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#16
Quote from: Crawford on December 09, 2023, 06:20:16 PM
Robert, the live score stopped posting in the 3rd quarter.  Appreciate your posting !  Please keep me informed.

This one is active:
https://www.ncaa.com/game/6226647/play-by-play

Less robust than the Sidearm feed, but at least it's current. 
#17
Quote from: rmc1982 on December 05, 2023, 07:09:16 AM
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Quote from: Chess4Me on December 04, 2023, 03:53:38 PM
My kids and I are making the trip to the Stagg Bowl despite the fact that our team is not going to be there. In trying to get tickets, the NCAA website only has info from previous years. Can anyone direct me to the correct location to obtain tickets?

Ticketmaster link on this site:  https://www.salemciviccenter.com/Events/ArtMID/749/ArticleID/1141/2023-NCAA-DIII-Stagg-Bowl-Football-Championship

It's GA, get there early to pick out good seats ($15.00 + $5.90/ticket plus a $2.95 service charge per Ticketmaster order).  Tickets at the gate are $17.50.

For some reason this shocks me, but doesn't surprise me. My brain gets it but my heart doesn't understand that you can get college championship tickets for $15.  These guys deserve to play in front of thousands of fans when they get to this point, I won't be there, but I will be watching on ESPN.
when we were at the basketball Final Four in Fort Wayne two years ago when we won it my friends and I noticed how few fans there were that were attending and we even thought it would be good to offer kids 18 and under free tickets to come watch - at least they'd get the revenue for the concessions etc. it really is a shame they they aren't better attended.

That would have been a different scene had Wabash advanced to the final, but Elmhurst didn't get the memo!  :) 

That was my first basketball final four and it was awesome, even though my alma mater got knocked out and really all three games were lopsided.  Still- championships are cool and people should go watch championships when they can.  Whether you get to witness a team like RMC dominate the best in the division or you get something like CNU's coast to coast game winning buzzer beater, you're going to see something special. 
#18
Quote from: Chess4Me on December 04, 2023, 03:53:38 PM
My kids and I are making the trip to the Stagg Bowl despite the fact that our team is not going to be there. In trying to get tickets, the NCAA website only has info from previous years. Can anyone direct me to the correct location to obtain tickets?

You love to see it!  I hope to see a lot of people, affiliated with the participants or not, at the game!
#19
Quote from: XREDDRAGON77 on November 30, 2023, 07:30:21 PM
Dragons are on the road. They chose to bus it rather than fly. They will be stopping by Univ of Michigan for a pregame practice. Hopefully that Marcus Aurelius inspired,   "Voluntary Hardship" , will boost their stoicism and help them across the finish line!

I think it's a cool choice.  All this and more in about 15 great minutes with Coach Fitzpatrick in today's awesome midweek ATN episode! 

I'm really looking forward to this game between two very fun teams to watch. 
#20
Quote from: bleedpurple on November 30, 2023, 12:20:11 PM
I saw a stat on Twitter that North Central has scored a touchdown on 68 of 75 first half possessions. 

Is that good?

Unfortunately for everybody else, that's room for improvement.   :o
#21
Definitely fire up this week's bonus ATN pod (tomorrow I think) for more Pedro Arruza. 
#22
Interesting nugget that I just found from Coach Dartt's bio:

QuoteIn five years as offensive coordinator, his unit has led the nation in nine different statistical categories including leading the nation in scoring three times.

I'm sure that was an accident though.   Hey, even a broken clock is right three times in five years or something like that. 
#23
Yeah, I also thought Walker came back in the game.  I remember being surprised by that because he left the field in a way that is usually not indicative of a guy who is coming back in.  Maybe I was wrong?  New Tradition might have a better memory on this. 
#24
Quote from: cardinal773 on November 28, 2023, 01:40:54 PM
Hey man.  Let's just beat UWL first.  It's kind of making me nervous how everyone is saying they're going to handle the Eagles.  I hope that's the case, but that QB is really good.

