FB: Midwest Conference

[Ash Park]

Congrats to Monmouth and good luck this week!!

[Moncolfan]

Difference in that playoff game a couple years back was a couple of three and outs in 2nd half and that the Tommies were able to run the ball at will in the 2nd half. Kept the ball out of Tanney's hands. MC just can't afford to get off to a poor start like last week.

[Maverick]

RoopVegas has set the over/under for scottie posts at 15. 6 for posts relating to why Monmouth had to play on the road as a Pool A.

TAKE THE UNDER!     It's a non-issue at this point.  Besides, the trip to Bloomington cut about 200 miles off of my round trip, and I'd say that the Monmouth fans nearly equaled the IWU fans in number. Some excellent MinuteswithMaverick and the FS13 Grill deserved a blue ribbon.  But about the game.... 

Congrats to the good guys on a great gut-check win.  Two turnovers and a single-digit yard punt basically gift wrapped 10 of IWU's 17 first half points.  The Scots D pitched a nice shutout in the second half and the offense rolled up 320 yards (in the second half) on the 8th ranked defense.  (Kudos to kickers from both teams....perfect on PATs and FGs in that wind.)

The OT was intense, and credit the Scots D for holding IWU to a field goal on first and goal from the 6 yard line. Whew!!  Great day to be a Scot!

A little late with my response, but here goes...

scottie - The playoff version of "MinutesWithMaverick" as well as the playoff version of the "FS13 Grill" (among other grills in that area, I might add) were both of high quality; probably higher quality than 2 weeks ago at the Bronze Turkey Game, or at any other regular season game for that matter...but it's the playoffs so everyone has to step up their game!

All that being said, congratulations to the Fighting Scots players, coaches, and everyone else associated with the program on a fantastic road playoff win!  The game was close throughout, both teams battled each other, and the fans on both sides were great. 

And I know there hasn't been a large number of Monmouth playoff games, but this Saturday's game at St. Thomas will be the first one I've had to miss (prior commitment ) and I'm disappointed I won't be able to make the trip up to St. Paul.  Those of you who are going to be able to make it to the game, I'm jealous!

[fightingscots13]

A little help - just saw on the front page of D3 that the MC-UST game is at 1:00 but other games are still listed at 12:00.  I'm guessing that's 1:00 EST but wanted to make sure...

thanks - FS13

[Mr. Ypsi]

A little help - just saw on the front page of D3 that the MC-UST game is at 1:00 but other games are still listed at 12:00.  I'm guessing that's 1:00 EST but wanted to make sure...

thanks - FS13

Yes, all playoff games are at noon local time (which is 1 EST for St. Paul).

[tommiegun]

Time zones are a tricky concept.

[fightingscots13]

Very nice resume on the UST site for UST's Waldvogel.  Let's hope MC's punter and kicker can control his returns...I remember the 71 yarder against MC two years ago - it didn't go for a TD, but it was right after we scored to make it 20-14, and they punched it in four plays later.  We really didn't have an answer that day:  140 return yds, 96 receiving and another 18 rushing.
Good luck to the Scots on Saturday!

[scottie]

Happy thanksgiving, you turkeys.

[Maverick]

Well said there, scottie.  Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!

[Mr. Ypsi]

My bracket had IWU beating St. Thomas.  Your guys sure screwed that up!  The least you can do for me is go ahead and beat the Tommies!

[DustySJU]

Good luck to the Scots today.

Play tough on D and score some points... could be an interesting day for all involved.

[tommiegun]

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

As I feared, it looks like another crappy day for football in St. Paul.  Good luck to the Scots; it will be a very Scottish kind of day.

[FightnScot77]

I don't need no stinking motiviation...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkk&feature=related

Al Pacino's Inch By Inch speech from Any Given Sunday
In it's entirety...
http://essaysfromexodus.scripting.com/stories/storyreader$1492
...You find out that life is just a game of inches.
So is football.
Because in either game
life or football
the margin for error is so small.
I mean one half step too late or to early
you don't quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game
every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know when we add up all those inches
that's going to make the f@#$ing difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.

I'll tell you this in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face...

Weather has never scored a point in a football game. If you let it play for you, you lose.

Go Scots!!

[mwcfan]

Good luck Scots!  Gonna take total effort and perfect execution.  At playoff time there's no tomorrow.  Leave nothing in the tank.

[FightnScot77]

Due to tech problems at UST, no video or audio apparently... Hope they can solve this for the viewers...