FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[hazzben]

...not so sure about an ejection...

Yeah, the ejection seems a bit extreme.

Isn't ejection mandatory when the penalty is called?  I was watching a college game on tv this weekend and a player was flagged for a similar hit and ejected.  I got the impression that the ejection was by rule.

No, not if there's video review anyway. If targeting is called, the penalty can stand, but they can rule not to eject the player. Happened in the Ole Miss - aTm game to an Ole Miss DB. He wasn't thrown out upon review. Should have happened in the Nebraska - Purdue game. Stanley Jean-Baptiste made a great play & hit on the RB on a pass in the flat. Great hit. RB was facing downfield. Flag came out and they didn't hold off on the suspension. Bad call on a good football play.

[DuffMan]

Are we going to have to trade rain/weather for W's this year???  Said to my wife, we can make plans to make the trek from Wisconsin for the Bethel game, but it'll probably be a blizzard.  Don't remember a year with such crappy weather for all the home games.

No kidding.  It's been pretty awful.

[Retired Old Rat]

Are we going to have to trade rain/weather for W's this year???  Said to my wife, we can make plans to make the trek from Wisconsin for the Bethel game, but it'll probably be a blizzard.  Don't remember a year with such crappy weather for all the home games.

No kidding.  It's been pretty awful.

If I have to chose, I'll take wins and bad weather.  Weather doesn't seem so bad when we win.

[Retired Old Rat]

From the NCAA:  http://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2013-08-27/ncaa-announces-tighter-targeting-rules-take-effect-upcoming-season

So, with no video replay in D3, it is an auto eject.

This also contains info regarding the 10 second run off for an injury in the last minute of the half, as happened during the SJU/Augsburg tilt on Saturday.

[hazzben]

This conference race is far from over. Marquee MIAC match-ups still to be played:

10/19
UST @ Bethel

10/26
Cobbers vs. Augsburg
GAC @ Bethel

11/2
SJU @ GAC
UST @ Augsburg

11/9   
Cobbers @ UST

11/16
Cobbers vs. GAC
Bethel @ SJU

GAC and Augsburg are unlikely to win the MIAC at this point unless things get utterly insane, but they are definitely capable of upsetting some teams above them in the standings.

[hazzben]

From the NCAA:  http://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2013-08-27/ncaa-announces-tighter-targeting-rules-take-effect-upcoming-season

So, with no video replay in D3, it is an auto eject.

This also contains info regarding the 10 second run off for an injury in the last minute of the half, as happened during the SJU/Augsburg tilt on Saturday.

This is why it's a bad rule IMO. It was clearly made with FCS in mind. And there have been numerous instances where the flag was thrown and the player, upon review, has not been thrown out. So clearly they realize they want to be able to throw the flag and recognize that the player wasn't being malicious.

But they are incapable of making this distinction at the D3 level. That's unfair to small college players. I would hope it makes officials in games without replay extremely cautious to throw a flag that mandates an ejection. 

[AO]

I'm not convinced that you need to be 9-1 to get a Pool C bid.   The NWC and WIAC will both have a fight for 2nd place with the winner probably having 2 losses and a worse or comparable SOS to St. Thomas.  Concordia is likely to be regionally ranked when they match up with the Tommies in Week 9, giving the Tommies a big boost with a win.

[hazzben]

I'm not convinced that you need to be 9-1 to get a Pool C bid.   The NWC and WIAC will both have a fight for 2nd place with the winner probably having 2 losses and a worse or comparable SOS to St. Thomas.  Concordia is likely to be regionally ranked when they match up with the Tommies in Week 9, giving the Tommies a big boost with a win.

Good point. And we're already seeing signs of carnage out East. It'll be interesting though, with one fewer Pool C bid this year.

And with one less slot this year, I wouldn't want to be sitting with 2 losses and possibly getting edged out by a weaker 1 loss team or another strong 2 loss candidate.

[Retired Old Rat]

From the NCAA:  http://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2013-08-27/ncaa-announces-tighter-targeting-rules-take-effect-upcoming-season

So, with no video replay in D3, it is an auto eject.

This also contains info regarding the 10 second run off for an injury in the last minute of the half, as happened during the SJU/Augsburg tilt on Saturday.

