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Quote from: repete on September 23, 2026, 07:45:39 PMTis the season.

https://youtu.be/By_RqzO8jN0?is=vwcuTEwfCNHXUPR8

Thanks to the missus, I've failed before the game even started...

I had the gas fireplace on a couple times in the past week and am not one bit ashamed.

I had a work trip to Las Vegas last week. Wife and kids were home the whole time I was gone. I come back to a rainy Sioux Falls in the mid 50s, low 60s, and the heat turned on and heating to 70. Naturally, I shut that down ASAP, but the damage had already been done. My furnace had drunk of the sweet nectar of MidAmerican Energy's natural gas.

There is no depth to the shame I feel. It's not even doggone October and I'm already out.

Quote from: sjujohnnie on August 24, 2026, 03:35:39 PMThe two churches that make up the parish I attend in the Sioux City Diocese in northwest Iowa will be locking the church doors five minutes prior to Mass starting. When that horrific school shooting in Minneapolis happened last August the parish council decided steps needed to be taken in the facilities plan to address the potential for active shooters, etc. Very sad sign of the times!

As for the return of football, what is the word about this year's St John's squad from those more in the know? Starting the season with a tough test against La Crosse!

Sounds like they're finally getting serious about people being there in time to say the Rosary before Mass.

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Quote from: DuffMan on March 18, 2026, 09:52:26 PMBig news out of Collegeville as SJU parts ways with wrestling coach Kevin Schiltz.
I'm hopeful that AD O'Brien is committed to bringing the program back to competitiveness.  They have an opportunity to be great, but the school will need to commit to it.

Lots of shake ups with SJU coaching. I'm wondering if the days where you take a job as a coach and stay 40+ years are a thing of the past at SJU.

I would say yes. The administration is changing, but the people who take these jobs has likely changed as well. Much more opportunity for mobility. I do think that you must have national success to get pulled up to a high-level D2 or D1 job. Lance Leipold is an example. UWRF just lost Matt Walker to Drake. The transfer portal has caused the coaching carousel to spin even faster.

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Quote from: CHUBBS PETERSON on November 17, 2025, 11:53:15 AMFor the SJU faithful:

Sorry if I'm rehashing something previously discussed, but genuinely curious about your opinions of the blue, alternate home jersey. I know it's one of the school colors, but it hasn't really had a place in the football uniform until recently.

I really like them as something different. Honestly, I think they are more attractive than the red jerseys. I'd like to see them at least once a year. We're not worn even once last year.

The blue uniforms were a prominent part of the football jersey up through the 1930s and even into the 1940s. I like to see them once per year at most. They've got to be special. All of the Johnnies success (national championships) have come exclusively in the cardinal and white, and that tradition can't be casually displaced or discarded.

They've only worn the blues four times since they returned in 2021.

2025: vs. St. Scholastica
2024: None
2023: vs. St. Scholastica
2022: None
2021: vs. Martin Luther, vs. St. Scholastica

It could be fun if they used them on the road against someone like Concordia, St. Olaf, Augsburg, etc.--kind of like when USC and UCLA play.

The MIAC fall sports season is officially closed with St. Olaf and Bethel neck-and-neck at the top of the Durenberger Trophy standings. The Oles took home MIAC Championships in cross country and soccer, while the Royals won the golf and football championships.



Carleton sits third following a second place finish in cross country, and third place finishes in football and golf.

St. John's did not win a championship in a fall sport. That has to be the first time in a long time since that has happened.

Quote from: Redtooth on October 22, 2025, 12:59:16 PMStill in the running in Fargo with the house a chilly 62 this morning, with the added caveat that our AC is still technically on.

Show off.

Quote from: DuffMan on October 17, 2025, 05:25:49 PMWho's still master of his/her domain?  This could be a record-setting year!

I'm out. It was 29 degrees in Sioux Falls this morning. Always a pleasure getting the participation trophy. I suspect Duff will continue his reign.

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Quote from: SagatagSam on October 15, 2025, 01:01:47 PM1932: 7 (Season shutout)

Does this mean they didn't give up a point the entire season??? 
 

It doesn't help that the forward pass was still in its adolescence back when the season shutout of '32 happened. To accomplish something like that today would be utterly insane.

Time to update the tally board. The live over/under for shutouts this season by the Johnnie defense is at 5.5.

SJU Number of shutouts by season:

1965: 7
1932: 7 (Season shutout)
1935: 5
2025: 4
2021: 4
2018: 4
1998: 4
1957: 4
1946: 4
1936: 4
1934: 4
1933: 4
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Quote from: DuffMan on October 11, 2025, 11:03:11 PMIt used to be that you had to have your knees covered by pads--I remember a flag or two being thrown.  These days, some guys are practically wearing mid-thigh shorts!

The uncle I took to the Johnnies game few weeks ago is a high school football ref. Does that mean in between him enjoying his first trip to an SJU game I had to listen to him for three hours complain about the knees not being covered and players wearing shorts? Yes, yes it does. In his high school games anyway he doesn't allow it.

I've been working high school chain gang for a couple schools the last two seasons. Last year the officials at least tried to enforce it. They would tell a kid to pull the pants over the knew. A couple plays later they had them back up. This year I think there's been one time I heard a ref tell player to pull them over the knee.
The other one that gets me is players having their mouth guard out...like frequently.

My high school crew in South Dakota is notorious for enforcing that the knees be covered by kneepads. We routinely send off a player or two from each side to let the coaches know we mean business. We tell them: "he can come back in when he is properly equipped."

The problem is that at all levels (HS, College) there are no yardage penalties for not having your knees covered and NFHS and the NCAA don't make it enough of a priority for all officiating crews to enforce it.

The third shutout in a row is worthy of taking a look at the history of Johnnie shutouts. There are some truly remarkable numbers. This is the first time since 1932 that the Johnnies started their first three games without allowing a point. They went from September 24, 1932 to October 28, 1933 without allowing a point. From 1931 to 1936 (six seasons) the Johnnies only allowed 117 in total (19.5 points per season). How many more shutouts can the Johnnies stack up? Only time will tell.

SJU Number of shutouts by season:

1965: 7
1932: 7 (Season shutout)
1935: 5
2021: 4
2018: 4
1998: 4
1957: 4
1946: 4
1936: 4
1934: 4
1933: 4
2025: 3

There was a fire at the U$T library yesterday. No real structural damage, but they did lose about 30 books in the fire.

The real tragedy is that the students hadn't colored in 20 of those books yet.

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Quote from: DuffMan on July 24, 2025, 02:45:34 PMAfter losing Syverson to graduation, SJU at #5 is laughable.  I have no doubt his replacement will be good, but that is a lofty ranking for a huge unknown.

Everyone has unknowns, more so than usual, but I agree losing Syverson is a huge unknown.

SJU athletics posted the #5 ranking on X/Twitter and Coach Damien Dumonceaux retweeted it right away: "Rankings are great, but they don't matter if the preparation is not sound. [...]"

Johnnies come in at #5 in the preseason D3football.com poll
Bethel at #12

https://d3football.com/top25/2025/preseason

Only 3 weeks or so until the boys start reporting to Collegeville for camp.

Let's go Johnnies!

Quote from: GoldandBlueBU on June 05, 2025, 02:33:44 PMLOL!

Liked it overall - I'd ask Chat to revise it with a tone that reflected that everyone was actually quite happy to see it die.

Not sure I've ever read an obit that said, "Everyone was glad the son of a b***ch is dead!" I wonder how ChatGPT would handle that!