Quote from: Cardinal773 on June 06, 2025, 06:04:56 PMBeats the hell out of Garnet Chargers in my very humble opinion.  Then again Cardinals isn't exactly original.  Certainly not badass.  Golden Tornados, Red Dragons, Green Knights, Vikings.... small birds.

Any mascot that shows up in five consecutive Stagg Bowls is badass. 

Quote from: CruFrenzy on April 26, 2025, 08:14:44 PMAND Kaden Brown, who may have been the best QB in D3 football last season.

Come on now. 

Quote from: UMHB03 on April 09, 2025, 03:06:39 PMSure, I would definitely prefer D3 opponents, but since we seem to be unable to find anyone willing to step up to the challenge outside of Whitewater, I figure an FCS opponent would be a lot more fun than watching them beat some community college or online school by 80 in a glorified scrimmage, where they're forced to have shortened quarters and a running clock in 2nd half, like they did last year.

Just never ever going to let go of this idea, are you? 

Quote from: PauldingLightUP on April 08, 2025, 02:38:11 PMUW-Platteville schedule is released. Non cons at Aurora, at Dubuque, vs Springfield.

https://letsgopioneers.com/sports/fball/2025-26/schedule

Oh that's a lot of fun.  Great schedule for UWP here.  And great to see Springfield spread their wings, so to speak. 

Quote from: NCC2010 on March 28, 2025, 12:37:53 PMSpring practice has started for NCC and the 1 notable thing to report is that Cortez Jones, the 2nd team all region 5 defensive tackle last season as a sophomore has been moved to the offensive line. 

Time will tell if he sticks on offense in the fall but definitely shows the commitment the coaching staff has to the offensive line being the strength of the team. 

Cortez initially was the backup RT as a freshman but was moved to the defensive line during the 2023 playoffs due to all the injuries to that unit.  From what I have heard, he is now playing guard and they think he has Sam Pryor type potential there.

I had a chance to chat with Cortez at the media session in Houston.  Just an outstanding young man who is going to excel wherever the Cardinals need him. 

Quote from: RFBredux on March 17, 2025, 10:03:47 AM

Quote from: that guy 31 on March 17, 2025, 12:20:37 AMWord going around is that Azusa Pacific is going to drop from D2 to D3, join the SCIAC, and reinstate their football program!

Announcement could come this week, as soon as Monday!

Just saw this on Twitter. Huge news if indeed true. Gets the conference back to 8 schools with Whittier starting football again, and can get rid of the stupid pod/pool play.

I would guess that the divisions go away when Whittier is back on the schedule regardless of what APU does.  APU bringing an 8th FB team into the SCIAC would be great though. 

I really like the Austin Holter hire for Wooster.  He spent a lot of years coaching with and learning from Jack Hatem at Denison who I think is a really good coach.  If he can get the Scots to play even a smidgen of defense, they can be a good team. 

Quote from: UMHB03 on March 14, 2025, 03:11:56 PM

Quote from: The Third Division on March 14, 2025, 01:45:37 PMAny bets how many scam division 4 cheeseburger universities UMHB plays this fall?

In fairness, at least those "cheeseburger universities" aren't afraid to strap on their pads and face us, unlike most of D3 outside of Whitewater. UMHB faces all comers, there just aren't many comers who have the guts to take on the challenge.

This remains an extremely narrow view on this topic.  Plenty of teams are willing to play good teams (we see it all through the month of September) and nearly all can get an equivalent competition experience for a fraction of the cost as a game in Belton.  I'm sympathetic to the problem UMHB has here, but calling everyone a chicken isn't the way. 

Quote from: ADL70 on February 21, 2025, 11:14:35 PMCWRU schedule updated. At Rowan 9/6 and at Wabash 9/13

https://athletics.case.edu/sports/football/schedule

Only 4 home games? And two are week 10 &11.

That's a great non-con pair.  I think Rowan is on the upswing and that's a really nice interregional game. 

I wrote about long distance scheduling in a piece that featured Central's trip to Thousand Oaks, CA last year!  I wouldn't have said this is an obvious game to make, but after talking to Coach McMartin last fall, this game is exactly the kind of contest he's talking about in the piece. 

This is an exciting game, IMO.  Definitely a non-con highlight for 2025. 

Quote from: Little Giant 89 on January 23, 2025, 02:26:24 PMThe Little Giant football season begins on September 6.  The schedule features non conference games at St. Norbert on the 6th and at home against Case Western the following weekend.  The first conference game against John Carroll takes place at JCU on October 4.

All the deets can be found here:  https://sports.wabash.edu/sports/football/schedule/2025

Are you ready for some football?

This is a really good schedule.  Love the non-cons and you can really sense the difference in weight when you take Hiram out and put John Carroll in. 

You named some.  There are more.  Basically all of the teams that you won't let yourself believe can possibly be any good now because they weren't 20 years ago. 

Quote from: D3fanboy on January 08, 2025, 02:38:49 PMD3FB would be a hell of a lot better in '24/25 if there was a 00's Wesley around, a mid 10's St Thomas, even a Rowan from back in the day or if there were two teams at the top a la the Mount & UWW run. NCC has had a great 5 year stretch, no doubt.  But having the JHU's, Susquhanna's etc of the world ranked in the top 5...come on. Many factors in place, but D3FB is weaker than ever.

Those teams are around, they just aren't named Wesley or St. Thomas.  You're stuck in an era that is gone. 

Love to see this and I'm glad you were able to go as a nonpartisan.  Go to NCAA Championships!  They're great and fun!  Attendance at the Stagg Bowl is obviously not exactly where we would like to see it, so testimonials like this helps. 

Wild ticket fees do not help.  Hopefully we can avoid that in the future- this might be a function of the stadium?  That's an unnecessary hindrance for sure.  Should also have walk up options for an event like this that definitely won't sell out the stadium.  Also, this explains why I wasn't able to find a souvenir ticket!  I usually like to grab one for myself before I leave the stadium.

I'm not sure if the open practice is open to the public or just open to the media.  My sense is the latter as I've never seen a crowd at one of these and teams would be keen to make sure they aren't open to opponents.  It's an opportunity for media to get some photos and shoot some b-roll of players running around in helmets.  The teams are smart enough to not show anything too exotic at these open practices. 

Quote from: D3fanboy on January 07, 2025, 06:16:17 PMDon't think Mount is down?  Nearly every "expert" picked Mount to disappoint and picked teams such as Salisbury or CMU to beat them lol

Three of seven panelists picked Salisbury.  Nobody picked Mount Union to lose to CMU or JCU or JHU.  I'm sorry that this doesn't fit the narrative you're desperately trying to paint. 

I'll reiterate that on the surface, this current 5-year stretch isn't a heck of a lot different for Mount Union than let's say 2009-2013/14.  It sounds different in here mostly because you're comfortable criticizing and nitpicking the current HC in a way that you wouldn't dare nitpick the HC back then.