FB: Midwest Conference

[SNCOLDAD]

mwcSNC, You got mail.

I am not going to state my list of best this or best that. #1 you should know who I would pick for best O-Line.    But I am just a little biased. #2 I have not seen all the teams yet. I will by the end of the year and should have a pretty good idea of where different positions stand.

Picks for this week:
IC over Beloit - More than 2 TDs
Monmouth at Ripon - I want to say Monmouth will bounce back but I have a strange feeling about this game. To keep it interesting, I'll go Ripon! (I think)
Lake Forest at Grinell - LF is improved and will win by 10
Knox at Lawrence - Knox

Is there one more game? Oh Yeah.
St. Norbert (without an "s" at the end) at Carroll - Good luck to both teams. Oh, St. Norbert, of course. How could I say otherwise. 

[mwcfbdad]

Hey 312,
How many teams have you seen?If you are basing your picks on guys that make the all conference team you better get out and see some games.That all conference team is a popularity contest among the coaches.It is not a true barometer of talent.
Its easy to say one O-line is better than the other based on how good the O is for that team but there are some very talented kids playing for bad or so-so teams.If you haven't seen them play it's hard to say how good they really are.I have seen alot of very good players on some very bad teams and some good players that look a lot better because of the guys and team they play for.You might be the best wide out in the league but if you play for Knox or Ripon you may only get the ball 3-4 times a game.If you play for IC or LFC they might throw your way 10 times.My point is the most talented guys might not have the best stats in the league.I've been watching MWC games for 5 years now and some of the best players I've seen did not make that all conference team.

[MWC_ALUM_07]

It looks to be a great week in the MWC...


The position units...

QB's - goes to St. Norbert and in second is Monmouth and Carroll
RB's - Carroll #1 and in second is Norbert
WR's - Norbert and IC
OL - Norbert and Ripon (Carroll is low on my list except for Guard Corey Drake)
DL - Monmouth and Carroll
LB - Carroll and Norbert
DB - Norbert #1 and Carroll/Monmouth #2

For this week...UPSET WEEK

Beloit over IC - IC keeps the skid going (upset 1)
Monmouth at Ripon - I am taking the home team Ripon (upset 2)
Lake Forest at Grinell - LF by 14
Knox at Lawrence - Lawrence by 3
St. Norbert at Carroll - 28-24 Pioneers (upset #3)
     *I will be there tailgaiting with the best of them!

[mwcSNC]

It looks to be a great week in the MWC...


The position units...

QB's - goes to St. Norbert and in second is Monmouth and Carroll
RB's - Carroll #1 and in second is Norbert
WR's - Norbert and IC
OL - Norbert and Ripon (Carroll is low on my list except for Guard Corey Drake)
DL - Monmouth and Carroll
LB - Carroll and Norbert
DB - Norbert #1 and Carroll/Monmouth #2

For this week...UPSET WEEK

Beloit over IC - IC keeps the skid going (upset 1)
Monmouth at Ripon - I am taking the home team Ripon (upset 2)
Lake Forest at Grinell - LF by 14
Knox at Lawrence - Lawrence by 3
St. Norbert at Carroll - 28-24 Pioneers (upset #3)
     *I will be there tailgaiting with the best of them!

MWC... those are some interesting upsets.  We obviously know that I will disagree with the SNC/Carrol game.  But I would like to hear your thoughts/reasonings behind not only the SNC/Carrol game, but also Belot/IC and Monmouth/Ripon game

[CCAlum23]

GURU TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY week 7 pics............

Beloit at IC-  Even though Jennings is out for the year IC will still win! There recievers are talented and there back up is ok. 27-10

Lake Forest at Grinnell:  Lake Forest will make it 3 in row and beat Grinnell out in the corn fields.  31-21

Knox at Lawrence- Knox is coming off a big win last week, this one might be close but Knox should win.  Knox wins 24-17

Monmouth at Ripon-  I wanna say Ripon can do it but something tells me Monmouth will win!  After a 405 yard game by Alex Tanney what will he do against a decent Ripon Secondary?  Monmouth wins 21-14

GAME OF THE WEEK
St. Norbert at Carroll-  This is Carroll's dream to beat Norberts at home for first place!  Carroll has respect for Norberts but this has been a good week of practice and they will be prepared to play on Saturday!  Carroll wins 24-17!!!!!!  Crocker will rack up the yards on the ground and Rogers will pick apart the defense.  I know St. Norberts has many weapons and a team not to take lightly!!!! This will be a fun game to watch!!!

MWC alum- You are right on many of your pics!  You are right Drake is a great O-lineman!  Who did you play for last year??

[MWC_ALUM_07]

Carroll / St. Norbert Game
I went with Carroll on this one because of a few things. The fact that Carroll is at home is more of a factor than one may think. Remember back 2 years ago with then weaker Carroll team who was playing at home vs the green knights, the Pios barely let them out of there with a 36-35 win. 2nd on my list for the upset is Carroll's D...this defense is top of the conference. If Carroll does end up losing it wont be a high scoring blow out like it has been in the past. Really I think the key to the game is whether or not Carroll's offense shows up to play. If they dont have a running game, they are done. But with that said, I think Carroll has been on a roll for the last 2 weeks and knows what they can do and are ready to show they can be at the top of the conference.

