FB: Midwest Conference

[Maverick]

F-dad: Do you prefer the Original Recipe offense or the Extra Tasty Crispy offense?

Extra Tasty Crispy all the way baby!

[Maverick]

Week 9 Games
Beloit @ St. Norbert - SNC
Cornell @ Carroll - CU
Grinnell @ Lawrence - GC
Lake Forest @ Ripon - RC
Monmouth @ Illinois C. - MC

Lake Forest/Ripon definitely looks like the best game on the schedule.  Although, I think Cornell/Carroll could turn out to be a good one and Grinnell/Lawrence could be close also...but for all the wrong reasons.  Hope to see the Good Guys pull one out in Jacksonville too!  Good luck Fighting Scots!

[gbpuckfan]

from the main page's Around The Region column:

Illinois College and St. Norbert – by quarters

Things are a little more complicated in the Midwest Conference because newly minted No. 24-ranked Illinois College (7-0, 6-0 in MWC play) and St. Norbert (6-1, 6-0) will not play each other this season. Since head-to-head competition is the first tiebreaker, the MWC will automatically move to the second tiebreaker, which is how many quarters the team has led in conference games.

Now that can make for some interesting scoreboard watching. According the MWC, Illinois College leads in that category over St. Norbert 23-17 going into the final three games of the season. The Blueboys had to come back from a 21-20 deficit last year to beat Knox 48-24, so the lead after each quarter and halftime has added meaning.

Now, if St. Norbert happens to catch up with Illinois College over the next 12 quarters of play, the third tiebreaker will be a coin flip to see who will represent the Midwest Conference in the playoffs.

Before Illinois College can get too comfortable, they still have to play Monmouth this week, which lost close games to St. Norbert (22-14) and one-loss Lake Forest (17-14) this season. The Blueboys will have to close against Carroll, a team that beat that handily beat them 49-14 in the season finale last season, so stay tuned.

[gbpuckfan]

SNC leads Beloit 14-0, with 5;19 left in the first

SNC taking advantage of Bucs miscues... a BC punt went 15 yards to their own 20 - short field converted for TD. BC fumbled on an option play, SNC drives for TD

[gbpuckfan]

 Nothing going right for BC... SNC gets a nice one-handed interception at its own 45. On first play, SNC completes long pass to the 5... SNC player fumbles but SNC recovers in the endzone... 21-0.

[gbpuckfan]

SNC beats Beloit

Grinnell beats Lawrence

Ripon beats Lake Forest

IC wins

[TitanPride]

Update on the quarters led situation.  By my unofficial count, Illinois College has led 27 (out of a potential 28) quarters.  Knox led after the 2nd quarter in Week 8. 

St. Norbert has led 21 quarters.  They trailed in 3 quarters to both Monmouth and Cornell and were tied after 1 quarter with Lawrence.

[The Roop]

So now we are all officially Cornell and Carroll fans.

Lake Forest too.......

[fulbakdad]

Well Roop, I'm glad you're pulling for us.  I didn't get to see all of the game yesterday, only the first half and then bits and pieces of the second.  It's tough having two sons playing football at the same time.  From what I saw, it was a game LFC shouldn't have lost......That's not a slight to Ripon, you played a good game.  But Lake Forest just couldn't keep going in the second half.  There was a blink of hope in the first half, but that died in the second.....

First off, hats off to the camera work and announcers of the Ripon game yesterday.  The best I've seen in the three years of watching MWC.  The only problem was the constant buffering during the second half.  I wish I was a computer nerd who could figure this out, but it seems to be much worse this year compared with the last two.


The Ripon offense did a good job of grinding yesterday.  I like the option because it just keeps coming at you.  I remember talking to a Defensive Coordinator at Ithaca who said he hated playing Springfield College.  Because you spend all year on your defense and then have one week to get ready for the option, then turn around and get things straight again. 


I guess it's kind of late for changes, but something's got to happen if we are going to see a different outcome in two weeks.

Two weeks to prepare for SNC

[scottie]

Well Roop, I'm glad you're pulling for us.  I didn't get to see all of the game yesterday, only the first half and then bits and pieces of the second.  It's tough having two sons playing football at the same time.  From what I saw, it was a game LFC shouldn't have lost......That's not a slight to Ripon, you played a good game.  But Lake Forest just couldn't keep going in the second half.  There was a blink of hope in the first half, but that died in the second.....

Perhaps the same could be said about the Good Guys vs. LFC a few weeks ago.      (Not this past week against the Blue Guys, unfortunately....)   

[scottie]

First off, hats off to the camera work and announcers of the Ripon game yesterday.  The best I've seen in the three years of watching MWC.  The only problem was the constant buffering during the second half.  I wish I was a computer nerd who could figure this out, but it seems to be much worse this year compared with the last two.

Hey, once scottie starts making his concerns known, EVERYBODY begins to straighten up!   

[Redhawk Sighting]

Well Roop, I'm glad you're pulling for us.  I didn't get to see all of the game yesterday, only the first half and then bits and pieces of the second.  It's tough having two sons playing football at the same time.  From what I saw, it was a game LFC shouldn't have lost......That's not a slight to Ripon, you played a good game.  But Lake Forest just couldn't keep going in the second half.  There was a blink of hope in the first half, but that died in the second.....

First off, hats off to the camera work and announcers of the Ripon game yesterday.  The best I've seen in the three years of watching MWC.  The only problem was the constant buffering during the second half.  I wish I was a computer nerd who could figure this out, but it seems to be much worse this year compared with the last two.


The Ripon offense did a good job of grinding yesterday.  I like the option because it just keeps coming at you.  I remember talking to a Defensive Coordinator at Ithaca who said he hated playing Springfield College.  Because you spend all year on your defense and then have one week to get ready for the option, then turn around and get things straight again. 


I guess it's kind of late for changes, but something's got to happen if we are going to see a different outcome in two weeks.

Two weeks to prepare for SNC

I too watched it via computer.  saw all through the 3rd quarter, i started having issues during the 4th.  What a game.  When ripon was pinned at their 3 yard line and had to punt out of the end zone and it was returned for a TD, that is when I started to get worried.  But the RC D did a great job holding the LFC to only 1 score. And then the O started to click and take up time.  Their first half stats vs. their 2nd half stats are crazy.. I believe Ripon is the first team this year to put that many points up against LFC. 

[The Roop]

Perhaps the same could be said about the Good Guys vs. LFC a few weeks ago.      (Not this past week against the Blue Guys, unfortunately....)   
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scottie, I was neutral for the Lake Forest game and I wanted the Good Guys to beat IC.

[scottie]

You're a model American, The Roop!

[wnc52]

Maybe I'm just overthinking this, but I have a question in regards to the "quarters led" statistic.  Let's say hypothetically IC jumps out to a 14-0 lead after the first quarter this weekend, but gets outscored 13-0 in the second quarter.  So, the halftime score is 14-13 IC.  Even though they got outscored the second quarter, it is still a "quarter led" since they are taking the lead into halftime, correct?