FB: Northwest Conference

[D O.C.]

'Cats Fa Natic I thank-you for I have understood a couple of  things better. I'm just good nervous.
Gig Harbor Cat, can you save me one
this week so I can add it to my jug tasting next week?

[Gig Harbor Cat]

Done deal

[Cord Glory]

Cats fans -

Everyone talks about what a great passing game you have.  Can someone fill me in on what kind of ground game you have - and if its a main focus of your offense? Or are you a pass first, run second type of team?

[wildcat11]

Linfield team stats

Glory,

Above is a link for the Linfield team stats....it will tell you the story.  Little more balanced than one would think....277 rush attempts (4.2 yds per carry) - 316 pass attempts (10.5 yards per pass/15.3 per catch)

[Tezbaseball]

Me thinks Cobber Nation is very inexperienced when it comes to the fine art of "coach speak".  Jay Locey is pretty good at it, but to be honest, has nothing on former Linfield coach Ad Rutschman. 

In a former life of mine, I worked at the college radio station at Linfield.  I went in to tape a pregame show with Coach....Linfield was 5-0, Pacific was 0-5; I tossed out the lob ball question, "Tell us about your opponent this week, the Pacific Boxers..."    And Coach said, "Well, we are fortunate to be where we are.  We have played good football so far (note:  Linfield was #1 in the nation at the time in total offense at 550 yards a game), but I have been looking at Pacific on film pretty closely.   They have some good athletes and some good football players.   They have hurt themselves with penalties and some turnovers or they would have a few more wins than they have now.  So we have to go out this Saturday and probably play our best game of the year in order to win...."

I laughed out loud with Cobbernation took Locey too seriously.    What did he expect Locey to say, that Concordia was so bad they could get beat by the Duniway Middle School 8th graders??

I think the Dragons were winless this season....lol

[Tezbaseball]

"Concordia a very good team. They should be undefeated. They had Saint John's on the ropes but lost in the final 30 seconds. They've made the playoffs two years in a row and I think they are for real. They do a good job of controlling the ball. They've got a strong tradition on their side. Brian Schumacher is a big-time quarterback. He's tall, athletic and physical. Their offense is a double-wing spread option, along the lines of what Eastern Oregon or Air Force runs. They spread the field out and create assignment matchups. Defensively, they are going to be very challenging to prepare for." -COACH JAY LOCEY

If you didn't know, that's your coach talking. I think he knows a lot more about the Cobbers than you posters! Here's the deal. I'm preaching to the choir here but Concordia deserves a little more respect than...RIP COBBERS. It could be the classy MIAC just needs to get used to scum from NWC. Who knows?

If you reply saying that the coach is being diplomatic, you've never played football before. I've been saying it all along, you've been laughing at me. There it is! Coach Locey agrees. The Cobbers are going to be a challenge. Not a blow out.

And it's Terry Horan, not Larry!

It's a cryptic message. It says the 'CATS will roll on Sat. Shuck the corn, shuck the corn.

It will be a good one. And you complain about not getting respect, show some.

[spiritof86]

I think the cobber fans need to save some energy for Saturday. All of this huffing and puffing may cause them to pass out.

A common cobber line of reasoning seems to be, "We were untoppable vs SJU. Except the times they stopped us. We won a playoff game last year and should have won a 2nd. Until we lost at home to Oxy."

I think Concordia will be a good team- better than any we have played. But I am not convinced of anything beyond that.

[pdxpio]

hey all, i havent posted in a while but i have some info on the situation at L&C.  Football is going to stay, that is known for certain, everything else, well thats up in the air.  From what I have heard (and am really hoping) is that the AD will be out at the end of the year.  There has been a TON of coaching turnover for all L&C sports which should never happen.  I have also heard that the current HC will be looking for work as well, which is great, a current assistant whom is popular with the players will take his spot.  Admissions for athletes will also change.  Currently, at L&C, there are 4 buckets in which prospective students are placed, which are based on grades, extra curricular activities, etc.  Now, if a student athlete is a captain, or has some other recognition, they will be placed into a higher bucket.  Under the current communist model, no recognition is given to sports, as is the norm at L&C.  My take?  Why on gods green earth did a gigantic committee need to be formed for this?  Why wasnt this problem of no players recognized earlier?  It didnt happen overnight.  The AD and HC need to be held accountable, which it doesnt seem they will be.  On behalf of L&C I would like to apologize to all the schools we cancelled games with this year.

