Quote from: Dr. Acula on March 02, 2026, 01:51:31 PMMount gets W&J in their opener at CNU.  If they win they'll face CNU or Stevens.  Don't think that it is lost on me that the other side of the pod are the last two teams to bounce Mount from the NCAA tourney.  Hopefully a little redemption is coming.

Berg is on the road at hose IWU.  JCU is also in that pod.

Ott is playing UWP at Chicago.

Mount needs a little payback for that horrible no-call at the end of the CNU championship game

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Quote from: Patrick Coleman on February 23, 2026, 02:38:37 PMWeakest dynasty is still a pretty decent place to be. 240 Division III schools would be happy for three national titles in the past six years.

you're right, champs are champs. crazy program accomplishment!

but there's no denying that D3FB is at a pretty low point with the portal and coaches jumping left and right. certain D3FB media has pretty much called NCC unbeatable, or the greatest team of all time...but no other "dynasty" has had such rough losses in the Stagg. 

I guess at least NCC hasn't had one taken away by cheating.  Second worst dynasty

I think part of what makes the losses look so rough is during this run NCC basically hasn't had close games, and when they do, they lose in the Stagg.  They had a 20 point lead in 55/59 games Lehnen started, and lost 2/4 games they didn't get the 20 point lead. They had a few "closer" games on the scoreboard in the playoffs this year, but none of those games were in question at any point in the 2nd half.

For as great as the coaching staff has been since Spencer took over, they simply do not have a lot of experience with handling close games late and it is has shown on the biggest stage twice now.  Spencer's record is 58-2 overall but its really 1-2 in games decided by less than 2 scores.

I think we're just in a new D3 paradigm where the top 1-2 teams might not be traditional blue chip programs anymore. Sure in 2011 it would seem bizarre for Mount Union or UWW to get knocked off by a team that's never made the playoffs, but with the transfer portal and weird eligibility sometimes the best team in the country is going to come seemingly out of nowhere. UWRF and Cortland state were both extremely talented teams playing very well at the right time. Would we really feel any different if it was UMHB or Mount Union who beat NCC in 2023 and 2026? IDK, doesn't really change my perspective much.

Also it's NEVER a bad loss to lose to the WIAC champs.

the 1 or 2 programs in D3FB have been Mount Union and someone else since the early 90's.  Those programs used to have incredible coaching and talent that shouldn't be at the D3FB level.

Now we have players moving to and from the transfer portal at crazy levels. D3FB coaches making career jumps up to higher divisions.  It's sad, D3FB shouldn't be a jumping off point.  It's the perfect place for college football.

But then at then end of the day, we have Mount coached by a nepo baby and NCC coached by a guy scared to take the jump. 

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Quote from: Patrick Coleman on February 23, 2026, 02:38:37 PMWeakest dynasty is still a pretty decent place to be. 240 Division III schools would be happy for three national titles in the past six years.

you're right, champs are champs. crazy program accomplishment!

but there's no denying that D3FB is at a pretty low point with the portal and coaches jumping left and right. certain D3FB media has pretty much called NCC unbeatable, or the greatest team of all time...but no other "dynasty" has had such rough losses in the Stagg. 

I guess at least NCC hasn't had one taken away by cheating.  Second worst dynasty

Imagine if you used all that pent-up energy on something productive in life.

you hurt my feelings

Quote from: bleedpurple on February 24, 2026, 07:31:35 PMNext year will be much easier for the WIAC schools to fill their non-conference schedule as they will only need to schedule two games. Conference play will begin week three, there will be a conference bye week 6 and then week 10 will be pit 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, and 4 vs 5. The regular season champion will be declared after week 9.

WIAC doing it all wrong.  take a page from the MN conference.  play 1v2, 3v4, 5v6 etc and blow up the NPI

Quote from: cciwman on February 25, 2026, 12:52:45 PM
https://x.com/WheatonFB/status/2026366257537142946?s=20
A little gamesmanship from the Thunder?  Play Naperville on Oct 10?  Using the school logo instead of the NC?

is that not the weakest stuff?  just like Ohio State x'ing out all of the M's on campus.  super, super lame.  maybe just beat your rival for once?  nobody will care what you call them

Quote from: Ron Boerger on February 21, 2026, 03:52:13 PMUMHB will open at Rowan this season.  Hopefully that will quiet the critics for a minute (ha!).

two former D3FB powers going at it, who could possibly hate that?

