FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Johnnies are at home this weekend.

[DuffMan]

Johnnies are at home this weekend.

...but a healthy dose of Gold Bond will still be required.

[Ice Bear]

Johnnies are at home this weekend.

Ice Bear just choked on a seal bone realizing how ****ing stupid he was to not look. Ice thanks the guru for pointing out what is obvious to most and should have been obvious, even to a white furred bear. Ice will check temps to identify if batwing is still a possibility up in Minny. Ice believes the talcum powder may not be needed...

[HansenRatings]

Lamker has a different model for recruiting it seems and he has a plan. He could be the next Steve Johnson you never know.

Lamker admitted as much in that Star Tribune article I mentioned earlier:

"And we're going to be different than every other team in our conference. Seventy percent of our roster will be minority students. We have a tremendous staff, and we recruit hard, but we also recruit the schools where the students are going to take a serious interest in Augsburg.

"We have kids from a big variety of economic backgrounds. We have 27 kids working the night shift at FedEx right now, loading trucks, and then coming to football practice in the morning."

But to Logan's point. With the protected schedule setup in the MIAC and a UMAC non-con strategy, we need to see Augsburg with a little tougher comp to really know if they're making a jump. It's not the wrong way for them to build. Scheduling WIAC or top ARC teams probably keeps them at .500. They need to get some seasons pushing 7-8 wins so they can build confidence, before they step up the non-con slate IMO.

Play Northwestern because it's low cost and they're often the best team in that conference -- no worries, that's fine.

Way back, Augsburg played Eau Claire. That would be OK.
They've also played Wartburg -- great rivalry in wrestling, obviously, but not a good match right now in football.
But how about someone like Dubuque, Loras, Coe?

I think all three of those schools would probably be interested. Most ARC schools seem to follow the model of "one MWC/NACC/UMAC school, and one MIAC/WIAC/CCIW school". Zweifel has been vocal about wanting to schedule WIAC/MIAC/CCIW schools as much as possible in non-conference. Coe basically only ever has one open week because of their Cornell "rivalry," but they tend to play a MIAC/WIAC/CCIW school in that other slot. And Loras isn't typically as aggressive as the other two in their scheduling, but if they view Augsburg as a winnable game (they should), I could see them scheduling that.

[OzJohnnie]

SJU/Trinity Game Notes are published.

Hmm... A clash of cultures.  The Johnnies are much more prone to air ball on both sides of scrimmage.  Trinity has a very stiff defence.  What a game this is gonna be.

[sjujohnnie]

The season's first "Football Weekly" starts now on The Bear! 2 days away until Johnnie football returns!

[faunch]

Hoping the Johnnie o-line has a more impressive showing than the Gophers. And why did Nebraska throw that last ball?

[Ron Boerger]

Hoping the Johnnie o-line has a more impressive showing than the Gophers. And why did Nebraska throw that last ball?

Because Nebraska.

[DuffMan]

If all goes as planned, tomorrow will be my third tailgate of the week. 

-Wednesday evening at Duff Jr's youth game.
-Thursday evening at the Maple Grove/Osseo high school game (Go Crimson!).
-Saturday at the SJU/Trinity game.

[SagatagSam]

Hoping the Johnnie o-line has a more impressive showing than the Gophers. And why did Nebraska throw that last ball?

Because Nebraska.

Everyone in the Cornhusker State has checked out on football already. They're filling up Memorial Stadium for Volleyball these days.

[faunch]

Drove up to SJU today...traffic is going to be bad south of st joe to Collegeville. Tell people to leave early and maybe find a route around it.
I'd say it was a 10 minute delay today at 11:50am.
I exited at SJU and took the back way in.

[bennie]

Just a reminder that the Johnnie game tomorrow starts at noon!!

[84SJU]

Just wondering if anyone else thinks that Trinity might have a bit of an advantage in the heat.

[OzJohnnie]

Just a reminder that the Johnnie game tomorrow starts at noon!!

And NOW it feels like football season is back!  Good to see you, bennie.

[Schipper Strong]

Hello from the ARC. Just curious will the Central-St Olaf game be available for streaming free or are all the MIAC games payment required like I know SJU is? Good luck to all tomorrow. Stay healthy!