FB: Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference

[SaintsFAN]

I agree 100% with the lack of press. When we went 10-0 we did get a good deal. There was a nice write up on Lawless that year, plus the big article after our first Bridge Bowl win. The problem with Cincinnati is that there is so much going on if you tried to give everyone their time every weekend, you'd have a 30-page sports section.

Maybe you've stumbled onto something here.  Ask has_been about the Sunday Edition of the Los Angeles Times.  We have some crappy AP report/write up thats been cut and paste from some template.  Maybe the Enquirer could turn around the performance of the newspaper if they started covering small college football.  Before you laugh, remember, the MSJ's and TMC's even Wilma, Hanover and UD, as bastardly as they are, have scores of local kids making up their rosters.  How many more copies COULD be sold if they did a report on each? 

Then again, I know the newspaper industry has small margins to make.  But wouldn't advertising go up also?

[Adam Sayer]

I agree. I've discussed this regarding wrestling since I was in high school.  During the winter, about the only write up on wrestling is the weekly Honor Roll. You get some mention of the better teams (Moeller, Reading, Madeira, etc.) but not much at all.

I will say that I hear TMC and MSJ scores more often now on the radio than I recall in the past but when you reference the local kids, I think people rely more on their local community newspaper.

[SaintsFAN]

formerd3db,

You made me LOL, with the last part of your message.  You've always had my best interests in mind, ever since we met on the field at Alma in 1999.  I appreciate the concern, as always.   It was a function for work, but not everyone was involved with it.  Add to the fact they fired my little ray of sunshine in March along with my "new strategy" of being business only there.... everything went fine.  Great speaker if you get a chance to find him online.. he could sell ketsup popsicles to eskimos wearing white gloves.  

I don't like RichRod...at all.  I think he's exactly whats wrong with Division 1 Athletics.  Agents shouldn't be involved in the process.  

I'm not sure what happened to Thomas More up at Geneva.  I was worried about this game immediately following the big W&J win because A.  it was another overnight trip and B. it followed a highly emotional win over W&J.  Add to it, I heard that Geneva's defense was playing well and that Thomas More would have to play well to win.  For comparison, Geneva would be a 2nd or 3rd place team in the HCAC.  Its hard to beat a team that has 37 minutes of possesions AND when we made it 10-7 in the 4th, the defense was gassed and gave up a TD as Geneva answered.  Hopefully, they use it as a lesson that the games must be played on the field and get back to what made TMC successful through the first 8 games of the season.  

re:  Hanover

I know the Panthers have the new coach from Dubuque for this year, and he brought a new staff to Madison, IN.  I know they are relying most on freshman to learn the system and play right away this season.  Hanover still has the WR, Tyler Thiems... but little else around him as far as experience.  I think its too early to tell what is going to happen with this new regime.  The last couple seasons of Wayne Perry's reign were marked by a new philosophy trying to be implemented which saw the admission standards go up --making it harder to recruit the necessary athletes to compete with Mount St Joe, Defiance, and Franklin... hell even RHIT and Anderson.  I think they've relaxed the admissions back to where they were originally, but the damage has been done.  Its going to take another class or two until we see what Joe Austin's staff can do.  

[Adam Sayer]

Kevin, the wedding is July 18th. I'll let you know whe the Bachelor Party is. I'd like to take a whole weekend. May be travel somewhere. Vegas is a little too far, but something along those lines.

[JacketsFan]

I've been out of town for the past week and missed the DC/MSJ game. Just caught the score today. Congrats to DC on its win. Wrap it up with a win against Da Beav this week.

[SaintsFAN]

Adam,

Just a word for the wise... last time I heard about a bachelor party that lasted a weekend, there were cops involved, a brawl, a destroyed hotel room, and two DUIs.  None of that was me.  But just sayin... I witnessed all of that. 

The other one like that was my cousin's in Vegas.  My other cousin hooked up with Zap-- from American Gladiators, she's the one that posed in Playboy back in the day.  She came to the wedding too, but all she talked about was her new TV show that never came to be. 

[formerd3db]

SaintsFAN:
You are welcome.  Hey, all of us "former DIII'ers" need to stick together.  One of the best aspects of this website, aside from everyone's love of DIII football (and thanks to Pat obviously for all of this even being possible) is the friendships and commeraderie that I/we all have had with some people we've not even met (although others such as you and I have met in the past either as players, opponents, etc.).  Just looking out for you as I hope others would do for me

Thanks for your insights/opinions on your TMC, Hanover and also "that guy" RichRod   We're doing fine here (although daughter No. 2 was lucky and thankfully did not get sick with the recent virus outbreak and closue at Hope's campus).  Take care and have a great weekend.  Good luck to your team this weekend (it will be cold I'm sure - from that standpoint, I'm not looking forward to standing on the sidelines at the Kalamazoo College game this weekend!)

