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Quote from: faunch on July 28, 2026, 11:24:15 AM$20 per ticket and $20 for the pre-game hospitality event to watch a game with a 30 point spread. And I wonder the charge will be for food and drink once in the "hospitality" zone?

Takes an opportunity for the Olaf students a chance to watch a game at home.  Not a fan at all!  If we were talking about a late season game in a dome I would support it, but this is ridiculous. 

Given St. Olaf averaged 965 fans at home games last year, and anecdotal experience (both as a player and fan and talking to my wife who is an Olaf grad), I'm not sure that St. Olaf students are queueing up en masse to attend home games. Outside of Carleton.

Case in point, in 2023 when the game was at Olaf, there were a wopping 564 fans vs SJU. I'm assuming SJU was at least half of that number. So let's call it 25 disappointed St. Olaf students, and 20 of them are probably girlfriends who would make the 30 minute drive to TCO. 

so they only game everyone goes to at northfield is carleton-st. olaf?

You do know that Carlton and St. Olaf are both in Northfield, right? Neither teams fans have to travel and they are huge rivals.

And despite the schools being less than 2 miles apart the game last season had a recorded attendance of 4,319 at Laird Stadium (where there is not charge for admission). Combined the enrollment of the two schools is about 8,000 meaning that it's likely barely 50% of the student bodies of both schools attended the game.

Combined enrollment of the schools is closer to 5,000 (~3000 for Olaf and ~2000 for Carleton).  I would still guess less than 50% of the students attended the game if it's anything like it was in the late 00s.

It was 4319 last year at Carleton, but only 1021 the year before at Olaf.  Might explain why the Oles held their homecoming on the road at Laird Stadium in 2023...

I was looking through the heat sheets for the USA Track and Field Championships today and saw that Jacob Parent and Grant Nelson (both Bethel alums) are in the 400m heats later today.

Quote from: hazzben on May 13, 2026, 01:25:32 PMBU men won their 3rd straight MIAC Outdoor T&F title, women finished 2nd. Grant Nelson was also named USATF D3 Track Athlete of the Week.

- 1st in 400 m in 46.06, broke his own school record, and best time in D3 this year.

8th best D3 time ever

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Quote from: faunch on January 24, 2026, 10:40:19 AMWould you rather be a beast on playoff level D3 team or an ok running back on a below average D1 team?

Football-wise, playoff team. Pocketbook-wise - free schooling all the way - below average team. Chances(albeit slim) to make the NFL - below average team (when was the last D3 draftee?).  Academics-wise, it depends what you like, but I'll give Albany and Susquehanna a draw, even if that's probably not true in actuality, with Albany being the better ranked and generally regarded of the two institutions (not that rankings are everything).

The equation has more than one variable, otherwise, who would ever go anywhere other than the bluest of blue blood division 1 programs; totally for free and make some of that sweet NIL and revenue sharing money?

With that said, U Albany wasn't good last year, but as recently as 2023 they went to the FCS semi-finals, so it's not as if there isn't some recent success.

I believe Quinn Meinerz (3rd round in 2021) was the last player drafted from a D3 school.  He's now a 2-time first-team all-pro.  Bartch was drafted the year before (https://www.d3football.com/interactive/faq/general#11).

With the transfer portal I'm not sure we'll see this happen as often as we used to, I'm guessing the guys that show the potential will move up for a year or two before they are draft eligible.

Quote from: DuffMan on November 05, 2025, 10:50:24 PMWatching what SJU did to the Hot Carls, I would be very surprised (pleasantly) if Bethel's MOV is < 30.

Hope you're off by at least 101 points

I wasn't sure what the MIAC tiebreakers were in the unlikely event that Carleton beats Bethel and we end up in a 3-way tie:

• Head to Head winner among tied teams
• Results against teams not tied in descending order
• Point differential between tied teams
• Team not in the NCAA Playoffs most recently
• NPI Ranking [as listed one hour before NCAA AQ deadline]
• Coin flip.

Given the results so far and assuming no upsets other than this game the rest of the year, Carleton needs to beat Bethel by 71 or more this weekend to win the MIAC.

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Quote from: hazzben on October 27, 2025, 01:18:27 PM... if JHU, Carnegie Mellon, Wash U, et al can put very competitive teams on the field at both the conference and national level, there's no reason Carleton can't get there.

All three of those schools are much, much larger than Carleton. The NESCAC schools are probably a better comparison -- we just don't have the picture on how they stack up nationally as of right now.

