FB: Northwest Conference

[Kilted Rat]

Just relax, it's not like you get a brownie for trying to show someone up with your football knowledge on D3 football.

I want a brownie.



I wonder where Freddie Falcon went...

[light n' darkness]

kids at a party? who cares.  this is a funny issue, nobody cares till someone gets caught. now they gotta make something up, and deal with it.

hell, it happened the week before and will happen the weeek after. i bet it happens at most all colleges. if i went to any campus i could find the party and all sports, clubs, geeks, greeks, etc would be represented.

lets not make this into an issue unless we really want to deal with it.  the waves will go deep. kids are kids and thats that.


their mistake was making too much noise.

and McMinnville Police have way too much time on their hands.

maybe the guy on cops thought it was Every-Man-A-Lude

[cawcdad]

. . . I am saying team wide nobody in D3 hangs past halftime.

Darkharvest, do you mean just Montana or all of D-IAA? Check out this thread. D3 is 3 - 6 against D-IAA so far this year.

[woufan]

Locey and Linfield handled it in the appropriate manner.

How was it handled?  Did the school release anything on punishment?

OneArmedScot

From what I've heard, senior supplying the booze was booted off the team; other offenders serving a one-game suspension.

[Gig Harbor Cat]

WOUFan and OAS,
  If you know anything about coach Locey and the Linfield AD you know that it was handled within guidelines.  I'm sure that there was no special treatment here.  How do I know ?  Trust me I know.  I comes from confidence in the Wildcat program.

Phone it in

[swede]

I wonder if it would make ESPN.com if Brett Elliott was caught jaywalking.

OneArmedScot

Not a chance....but better not catch him spit on the side walk. Mactown's crime rate is so low the cops have to find work to do. I remember puting a garage sale sign on a telephone post
and the cops bringing it back to me with a warning. 

[swede]

Okay,
  Elliot would start at most if not all 1-aa schools if that is what you want me to say

Know need to say what we already know

[pennstlbu]

Darkharvest, do you mean just Montana or all of D-IAA? Check out this thread. D3 is 3 - 6 against D-IAA so far this year.

The only game that should count of those is the UW-LaCross vs. South Dakota St. game. The rest of those "I-AA" teams are non-scholarships that are Division I-AA in name only. They really are just D3 teams in disguise. I don't see any Montana's, Georgia Southern's, Delaware's, or McNeese State's in there.

[saint11]

College kids drinking?  Weird...  When i was at Linfield no one drank, then one night some of us had this crazy idea to have a contest and see what team of six could drink 100 Keystone Lights the fastest.  It was dubbed the "Keystone 100"  I'm pretty sure that it was the first time any of us had ever drank and it got a little out of control and none of were athletes if i remember correctly.  What later transpired was dubbed the "Linfield Riot."  McMinnville police truly are a bored group of guys, they rolled up on the party like we were a bunch Whitworth players who were celebrating their first win over Linfield and were planning on burning down the Whites.  Started arresting people left and right.  But, i guess it's not fair to put the blame it on the police, they're just doing there job, but the kids are in COLLEGE!!!  This isn't George Fox and i don't think they were out past curfew.  I feel bad for Galpin, I'm sure he wasn't actually "furnishing" to minors, but just got that charge because it was his house.  Bad luck.  I know it won't slow down the Cats, just light a fire under them, and that fire's named Locey.  I imagine he's taking it as well as a head coach can, but hate to give the NewRegister a reason to write a story about football players that doesn't deal with football.  As for that Alumni game, what's up with you ex-All-Americans almost losing to a bunch of recent high school grads?  Thank god you had Cannon, i here that the JV's had momentum.  Good luck next game, hopefully i'll be there to join the party.... Alcohol free of course.

[pennstlbu]

NWC Predictions for 9/24/05

Let's see if I can have the same success as last week

PLU @ UW-River Falls...PLU has had two weeks to bounce back from their opening week loss. I expect them to represent the NWC well out in Wisconsin. PLU 28-17.

UPS @ LaVerne...Could be a dangerous game for UPS depending on which ULV team shows up. ULV has talent, but can disappear at times. But UPS finally has a kicking game that improves their offense's efficiency this season. UPS 27-20.

Colorado College @ Lewis & Clark...I'm glad I don't have to watch this game. This could be L&C's only chance @ a win this year. CC 31-21.

Menlo @ Willamette...This game will be a good gauge for how the Bearcat's tough, early schedule prepared them for the rest of the season. This could be a high scoring game, with both defenses struggling so far this season. WU 41-35.

[Dr. Sparky]

I'll admit when I am wrong. You're right Harvest.

From now on I promise not to compare two teams based upon how they did against a common opponent, whether it's the final score or stats of starting players.

My bad.

[shane falco]

Saint 11,

I remember the Riot well, I was there.  The cops totally overreacted with the whole situation.  I think 6 or 7 guy's got arrested, 3 of them being good friends of mine.

One guy, a stud linebacker, couldn't afford to come back to school because of all the legal issue bullcrap, and all the fines he had to pay.

The cops said they felt threatened, so they started spraying mace everywhere, it was brutal.  They handled the situation very very very poorly.  I lost a lot of respect for the police department of Mac after all that crap.

[spiritof86]

woufan- one of the reason there are less dui's in Europe is because mass transit/proximity of towns to homes. Not as spread out as usa.

On the drinking...I agree with the "who cares" faction.

[woufan]

I do think drinking is a huge problem on college campuses and I don't advocate the overuse of alcohol. Heck, at WOU I had a new roommate for about a week ... he went out drinking in Dallas with a friend, got in an auto accident and was paralyzed from the waist down.

I contend is Monmouth wasn't a dry town he could've walked downtown and walked back. I grew up in Moscow, Idaho, and when the drinking age was 19 in Idaho, the WSU students from Pullman would drive the 8 miles for the lower drinking age. It was nuts, downtown was a zoo and there were DUIs and accidents all over the place. Idaho upped the age to 21 and things changed.

Because U.S. society is so puritanical, alcohol will always be a forbidden fruit and high school and college kids won't know how to drink responsibly. Since it's near impossible to change U.S. culture, it's best to educate kids on the dangers of binge drinking, drinking to get drunk, and drinking and driving.

Monmouth has worse cops than McMinnville, the cops-in-training will pull you over for anything, and they love catching underage drinkers. Also, the residence halls at WOU are dry, so kids drank in their rooms but the resident assistants would go nuts, knocking on doors and things, trying to invade privacy.

College kids are going to drink, 18 years old and up. The best way to deal with it is through education and demand that they do NOT drink and drive.

[fredfalcon]

Kiltedrat--all I know is what Coach O'Grady told me: that he's tried several times, probably the last being about five years ago, to schedule St. John's. He said Gags refused, giving the reason I mentioned in the previous post.