desertraider et. al,

The playoffs may have, indeed, hypothetically begun.  However, as long as both teams play fairly well today, this will be the first playoff in which I can recall a team getting a mulligan.  The loser of today's game still makes the field and the winner amasses huge momentum...

4u

Quote from: Raider 68 on November 09, 2011, 03:10:47 PM
Great to see 4u has posted. Read so many of his  great posts before I came to the board!

Raider 68,
Thanks for the kind words, and best wishes for finding a way to get just one more point.  In the words of the great Jimmy V, "Never Give Up"!

4u

Just when I thought I may have been gone too long, I realized that I may not have been gone at all?!?  It's like Groundhog's Day in here.  Doeder jokes still flow like the finest boxes of wine in Alliance refrigerators.  Skunks, HS Coach, RC Cola, and the rest of the gang are still debating which member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour is the coolest. 

Mount Union may have become a university but still keeps one or two OAC contests close each fall as to not lose conference membership.  Capital went from fool ('99, '00), to cool ('03-'07), and now resides in the mediocrity pool.  BW is like that kid we all knew in high school who dated the hot chick, but they never kissed.  Seems fun from a distance but has to get old after a while.  Heidelberg just became the best college team in Tiffin.  Seriously, how is that other school in town a D2 school?  Otterbein's fall from grace was "Fast and Furious", which was also likely the favorite movie of the mullet dude in the previous posts.  Northern still seems to be well coached but having NCAA rules enforced really slowed things down in Ada.  I think we all owe Wilmington a thank you card for creating an "off week" in the OAC schedule.  As a team, it is always refreshing to be able to play badly and win.  It means you can take Thursday night a little more seriously.  Muskingum and Marietta beat Wilmington and I will bet that half of the parents of the players involved didn't even bother showing up to those contests.  Obviously, another JCU season of mediocrity is painful.  Not as painful as having spent three years in college with Dodder, but painful nonetheless.

As the season concludes, just remember that each of your loved ones will still appreciate you spending countless hours on Post Patterns despite the fact that there is nothing to talk about in January, February, March, April, and so on...  They recognize that the alternative involves you talking to them about the prospects of the Purple Raiders returning to Salem in 2012...or about whether next winter will be the year that the scoreboard Christmas card goes back out to the Polar Bear faithful...or if Capital will ever be the same without Jim Collins... or if BW and Wyoming should be removed from the NCAA strictly to improve appearance...

To those of you who are married, continue to type away!  I know your wife appreciates it.  For those of you who are not, don't worry!  The girl on the other end of that website will always love you more than a real woman can.

On a serious note, I do miss some of you knuckleheads.  Stay classy...

4u

OAC Historians,
Is Henry Stanford the first African American Head Coach in our great conference?  If so, why has this not been mentioned?  Or, did I miss it?
4u

HS Coach,

A shot at the alma mater?  Noooooooo!   

4u

Smugsy,

My point exactly!  Pat's bracket is broken.  This means there must be an official one out there which is correct.  Thanks for jumping all over me, though.  It's know-it-alls like you who greatly decreased my interest in posting lately.

Type away so you can read your fine posts over and over and over...
4u

OK, I know I have only posted once in what seems like a very long time, but can one of my old friends help me???

Who does my alma mater play in the first round of the playoffs?  I can not find it anywhere.

Pat's bracket is broken.

4u

Be careful what you wish four!!!

RC Cola, he's my cousin not my nephew.  I don't need you aging me more than coaching high school football already does.

So, how are things, gentlemen (and I use that term loosely)  Michigan is cold and wet as I indirectly follow the MIAA which, this fall, is about as exciting as viewing a documentary on how paint dries.  I still check on the Streaks each week but have found myself with writer's block in terms of any opportunity to run relevant smack. 

