exception of this post perhaps) than calling anything in sports "lucky", whether it be the Immaculate Reception, the entire 2001 Bears season, et. al.  It just sounds like whining or paranoid fan fear.

Foolish musings aside, I look forward to getting past this discussion and then seeing the Thunder take The Dutch to the proverbial woodshed in a couple weeks, although I don't know any proverbs about woodsheds (though I wouldn't be surprised if Sager, with all his folk wisdom, does).  And for those who say I'm looking past Concordia 1) I don't play for the Thunder, so I'm allowed and 2) My interest is more related to proximity of game-watching than Thunder-love.

Matblake - see you this weekend.

Oh, mad swede, you had me rolling around the floor convulsed in laughter with this one.  So you choosing to spend ten minutes of your time to read postings is the moral equivalent of people getting screwed by the likes of Enron, WorldCom and more recently Lehman, Merrill Lynch and AIG.  You take yourself and this board waaaaaay too seriously, my friend.  You need to get out more and mix with normal people.  You are mad, swede. 

[Gregory Sager]

So you choosing to spend ten minutes of your time to read postings is the moral equivalent of people getting screwed by the likes of Enron, WorldCom and more recently Lehman, Merrill Lynch and AIG.  You take yourself and this board waaaaaay too seriously, my friend.

Yeah, cciw, that's pretty much the reaction that everyone has had regarding the Mad Swede over the course of the six or seven years that he's posted here: He takes himself too seriously. And he takes this room too seriously. He's just a downright dour, grim-faced wet blanket who really ought to lighten up a little.

Tune in tomorrow, when cciw calls out Madonna for being such an unassertive wallflower and Brett Favre for being a stodgy game-manager type of QB who hands off too much. Next week he'll tell Richard Simmons to be a little less macho and to get more in touch with his feminine side, followed by a declaration that Jimi Hendrix could've been a decent musician if he'd only practiced the guitar more.

[New Tradition]

An excerpt from Keith McMillan's Around the Nation in reference to this week's top 25 poll:

"I also have 12th-ranked North Central, which was top 10 in my mind before Ohio Northern, a lot higher than the poll does."

Good to see a bit of national recognition from someone as knowledgeable and who has seen as much D3 Football as Keith.

[Mugsy]

So you choosing to spend ten minutes of your time to read postings is the moral equivalent of people getting screwed by the likes of Enron, WorldCom and more recently Lehman, Merrill Lynch and AIG.  You take yourself and this board waaaaaay too seriously, my friend.

Yeah, cciw, that's pretty much the reaction that everyone has had regarding the Mad Swede over the course of the six or seven years that he's posted here: He takes himself too seriously. And he takes this room too seriously. He's just a downright dour, grim-faced wet blanket who really ought to lighten up a little.

Tune in tomorrow, when cciw calls out Madonna for being such an unassertive wallflower and Brett Favre for being a stodgy game-manager type of QB who hands off too much. Next week he'll tell Richard Simmons to be a little less macho and to get more in touch with his feminine side, followed by a declaration that Jimi Hendrix could've been a decent musician if he'd only practiced the guitar more.

Yeah, then he'll label Sager an illiterate boob with zero sense of CCIW history.  He'll further state that any chance of Sager constructing a concise, witty rebuttal, let alone a readable sentence, is clear example of divine intervention.  

Oh... and he hold steadfastly to the claim that NPU will win all of their CCIW games for the next 10 years.

Clearly he is not familiar with the postings of the MadSwede...  

[Comet 14]

Many Americans have been screwed by the likes of Enron, WorldCom and more recently Lehman, Merrill Lynch and AIG.  Although I've been fortunate to avoid most of this pain, I now know how they feel, at a lesser level, considering how I've been screwed out of the past 10 minutes of my life scrolling through pointless arguments about puddles and Pete Ittersagen.  Any time anyone invokes the "L" word (luck, for the uninitiated), it's not worth arguing about.  That said, I think the majority of arguments that were made, well...made good arguments to support the fact that Pete Ittersagen is darn good.  In other words, it's funny how the best players always seem to make the luckiest plays, huh?  Furthermore, I can think of few things that sound sillier and more sophomoric (with the exception of this post perhaps) than calling anything in sports "lucky", whether it be the Immaculate Reception, the entire 2001 Bears season, et. al.  It just sounds like whining or paranoid fan fear.

Foolish musings aside, I look forward to getting past this discussion and then seeing the Thunder take The Dutch to the proverbial woodshed in a couple weeks, although I don't know any proverbs about woodsheds (though I wouldn't be surprised if Sager, with all his folk wisdom, does).  And for those who say I'm looking past Concordia 1) I don't play for the Thunder, so I'm allowed and 2) My interest is more related to proximity of game-watching than Thunder-love.

