FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[USTBench]

Nice Bennie +k

Will someone argue with me about these teams I know nothing about.

I think Johns Hopkins is the best thing to come out of Baltimore since "The Wire" but will lose to UST in the regional finals. Delaware Valley is overrated. St. John Fisher doesn't even belong in the playoffs. Norwich is just terrible. CSS is a nursing school. Monmouth's mother wears army boots. IWU is the best of the lousiest and the lousiest of the best.

i cant argue with any of that, but how do some of them stack up in ATTENDANCE?

According to the 2010 numbers we'd be a 1 seed.

[wrdad]

Nice Bennie +k

Will someone argue with me about these teams I know nothing about.

I think Johns Hopkins is the best thing to come out of Baltimore since "The Wire" but will lose to UST in the regional finals. Delaware Valley is overrated. St. John Fisher doesn't even belong in the playoffs. Norwich is just terrible. CSS is a nursing school. Monmouth's mother wears army boots. IWU is the best of the lousiest and the lousiest of the best.

What IF Delaware Valley were to get to the regional finals and play St. Thomas in doylestown??? Would you feel confident in St. Thomas coming from minnesota and traveling hundreds and hundreds of miles to a suburb of philly??? (I do believe that Johns Hopkins has a chance to beat Del val. If they get by st. john fisher) If Del Val gets by johns hopkins, I believe they have a great chance of beating st thomas. (now if that did occur, then Whitewater just made the easiest road you can get to salem)

[USTBench]

Nice Bennie +k

Will someone argue with me about these teams I know nothing about.

I think Johns Hopkins is the best thing to come out of Baltimore since "The Wire" but will lose to UST in the regional finals. Delaware Valley is overrated. St. John Fisher doesn't even belong in the playoffs. Norwich is just terrible. CSS is a nursing school. Monmouth's mother wears army boots. IWU is the best of the lousiest and the lousiest of the best.

What IF Delaware Valley were to get to the regional finals and play St. Thomas in doylestown??? Would you feel confident in St. Thomas coming from minnesota and traveling hundreds and hundreds of miles to a suburb of philly??? (I do believe that Johns Hopkins has a chance to beat Del val. If they get by st. john fisher) If Del Val gets by johns hopkins, I believe they have a great chance of beating st thomas. (now if that did occur, then Whitewater just made the easiest road you can get to salem)

IF Delaware Valley beat Johns Hopkins/St.JF and UST went out to Doylestown I would feel very confident that the end result would be a Double Monkey Stomp in UST's favor. If the game were actually played IN Philly I'd be nervous, but the suburbs of Philly are all crabcakes and lacrosse. Phone it in.

[USTBench]

Nice Bennie +k

Will someone argue with me about these teams I know nothing about.

I think Johns Hopkins is the best thing to come out of Baltimore since "The Wire" but will lose to UST in the regional finals. Delaware Valley is overrated. St. John Fisher doesn't even belong in the playoffs. Norwich is just terrible. CSS is a nursing school. Monmouth's mother wears army boots. IWU is the best of the lousiest and the lousiest of the best.

What IF Delaware Valley were to get to the regional finals and play St. Thomas in doylestown??? Would you feel confident in St. Thomas coming from minnesota and traveling hundreds and hundreds of miles to a suburb of philly??? (I do believe that Johns Hopkins has a chance to beat Del val. If they get by st. john fisher) If Del Val gets by johns hopkins, I believe they have a great chance of beating st thomas. (now if that did occur, then Whitewater just made the easiest road you can get to salem)

IF Delaware Valley beat Johns Hopkins/St.JF and UST went out to Doylestown I would feel very confident that the end result would be a Double Monkey Stomp in UST's favor. If the game were actually played IN Philly I'd be nervous, but the suburbs of Philly are all crabcakes and lacrosse. Phone it in.

Jeez, thanks for not letting your prejudice show. You just gotta be a native, live-and-let-live Minnesotan ....

I was stereotyping, not being prejudicial. You must be one of those jamokes from Lambertville. Bunch of real jabronies out there.

