False starts are common at this time of the season! That'll get cleaned up. 

Quote from: lmitzel on Yesterday at 10:50:19 AMHold up, you can start a network to host all of your conference's live streams and not force it behind a paywall?

10/10 no notes, CCIW.

https://cciw.org/news/2025/8/26/general-cciw-partners-with-hudl-to-launch-cciw-network.aspx

It's true.  I love this for the CCIW whose schools generally have really good broadcasts. 

Of course, I love the D3Football.com scoreboard for a one-stop shop that aggregates stream and stats links, but when I'm putting games up on the big screen, conference networks like this are by far the best way to access that content away from your laptop.  I use a Roku stick with "channels" for all of the conferences that have this kind of setup- WIAC, PAC, E8, NCAC, MAC, and on and on.  This kind of arrangement is the gold standard, IMO. 

Quote from: Captainred81 on August 21, 2025, 01:18:33 PMDefinitely the points you are making 'hold water', but my opinion is that UW schools have a longer rep of reloading rather than re building.  Many of the schools in the top 10 currently have had great success in the recent and deserve consideration, however, they will likely begin to fade as their coaches have moved on their QB's have graduated etc... The UW schools, seem to show out year after year, and I think with the limited information that we have, if I were a voter, I would be likely to put UW schools in the top 10.

I think the WIAC is hard to read ahead of this season.  Lots of good teams but not a lot of agreement on which one is best.  A lot of voters might have had a WIAC team (or two) in the top 10, but not much consensus on who those 1-2 are. 

Quote from: GusD on August 19, 2025, 02:19:33 PMSpeaking of wide receiver, I was a little surprised that North Central's Thomas Skokna wasn't selected as a pre-season AA.

* Top receiver on the undefeated 2024 National Championship team.
* 16.9 yards per catch and 13 touchdowns.
* First Team All-CCIW.
* Returning starter on the pre-season. #1 team in the country.

Skokna is super good and I think could be A-A this year if his volume goes up.  Pat mentioned that returning WRs were particularly deep for the preseason.  If I had a short list of guys not on preseason A-A that I think have a better-than-most chance at making the team at the end of the year, Skokna is on that list. 

I think hiring in May/June/July is also a totally different thing than hiring in January/February.  Lots of openings and movement just after the season finishes and before spring ball whereas hiring in the summer is going to have a smaller candidate pool and far less appetite to move right before camp starts.  I would have been surprised if Chapman didn't have an internal interim HC this fall. 

5 is higher than where I ranked the Johnnies on my ballot but in fairness, if voters shoved everybody who lost in the 1st/2nd round of the tournament and graduated a lot of good players into the 12-14 range, we would have 15 teams ranked 12-14 and nobody ranked 5-9. 

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.