It's funny, I literally deleted a comment about NESCAC comparison. Totally agree we can't tell how they compare. But to push back, "size of school" is something we say all the time doesn't matter for the WIAC. I suppose if you're academically "elite" you can lower your dial a bit more if you have a larger student body, compared to an enrollment of 2k. But then you'd have to prove to me JHU and Wash U are really lowering the bar, as opposed to just being better at marketing themselves to good HS talent that meets the standard.

This is an important point. Even when I was in high school many, many years ago I had heard of Washington University (Johns Hopkins was only five miles away, so obviously ...) but I had never heard of Carleton until I joined these boards. It really helps to be a national brand.

There's a big difference between the large research universities that are D3 (MIT, Johns Hopkins, Wash U, Carnegie Mellon, U Chicago, etc.) and the liberal arts colleges (Carleton, NESCAC, Pomona, Grinnell, etc.) in terms of brand recognition. Carleton should be able to use academics as a recruiting advantage, but I'm not sure the ceiling is as high as what Johns Hopkins has shown.

Quote from: Bofadeeznuts on October 10, 2025, 02:21:16 PMThe kids of the past in D3 would be making 6 figures today?!? Good lord.

There is a D3 kid starting for the Badgers right now that is making 6 figures.

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Quote from: sjujohnnie on October 07, 2025, 11:06:10 AMListening to the ATN podcast, I found it interesting that a condition Macalester had when rejoining the MIAC was that they would not regularly face St John's in football. I looked at the series history and the two teams last played on October 2001 back when I was still in college. Macalaster's last win in the series came in 1968. Does St John's shutout Macalester for their fourth shutout of the season? Looking at stats for all levels of college football, St John's is leading all levels in scoring defense despite the points Bethel scored in Saturday's loss.

Schools like Mac need to decide if their going to actually support a football program. My bet is they drop the program within 5 years.

I could see them leaving the MIAC all together - didn't their football team actually have decent success in their other conference?

They made the playoffs in 2014 when they were in the MWC, despite losing to Hamline that year

All I know is what I've been seeing reported through the media, but this is one of the most impressive things I've seen on the football field.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/minnesota/news/jack-curtis-carleton-college-quarterback-cancer/

Quote from: DuffMan on September 08, 2025, 09:19:01 AMCarelton got MonkeyStomped, but honestly, it was better than I expected.

I was able to attend the game and it was better than I expected as well.  Carleton defense made the Warhawks work for it in the first half (scoring drives of 10 plays, 14 plays and 15 plays), but just got worn down in the second half.  UWW didn't put much effort into the passing game and were clearly the better team, but Carleton played hard and had some flashes.  Announced attendance was 11,610 and Perkins stadium was really nice, I'm hoping the game next year is back there again rather than a home and home.

I'm expecting Carleton will be able to play with everyone in the MIAC that isn't Bethel or SJU after this game.

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Quote from: hazzben on May 14, 2025, 02:37:01 PMSounds like the MIAC Championship game might still be on the chopping block. Mtgs ongoing but a lot of coaches want to get rid of the rematch games and just play a real round robin.

As in - it might be cut this year still?

So all 9 MIAC teams would be scrambling to find a 10th game? That sounds very MIAC-like.

They wouldn't need to find a game, they'd all play each other.  SJU would play St. Olaf week 11, since those two aren't currently scheduled to play.  Carleton would play Concordia, etc.

I'm interested to see if APU can keep their track talent, they have the opportunity to be an absolute D3 powerhouse there.  Their school records would be top-3 D3 marks all-time in most events and they would've had the leading marks nationally in at least 4 events last year.

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Quote from: Johnnie on December 04, 2024, 02:14:33 PMSpeaking of Susquehanna, is there any discussion about this being is the first time a famous Amos Alonso Stagg team is playing against the famous John Gagliardi team? Two of the most famous football coaches in the history of football and finally their teams are meeting up?

Not the first meeting if you look at all the teams they coached.  Carroll University has played the University of Chicago in basketball.

I don't see any record of University of Chicago playing Carroll (Mont.).

Bah, mixing up my Carroll's

Quote from: Johnnie on December 04, 2024, 02:14:33 PMSpeaking of Susquehanna, is there any discussion about this being is the first time a famous Amos Alonso Stagg team is playing against the famous John Gagliardi team? Two of the most famous football coaches in the history of football and finally their teams are meeting up?

Not the first meeting if you look at all the teams they coached.  Carroll University has played the University of Chicago in basketball.