Quote from: Dr. Acula on February 24, 2026, 09:58:23 AMA little Raider news with Dom Capers to the Browns as a senior defensive assistant.

Dom is a no doubt Raider legend and has some of the greatest hair I've ever seen.  But, in typical fashion, the Browns are about 10-20 years late on Dom. 

Quote from: Patrick Coleman on February 23, 2026, 02:38:37 PMWeakest dynasty is still a pretty decent place to be. 240 Division III schools would be happy for three national titles in the past six years.

you're right, champs are champs. crazy program accomplishment!

but there's no denying that D3FB is at a pretty low point with the portal and coaches jumping left and right. certain D3FB media has pretty much called NCC unbeatable, or the greatest team of all time...but no other "dynasty" has had such rough losses in the Stagg. 

I guess at least NCC hasn't had one taken away by cheating.  Second worst dynasty

Quote from: Kira & Jaxon's Dad on February 23, 2026, 02:06:10 PMUW-RF Head Coach is leaving to take the Drake HFC Job.

another one hit wonder D3 "power" wins a title over NCC and then fades away back to Bolivian. The iron was never going to be hotter for the UWRF, he had to strike. 

Despite what, if you call it that, national media that there is for D3FB, it's still Mount Union and somebody else for 9 out of every 10 years.  It's been that way for 40 years.  Just now that somebody else has owned us a bit lately, but man, are they the weakest D3FB "dynasty" of all time. 

There's never been a better time for Mount to stop Dartting around and get back to what they need to be.  D3FB is way down across the board, step up Raiders

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Quote from: fredfalcon on January 23, 2026, 09:26:09 PMThanks, BW.

Coach Walker thinks Falcons can repeat next year, but missing two transferring offensive stalwarts plus  Blaha will not not make it easier. Also, Walker admitted on KFAN interview yesterday that he has received offers to coach other places (not specified). Not surprising.

Walker's stock will never be higher; he should go unless he wants to be a D3 lifer (nothing wrong with that, just no $). I think the chances of me dating Sydney Sweeney are about the same as UW-RF going back to back nattys after being what they were for decades.

well, well, well

how the turntables have turned

just start designing the Fuline statue outside of the MAAC already

https://gotiffindragons.com/news/2026/2/17/ekkens-resigns-as-tiffin-head-football-coach.aspx

looks like another Raider in the NFL.  Geoff should fire up the Kehres family van and take a little poaching road trip over to Tiffin with KB and Kappas

edit: sounds like Ekkens is heading to the desert with the AZ Cards

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Quote from: The Third Division on February 14, 2026, 01:15:30 PMUMHB's two year scheduling agreement with Keystone screams desperation. It is not a good look for the program.

Go ahead and list the teams who are interested in scheduling a series with us. Then we can discuss which ones would be better options.

One would think the Division 3 philosophy is grounded in conference and regional competition rather than national and most schools are interested in scheduling as such.

Oh wait: It is

I know you all filter everything through the lens of "What's best for the football team?" which means you think everyone's just too scared to play you, but the sooner you realize that most D3 institutions have bigger concerns than the football team picking up an elite OOC game, the easier it'll be for you.

nobody is scared to play UMHB.  Pick them up in week 4 or 5 and a third of their team has re-entered the portal after transferring in a couple of months earlier.  That non-D3 culture paired with being the only D3FB school to ever vacate a national championship...why would any D3 program fly to Texas?

Quote from: raiderpa on February 16, 2026, 09:34:14 AMHopefully the brass at the OAC is tuning in on the Flosports streaming.  Time to find an alternative for next year, perhaps...

flo sports is absolutely horrible and has been rough since the football season....but it wont change unless an alternative can flip a couple of shekels to the OAC and its schools. as Wu-Tang once said, cash-rules-everything....

Rick Hairston is going to be the first Women's flag football coach at Mount.  The HOF MUC alum is a former great Timken and McK basketball coach, and I thought currently at GlenOak?  He's a pretty top notch coach with lots of ties to the local Stark County high schools.  Not a bad selection