D3 Championship Belt

[Just Bill]

Just keep my Belt^TM away from that swimming pool when you go to Kenyon.  The water will crack the leather!

I guess there would be no point in having a D-III swimming championship belt, would there?

No, but what about a traveling D-III championship Speedo...?  Swim cap?  Nose plug or snorkel?

I'm afraid whatever item we choose, once I bust out the hot glue gun and apply the requisite number of baubles and gewgaws, that piece is going act like an anchor and nail the poor bearer to the bottom of the pool like he's holding a barbell on Jupiter.

I can't have that on my conscience.

[David Collinge]

Actually, the D3 Championship Swimming Belt^TM floats around quite a bit (nyuk, nyuk).  Kenyon loses all the time in dual meets, it's just the nature of the beast.  Their men's squad is presently 3-3, and their women's team is 1-6.  But one and probably both will end up as national champions.  The Swimming Belt^TM loves to see the USA during the season, but takes its summers in beautiful Gambier.

Wooster promises not to take the Belt^TM anywhere near the Kenyon Athletic Center; the title match on Jan. 9 will be at Wooster's Timken Gymnasium, with 2000 or so Belt^TM fans in attendance.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Just keep my Belt^TM away from that swimming pool when you go to Kenyon.  The water will crack the leather!

I guess there would be no point in having a D-III swimming championship belt, would there?

No, but what about a traveling D-III championship Speedo...?  Swim cap?  Nose plug or snorkel?

I'm afraid whatever item we choose, once I bust out the hot glue gun and apply the requisite number of baubles and gewgaws, that piece is going act like an anchor and nail the poor bearer to the bottom of the pool like he's holding a barbell on Jupiter.

I can't have that on my conscience.

Not even when it would give some other team a chance?

(We promise to revive the Kenyon recipient before he 'breathes his last'. )

[David Collinge]

For the record, the Belt^TM will remain in the clutches of the North Coast Athletic Conference (barring any exercise of the "moral turpitude" clause, of course) into the NCAA tournament.  Wooster is now done with preseason non-conference play for the year.  By the time the Scots stage their first Belt^TM defense, the only remaining non-conference game on an NCAC schedule will be Allegheny's Feb. 8 showdown with Penn St.-New Kensington, but as the Lions are a member of the USCAA, that'll be a non-sanctioned bout.  There is a tiny chance, however, that the Belt^TM will fall into the hands of a team that then fails to qualify for the 8-team NCAC tournament, thereby taking early retirement.  It's pure fancy at this point, but it's not impossible that the Belt^TM could wind up in Richmond, IN, on the campus of Earlham College, and thereby stealthily return to the HCAC through inactivity, as the EC has deigned to switch conferences this offseason.  Stay tuned!

[Gregory Sager]

Wooster drives a stake through the hearts of Transylvania and seizes the Belt^TM, 75-65.  The Scots will now hope to parade the Belt^TM through some of the unlikeliest places for a championship Belt^TM in D3, places like Oberlin (Jan. 20) and Earlham (Feb. 20, god willing).  First up, however, the Scots will put the Belt^TM up against the Speedo^TM when Wooster hosts Kenyon on Jan. 9.

Ohhh! Do I really want to see the Belt^TM worn by some Speedo^TM clad Kenyon player?    

Call me perverse, but I'd crack up if WashU33Fan photoshopped the Belt^TM onto a Kenyon swimmer if somehow Kenyon managed to Lord it over Wooster in their upcoming tilt.

I'd crack up even more if he photoshopped a Kenyon swimmer wearing the Belt^TM while holding a barbell and standing atop Jupiter.

[BUBeaverFan]

I will try to get my software updated and see what I can do. Fear the Speedo^tm!

[David Collinge]

Let's not count our Speedos^TM before they're stretched, now.  If there's any Photoshopping to be done, it should be of a Belt^TM in the shape of a sporran:

[smedindy]

Realistically, the first stern Belt ^TM test will be Wooster @ Wittenberg on the 23rd.

However, the NCAC doesn't invite everyone to the post-season tournament. It is remotely possible that the Belt ^TM could be in the hands of someone that finishes 9th in the conference. All it takes is for that team to pull an upset.

Knowing the history of Wabash, they'd get the Belt ^TM, then lose to Oberlin, who'd lose to Denison who would upset Hiram and not make the NCAC tourney with a 4-12 record.

[Gregory Sager]

Let's not count our Speedos^TM before they're stretched, now.  If there's any Photoshopping to be done, it should be of a Belt^TM in the shape of a sporran:

Where's Rowdy Roddy Piper when you need him?

Realistically, the first stern Belt ^TM test will be Wooster @ Wittenberg on the 23rd.

However, the NCAC doesn't invite everyone to the post-season tournament. It is remotely possible that the Belt ^TM could be in the hands of someone that finishes 9th in the conference. All it takes is for that team to pull an upset.

Knowing the history of Wabash, they'd get the Belt ^TM, then lose to Oberlin, who'd lose to Denison who would upset Hiram and not make the NCAC tourney with a 4-12 record.

If Oberlin, Kenyon, Earlham, or some other NCAC cellar-dweller gets to hold the Belt^TM throughout the off-season by virtue of finishing at the bottom of the league standings and not making the NCAC tourney, I will laugh until my sides ache!

[ScotsFan]

Let's not count our Speedos^TM before they're stretched, now.  If there's any Photoshopping to be done, it should be of a Belt^TM in the shape of a sporran:

Where's Rowdy Roddy Piper when you need him?

Right here     

 

[Gregory Sager]

Let's not count our Speedos^TM before they're stretched, now.  If there's any Photoshopping to be done, it should be of a Belt^TM in the shape of a sporran:

Where's Rowdy Roddy Piper when you need him?

Right here     

 

This is exactly what this website should be marketing: D3 action figures, complete with a small plastic replica of the Belt^TM as an accessory.

[Just Bill]

As long as I get my cut, I'm all for it.

[David Collinge]

Although Wooster's Belt^TM defense has thus far been pretty tame, it has come against some pretty inferior competition, until tonight.  And tonight, against the all-time heavyweight champ, the Scots stepped it up a notch.  As a result of tonight's 66-56 vanquishing of archrival Wittenberg, Wooster gets to live the dream of parading around Wittenberg's Pam Evans Smith Arena holding the Belt^TM aloft.   This is Wooster's fifth successful defense of the Belt^TM, and next face Hiram on Wednesday at Wooster's Timken Gymnasium, the first of three straight home games; Wooster plays five of their last eight at home, and with a full two-game conference lead, chances are very good that their conference tournament will be at home as well.

[Just Bill]

Glad to hear it. I was afraid if Wooster fattened up on any mopre cupcakes they'd have to punch some extra holes into the Belt^TM.

[magicman]

Glad to hear it. I was afraid if Wooster fattened up on any mopre cupcakes they'd have to punch some extra holes into the Belt^TM.

Now that's funny. Plus k