FB: Midwest Conference

warthog · May 20, 2011, 10:09:46 PM

If Cornell finishes higher than 7th at the end of the 2012 MWC football season, the league should be disbanded and athletics should become club sports at member institutions.

scottie · May 20, 2011, 10:14:48 PM

Quote from: gbpuckfan on May 20, 2011, 10:27:15 AM
Welcome back!

As for football scheduling:

- Maybe there's a 12th team a-coming.

- I would guess they won't play an insulated football schedule. Maybe they'd go to not playing 2 teams and freeing up for another non-con date. (Something along the lines of how the Big Ten has been doing it.)

(EDIT: I can't imagine Cornell agreeing to this and not being able to play Coe in football - perhaps the best reason this won't happen.)

- divisions with different number of member just seems wrong - and why should some schools get an extra non-con date compared to others?

- maybe someone else is leaving?

Maybe Knox is giving up athletics altogether.

gbpuckfan · May 21, 2011, 12:21:57 PM

Changing gears... a few of the Green Bay Packers are working out at SNC's football stadium since they can't go to Lambeau or its practice facility.

http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/sports/family-affair-at-packers-lockout-workout

gbpuckfan · May 21, 2011, 02:19:48 PM

Maybe Knox is giving up athletics altogether.

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I hope you are being facetious and don't know something I don't.

That said, the ~~Siwash~~ (edit:) Prairie Fire finished 9th and 10th in the all-sport standings (http://midwestconference.org/sports/2010/7/27/GEN_0727102928.aspx) and needed several more sports to barely beat LFC for ninth on one side.

Woodsy76 · May 25, 2011, 11:02:41 AM

Well I would be very sad if Knox dropped their sports program. Though it hasn't been much of a rivalry in for the tenure of Coach Bell and his staff. It would be the end of the most historic event in Midwest Conference football: the annual Monmouth-Knox Turkey Bowl.

Since the addition of an eleventh team in Cornell, I think that it would be cool if the Midwest conference dropped down to a nine game schedule with the best record from a North Division and the from a South Division would play a tenth championship game to earn the automatic quailification to the national playoffs.

But that is only my humble opinion. What do the rest of you all think.

Just Bill · May 26, 2011, 09:45:55 AM

Quote from: Woodsy76 on May 25, 2011, 11:02:41 AM
Since the addition of an eleventh team in Cornell, I think that it would be cool if the Midwest conference dropped down to a nine game schedule with the best record from a North Division and the from a South Division would play a tenth championship game to earn the automatic quailification to the national playoffs.

I doubt the whole league will offer to give up a regular season game, just so two members can play a championship game.

Pat Coleman · May 26, 2011, 10:54:15 AM

It's the Midwest Conference, though -- never know! They already take away competition opportunities in other sports. (In football, they take away the preseason scrimmage.)

Footballfan99 · May 27, 2011, 07:19:04 PM

I know the Midwest Conference has changed its rules about spring ball which has allowed teams to have practices in the spring and play a game against another college (usually out of the country). I was wondering what schools took advantage of playing another college this spring. I know Carroll went up to Canada and played a college from up there, Carroll won 51-0, but had heard the team they played was not good at all.

gbpuckfan · June 03, 2011, 12:41:20 PM

Five SNC football games (I'm guessing the 5 home ones) will be broadcast on local TV:

DE PERE - St. Norbert College and MYNEW32 (WACY-TV) have entered into a television broadcasting agreement for the 2011-12 school year. WACY-TV is scheduled to broadcast 25 St. Norbert sporting events live as well as three non-sporting events during the academic year.

WACY-TV is available on Channel 32 on the UHF band and is available on Channel 13 to Time Warner Cable subscribers in most Northeastern Wisconsin markets (Channel 10 in Marinette).

Tentatively scheduled for broadcast are six men's ice hockey games, five football games, five men's and women's basketball games each and four women's ice hockey games. The final broadcast schedule will be released later in the summer.

"St. Norbert College is excited to have our student-athletes showcase their talents on MYNEW32," St. Norbert president Thomas Kunkel said. "St. Norbert has a proud athletic tradition of producing outstanding teams and we want to thank the Journal Broadcast Group for partnering with us to bring some of our Green Knight athletic events to northeastern Wisconsin and beyond."

St. Norbert's men's ice hockey team won its second NCAA Division III national championship in four years this past March. The school's two basketball programs and football program also advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2010-11.