Matblake - see you this weekend.

Oh, mad swede, you had me rolling around the floor convulsed in laughter with this one.  So you choosing to spend ten minutes of your time to read postings is the moral equivalent of people getting screwed by the likes of Enron, WorldCom and more recently Lehman, Merrill Lynch and AIG.  You take yourself and this board waaaaaay too seriously, my friend.  You need to get out more and mix with normal people.  You are mad, swede.

I can't believe I am about to defend cciw here but I will take the high road. I think he made this post in jest and probably just forgot to add these to his post. At least that is what I am praying happened.

(edited by GS, who also feeds stray cats and helps little old ladies cross the street)

[Comet 14]

If I could edit posts I would be fixing my last post right now

[New Tradition]

If I could edit posts I would be fixing my last post right now

You can, just click "modify" in the upper right hand corner of the box of post that you'd like to edit.

[New Tradition]

coversation heard recently:

Norm Eash: "when is the last time a quarterback completed 65% of his passes, threw for 272 yards and 6 TD's and wasn't player of the week in the CCIW???!!"

Tim Rucks:"Norm, I feel your pain, but I am sure it happened the last time a second CCIW QB completed 65% of his passes for 426 yds and 6 TD's"

Norm Eash: "But Tim, we scored 48pts and won the game against an MIAA opponent"

Tim Rucks: "Sorry Stormin Norm, the MIAA's top team was victim to our 70pt tirade. I guess my clinic speech on defensive back play didn't make it across the pond to Holland. Come to think of it, I may have to brush that talk off for our guys...gotta go Norm."

Norm Eash: "Can you send me a copy of that talk?....."

I saw a quarterback pass for two 3 TD's, run for 2 TD's, kick all five extra points and a field goal in his team's 38-6 win, and Ken Anderson didn't get CCIW Player of the Week honors for Augstana's 1970 victory over North Park at Rock Island High School Stadium.  It could have been because I inaugurated the CCIW Player of the Week award during the 1978 football season.

dgp

Is that like 60% of the time it works everytime?

It's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good.

[Mugsy]

coversation heard recently:

Norm Eash: "when is the last time a quarterback completed 65% of his passes, threw for 272 yards and 6 TD's and wasn't player of the week in the CCIW???!!"

Tim Rucks:"Norm, I feel your pain, but I am sure it happened the last time a second CCIW QB completed 65% of his passes for 426 yds and 6 TD's"

Norm Eash: "But Tim, we scored 48pts and won the game against an MIAA opponent"

Tim Rucks: "Sorry Stormin Norm, the MIAA's top team was victim to our 70pt tirade. I guess my clinic speech on defensive back play didn't make it across the pond to Holland. Come to think of it, I may have to brush that talk off for our guys...gotta go Norm."

Norm Eash: "Can you send me a copy of that talk?....."

I saw a quarterback pass for two 3 TD's, run for 2 TD's, kick all five extra points and a field goal in his team's 38-6 win, and Ken Anderson didn't get CCIW Player of the Week honors for Augstana's 1970 victory over North Park at Rock Island High School Stadium.  It could have been because I inaugurated the CCIW Player of the Week award during the 1978 football season.

dgp

Is that like 60% of the time it works everytime?

It's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good.

Ron Burgundy: It's quite pungent.
Brian Fantana: Oh yeah.
Ron Burgundy: It's a formidable scent... It stings the nostrils. In a good way.
Brian Fantana: Yep.
Ron Burgundy: Brian, I'm gonna be honest with you, that smells like pure gasoline.
Brian Fantana: They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time.
[cheesy grin]
Ron Burgundy: That doesn't make sense.
Brian Fantana: Well... Let's go see if we can make this little kitty purr.
[snarls]

[Mugsy]

I'm going with all road teams this week - a receipt for disaster.

I feel good about IWU, NCC, Carthage and Wheaton.  I have no clue what to think about Millikin.

[Gregory Sager]

If I could edit posts I would be fixing my last post right now

No charge.

[Gregory Sager]

Clearly he is not familiar with the postings of the MadSwede...  

Anyone besides me counting the minutes until Mad Swede shows up in his white makeup, bright red nose, funny wig, baggy pants, and big floppy shoes, and squirts water from his fake carnation right in cciw's face?

[Titan Q]

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/sports/1172811,2_2_AU19_SPARTANS_S1.article

This is the one the Aurora University community has been waiting for since the end of the 2007 school year.

Drama like this can only be found on stage.
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A victory over Wesleyan, one of the top NCAA Division III programs in the country, would be a huge stepping stone for AU and everyone associated with the program - from the players to the training staff - recognize its importance.
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It's possible this writer is employing some degree of hyperbole.