FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[DuffMan]

LAB,

There is no playbook.  From what I know of the offense, there's a "base" set of plays, and a lot of stuff is built off of that and tailored to the specific opponent.  John literally has index cards with the five linemen printed on them.  He then sees what a defense has open and draws up what he thinks will work.  Much simpler than you'd think.

[SJU68]

Johnnie Guys who played, at least somewhat recently...

I'm interested to hear, after all of the discussion of the O-line playbook, what you think someone like AK has to read.  Having played in Haege's Offense for two years, and the one year we used Joe Austin's offense (now the O coordinator at Univ. of Dubuque in the IIAC and averaging 448.8 ypg) I've grown accustomed to highly complex offenses with voluminous playbooks.  I would like to know if the "Skill positioned" (I know lineman types, give me the grief now for that one!) players' playbooks at SJU are as simplified as the ones described in earlier posts.  I remember in A. Murphy's book the references to "Sieben Brown" and other simple sounding plays (Murphy does a good job fully exlpaining Sieben Brown as well!) but do these type of plays exist in a thick playbook that must be recalled be all skill position guys, or is everything as simplistic as all Johnnie associates make it out to be. 

All of us in the conference that play you guys hear the horror stories of your conditioning regimine and your weight training.  We've be shocked and awed at the cruelty of your practices, the hours of drills in horrific conditions all in the quest for making COACH happy and to get him to stop using that damn whistle.  But, do these tortures continue to the playbook reviews?  Must you also memorize thousands of pages of text and drawings?  Are there 6 am study periods just to have down the first 17 play options out of 11 personnel or the 23 plays you could run out of Ace right tight?  Duffman- you may be the most recent Johnnie (at least I believe!)  Any contribution on this subject?

LAB, I can tell you that our offense is very "simple" on all fronts from the skill positions on down.  Each week there's a few plays that are added on as team specific things that we think will work against that particular defense.  There are always a few things that would be picked out in "films" each week to try and exploit with our base plays.  And your right about the simple sounding plays, it would just be a formation call and a 2-3 word/letter/number play call and we'd break huddle.  Duff's on the money with that.

[tmerton]

On FSC-Midwest they're showing Wayzata versus the Cake-Eaters.  Is this live? Football on Wednesday night?  What's up with that?

[SJU68]

As far as beer goes-  I attended Auggie Tech, can you get beer in anything other than the 40 oz. size?  Someone please let me know!

I'll give you a little more credit than just 40's LAB, I remember throwing stuff out of a window in the auggie tower after drinking alot of tangueray(sp) with some former auggie fballers.  I didnt really see alot of un-40oz. beers around though.

[DuffMan]

On FSC-Midwest they're showing Wayzata versus the Cake-Eaters.  Is this live? Football on Wednesday night?  What's up with that?

Yeah, weird week for MN HS football.  All schools have off for a teacher convention Thursday and Friday, so games are played on Wednesday this week every year.  It used to be known as MEA week, but I think they've changed it.  Some teacher will chime in soon, I'll bet.

[DuffMan]

Sprained is a offense guy and more recent than I, so I bow down to his knowledge of the SJU offense.

[SJU68]

Sprained is a offense guy and more recent than I, so I bow down to his knowledge of the SJU offense.

There really isnt a whole lot more to know than what you would've learned on your short tour as an o'line participant Duff.  Good to know from some earlier posts that you were forced to spend a little time down on the darkside    

[sjusection105]

This week's "Did You Know?": I couldn't think of an unknown fact for Hamline so I consulted - Wikipedia!   Turns out that Hamline University was founded in 1854 in Red Wing as the first in
stitution of higher education in the state.  Three years before SJU.

tmerton, did you know:
Hamline was the home of Vern Mikkelson- the first "Power Forward" in the NBA who was an All-American in 1949. The Minneapolis Lakers won 5 NBA titles from 1949-1954.

[tmerton]

tmerton, did you know:
... The Minneapolis Lakers won 5 NBA titles from 1949-1954.

That was, I'm happy to say, mostly before my (sentient) time.  Though, yes, I do remember when the Lakers were in Minn.  I might have even rooted for them then.

What I do remember from part of that time was the Dave Garroway show when they gave the running scores on the numbers of Migs and Saberjets shot down the previous day (the Korean War for you youngins).

[sjusection105]

What I do remember from part of that time was the Dave Garroway show when they gave the running scores on the numbers of Migs and Saberjets shot down the previous day (the Korean War for you youngins).

The more things change the more they stay the same. The USSR is no longer, but there is still a goof ball leading the cause in North Korea

[Lone Auggie Backer]

And on an incredibly sad note, again the more things change....  However, now when we see reports of planes or aircraft being shotdown, they're our own

[Kilted Rat]

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A couple things popped into mind initially:





"Hey Macarena!"

"Guess how I'm holding my clipboard and 3 donuts!"

"Maybe next year if I put 37 more plays on my left wrist, we can keep it within a Monkey-Stomp!"




Big MIAC day for me today at the Navy Hospital here in Portsmouth, VA:

The doc I did an operation with this AM went to Augsburg back in the 70'2. He played football as a sophomore in 1976. He said he remembers 2 things, drinking after all the losses and being crushed by the eventual National Champs!


Then this afternoon a guy came in to have the wiring taken off of his jaw as his jaw has healed from bring broken in a bar fight 2 months ago. He was wearing..... a Bethel t-shirt!
I thought about asking him if a teammate did it, but he revealed that he didn't go to Bethel, his girlfriend did.

[janesvilleflash]

Then he probably lied about the bar fight. His girlfriend probably did it.

[Veek]

At 2:52 pm this afternoon I became a proud parent for the third time with my wife giving birth to our first son, Eric James.

Everyone is doing fine and yes, he is planning on going to SJU!

[DuffMan]

Way to go Veek and Mrs. Veek!  Congratulations