Quote from: bluestreak66 on Today at 10:04:35 AMTough game for me.... on the one hand, BW winning very much helps our tenuous playoff chances. But the idea of BW being cutdown in the prime of their arrogance and cockiness is all too alluring lol

You know the schadenfreude of watching their perfect season crumble before their eyes would be amazing.

I am very rarely right on anything so I was glad to see I correctly predicted Laurich to CWRU as a grad transfer.  It makes sense and it's great for him.  Getting his masters in finance and playing ball another year.  Good for him.

My assumption is they're gonna play small this year.  Pretty much have to.  But with Taylor at 6'5" and Dunbar at 6'4" I'm guessing they're counting on defensive length from non bigs.  That's fine until you play a team w a legit big who can get Farrington in foul trouble.  Not sure they see that in OAC play to be honest.

Roster is finally up.  Looks like Mount picked up a transfer from Mary Baldwin.  6'6" Rony Hogarth avg 14 ppg and 4.6 reb/gm as a soph there. Shot 49% from the field.  Solid pick up.

Quote from: D3fanboy on October 31, 2026, 08:31:25 PM

Quote from: hsbsballcoach7 on October 31, 2026, 08:14:37 PMJust win and you're in! Sounds like some positive aspects on special teams (blocked punt, fumble recovery on ST, made field goal), defense stepping up and offense finding their footing (Harris sounds like our deep threat with good hands). Here's to a good week of preparation and beating BW!

the first FG "attempt" was an absolute clown show.  Running the FG team on late and then trying to get them off the field...time out.  Running into the kicker penalty gave the Raiders new life, and then an offside on ONU made the 4th down even shorter.  Mount picked up the 4th and 5 and scored a play or so later. 

Other than that sequence and the long ONU TD run, it was a pretty clean game for the Purple Raiders.  Best they've played collectively all season imo.

I didn't get to watch the entire game, but I thought they looked as cohesive as they have all season.  Most importantly, Maloney is full go on the RPO and QB designed runs and that totally changes their offense when he's a legit threat to pull it and run.  He looked good again this week. 

I've been as much doom and gloom as anyone this season (and I reserve the right to be again Saturday pending result!) but with literally none of their skill guys graduating this offense could be scary going forward the rest of this year and next.

Finally, totally unrelated but I need to complain...the fact that we're 5 days from hoops starting and we still don't have a roster posted is ridiculous.

For those of us not in the know, what are we dating back to?

Also, the fact that Witt has to thank their lucky stars they have Oberlin left to avoid a potential 0-10 season is insane.  The greater issues of the school are apparent, but purely from a historical D3 football context it's crazy.

About 5 minutes into this game I was going to post that Wilm is just bad (because they are) and this should go like Muskie.  But I held off due to the walking/quacking this team does weekly.  Good thing I held off.

Mount was picked as the favorite in the preseason coaches poll.  Not sure what's going on with Etta and Berg.  That surprised me, but the coaches know far more than I do obviously.  Taking a quick look at the All-OAC teams from last year it's safe to say that we're going to see some new names filling up the box scores.  Farrington is the lone returning 1st teamer in the conference.

1. Mount (6)
2. Ott (2)
3. ONU (1)
4. Cap, Muskie
6. Wilm
7. Berg
8. Etta
9. BW

Looking at season stats this morning.  Six games in Mount has two guys with more than one sack on the season.  In 2021 Duke Hill topped the team with 5.5 sacks on the season.  We might be lucky to hit that number for the leader this year (Gibson has 3 sacks).  The last four seasons thanks to Brown and Moore they had at least one guy with double digit sacks each season including one year they had three (those two plus Factor).  Mount is ranked 5th in the OAC in scoring defense at 21.5 ppg allowed.

Maloney pushed his passing yds/gm out over 316 ypg now.  He's easily leading the conference there.  Bubonics has been very efficient for BW with 22 TD passes and only 2 picks.  Two good RB, efficient QB and the defense allowing the fewest points in the OAC it may be now or never for the Jackets against Mount. 

I'm in no way advocating to bench Minner, but he's at 4.6 yds/carry and Bokman is at 7.7 yds/carry.  Bo got a lot more touches yesterday than last week so that was a good sign.  Again, not saying tell Minner to grab some bench, but Bokman should be at least getting even split IMO.

So much for the starters playing sparingly in the second half.  They're just trying to just hold on to what's somehow a 24-16 lead in Bexley.  At some point you're not playing down to the level of mediocre teams and you yourself are just a pretty average team.  If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Quote from: D3fanboy on October 17, 2026, 01:40:51 PMa FG attempt on 4th and 1....against Capital....

And the football gods rightfully rewarded that decision with a miss.

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Quote from: pradierguy on October 14, 2026, 08:17:00 AMHe's no Nate Kmic (yet), but I have fond memories of a stout and white Freshman RB bursting onto the scene and that worked out pretty well for the Purple Raiders.

there will never be another Kmic, he's the GOAT.  How he is not a first ballot College Football Hall of Famer blows my mind. Seriously, go back and look at his numbers...they are absolutely bonkers

That being said, if Kmic arrived on campus as ready for college football as Bokman...Nate might have put up 9-10K yards.  Those old huge shoulder pads and helmets helped freshman Nate look "stout".  Bo Bokman has an incredibly bright future.  He and a healthy Mikey could be an extremely dynamic backfield, Minner as well. 

For the love of all things holy, please start fast and build huge leads at half in the next two weeks.  The Standard's starters should not see the 4th quarter (mid 3rd really) against Cap and Wilma

Bokman is averaging 8.2 yds/carry and 17.1 yds/reception.  Maybe they thought he was getting tired from running that much and gave him a break?   

Also noticed when I was looking at stats that it seems Omari Allen is no longer on the roster.

Wow, congrats to Wheaton.  I thought Mount looked very evenly matched with Wheaton.  The problem is I thought they looked very evenly matched with everyone not named Muskie too.  They've played 3 OAC games and in 2 of them the opposing QB set a career high in passing yards.  Fortunately today the defense stepped up with the last minute pick to save the game.

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Quote from: Desertraider on October 10, 2026, 02:36:18 PMJust had a 4 play 70 yd scoring drive in :30 before half. They are showing glimpses of THE Mount. But leading Marietta 20-7 at half is underwhelming

Even more underwhelming now.

We've gone from underwhelming to let's just get out of here with a win. 

First world problems, but it is insanely annoying that if you're watching Flo on your phone and you take your headphone out of your ear and then put it back in Flo cuts to a commercial every single time you do.  The only way it could be worse is if it was a political ad each time.