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DagarmanSpartan

Gang,

BusinessInsider.com just made a list of the Top 20 "intense" colleges.  Colleges so designated earned their ranking as a result of both "working" hard, and "playing" hard.  Studying AND partying.

Two UAA schools made the list: Washington U-St. Louis (at #20), and CWRU (at #13).

Read on.

http://www.businessinsider.com/colleges-where-students-work-and-party-2014-10?op=1

ADL70

#3451
Disappointing loss for the Spartans.

I'm afraid I have to say I don't see the upside in continuing the QB situation (8 INT and 3 Fumbles overall). 

Career day for Erb though.  10/122/1td

Dishong was out of the game early in the third quarter.

Edit:  I stand corrected.  According to the box score play-by-play, after sitting out a couple of series early in the third quarter Dishong did return.  By that time I had lost the video feed.
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jaybird44

Explains why WashU had much more time to throw the football in the 2nd half.

If only Wash-U could play all of its games at home this season...3-1 and outscoring opponents by an average of around 12 points/game, as opposed to being 0-4 on the road and being outscored by 19.75 points/game.

ADL70

Congrats to Chicago winning today and claiming the mini-conference title.

Congrats too to CMU beating WashU to create a three-way tie for second.
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thptrek

As a UChicago fan we had a great trip to Cleveland.  Case Western has a great facility and the people were really nice in helping to clear the stands of ice and snow.  The game was very tight and the Spartans played really well.  Turnovers made the difference.  Thanks again to all the Case Western folks for their hospitality.
**Go Maroons - 2014 UAA Conference Champs**

ADL70

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ExTartanPlayer

Gotta say that I'm a little wishy-washy on the idea of kids "committing" to D3 schools.

Optimist's viewpoint: it's exciting for the kids going to play D3 ball to have some ceremony at their school to announce their commitment and/or sign a letter right next to the kids going to play D1.

Pessimist's viewpoint: that's super tacky, makes it feel like non-scholarship kids are drawing attention to themselves because they feel a need to make it seem like a bigger deal than they are, and feeding into that is not the best idea because that's how you end up with kids like this:

http://www.nathandorton.com/

I don't know.  I'm sure that at 17 I would have desperately loved to have some little ceremony at the school where me and the handful of kids going off to play D2 and D3 ball got to sit in front of classmates and "sign a letter" or something, but in retrospect I think it would have been pretty tacky.
I was small but made up for it by being slow...

http://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/fball/2011-12/releases/20120629a4jaxa

ADL70

Looks like you missed this thread.

http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=8249.0

I don't think a consensus was reached whether it was a good thing or not.

Faux signings are kinda tacky, but I think some kind of recognition is appropriate.


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ExTartanPlayer

Hah.  No, I didn't see that, I usually stay in the conference discussion threads so that passed me by.

I guess my post is a short summary of that entire thread's discussion. 

It's a cool celebration...no, it's tacky, we don't need more everyone-gets-a-tropy-stuff...no, the kids are great and should be commended...etc.

I was small but made up for it by being slow...

http://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/fball/2011-12/releases/20120629a4jaxa

Bombers798891

Quote from: ExTartanPlayer on February 05, 2015, 11:51:35 AM
Hah.  No, I didn't see that, I usually stay in the conference discussion threads so that passed me by.

I guess my post is a short summary of that entire thread's discussion. 

It's a cool celebration...no, it's tacky, we don't need more everyone-gets-a-tropy-stuff...no, the kids are great and should be commended...etc.

In my line of work, I interview a lot of athletic directors, and Terry Cooper, whose teams won 91 state titles during his tenure at Mountain Brook High School in Alabama, once said something that has stuck with me.

"We want to make sure that each team feels its accomplishments reflect the success of our whole program. Any student-athlete believes his or her sport is the most important. If you emphasize certain programs over others, you aren't supporting all of your athletes"

I see this as an extension of that. Of course a high school athletic department should celebrate a kid going on to play D-III tennis as much as they do D-I football. Both students accomplished enough, academically and athletically, to continue playing sports at the next level. Why wouldn't a high school athletic department be equally as proud of those student-athletes? Why would you want an accomplishment like that to be ignored?

I actually think it's funny people are saying this is a symptom of "everyone gets a trophy" when it's celebrating something that maybe 10% of high school athletes will accomplish.

sigma one

#3460
The NCAA website has a page that shows the percentages of student-athletes participating in a sport in high school going on to participate in that sport at an NCAA institution.  For football, it is 6.5%.  For men's basketball, 3.3%  This includes DI, DII, and DIII.

A website called ScholarshipStats.com shows the following percentages:

                    DI        DII       DIII       NAIA        NJACC       Other       Total

Football         2.4       1.6       2.2        0.8           0.5            0.5          8.0%

Men's BB       1.0       0.9       1.4        0.8           1.1            0.7          5.9%

Two points:  why not celebrate/officially acknowledge the fact that a football player, or any athlete regardless of his/her sport, is going on to play in DIII?    Parents:  look at the odds when you think your sons and daughters are going to land a college athletic scholarship.         

ADL70

Per their tweets two more commits for CWRU:

Mitchell Peer  6'3 180 QB/PK   L'Anse Creuse North High School  Macomb MI

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1271689/mitchell-peer


Steve Bachie  6'3 260 OT/C  Berea-Midpark   2nd Team DI Northeast Lakes District  Becoming a Spartan despite offers from St Francis PA FCS, Dayton FCS-NS, West Va Wesleyan DII, as well as Carnegie Mellon, which was where he wanted to go per an interview last September. 

http://highschoolsports.cleveland.com/news/article/5199584458464780047/berea-midpark-football-player-steve-bachie-answers-8-questions-varsity-time

http://www.scoutingohio.com/index.php?option=com_community&view=profile&Itemid=166&userid=7361

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ADL70

Another lineman announced for CWRU:

Chaz Brown  6'4 285-290  Kennett Mo  2nd team all-district

http://www.dddnews.com/story/2176744.html

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/2768457/chaz-brown

The last play of the highlights shows him placekicking

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ADL70

#3463
More tweeted Spartan commits:

Jack Blanton Longmeadow MA 6'3 245 All Western Mass DL

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1898687/highlights


Joe Spitalli Roselle IL Lake Park  6-2 175 OLB/WR

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1723579/joe-spitalli


Hunter Tulloch  Coconut Creek FL North Broward Prep  6-2 180  WR/K 

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/3036064/hunter-tulloch


Frank Villante  Lake Minneola FL  6-2 270 G  http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/195707/frank-villante

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1935706/frankie-villante




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DagarmanSpartan

Sounds like we're really getting some "hawgs" on both sides of the line.

Because I've been a bit disengaged, how many starters do we have returning on each side?