"St. Norbert College athletics is excited about this tremendous opportunity to partner with MYNEW32 to televise our student-athletes and events," St. Norbert athletics director Tim Bald said. "To have this many live event telecasts is very unique for a Division III institution."

Journal Broadcast Group, which operates WACY-TV under a local marketing agreement, has acquired a new state-of-the-art production truck to handle broadcasts. The station also announced in March it will return its N.E.W. Sports Showdown programming with 10 high school football games.

Long-time area sports broadcaster Ted Stefaniak will handle play-by-play with assistance from veteran St. Norbert men's hockey radio voice Tim Derozier on that sport's broadcasts.

"The quality of college sports in this area is remarkable," MYNEW32 general manager Warren Glover said. "This joint venture will be a great addition to MYNEW32's schedule."

Woodsy76 · June 05, 2011, 06:44:33 PM

Congratulations St. Norbert on getting a television contract for some of you sports. This should help with recruiting in the Upper Midwestern areas where the games are televised.

What do you all think? Will this cause St. Norbert to become even more of a powerhouse than they already seem to be in those sports that are to be televised? And how do you foresee this effecting the rest of the conference?

gbpuckfan · June 07, 2011, 10:24:10 AM

Quote from: Woodsy76 on June 05, 2011, 06:44:33 PM
Congratulations St. Norbert on getting a television contract for some of you sports. This should help with recruiting in the Upper Midwestern areas where the games are televised.

What do you all think? Will this cause St. Norbert to become even more of a powerhouse than they already seem to be in those sports that are to be televised? And how do you foresee this effecting the rest of the conference?

While it's a nice perk for the school, keep in mind that the only people who will be able to see these games are the ones already within (at most) a 3-hour drive of the school. So, if a kid wants his parents to see them play, they really already can. I suppose there are a few grandmas who can't get out of the house who will like it, but it's not the same as, say, Marquette University in Milwaukee being a part of the Big East so it's easier to recruit a New York kid because, yeah, mom can watch him on TV still.

It would help SNC, I suppose, if the GB-based station is willing to share it signal with a station near Monmouth for that football game. As it is, for football SNC will play either Lawrence and Ripon on TV each year (presuming this goes on in the future) - and perhaps both of those would be on TV - and those are already in SNC's local footprint.

Plus, the games are streamed already, right?

Does it help the school's exposure? Yes. Will fans and alums in the area like it? Yes. Is it a local TV station trying to carve out a niche in local sports programming? Absolutely - and good for them. But I'm not sure how much it will help recruiting.

That's my initial reaction. Maybe I am missing something though...

Woodsy76 · June 12, 2011, 11:09:31 PM

Does anyone have any insight into possible committment of players to any MWC schools for this coming year?

fulbakdad · June 13, 2011, 09:34:18 PM

My son is going to Lake Forest this fall. Looking forward to the next 4 years. We are comming from a New England Prep School.

Redhawk Sighting · July 01, 2011, 05:11:19 PM

Quote from: gbpuckfan on May 20, 2011, 10:27:15 AM
Welcome back!

As for football scheduling:

- Maybe there's a 12th team a-coming.

- I would guess they won't play an insulated football schedule. Maybe they'd go to not playing 2 teams and freeing up for another non-con date. (Something along the lines of how the Big Ten has been doing it.)

(EDIT: I can't imagine Cornell agreeing to this and not being able to play Coe in football - perhaps the best reason this won't happen.)

- divisions with different number of member just seems wrong - and why should some schools get an extra non-con date compared to others?

- maybe someone else is leaving?

Hello everyone, it's been awhile. So lets start answering some questions. Cornell will still play and get crushed by Coe. the MWC is not loosing anyone as of yet. What will happen is they will keep their non-conf and will not play two conference team each year. There is a rumor that there might MIGHT be another school thinking about coming on board to the MWC, which would then split the conference into a North and South Division. I hope this answers everyones question

hickory_cornhusker · July 02, 2011, 10:13:46 AM

If there is a second team coming, which area will it be. Is it a northern team to keep one division of all WI teams and another division of IA and IL teams? Or is it a southern/western team that will allow Lake Forest to move back with the Wisconsin schools? I think LFC would love that. They are closer to the WI schools than they are to IC and GC and now CC. (Good thing Carroll became a University)