FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[DuffMan]

• Klang (#7) is a heck of a player, but he really got away with some pretty blatant push-offs today.
• Feeney was a little off today (only 473 yards ). Could have been the wind. Also had a few drops because of the sun angle.
• Thanks to Schwellenbach for the post-game Dr. Peppers!
• SJU D smothered the Cobber run game all afternoon and really tightened up 2nd half.
• Penalties. Geez. We were doing everything we could to help them sustain drives.
• What an ideal day for football (minus the wind, but it's was calm in our seats). I ran into a number of teammates I haven't seen in years. Awesome day in Collegeville!

[sjusection105]

Does the Life Safety crew go through any type of training for getting cars through a 4-Way Stop after a sporting event....? Apparently not.....

[faunch]

• Klang (#7) is a heck of a player, but he really got away with some pretty blatant push-offs today.
• Feeney was a little off today (only 473 yards ). Could have been the wind. Also had a few drops because of the sun angle.
• Thanks to Schwellenbach for the post-game Dr. Peppers!
• SJU D smothered the Cobber run game all afternoon and really tightened up 2nd half.
• Penalties. Geez. We were doing everything we could to help them sustain drives.
• What an ideal day for football (minus the wind, but it's was calm in our seats). I ran into a number of teammates I haven't seen in years. Awesome day in Collegeville!

As much as some of us lament a lack of a running game by SJU they sealed the victory with the running game.
Up to that final drive SJU had 9 rushing attempts for 32 yards.
In that final possession they ran it 7 times for 27 yards and a touchdown. Bohmert practically doubled his rushing yardage (and a had a couple nifty runs to boot)...he finished with 52.

[faunch]

Does the Life Safety crew go through any type of training for getting cars through a 4-Way Stop after a sporting event....? Apparently not.....

If you don't have a parking pass you always arrive early enough to park by the power plant / old butcher shop.

[faunch]

The MIAC is just brutal right now. I'm glad to see the Cobbers are on the up swing. I hope I don't eat these words when they come to Arden Hills. But the Olaf game was brutal. This doesn't make teams better, Bethel could have scored a hundred today. And that's not a flex on Bethel as much as it's an indictment of where most of the league is talent-wise right now.

Reusse would agree with you. SID departments have a tough job trying to put a positive spin on games like that.
Maybe you just dump the box score into ChatGPT or Gemini and say...give me a positive headline...anything.

https://x.com/patrick_reusse/status/2111648582465954106?s=46

[DuffMan]

I saw that tweet by the Oles and laughed.

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The MIAC is just brutal right now. I'm glad to see the Cobbers are on the up swing. I hope I don't eat these words when they come to Arden Hills. But the Olaf game was brutal. This doesn't make teams better, Bethel could have scored a hundred today. And that's not a flex on Bethel as much as it's an indictment of where most of the league is talent-wise right now.

Reusse would agree with you. SID departments have a tough job trying to put a positive spin on games like that.
Maybe you just dump the box score into ChatGPT or Gemini and say...give me a positive headline...anything.

https://x.com/patrick_reusse/status/2111648582465954106?s=46

Because I wanted to know I put the entire pdf of the stats from the Bethel/Ole game into Google Gemini and asked for a positive / supportive headline for the Oles. Here's what I got:

-Dillon's 57-Yard Touchdown Highlighted St. Olaf's Fighting Spirit   

-Oles Show Heart Behind Landon Dillon's Explosive 57-Yard Touchdown Dash   

-St. Olaf Fights to the Finish: Landon Dillon Breaks Free for High-Voltage 57-Yard TD

[Redtooth]

First time commenting on the board for the year; after last year's early exit during the Furnace Playoffs I/we are still following the process and playing to the standard that was set during the two previous seasons where I won and lost in the final two.  I believe there should be extra credit for still having the AC operational.  It should be noted that I'm splitting time between Fargo and Scottsdale...but using only Fargo as the furnace location. I am in it to win again this season.

This year's SJU squad has some moxie that has been missing for sometime...the offensive line has been lights out good protecting Trey and also moving the line of scrimmage (getting their a$$es up field instead of the passive zone blocking which had been killing us in key short yardage situations for the last 5-6 seasons).  Feeney distributes the ball to multiple receivers with surgical precision and has thrown for 355 and 473 against the two best defenses (of other teams) in the MIAC.

Defense has been fast and physical, has tackled well and made very strong in game adjustments...the youth and inexperience of the DBs has flashed briefly (like it did yesterday in the first half).  Second half defense has been stone cold in the big games.

Special teams play yesterday reared its head in a way that could have led to disaster...missed XP (after a long streak of consecutive made...actually lost that streak last week), a missed FG during a critical drive and two absolutely brutal punt return errors where yardage was lost in chunks......the 99 yard drive was a direct result of one of those errors.

Yesterday's game was officiated very poorly, both in rules applications and mechanics.  The number of times the Umpire's field position almost resulted in a tackle when SJU was running the underneath drag to Riley was ridiculous.  The back judge was consistently out of position and threw some flags that were total guesses.  The line judge on Concordia's sideline that awarded Cord their first TD missed the fact that Klang's foot was both out of bounds and short of the goal line, great effort and close but should have been ruled incomplete.  SJU had two TDs overruled by wrong rules interpretations, the first and goal run for TD in the 4Q when the side judge threw a flag for holding while trailing the play with the runner crossing the goal line was the first (and ended killing a drive and led to no points)... not his call based on play movement......the second one was the monster sack and FUMBLE in the 4Q that was scooped and scored where the referee (white hat) didn't blow the play dead nor make a motion to rule incomplete pass (which it wasn't) until AFTER the SJU defensive player had returned the fumble for TD.  I know that one of the BIG10 officials was in attendance to evaluate the officials and I would be shocked if his analysis was much different.  In addition to the above, this crew was severely unathletic and overwhelmed by the speed of the game.

Concordia has a good team and time will tell if they are the best in decades as Corn Horn offered......2017 with Chad Johnson, Michael Herzog and the killers on defense that finished 8-2 would earn my vote.

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Yesterday's game was officiated very poorly, both in rules applications and mechanics.  The number of times the Umpire's field position almost resulted in a tackle when SJU was running the underneath drag to Riley was ridiculous.  The back judge was consistently out of position and threw some flags that were total guesses.  The line judge on Concordia's sideline that awarded Cord their first TD missed the fact that Klang's foot was both out of bounds and short of the goal line, great effort and close but should have been ruled incomplete.  SJU had two TDs overruled by wrong rules interpretations, the first and goal run for TD in the 4Q when the side judge threw a flag for holding while trailing the play with the runner crossing the goal line was the first (and ended killing a drive and led to no points)... not his call based on play movement......the second one was the monster sack and FUMBLE in the 4Q that was scooped and scored where the referee (white hat) didn't blow the play dead nor make a motion to rule incomplete pass (which it wasn't) until AFTER the SJU defensive player had returned the fumble for TD.  I know that one of the BIG10 officials was in attendance to evaluate the officials and I would be shocked if his analysis was much different.  In addition to the above, this crew was severely unathletic and overwhelmed by the speed of the game.

Agree that SJU didn't get many good breaks and had to overcome some bad ones.
I was wondering if offenses intentionally use the back judge as a screener. To me it seemed like SJU and Concordia were running those drag routes right at him. Is he supposed to be deeper than he was? Also how do they decide if they're going to be positioned in the offensive or defensive backfield?
I watched some of the livestream last night and this morning and 100% agree on the Cobbers first touchdown...no way he was inbounds. And that scoop and score was absolutely a fumble.