FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[SagatagSam]

Having Don Beebe saying stuff like this makes me nervous, even if it's just a boilerplate statement as the underdog coach. Maybe its just because of the source. I keep seeing a scrappy guy knocking the ball out of Leon Lett's hand in the Super Bowl.

In 12 years, no NACC team has advanced past the first round.

"We've just gotta go make history," Beebe said.

[jamtod]

Having Don Beebe saying stuff like this makes me nervous, even if it's just a boilerplate statement as the underdog coach. Maybe its just because of the source. I keep seeing a scrappy guy knocking the ball out of Leon Lett's hand in the Super Bowl.

In 12 years, no NACC team has advanced past the first round.

"We've just gotta go make history," Beebe said.

Those Bills Super Bowl teams made an awful lot of history.

[Boys of Fall]

Having Don Beebe saying stuff like this makes me nervous, even if it's just a boilerplate statement as the underdog coach. Maybe its just because of the source. I keep seeing a scrappy guy knocking the ball out of Leon Lett's hand in the Super Bowl.

In 12 years, no NACC team has advanced past the first round.

"We've just gotta go make history," Beebe said.

Those Bills Super Bowl teams made an awful lot of history.

They sure did, they gave the Vikings a run on Super Bowl incompetence.

[bennie]

Having Don Beebe saying stuff like this makes me nervous, even if it's just a boilerplate statement as the underdog coach. Maybe its just because of the source. I keep seeing a scrappy guy knocking the ball out of Leon Lett's hand in the Super Bowl.

In 12 years, no NACC team has advanced past the first round.

"We've just gotta go make history," Beebe said.

Those Bills Super Bowl teams made an awful lot of history.

Like UST Stagg Bowl teams!!!

I know, I know...sooo mean!!! But I couldn't resist and I have low impulse control!!

[Pat Coleman]

Having Don Beebe saying stuff like this makes me nervous, even if it's just a boilerplate statement as the underdog coach. Maybe its just because of the source. I keep seeing a scrappy guy knocking the ball out of Leon Lett's hand in the Super Bowl.

In 12 years, no NACC team has advanced past the first round.

"We've just gotta go make history," Beebe said.

Those Bills Super Bowl teams made an awful lot of history.

Like UST Stagg Bowl teams!!!

I know, I know...sooo mean!!! But I couldn't resist and I have low impulse control!!

Nobody is anything like Rowan, which is 0-5 in the Stagg Bowl.

[OzJohnnie]

Johnnie game notes:  https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/gojohnnies.com/documents/2019/11/20/112319_AuroraNCAA_GameNotes.pdf

The offensive stats are basically a wash, but the Johnnie D is significantly better than the Aurora D.  I would suspect that the Johnnie offense has put its numbers up against much tougher defenses that those which Aurora faced and likewise, the Johnnie D will be the toughest the Spartans face this year by a large margin.

[DuffMan]

I'll karma-lize the first person to spot Duffman's cameo in the game notes. 

[d-train]

I'll karma-lize the first person to spot Duffman's cameo in the game notes. 

Bottom of page 12 - on this date in 2002: "(Ryan) Bielat and Ryan Weinandt led SJU's defense with three tackles for loss and two quarterback sacks apiece."

[USee]

HansenRatings has updated his spreads for the game:

St John's is -24.7 and the over under is 62.5. I'll take the Johnnies and the over.

[DuffMan]

Trivia factoid: Weinandt is head coach at Dassel-Cokato High School, and they're playing in the state title game next weekend.  It's DC's first trip to state in 40-some years!

[TheChucker]

HansenRatings has updated his spreads for the game:

St John's is -24.7 and the over under is 62.5. I'll take the Johnnies and the over.

Definitely take the Johnnies and 24.7. Maybe not the over under if the 3rd stringers finish out the game at home (can't remember if home playoff rosters need to be restricted or not).

[DuffMan]

(can't remember if home playoff rosters need to be restricted or not).

Limited to 58.

[sjusection105]

The real tip to my nerdiness lies in the command line below the spinning raspberry: #yum update, which is used to update older Fedora forked Linux machines, including Red Hat.

art76, you're really stepping out into the wild side with all this Linux talk......

[Mr.MIAC]

I know the whole bathing thing is foreign to most of you Johnnies, but you should check out the work of one of our inspiring Tommie undergraduates.

Link: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/337846

[wif]

"As a former player, the Lord's Prayer basically was a battle cry.  At the very least, it's when I knew it was go time right before we took the field to start the game.

This reminds me of one of my strongest memories of John.  It was my freshman year and we were playing Gustavus in Collegeville.  They were coming in undefeated at 4-0 and had been dubbed the "Cardiac Kids" because they had come from behind in all their games to win.  We were 3-1.  John was always pretty subdued before games and was never big on over the top speeches before we took the field, probably because he was hyper focused on the game and this was a big one.  We go through all our pregame stuff, come back in and John calls out who the starters are and they go up, as they're named, and shake his hand.  Then John gives a little rah rah speech, get's everybody together to say the Lord's Prayer.  This time though after every one says "Amen", instead of letting us go to the field, John SCREAMS at the top of his voice," LET'S GET THOSE F#$KER'S!!!!!!!  OH...MY...GOD!!!!  It was like a lightning bolt went right though me!!!!  All my hair was standing straight up and at that very moment if John would have said run through that brick wall, turn around and come back to me, eat this plate of poop,glass and tacks and then storm the field and beat those Gusties, I would have done it with out thinking twice gladly.  Needless to say, we did storm the field and ended up leading 21-0 at halftime.  Talk about a master motivator, he knew he had to do something to get our attention and bury them as soon as possible and that was it.  He never did that again in my four years playing for him.

As a side note, as well as that worked, we still lost to them 31-32.  Holding true to their form, they came back and got us right at the end of the game.  Gustavus went on to win the MIAC that year and was the #1 seed for the playoffs under the old format of 16 teams picked by the regional committees, and had a home game vs the 16th seeded team that had a 8-2 record.  They lost that game at home...to SJU."

John was for whatever reason a little salty that day. Gustavus' winning drive at the end of the game was helped immensely by three consecutive unsportsmanlike conduct penalties thrown in response to John going nuclear on the refs. The last one was prompted by John saying something to the effect of "I dare you to throw another flag", to which the ref obliged. It was a crazy day, and as noted would have been a painful memory if not for the subsequent playoff victory over Gustavus.