FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[GoldandBlueBU]

re: Stagg. I feel like it is always snowing in Salem, Virginia.  It has been snowing or raining 100% of the times I've seen that city on TV.

Have they ever thought about moving the Stagg somewhere else?  I've heard the city does a great job putting on the event but, come on, somewhere in Texas has to be available, right?  On the other hand, since the only northern teams are ever in the Stagg, does the weather just not matter?

I think for D2, schools have to bid on hosting it, creating the opportunity for it to move around.  However, I think that North Alabama is pretty much the only place that pursues it, thus the game has been in Florence ever since I started paying attention to it 5 or 6 years ago.

[sju56321]

How do they pick the refs for the Stagg Bowl-these guys not real good.

[stanbob]

I have been watching ESPN2 all day and the ticker at the bottom for NCAAF has the Div.1 FCS semi-finals with times - but nothing on the game tonight. Thanks for nothing ESPN. Even if you are not a fan of either team make it a D3 football event. Remember that one day your team will be in the Stagg and you will want networks to cover it - lets give them some ratings so that can happen. If you don't watch the game thats fine - just turn it on. Maybe if the ratings are decent ESPN will stop moving the game to friday (a TV dead zone!) or moving to a smaller ESPN network so they can show some damn Poker tournament! Even if you not a fan of the teams playing - we are all fans of DIII football!

I gave up on espn a few years ago, between their lack of coverage of sports they don't broadcast and their trying to force their opinions it isn't/wasn't worth the bother.

bench's buddy paul allen is pretty much the same thing.

[sfury]

How do they pick the refs for the Stagg Bowl-these guys not real good.

The crew from the 2003 title game does it every year now.

[sju56321]

That is funny. John Marshall again?
The OAC refs last week at UWW were really good.

[DoubleO]

I'm going to go all contrarian up in here.  Mt. Union 17, Whitewater 14.  St. Thomas's D was able to slow Coppage (over a third of his yards came on one play, take that away and he went 29 for 77 (2.7 yd/carry)).  It was Blanchard who hurt the Tommies and I suspect that Mount's safeties are better athletes than St. Thomas's. 

If we're getting specific.  I see Mount taking one pick six to the house and scoring on one long drive. 

And again, since Bench is the only Tommie contributing and I am but a Who on a spec, I know only the Bennies can here me.

After watching UWW in person last week, I can't help but believe they win tonight's game. I will call the final 24-14. That being said, I have heard on multiple fronts that the perfomance by Whitewater last week was their best of the season. If they come out and execute like they did last week (which I thought was near perfection offensively and damn close defensively) I just can not see them being beaten. We should know soon.

[sfury]

So will WW be the second team to hold Mount under 10 in about 9,000 games?

[hazzben]

I kept forgetting what Matt Piloto's initials were...thank goodness he has those tatoos on his triceps 

[tommiegun]

Had UMU scored on that last drive I would have looked pretty smart

[retagent]

Had UWW scored three more TD's, I would have l looked like a genius. If my aunt had testicles, she's be my uncle.

[sju56321]

For a guy that didn't win the big game-lots of ego with those initials.

[repete]

re: Stagg. I feel like it is always snowing in Salem, Virginia.  It has been snowing or raining 100% of the times I've seen that city on TV.

Have they ever thought about moving the Stagg somewhere else?  I've heard the city does a great job putting on the event but, come on, somewhere in Texas has to be available, right?  On the other hand, since the only northern teams are ever in the Stagg, does the weather just not matter?

Umm, tommie ... The game has been elsewhere. Some of us have even seen their team win national titles in a couple of places. Despite better seafood and barbecue in Alabama, I'd take Salem anytime. Hard to believe a Texas locale would do as well: d3 ball is just a spec on that state's football radar. The NCAA found a place that takes pride in giving the Stagg a good home. There's a thread for this.

http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=4975.0

Ret: Here's hoping the former was more likely than the latter.

[OzJohnnie]

I just finished watching the game. I reckon MUC did a good job keeping it close. I kept thinking that it felt like UWW was about to run away with it, but they never did.

Other thoughts: that M and P on the back of the Mount QB's arms had better have been temporary; why do announcers need to obsess on the forgotten player (Coppage) and try to turn him into the next coming of AP?; UWW show a lot of defensive discipline which is nice to watch; Mount's old school away uniforms set an admirable example for DIII;  how does that Mount wide out with the dreds fit all that hair under his helmet?

My last thought: the Johnnies are going to look really good on the TV next year.

[USTBench]

Went to the local M&H gas station this morning and saw a red VW Jetta with a Minnesota license plate that had an SJU logo on it. The guy who got into it was wearing a leather Minnesota Vikings jacket.

Then I realized as a Vikings fan, it could always be worse.

[DuffMan]

The SC Times ran in interesting MIAC football article the other day.

MIAC: Coaches, teams doing more with less?

...Stock said the school's athletic department recently underwent a complete review conducted by outside consultants. The results of that study — which examined not just staffing, but facilities and numerous other categories — are due back in the next few weeks.

Once those results are in hand, Stock said the process of determining what, if any, changes are needed will begin.