FB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

wesleydad · December 17, 2011, 01:36:47 PM

DGPugh, good talking you also. good game, great food and fellowship made the crappy weather tolerable. Safe travels and Happy Holidays to you and your family. Hope to see you next year.

roocru · December 20, 2011, 03:45:38 PM

A little late posting but once again want to say thanks to Stone Station crew for their hospitality and great food! It was great to see everyone again and to see DGPugh, his son, Wesleydad, Pat, Keith and the rest of the D3Football bunch and all the other posters and newbies who stopped by.

After watching how close the game was, I really feel the gap between the purple powers and the others near the top is decreasing every year. I hope UMHB can make it back again soon!

Will be there again next year, God willing!!

DGPugh · December 20, 2011, 07:39:55 PM

Roocru

Hero: is was great seeingyou as well, have a most blessed yr and we pray we will see you next time
keep the faith

badcall! · December 22, 2011, 11:04:43 AM

Haven't seen any talk about it but Coach Clark at BC has fired longtime assistant, most recently offensive coordinator-Joe Soltis, under pressure from the new administration. Haven't heard who will be replacing him yet.

hasanova · December 22, 2011, 11:36:41 AM

Quote from: badcall! on December 22, 2011, 11:04:43 AM
Haven't seen any talk about it but Coach Clark at BC has fired longtime assistant, most recently offensive coordinator-Joe Soltis, under pressure from the new administration. Haven't heard who will be replacing him yet.

Was this due to the on field performance of the Eagles or an unrelated matter? I wish him well.

wrighthall220 · January 06, 2012, 12:18:45 PM

Quote from: hasanova on December 22, 2011, 11:36:41 AM
Quote from: badcall! on December 22, 2011, 11:04:43 AM
Haven't seen any talk about it but Coach Clark at BC has fired longtime assistant, most recently offensive coordinator-Joe Soltis, under pressure from the new administration. Haven't heard who will be replacing him yet.
Was this due to the on field performance of the Eagles or an unrelated matter? I wish him well.

I hate to hear that for Coach Soltis, he was always a really good coach and great person to talk to off the field. He really had some HUGE shoes to fill after Coach Colbert left, it was almost an impossible task as a replacement.

jknezek · January 17, 2012, 06:24:01 PM

A momentous, and yet sad, day for the Generals. Head Coach Frank Miriello is retiring after 17 years as the General's head coach. Between Miriello and his predecessor, Coach Fallon, the Generals have had a long and stable run. It will be interesting to see what the Generals do now and, much like our great seniors, he will be missed. Thanks coach for 17 great years and all the memories, victories, and young men you helped develop. You were also always a good interview for me when I was a Trident reporter and a great racquetball teacher!

See more here:

http://news.blogs.wlu.edu/2012/01/17/frank-miriello-retires-as-head-football-coach-at-wl/

hasanova · January 18, 2012, 09:26:06 AM

Best wishes and congratulations to Coach Miriello at W&L. He's done a lot for W&L and ODAC football. Well done, sir.

jknezek · January 18, 2012, 06:01:45 PM

I don't think anyone is surprised that W&L named Scott Abell the new Generals Head Coach. There is a tradition of keeping it in the family, and Coach Abell has done amazing things with the offense since arriving in 2008. Good luck coach. The program has some big holes to fill and I think you'll do a great job filling them.

Come on 2012. A whole new chapter for Generals' Football!

http://www.generalssports.com/sports/fball/2011-12/Releases/abell_hc

CBE · January 26, 2012, 10:44:59 PM

Two Hampden Sydney Football players burned in a fire on campus.

By: Mark Bowes , Joe Macenka | Richmond Times Dispatch
Published: January 26, 2012 Updated: January 26, 2012 - 12:00 AM
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY --
Two Hampden-Sydney College star football players — both Hanover High School graduates — were burned, one seriously, in a fire at a campus residence before dawn Wednesday.

School spokesman Thomas Shomo said the more seriously injured student — identified as Kirk Rohle, 20, of Mechanicsville — was flown to VCU Medical Center in Richmond after the fire, which was reported at 4:12 a.m. in the Tiger Athletic Club House.

"The burns were not life-threatening," Shomo said, "but he was seriously burned."

As of Wednesday night, Rohle was in critical but stable condition, according to hospital officials.

The other student, identified as Benjamin Rogers, was among a group of TAC House residents who drove to the hospital to visit their seriously injured housemate. Rogers was treated for minor burns at VCU Medical Center and is listed in good condition.

