FB: Northwest Conference

[George Thompson]

New regional rankings are out--

1. St. Johns
2. Whitewater
3. Linfield
4. Central

St. John's jumps to number one on a bye week...go figure---I'd say it's totally based on SOS but then Whitewater wouldn't be #2....  Oh well.  We have a bye this week so maybe we'll jump back up

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Why LC fell in the Regional Rankings?    From Adam Johnson's Around the West: "Puget Sound wide receiver Ross Zuhl burned the Linfield defensive secondary for 18 catches -- a school record -- for 185 yards and two touchdowns."   

A freshman!!!   Yikes, 3 more years of facing him.

And, I sure can not understand why UPS hasn't used that QB all year long!   Best offense on an 0-8 team I have ever seen---and, I have seen lots of games!   UPS, you were very good! 

LC should have one home playoff game and maybe two.    But, we must first beat PLU.

GO CATS! GO!

[idalogger]

New regional rankings are out--

1. St. Johns
2. Whitewater
3. Linfield
4. Central

St. John's jumps to number one on a bye week...go figure---I'd say it's totally based on SOS but then Whitewater wouldn't be #2....  Oh well.  We have a bye this week so maybe we'll jump back up

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Why LC fell in the Regional Rankings?    From Adam Johnson's Around the West: "Puget Sound wide receiver Ross Zuhl burned the Linfield defensive secondary for 18 catches -- a school record -- for 185 yards and two touchdowns."   

A freshman!!!   Yikes, 3 more years of facing him.

And, I sure can not understand why UPS hasn't used that QB all year long!   Best offense on an 0-8 team I have ever seen---and, I have seen lots of games!   UPS, you were very good! 

LC should have one home playoff game and maybe two.    But, we must first beat PLU.

GO CATS! GO!

I hope the Loggers improve in the next few years. They have some talent, and have played badly only once, against PLU. But they appear not to know how to win. They start ten freshmen and sophs, but run an unimaginative offense except to when forced to adjust, as in last week at the Cats.

Against UWW, they were down 14-7 at half, but the offense could not move the ball, and the d wore down in the third and fourth. The UWW announcers were surprised, then relieved when the warhawks scored on a trick play in the third. The UWW players knew they were in a game, and said so to the UPS players afterward. After outscoring their first two NAIA opponents 88-3, maybe they were as surprised as the announcers.

I know the Loggers are bad, but the games have been close, 6-14, 3-14, 14-20, 15-24, outside of the Whitewater, PLU, and Linfield games. I believe we'll be competitive next year.

Go Loggers!

[idalogger]

I forgot this one note. Crace came in against UWW in the fourth (admittedly against their second team) and drove the offense down the field for a td, I think 6 of 6 passing, to...Zuhl. So the same attack worked against the Warhawks. Against PLU he came in late and threw a td pass to...well, you see the pattern. Crace is a senior, unfortunately.

[bleedpurple]

Weird 11, no mention of that weak sauce 36 pt defense...

This 'Cats squad will get carved up in the playoffs...

Sort of like UW-Whitewater took out the Johnnies by 30 last year? 

[speedybigboy]

I think you're spot on about the professor's quote about football being "retrograde," and how if a male made such a comment about a female sport, he'd be sent to sensitivity training.

These people need to be clued in to the concept of STUDENT athletes at the D3 level. They're pissing me off.

In her defense--her opinion may have been shaped by a story I was told by a friend/Pacific Alum.  Apparently, when Pacific cut their program at least one player got drunk and tried to chop down the "tallest barber pole in the world" they had on campus (is that thing still there?).  Anyway, he passed out half way through and was picked up by the police when they came across him sleeping there, axe in hand, the next morning.... 

that just tells me that not only did they have trouble winning, they couldn't hold their liqour either 

[FightBearcats]

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Bye week drivel

Oregon colleges look to football to draw more males to female-dominated campuses

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/oregon_colleges_look_to_footba.html


Our johns visitors will not be able to comprehend this article - if anyone would care to help them...

Pacific sophomore Brandi Palmer says she has a writing class that's all female students.

"We're mostly feminists, and everyone agrees about things," she says. "Having more boys would encourage a clash of ideas."

This is my favorite quote from the above article. What a disaster it would it be if college classes had people with differing IDEAS! The horror! The horror!
Sexist little snot.

Pacific gets huge points for trying to keep their school coed and diverse. It's reassuring that the administration realizes the connection that football creates with the players and alums. Maybe the others will figure it out.