This is why it's a bad rule IMO. It was clearly made with FCS in mind. And there have been numerous instances where the flag was thrown and the player, upon review, has not been thrown out. So clearly they realize they want to be able to throw the flag and recognize that the player wasn't being malicious.

But they are incapable of making this distinction at the D3 level. That's unfair to small college players. I would hope it makes officials in games without replay extremely cautious to throw a flag that mandates an ejection. 

I am guessing that is why the flag was not thrown on the hit to Rob Voshell.

[repete]

It was somewhere in there. I started my freshman year in the Fall of 2003 and the upperclassmen were lamenting the passing of J-term. I thought they said the last one was January of 2002.

Ahh, J-term. 2 classes stand out in my mind: "How to Handle Executive Stress" and "Winter Activities", taught by the wrestling coach!

--Ecology of the Winter Prairie -- 3 weeks in January in Dickinson, N.D.
--Skiing at Powder Ridge
--Basically seeing how far you could get on a $165 unlimited monthly Greyhound pass (A lot of miles)
--Internship that actually fit my career

[02 Warhawk]

I'm not convinced that you need to be 9-1 to get a Pool C bid.   The NWC and WIAC will both have a fight for 2nd place with the winner probably having 2 losses and a worse or comparable SOS to St. Thomas.  Concordia is likely to be regionally ranked when they match up with the Tommies in Week 9, giving the Tommies a big boost with a win.

Good point. And we're already seeing signs of carnage out East. It'll be interesting though, with one fewer Pool C bid this year.
And with one less slot this year, I wouldn't want to be sitting with 2 losses and possibly getting edged out by a weaker 1 loss team or another strong 2 loss candidate.

All the more reason why a second loss is devasting for a Pool C bid.

[AO]

I'm not convinced that you need to be 9-1 to get a Pool C bid.   The NWC and WIAC will both have a fight for 2nd place with the winner probably having 2 losses and a worse or comparable SOS to St. Thomas.  Concordia is likely to be regionally ranked when they match up with the Tommies in Week 9, giving the Tommies a big boost with a win.

Good point. And we're already seeing signs of carnage out East. It'll be interesting though, with one fewer Pool C bid this year.
And with one less slot this year, I wouldn't want to be sitting with 2 losses and possibly getting edged out by a weaker 1 loss team or another strong 2 loss candidate.

All the more reason why a second loss is devasting for a Pool C bid.

devastating for some teams maybe, you must represent one of those conferences with a mere 3 teams in the top 25 poll.

[sfury]

It was somewhere in there. I started my freshman year in the Fall of 2003 and the upperclassmen were lamenting the passing of J-term. I thought they said the last one was January of 2002.

Ahh, J-term. 2 classes stand out in my mind: "How to Handle Executive Stress" and "Winter Activities", taught by the wrestling coach!

--Ecology of the Winter Prairie -- 3 weeks in January in Dickinson, N.D.
--Skiing at Powder Ridge
--Basically seeing how far you could get on a $165 unlimited monthly Greyhound pass (A lot of miles)
--Internship that actually fit my career

The one I spent on campus I spent whole time playing hoops in Rat and Palestra. And taking a military class, which consisted of writing a paper on...Operation Urgent Fury.

[OzJohnnie]

It was somewhere in there. I started my freshman year in the Fall of 2003 and the upperclassmen were lamenting the passing of J-term. I thought they said the last one was January of 2002.

Ahh, J-term. 2 classes stand out in my mind: "How to Handle Executive Stress" and "Winter Activities", taught by the wrestling coach!

--Ecology of the Winter Prairie -- 3 weeks in January in Dickinson, N.D.
--Skiing at Powder Ridge
--Basically seeing how far you could get on a $165 unlimited monthly Greyhound pass (A lot of miles)
--Internship that actually fit my career

The one I spent on campus I spent whole time playing hoops in Rat and Palestra. And taking a military class, which consisted of writing a paper on...Operation Urgent Fury.

I had a jterm on the art of stand up comedy. After that I resolved to not waste jterm anymore.  So I had a class on the Irish influence on the classical liberal education. Unfortunately that class didn't include forks to poke my eyes out with. I had to round up my own forks.

[D O.C.]

So, you failed the stand up comedy class? 
Does Faching have full contact during the week?