FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[57Johnnie]

Somebody save my seat tomorrow. I'll be late. Cooking at a benefit pancake breakfast for Life Choices. 
GO JOHNNIES!!!

[OzJohnnie]

Somebody save my seat tomorrow. I'll be late. Cooking at a benefit pancake breakfast for Life Choices. 
GO JOHNNIES!!!

I'll be there, at least until halftime. You can take me seat then.  #1 is going to a party and I'm on pickup duty.

[57Johnnie]

Game Day!

GO JOHNNIES 

[DuffMan]

Gonna be a great day in Collegeville.  #1 and I are picking up my folks for the game.  70 degrees for a November day will be fantastic.

[57Johnnie]

Partly cloudy and about 60 here in western Colorado. Got finished with Life Choices breakfast early so got my regular reserved. Thanks for having my back Oz.

[Tom Thumb]

Sounds like Jordan Roberts received his medical redshirt for next season. Fantastic.

[RoyalsFan]

St. Thomas has nothing over Augsburg as far as trick plays go. Evidently they thought they needed to pull out all the stops in order to have a chance against Bethel today and it worked for the first half. Started off the first drive with a fake punt on 4th down for a first down and ended up getting a td on a pass from the running back. On the ensuing kickoff, they did a successful onside kick. They also tried a lateral to an offensive lineman who was going to throw it but ended up running it. But the strangest play was on a 4th down punt formation, the center faked the snap and just held it between his legs and waited for a couple seconds while someone who lined up on the line came around behind him and took the ball from the center and ran it for a 70 yard td. I've never seen that before and still don't know if it was a legal snap or not. The refs weren't sure either as it took them a while to discuss it but they finally decided it was a legal snap.

Needless to say it was an entertaining first half with Bethel leading 35-27 at the break. Bethel then dominated the 2nd half and won 62-27, throwing their own half back double pass for one of their tds. Before anyone corrects me, I know, there is no such thing as a double pass - it was a lateral and then a pass but it is commonly referred to as a double pass. 

[jamtod]

Looks like Trettel didn't play yesterday for St Thomas. Anyone have the scoop? I listened to the radio call off and on, but didn't catch anything.

[art76]

Final week of the regular season MIAC 2016

Augsburg has their bye this week, and probably have all their gear turned in by now.

First game of the weekend is St. Thomas traveling down to St. Olaf. Not much to say about this game, except that it will be interesting to see how long Caruso keeps his A squad on the field before letting the backups get some playing time. Hopefully he doesn't have the Tommies do any "behind the back" forward passes for extra points.

Second game of the week is Bethel going down Snelling Ave. to take on Hamline. Earlier in the year I thought that this might become the "trip-up" game at the end of the season for the Royals, much like Augsburg had done in the past, but I now think Bethel rolls against the Pipers. The Pipers seem to have lost a step or two from the beginning of the season and I'm not sure why, other than the MIAC is a tough grind for 11 weeks.

The third game is Carleton entertaining Gustavus. The Knights were off last week, giving them an extra week of practice and healing to try to put together a plan for upsetting Gustavus at their final home game of the season. If they could pull it off, they'd jump two positions in the final MIAC rankings, leap frogging Augsburg. I don't think it's really going to happen, but it might, you never know.

The final game this week has a lot riding on the outcome. St. John's heads up to play Concordia-Moorhead. In just about any other year, this game at this time of year would have been an ice-box, but it looks like it could be just another 52 F sunny day in the fall, if you can believe the long range forecast. It should be a great day to play football. Earlier this year I said here that I thought Concordia wasn't getting enough respect and thought they could have beaten the Johnnies that week. In the four weeks since then, they have not looked like the giant killers they did then. If they somehow could knock off the Johnnies, it would really shake up things for the pool C picks. Just how much and who would be affected we'll know more after Wednesday's Regional Rankings are released by the NCAA. That combined with Wally's mock picking over on the Pool C board and the discussion that goes with it. Basically, if the the Cobbers lose, then the Johnnies make it to the big dance. If the Johnnies lose, then it might only be the Tommies going from the MIAC. So much depends on things the Cobbers cannot now control. That loss to Jamestown at the beginning of the year looms large.

[retagent]

I think that the weather, if it holds as predicted, will favor the Johnnies. Their passing game should be the decider. I'm guessing Alvord starts, and that Clark has a big day.

[57Johnnie]

I think that the weather, if it holds as predicted, will favor the Johnnies. Their passing game should be the decider. I'm guessing Alvord starts, and that Clark has a big day.

I know Clark didn't catch a pass yesterday. I'm not sure he was even targeted. Alvord sure didn't throw to him.   

[faunch]

I think that the weather, if it holds as predicted, will favor the Johnnies. Their passing game should be the decider. I'm guessing Alvord starts, and that Clark has a big day.

I know Clark didn't catch a pass yesterday. I'm not sure he was even targeted. Alvord sure didn't throw to him.   

Maybe the Pipers did something in their defense that made it difficult to get him the ball.  Maybe SJU was trying to hide him a bit and were trying to spread things around a bit.  As ineffective as Erdmann looked in the first half he still completed more than half of his passes 8-15 for 139 yards.

[Greggers]

Would anyone agree that St. John's could have the best defense in the country? The way they have been playing the past month has been ridiculous

[57Johnnie]

Would anyone agree that St. John's could have the best defense in the country? The way they have been playing the past month has been ridiculous

The D has been great but they haven't been challenged too much except for the dreaded BYE

[PurpleReign]

Played against Augsburg, Carleton, Gustavus, and Hamline over the past month, so no, I cannot agree.