Ripon / Monmouth Game
I went with Ripon because they are the home team this week. I know that didnt mean much against Carroll but that was only a short 2 hour bus ride. Monmouth has to pull an over nighter and those are sometimes rough. I think Ripon has a good enough defense to hold the freshman qb and is ready to put some points up. Once again this game is dependent on the home team's offense.

Beloit / IC Game
I originally thought the game was at Beloit. I was indeed wrong. But Im still going to hold true to Beloit. They are a much better team than people realize and just keep making mistakes that hurts themselves. I also am worried about how IC will fair without Jennings and to be honest they looked pretty bad at Carroll last weekend (I was there with friends) this included coaches. I am not taking shots at their coaches, I am sure that they are very good coaches but they had the look of what do we do now?? That look where nothing you do works and what do we do now. Maybe I am wrong and this is the game that IC gets things together but Im just not that sure.

CCAlum23 - Where did I play?? I cant give away that yet, then I would be accused of being biased against my former team.

[fightintitan2006]

Pat Coleman,

You wrote a nice response about proving yourself and paying dues just before the season started in response to a letter from an incoming freshman who had emailed you to tell you to "watch out for him" because he would be frequenting your AA teams or something to that effect...just curious how that kid is doing this season


MWC ALUM 07,

Considering you ranked SNC's DBs as the league's best, I would put Monmouth's receivers ahead of IC, looking at what MC did to SNC.

[Pat Coleman]

He's thrown one pass this season, but he is his team's third-leading receiver. His team is under .500 but might be considered somewhat of a surprise.

[1morefan]

Wow, I've been off the board all week because of work and look what I've missed out on!

OK as far as position ranking/talent goes I'd have to agree with a lot of you guys:

QB: Cody Craig is the best QB in this league – followed up by a healthy Chris Rogers, another healthy Jennings, and I think Jeff Ziemnik is a talent QB that does a lot with less talent down at Lake Forest.

RB: Crocker is a step ahead of everyone else at this position bar none! Scott Perkins at Ripon is a close second. Now before everyone at Norberts goes ape AJ Phillips to me is a very talented back, I've just seen him used mostly as a receiving back, I want to see him between the tackles 20+ times a game like the others mentioned above!

WR: As a core I think IC has always had the best WR's (now this isn't about core). Top WR in the league Judd O'Connell, followed by Dan Carter at Lake Forest.

OL: To be honest I think Norberts, Momouth, and Ripon (in what order no clue). Best OL maybe Corey Drake at Carroll, but this is a position that's graded as a whole.

DL: Some very talented groups here, haven't seen enough people to judge this one fairly.

LB: I'd say Carroll's core is pretty sold, saw Ripon play and thought they were pretty sold too, as was Norberts.

DB: I think Ripon's DB's are the best. Hamilton at Carroll along with Kramer at Ripon I feel are the top two here.

On to week 7 picks:

Beloit vs. IC – IC wins here somewhere in the range of 31-17.

Knox vs. Lawrence – The Vikings rebound after a tough loss to LFC, 35-21.

LFC vs. Grinnell – Foresters win out in Iowa, 27-7.

Games of the week:

Monmouth vs. Ripon – No home field advantage for the hawks, the Scots travel well. I think Monmouth gets up early do to the physical style they play, stumbles in the middle hawks make some half-time adjustments, and Monmouth holds on just enough to win. 24-17.

St. Norbert vs. Carroll – Learned my lesson picking against the Pios back two weeks ago. The weather looks like it will be similar to when the Green Knights last visited Waukesha – that being said, I think the Defense has a great performance and keeps SNC in check. I think the Knights will give the Pios some problems as well on D. Ultimately I think it comes down to Chris Rogers making some plays with his feet at the end! Pio's win by a Jacko FG as time expires 27-24.

[maniac84]

hey everyone this is my first post, but I try and read all your posts as often as I can

I have a information about the monmouth football team:

10 of the monmouth football players have staph infection, it seems that a player came to camp in august with a staph infection, but apparently did not realize he had it.  Now it is starting to move through the whole team.  I have a cousin on the team, and am a former player myself so this information has been confirmed from more than one source

[Pat Coleman]

Kind of sobering news for a first post. Here's hoping it's not serious.

[maniac84]

Sorry I did not mean to bum anyone out, or anything like that.  From what I have heard no one is in any serious danger and they are all being treated for the infection.

[mwcfbdad]

Sorry I did not mean to bum anyone out, or anything like that.  From what I have heard no one is in any serious danger and they are all being treated for the infection.

Does this have any effect on this weekends game?Can the kids with staph still play? 

[maniac84]

The players who have staph infection are not allowed to travel, or practice the only thing their allowed to do it go to class.  I know one of the players is a starter and is not allowed to play this saturday or travel with the team.

[Pat Coleman]

You don't want someone with a staph infection playing football. Could be very very bad.