FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[repete]

Pipers are due!

[Mister36]

Pipers are due!

Hey last year they topped the MIAC teams score total against Bethel...

[GoldandBlueBU]

Pipers are due!

Hey last year they topped the MIAC teams score total against Bethel...

Being that I don't know you and how old you are - there were a couple years there where for whatever reason, BU struggled with Hamline.  2008 was a 9-7 win on a last second field goal, 2009 was a 20-17 win...since then it has been lopsided as you would expect.  Aayrton Scott and Augsburg also gave BU fits for a few seasons in the 2012 - 2015 range.

[Mister36]

Pipers are due!

Hey last year they topped the MIAC teams score total against Bethel...

Being that I don't know you and how old you are - there were a couple years there where for whatever reason, BU struggled with Hamline.  2008 was a 9-7 win on a last second field goal, 2009 was a 20-17 win...since then it has been lopsided as you would expect.  Aayrton Scott and Augsburg also gave BU fits for a few seasons in the 2012 - 2015 range.

That was just before my time, but I know that these past few years have been out of the norm. I just found it funny that Hamline was able to score on us the most last year until playoff time. Maybe our 4th string Defense was out there at that point.

[hazzben]

For whatever reason, the last two Hamline away games have fallen on the rare fall weekend when we have very little else going on for youth sports in my household. So I find myself watching a blowout, and laughing at the two Hamline dads who are milking those first downs for as much street cred as possible. Mean mugging and yelling first down as aggressively as possible at the Bethel fans sitting 30 feet away. First time was so entertaining I intentionally sat at the 50 last year just so I could be close to the two dads. The predictable transition from chest out 1st down celebrations to grumbling over Bethel running up the score was more enjoyable than it should have been. 

[gobigred425]

Am I missing something as to why a lot of Midwest schools are moving their game times? Is 90 degree heat really too much for football?

[GusD]

Am I missing something as to why a lot of Midwest schools are moving their game times? Is 90 degree heat really too much for football?

Playing in 90 degree heat can easily cause heat cramps, heat syncope, rhabdomyolysis, or heat stroke. Factor in any humidity and the "feel like" temp can easily approach 100.
And while such conditions are brutal for players, fans can certainly also be effected, especially elderly ones.
So the sensible answer to your question is yes!

We're not all as tough as you gobig. 😏

[GusD]

In an era when athletes can seem to magically gain an inch, ten pounds, or both overnight, it's unusually strange that Bethel QB Cooper Drews has actually shrunk an inch since last season. 🤗

[gobigred425]

Am I missing something as to why a lot of Midwest schools are moving their game times? Is 90 degree heat really too much for football?

Playing in 90 degree heat can easily cause heat cramps, heat syncope, rhabdomyolysis, or heat stroke. Factor in any humidity and the "feel like" temp can easily approach 100.
And while such conditions are brutal for players, fans can certainly also be effected, especially elderly ones.
So the sensible answer to your question is yes!

We're not all as tough as you gobig. 😏

High school teams in Phoenix, Houston, Miami, etc would never play a game if they were as soft as us Minnesotans!

[Patrick Coleman]

A young man playing Division II football in Missouri last week collapsed and died. We don't need to risk these sorts of things.

[OzJohnnie]

A young man playing Division II football in Missouri last week collapsed and died. We don't need to risk these sorts of things.

I didn't realise a cause of death had been published.  The coroner put it on the heat?