FB: Midwest Conference

[SNCOLDAD]

That is a rash assumption that we would want them in D3. 

[Moncolfan]

Blu you have really come up with some real doozies this year but somehow I skipped over your best post. I don 't know how, but it appears I missed your post season analysis of  IC's season,and your philosophical rants for the upcoming years of this juggernaut program in the making. Its one thing to be confident and optimistic but you don't honestly believe any of that crap do you? I mean c'mon everyone knows that Texas literally leads the world in the production of Bull$&!% but it was assumed the cattle industry was responsible for it. Who knew that one human was the actual source. By the way how is next year's recruiting class shaping up??? You probably got a pretty good look at them on one of the webcasts standing on the sidelines in their high school letter jackets eating blueboy burgers. I'm guessing that doesn't quite provide the information that watching them move into their dorms does, but certainly with your knowledge base you can give us some initial impressions. Finally my last question for the year is........ can and will anyone be able to replace IC's sure to be all-conference quarterback from this season! I'm betting that the defensive coordinators of the MWC are already having sleepless nights wondering the same. (Although we learned how good i was at betting this year!)

[East Beast]

Great game for the Hawks yesterday, good way to end an up and down season, and its always good to beat the Larrys.  Ripon dominated both sides of the ball all game.  Their offense threw 10 times! So no wonder we put up 63 points.  No matter the records the Ripon-LU game is always littered with personal foul penalties which makes the game interesting, a fun rivalry game. 

I was there, I am a big hoops fan for LU but hardly ever go to FB.  I thought Ripon was classless in victory.  Running a fake up over 40 points is bush league. Period.

[blu thru n thru]

Yup.  I believe it.  I live it every day.  I have my thoughts on who should be QB next year, but this is not the forum for that.  My thoughts on the subject don't matter, anyway.  Oh, and BTW, there's a lot more where that came from...

[Pat Coleman]

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As usual no prizes, which protects student-athletes and coaches from NCAA issues.

This season, one sign-up gets you access to all bracket challenges -- no more signing back up for D3hoops.com brackets in the spring.

[larry_u]

Great game for the Hawks yesterday, good way to end an up and down season, and its always good to beat the Larrys.  Ripon dominated both sides of the ball all game.  Their offense threw 10 times! So no wonder we put up 63 points.  No matter the records the Ripon-LU game is always littered with personal foul penalties which makes the game interesting, a fun rivalry game. 

I was there, I am a big hoops fan for LU but hardly ever go to FB.  I thought Ripon was classless in victory.  Running a fake up over 40 points is bush league. Period.

Its Ripon....I mean do you really expect class from Ripon?

[Redhawk Sighting]

    HAHAHA..  I take a few weeks off from the board and I come back and see that LU Fan's figured out how to use a computer?  I guess they do take breaks from blowing..................... their instruments.

The SCORE at the time of Ripon's fake field goal has nothing to do with anything. It was Ripon's FIRST DRIVE of the second half. They lined up to actually kick a field goal. Based on LU's FG block alignment, an automatic fake was audibled to because they weren't coving for the fake. Was Ripon supposed to let them block the field goal on their FIRST POSSESSION of the second half? After that possession and score, EVERY offensive starter was pulled, and the second and third team offense scored two more TD's against LU's first team defense. The last RC TD was with 13:33 still to go in the game. What were the RC reserves supposed to do, kneel down the ball for 13 minutes? Punt on first down? This is college football. You don't ask players to play less than as hard as they can. There was nothing classless about anything Ripon did that day. It wasn't Ripon's job to stop Ripon, it was LU's. Just like it was Indiana's job to stop Wisconsin, not Wisconsin's job to stop Wisconsin.

[Moncolfan]

Redhawk MC heard a lot of the same talk last year after their big wins. I made a point to say sometimes the losing team has to be the one to throw in the towel. That Punt Block sounds  like the times in Basketball when a team pulls their starters only to see the other team start pressing the subs with their 1st team  to make the score close. A lot of crying from fans about MC doing that last year when in fact the starters were pulled after half in at least three games.  The one game that they were left in was St. Norberts but thing was is they never pulled their starters either.  In this year's game I know MC started using some subs when it was 34-0. Granted they didn't pull their entire 1st team but they weren't crying about the score getting rung up either. The coaches knew the game was over at that point what does it matter- a butt whooping is just that. Did it really matter that Wisconsin scored 80,70 or 60 against the whose ears? Its college! It was really funny to see the LU kids talking smack during the MC game especially at half when they were winning- Knox does the same crap even when they aren't winning  I 'm guessing their highlight film is full of personal foul penalties because thats the only time they appear to hit hard. Just edit out the penalty flag being tossed and  you'll have Knox's biggest hits of the season.

[blu thru n thru]

I think it's great the MWC has Knox and Larry.  It gives those whose season's once showed great promise, but then spit the bit, someone to bag on.  I bet y'all used to steel the fat kid's lunch money too... 

[Redhawk Sighting]

I think it's great the MWC has Knox and Larry.  It gives those whose season's once showed great promise, but then spit the bit, someone to bag on.  I bet y'all used to steel the fat kid's lunch money too... 

Did your lunch money get stolen a lot?

[East Beast]

  HAHAHA..  I take a few weeks off from the board and I come back and see that LU Fan's figured out how to use a computer?  I guess they do take breaks from blowing..................... their instruments.

The SCORE at the time of Ripon's fake field goal has nothing to do with anything. It was Ripon's FIRST DRIVE of the second half. They lined up to actually kick a field goal. Based on LU's FG block alignment, an automatic fake was audibled to because they weren't coving for the fake. Was Ripon supposed to let them block the field goal on their FIRST POSSESSION of the second half? After that possession and score, EVERY offensive starter was pulled, and the second and third team offense scored two more TD's against LU's first team defense. The last RC TD was with 13:33 still to go in the game. What were the RC reserves supposed to do, kneel down the ball for 13 minutes? Punt on first down? This is college football. You don't ask players to play less than as hard as they can. There was nothing classless about anything Ripon did that day. It wasn't Ripon's job to stop Ripon, it was LU's. Just like it was Indiana's job to stop Wisconsin, not Wisconsin's job to stop Wisconsin.

That's a pretty good rationalization.

[ncc_fan]

Hello!  Are there any St. Norbert fans around here?  

[Maverick]

Hello!  Are there any St. Norbert fans around here?  

There are usually a couple of them around here, not sure what's going on with them though.  I would've expected them to talk up the game, at least a little bit anyways.  What's the deal fellas?!  I thought the Knights were excited to see North Central rather than Whitewater or St. Thomas in the first round?!

[blu thru n thru]

I think it's great the MWC has Knox and Larry.  It gives those whose season's once showed great promise, but then spit the bit, someone to bag on.  I bet y'all used to steel the fat kid's lunch money too... 

Did your lunch money get stolen a lot?

I think if we met you'd be quick to realize that I never missed a lunch...

[The Roop]

Baratti and Padilla have been named Co-Defensive Players of the Year. Not sure how there can be Co-Anything when the head to head match up was 42-27