EDIT: Dang Warren, where'd your comment go?

[Warren Thompson]

Nice Bennie +k

Will someone argue with me about these teams I know nothing about.

I think Johns Hopkins is the best thing to come out of Baltimore since "The Wire" but will lose to UST in the regional finals. Delaware Valley is overrated. St. John Fisher doesn't even belong in the playoffs. Norwich is just terrible. CSS is a nursing school. Monmouth's mother wears army boots. IWU is the best of the lousiest and the lousiest of the best.

What IF Delaware Valley were to get to the regional finals and play St. Thomas in doylestown??? Would you feel confident in St. Thomas coming from minnesota and traveling hundreds and hundreds of miles to a suburb of philly??? (I do believe that Johns Hopkins has a chance to beat Del val. If they get by st. john fisher) If Del Val gets by johns hopkins, I believe they have a great chance of beating st thomas. (now if that did occur, then Whitewater just made the easiest road you can get to salem)

IF Delaware Valley beat Johns Hopkins/St.JF and UST went out to Doylestown I would feel very confident that the end result would be a Double Monkey Stomp in UST's favor. If the game were actually played IN Philly I'd be nervous, but the suburbs of Philly are all crabcakes and lacrosse. Phone it in.

Jeez, thanks for not letting your prejudice show. You just gotta be a native, live-and-let-live Minnesotan ....

I was stereotyping, not being prejudicial. You must be one of those jamokes from Lambertville. Bunch of real jabronies out there.

EDIT: Dang Warren, where'd your comment go?

"Dang," yourself. Try the MAC room. And you could be just a tad more subtle ....

[USTBench]

Nice Bennie +k

Will someone argue with me about these teams I know nothing about.

I think Johns Hopkins is the best thing to come out of Baltimore since "The Wire" but will lose to UST in the regional finals. Delaware Valley is overrated. St. John Fisher doesn't even belong in the playoffs. Norwich is just terrible. CSS is a nursing school. Monmouth's mother wears army boots. IWU is the best of the lousiest and the lousiest of the best.

What IF Delaware Valley were to get to the regional finals and play St. Thomas in doylestown??? Would you feel confident in St. Thomas coming from minnesota and traveling hundreds and hundreds of miles to a suburb of philly??? (I do believe that Johns Hopkins has a chance to beat Del val. If they get by st. john fisher) If Del Val gets by johns hopkins, I believe they have a great chance of beating st thomas. (now if that did occur, then Whitewater just made the easiest road you can get to salem)

IF Delaware Valley beat Johns Hopkins/St.JF and UST went out to Doylestown I would feel very confident that the end result would be a Double Monkey Stomp in UST's favor. If the game were actually played IN Philly I'd be nervous, but the suburbs of Philly are all crabcakes and lacrosse. Phone it in.

Jeez, thanks for not letting your prejudice show. You just gotta be a native, live-and-let-live Minnesotan ....

I was stereotyping, not being prejudicial. You must be one of those jamokes from Lambertville. Bunch of real jabronies out there.

EDIT: Dang Warren, where'd your comment go?

"Dang," yourself. Try the MAC room. And you could be just a tad more subtle ....

If I was subtle you wouldn't get mad and this would be boring, thoughtful analysis about a game that might never happen.

I prefer factless mudslinging at this point.

Your hero is a fictitional boxer with a severe learning disability who loses all of his money and engages in a street fight in front of his son, Gino's cheese steaks are why Philadelphians are so fat, the founding fathers opted out of Phildelphia as home for our capital for a muggy swamp, your city touches New Jersey, and your airport is horrible.

[stanbob]

Nice Bennie +k

Will someone argue with me about these teams I know nothing about.

I think Johns Hopkins is the best thing to come out of Baltimore since "The Wire" but will lose to UST in the regional finals. Delaware Valley is overrated. St. John Fisher doesn't even belong in the playoffs. Norwich is just terrible. CSS is a nursing school. Monmouth's mother wears army boots. IWU is the best of the lousiest and the lousiest of the best.

