FB: Northwest Conference

[Pat Coleman]

The Spring 2007 issue of Pacific University Magazine (mailings to all alumni, etc) has an article entitled "University Considers Return of Football."  Any rumors out there if they are going forward in 2008 with a team and still plan to play in the Hillsboro stadium?

It's getting late to start if they plan to play in 2008.

[Pat Coleman]

The magazine story itself cites 2009 as a possible return date, which makes more sense.

[wildcat11]

Pacific bring back football?  I hope it happens but I'm not holding my breath.  The NWC could really use another football playing member to help with the always constant battle for some of the NWC teams (cough, cough Linfield) to find D3 games. 

[hatchet molly]

Hopefully the startup money P.U. needs will go for building a new football stadium. What a piece of S#!+. It had to be the worse stadium in the NWC back in the 80's. I hated playing there.

[fbgcat]

The only thing worse than Linfield's practice field, during the 80's, was Pacific's game field.  I don't think there was a blade of grass anywhere on that field.  It was quite the olfactory experience with the swamp gas and all. 

[wildcat11]

Catdomealumni.com special: Brett Elliott Game 6 Action

NFLE game 6 action of Brett Elliott

[CamCat]

Thank you Wildcat 11,

He's looking better for sure. He had some great plays and could have used some more up front blocking to protect him on the last play. in particular

[Tuxguy]

Pacific U. and the City of Forest Grove are working together on a sports complex right now. Soccer, Baseball, Softball with Nexturf fields etc.
No plan for a Football field, but with the Hillsboro Stadium so Close, they could use it for a few years while they build a new Stadium on Campus, which is a must.

Best of luck to them,
Homecoming was fun when we could decorate the Dorms with
P.U. stuff like  skunks,    Peeeee  Uuuuuuuu........ ......you had to be there.

[D O.C.]

Rhein Game 6 was interesting.
I notice a new (quick) shoulder shift, quite evident on the first TD play of the clip.
Thanks again MultiMediaMan11.

[N-R Sports Geek]

Video interview with Brandon Hazenberg up on Boise Burn site.
http://www.boiseburn.com

[N-R Sports Geek]

Was scanning the wire and just ran across this.....

PORTLAND  — Oregon State offensive coordinator Danny Langsdorf has donated a kidney to the wife of Mike Cavanaugh, the offensive line coach.
Laurie Cavanaugh, 48, had living-donor kidney transplant surgery on Tuesday at Portland's Oregon Health & Science University Hospital.
Laurie Cavanaugh has autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, which enlarged her kidneys.
Langsdorf was identified as a match through tests with 18 individuals. She said the process of finding a donor took about a year and a half.
"I remember being in San Antonio at a football convention in San Antonio and he (Langsdorf) came up to me and said, 'Hey, I'm a go,"' Laurie Cavanaugh said Friday at OHSU, where she is recovering.
"I was like 'Wow!' After about 18 people, I was shocked and excited. At that point I was getting kind of hopeless, I didn't think I was going to get any one," she said.
Langsdorf, also speaking from the hospital, said: "I didn't think it was right to sit back and not do anything, when I probably could have. So I decided to get tested. The fact that I was such a good match for her was such a positive thing."
Dr. John Barry, director of OHSU's kidney transplant program, performed the six-hour transplant surgery on Laurie Cavanaugh.
Dr. Michael Conlin, associate professor of urologic surgery at OHSU School of Medicine, removed Langsdorf's kidney.
"When you work as closely as a coaching staff does, you develop some really deep and solid friendships — I guess you could say this is the ultimate in friendship," said Mike Cavanaugh, who, like Langsdorf, is in his third season with the Beavers.
Laurie Cavanaugh fought back tears when expressing her gratitude to Langsdorf, who said he was a merely a friend who wanted to help.
"It reminds you that when you're feeling OK and things are going pretty good in your life, you shouldn't have many complaints," Langsdorf said. "That's probably the biggest thing for me — to give something to a friend and have it work out."

[D O.C.]

Brandon Hazenberg interviewer Scott Conklin...any relation to LINFIELD'S Mike Conklin of John Day, OR, and later of Boise, ID?

[pennstlbu]

Speaking of poor fields, I drove by UPS last week and saw that they were tearing up Lower Baker field (UPS' practice field). Boy, am I glad they're doing that. They are installing field turf on Lower Baker and making it a multi-purpose field for football practice, lacrosse, and intramurals. Now, UPS will have a better practice field than their playing surface. But it needed to be done. When I was a sophomore, a guy on the team broke his foot just running down the practice field. It was so bad, I'm not surprised that more major injuries occurred.

[Tuxguy]

D.O.C.

Having fun? 

[wildcat11]

Linfield Video of the week: 1986's Road To A Championship

1986's Road To A Championship

***Next Week: Top Ten Honorable Mention 2004 Stevens Point***

Special thanks to Linfield Beancounter for the great footage of the 86 and 82 championships.  Linfield Video Gold!