FB: Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference

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How many playoff games has this conference won? One game against a conference winless in the automatic bid era.

Pat, you know better than that.  Past performance in the playoffs is not in the selection criteria.

[Adam Sayer]

They didn't exactly beat down MSJ. They won the game and it could be argued MSJ lost the game rather than FC winning it. Who knows what happens if MSJ doesn't fumble going into the endzone right before halftime.  Congrats on winning the HCAC, FC has a GOOD team, but don't go running your mouth. Act like you've been there before...oh wait, you havn't.

SaintsFan, sorry about missing the game. I would have rather watched that than listen to trainers talk about concussions and dehydration. So...is Charlie Weis in the frying pan yet, or are the ND faithful just turning on the heat?

Go Ducks. If Oregon doesn't jump LSU in the pools, the NCAA is a travis-sham-mockery. They absolutely beat down Arizona State (Dixon is officially the Heisman front runner) while LSU was AGAIN lucky playing Alabama. The QB should be shot losing that ball like he did late in the 4th. Alabama still had a chance but the WR's forgot how to catch

Beanie Wells is a man amongst boys. Someone that big shouldn't be able to run like that. It just shouldn't be humanly possible.

Deer Park layed the smack down in their playoff game beating CHCA 41-14. They now get to travel and take on the defending State Champs, Marion Local who beat Miami East, 37-0.  Channel 5 kept referring to Deer Park as simply...The Park (Everyone loves DP). As the Great American, Willi Cunningham says, it don't matter who you are or what division...the state championship comes through Deer Park Damn right!

PTR

BRIDGE BOWL 2007!!!!!!!

[propower64]

great win griz, if anyone knows how i got home please let me know. 

[fc_alum_84]

Adam:  So what did FC do to DC?  42-15 at half and 672 yards of offense (272 on the ground) is not a beat down?  I am sorry but maybe we could term it a blowout, a$$ kicking, old fashion whipping, etc etc. Gimme a break.  DC got blasted and the all american wide receiver was generally held in check. If it weren't for the solid running of the DC QB the spread would have been worse.  I was there for all 60 minutes and FC beat DC is every facet of the game.

Bottom line: FC owns the HCAC this year and any amount of sugar coating isnt going to change it.

[hurler]

Uh-Oh-Adam's G onna get you
FC has alot of football tp play yet, dont let your OLD mouth write a check your A** cant cash.
You talk big, considering FC has Never Been HERE B 4!!
Be Humble,Be Very Humble!

[fc_alum_84]

If the decorum on the board requires undertanding what a specific poster or two preferences are then I will will leave the board to the three of four people who tend to dominate most of the posts.  Franklin has been humbled for years at the likes of Hanover and DC and recently MSJ. If my post from yesterday is not up to the standards so be it. 

I have never once mentioned what Frankin might do or not do in the playoffs.  I will be politically correct and predict a toss-up down at Hanover.  Maybe that will help soothe the sensitive nerves of a few folks. 

[fc_alum_84]

Another thing, my comment related to beat down was related to DC not MSJ oh annointed Mr Sayer.  Franklin simply won on the road at MSJ by 11 points. 

[hurler]

Just got back from the post game tailgate action at FC.  55-22 beatdown and it was worse than that to be honest. But I will say this:  the DC head coach is a class act   he came over and addressed the FC team  congratulated all and wished them well in the playoffs.  Great moment and I have a nice pic (wife took) of both coaches shaking hands after he addressed team.  What it is all about, etc.

FC is for real and anyone in the HCAC that thinks otherwise is looking through rose colored glasses.  Sorry MSJ but your beating three weeks ago was the real deal.

[hurler]

YOU signaled out Adam in your post, dont make this all so personal.
  BUTT since you did open your mouth and Fc is the real deal in the HCAC please do give us your predictions on how bad of a smackdown FC is going to do in the 1st rounds. beat down or whatever!
  Were you at the FC- MSJ game? I was and I HAVE a DVD that shows a blown call when the kid from MSJ was IN the end zone prior to half time, under FAIR refs it would have been ruled a TD. Adam needs to come INTO the stadium and quit watching from the hill that is 100 yards from the end zone in question.
  If you want we can meet at Maloaneys and ill load up my DVD and we can go play by play and you will see, maybe not, that the REFS blew this game and robbed MSJ of a score.
  Like I said there is alot of football yet to be played, those first rounds can be brutal, JUST QUIT TALKING SMACK about FC WHO HAS NEVER BEEN HERE B4!
be humble be very very humble. And grow some thick skin.
You dont read any Mount Union guys coming in here and beating their chest? settle down, pride goes before a fall, and you could be setting yourself up for a big fall.
WE ALL HERE AT THE HCAC WANT A HCAC team to win all the marbles!
And thats all I got to say about that!