Shomo said the TAC House, which he described as a sports-related theme house instead of a fraternity, was a total loss in the fire, which took about 90 minutes to bring under control. The TAC students will be given temporary housing in a former fraternity house on campus, he said.

Shomo said the house on College Road near the edge of campus had smoke detectors that functioned properly and alerted the residents. Eight of the nine residents were home at the time, he said.

College officials are investigating the fire, and Shomo said the Prince Edward County fire marshal will likely be consulted as well.

Shomo said early indications were that the fire may have started in furniture on the front porch, but he added that the exact cause or point of origin remained unclear.

"It's under investigation. We honestly do not know," he said. "But there's no sense it was a suspicious fire or anything like that."

Shomo said Rohle plays football for the all-male college in Prince Edward County. Rohle played baseball, football and wrestled at Hanover High School.

Rohle was a second-team all-Old Dominion Athletic Conference running back last season, helping the Tigers win the conference title. He rushed for 1,023 yards and 18 touchdowns and caught 62 passes for 547 yards and three touchdowns.

Rogers was named first-team all-ODAC as an offensive lineman and was named to the AFCA Division III All-America first team. He is the first four-time all-ODAC selection in Hampden-Sydney history.

The fire is among the worst in the Prince Edward County area since March 2007, when an apartment fire in Farmville took the lives of a Longwood University senior and a friend visiting from the Albemarle County area. A 21-year-old junior from Oak Hill, Timothy Cocrane, was celebrated as a hero in the blaze after he saved the lives of three residents.

abnrgr · February 08, 2012, 11:32:43 AM

well looks like too much has not transpired since my botched Decemeber shoulder surgeries as more than one. Just back up and moving 30lbs later. How's my "Hasason been brave?"

hasanova · February 09, 2012, 01:55:28 PM

Quote from: abnrgr on February 08, 2012, 11:32:43 AM
well looks like too much has not transpired since my botched Decemeber shoulder surgeries as more than one. Just back up and moving 30lbs later. How's my "Hasason been brave?"

Hey. Hope those surgeries will get you moving again soon. I've been as busy as a one-armed paper hanger.

Holding down the job and teaching a stat class at Volvo three Fridays in February. Trips to Dallas and Detroit in the mix this month too ... plus trying to watch a little Quaker hoops. Oh, and a cold! So, life is normal. lol

abnrgr · February 14, 2012, 11:01:20 AM

Last week I was sitting in a doctors office waiting to be tortured and picked up an old SI. They have all these little tidbits in there but one of them called "go figure".

It had Mount Union and UWW playing for the D3 championship 7 times. (well something close to that)

They (SI) really went over board on the coverage. Jerk offs

jknezek · February 20, 2012, 04:37:44 PM

W&L's 2012 schedule can be found here in the second blogpost down:
http://www.wlufootball.blogspot.com/

Nothing unusual. Back end of the F&M home and home, Centre and Sewanee continue their long traditional match ups, and one open date remaining on 9/22. Be interesting to see who steps into that date, although with 10 games scheduled I'm thinking that should be a bye. Alma filled this role last season and it was a blast of a game between two unfamiliar teams who played a lot of offense and seemed to forget to study their film on the defensive side of the ball.

Happy to see W&L does not have the dreaded last week of the season bye week again, or at least it doesn't appear so. Didn't make much of a difference in 2011 since we had pretty much everyone on board for that H-SC winner-take-all, but I'm glad to see we don't have a repeat.

hasanova · February 23, 2012, 05:05:09 PM

Quote from: jknezek on February 20, 2012, 04:37:44 PM
W&L's 2012 schedule can be found here in the second blogpost down:
http://www.wlufootball.blogspot.com/

Nothing unusual. Back end of the F&M home and home, Centre and Sewanee continue their long traditional match ups, and one open date remaining on 9/22. Be interesting to see who steps into that date, although with 10 games scheduled I'm thinking that should be a bye. Alma filled this role last season and it was a blast of a game between two unfamiliar teams who played a lot of offense and seemed to forget to study their film on the defensive side of the ball.

Happy to see W&L does not have the dreaded last week of the season bye week again, or at least it doesn't appear so. Didn't make much of a difference in 2011 since we had pretty much everyone on board for that H-SC winner-take-all, but I'm glad to see we don't have a repeat.

I think W&L's "open" date on Sept. 22 will remain open even though it was listed as TBA. Unless the rules have changed, DIII schools are only allowed 10 games.