FB: Midwest Conference

[FightnScot77]

The site locations for this weeks games are starred for Saturday, the 26th via http://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/external/gametool/brackets/football_d3_2011.pdf

Scots, as expected head to St. Thomas. Suggest Scots place call to Macalester bagpipers to stir our team on this week.

A slight surprise, but not unexpected, Linfield goes East to Wesley! The east does it again to the west.

Assume the NCAA charters these flights out and teams aren't put through the joys of body scans. Comments to the contrary?

[Pat Coleman]

Shorter flights (I believe 900 miles or less) tend to be commercial, while the longer-haul flights are typically charter.

[scottie]

Pat, will you be based out of STU again next weekend? 

The scottingsighting ratio right now is hovering around 16%, though that could rise significantly as the week goes on.

[Pat Coleman]

Yep -- looking forward to seeing Tanney play.

[Moncolfan]

Pat- It was 27 - 24 Monmouth in that 2nd OT  IWU made the FG to send it to the third OT.

[Pat Coleman]

Pat- It was 27 - 24 Monmouth in that 2nd OT  IWU made the FG to send it to the third OT.

Don't think I wasn't thinking that as they lined up for that field goal.

[02 Warhawk]

I have to say...great game by Monmouth yesterday. I'm so glad I was able to watch it on my computer.

Congrats!!!

Now take down UST 

[Moncolfan]

Congratulations to Monmouth!

The game went about as I feared.  The Titan defense did indeed slow Tanney (it is essentially impossible to shut him down, but we certainly slowed him!), but the Titan offense has been one-dimensional ever since top running-back T. J. Stinde went down for the season early in game 3, and Rob Gallik (who will be a GREAT QB) picked the wrong game to look like a YOUNG QB (4 INTs and a fumble). I'm still convinced that IWU is overall the stronger team, but not nearly enough better to overcome that many errors (UMU or UWW might overcome that sort of thing; we won't).


I'm not convinced at all that IWU is a stronger team. Where were all of these superior athletes from the CCIW you guys were supposed to have? I was wrong when I said Monmouth would have to play their best game of the year to win, this game was far from that for the Scots.  Now I am not saying we play poorly, but the facts are Mr. Yapsi this "lesser" team as you still refer to them on other boards came back from 17 down on the road. MC totally outplayed IWU from the end of the second quarter on. How yards did IWU give up in the 2nd half? Another fact is that this game should have never went into OT, MC made a few mistakes too! You'll also say it was all Tanney but give the O-Line credit, how bout the way Yocum ran the ball down your vaunted defenses throat to win the game! I guess the bottom line is this call it for what it was, a great game by two equally matched teams that was decided by the team that made the fewer mistakes.

[Kilts and Bagpipes]

I agree Moncolfan.  I think if we played this game 10 times, Monmouth wins 7 of them.

I was a little worried that I was going to see Wartburg all over again.  Monmouth has a chance to put the game away, 1st and goal from the 5 or 10 and the back up QB goes into the game to run a "wildcat" like play.  I thought the reasoning against Wartburg was to put the ball in the best players hands.  Unless there was something going on with Tanney that I didn't know, every football person in the stadium probably would disagree with this call.  Backup QB fumbles and IWU takes over at the 5 yards line.  Monmouth was very lucky that the defense bailed them out.

That being said, I think that that the Monmouth play calling was great the rest of the game.  The Scots played a terrible first half and the offense really played with their hands around their neck in the first half.  Once they got the score to make it 17-7, I think they loosened up and really showed that they were the better team out there.  Good luck next week!  The Tommies are gonna be tough.  Get a win and really get some respect for this conference!

[Moncolfan]

Guess I'm not sure on how to use that quote button but my response is the one on the bottom. LOL
I just don't know how anyone could watch that game and call MC a lesser team. Clearly they were as good if not better than IWU. No team was significantly better than the other at anyone position that I saw except for QB, and that's not saying their kid was bad. 

[badgerwarhawk]

When you use the quote button you have to be sure that your comments are typed outside of the last [/quote] of the comment you are quoting.  If you type your comments inside that they will appear as if they are a part of the comment you're quoting. 

[tommiegun]

http://www.weather.com/weather/weekend/USMN0664

The early weather report does not look super favorable for Tanney and Her Majesties' Scots Royal Air Brigade.  Have the Scots played in any "weather" games this season?  Has Tanney played in any weather games in his career?  Just wondering.

Personally, I hope its 50 and sunny; I'd like to see the best the Scots have to offer - beat the best to be the best.

[scottie]

Thanks, T-Gun.  Have you ever been "down south" to tropical Illinois?  Plenty of opportunities for weather games.  In the meantime, hurry up and get that dome built over your field.  ;0

[tommiegun]

^ Ohhh, shhuuure, y'betcha I've been down south to Illinois.  Actually, I was in Champaign on a miserable day for the Gopher/Illini game last year.  I was just seriously wondering whether he has played in a cold/snow game in his career.  I seem to remember it being kind of cold when UST played at MC in 2009, and that Tanney had a pretty rough go of it...

[scottie]

A rough second half, team-wise, for sure.  Here were Tanney's numbers that day:

Passing              Att-Cmp-Int Yds TD Long Sack
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Alex Tanney            51-35-0   361  2   45    3