What IF Delaware Valley were to get to the regional finals and play St. Thomas in doylestown??? Would you feel confident in St. Thomas coming from minnesota and traveling hundreds and hundreds of miles to a suburb of philly??? (I do believe that Johns Hopkins has a chance to beat Del val. If they get by st. john fisher) If Del Val gets by johns hopkins, I believe they have a great chance of beating st thomas. (now if that did occur, then Whitewater just made the easiest road you can get to salem)

IF Delaware Valley beat Johns Hopkins/St.JF and UST went out to Doylestown I would feel very confident that the end result would be a Double Monkey Stomp in UST's favor. If the game were actually played IN Philly I'd be nervous, but the suburbs of Philly are all crabcakes and lacrosse. Phone it in.

Jeez, thanks for not letting your prejudice show. You just gotta be a native, live-and-let-live Minnesotan ....

I was stereotyping, not being prejudicial. You must be one of those jamokes from Lambertville. Bunch of real jabronies out there.

EDIT: Dang Warren, where'd your comment go?

"Dang," yourself. Try the MAC room. And you could be just a tad more subtle ....

Subtlety and tact?  not a ust strongpoint, especially once they started winning.

[Warren Thompson]

Nice Bennie +k

Will someone argue with me about these teams I know nothing about.

I think Johns Hopkins is the best thing to come out of Baltimore since "The Wire" but will lose to UST in the regional finals. Delaware Valley is overrated. St. John Fisher doesn't even belong in the playoffs. Norwich is just terrible. CSS is a nursing school. Monmouth's mother wears army boots. IWU is the best of the lousiest and the lousiest of the best.

What IF Delaware Valley were to get to the regional finals and play St. Thomas in doylestown??? Would you feel confident in St. Thomas coming from minnesota and traveling hundreds and hundreds of miles to a suburb of philly??? (I do believe that Johns Hopkins has a chance to beat Del val. If they get by st. john fisher) If Del Val gets by johns hopkins, I believe they have a great chance of beating st thomas. (now if that did occur, then Whitewater just made the easiest road you can get to salem)

IF Delaware Valley beat Johns Hopkins/St.JF and UST went out to Doylestown I would feel very confident that the end result would be a Double Monkey Stomp in UST's favor. If the game were actually played IN Philly I'd be nervous, but the suburbs of Philly are all crabcakes and lacrosse. Phone it in.

Jeez, thanks for not letting your prejudice show. You just gotta be a native, live-and-let-live Minnesotan ....

I was stereotyping, not being prejudicial. You must be one of those jamokes from Lambertville. Bunch of real jabronies out there.

EDIT: Dang Warren, where'd your comment go?

"Dang," yourself. Try the MAC room. And you could be just a tad more subtle ....

If I was subtle you wouldn't get mad and this would be boring, thoughtful analysis about a game that might never happen.

I prefer factless mudslinging at this point.

Your hero is a fictitional boxer with a severe learning disability who loses all of his money and engages in a street fight in front of his son, Gino's cheese steaks are why Philadelphians are so fat, the founding fathers opted out of Phildelphia as home for our capital for a muggy swamp, your city touches New Jersey, and your airport is horrible.

There's no point in getting mad at a clown, be he subtle or clueless. Nor do I live in Philadelphia or anywhere else near Doylestown.

[USTBench]

Oh relax fellas. I say most everything tongue-in-cheek.

[WashedUp]

Nice Bennie +k

Will someone argue with me about these teams I know nothing about.

I think Johns Hopkins is the best thing to come out of Baltimore since "The Wire" but will lose to UST in the regional finals. Delaware Valley is overrated. St. John Fisher doesn't even belong in the playoffs. Norwich is just terrible. CSS is a nursing school. Monmouth's mother wears army boots. IWU is the best of the lousiest and the lousiest of the best.

