Congrats to brad Boyle & Brendan Leiran for 2nd team All West Region and Nate Clear on 3rd team all west region. 

Boyle & Leiran will both be back next year!

Hey Pat, any thoughts on making d3football and d3boards mobile friendly in the near future?  Just curious if any thoughts or planning have been put into it since it seems most siteare moving in that direction.

how bout them kohawks...congrats fellas, well deserved!!

Congrats to Boyle on some impressive achievements he accomplished over the weekend:

- Boyle now has over 5,000 career passing yards which is 4th most in school history
- Has had back to back 2,000 passing yd seasons (joins Andy Tekippe & Joe Brannen as the only ones in school history)
- Scored his 16th rushing TD of the season (4th on all-time single-season TD list)
- Moved up to 4th on the all-time TD list with 41 for his career

And the kid is only a Junior! Go Kohawks!

Great weather here in Cedar Rapids this morning...too bad I'm stuck in the office for the 2nd weekend in a row!! Hopefully get off in time to catch the whole Iowa game though.  Good luck to Coe today...let's get another W!

Quote from: AZDutchman on October 27, 2010, 08:52:47 AM
    Two Wartburg football players were speeding down the highway at well over 100 MPH.
    "Hey," asked the player at the wheel, "Any cops following us?"
    The other player turned around and had a long look at the road behind them. "Yeah, looks like it."
    "Are his flashers on?"
    The other player turned around again. Lemme see...
    "Yup...nope...yup...nope...yup...nope...yup..."
 
This joke posted for Chris. What an incredible young man!

thanks for the laugh this morning...i don't care who you are...now thats funny

Quote from: Kohawk Krazy on October 21, 2010, 01:48:48 PM
First Strength of Schedule is out.  Coe is #6.  What does this mean?  Still an outside shot at an at-large bid if there is a three-way tie for the title or not?

http://www.d3football.com/seasons/2010/schedule?tmpl=sos-template

This is pretty interesting that Coe is so high...but does make sense since Coe has less games against D3 teams to put in the SOS equation as others in the conference.  Maybe this wasn't such a bad idea....time will only tell I guess.

Quote from: the_mayne_event on October 20, 2010, 09:54:01 AM
No one has mentioned the evolution of the athlete during this whole conversation. With players getting bigger/faster/stronger every year, injuries are bound to happen. It happens in every full contact sport. Football seems to be magnified because of its popularity.
There isn't a way to flag every helmet to helmet contact because it happens on every single play. Every time a linemen comes off the ball to run block, he will probably hit heads with the defender first.
You also can't take helmets away, that's ridiculous. Maybe they have become too modern, but players get concussions from hitting their head on the ground too hard (in all sports, not just football). Chances are the leather helmets players used to wear caused more concussions, there just wasn't the knowledge that is available know, and probably less people cared because football wasn't as popular as it is now.
If you start making so many rules that players have to think more during every single play, chances are more players are going to get hurt because they'll be slowing down to think about some rule and another player will be continuing full speed. Football is an instinctive sport, which is part of the reason people love to play and watch it.
In the NFL, players can be fined/suspended without pay, and that hurts them because that's how they make their living and provide for their family. College is different where you can't put a fine on this. I'm also pretty sure there aren't rules to protect defenseless receivers in college either. It comes down to leagues making rules, players following those rules, and if they don't either their league suspends them or their coach suspends them.
If we are talking neck injuries, the only way to prevent that is having your head up. I don't know the facts, but I guess that the majority of neck injuries do not come from head to head hits, but more like head down, top of helmet to a body part hit. I'm not saying they are more or less horrific injuries, but teaching technique only goes so far, players have to take it upon themselves to keep their heads up when making a hit. That also may be very difficult to see in the middle of a group of players, making the penalty more difficult to see.

