FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Klopenhiemer]

...it all comes down to the fact that MUC is just a little more rested than UWW right now.

If it goes the way most people think, it won't be because they are more rested, it will be because The Mount is head and shoulders above the rest of Div. 3 at this point.  I really can't it explain it...everbody else needs to figure it out, it's actually kind of embarrasing that nobody can compete with them over the last 15 years.

Mount in a walk....UWW is very good but MUC is just too good.

Nice call 11, great prognosticating as always...

Hey jackass. Ok we were all wrong. Mount was/is a machine and no matter how good the OAC and their playoff competition was, they had, as a team, very little experience playing close games. I'd say play 10 games and these two teams split it 50/50. In this case, I was wrong in saying that UWW's close games would wear them out. Rather, it gave them the edge. We all, as a board, went with history and what we had seen. This did not mean we thought less of UWW, but based on the facts placed infront of us, we took the safe bet. I would wager, that probably all of us were pulling for UWW. Two great teams slugged it out. A few breaks, a little more desire and Justin Beaver / Danny Jones was the difference. Pierre Garcon was bottled up (and to be frank, I don't think he's quite good enough to be a draft pick). End of story. Like I said 50/50 if they play 10.
Taking nothing away from UWW. They played, they won. They are the better team until Week 1 next year - they are champions. They earned it after coming so close for the previous 2 years. Congrats to them. It is about time for them and good to see Mount knocked off.
Congrats to both teams for a fantastic game.

Go Warhawks.

GO STAGS!
You boys better be getting ready for next year now. Take a page from these teams - championships are won not just on the field, but on the track; on the practice field; in the weightroom; and in the film room. Condition to be football players; lift to be football players; eat (right) to be football players; and start watching film now. Do it as a team. Championships aren't won doing curls for the girls or doing 12/40oz curls... fill those kegs with sand or cement. You have the rest of your life to drink and lay in the sun.


Time to start formulating a Top 25 for next year and making predictions.

Happy Kwanza to all!

ECS, a few points after reading your post.  First off I do not think that UWW had more desire than MUC.  I think that both teams had equal desire.  It basically came down to two things:  Conditioning and game planning.  Let me compare MUC to the New England Patriots.  Up until the Indy game they had been rolling by wide margins.  But you saw Brady and Co. playing late into the game.  MUC was rolling by wide margins all year as well.  How many of the starters played the entire 4th quarter.  No, they were resting the horses for the following week.  This has nothing to do with desire, I would be my life in the 4th quarter that MUC was still full of it and thinking they can win.  Its all in your brain.  if you only play to a certain point in a game week after week your brain only knows how to go that far.  Metal fatigue might have played into this. 

So what you're saying is Mount should have beaten everyone 110-0 rather than 60 and then had everyone bitching because they were running up the score?

I'm not being facetious, it may be a valid argument. But that's what would happen as it is with the Patriots. It's a no-win situation when you're in that spot.

No, what I might have made a piss pore attempt at saying is this.  If Brady and Co. would have say every 4th qtr before the Indy game, I do think they would have pulled that out.  So by playing into the 4qrt kept them understanding what it meant to play and full game in the perspective of minutes, not all the other things that are considered a full game such as good tackeling, route running, blocking assignments. 

All I was saying is that by blowing out everyone might have hurt MUC in the end.  My whole point is based off of muscle memory.  It has nothing to do with desire to win.  I compare this to a 13-3 NFL team that rests the guys the last week of the season, then has a bye and gets beat by a wild card team.  That team had to keep playing all the way to the end of each game each week.  So I hope this might give you better insight into what I was thinking. 

[Gray Fox]

Some guys will do anything for a karma point.

I like the new reindeer.  Did Tiger get to stay home? 
Vixen has always been a favorite of mine.

[D O.C.]

A tad bit disappointed there was nothing like "a bowl full of Ledbelly" or such.

Of courser, you did a fine job.

Happy Holidays all.

[BHOTBruceOxy]

BTW - Welcome to the real world.  Now the FUN starts.

Not quite..... I can avoid the "fun" or another year if I can find a place in Europe to keep playing football

They have been regional games for SCIAC schools the past two years, yes.

Thanks PC.  Guess we should have gone to TX!

'Twas the night before Christmas........

OB, what inspires you to think this stuff up?  That seems like a lot of work on just a whim! (Although I am just out of college, and can't imagine doing any type of critical thinking or creative work without being forced!)

I can't wait until I can give out karma points!  What is it, 200 messages?


PS. sorry for all the exclamation points

[Pat Coleman]

Yep, it's 200, but don't despair.

[Gray Fox]

Thanks PC.  Guess we should have gone to TX!

You have to talk to the Oxy powers about that.  I think they like similar academic programs near an alumni base.   Trinity and Austin would be good, but don't have much room on their schedules now.  The ASC schools are all looking for games.

[snoop dawg]

OB, Thanks for delivering the Christmas spirit to the board.  That's great stuff.  I hope everyone has a great holiday season.  +k for St. Oxy Bob

[DustySJU]

OB, Thanks for delivering the Christmas spirit to the board.  That's great stuff.  I hope everyone has a great holiday season.  +k for St. Oxy Bob

+K for the Dawg!

Merry Christmas!

[coco]

Nice one, OxyBob.

Where did you go to law school?

[Sabretooth Tiger]

From the looks of his Poet chops, one would think Whittier . . . but that is not the correct answer . . .

OB . . . fine, take a shot at the fat guy . . . and dude, all I'm left to ponder is . . . . you watch Fox?

So disappointed.


nice work

[RFB]

Oxy=2nd Place. I missed you guys too!

[Gray Fox]

I always watch FOX.  It's in my blood.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

I always watch FOX.  It's in my blood.

Sorry to hear you're ill (the blood disorder thing) . . . hope they find a cure!

I hear that their doing some experimental work with cutting edge treatments called called "literacy" and "critical thinking." 

[Browneagle64]

Great stuff Bob.
Btw, are you the infamous owner of the "Shoes"? Geeze, that sounded more like a 1890's Poet.  8)

[snoop dawg]

OB, are you retired?  You have waaaay to much time on your hands.  Again, very funny stuff. 

I know you wont believe me but Billy B is a very close friend.  His real last name is Douglas.  "Nightshift", was his first movie.