FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[art76]

Passing along some older prep news, as he played his college years out of state: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/20/big-catch-twin-cities-prep-football-star-called-up-to-the-nfl?fbclid=IwAR0ywl5FTq-_I7SbEjs4rOquu5XOXZpEMMmn1eCXxnU1jR-32ZqOULYfbJg

[OzJohnnie]

Passing along some older prep news, as he played his college years out of state: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/20/big-catch-twin-cities-prep-football-star-called-up-to-the-nfl?fbclid=IwAR0ywl5FTq-_I7SbEjs4rOquu5XOXZpEMMmn1eCXxnU1jR-32ZqOULYfbJg

Is that your son?

[SJU13]

I think the scoreline will be a good indicator of how mentally locked in SJU is for the playoffs.

Our defense has been consistent all season facing a variety of different schemes. It doesn't seem like our offense has clicked consistently through 4 quarters whether it be drops, the need to go deep all the time, or drive killing penalties. Special teams are...improving  . Have everything clicking for 4 quarters and we are as good as advertised. If not, there is the risk of 11/2 2.0. It's always down to the details and doing your job.

It looked like every scoring drive they had was under 6 minutes, but it also didn't seem like they had to move the ball very far each time (<65 yards). Their kicker has hit a nice percentage of PATs but is only 1/2 on FGs with a long of 29. He also averages about 45 yards / kickoff. It wouldn't surprise me if both teams feel it is 4 down territory the minute they cross the 50.

For personal amusement, I'd be intrigued to see what a swing pass to Trost or Hodge with Alston, Barber, and Kemper downfield blocking would look like against this secondary.

[HSCTiger74]

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.

A lot of awful history, too.

[OzJohnnie]

For the record, no one bad mouthing Beebe is a Johnnie.

[art76]

Passing along some older prep news, as he played his college years out of state: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/20/big-catch-twin-cities-prep-football-star-called-up-to-the-nfl?fbclid=IwAR0ywl5FTq-_I7SbEjs4rOquu5XOXZpEMMmn1eCXxnU1jR-32ZqOULYfbJg

Is that your son?

No, never heard of him until it came across my FB feed yesterday.

[Tesomas]

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

That's pretty impressive.  20M by the time you start college....and as a bonus, throwing herself and her time into her business should keep her safe from the Tommie "men"!

[Tesomas]

Passing along some older prep news, as he played his college years out of state: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/20/big-catch-twin-cities-prep-football-star-called-up-to-the-nfl?fbclid=IwAR0ywl5FTq-_I7SbEjs4rOquu5XOXZpEMMmn1eCXxnU1jR-32ZqOULYfbJg

Good for him that he gets his debut, but a shame that he has to deal with Trubisky on the other end of the passes!

[GoldandBlueBU]

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

There was an article about them in the Star Tribune a few days ago...pretty cool!  Has to be a bizarre feeling for her parents to have stepped away from their own careers to run a business started by their high school aged children.

[Retired Old Rat]

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

There was an article about them in the Star Tribune a few days ago...pretty cool!  Has to be a bizarre feeling for her parents to have stepped away from their own careers to run a business started by their high school aged children.

I'd be happy to be in their position.

[DuffMan]

I'd be happy to be in their position.

Running their company or having high school aged children? 

[Retired Old Rat]

I'd be happy to be in their position.

Running their company or having high school aged children? 

The $$$'s. I did my duty raising 4 to adulthood.

[Ice Bear]

"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.

Ice ****ing loves this. Thanks for sharing, +k.

[d-train]

This reminds d-train of the pregame prayer/speech in Johnny B Good:

"The Lord wants you to put your foot on their balls and believe in it. Because that's what wins football games."

...it gets less 'correct' from there...

[art76]

Lifted from: https://d3football.com/playoffs/2019/bracket-wheaton

"How far can they go? Despite the late-season stumble, the Johnnies can still make the national semifinals."

The bracket capsules are out.