TME makes some valid points here, and one of them I've been thinking about myself is the offensive players using their heads/helmets as a weapon as well.  Maybe it's because I was a defensive player, but I believe the offensive player uses their helmet just as much to block, and protect.  Take a look at the offensive/defensive line; the first contact they have is facemask to facemask or helmet to helmet.  Watch a fullback or offensive lineman peel off to get a block down field on a LB or safety and you will see them leading with their head for helmet to helmet contact.  Take a look at RB when he is going through the line or in the open field, whats one of the first things they do? lower their helmet to take on the hit and try to punish the hitter.  Another thing I am just baffled on is all this talk on NFL and concussions....the NFL doesn't even require mouthpieces!! If they are so worried about injures, why would they require the one important (other than the helmet) thing that can lower concussions??  Just doesn't make sense to me.

Good luck to Coe this Saturday! Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to the game; instead will be at the Iowa @ Michigan game in the Big House cheering on the Hawks, but will be checking on here for updates...so please help keep me informed 

okay...but you know where I was goin with it....guess that was my dumb mistake for the day...hopefully

recent posts on here got me wondering.....

If the letter 'T' was silent in 'Dutch'...how would people pronounce the word?

Duch...

Guess that's the thought of the day

Additional comments on the Coe game while staying out of the bashing while not making excuses.

1.) I thought Coe played a horrible 1st half, IWC should have never been that close to Coe
2.) coocoo is correct; all conference players Weber & Weymiller did not play (no excuse, merely a fact) along with another OL starter
3.) it was IWC's 2nd game and I think that was probably the only advantage they had over Coe for the game...you might take this as an excuse but IMO having started a week early is an advantage because you have already been at game speed and cleaned up some mental mistakes as Coe made a lot of them in the 1st half...regardless, Coe should have been more ready to play
4.) they have a lot of things to work on before IIAC games begin; especially with mental mistakes including turnovers and defensive breakdowns in coverage as that's where IWC were able to get their points.

That's about all I can remember from a weekend of too much drinking    On a side note, it was good to seem the large amount of people that made it down to the game.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on September 01, 2010, 11:39:31 AM
If you're having trouble, try clearing your cookies.

mmm.....cookies 

Quote from: 5 Words or Less on August 24, 2010, 11:46:44 PM

Quote from: footballdaddy on August 24, 2010, 05:13:20 PM
I know where he was last year.  

I love a good mystery.

Quote from: Mlive.com
August 26, 2009 - Saginaw Valley State will be starting the season with a new starting quarterback.  Chuck Dowdell, a junior transfer from Indiana State, will take over under center for the Cardinals when they open their season Thursday at California (Pa.). Dowdell and last year's starter Dan Stiefel battled for the starting job throughout training camp. Dowdell was informed that he would be the starting quarterback by second-year head coach Jim Collins late last week.  Stiefel left the team shortly after the decision was made, an SVSU spokesman said. Stiefel started all 10 games last year and threw for 2,113 yards and 14 touchdowns.
http://www.mlive.com/cardinals/index.ssf/2009/08/svsu_names_starting_qb_at_medi.html

September 21, 2009 - Former Saginaw Valley State quarterback Dan Stiefel left the Cardinals last month and is enrolled at Grand Valley State. He plans to walk on to the football team.  Stiefel, who was listed by SVSU as a junior from Emmett, was the starter last year for the Cardinals but was beaten out for the job in fall camp by Charles Dowdell. Steifel, who threw for 2,113 yards and 14 touchdowns as a starter in 2008, was on the GVSU sideline during Saturday night's game.
http://blog.mlive.com/outofbounds/2009/09/de_nick_lawrence_steps_up_his.html

I was thinking he might of had a roofing job for a year...

Quote from: Willie University on August 20, 2010, 12:36:24 PM

Quote from: NewKnightDad on August 20, 2010, 12:33:05 PM
Wartburg is better than all other IIAC schools, just ask me and I will tell you!! [/color] 

I think you and footballdaddy are "brothers from other mothas"

Do you guys call each other before games and make sure you each wear matching orange outfits 

I don't care who you are....that's funny.