FB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[WLCALUM83]

Other Finals:

St. Scholastica at last check was up on WLC 41-27 with less than 4 min left

All other early afternoon scores are final:

Rockford 19, Beloit 15 (Regents come from behind, Ray's successor throws 2 TD passes, Regents also show balanced rushing attack with 3 guys getting a majority of that type of yardage)

Benedictine 35, Buena Vista 0 (Eagles  4 rushing TD's on the day).

Wabash 55, St. Norbert 21
UW-Platteville 41, Aurora 0

Lakeland/Carthage and Eureka/Knox  later.

[Captain_Joe08]

Week 1 Scores

Concordia Wisconsin 27 Thiel 8: Big second quarter was the difference in this one.

St. Scholastica 41 Wisconsin Lutheran 27: Warriors had issues turning the ball over with 3 INT's.

UW-Platteville 41 Aurora 0: Kinda expected but wasn't Aurora to be fully shut down the entire time.

Concordia Chicago 17 Minnesota-Morris 16: Cougs scored with a minute left to sneak away with a win.

Wabash 55 St. Norbert 21: Green Knights gave up 537 yards of total offense to Wabash in a rout.

Rockford 19 Beloit 15: Late TD in the 4th got the Regents over the Bucs.

Benedictine 35 Buena Vista 0: Eagles had few issues in dispatching the Beavers.

Carthage 51 Lakeland 40: Muskies could not keep up with the Firebirds in an offensive track meet.

Eureka 14 Knox 13: The streak is over at 16 for the Red Devils.

NACC Standings

Concordia Wisconsin 1-0
Eureka 1-0
Benedictine 1-0
Concordia Chicago 1-0
Rockford 1-0
Wisconsin Lutheran 0-1
Aurora 0-1
St. Norbert 0-1
Lakeland 0-1

[RFMichigan]

Huge news regarding the NACC over on the CCIW board.

[Gregulator316]

So Does the NACC try to replace CUW, or just go with 8 teams and add a 3rd nonconference game? Are there any realistic candidates to join the league? Greenville?

[Captain_Joe08]

My thoughts on the CUW news....

But why though?

I thought the CCIW would be more keen on targeting Aurora or Benedictine given their conference footprint. Just does not make much sense to leave the NACC and jump into one of the better leagues in D3.

[Captain_Joe08]

So Does the NACC try to replace CUW, or just go with 8 teams and add a 3rd nonconference game? Are there any realistic candidates to join the league? Greenville?

Full time or Football only? If they take Greenville that basically blows up the UMAC as a football league because the Panthers are a football affiliate. They are decent program elsewhere so it has upside for the NACC but they are a geographic outlier being near St. Louis.

Moving Eureka to full time could be a thing but still that would leave a 3 team non-con slate but they are still a outlier in geography. Not sure where their athletics success would fit in the NACC hierarchy.

Maybe trying to woo one of the Midwest teams to join could be a solution too.

[RFMichigan]

Full time or Football only? If they take Greenville that basically blows up the UMAC as a football league because the Panthers are a football affiliate. They are decent program elsewhere so it has upside for the NACC but they are a geographic outlier being near St. Louis.

Moving Eureka to full time could be a thing but still that would leave a 3 team non-con slate but they are still a outlier in geography. Not sure where their athletics success would fit in the NACC hierarchy.

Maybe trying to woo one of the Midwest teams to join could be a solution too.

Off topic for the first bit, but I just think that the UMAC is such a weird football conference anyhow with half the teams near St. Louis and the other half up in Minnesota. I get why they do it, but it seems crazy to me. Every team in that league takes at least two LONG road trips per year for football. (I suppose that there are other conferences in the nation where this happens as well, but it's funny that Greenville drives past a lot of DIII football schools on their way to, say, Minnesota-Morris.)

Anyhow, I have no idea what goes through ADs' and presidents' heads (and budgets) when it comes to the desirability of which schools are in which conference, but it would seem that Greenville is such a long haul for the NACC schools because you'd be talking about all sports, not just football.

As for the Midwest Conference, yes, it's pretty spread out also but I'm wondering if that conference's members are so homogeneous in some way (highly selective, high endowment, super historical, whatever) that it would be tough to pry one away in order to join the NACC. It seems that schools such as Lake Forest or Beloit would be better geographical fits for the NACC than Greenville, but I don't think that their ... (financial make-up? academic situation? I don't know the right word here) necessarily fits the NACC.

I do not know if having no bye week for football once the conference schedule begins is desirable either, but I do wonder if finding three non-conference opponents might not be somewhat difficult.

As to why CUW for the CCIW, great question!

[Pat Coleman]

... to pry another one away, since the NACC already got St. Norbert.

[RFMichigan]

NACC football champion seems wide open this year as Aurora and Benedictine have a loss in conference already. It seems that almost every upcoming week has a "key game" which features Aurora, Benedictine, CUW, and St. Norbert going against one another (one of whom I think will eventually come out on top).

[WLCALUM83]

CUW/St. Norbert appears to be the key game this week. WLC gets the bye to heal up.