So what's the deal with UWL?  Are they super dependent on the QB? He's duel threat, but do they have a solid run game?  I see that they tend to give up a lot of points -- NC is probably keeping them up at night -- what's the deal with their D?  Are they giving up long drives or are they susceptible to big plays?  Or are they just giving up points in garbage time?  Looking at the AU game they went down early, but didn't really clamp down.

Whoa!  That's a different game entirely. 

Quote from: New Tradition on November 28, 2023, 12:46:04 PM
Quote from: NCC2010 on November 28, 2023, 11:55:13 AM
Does anyone know for certain who will host if both NCC and UWW advance? I knew we would be going to LaCrosse this week, and would travel to Wartburg next week, but i have heard differing opinions on who would host if both NCC and UWW advance.
As far as I know, there is no way to know for certain. Ostensibly, we're both 2 seeds. It depends on which numbers the committee holds supreme that week. We'll find out late Saturday/early Sunday if that happens.

Yeah, it's really hard to say where a NCC/UWW game would take place.  I usually love a heaping helping of irony, but in this case turning the 2010 thing on its head wouldn't be cool.  Two wrongs and whatnot. 
#25
Quote from: cardinal773 on November 27, 2023, 05:59:28 PM
Quote from: wally_wabash on November 27, 2023, 04:44:07 PM
Have we learned absolutely nothing about football playoff determinism in the last 72 hours?

I'm not too sure that's where SpartanHouse4 was coming from.  Consider where your mind was BEFORE this bracket came out.  Assuming you knew who was in and who was out to start with -- assuming you weren't counting on St. John's -- what were YOUR most likely final fours?  Be honest, please! Did you have JHU and Alma in the mix?  Was Courtland sprinkled in there with UMU, UWW, and NCC?  You, SpartanHouse4, me... we are all aware that Almas are lurking around throughout rounds 1 and 2 and even the Q-finals.  Are they legit title contenders?  Well, yeah!  If you're playing, you're in contention.  Were they listed in the top 4, 5, or 6 on your last Top 25 ballot?  I doubt it.

Fair question.  The top four in my final regular season top 25 were NCC, UMU, UWL, UWW.  I have Wartburg at 5.  Now, when we did our mock bracket we did manage to build four regions around NCC, UMU, Wartburg, and UWL, however we did that with a full acknowledgement that doing that with viable #1 seeds around which you could build a full on easterly quadrant was maybe not going to be the end result.  Indeed, it wasn't.  There were so many teams qualified east of Cleveland that it was always going to be difficult to do this without building a region around either Hopkins or Randolph-Macon. 

So with that in mind, I think projecting a final four was going to be NCC, UMU, whichever of UWL/UWW/Wartburg didn't get lumped in with NCC, and whoever emerges from the likely Hopkins/Macon region.  In our Selection Sunday podcast, we acknowledged Mount Union as a clear favorite in that region but also talked about Alma and Cortland having offenses good enough to pose a challenge if they could manage to not get wiped out in the first 20 minutes.  Alma survived the first 20, then found their offense in the last 15.   

The only team out there that I think is genuinely untouchable by anybody on the right side is North Central.  Everybody else is favored in these hypothetical games yes, but nobody is so far ahead of the teams remaining on the right side that winning is a forgone conclusion.  We should have all learned this by now thanks to Aurora and Endicott and now Alma.  There are more than four really good teams!
#26
Quote from: SpartanHouse4 on November 27, 2023, 11:45:48 AM
NCC is on the road this week??

What a joke!


And equal joke is that the actual final four is being played this week on the left side of the bracket  with UWL vs NCC and UWW vs Wartburg. The right side doesn't have one team that can compete with those 4.

I mean, did you even watch the 12:00 EST games?  Have we learned absolutely nothing about football playoff determinism in the last 72 hours?
#27
Quote from: D3fanboy on November 27, 2023, 01:03:32 PM
Quote from: FIGHTINGSCOT on November 27, 2023, 12:57:36 PM
"a team like that" had a wonderful trip to Alliance.  Thank you for your hospitality.

congrats on the W, literally meant no disrespect. I'll be rooting for Alma to make a Stagg Bowl run.  It was a shot at the powers that be at Mount that allowed such a loss to even be a possibility.