What IF Delaware Valley were to get to the regional finals and play St. Thomas in doylestown??? Would you feel confident in St. Thomas coming from minnesota and traveling hundreds and hundreds of miles to a suburb of philly??? (I do believe that Johns Hopkins has a chance to beat Del val. If they get by st. john fisher) If Del Val gets by johns hopkins, I believe they have a great chance of beating st thomas. (now if that did occur, then Whitewater just made the easiest road you can get to salem)

IF Delaware Valley beat Johns Hopkins/St.JF and UST went out to Doylestown I would feel very confident that the end result would be a Double Monkey Stomp in UST's favor. If the game were actually played IN Philly I'd be nervous, but the suburbs of Philly are all crabcakes and lacrosse. Phone it in.

Jeez, thanks for not letting your prejudice show. You just gotta be a native, live-and-let-live Minnesotan ....

I was stereotyping, not being prejudicial. You must be one of those jamokes from Lambertville. Bunch of real jabronies out there.

EDIT: Dang Warren, where'd your comment go?

"Dang," yourself. Try the MAC room. And you could be just a tad more subtle ....

Maybe there's a reason this board has 10 times the activity.  Just sayin'.

[Retired Old Rat]

I see the Tommie faithful are clearly looking beyond SCS.  Bench is already making new friends out east.

SCS in the upset of the year.

[sjusection105]

Will anyone be in the Tommie stands come Saturday or will most "elite" coast UST types, as Mr. MIAC intends to do, wait to make the short drive drive to Salem?   

I'll be crossing my fingers that they make it past round 2, then I will make the drive to St. Paul for Round 3. IF, they get that far.

Getting married, Christmas coming up, 4.5 hour drive from GF...that whole thing.

We'll give you a pass with the marriage card however it's been routine for Carbo, Dana and I to make routine 5 hour drives to places like Pella and Whitewater only to leave in disapointment and misery.   

Nothing better than Old Milwaukee at 5:00AM.
What was the name of that Supper Club in central Wiscy that Marty's sister told us about? Great steaks at an unbelievable price!
Road trips are what make the post-season so memorable 

[USTBench]

I see the Tommie faithful are clearly looking beyond SCS.  Bench is already making new friends out east.

SCS in the upset of the year.

If that happens I promise I will show up for Tommie/Johnnie next year in Collegeville wearing a bright red SJU t-shirt.

[skunks_sidekick]

Hey Warren!

Having perused this MIAC board since back before those A-holes from SJU had the frickin' nerve/gumption/to beat Mount in the Stagg Bowl, I have learned the following.

The MIAC folks (mainly St. Johns people) are very passionate about their football team, school, and history.  UST is somewhat the "new kid on the block".  They were always the rich kids with potential, and now with the right coach, and the right committment from administration, they have shown significant advancement.  They MAY be ready for prime time, but they still have to PROVE that is the case. 

Having said all that, Bench has shown over time to be one of the funnier, more interesting, and take it as it comes UST alumn.  Take a deep breath, relax, and just go with the flow.  It's all good.

Your are just lucky you don't have to deal with Mr. MIAC, who believes that UST has now taken over the D-III map.  History.....FORGET IT! 

I believe UST should have been the #1 seed.  They proved that over the last two years.  I am still not sure how they lost to Bethel last year (but rival games are weird..we all know that), but I think they are the real deal. 

My hope is that whoever makes it out of that side has Mount to face at the Stagg.  I said "hope", and that is different because most years I know.

[BU5758]

Skunks_Sidekick....

"I am still not sure how they lost to Bethel last year....."

The following statistics should help explain how St. Thomas lost to Bethel last year.

             Bethel St.Thomas
FIRST DOWNS...................           20        8
NET YARDS RUSHING.............       277      166
NET YARDS PASSING.............       26       54
TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS...........      303      220
Penalties: Number-Yards.......       4-26     7-77
PUNTS-YARDS...................        4-131    6-230
Possession Time...............          32:37    27:23
Third-Down Conversions........    5 of 13  3 of 14
Fourth-Down Conversions.......   2 of 3   2 of 5
Red-Zone Scores-Chances.......      2-4      1-1