Shenandoah, TX 2018-19 NCAA d3fb championships

[edward de vere]

What was attendance?

Box Score has it at 6816, very nice turnout.

Projected attendance this year?

[Toby Taff]

What was attendance?

Box Score has it at 6816, very nice turnout.

Projected attendance this year?

Significantly lower, but flying in is easy and the drive up to the stadium from the airport is fairly short.

[nccfac]

Toby,
What is the best airport to fly into? Thank you for your response in advance.
Might not make it. Depends on this weekend. These are going to be two tough close games. The final should be epic in any case.
Thanks again.

[Pat Coleman]

Toby,
What is the best airport to fly into? Thank you for your response in advance.
Might not make it. Depends on this weekend. These are going to be two tough close games. The final should be epic in any case.
Thanks again.

Definitely fly into IAH. Right side of town, lots of non-stops.

[nccfac]

Thanks Pat!

[Toby Taff]

Toby,
What is the best airport to fly into? Thank you for your response in advance.
Might not make it. Depends on this weekend. These are going to be two tough close games. The final should be epic in any case.
Thanks again.

What Pat said. Intercontinental is easy to get to and from off of I45. Shenandoah is on I45. Straight shot. We stayed at the Days Inn in Shenandoah for something like 60 bucks and everything is accessible.

[Teamski]

Weather should be nice for the game....61 and partly cloudy.  Canton?  Not so much.  40...... Expect future Stagg Bowls to be ice bowls with even colder temps.

-Ski

[AO]

Weather should be nice for the game....61 and partly cloudy.  Canton?  Not so much.  40...... Expect future Stagg Bowls to be ice bowls with even colder temps.

-Ski

40 sounds quite nice to me

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Weather should be nice for the game....61 and partly cloudy.  Canton?  Not so much.  40...... Expect future Stagg Bowls to be ice bowls with even colder temps.

-Ski

40 in December is balmy. We've got several inches of snow here in Indiana today.

[Ralph Turner]

Looking back at the bracket, the only thing standing in front of North Central and the Stagg Bowl was Mount Union.

IMHO. that "eastern" bracket was much weaker than we even imagined.

The "western" bracket had Wheaton, SJU, UMHB and UWW.

I cannot make a case for Del Valley because of how close Bridgewater played them.

[wally_wabash]

Looking back at the bracket, the only thing standing in front of North Central and the Stagg Bowl was Mount Union.

IMHO. that "eastern" bracket was much weaker than we even imagined.

The "western" bracket had Wheaton, SJU, UMHB and UWW.

I cannot make a case for Del Valley because of how close Bridgewater played them.

This take is never really very good, but it's particularly not good in a year when an "eastern" team beat a WIAC champion who recently beat one of the teams playing for the national championship.  The annual pile-on on the East region should probably just get skipped this year. 

[Ralph Turner]

Looking back at the bracket, the only thing standing in front of North Central and the Stagg Bowl was Mount Union.

IMHO. that "eastern" bracket was much weaker than we even imagined.

The "western" bracket had Wheaton, SJU, UMHB and UWW.

I cannot make a case for Del Valley because of how close Bridgewater played them.

This take is never really very good, but it's particularly not good in a year when an "eastern" team beat a WIAC champion who recently beat one of the teams playing for the national championship.  The annual pile-on on the East region should probably just get skipped this year.

Thanks for the comment. Pat and Keith mentioned this in the podcast as well.
However, IMHO, the best 6 teams in the country were definitely separated from the rest of the field. I will wait for the Stagg to give a better understanding.

For now it looks like the UWW SJU semifinal was the championship game in the playoffs.  I hope that we have temps in the lower 50's, a dry field and less than 10 MPH winds.

[Pat Coleman]

For now it looks like the UWW SJU semifinal was the championship game in the playoffs.  I hope that we have temps in the lower 50's, a dry field and less than 10 MPH winds.

Unless it's the North Central-Mount Union second-round game ...

[crufootball]

For now it looks like the UWW SJU semifinal was the championship game in the playoffs.  I hope that we have temps in the lower 50's, a dry field and less than 10 MPH winds.

Unless it's the North Central-Mount Union second-round game ...

Lets hope its the UWW-North Central game haha

I really do hope that is the case as it would show that the field is being widen in D3. If the championship game really was the North Central-Mount Union 2nd round game that kind of retroactively sucks the life out of the final few rounds. 

[retagent]

Arguably, in hind sight, the SJU/UMHB tilt was the "Stagg Bowl" last year. And that was a Quarter-final.