FB: Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference

[D3_DPUFan]

Always great to visit Red Faught Stadium. Awesome weather and great crowd on hand for Saturday's scrimmage. Nice to see folks breaking out the grills for some early tailgating...

[GRIZ_BACKER]

What was you rtake D3_DPUF??  I thought both teams did really well at times.  Pretty much a draw for the first teams.  FC started out a bit shaky on both sides of the ball but then settled down and played pretty well.  I left encouraged about the conference season as Depauw IMO is probably stronger than anyone in our conference. 

I still think FC has its hands completely full the first three games with Baldwin Wallace, Butler, and Trine.  With all the new starters this year, winning all three of these will be an accomplishment. 

[D3_DPUFan]

What was you rtake D3_DPUF??  I thought both teams did really well at times.  Pretty much a draw for the first teams.  FC started out a bit shaky on both sides of the ball but then settled down and played pretty well.  I left encouraged about the conference season as Depauw IMO is probably stronger than anyone in our conference. 

I still think FC has its hands completely full the first three games with Baldwin Wallace, Butler, and Trine.  With all the new starters this year, winning all three of these will be an accomplishment. 

I think both teams did some things well. Always tough to tell a whole lot in these scrimmages. I think once you decide on a QB, Coach Leonard will get the passing game revved up...saw some flashes of that Saturday and it looks as though you should be able to get some run game going as well. As always, development up front will be critical. Thought you guys played with good energy. As for DPU,  I saw lots of good things, on both sides of the ball as well as a few things they'll be working on. 4 offense starters were out for the scrimmage (RB, WR, TE, OT) with minor tweaks and with a very limited play script tough to tell too much...but the offense has lots of experienced players who should continue to make plays...and I think folks will be impressed by the athleticism of the DePauw defense...LB's and DB's can get to the ball pretty quickly...and will really bring the wood...we'll see soon!

[SaintsFAN]

Hello friends,

I just wanted to mention that Hope College in the MIAA is celebrating it's 100th season of football this year.  You might enjoy checking out that special link on their athletic website.  Some great stories, facts and new research info unveiled regarding its football history.  I enjoy those aspects of all the DIII schools.  Thanks.

I love history of programs, formerd3db.  We didn't have much history before I started going to Thomas More (5 years) so its always cool to look back on that. 

[DadofBashWarrior..]

Hello friends,

I just wanted to mention that Hope College in the MIAA is celebrating it's 100th season of football this year.  You might enjoy checking out that special link on their athletic website.  Some great stories, facts and new research info unveiled regarding its football history.  I enjoy those aspects of all the DIII schools.  Thanks.

Thanks for the info...I just dropped my daughter off at Hope over the weekend. I will check it out. Did you attend Hope?

[Mugsy]

Posted CCIW Pick-em's Contest rules and week #1 games.  All are welcome to participate.

[wabashcpa]

HCAC Pick 'ems are posted - all are welcome to play.

Note - Trine/Manchester and Anderson/Taylor play this Thursday night at 7:00, so get your picks in before then.

[Adam Sayer]

I had an old coach tell me last night, "You can only coach who shows up." It didn't make me feel any better. We're down 3 orginal starters on offense due to injuries and a 4th is playing with a bad right shoulder. I had to move him to right guard so his inside arm would be his left arm. We have 2 back ups who are out as well and have had 2 terrible days of practice this week....I really don't know how people can do this sh!t for 30, 40, 50+ years. I'm gonna be dead by the time I reach 40. In 10 years of playing football from junior high on through MSJ, I only had 1 losing season as a starter and that was our 0-10 at MSJ in 2001. Even the BS with the Marshal's and the Semi-Pro team after college, both teams finished with a winning record. I don't know how people can deal with this losing stuff. It is killing me and I'm not exagerating.

Word around is MSJ's new QB has looked very good. All I know is hearsay, but the initial reviews have been pretty good. I'm looking forward to the guys being able to right the ship this year.

BTW, TMC had a nice write up in the Enquirer today.

[SaintsFAN]

I had an old coach tell me last night, "You can only coach who shows up." It didn't make me feel any better. We're down 3 orginal starters on offense due to injuries and a 4th is playing with a bad right shoulder. I had to move him to right guard so his inside arm would be his left arm. We have 2 back ups who are out as well and have had 2 terrible days of practice this week....I really don't know how people can do this sh!t for 30, 40, 50+ years. I'm gonna be dead by the time I reach 40. In 10 years of playing football from junior high on through MSJ, I only had 1 losing season as a starter and that was our 0-10 at MSJ in 2001. Even the BS with the Marshal's and the Semi-Pro team after college, both teams finished with a winning record. I don't know how people can deal with this losing stuff. It is killing me and I'm not exagerating.

Word around is MSJ's new QB has looked very good. All I know is hearsay, but the initial reviews have been pretty good. I'm looking forward to the guys being able to right the ship this year.

BTW, TMC had a nice write up in the Enquirer today.

Who is MSJ's QB?? 

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I told you to get the fukk out of that place last year.  Its not like that at every school. 

Did JP come to Purcell?  I also heard you guys are changin offenses after week 1.  wow

[Adam Sayer]

He wasn't able to come help. It would have been nice...we have a kicker with a live leg.

We're not changing our offense. Whenever we ran the proper play against Walnut, we had a lot of success. The problem was we fumbled 4-5 snaps and the QB ran the wrong play another 4-5 times. We averaged almost 5.5 yards on 1st down (aside from fumbled snaps and the wrong playcall). We are changing our approach. Instead of a lot of 'I'  we are spreading it out again...which we've always been a spread team, just went to the 'I' due to injuries to WR early in the year. We had to be innovative considering our starting center is 5'9" 155 pounds this week and I have another starter who is banged up.

I don't know the QB's name, just that he is a transfer from Miami (OH). Word is he's looked pretty good during his brief time at MSJ.

[SaintsFAN]

He wasn't able to come help. It would have been nice...we have a kicker with a live leg.

We're not changing our offense. Whenever we ran the proper play against Walnut, we had a lot of success. The problem was we fumbled 4-5 snaps and the QB ran the wrong play another 4-5 times. We averaged almost 5.5 yards on 1st down (aside from fumbled snaps and the wrong playcall). We are changing our approach. Instead of a lot of 'I'  we are spreading it out again...which we've always been a spread team, just went to the 'I' due to injuries to WR early in the year. We had to be innovative considering our starting center is 5'9" 155 pounds this week and I have another starter who is banged up.

I don't know the QB's name, just that he is a transfer from Miami (OH). Word is he's looked pretty good during his brief time at MSJ.

oh wait... i heard that... he was at Georgetown College also, right?  Good... sounds like MSJ could be better.  You know who else played at 3 schools right?   

I'd say they are HCAC Favorites if he doesn't Rashon the team during the season

[Adam Sayer]

Actually, Rashon was at 4 schools. MSJ, MacMurray, and the last was UMHB (where I think he lasted about 1 week). He was somewhere before MSJ but I don't know where.

[Adam Sayer]

How about Florida being a 73 point favorite in that game...If I were a man who knew where to put $10,000 on a game, I would bet on that game. When was the last time a DI team put up 73 points? Or even better, when was the last time a DI team won a game by 73 points?

[70_dc_alum]

starting center is 5'9" 155 pounds??

why spread...PTR with that beef

[frank uible]

As we all recall, in 1916 Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland 222-0.