FB: Midwest Conference

[Maverick]

Believe me, I watch Knox Football, I know a thing or two about inconsistency,

Just out of curiosity, what exactly is inconsistent about Knox football?  By all measures, they have been consistently horrible for years, they're horrible now, and probably always will be horrible.

Sincerely,

Monmouth Fan    

Dang it, scottie...you beat me to that one!

[The Roop]

I'd be careful scottie. The Turkey Bowl is in Galesburg this year and I don't think Tanney will give up his redshirt to play in that one.

[Footballfan99]

My picks for this weekends games...

Monmouth vs Ripon.... Ripon 35 Monmouth 14

Grinnell vs Knox..... Grinnell 28 Knox 6

Illinois College vs St. Norbert.... St. Norbert 35 IC 21

Beloit vs Lake Forest..... Beloit 28 Lake Forest 21

Carroll vs Lawrence... Carroll 33 Lawrence 12

Let's hope I'm not 100% correct on this, HOPE to see the Scots pull one out to help a certain team in southeastern Wisconsin near Milwaukee!!!

[Redmen09]

And I agree with Redmen09...I'm biased also, but defending champs visiting the current conference leaders is probably the game of the week, by default.

Believe me, I watch Knox Football, I know a thing or two about inconsistency, and a team as inconsistent as Monmouth without Tanney/Shepherd going against the current conference leader is not a game of the week. Sorry! Honestly though, I was not that impressed with Ripon when they played here, they made tons of mistakes, the Knox offense just literally cannot do anything (and believe me it wasn't because of Ripon's D, it really isn't as good as you would think) i wouldn't be surprised to see Carroll or (most likely) SNC win conference

So with a 'better played game' Ripon would have had 650 yards rushing instead of 572?  They had 2 INT's, 0 fumbles (on 81 rushing attempts, pretty good average there) and 10 penalties (uncharacteristic) but other than that a well played game from what i saw.

And monmouth has shepherd, he had 6 catched last week against the stingy snc defense.  easily the GOTW

[The Roop]

Co-GOTW.........................

Monmouth vs. Ripon and Carroll vs. Lawrence  Yes, I actually said it. Carroll is probably done with in the conference with one more loss. Ripon on the other hand would be in the conference race with a loss but would likely be out of Pool C contention. Lakeland doesn't exactly help their S.O.S.

[KnoxOnTheRise]

Believe me, I watch Knox Football, I know a thing or two about inconsistency,

Just out of curiosity, what exactly is inconsistent about Knox football?  By all measures, they have been consistently horrible for years, they're horrible now, and probably always will be horrible.

Sincerely,

Monmouth Fan    

You may remember last year being up 7-0 at halftime in Galesburg. An unfamiliar situation for last year's fighting Scots team. Knox has glimpses of a good team, especially on the defensive side of the ball. The problem is the offense cannot consistently put drives together and keep the defense off the field. There are so many times where it'll be third and three and we have a false start, or we drive all the way down the field to fumble. Or we take a deep shot down the field and have a receiver drop an easy catch. With these offensive issues, the defense sees the field a lot longer than what they should have to, allowing teams like Ripon (who does have a VERY SOLID offense to get 572 yards, I only said I was not impressed with the defense).
Honestly if Knox plays up to their potential without making the mistakes that have plagues them for the last decade, they could compete with the upper half of the MWC, something about the program, or even the school as a whole, needs to change. Too many of our athletic programs are used to losing. I heard today that the only thing you learn from a loss is how to lose, and that seems to be the issue here. Most of the kids on the team had good high school careers at good high school programs, something about Knox just makes everyone play down.
That all being said, do not be surprised to see Knox slowly creep up the MWC rankings the next few years, we have a very good underclassmen group (most of our starters are sophs and freshs) and with a new head coach and a few extra years running the new offense and defense, Knox has a lot of room to improve.

[The Roop]

It's almost kick off time guys.............................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgeFdcnvugs

[tm343407]

7-0 Ripon with 11:27 left in 1st

[tm343407]

7-6 Ripon with 8:47 left in 1st. Monmouth PAT blocked.

[tm343407]

13-7 Monmouth with 4:37 left in 1st. Ripon fumbled punt return leads to score. RC special teams killing them so far.

[tm343407]

MC now up 19-7 after another RC fumble in their own territory. MC failed two-point conversion. SNC up 6-3 on IC.

[tm343407]

19-14 Monmouth. Personal foul on MC keeps RC drive alive.

[tm343407]

20-19 RC. PAT no good. IC and SNC tied at 6

[tm343407]

I lied about the RC PAT. Its 21-19 at half. IC is up 12-6 on SNC. Any other scores?

[tm343407]

IC just pickes SNC for a TD. Now 19-9 IC with 9:09 left in third. RC now down 25-21 to MC with 8:36 left in third. Not sure how it happened.