Coco, I took her comment as being in favor of bringing in more men, maybe I'm wrong but note the word "encourage" that she used.  This is the drivel I found astonishing......

""So what?" asks Martha Rampton, a professor of history at Pacific who opposed re-introducing football. "Show me why it's a problem."
She wishes Pacific had tried to lure more male students by adding new intellectual or cultural programs, rather than the "retrograde" approach of adding football, which she says stereotypes young men."

This from a professor?  Who's the one with the stereotype problem here?  A male professor would have been sent to sensitivity training for a comment like that. 

It's been awhile since I was on campus or on the practice field, but the guys I played with weren't dumb jocks and usually each season a guy or two with significant playing time would decide to hang up his cleats and not return the next year so he could focus on his studies.

You mean like Cole Franklin transferring to Oregon State to study engineering?

You may be right about that girl, Speedy. I was irritated at the whole "football is bad" philosophy that some of them seemed to have, and perhaps she didn't. I think you're spot on about the professor's quote about football being "retrograde," and how if a male made such a comment about a female sport, he'd be sent to sensitivity training.

These people need to be clued in to the concept of STUDENT athletes at the D3 level. They're pissing me off.

Actually, the professor has a point.  Whitman's M/F ratio is F56/M44.  The only one better is Willamette.    Linfield and UPS are close.  Whitman doesn't have football but seems to have done exactly what the professor said and it hasn't hurt them.

I agree with the "student-athlete" philosophy and really admire the DIII philosophy.  But there are lots of ways people can be involved in college life.  The students who perform and represent their schools in bands, choirs, and orchestras and lots of other ways work just as hard.  I say have as many outlets for excellence as possible.

[wildcat11]

BTW, it was awesome to see Linfield's Scott Brosius throw out the first pitch in last night's clinching game of the World Series.  What an awesome honor for our Wildcat Skipper!

[MonroviaCat]

ho hum...bye week.....twiddle twiddle....  yawn...

[D O.C.]

Will somebody raise the level on my C-PAP machine, please?


                                       zzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz

[RedandPurple]

I forgot this one note. Crace came in against UWW in the fourth (admittedly against their second team) and drove the offense down the field for a td, I think 6 of 6 passing, to...Zuhl. So the same attack worked against the Warhawks. Against PLU he came in late and threw a td pass to...well, you see the pattern. Crace is a senior, unfortunately.

idalogger:
Welcome to the board. I understand your son plays for UPS. Is that true? If so, congratulations and all the best to him and your family. I've enjoyed your posts. I hope you're able to get to the games to watch him play.

redandpurple

[RedandPurple]

BTW, it was awesome to see Linfield's Scott Brosius throw out the first pitch in last night's clinching game of the World Series.  What an awesome honor for our Wildcat Skipper!

Darn! I missed it.
He is a great guy.

[wildcat11]

ADvantage Catdome:  NWC All-Conference should be the best of our conference's best.

[coco]

Weird 11, no mention of that weak sauce 36 pt defense...

This 'Cats squad will get carved up in the playoffs...

Sort of like UW-Whitewater took out the Johnnies by 30 last year? 

Whitewater must have cheated.

I hope the coaches hear you on the All Conference selections, 11. It's a joke when there are too many. This isn't T-ball, where everyone gets a trophy. Pat has it right with the way they do it, IMHO. Same with TOW. It means something to be acknowledged by his organization.

[Bearcat Press]

ADvantage Catdome:  NWC All-Conference should be the best of our confernece's best.

+1.  Well said.

I agree with you on the Summers/Grove debate, but I think a case could be made that Anderson/Woo each deserved POY honors.  Woo's numbers got hidden to a certain extent because of Willamette's system.

[wildcat11]

ADvantage Catdome:  NWC All-Conference should be the best of our confernece's best.

+1.  Well said.

I agree with you on the Summers/Grove debate, but I think a case could be made that Anderson/Woo each deserved POY honors.  Woo's numbers got hidden to a certain extent because of Willamette's system.

That's the great thing about the Woo/Anderson debate.  You can say that Woo was able to get his reception/rushing yards a little easier because Willamette had a number of other weapons that defenses had to honor while everyone and their mom knew that Anderson was it for Whitworth and he had to earn every yard/TD with 7/8 in the box.

They were/are both outstanding players but I would have loved to know who the NWC coaches thought was the most worthy.