[dc_has_been]

Anyways, there is still one week left & FC & MSJ need to win out big as well as their nonconference teams too.  It would be great to see two HCAC schools in the playoffs as we mentioned a thousand times.  I am curious now to see what the playoff seeding will be w/ Wheaton losing this past Saturday.  I would still think that the playoff comittee would still rank Wheaton ahead of Franklin.   I would guess right now it would look like this:
1 Mount Union
2 Wabash
3 Wheaton
4 Case
5 Franklin
6 MSJ
7 Concordia
8 MIAA (Hope, Olivet, or Alma)

[victorybell_57]

hurler, let's just stop the debbie downer syndrome. you would think you would be happy for the FC family who have been suffering since Red Faught retired, and the program went into the ground quickly with a former alum who refused to run with previous success. they have been outclassed for years until Mike Leonard was able to right the ship and put a team on the field that the HCAC could be proud of, the alums could be proud of, and that the city could be proud of.

i wish the entire Grizzly squad much success against the panthers in the bell game. let's not forget the years of beatings the formers grizzlies took before you guys took it to the next level. it's a rivalry game, so let's treat it as such.

and hey, you haven't been in the D3 playoffs before, so? so go out there and let's find out how good this group can be. just because you haven't been there before doesn't mean you should take a back seat to anybody.

great article on the OL at FC. i couldn't be happier for the squad as they get ready to make a new history of football success at Franklin.

[victorybell_57]

i just read the rest of your post. nevermind, i thought you were being debbie downer. if all you are saying is get your mind right to play and execute, then cool. i'm ok with that.

[JacketsFan]

First of all, congrats to the Grizz for winning their first ever conference. Great job! Keep it up in the post season, now.

fc_alum_84, most of us "old timers" have been posting here for years. We've hung in there with our teams through good times and bad times. During all this time, Victory bell has been the only poster representing Franklin here, and that was before Franklin was an HCAC power. Nothing wrong with honking your team's horn, but when a poster such as yourself doesn't even get on the bandwagon and start posting until the year the team becomes an obvious HCAC winner, it tends to rub us old timers' rhubarb the wrong way. Like the man said, pride goeth before a fall. The HCAC is a weak conference this year - pretty much across the board with the exception of Franklin. How would Franklin measure up playing in a conference with a bunch of teams that weren't in the basement? I'm not trying to take anything away from them. I think Coach Leonard has done a superb job. I hope they make it past the first round of the playoffs. But before you come around here shooting your mouth off to a bunch of guys who've been here together through thick and thin, learn some respect or you'll end up like a couple of other johnny-come-lately posters with verbal diarrhea over the past few years - writing posts that no one acknowledges until you eventually get the message your company isn't particularly welcomed by anyone. Getting all gleeful and rubbing your hands together and bragging about beat-downs and ass whippings on teams that clearly aren't in your league this season is unseemly. Will you stick around and brag the next time Franklin goes through a dry spell, which it ultimately will? I don't think so because you weren't here for the last one.

By the way, the All American wide receiver you were dissing has an injury from last week's game at MSJ so don't get too pumped up about holding him in check. He didn't do too shabby of a job for an injured player. He might've given your defense problems galore had he been uninjured and up to snuff.

Tough loss yesterday, DC. Man up and get ready for next year. It ain't over yet. You've got some great talent there, you were just a little inexperienced this year.

[GrizzlyBall]

FC dominated DC, that was clear. The "All-American" got away with a lot of push offs and didnt look like hey was having any problem with those injuries. Maybe he was tho i dont know. But big game coming up next week at HC.

[70_dc_alum]

since Hurlers has DVD video evidence we shall appeal to the NCAA and they can be awarded the TD for Hurler and MSJ still looses by 4 but no one has to admit to a beat down...except DC becuase we did take a beatdown yesterday.

another wild stat, look at the points for an against for Mount Union this year.  they have pitched a shutout since September.  their offense gets tons of attention but could their defense be even better??