FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Gig Harbor Cat]

Its a Riddle for sure...

[d-train]

What's the word out of McMinnville on Riddle's health?

Sam's leg is better, but he passed out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

[wildcat11]

What's the word out of McMinnville on Riddle's health?

Sam's leg is better, but he passed out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

desertcat just spotted Riddle as the local archery club in Amity.

[Mr.MIAC]

It looks like voters on the main page are projecting a UST win this weekend.

[Pat Coleman]

It looks like voters on the main page are projecting a UST win this weekend.

I wouldn't count your chickens. It's only been up for about 20 minutes and only 45 votes so far.

[Mr.MIAC]

It looks like voters on the main page are projecting a UST win this weekend.

I wouldn't count your chickens. It's only been up for about 20 minutes and only 45 votes so far.

Good job keeping us in check...don't want to get too cocky and jinx it.

[Pat Coleman]

It looks like voters on the main page are projecting a UST win this weekend.

I wouldn't count your chickens. It's only been up for about 20 minutes and only 45 votes so far.

Good job keeping us in check...don't want to get too cocky and jinx it.

If anything, now you've brought Linfield fans' attention to it.

[Mr.MIAC]

It looks like voters on the main page are projecting a UST win this weekend.

I wouldn't count your chickens. It's only been up for about 20 minutes and only 45 votes so far.

Good job keeping us in check...don't want to get too cocky and jinx it.

If anything, now you've brought Linfield fans' attention to it.

The Linfield fans are too busy blowing kisses at the Johnnies to notice such things...

[desertcat1]

What's the word out of McMinnville on Riddle's health?

Sam's leg is better, but he passed out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

desertcat just spotted Riddle as the local archery club in Amity.

Sam is hell on wheels, he got them all too.

[Gig Harbor Cat]

It would be too easy...

[ron doney]

Reusse put out a nice little article on UST over the weekend. I wonder if recruits/parents notice these things.

http://www.startribune.com/facilities-at-st-thomas-alone-enough-to-attract-recruits/360641711/

I thought this was the best line of the article....

Now that Glenn Caruso has added football to the St. Thomas list of national contenders, any accolades aimed toward the Tommies in print are generally followed with derogatory e-mails — complaining that the large, vibrant school should elevate itself to Division II, a scholarship level of athletics.
It's a good guess the same complaint is heard in Ohio, only more vociferously, toward Mount Union. The Purple Raiders football team has lost nine games since 2000: a conference game to Ohio Northern in 2005, to St. John's in the 2003 national title game, to Mary Hardin-Baylor in the 2004 D-III semifinals, and six times to Wisconsin-Whitewater as those programs have traded off the past 10 national titles.

[CalCat]

What's the word out of McMinnville on Riddle's health?

Bluenote saw Riddle dancing the Watusi at the Blue Moon on Saturday night.

I saw him there also....Tommie Gun was there too...throwing marbles out on the dance floor !

[d-train]

Riddle was just spotted filling sandbags to help prevent additional flooding of Johnson Creek on the SE side of Portland. Who wasn't there? Coach Caruso. 

[faunch]

Reusse put out a nice little article on UST over the weekend. I wonder if recruits/parents notice these things.

http://www.startribune.com/facilities-at-st-thomas-alone-enough-to-attract-recruits/360641711/

I thought this was the best line of the article....

Now that Glenn Caruso has added football to the St. Thomas list of national contenders, any accolades aimed toward the Tommies in print are generally followed with derogatory e-mails — complaining that the large, vibrant school should elevate itself to Division II, a scholarship level of athletics.
It's a good guess the same complaint is heard in Ohio, only more vociferously, toward Mount Union. The Purple Raiders football team has lost nine games since 2000: a conference game to Ohio Northern in 2005, to St. John's in the 2003 national title game, to Mary Hardin-Baylor in the 2004 D-III semifinals, and six times to Wisconsin-Whitewater as those programs have traded off the past 10 national titles.

Is there a correlation between enrollment and athletic success in the MIAC?
I realize that many other factors go into success on the field or on the court.  The size of the institution isn't the only factor that contributes to success but I think it's naive to discount it.
 
http://www.mnprivatecolleges.org/research/facts/enrollment

School                                           Undergraduate Enrollment
University of St. Thomas                 6,234
St. Catherine University                  3,491
Bethel University                            3,045
St. Olaf College                              3,034
Augsburg College                           2,600
Gustavus Adolphus College             2,456
Concordia College                          2,381
Hamline University                         2,243
Macalester College                         2,073
Carleton College                            2,042
College of Saint Benedict                2,020
Saint Mary's University                   1,904
Saint John's University                    1,789 

(Keep in mind that SJU is all male.  If CSB were included the combined enrollment would be over 3,700.  St. Cate's on the other hand is all female and has over 3,400 students on their own and has had limited athletic success over the years.)

All-Sports Competition (Let's just say that UST has dominated for about the past 35 years, winning or sharing the title 27 times).

http://www.miacathletics.com/about/honor_history/all_sports_competition/history/index
Men                              All-Sports Titles                 Last               
St. Thomas                   29                                     2014-15         
Saint John's                  14                                     2006-07         
Gustavus                       5                                      2003-04       
Macalester                     5                                      1967-68       
St. Olaf                          1                                     1978-79               


Women                       All-Sports Titles                Last
St. Thomas                     24                                  2014-15
Gustavus                         5                                2006-07
Saint Benedict                  2                                1998-99
St. Olaf                           2                                1984-85 

[Mr. Ypsi]

Re: moving 'up' in divisions - most outside commentators (don't know about Reusse) are unaware that (aside from a few schools that got 'grandfathered'), a move in division is for ALL sports at a school.  Apparently UST is quite good pretty much across the board, and probably could successfully change divisions if they so desired.  The same would be true for UWW, except that they have little local control in such matters, and would probably not be allowed to by the state powers-that-be.  UMU would NOT be a good candidate, since many of their sports are barely average even in D3.