FB: Northwest Conference

[footballfan413]

I've never understood the WIAC........enrollments of 7-15 thousand students, state run schools with tuition at about $2500 a year.... playing little private colleges with enrollments of about 1-3 thousand and students paying 20-30 thousand. Heck.....you guys actually suck for all the students and low costs you have.

WIAC Undergraduate Enrollment

Oshkosh 11,355
Eau Claire 10,346
Whitewater 9,231
Stevens Point 8,710
La Crosse 8,634
Stout 7,766
River Falls 6,050
Platteville 5,775

NWC Undergraduate Enrollment

Pacific Lutheran 3,349
Puget Sound 2,569
Whitworth 2,253
Lewis & Clark 1,964
Willamette 1,932
Linfield 1,720
Menlo 680

The WIAC schools have larger enrollments, low in-state tuition, and, most importantly, low admissions standards on par with an Army recruiting station. "Are you breathing? OK, you're admitted to Whitewater. Sign here. Yes, you may sign your name with a big X."

OxyBob

OMG, do you go to all the trouble to re-write this post every couple of months or so or just go back into your archives and re-post the same one?  You have gotten so predictable on this subject that I don't even get motivated to respond anymore.    

Other than to respond to you to tell you that I am not responding to you, of course...................  

[criswyly]

Hmmm....WIAC = Big X Conference:)

[Gig Harbor Cat]

The only number that interests me is 11

On several levels

Phone it in

 GHC

[warthog]

The WIAC do have bigger enrollments than most other West Region schools, but when this discussion happens on other boards, our site manager points out that public schools are fairly common in other D3 regions. 

I wonder if WIAC schools have a certain number of students in their big enrollments that would be found at the local community college if the students lived in other states.  That could help explain less than Ivy League like student profiles and an apparent reluctance to being D2 in spite of their D1 mid-major enrollment numbers.

Then again having them in D3 isn't all that bad.  My Wartburg Knights won two national titles (wrestling and womens in-door track & field) over the last two weekends.  WIAC schools were in the hunt, but a small private IIAC school took the hardware home.  Perhaps having them in the division makes every college, that takes athletics seriously, work harder.

[doolittledog]

You can't really call all public schools the same though.  Comparing some of the eastern public schools like Castleton St. or Plymouth St. to the WIAC.  Those eastern schools have enrollments and facilities that more closely resemble your typical small private school D3's.  You take a tour of most of the WIAC schools and they have the enrollment numbers and facilities you would normally associate with D2 schools.  That is why I don't like the argument that there are lots of public D3 schools, because they aren't all the same comparison. 

That said, if the WIAC wants to be a D3 conference, then so be it.  Let them be a D3 conference. 

[bluenote]

WOW....George Fox Girls Basketball improves to 30-0 and is going to the semis! I've heard they have like 10 freshman on that team. You have to give them some credit for being so young and doing such a good job. Must be some good coaching and recruiting going on over there.

[wildcat11]

Catdomealumni.com's Video of the week: 2008 Hardin Simmons

2008 Hardin Simmons

***Next Week: 2008 vs Southern Oregon***

***Yeah, I'm still planning on tailgating before the baseball game on April 18th.  I'll put together a more formal blog post later this week.

[wyd]

Ok... (looking left to right).  I will admit that was pretty good.  11, you are getting pretty darn good at this. 

[MonroviaCat]

Very nice 11---I especially liked the little effect you did in the last play.  Is it September yet?

[bluenote]

.....nice job Wildcat11. I liked the block our tight end #89 puts on their safety. Are our lineman going to be as big this year on the O-Line? I thought we had some pretty good size last year.

[wildcat11]

Thanks fellas for the kind words and there is still plenty more to come!

Blue, we lost some very good kids but we also have some outstanding O-Line/TE players coming back and developing.  It should be a very strong mix next fall.

[Kilted Rat]

Greetings NWCer's,

So last week, I was running (yes, it was an accident) and wearing a Linfield Football T-shirt Mr and Mrs. Coco sent me.

The shirt is in a rotation of about 5-6 shirts I wear for working out mostly SJU shirts and a high school wrestling shirt .


Anyway, while I get stopped at a red light and while I'm standing there minding my own business, a dude driving a car stopped at the stop light rolls down his passenger window and yells "F*@* Linfield" then he drove off.


Pretty much laughed to myself the rest of the run. Just wanted you guys to know you are hated in San Diego by at least one person. I looked, no PLU bumper sticker, but he did have a "Vote No on Prop 8" bumper sticker.

[coco]

Greetings NWCer's,

So last week, I was running (yes, it was an accident) and wearing a Linfield Football T-shirt Mr and Mrs. Coco sent me.

The shirt is in a rotation of about 5-6 shirts I wear for working out mostly SJU shirts and a high school wrestling shirt .


Anyway, while I get stopped at a red light and while I'm standing there minding my own business, a dude driving a car stopped at the stop light rolls down his passenger window and yells "F*@* Linfield" then he drove off.


Pretty much laughed to myself the rest of the run. Just wanted you guys to know you are hated in San Diego by at least one person. I looked, no PLU bumper sticker, but he did have a "Vote No on Prop 8" bumper sticker.

Obviously some sore loser who got his azz handed to him by the Wildcats.

So this accident you were running from, I'm guessing you caused it, right? And that you did manage to escape from the cops?

How's life treating you down there in America's Most Beautiful City, or whatever they call it? Did you enjoy the winter more than the one in Minnesota?

[wildcat11]

Anyway, while I get stopped at a red light and while I'm standing there minding my own business, a dude driving a car stopped at the stop light rolls down his passenger window and yells "F*@* Linfield" then he drove off.

HAHAHAHA!  I didn't know that RFB was living in San Diego?  Maybe it was Coach Maynard?

[RFB]

Anyway, while I get stopped at a red light and while I'm standing there minding my own business, a dude driving a car stopped at the stop light rolls down his passenger window and yells "F*@* Linfield" then he drove off.

HAHAHAHA!  I didn't know that RFB was living in San Diego?  Maybe it was Coach Maynard?

No, not me. I would have clipped the curb Tijuana taxi style. [Sarcasm]