Doeder is busy repopulating the western hemisphere.  Like George Fourman, he has named his children Doeder 2 and Doeder 3.  They were born not with birth certificates but rather rap sheets.  Cuyahoga County's finest keep 24/7 surveliance on the Doeder home.  So, long story short, he likely does not have internet access... 4u

PlaidMan,
Call me crazy, but if your vitals on your son are accurate, there should have been scholarship money...
4u

HSCoach,
Didn't you mean to say your team might have played against his?  There's no way you got into the game short of a 50 point tilt one way or the other. 

Just... Do Our uniforms look like s*it?,
Yess, but welcome to the board nonetheless.  I will have Doeder get with you shortly to welcome you to his family.  It may take you a while to understand his foreign language, but you will get it at some point.  BW3 is poorly represented on this board, as is JCU (my alma mater).  It didn't used to be this way, so I hope you bring some energy back to the Yellow Jacket side. 
Good luck to your son.  Very few guys can be good enough football players to overcome the foul look of those uni's.  Like the sun in the sky, it is best not to look at those uni's for more than a few seconds straight.  That little tidbit is free,
4u
 

The real interesting part of all this is that my phone rang five minutes ago and it was...  (yep!) Doeder.  I didn't have the courage to take the call, so I will call him on the way home once I get my story straight regarding the bad things I posted.

Trivia:  How did the name "Doeder" come to exist?

New England is the hint,
4u

First of all, gentlemen, I am getting way too much credit.  Although I did pull off what may be seen as the "Herschel Walker Version" of D3 Trades by sending Doeder to the Stingers, I am still humbled by some of your posts.  The irony of comparing my trade with the one which built the Cowboy dynasty is quite compelling.  I, in fact, received zero actual compensation (while the Vikes gave the Cowboys players, several first and second round draft picks, as well as additional late round picks).  That said, I still consider myself equally rewarded.

So, as the world turns we ponder, "What happened to Doeder?"

As many of you know, there was a brief objection, by Doeder, as to the logistics of his trade.  He tried to present a "No Trade Clause" (which was written on a napkin-- in his own hand writing-- with my forged signature), but that was to no avail.  He then offered to "pretend" to accept the trade and work as a spy for the JCU faithful.  At that point, I was forced to remind him that the act of spying (google: Robert Hanssen) requires a high level of intelligence, acting, and street smarts.  Doeder was zero for three.  So, with no other avenue to travel, he became a bit lost.  When the BW hit the fan, Doeder was ultimately banned from our board and despite my pleas to Pat Coleman, his Yellow & Brown fandom is kept private.

So, where is he now?

Now a father, he has begun to spin off a series of books based on the Curious George collection.  They will feature "George" (the monkey) and "the Man in the Yellow hat and the Brown Pants".  His first born son was named Lee Tressel Doeder and he has finally accepted his role in the world of the Flaming Pile.  To fund his writing career, Doeder serves as a Regional Sales Manager for Waste Management, Inc. as he worked his way up by, as he says it, "doing the dirty work." 

It's not a pretty story, but it proves that even trades work out...
4u

Speed is not a problem at SVSU.  Recent Cardinal graduates play WR for the Packers (Martin) and Broncos (Martinez).  The LB who replaced London Fletcher in Buffalo (DiGirgio) is also a SVSU alum, as well as one of the guards (Hermanson ? spelling) on the Eagles.
SVSU has had some great players, now there's a great coach there as well...
4u

Greg Debeljak would be a great hire.  I doubt he'll leave Cleveland, but he gets a ton out of his student-athletes and is a guy who understands his players.  He would do extremely well there.
4u

REQUEST:
To those of you who are objective fans of Division 3 football, I ask that you consider voting for an OAC graduate as Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year.  I have stated the case for Greg Debeljak before and he needs our help with the voting.  Please use the link below, click on and vote once a day until the fan voting is complete:

http://www.coachoftheyear.com/

Debeljak is a graduate of John Carroll and has a staff filled with former OAC guys as well.  He's currently in 5th (out of 5), so I look forward to seeing if OUR OAC BOARD CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
4u