[CamCat]

Isn't this like saying, "If I run slow enough, I'll dodge a bullet"?
Linfield takes the ball, one minute, score. Now if you control the ball for five minutes of game time but then come away with no points, you haven't done anything other than limit your own potential numbers of possessions. 
Seems to me, if you know your opponent can hit 63 points without breaking a sweat, you better have a plan to hit 70.

Excellent post. 
Being a man of simple mind after all this sophisticated, calculated, thoroughly analyzed disection of the game, as you say, isn't the only way to beat Linfield to score more points than we do? How else does Concordia win the game?



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[Cord Glory]

I think the cobber fans need to save some energy for Saturday. All of this huffing and puffing may cause them to pass out.

A common cobber line of reasoning seems to be, "We were untoppable vs SJU. Except the times they stopped us. We won a playoff game last year and should have won a 2nd. Until we lost at home to Oxy."

I think Concordia will be a good team- better than any we have played. But I am not convinced of anything beyond that.

No one is going to pass out here.  If someone said we were unstoppable vs. St. Johns, they're full of it.  And the playoff game last year was winnable for us, but it didn't happen.  Thats all there is to it.  It would have been nice to get a crack at Linfield last year, but we didn't get it chance.

You guys have all the reasons in the world to think you'll destroy us this weekend.  But you will have a tougher time getting to the Stagg bowl this year, not just because of a tough West Region, but because you have a big fat bullseye on your back.  And I'm sure Coach Locey has addressed that several times, but all I'm saying is that in my opinion, and if history has taught us anything, the second time around is always harder than the first...so maybe tone down the swagger a little bit - 

[Bubs1856]

 I have tried to create an attachment that has excerpts and summaries of the commission at Lewis and Clark on Football.  Sounded pretty positive to me.

[Pat Coleman]

hey all, i havent posted in a while but i have some info on the situation at L&C.  Football is going to stay, that is known for certain, everything else, well thats up in the air.  From what I have heard (and am really hoping) is that the AD will be out at the end of the year.  There has been a TON of coaching turnover for all L&C sports which should never happen.  I have also heard that the current HC will be looking for work as well, which is great, a current assistant whom is popular with the players will take his spot.  Admissions for athletes will also change.  Currently, at L&C, there are 4 buckets in which prospective students are placed, which are based on grades, extra curricular activities, etc.  Now, if a student athlete is a captain, or has some other recognition, they will be placed into a higher bucket.  Under the current communist model, no recognition is given to sports, as is the norm at L&C.  My take?  Why on gods green earth did a gigantic committee need to be formed for this?  Why wasnt this problem of no players recognized earlier?  It didnt happen overnight.  The AD and HC need to be held accountable, which it doesnt seem they will be.  On behalf of L&C I would like to apologize to all the schools we cancelled games with this year.

We've posted the story in Notables and I believe we'll also revisit the situation later in the playoffs as well.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Seems to me that unless the Cobbers have seriously retooled their defense from last year, that they are not going to have any answer to Elliot to Allen (or the rest of the Linfield receiving corp for that matter).  I doubt that Concordia-Moorhead has seen a passing attack like Linfield's this year.  The pressure will be on the 'Cat running defense to step up, and if I were a betting man, I'd say that they will.

'Cats will roll . . . and if you please, by a bigger margin than 42  

prediction:  'Cats 54 - Cobbers 7

[beancounter]

pdxpio....L&C fans/alums have no need to apologize for what happened on Palatine Hill.   You're probably more annoyed by it than anybody else is.    Turn that sort of thing into a positive by being a force of change at the college.

Latest rumor I heard was that L&C was going to do what Macalester did....drop out of the conference for football and play an independent schedule of sorts.   It's just a rumor.....

I'd like to apologize for degrading the mighty Dragons of Duniway Middle School.   I probably should as used the Patton Mustangs for my example, but since both of my daughters are proud alumna of Duniway, they came to mind first.

[pdawg]

LBC:
According to the information that I have seen from L&C, they will "continue with their long football tradition" and do so "within a NWC schedule." They intend to fulfill their obligation to the current 2006 NWC schedule. What happens after that will obviously depend on numbers, support and results. It is, then, a positive development for the NWC (at least for the time being).