MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[from downtown]

Worchester Polytechnic 74 MSOE 71

[Mr. Ypsi]

What in the world has happened to Rockford??!!

Just 4 years ago they were 24-4.  Even 2 years ago they were 18-9.  How did they get so bad so fast?

[WLCALUM83]

The battle of giants looms - this Friday night - Rockford at MBBC.

This poster doesn't envy the Crusaders' position. Maranatha gets Concordia-Chicago at home before they get the Regents. The Cougars lost one they could have very well had against WLC at home (had several ill-timed turnovers and 2 of their better players fouled out.) Wouldn't be surprised if they gave Maranatha a royal hammering just to take out frustration.

[Gregory Sager]

What in the world has happened to Rockford??!!

Just 4 years ago they were 24-4.  Even 2 years ago they were 18-9.  How did they get so bad so fast?

Ryan Rebsome (the head coach, who's in his second year) lost almost his entire team from last season's 15-12 campaign, including his three best players (Jacob Dunkel, Maurice Smith, and Lane Good, who were 1-2-3 in both scoring and rebounding last season for the Regents). Rebsome's got ten players suiting up this year, eight of whom get consistent playing time. They're small (only one player above 6'3, and he plays the perimeter), and their coach uses some questionable strategies (pressing for forty minutes with an undermanned team during a night game when you have a day game the next afternoon doesn't strike me as a sound use of your thin roster, especially when the press isn't working).

But Rockford's biggest problem, I'm guessing, is that it's hard for any coach to recruit there right now, considering the dire straits in which the school finds itself. There's a lot of rumors going around that the closure of Rockford College is imminent. The latest rumor is that Northern Illinois University is going to acquire the school and keep it open as an honors-level branch campus of NIU. It sounds plausible, as I know of at least one NIU grad program that is hosted in Rockford rather than DeKalb. We'll see.

(Perhaps if RC is revamped as a state school, NIU-Rockford, they can join the WIAC and give the cheeseheads an even ten members. )

[WLCALUM83]

12/11 projection:  UW-Stevens Point over Edgewood.  (The Pointers are at home, and this poster figures they'll want revenge big time after last-season's near miss.)

[libero]

RC is circling the drain. Their women's coach has had no prior college coaching experience - did not even play in college.

[WLCALUM83]

12/11 Final (non-conference)

UW-Stevens Point 69, Edgewood 47.

Averkamp got his points, but DeMarco only 2-10 shooting.
Pointers' Hicklin 7-10 from 3-pt range.
Edgewood twice as many turnovers as the Pointers.
Pointers had 12 steals to Edgewood's 4.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Greg, message received!

I would certainly never attend a school believed to be in its death throes!  (Not that I was recruited in any sport, though a desperate enough school might have gone for me in tennis )

[Rumors of its demise had not reached southeast Michigan - d3 gets NO respect! ]

[cardinalfanrochelle]

Marcus , Marcus , Marcus ,
                                        Your fans leave something to be desired, what a joke even the student who thinks he is Gilbert Godfried with that whine like voice. The funny thing was he couldn't pronounce the asst. coaches last name so he called him Coach Aaron, he must be from North Boone, no wonder the Wisconsin fans call us FIB"s.No class my man, nothing you would expect from a Luthern school, especially a MS Lutheran school. # 20 from Lakeland went to a MS grade school and you guys show as much class as Rockford Lutheran during sporting events.Tell me again about the whoopin you were going to give Lakeland................

[Greek Tragedy]

(Perhaps if RC is revamped as a state school, NIU-Rockford, they can join the WIAC and give the cheeseheads an even ten members. )

The "W" in WIAC means WISCONSIN....Do we then switch the WIAC to the WIIAC? lol   

[Gregory Sager]

(Perhaps if RC is revamped as a state school, NIU-Rockford, they can join the WIAC and give the cheeseheads an even ten members. )

The "W" in WIAC means WISCONSIN....Do we then switch the WIAC to the WIIAC? lol   

Not necessary. The 'M' in MIAA stands for Michigan ... and yet there's two Indiana schools in the league, St. Mary's (IN) and Tri-State. Plus, Wisconsin Lutheran has been playing football in the MIAA for the past few years, although they're going to join the NAthC fold when this conference adds football in 2008. Buffalo State and Cortland State, both of which are New York schools, play football in the NJAC (New Jersey Athletic Conference). The ODAC contains Guilford, which is located in North Carolina rather than the Old Dominion State (aka Virginia), and Catholic (located in the District of Columbia) plays football in the ODAC. Finally, the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference contains a Delaware school, Wesley.

As usual, probably more information than you really wanted from me, OS. 

[Greek Tragedy]

We in the WIAC like to be different...

I suppose that the WIAC people might anticipate a senario like that since they changed it from the Wisconsin State University Conference (WSUC) to the WIAC some time ago...maybe they thought about having a non-UW school or a private school joining in the future!

[Mr. Ypsi]

In this era of acronyms, I can see why the WIAC changed from W-SUC!

Since the CCIW has only one school not in Illinois, I lobbied for CCIIIIIIIW, but I seem to have been voted down (or, more likely, just ignored!)

You could always become the WWWWWWWW(W)IIAC conference!

[Ralph Turner]

Might NIU-Rockford have an edge, being the only state school in D3 IL?

[WLCALUM83]

12/12 Final:  CU-Chicago 63, Maranatha 43. (CUC wins on the road and gets off the schneid in-conference).   

    (libero:  hope MBBC has a high fan turnout Friday night --it might be one of the few in-conference wins the Crusader men get all season.) 

     Watch out if the Regents are hitting their 3's.