FB: Midwest Conference

[Duck Duck Goose]

IC @ KC - The Knox Bowl is always a reverse-psychology intimidating venue, but the Jennings air display is too much.       IC 35, Knox 13

SNC @ GC - Ummmmm........  SNC 52, GC 3.

RC @ LFC - LFC will give it the old college try, but you can't contain the greatest offensive system ever devised^TM.  RC 28, LFC 17.

MC @ LU - Remember, the Larrys are the sleeper.  I want to say stunning upset, but no.  MC 24, LU 7.

CC @ BC - There are not that many events that should make a team give up hope, but losing to the Mac Scotties is definitely one of them.  CC 42, BC 7.

[wc2viking]

Off to the LU game soon.  It'll be tough but you never know, the Vikes could pull off the upset!

[wc2viking]

Well, the weather was nice.....

MC obviously dominated every aspect of the game in a 44-7 rout of LU.  The defense was actually not that bad considering the field position that MC had the whole game.  Hard to think of any other positives from the Lawrence perspective.  Oh well, perhaps all the first  game jitters will be out of LU now and they can shock St. Norbert next week.

[Pat Coleman]

Photo gallery of that game: http://www.pictureprints.net/albums.php?gallery=1821

[Maverick]

Pat - Thanks for posting the link to pics of the MC-LU game.  Some good action shots in there and it brought back some memories of playing up there a few years ago...making myself sound older than I already am, haha! 

wc2viking - I wouldn't bet on LU shocking SNC next week, but I definitely wouldn't mind seeing the upset.

[fmrredwarmer]

Picks for this week.

After all of the road teams won last week...All of the home teams will win this week.  The only one that has a chance to be close is Lake Forest @ IC.  Lake Forest played the hawks tough although Lake Forest recovering 2 onside kicks made it a little closer than it was.  All of the other home teams roll.  I don't see any visitor getting within 2 TD's.

Knox @ Ripon  Ripon by 21 if they have an off day

Beloit @ Monmouth  Monmouth by more than 21

Grinnell @ Carroll  Carroll by 14

Lawrence @ St Norberts  The Norbs only beat  Grinnell by 22, but chalk that up to one long bus ride.  Norberts by 30 if they call off the dogs early.

Lake Forest @ Illinois College IC by 10.

[CCAlum23]

I agree with all of the pics!  It would be an upset if any of them loss...  I am not saying this just because I am a Carroll Alum but Carroll is going to beat Grinnell by way more than 14 points!  This is Carroll's first home game and the opening of the new team center!  There is going to be alot of orange and blue in the crowd and look for Carroll to win by 30 plus! 

I know they played Beloit but still 2 Carroll Players for POW!  Nice job Brock Linde with 3 int's and Bryce Crocker with 4 td's and over 200 yards rushing! 

[fmrredwarmer]

Any major injuries around the league this week?   I haven't heard anything out of the Red Hawk camp...people coming back, but nobody hurt.

2 Carroll players as POW is a great accomplishment.  True it was Beloit, but they still had to get the job done.  It is often easy to play down to an opponents level.  One question about the new team center...Does it have locker rooms for the visiting teams also, or will they still be across the street?  Just curious.  As you probably know from being a former player, there are way, way worse places to dress than at Carroll as a visitor.

[CCAlum23]

Im 99% sure that the visitors have to walk across the street, I will double check that for you.  You are definately right when you say its not that bad for visitors!  THE ABSOLUTE WORSE IS IC, they make you walk almost a half mile!  and Grinnell sucks too, and St. Norberts needs a new facility for there visitors because the deer shack sucks!!  Now Im getting fired up!

Not only did the 2 Carroll Players get Midwest Players of the week they also made the D3 football.com team of the week! Nice job now its time to take care of Grinnell! 

Anything new out there?

[Maverick]

The locker rooms we got stuck in when playing at Knox left alot to be desired!  Was that just because it was Monmouth or did they put all visiting teams in the dungeon/basement of some building that was a long walk away from the bowl?

[CCAlum23]

Actually Knox was really bad too!!!  They had a tent pitched for us!!! Come to think about it almost all the schools in our conference have horrible facilities for visitors!  Beloit has nice locker rooms and Carroll's isnt bad! 

[SNCOLDAD]

We can only hope that all schools can fund newer facilities. St. Norbert is in a big push and want to have it finished in time for the Freshman on the team today to play there before they graduate.

[Duck Duck Goose]

Time for this weeks predictions, brought to you by Rippin Good Cookies, making the north side of town smell great for a bunch of years.

KC @ RC - The greatest offensive system ever devised^TM showdown!  Too bad its not much of a showdown.          RC 42 KC 14.

BC @ MC - ARRRRRRRRRRR!  Bucs put up a great effort against the Scotties.  Relatively.        MC 49 BC 7.

GC @ CC - Pios showdown!!!!!!! Impressive effort by the Iowa Pios against SNC.  Not sure I buy it, but I'll keep this one closer than I originally thought.    CC 31 GC 14.

LU @ SNC - I really thought that the Larrys would at least make the game against MC somewhat not embarrassing.  Either MC is better than I thought (possible) or LU is worse.          SNC 45 LU 10.

LFC @ IU - The cut of the gib showdown.  LFC played RC tough, and IC romped over KC.  This one will be a war, but I'm seeing blue.     IC 34 LFC 28.

[pg04]

Time for this weeks predictions, brought to you by Rippin Good Cookies, making the north side of town smell great for a bunch of years.

KC @ RC - The greatest offensive system ever devised^TM showdown!  Too bad its not much of a showdown.          RC 42 KC 14.

BC @ MC - ARRRRRRRRRRR!  Bucs put up a great effort against the Scotties.  Relatively.        MC 49 BC 7.

GC @ CC - Pios showdown!!!!!!! Impressive effort by the Iowa Pios against SNC.  Not sure I buy it, but I'll keep this one closer than I originally thought.    CC 31 GC 14.

LU @ SNC - I really thought that the Larrys would at least make the game against MC somewhat not embarrassing.  Either MC is better than I thought (possible) or LU is worse.          SNC 45 LU 10.

LFC @ IU - The cut of the gib showdown.  LFC played RC tough, and IC romped over KC.  This one will be a war, but I'm seeing blue.     IC 34 LFC 28.

Might I say that I find your username very amusing 

[Maverick]

Just out of curiosity, what is the opinion of the locker rooms provided for visiting teams at Monmouth?