Everybody loves a double backhanded compliment. 

I'm not sure the powers that be at Mount Union have much control over the great jobs being done at other programs.  Mount Union set a goal for literally everyone in the division to chase.  Teams are reaching that endpoint.  It's less that Mount Union is not as good now and more that other teams are also excellent.  I believe Mount Union will continue to contend for national championships, but the playing field is different now.  Stagg Bowls are not only Mount Union's to lose as they may have been in the glory days.  There are a lot of great teams in the division now- largely thanks to the bar Mount Union set. 
#28
Quote from: VoodooDoc on November 14, 2023, 05:38:05 PM
I agree with Wabashcpa.  I have had an opportunity to watch all 4.  Liam didn't have the hard hat defense that the others had.  Jake had one or both of the Hammers on the d-line all four years. Jake's sophomore year he had both, and they combined for 20 quarterbacks that year.  In the playoffs in 2002, Blair Hammer caused a strip sack of the Witt QB and recovered the fumble. Jake then threw a TD on the next play. After the kickoff, Blair Hammer was in the Witt QB's face again and took the ball away, and this ran it in for a TD. 14 points in less than 30 seconds. Jake could make the big plays because he had knew he had great receivers, a fine running back in Chris Morris, and had a defense he could rely on. 

Just think of what Liam would have done with a great defense to close out those close games.  The game at Dennison this year come to mind.

One of the gnarliest sequences of individual defense imaginable.  Blair Hammer also sacked and forced another fumble on Witt's last gasp drive a few minutes later.  Maybe the best individual 5:30 of defense you'll ever see. 
#29
Quote from: Stertorous Thunder on October 30, 2023, 03:47:27 PM
Quote from: mwunder on October 30, 2023, 09:36:12 AM
The average margin of victory over the weekend was 46 points, with only one game being competitive.

Wheaton 75 - Millikin 0
Wash U 66 - Elmhurst 0
NCC 56 - North Park 0
Augie 44 - IWU 14
Carthage 30 - Carroll 27

If the Wheaton, Wash U, and North Central scores were in high school games, I would likely suspect the winning coaches of poor sportsmanship (unless maybe the third- and fourth-stringers from the winning team were doing most of the second half damage).  But when there are so few postseason spots available for at-large teams, I understand why a team might keep its foot on the gas even when the point margin exceeds 30 or 40.  Does anyone have an insider perspective on how D3 teams view blowouts like this?  I'm sure that individual games have their own unique stories, but in general do coaches take offense to getting blown out by 50+ points?  Or do they understand the situation and accept that a team in contention for an at-large bid has an incentive to run up the score and earn style points for the end-of-season decisions that must be made by the selection committee?

I just don't think there's a sportsmanship issue here as much as so many want to create one.  For years and years and years Mount Union has famously gone out of their way to NOT score in lopsided games.  Running out of bounds on breakaways, kicking FGs on first down, etc.  You could have a completely separate conversation about how teams could view that practice. 

Using North Central as an example, if you've talked to just about anybody in the program- coaches or players- one can't possibly believe intentional embarrassment of the opponent is in their ethos.  They compete their tails off and expect to be great, but they aren't rubbing it in anybody's face out there.  Unless it's all an act and my experiences with NCC have been disingenuous, but again- I don't think that's their thing.  At the end of the day, there's no real good way to handle the last 15 or so minutes of a game that is way out of hand.  Most do what they think is best for their team and what is respectful of the competition. 
#30
The SCIAC championship game is played at the site of the team with the best record (h2h result in case there's a tie). 

Quote from: Jack Parkman on October 30, 2023, 05:11:34 PM
Quote from: MonroviaCat on October 30, 2023, 09:06:37 AM
So correct me if I'm wrong but SCIAC championship game will be the winner of Redlands/Pomona vs Chapman (unless they lose to LaVerne).

Correct? Any idea how they decide where the game is played?

That is correct, but I have no idea where it will be played. I am guessing if Redlands wins this weekend they will host Chapman, but if Pomona wins, they will travel to Chapman.

This is correct.