Really would love to see Wabash beat ONU, and beat them comfortably... Call me vengeful, but my visceral hatred for Baldwin Wallace still exists, and their whole "we would've gone to the playoffs too, if we were in the NCAC" is arguably one of the worst takes the delusional fan base has made. the OAC losing JCU has made it a glorified "mid-major" conference, surviving on the backs of Mount (while that is quite the team to carry a conference). They claim we "fled" because we couldn't beat Mount; because you know D3 schools make conference decisions based on one sport; when the reality is, multiple schools in the OAC are struggling financially and will probably see one or two of them close within the decade. Couple with the fact that the NCAC is a MUCH BETTER fit academically for JCU, and it was a no brainer.

But back to my rant, the current NCAC, in my opinion, is better than the OAC because you have three solid programs, and a 4th coming next year, not to mention if Wittenberg goes back to their standards. So please Wabash, for the sake of my sanity, please please please beat ONU, so I can trash talk that glorified Jr. College in Berea.

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Quote from: bluestreak66 on November 16, 2025, 08:05:08 PMHello Raiders my old friends
I've come to play your team again

Because a committee uses geography
Made a bracket while I was sleeping
And the nightmares of the Empire
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

Underrated comment.

thanks, I honestly thought i'd get a lot of comments. I am disappointed in you Mount fans, lol

What is this school you represent?  JCU?  Seems fuzzy in my memory...

Wait, do we know each other? is there some history between our schools?

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Quote from: bluestreak66 on November 16, 2025, 08:05:08 PMHello Raiders my old friends
I've come to play your team again

Because a committee uses geography
Made a bracket while I was sleeping
And the nightmares of the Empire
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

Underrated comment.

thanks, I honestly thought i'd get a lot of comments. I am disappointed in you Mount fans, lol

Quote from: bluestreak66 on November 16, 2025, 08:05:08 PMHello Raiders my old friends
I've come to play your team again

Because a committee uses geography
Made a bracket while I was sleeping
And the nightmares of the Empire
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

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Quote from: D3fanboy on November 03, 2025, 08:06:44 PMDr Logan is projecting a BW-JCU 2nd round matchup with the winner heading to Alliance (provided Mount gets past their 2nd round)

Wouldn't that be something

I would be SO happy if JCU leaves the OAC just to once again get knocked out in an early playoff round by Mount Union

No, we paraded around our OAC Championship trophy. You know that year when some team suffered an end to a regular season game winning streak.

do schools get a quarterfinalist trophy?  I had no idea there was a semifinalist trophy until the JCU paraded around social media with theirs in '16

Quote from: Dr. Acula on November 03, 2025, 07:32:27 PMI will never stop enjoying the BW hate.  Really a rallying cry for everyone!  Haha

I mean, I believe I can speak on behalf of the JCU fanbase; while we dislike the Evil Purple empire, we respect you. However, what is there to respect about that team in Berea?

Quote from: Pat Coleman on November 03, 2025, 04:07:57 PMIt sort of is -- paraphrasing what we said in this morning's pod, ONU will need some things to break their way even if they win, and BW is way out on the bubble if it loses. 

Your lips to God's ear! Would crack me up to see BW do BW things

Not sure I am liking your wishing us luck, or making a joke at BW... because making fun of them NEVER gets old!

It could be, but jokes are not usually over played... I won't call DePauw a powerhouse, but I believe the consensus would consider them a Top 20 program. But at the same time, with the exception of NCC, and VERY few others, all programs are "inferior" to Mount. It's the reality of D3 Football. Tier One, NCC, Mount and MAYBE SJU, and #1 WIAC; Tier 2, JHU, Bethel, Hardin Simmons, another WIAC pick-em. Tier 3, JCU, DePauw, Wheaton, 3 more WIAC schools, and a dozen others. Am I ranking ourselves too high? Maybe?

I do know this, playing you all year and year out prepared us to set ourselves up for the Pool A this year, and with Wabash steadily getting better, and Wash U joining next year, the NCAC will become a VERY entertaining conference to watch. Having those games prepares teams to eventually unseat the kings. Looks at NCC for example. It took years of getting the playoffs, getting the tough losses to Mount and Whitewater, coupled with a few years where IWU also competed to make the three schools perform their best, for NCC to get that first Championship.

Lastly, and not related, with next year being the big "drop" that we all knew was coming from the 08-09 crisis and the plummeting birth rate those years, there will unfortunately be a few more schools that'll close, and the OAC probably won't be susceptible to a couple of closures

Quote from: D3fanboy on October 20, 2025, 11:08:05 AMI hate to harp on Marietta, but this fall from grace (top 25 team, sniffing playoffs) has been something else to witness. 

Ott game (W):

Otterbein scores to cut it to 33-31 with 9 mins in the 4th.  Etta puts up 2 late TD's

Cap game (W):

outscored 21-10 in the 2nd half, kick a FG with no time left to win 24-21. 

Berg game (L):

outscored 16-6 in the 2nd half, including 13-0 in the 4th quarter

Muskie game (L):

up by 10 with 9 mins to go, outscored 14-0 in the 4th quarter.  gave up 17 play 80 yard and 8 play 99 yard drives for the 4th quarter TD's.  ouch.

with Mount and BW still on the schedule, barring a big time upset, it looks like 5-5 is the best case scenario and they are one major slip up from a losing season.  It seemed like the Pios were building something down on the river and with JCU running away scared, they were primed to take the next step.

D3Fanboy making a JCU running away scared joke again? I'd suggest we make it a drinking game, but we'd all be blacked out by the end of the day.

Quote from: DannyG on October 17, 2025, 11:51:07 AMHey, Im a current college student and former d3 football player (I quit the team my sophomore year to focus on other things). Whenever I was at my schools football games I'd wonder how we match up vs the team we are playing. I made a website called d3lines.com that gives every d3 team a spread vs their opponents. You obviously cant bet on it and it's just for entertainment purposes but I thought I'd share incase anyone else found it interesting. Lines are a good general ballpark but not the sharpest things in the world

I would've taken JCU +5.5 too!

Driving down for the game tomorrow, anything I should know? The "Gridiron Club" is making this the road trip of the year, so should be a good Carroll contingent, coupled with apparently it being Fall Break at DePauw, could be a closer ration of DePauw to JCU fans than it would otherwise normally be. I am cautiously optimistic that JCU will get the W, and set itself up nicely for the playoffs.

Quote from: Crawford on October 16, 2025, 06:14:20 PMStreak 66 and Streak 70 love having you in the NCAC board!

Why thank you! Sometimes miss the Mount contingent and our mutual disdain for BW, but the having two schools in Indiana is great!

As his brother, can confirm. I was the wrestler of the two of us. Wrestler in the loosest sense, but I did wrestle.

D3Fanboy, obsessed with JCU much? Going to other conference pages to discuss us. I didn't think our break-up was all that bad personally.