118th Monon Bell Classic

[SUADC]

I believe within any rivalry, anything can happen. However, DePauw will struggle against a good Wabash team, yet alone a great Wabash team this year. The way Wabash is playing now, I believe they'll beat DePauw by 20 points at least, pulling away in the second half after DePauw exerts its energy from the pregame speech and rivalry excitement. Wabash has to worry about its game against Wittenberg on the 5th. That game will be interesting. If Wabash losses to Wittenberg, there is no chance that DePauw will beat Wabash.

[Breckenridgebear]

Bear,

DPU has had a lot of success and tradition in many of its sports and trips to the NCAAs in several of them in recent years. It's not making athletics a priority. From an outsider, it seems there was undue meddling in the football program - meddling that I don't think happened in the other sports.

Just last year the DPU softball team was in the NCAA finals. Their field hockey team is dominating the NCAC this year. DPU is adding lacrosse (something I think Wabash should add). The basketball squads are contenders to make the NCAA field every year.

Yet the one sport that makes DPU a known entity (thanks to this very special game) has been unsettled ever since Nick left the sidelines.

And whatever happened to the DPU football psyche during the 47-0 game has seemingly carried over. I know of a great sports psychologist you Dannies could use to try and get whatever mojo you had back, but I think he'll be booked until late November!

Dasmedindy, you are correct that Depauw does well on the field in many sports, but this does not equal support from the University. Many of Depauw Athletic events are rarely attended by the student body. There are numerous times during the season that the stands have more family watching than students.

You are right about the University meddling in the football program, from what I have heard. Taking it for face value, when the head football coach and baseball coach, who was on pace to coach into his golden years at Depauw, leaves a few weeks before the season, there was obviously a problem between the program and University. 

Depauw has to do more than merely build a new athletic facility every 5 years and sponsor buses for Monon. It needs to support the athletes.

I am sure a Caveboy knows many psychologists. Isn't part of your tuition set aside for the many years of therapy you dawallys need after graduation from that technical School of Animal Husbandry?

By the way, nice Daoccupydepauw shirts. http://twitter.com/#!/OccupyDePauw/status/128481829878644736/photo/1

Lots of pink in that whitout. Lots of pink.

Also, correct me if i am wrong, isn't white the international sign of surrender?

[wallyworld12]

I'm sure that teams traveling to Happy Valley to take on Penn State consider their whiteouts a sign of surrender....it would be much more intimidating if they were wearing navy....

[Breckenridgebear]

I'm sure that teams traveling to Happy Valley to take on Penn State consider their whiteouts a sign of surrender....it would be much more intimidating if they were wearing navy....

White and pink are not intimidating.

[wally_wabash]

I'm sure that teams traveling to Happy Valley to take on Penn State consider their whiteouts a sign of surrender....it would be much more intimidating if they were wearing navy....

White and pink are not intimidating.

What is is knowing that this is same group of players that pasted your 9-0 team by 47 points...and this year's DePauw Tigers are not that 9-0 team.  That should cause some concern. 

[BashDad]

CJ Gumm could be wearing an electric pink tu-tu with cranberry accents and he'd still be way more intimidating than anyone in black and gold.

[BashDad]

Also, with regards to syran-wrap houses and the tossing of stones--

If y'all are still choosing to slap on those ridiculous high-school paw prints upon your helmets and are still playing on that dank and unimpressive, boring little field, maybe stay away from inviting aesthetic comparisons. You're getting lapped in that dep't.

[smedindy]

Hey, it's good enough for Clemson...

...um...

...yeah I see your point! 

[Breckenridgebear]

Also, with regards to syran-wrap houses and the tossing of stones--

If y'all are still choosing to slap on those ridiculous high-school paw prints upon your helmets and are still playing on that dank and unimpressive, boring little field, maybe stay away from inviting aesthetic comparisons. You're getting lapped in that dep't.

Pink, White, and a W.

You got us on that one Caveboy.

[BashDad]

Good one.

The level of exertion required to instill and maintain pride in a program so thoroughly generic and mediocre is, maybe, the only quality of the present team left to respect. You are the mule in the carriage house, pretending yourself a stallion.

[Breckenridgebear]

Good one.

The level of exertion required to instill and maintain pride in a program so thoroughly generic and mediocre is, maybe, the only quality of the present team left to respect. You are the mule in the carriage house, pretending yourself a stallion.

Wait, are you talking about your pride in the generic pink, white, and lame W? Lots of creativity on that one. What, did it take 10 minutes to get a color scheme and a logo? Who came first dabashdad, the candy striper or dabash caveboy? 

As for mules, I am going to leave the expertise on equine to the one who obtained the degree in animal husbandry from Dabash. I am sure you had a lot of experience with "stallions" during your four years of college bliss.   

[BashDad]

You guys are single handedly keeping EASTBAY in business.

Boom.

And you're a fool to push this argument further. Depauw is a rivalry game away from being utterly inconsequential. Thanks for making the DVDs and all, but man-- can y'all bring ANYTHING else to the table? You bring nothing. Zero. Wabash allows your program to be interesting for three hours every year by virtue of all the things you guys point to and laugh at. You're a reflecting pool that has somehow managed to regard itself for the monument built above it. And if that's not enough--that soullessness that you smugly confuse with superiority--you're currently in a ten-year stretch of willfully refusing to keep pace with all the superficial requirements of maintaining a competitive football program. Every check mark goes to Wabash and the recruiting classes are the ones doing the ticking. Get used to what's happening, man, because my guess is it's only gonna get worse.

You see a paw-print and see a cute little tradition. Tigers, get it?  I see a paw-print and I'm disgusted by the ordinary.

[smedindy]

Joe Paterno thinks Wabash's helmets are too flashy, anyway. Lord knows what he'd think of the kitty-kat print.

[D3_DPUFan]

Yet the one sport that makes DPU a known entity (thanks to this very special game) has been unsettled ever since Nick left the sidelines.

Unsettled...really?

[BashDad]

I think it started a couple years before that, really.