FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[OzJohnnie]

Welcome CK!

http://college.usatoday.com/2015/05/18/the-10-best-roman-catholic-colleges/

I am pretty darn proud of number eight!

The Bennies coming in the top 10 and setting a standard. Impressive. The J's have some work to catch up from 14th.

[Mr.MIAC]

I don't know much about Methodists and Baptists (the two major religions in MS), but I don't think they venerate the saints and apostles quite like Catholics. 

Thanks 57Johnnie and OJ!  I saw some of the more recent pages in this thread and it seemed like Carleton was just a bit underrepresented 

I, too, bid you welcome, CarletonKnights. Be forewarned to lay low leading up to the annual battle of the two Catholic schools here in the MIAC. Just revel in the (s)word play as the blood flows and the losers lick their wounds afterwards.

(And I can't help myself, but all I can hear as I type this is "neet", as I recall a certain knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail.)

Welcome, CarletonKnights. I think this advice is spot on. Most of the season it's a wall-to-wall Johnnie smokefest on this board, but in lead up to the UST/SJU game it becomes almost unbearable. I think it has something to do with those sleepy years spent up in Collegeville, bonding alone with the boys (and now no beer), that sets the stage for lifelong esprit de corps. On the other hand, it's rumored that all us Tommies have STDs. I think that might just be an aspirational claim made by the Johnnies, though...

[OzJohnnie]

You so exaggerate. No one said that all the Tommies have STDs. Just the ones that indiscriminately slip from one hookup to the next like junkies chasing the brownie tray. Oh. Never mind.

[carletonknights]

Thanks for the advice all!


Some MIAC games on here:
http://www.bennettrank.com/collegefootball/top-10-d3-football-rivalries-whitewater-mount-union-amherst-williams-wabash-depauw/

[carletonknights]

So how many people do we have here cheering for each school?

Saint John's
Bethel   
Concordia   
St. Thomas   
Gustavus   
Augsburg   
Hamline   
Carleton   1
St. Olaf

[Mr.MIAC]

So how many people do we have here cheering for each school?

Saint John's  -1
Bethel   
Concordia   
St. Thomas  1   
Gustavus   
Augsburg   
Hamline   
Carleton   1
St. Olaf

[BDB]

So how many people do we have here cheering for each school?

Saint John's  -1
Bethel   
Concordia   
St. Thomas  1   
Gustavus   
Augsburg   
Hamline   
Carleton   1
St. Olaf

This is pretty darn funny, I must say.

[art76]

So how many people do we have here cheering for each school?

Saint John's
Bethel   
Concordia   
St. Thomas   
Gustavus   
Augsburg   
Hamline   
Carleton   1
St. Olaf

Once the dust settles, you can chalk me up as supporting Bethel. Like BDBob, I found Rev's posting hilarious.

[OldAuggie]

So how many people do we have here cheering for each school?

Saint John's
Bethel   
Concordia   
St. Thomas   
Gustavus   
Augsburg 1   
Hamline   
Carleton   1
St. Olaf

[MIAC23]

So how many people do we have here cheering for each school?

Saint John's
Bethel   
Concordia    1
St. Thomas   
Gustavus   
Augsburg 1   
Hamline   
Carleton   1
St. Olaf

[DuffMan]

I looked back through the last five pages, and this is what I come up with.

[Mr.MIAC]

I looked back through the last five pages, and this is what I come up with.

Good work, but I think you'd have to go back to last season to get a more accurate picture. Many of the UST folks (USTBench, et al.) don't post much during the offseason. All this data show is the degree to which it's a wall-to-wall Johnnie smokefest year round...   

[DuffMan]

Good work, but I think you'd have to go back to last season to get a more accurate picture. Many of the UST folks (USTBench, et al.)

Right.  The dynamic changes a little bit once fall rolls around; there are a few more tolerable U$T fans than what we have now. 

[finsleft]

I looked back through the last five pages, and this is what I come up with.

Small sample size. The equivalent of a .500 batting average after 1 hit in 2 at bats. Have to go back at least to the last post by TDT. There's your bellwether.

[carletonknights]

So absolutely no Gustavus or Hamline fans?  (Gustavus actually had a decent team last year, lot of good players returning this year.  They're my MIAC dark horse for now)