Also, good luck to all you HCAC guys' teams this weekend as well.

[SaintsFAN]

Sorry for the late entry...

Bridge Bowl Trivia for Wednesday:

Name the winning team and the score from the 1995 version (go to Thomas More's website if you have to)

[70_dc_alum]

 Great speaker if you get a chance to find him online.. he could sell ketsup popsicles to eskimos wearing white gloves.  

I was interviewing a guy yesterday for one of my Chicago sales positions and he was an x-IBM sales rep and i was trying to see if he had the chops to do it becuase typically IBM guys are wussies and only cna sell because they work for "IBM"so i told him i thought he was soft and i have never ran into an IBM rep that came to my firm that could sell anything just to see how he would react.  I got a weak response which allowed me to make up my mind to which i responded with what i was looking for and did throw in a, "sell ketsup popsicles to eskimos wearing white gloves"

nothing like being able to quote SaintsFan from D3Football.com while telling someone to F'off in corporate america.

Can you tell what website i was on right before the interview

[SaintsFAN]

DUDE...

Where is everyone?  


<crickets chirping>


Did they call off the games for this weekend?  I think there's a couple rivalry games coming up... right?  Or did I miss the Bridge Bowl, Franklin/Hanover, and Defiance/Beavers??

I know one thing... I'll NEVER forgive Franklin for blowing their lead against Hanover in the 1995 Bell game.  Never.  Had they won, Vic Clark's fellas from Thomas More wouldve made a nice run in the playoffs.  10-0 and ranked #5 in the North Region...

[SaintsFAN]

 Great speaker if you get a chance to find him online.. he could sell ketsup popsicles to eskimos wearing white gloves.  

I was interviewing a guy yesterday for one of my Chicago sales positions and he was an x-IBM sales rep and i was trying to see if he had the chops to do it becuase typically IBM guys are wussies and only cna sell because they work for "IBM"so i told him i thought he was soft and i have never ran into an IBM rep that came to my firm that could sell anything just to see how he would react.  I got a weak response which allowed me to make up my mind to which i responded with what i was looking for and did throw in a, "sell ketsup popsicles to eskimos wearing white gloves"

nothing like being able to quote SaintsFan from D3Football.com while telling someone to F'off in corporate america.

Can you tell what website i was on right before the interview

haha... thats great, 70!  Sounds like you probably need to hire me for that Chicago position.  If it pays enough.   

[cave2bens]

 Great speaker if you get a chance to find him online.. he could sell ketsup popsicles to eskimos wearing white gloves.  

I was interviewing a guy yesterday for one of my Chicago sales positions and he was an x-IBM sales rep and i was trying to see if he had the chops to do it becuase typically IBM guys are wussies and only cna sell because they work for "IBM"so i told him i thought he was soft and i have never ran into an IBM rep that came to my firm that could sell anything just to see how he would react.  I got a weak response which allowed me to make up my mind to which i responded with what i was looking for and did throw in a, "sell ketsup popsicles to eskimos wearing white gloves"

nothing like being able to quote SaintsFan from D3Football.com while telling someone to F'off in corporate america.

Can you tell what website i was on right before the interview

Freakin' Priceless, '70!  +K for flipping off the navy, suited purveyors of punitive probes (or prohibited pubes - ref. to ban on facial hair  ) 

Speakin' of which, hear's to DC doin' a Dan'el Boone and skinnin' some tree-gnawin' varmints this weekend.  Keep the streak alive, and take some tail trophies! Darn those late night exchanges with SaintsFan 

[SaintsFAN]

Speakin' of which, hear's to DC doin' a Dan'el Boone and skinnin' some tree-gnawin' varmints this weekend.  Keep the streak alive, and take some tail trophies! Darn those late night exchanges with SaintsFan 


Thats what she said..

[fc_alum_84]

Yes there is a rivalry game at FC this weekend.  Hapless Hanover against FC in a glorified scrimmage.

FC is hoping for a return trip to Trine and the winner goes to Bash.  Who knows??   if that were to happen that would be perfect.  Trine is kidding themselves if they think they are legit. FC played like crap and deserved to lose but they wont repeat that sorry performance.

FC has lost one conference game in three seasons and all four losses in the last three years were to playoff teams. And three of the four losses are to team ranked in the current top 25.  not bad.

Go FC, pound Hanover like the sorry team they are (hope they return but its a long road back as FC and MSJ will lock up many of the top players in the Indy/Cincy areas that used to go Hanover)

Until somebody rises up, FC owns the HCAC and as long as Mike Leonard is there there wont be a major letdown.  just my opinion.

7 Sierra Nevada's contributed to this post/rant  lol

[Adam Sayer]

I'd be more excited about this game had MSJ and TMC came in 8-1...which could have been the case. MSJ would have something to play for other than recruiting and a winning season. They'd be playing for a possible playoff spot.