FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[hazzben]

How did this happen to me? 

It happpens to all of us Duffman, you and even Hazzben and USTBench. It's all downhill after 30.

I was just talking with a guy at the gym between games yesterday who played small college basketball. He graduated in '05 to my '04...we were both lamenting the reality that we are definitely in the 'old guy' realm now (as far as pickup ball goes anyway). As much as I hate to admit it, my body tells me this after every basketball game. As if the looks from the twenty-somethings didn't already.

The silver lining. As my body continues to calcify, my forearm-shiver has never been more potent. I can almost feel the exponential increase of my 'old man' strength 

[sjusection105]

I can almost feel the exponential increase of my 'old man' strength 

As somebody who knows.... old man strength is a real, especially on the golf course. Maybe it's the advancement in golf club technology? Nah, I'm going with old man strength 

[RoyalsFan]

Those are news releases posted by the schools, hence them being categorized as such. If those schools write and post them, they go on the site automatically. That's not us recognizing them.

I guess my question wasn't so much about you recognizing the award as to why there wasn't any mention of it under your news category. By 'post them' do you mean that the school has to submit the article to D3football.com in order for you to include it on your site? If so, that is probably something schools might not be aware of. 

[theaprof]

As if there was ANY question!!

http://herosports.com/news/the-best-college-football-team-in-every-state-regardless-of-division#4?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Photo&utm_campaign=Football

#1 best team in the nation--all divisions considered (suck it up Ohio State).  I think it is great that so many D3 schools are on this list of best teams by state--Wesley, UMHB, Linfield, Rowan , UWWW (third overall), Trinity (CT) North Central, Wartburg, Johns Hopkins, Ithaca, Christopher Newport and even Middlebury in VT and Salve Regina in RI (although I have to say that the last two are from pretty lame football states!

Notice that UST didn't get mentioned!

[OzJohnnie]

Of course UST didn't get mentioned. Neither did Crown. Both equally deserving of the Best Team honor.

[RoyalsFan]

I always cringe a little bit when a 'best of' list comes out because the criteria is usually subjective. For example, they only go back to 2010 for winning percentage but go back to 2000 for conference championships and 1960 for national championships. Why wouldn't you include the same years for all criteria?   

[OzJohnnie]

I always cringe a little bit when a 'best of' list comes out because the criteria is usually subjective. For example, they only go back to 2010 for winning percentage but go back to 2000 for conference championships and 1960 for national championships. Why wouldn't you include the same years for all criteria?   

I love/despair when selection bias is so blatantly on display like this.  There is zero chance they started with these criteria and thresholds before assessing the outcomes of the analysis.  Pseudo-scientific hacks.

It reminds me of a funny website a friend showed me yesterday promoting a book titled Spurious Correlations.  There are a bunch of funny correlations shown including "Letters in Winning Word of Scripps National Spelling Bee correlates with Number of people killed by venomous spiders".

http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

[art76]

I love/despair when selection bias is so blatantly on display like this.  There is zero chance they started with these criteria and thresholds before assessing the outcomes of the analysis.  Pseudo-scientific hacks.

It reminds me of a funny website a friend showed me yesterday promoting a book titled Spurious Correlations.  There are a bunch of funny correlations shown including "Letters in Winning Word of Scripps National Spelling Bee correlates with Number of people killed by venomous spiders".

http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Love this! +K

[OldAuggie]

I don't disagree with the UMD selection for MN. I was on the UMD team for spring ball and fall camp, saw the writing on the wall and transferred to Augsburg. That was/is a rock solid program with a great tradition and fan base throughout northern MN. I can say that I played for UMD and also played against SJU and UST, and the rest of the MIAC and UMD is the right choice. Malosky is/was greater than Gagliardi in terms of status up there. For Malosky losing was not an option, it was a matter of life and death it seemed. UMD will have each Duluth TV station covering the home games and the spring game. I recall watching game films of SJU vs UMD during camp and Malosky was very respectful of Gagliardi and SJU but he had to make a point of it. We needed to be told this. If Mo said so, it was true. Geographically speaking I think UMD and the NSIC cover a larger chunk of MN than the MIAC.

You guys know I am a MIAC guy but I am just calling it like I see it.

[faunch]

We should do D3 "signing" video similar to Key and Peele's East / West Bowl video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss

[OzJohnnie]

I couldn't care less that UMD was picked, or that the article was even published for that matter. I'm just amused by the scientific 'persona' of the exercise. A better method would have been a discussion like your post.

My contribution would have been that the only choice is the D1 school with the greatest legacy in each state. To argue that MUC, for all their enviable success, is a 'better' football school than Ohio State is an asinine exercise engineered for juvenile provocation.

If counting hardware was the only measure of greatness then the Zulus are the greatest army that ever lived because they've been kicking ass on the Sothos for 250 years.

Pseudo science: it's been taking the human out of human judgement for over 85 years.

(It's the off season; let me rant. Not that I've ever shown discretion in the on-season.)

[sfury]

I don't disagree with the UMD selection for MN. I was on the UMD team for spring ball and fall camp, saw the writing on the wall and transferred to Augsburg. That was/is a rock solid program with a great tradition and fan base throughout northern MN. I can say that I played for UMD and also played against SJU and UST, and the rest of the MIAC and UMD is the right choice. Malosky is/was greater than Gagliardi in terms of status up there. For Malosky losing was not an option, it was a matter of life and death it seemed. UMD will have each Duluth TV station covering the home games and the spring game. I recall watching game films of SJU vs UMD during camp and Malosky was very respectful of Gagliardi and SJU but he had to make a point of it. We needed to be told this. If Mo said so, it was true. Geographically speaking I think UMD and the NSIC cover a larger chunk of MN than the MIAC.

You guys know I am a MIAC guy but I am just calling it like I see it.

He must have had at least nine lives then because Gagliardi was 11-8 all-time against Malosky...

[OldAuggie]

He must have had at least nine lives then because Gagliardi was 11-8 all-time against Malosky...

As I mentioned Malosky had a lot of respect for Gagliardi when we watched that film.

[Pat Coleman]

Those are news releases posted by the schools, hence them being categorized as such. If those schools write and post them, they go on the site automatically. That's not us recognizing them.

I guess my question wasn't so much about you recognizing the award as to why there wasn't any mention of it under your news category. By 'post them' do you mean that the school has to submit the article to D3football.com in order for you to include it on your site? If so, that is probably something schools might not be aware of.

We do a lot of communication of this to schools. You can see on the team pages which schools make use of it.

[sfury]

He must have had at least nine lives then because Gagliardi was 11-8 all-time against Malosky...

As I mentioned Malosky had a lot of respect for Gagliardi when we watched that film.

Just giving you a bad time, Auggie (and giving props to John, of course). And the rule of zingers is never follow with context, so should be noted all but one of those games happened when Duluth was in MIAC. After they went up, they only played once and Duluth won handily.