FB: Northwest Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Some bad news on the NWC football front.

George Fox has pushed their return to football from 2013 to 2014 due to money.

http://athletics.georgefox.edu/sports/fball/2009-10/releases/0611

Guess they're still planning on hiring a head coach in the next month or two but I'm not sure why a new coach would want to wait around 2 years before seeing the field.

The remaining of the NWC schools are now bent over in 2013 in terms of having to fill that GFU 2013 slot.  Brutal.

Particularly brutal because it's just a one-year game they need to fill. It's really hard to get someone to come to your place with no return trip and it's hard to find schools to fill one-year contracts in general.

[MonroviaCat]

Perhaps this will force Linfield to add a 10th game for 2014....(home and home vs. a non-conference opponent starting 2013 and then add G.F. in 2014)....

[wildcat11]

Some bad news on the NWC football front.

George Fox has pushed their return to football from 2013 to 2014 due to money.

http://athletics.georgefox.edu/sports/fball/2009-10/releases/0611

Guess they're still planning on hiring a head coach in the next month or two but I'm not sure why a new coach would want to wait around 2 years before seeing the field.

The remaining of the NWC schools are now bent over in 2013 in terms of having to fill that GFU 2013 slot.  Brutal.

Particularly brutal because it's just a one-year game they need to fill. It's really hard to get someone to come to your place with no return trip and it's hard to find schools to fill one-year contracts in general.

100% spot on.  The move stinks.  I appreciate the fact that Pacific took their time and once they made the commitment they went all-in to be ready for 2010.  This just tells me that the GFU community isn't THAT serious about football returning to their campus.  Maybe I'm off on that opinion but I don't think they understand how badly they've left the other members out to dry in 2013. 

[Gray Fox]

Both Oxy and Pomona are showing open dates for the first two weeks.

[dahlby]

If I am not mistaken, the SCIAC has a policy of only playing 9 football games.

[Gray Fox]

If I am not mistaken, the SCIAC has a policy of only playing 9 football games.

Correct

[@d3jason]

Some bad news on the NWC football front.

George Fox has pushed their return to football from 2013 to 2014 due to money.

http://athletics.georgefox.edu/sports/fball/2009-10/releases/0611

Guess they're still planning on hiring a head coach in the next month or two but I'm not sure why a new coach would want to wait around 2 years before seeing the field.

The remaining of the NWC schools are now bent over in 2013 in terms of having to fill that GFU 2013 slot.  Brutal.

I bet Wesley has open dates--they could come to Oregon again and stay for a couple of months.

Wesley does still one open date, and is traveling to Menlo at some point in the Fall. Also headed to Alabama, Texas and Louisiana. I'm sure they could fit in Oregon too...yikes.

[wildcat11]

Don't forget to get your 2012 Linfield Football CPU wallpaper.


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[wildcat11]

The Oregonian's Lindsay Schnell is reporting that Fox has hired Aloha's Head Coach Chris Casey to be the head coach when Fox starts football in 2014.  Folks around the NWC know Coach Casey very well as a former Linfield Wildcat player and coach and Whitworth Def Cord.

According to Schnell, Casey is going to finish out the 2012 at Aloha and then start the transition to Fox.

https://twitter.com/#!/LindsayRae19/status/174364057883779073

[d-train]

Couple of other links on the Casey hire:
http://highschoolsports.oregonlive.com/news/article/2900256150540474805/prep-football-aloha-coach-chris-casey-to-start-up-program-at-george-fox/

http://athletics.georgefox.edu/sports/fball/2011-12/releases/0228

[wildcat11]

Couple of other links on the Casey hire:
http://highschoolsports.oregonlive.com/news/article/2900256150540474805/prep-football-aloha-coach-chris-casey-to-start-up-program-at-george-fox/

http://athletics.georgefox.edu/sports/fball/2011-12/releases/0228

The college originally had planned to start playing football in 2013, which would not have allowed Casey to coach at Aloha this year. But Casey preferred starting in 2014, and the college decided in mid-February to push its football debut back one year.

“We just felt like it gave us a better time frame, starting point and base foundation for structure, especially for recruiting,” Casey said. “And also, I wanted to be able to stay at Aloha if I could. I think it’s much better to leave at the end of a season rather than leave at springtime going into a season.”

Thanks for nothing.
-Signed the NWC member's 2013 schedule hole.

[BlueZoneBruin]

With all due respect and understanding for the scheduling challenge this may cause other NWC schools, the decision to delay the return of football to George Fox to 2014 was in the best interest of the university, and the newly selected coach. As much as I am sure the administration took the impact on scheduling for other schools into consideration, they made the decision that was right for the entire institution.

Further, the decision has nothing to do with what Wildcat11 articulates as "the GFU community isn't THAT serious about football returning to their campus." In fact, the decision was made because the institution is serious about the return of football and wants to do it correctly. 

BZB

[D O.C.]

No decision is without consequences, so I say Geo. F. does not even come close to LINFIELD in a game the next 10 years. WILDCATS used to root for L&C took get their bearings, but with the new kids on the block it'll be just a matter of cleats on the neck - like the old days before they quit.

Wildcat11....I cannot reveal my sources.   

[wildcat11]

As much as I am sure the administration took the impact on scheduling for other schools into consideration, they made the decision that was right for the entire institution.

100% understand that Fox did what they felt was best for them but in the process they put the rest of the NWC in a bad position.   

With regards to me questioning the seriousness of Fox and football...that was an unnecessary shot by me out of frustration.  I know Linfield is probably going to have to fly 1/2 across the country at a great cost to play a game that should have been just 20 minutes down the road.   

[river]

With all due respect and understanding for the scheduling challenge this may cause other NWC schools, the decision to delay the return of football to George Fox to 2014 was in the best interest of the university, and the newly selected coach. As much as I am sure the administration took the impact on scheduling for other schools into consideration, they made the decision that was right for the entire institution.

Further, the decision has nothing to do with what Wildcat11 articulates as "the GFU community isn't THAT serious about football returning to their campus." In fact, the decision was made because the institution is serious about the return of football and wants to do it correctly. 

BZB

No decision is without consequences, so I say Geo. F. does not even come close to LINFIELD in a game the next 10 years. WILDCATS used to root for L&C took get their bearings, but with the new kids on the block it'll be just a matter of cleats on the neck - like the old days before they quit.

Wildcat11....I cannot reveal my sources.   

Quote from the GFU website article Return of a tradition: Football kicks off in 2014

"Currently, only conference members George Fox and Whitman College of Walla Walla, Wash., do not offer football."

Any thoughts that Whitman will get into the game again with the idea that it might be competitive for the foreseeable future against several equally new football teams in the conference?