Happy Thanksgiving on behalf of the BC Royals of '57 and '58, winners of the Gopher-Badger Conference 1958,  a forerunner of the Gopher-Badger game this Saturday.☺

Looks like Matt Jung will be back in MN this Saturday playing for the Wisconsin Badgers when they play the Gophers, 10 miles from Bethel, where he helped take BU to the DIII quarterfinals last year. With a noon start for BU on Saturday, he won't be on the sidelines with a 2:30 start against the Gophers.

Then there are the Geoducks of Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA with their mascot, "Speedy the Geoduck".    "Speedy is the symbol of the essence of Evergreen: accessible to all who are willing to dig deep."  Their fight song:  "Go, Geoducks go, through the mud and the sand, let's go. Siphon high, squirt it out, swivel all about, let it all hang out." Go, Geoducks go, stretch your necks when the tide is low, siphon high, Squirt it out, swivel all about, let it all hang out." (words and music by Malcolm Stilson, 1971)

I wait all year for BU's first game of the season..  Now, I have to wait 12 days for BU's first game of their anticipated run in the playoffs like last year... Doesn't get any easier waiting as you get older...But, it doesn't get any better than this.

Really appreciate all of the analysis by the BU posters....and others on the MIAC site. Thanks

"a game where NCC gets a game winning touchdown in the last second just for it to be called back by a holding penalty."

That was BU in the quarterfinal last year against Susquehanna, not NCC.

BU needs to find a way to put-it away in the 4th q. At M-H-B two years ago, start of the 4th, Up 28-17. M-H-B scored 24 unanswered points in the 4th to  win 41-28. Still, what a great game yesterday at Sus. Can BU reload next fall since they will be losing so many Grad. students and Senior citizens?

Change that..
Planning on a road trip...

Flying to MN next Friday. Hoping for a road trip to Evanston from Arden Hills next Saturday morning...6 hr trip in good weather. Go Royals.

Will we have to buy a "pass" to watch the SJU-BU game next Saturday.

D.O.C....Sorry to hear about your MACULAR DEGERATION. My wife's 83rd birthday today and we just came home from an appointment with an ophthalmologist. Same diagnosis...macular degeneration. I called her in to my office to read your post and then we continued to read the posts about the temps in MN., furnaces., etc. and laughed through every one. My wife is from ND.  Thanks for the great posts and laughter.
    It is 52 here in Puget Sound with a low tonight of 46 and we have had the furnace on for several weeks. We are missing our annual Fall trip to MN to see a couple of BU games and visit our two daughters and families and have opted for a Christmas trip. May have to fly back for the BU - St. John's game on November 16th.

I couldn't agree more. Perhaps not the laughing stock but at least made the conference as a whole weaker than it has been in years past. Who all was involved in making the decision?

Quote from: Ice Bear on October 24, 2022, 10:51:33 AM
Ice still admittedly has a lot to learn about MIAC football and this will be true for many years to come. Ice says, after saying that, he believes firmly after watching Bethel play a bunch this season that this team, while certainly loaded with talent on both sides of ball, is a very, very different team with and without Rockin Roste. Ice says some teams just are that way. They may have a plethora of playmakers and talent, but it's one player, sometimes two (maybe), that propel the team to meet it's true potential. Roste is one.

If you watched the UWP/Bethel game the Royals were simply a different offensive team (and believe Ice he means this with no disrespect to Bolt, but Roste's numbers rarely if ever look like 8-27 for 76 Yards with 1 TD and 2 INTs). Not only can anything happen when Rockin Roste is on the field, but the young man makes everyone better around him. To Ice, there sits the difference between a team that can defeat a very good Johnnies team one week and lose to a now seemingly high ceiling Platteville team who was also playing with their backup QB (If the Bear's ****ty memory is working) another.

Does Ice think with Roste that the Royals can win it all? No, probably not. Yet to infer that this team functions on a similar level when he is not grabbing the center's ass on each play, is simply erroneous at best.

Add Joey Kidder (Soph, 6-3, 210) at Wide Receiver and Nate Farm (Soph, 6-1, 215, First Team, All American, DIII last year as a freshman) at Free Safety to "Rockin Roste" and BU has at least three standouts who "propel the team to meet it's true potential"

Quote from: OzJohnnie on October 23, 2022, 10:19:12 PM
On Bethel and just between us kids here on the MIAC boards, Roste is not the only big game hunter that Bethel has this year.  The squad is loaded with seniors all over the place.

Current Bethel Depth Chart..2 deep...Offense: 6 seniors out of 22; Defense: 5 seniors out of 22; Special Teams: 0 Seniors. 25% Seniors on Offense and Defense isn't exactly "loaded".  22 Sophomores and Freshman out of 44 on the 2 deep chart is "loaded"!

Looking at the roots of the eight teams in the St. John's bracket, it's an ecumenical slugfest. 
St. John's, Catholic; Lake Forest, Presbyterian; Linfield, American Baptist; Redlands, American Baptist; Mary Hardin, Southern Baptist; Trinity, Tx Presbyterian; Birmingham-Southern , United Methodist; Huntingdon, Methodist

Last post...will be watching BU basketball...lost to Gustavus this afternoon.
Go Johnnies...get a win for the MIAC

Looks like it was a tie...NCAA website...

Central (IA) 61, Bethel (MN) 61